Joe, Alina, Vicki, and Valerie Darger are an appealing, grounded, devout, and forthright family, who live in a large home in suburban Salt Lake County with over twenty of their twenty-four children.
Brooke Adams covers polygamy for The Salt Lake Tribune and has been a reporter for more than 25 years. She spent four months in Texas in 2008 after authorities raided the FLDS ranch in Eldorado, has cover many polygamists and polygamous groups including Winston Blackmore in Canada, the Kingston and Allred groups in Utah, and has a blog called “The Polygamy File” that is consistently the newspapers top blog in readership.