(CNN)-- Long after she escaped a polygamist Colorado City, Arizona, community in 1986, Flora Jessop found another way to escape: cocaine. "It killed the pain. It killed the hurt," she said.

This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The first church members arrive at the Leroy S. Johnson Meeting House in Colorado City, Arizona, at about 6 p.m ...

A MUM who fled a notorious cult weeks after being forced into a child marriage at 16 finally found love - incredibly with the stranger she had wed. Angela Johnson was born and grew up in a ...

Felicity Huffman, Olga Petsa and Eric Johnson are set to star in The 13th Wife: Escaping Polygamy, a two-part original movie ...

Mormon Temple, commemorating statehood, 1896. Courtesy: Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah Mormon settlers began a westward exodus, escaping persecution, in ...