Police list documents seized from polygamists

Girl's identity still a mystery
Barry Caver, a Texas Ranger who sometimes went with Doran to the compound, said a general welfare check wouldn’t have produced much because they could talk to just three or four main people there.

Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott said state authorities handled the case properly. "You cannot go in and bust in someone’s house if there’s not probable cause to do so,” Abbott said.

Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor who has written about polygamy, said even Jeffs’ conviction was not enough to barge in on the Eldorado sect.

“They would need a contemporary statement or evidence at trial that an individual at the (Texas) compound is practicing polygamy,” Turley said.

Officials still have not been able to identify the teen who made the call from the children being held at two sites in Texas.

The man alleged to be the 16-year-old’s husband, Dale Barlow, is a registered sex offender who pleaded no contest to having sex with a minor in Arizona.

“I do not know this girl that they keep asking about,” he told Utah’s Deseret Morning News on Wednesday. “And I have not been to Texas since I was a young man back in 1977.”

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