Fallen Followers: Investigation Finds 10 More Dead Children of Faith Healers
Peaceful Valley Cemetery sits on a windswept hill 30 miles east of Boise.
Some of The Followers of Christ faith healers bury their dead there.
The same last names appear over and again, going back decades. Some - like Beagley - are the same names you’ll see in a similar cemetery in Oregon City.
In 2010, jurors in Clackamas County convicted Jeff and Marci Beagley of letting their son Neal die of an untreated urinary tract infection.
KATU’s Dan Tilkin covered that story, as he has so many faith-healing stories. That’s why he traveled to Idaho to trace the connections between Followers members in both states, and a new trail of dead children.
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