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Rozita Swinton a no-show at Colorado court hearing: When will we hear her story?

Alleged hoaxter Rozita Swinton, whose phone calls in March to a San Angelo women's shelter set off the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup, skipped out on her court date yesterday on an unrelated hoax phone call in Colorado Springs, CO.Like a lot of the media, I suppose, Grits diverted focus from the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup after the FLDS kids were ordered back to their parents, but it always struck me that the most important parts of this story remain untold: Namely, Rozita's role, her motives, and the inside scoop on what really transpired between her, Texas law enforcement and anti-FLDS activists in Utah in the five days before the raid. That sordid tale deserves to be told more completely, since assumptions and decisions made during that period defined and ultimately tainted everything that happened afterward...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 15, 2008 (boomark / email).