MONTEVIEW — Elizabeth Roundy returned from her family Bible class Sunday night and immediately knew something was wrong. She had been gone around two hours and her two teenagers, Allen Larand Fischer, 13, and Rachelle Leray Fischer, 15, were gone. “My children asked if they could go down to the...
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‘I’m very concerned.’ Mother reveals fears after her teenagers vanish
Elizabeth Roundy returned from her family Bible class Sunday night and immediately knew something was wrong.
She had been gone around two hours and her two teenagers, Allen Larand Fischer, 13, and Rachelle Leray Fischer, 15, were gone.
“My children asked if they could go down to the shop to get on the internet…so they could watch videos while I went to the class,” Roundy tells EastIdahoNews.com. “I allowed them to do it, and that wasn’t very smart of me. I let them go down there, and when I came back to get them, they were gone. Somebody came by the shop and hauled off with them.”
Roundy believes Allen and Rachelle’s older siblings, along with other members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were involved in abducting her teenagers.
Roundy was a member of the FLDS Church until she was exiled in 2020. She moved to Idaho and spent 18 months in court battling for custody of her three children with her ex-husband, Nephi Fischer. She was awarded full-custody in 2021 but since then, Roundy says Fischer has fought unsuccessfully to get the kids back. Efforts by EastIdahoNews.com to reach Fischer for comment were unsuccessful.
In January 2023, Roundy’s daughter, Elintra Dee Fischer,
was reported missing from the same home in Jefferson County. She is now 18 and was never located, but Roundy believes she played a part in the disappearance of Allen and Rachelle.
“I believe they could have been watching and it’s my guess that they were lingering around in the neighborhood somewhere waiting for a chance to grab the children,” Roundy explains. “I’ve seen their vehicles driving past my place, up and down the roads, even past the shop the kids got picked up at just barely on Friday.”
“Wherever they’re at, they’re in hiding. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re close by and waiting until things settle down,” Roundy says. “They hope things settle down a little, and then they’ll maybe take them (somewhere else).”
Roundy says she’s been close with her teenagers, especially over the past few months. Allen slept on a couch in her bedroom every night and Rachelle regularly slept with her mom because of nightmares. The family went to a waterpark in northern Idaho last week and Roundy says they had a fun time.
The concerned mother says she’s “kicking myself for letting them go like I did” as she’s been vigilantly watching and staying with her kids constantly for years.
