Linda was also discovering that other pieces of information were missing or just didn’t fit.įor one thing, Joy didn’t have a passport. Koozin: Why leave that out? That should have been our first conversation. and in the early morning hours he said he woke up to see Joy with two packed suitcases getting into a car with a man. But after a candlelight dinner, they argued. He and Joy had planned a romantic weekend to rekindle their relationship. Sheila and the three children had been out of town, he said. And, cornered, he revealed a little more. Linda confronted Sean with that omission. She finally brought herself to call the police-missing persons.Īctivity on Joy’s phone, usually almost constant, came to an abrupt halt on September 19 2003, at 9:36 p.m. Saud: After that, we were out of there, because we just knew something was not okay.Morrison: Weird?Saud: Very. They asked to see the boys and Sean refused. Her friends had been close to Joy’s children. Yeah and all I could say is dark.Morrison: It had changed somehow? Morrison: What did it seem to you, what was the atmosphere like?Joy's friend: Dark. But the whole house seem, somehow, different. He told them he’d spoken to Joy and she was fine. Morrison: And how did he receive you, was he friendly?Saud: He tried to be, you know. To ease their growing worry, the friends went to visit Sean at home. She just wouldn’t have been mad at us for wanting to know where she is. Joy's email: I’ll talk to you when I’m ready.Īnd that’s just not how she was. Joy’s reply was uncharacteristically angry. In e-mails, they begged her to call so they could hear her voice. I called her everyday and after a while we started e-mailing her. Keith Morrison, Dateline correspondent: Did you try to contact her?Jill: We did. On her secrecy… the reason she hadn’t warned friends, like jill: I really can’t talk to Jill right now because she’ll be against my decisions. "Joy" on why she left: I just needed some time away On a mystery man named Jason: I’ve never been able to get Jason out of my head Then, out of the blue, an e-mail to a friend that seemed to explain everything. Because she was really unhappy with Sean. Saud, Joy’s friend: No, she would not run off without her kids.Jill, Joy’s friend: That’s the whole reason she was sticking around-towards the end. Especially, as she hadn’t said a word to them. But this way? It didn’t sound like Joy at all. They knew she’d had some problems with Sean. His junior wife had run off to Europe with a boyfriend, had abandoned him and their two sons. Sean Goff, the San Diego youth minister and polygamist, was an emotional wreck. You know?Īnd far away in the desert, that strange monument guarded its mystery. You know-unless she’s having a problem and she’s talking about it. Morrison: Always happy?Joy’s friend: Always happy. They took romantic trips and went out dining and dancing often. While Joy, with her bubbly personality, was Sean’s “public” wife. Sheila stayed at home-rarely going out with her husband. Because (Laughs) Joy was Sean’s favorite. How did Joy feel about Sheila-Jill: Joy never would have been jealous of Sheila. I mean I’m sure underneath there has to be some part of her that didn’t appreciate what was going on. Was there jealousy there? Saudiya, Joy's friend: Well, Sheila didn’t seem jealous. There was already wife number one Sheila. Joy and Shelia were happy and obedient co-wives. And everyone loved him, he was the greatest guy that just happened to be married to someone else. And she told me that he was her youth pastor and that her mom gave her blessing. (Laughs) That, you know, she had met someone and she was all in love with him. Keith Morrison, Dateline correspondent: How did she explain it to you?Jill, Joy's friend: Just like that. But it was Biblically sound, he told her, and as Joy told her friends. And in the summer of 1997, three years after they met he “married” Joy. Married, yes - to Sheila - but by then had become interested in “Christian Polygamy,” which claimed to be based on the patriarchs of the old testament. That’s how he met Joy Risker, then just 16. Sean Goff: handsome, engaging, persuasive, and deeply religious. They shared the childcare, housework, cooking.Īnd they also shared the husband.
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