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Perhaps, but this stuff has been going on plain view for a long, long, long time. People have written books about it, made documentaries about it - we've even had tv movies made about it, for pete's sake.

I'm telling you guys, read the book and you'll be asking yourself why it took so long.



One reason why, that I learned from this book was because of a raid that happened in the 1950's that gained a lot of negative attention. Therefore, there has been a hands-off attitude on the behalf of law enforcement.

But I think the nature of the marriages has become much more perverse as they have been more and more isolated and more and more interbred over the succeeding decades.

The right thing has been done here. Finally.

Oh, and everyone's probably aware, but Jon Krakauer is a respected journalist (Into the Wild, Into Thin Air) and not some scandal-mongerer.

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