BOISE, Idaho—It has been more than three years since police announced that two children were missing from a rural eastern Idaho town, and each twist in the grim investigation has seemed stranger than the last.
Their mother claimed to be a deity, her estranged husband wrote in divorce papers. She called the children “zombies” before they vanished, a friend told police. A handful of followers seemed to buy into her doomsday claims, Arizona investigators reported.
