When the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound raid started in Fouke, Ark., State Police Sgt. John Bishop had to call 911 to get help.

Bishop was already in Fouke prior to the raid where search warrants were served Sept. 20, 2008. He noticed several of the children and a couple of vans were gone.

As a state police investigator, Bishop doesn’t think “like a choir boy” and suspected the children had been escorted out of the Alamo compound by Alamo followers.

“All I knew, I could see they had fled the compound. I followed a hunch and went north of ... (stat...

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