Elizabeth Roundy — Missing Children
Active Legal Proceedings · FLDS · Child Missing Since January 1, 2023
Elizabeth Roundy left the FLDS Church in 2014 and moved to Idaho with her daughter. Her husband — who had himself been expelled from the FLDS in 2012 — remained a follower of the faith. On January 1, 2023, her daughter took her mother’s car and drove away in the middle of the night. Roundy held full legal custody. As of April 2023, her daughter had been missing for over 170 days.
What the Case Involves
“I am positive that FLDS are hiding [my daughter],” Roundy has said. She believes her daughter was given specific instructions about where to go and that the disappearance was orchestrated by FLDS members seeking to please Warren Jeffs’ leadership from prison. “She was told what to do, where to go. It has been a completely manipulated situation,” she told KSL News.
Police initially classified the case as a runaway situation. Attorney Roger Hoole, representing Roundy and other parents, has argued that what these families are experiencing is not a custody dispute but child trafficking — children taken and hidden by a religious organization operating in defiance of court orders.
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In the news
- May 1, 2026 · East Idaho News — Local teen resurfaces after vanishing three years ago, search continues for missing siblings
Authorities remove Elizabeth Roundy's older daughter, now an adult, from missing-person records, while her two younger children remain missing. - May 1, 2026 · KUTV — Idaho woman with FLDS ties no longer missing person after obtaining Utah driver's license
KUTV reports the older daughter's removal from missing-person lists after obtaining a Utah license, as Elizabeth Roundy pleads for her other children's return. - Jun 26, 2025 · NBC News — Amber alert issued for 2 missing Idaho teens linked to polygamist sect
NBC News covers the Amber Alert for Elizabeth Roundy's two teenagers, whom authorities think may have returned to a Utah FLDS community.