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According to Nathan Phelps, Fred Phelps' body was immediately cremated, [131] and according to his granddaughter Megan Phelps-Roper, Phelps' cremated remains were buried in an unmarked grave in Kansas. [132] Phelps had been reportedly suffering from some form of dementia in his final year, and started behaving irrationally.
Zach Phelps-Roper is the grandson of Fred Phelps and the fourth sibling of the Phelps-Roper family to leave WBC (besides Megan and Grace mentioned below, brothers Joshua and Noah have also left). After attempting to leave the organization five times previously, he finally left in 2014 after his views began to change.
Megan Phelps-Roper was born on January 31, 1986, [3] and is the eldest daughter of Shirley Phelps-Roper and Brent Roper. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Her grandfather was Fred Phelps , who founded the Westboro Baptist Church , a Christian sect based on the members' Calvinist interpretation of the bible and categorized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate ...
Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper (née Phelps; born October 31, 1957) is an American lawyer and political activist.She was the lead spokesperson of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, an organization that protests against homosexuality conducted under the slogan "God Hates Fags" until a power struggle within the organization reduced her status.
Interviewer Megan Phelps-Roper says podcast was ‘never intended to vindicate’ author over her remarks about the transgender community
Theroux interviews church leadership including Fred Phelps and Shirley Phelps-Roper. The documentary first aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom in April 2007. The documentary was a ratings success in its initial airing, beating simultaneous programming for BBC One for the 9pm hour. [1]
Surviving America's Most Hated Family is a 2019 BBC documentary film presented and written by Louis Theroux.The programme follows as Theroux revisits the family at the core of the Westboro Baptist Church and observes how its members have changed since the 2014 death of the church's founder, Fred Phelps.
On June 20, 1965, Houston police found the dismembered bodies of Fred and Edwina Rogers, a local couple who investigators soon determined had been brutally murdered: Fred was beaten with a hammer ...