New video has been released of the moment police found missing girls on a remote compound in Utah.
The incredible footage shows how police rescued two young Utah sisters on a dark December evening in the wilderness of a polygamist compound after being kidnapped by their father.
Dinah Coltharp, who was eight, and Hattie Coltharp, four at the time, were rescued by police in Lund, southwest of Salt Lake City in December 2017 after a highly publicized amber alert search.
The girls were taken by their father, John Coltharp, and had been handed over to his friend Samuel Shaffer who hid them on the compound when the amber alert was issued. It is believed they were to be married off to cult leader Shaffer.
When police raided the site, they also discovered Shaffer’s two young daughters, Lily, seven, and Samantha, then five, who had not been reported missing.
Samantha and Hattie, the two youngest, were being kept in a 50-gallon blue water barrels to hide them from authorities, where they had been for more than 24 hours in below-freezing temperatures.
Dramatic images shows two of the girls being rescued. They were barefoot and wearing what looked like thin leggings.
The two older girls were found in an abandoned trailer. All were dehydrated.
When questioned, Shaffer said the girls were being hidden from police.
Police fear the men planned to marry Coltharp’s daughters off to Shaffer who was described as the ‘prophet’ of the cult.
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