Idaho mom reveals fears after her youngsters vanish

MONTEVIEW — Elizabeth Roundy returned from her household Bible class Sunday evening and instantly knew one thing was unsuitable.

She had been gone round two hours and her two youngsters, Allen Larand Fischer, 13, and Rachelle Leray Fischer, 15, have been gone.

“My kids requested if they might go all the way down to the store to get on the web … so they might watch movies whereas I went to the category,” Roundy tells EastIdahoNews.com. “I allowed them to do it, and that wasn’t very good of me. I allow them to go down there, and once I got here again to get them, they have been gone. Anyone got here by the store and hauled off with them.”

Roundy believes Allen and Rachelle’s older siblings, together with different members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have been concerned in abducting her youngsters.

Roundy was a member of the FLDS Church till she was exiled in 2020. She moved to Idaho and spent 18 months in court docket battling for custody of her three kids together with her ex-husband, Nephi Fischer. She was awarded full-custody in 2021 however since then, Roundy says Fischer has fought unsuccessfully to get the youngsters again. Efforts by EastIdahoNews.com to achieve Fischer for remark have been unsuccessful.

In January 2023, Roundy’s daughter, Elintra Dee Fischer, was reported lacking from the identical residence in Jefferson County. She is now 18 and was by no means positioned, however Roundy believes she performed an element within the disappearance of Allen and Rachelle.

“I consider they might have been watching and it is my guess that they have been lingering round within the neighborhood someplace ready for an opportunity to seize the youngsters,” Roundy explains. “I’ve seen their automobiles driving previous my place, up and down the roads, even previous the store the youngsters bought picked up at simply barely on Friday.”

An Amber Alert was issued for Allen and Rachelle on Monday and suggestions have been pouring in from throughout the nation. Jefferson County detectives initially thought the teenagers could also be in a grey Honda or Hyundai sedan with Utah license plates, however in an replace Tuesday, the sheriff’s workplace says they’ve been unable to “discover concrete proof concerning a car Rachelle and Allen Fischer could have left in.”

“Wherever they’re at, they’re in hiding. However I would not be shocked in the event that they’re shut by and ready till issues calm down,” Roundy says. “They hope issues calm down slightly, after which they will possibly take them (elsewhere).”

Roundy says she’s been shut together with her youngsters, particularly over the previous few months. Allen slept on a sofa in her bed room each evening and Rachelle often slept together with her mother due to nightmares. The household went to a waterpark in northern Idaho final week and Roundy says that they had a enjoyable time.

The involved mom says she’s “kicking myself for letting them go like I did” as she’s been vigilantly watching and staying together with her youngsters continually for years. She’s particularly involved with revelations Warren Jeffs, the president of the FLDS Church, launched saying FLDS kids must die to allow them to resurrect as pure beings.

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An August 2022 revelation directs followers to “consecrate and return their kids to the church by any means vital and put together them for the tip of occasions.” Kids are supposed to help within the “constructing of Zion to allow them to die and turn out to be ‘pure’ and ‘translated beings.'”

“It is very scary and a really large concern to me,” Roundy says. “Again once I was part of it, issues they have been telling us to do have been so erratic and manipulative. You simply by no means know what they are going to do.”

Rachelle has brown hair, blue eyes and was final seen sporting a darkish inexperienced prairie gown with braided hair. Allen has sandy blonde hair, blue eyes and was sporting a light-weight blue shirt with blue denims and black slip-on footwear, just like Crocs.

Anybody with data on their whereabouts is requested to name the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace at 208-745-9210.

“I am simply so grateful for thus many good folks on this planet that care,” Roundy says. “I am very involved about their well-being, and naturally, I am lacking them very badly. I am heartbroken they’re gone.”