Wow Pepper! Reading your posts I remembered a blog entry that said something about the deaths of babies, the person grew up around the area and what she posted dovetails right in with what Flora's trying to get investigated about those graves.
http://www./gather/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976740077
The mothers sit on the other side of the screen, their faces hidden. They tell the talk show host what they do to babies born with serious imperfections: "We smother them, quietly and gently, but we smother them. With a small pillow."
"Doctors in Colorado City-Hildale see medical deformities that are extremely rare. In the 1950s, the birth defect rate in Utah was three times higher than the national average. The birth defect rate in Colorado City-Hildale is so high that a large number of the babies born are seriously physically and mentally deformed."
"The women and children live in poverty and domestic violence is common, as is the incest and child rape. The infanticide, the murder, is too much for the members themselves to bear."
"They are willing to go on talk shows, but they need to shield themselves from the law, to protect their shameful secret, a secret they are forced to live, in these polygamous cults."