Jon Krakauer

author, 'Under the Banner of Heaven'

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Author of Under the Banner of Heaven

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In 2008, authorities raided the compound of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints - a polygamous, unsanctioned off-shoot of the Mormon Church.

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