Postmormon Postmortem

The Singer-Swapp Standoff, Part 1: Excommunicated, Armed, and Homeschooling

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John Singer pulled his kids out of school, was excommunicated, took a second wife, and was shot by Utah police in 1979. Mormon True Crime, Part 1.

On January 18, 1979, John Singer walked to his mailbox in Marion, Utah, and police were waiting. Part 1 of the Singer-Swapp Standoff traces how a Mormon fundamentalist raised in Nazi Germany ended up at war with his school board, his bishop’s court,…