Secret polygamy widespread in West
Utah overlooks it, unless other crimes also are committed
Friday, October 13, 2006
Kristen Scharnberg and Manya A . Brachear
CHICAGO TRIBUNE

EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah — The neighborhood looks like any other in the upper-middleclass suburbs: sprawling homes with porch swings and manicured lawns strewn with kids’ bikes.
But beneath the all-American veneer, much is different in this upscale subdivision 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.

"Pretty much everyone who lives here is polygamous," said Mary, a woman who gave a recent tour of the area and who is herself the second wife of a Utah man. She, like other polygamists interviewed, asked to be identified only by her first name for fear of prosecution.

"There may be one or two houses that aren’t, but virtually everyone else here is one of ours," she said. the rest