Elissa wall biography
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Elissa Wall on 'What it Was Like to Die'
May 13, 2008— -- In a remote corner of the Nevada desert, the darkest secret of a polygamist sect unfolds under cover at a roadside motel.
Underage girls, some as young as 14, are forced through hasty weddings and secret ceremonies.
"It was done covertly. Real 'cloak and dagger' like," said Sam Brower, a private detective who has investigated the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and its leader, Warren Jeffs, for the past five years.
"Carloads of people would get here," said Brower, who has worked for a number of former sect members.
"They'd unload, they'd wait and then when their turn came up they would be taken into Room 15 in the hotel and a marriage was performed."
Elissa Wall was one such 14-year-old girl who was plucked from childhood and thrust into wedlock, with no choice but to accept and obey the command of her prophet.
"I was trapped,&qu