Compound Built for Jailed Polygamist Warren Jeffs Is Now a B&B
With its scenic location, cheery website and the promise of quaint comfy rooms, you might never suspect the complicated past of Utahs newest inn. Only the name offers a clue.
Welcome to Americas Most Wanted Suites and Bed & Breakfast, a compound originally built for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving life in prison for sexually assaulting a girl he took as a child bride.
Constructed by his followers at the self-proclaimed prophets request in 2011, the Hildale, Utah, property now belongs to Willie Jessop, Jeffs former bodyguard-turned-hotelier. It opened to the public last week, allowing guests to get a glimpse of some of the mansions menacing features, such as double thick walls, solid doors that require extra hinges and a 12-foot-tall concrete fence that surrounds the property.
I left it there so people could go and see how paranoid he was, Jessop, 44, told NBC News about his former boss. It was my hope that the walls would help be a reminder to the community that if you need walls like this, youre probably doing something wrong.
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