The Reach of the Roneys, Pt. II: Patterns in Property
Property Transfers among the Roneys and other Possible CS Families
What is striking about the Utah County property records of the Roney family is the clear pattern of property ownership and transfers, and the background of the parties involved. The properties are located in Provo neighborhoods linked to the CS by the Hamblin Victims Statements, and therefore fit within the allegation made by the Hamblin daughters that CS members moved into an area with an existing CS presence. The purpose was obvious: CS members could practice their private rites without disturbance. Any child who attempted to flee would be returned, because the neighbors were also likely CS members.
The Hamblin Victims Statements detail a stunningly grand and wide presence for the CS, which was said to have entrenched positions within the political. legal, religious, and medical establishments of Utah and various other local areas within the states of New York, Arizona, Colorado, and Florida.
In Utah, the Hamblin children identified Alpine as a neighborhood overrun with the CS, where wealthy CS elites practiced their beliefs with impunity. Sometimes, those beliefs broke a CS child, as was the case when Angela Fenton was moved into the Hamblin household as a 30 year old woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Fenton’s family were allegedly wealthy CS members, and her bishop was Conrad Gottfredson, whose ward in Alpine had served as Fenton’s home ward. Gottfredson referred the returning missionary Brett Bluth to David Lee Hamblin as a therapist when Bluth wanted help overcoming his homosexual attraction. Hamblin went on to sexually abuse Bluth, who would become the catalyst for Hamblin’s eventual loss of licensure to practice psychology when he threatened to tell the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing about Hamblin’s misconduct.
Today’s article will briefly detail two key patterns in two property clusters involving the same actors.
In analysing the Roney family’s property transactions, several things stand out. First, they buy from and sell to the same actors in clusters of transactions. Those actors buy from the same predecessor owners before transferring or selling properties to the Roneys. The actors have ties to the Alpine area, including the Alpine Country Club.
One of the first prominent individuals that appeared in the property records analysis was Heber Grant Ivins, Jr. Ivins was the grandson of Athony W. Ivins and Elizabeth Snow, and the son of Heber Grant Ivins, Sr., who had returned to the United States from Mexico when his father had been called to the Quorum of the Twelve.1 Ivins served a mission to Japan, and then married Berthe Hamblin. This provides the Ivins family with a direct tie to the Hamblin bloodline, which is the key bloodline in the CS as detailed by the Hamblin Victims Statements.
Ivins, like others linked to the CS via their children, began his life as a firmly orthodox member of the LDS who evolved into a private and then a public dissenter. His life as the son of an LDS Apostle had given him a firsthand look at polygamy in LDS colonies in Mexico, a subject he would write about at length in his career. Because of this, Heber Grant Ivins, Jr. was likely exposed to the same private reservations about the LDS that James Arrington undoubtedly experienced as the son of LDS Historian Leonard Arrington, who privately disavowed the LDS’s excommunication and disfellowships of apostates like the September Six.
This adds a higher degree of plausibility that Ivins would fit within the CS as a multigenerational organization, much as James Arrington and David Lee Hamblin did. Add the direct familial connection of a Hamblin mother, and Heber Grant Ivins, Jr.’s property transactions with the Roneys take on a greater significance.
Highland, Utah
Heber Grant Ivins was an attorney with prior stints at the FBI, a former soldier within the United States Air Force’s Intelligence Division, a JAG captain in the United States Army, and a city attorney for American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Lindon, as well as a District Attorney for the Fourth District. He held board positions for Utah County Mental Health and the Boy Scouts of America. He was a past president of the Alpine County Club, a Director of the Deseret Bancorp and the American Fork Industrial Development Corporation, as well as a Vice Chairman of the Utah State Liquor Commission appointed by Governor Scott Matheson.
In 1991, right before he died, Heber Grant Ivins, Jr. would purchase two properties in Highland from Rick, Blake, and Brooke Rooney. The first was 4925 W 11000 N, and it ultimately wound up with Heber’s son Anthony and his daughter Rebecca S. Ivins, who Heber’s obituary indicated was a Bennion. The Bennion connection to the CS is obvious: Joe Bennion was David Lee Hamblin’s neighbor in Spring City, and the alleged Punisher for the CS in Spring City.
The other property purchased from Rick, Blake, and Brooke Roney was 4937 W Highland 11000 N, which ended up with Jeffrey G Ivins and Kathy H Ivins before ultimately ending up with Ivins’s relatives Alan L and Amy E Chapman in 1993. What is even more interesting is the fact that the owners preceding the Roney brothers for both properties were George Goddard Wood and Leah Chadwick Wood. George Goddard Wood’s namesake was George Goddard, an LDS Patriarch who emigrated from Leicester, England as an adult convert.
Provo, Utah.
In Provo, the pattern of purchase and sales was identical: Elizabeth T. Allen sold to Dave McMullin and Dallas Young in 1988, and Heber Grant Ivins assumed ownership later in 1988, with Eastside Investment then taking title in 19888, only to then transfer ownership to Brooke and Blake Roney in 1991, and then to RRD Investment, Co. from 1993-2001.
3066 Iroquois Dr, 30655 Piute Dr., and 3018 Foothill Dr. all passed through the identical chain of transfers listed in the preceding paragraph. In each of the property transfers made by the Roneys, the same patterns of ownership and transfer dominate. The same names appear over and over again, providing circumstantial evidence that the Hamblin girls were telling the truth about a multigenerational group of families who dominated and clustered within certain neighborhoods in order to give the CS cover for its activities within those neighborhoods.
Conclusion.
Among pedophile and criminal groups, patterns provide clues as to membership and affiliation with criminal activity. When paired with facts, including genealogies, court records, and news articles, these patterns can be used to map out the invisible actors within such organizations. Time and time again, the Roneys show up alongside families with deep LDS historical ties that fit the model of known alleged CS families from the Hamblin Victims Statements. An iceberg has 20% of its mass visible above water, but 80% is away from view under the dark ocean.
The CS, like other criminal groups, is no different. By analysing the information, IRA hopes to unmask other families who fit the facts detailed by the Hamblin children in their Victims Statements in order to uncover the rest of the CS membership who are unnamed in those statements. Readers who have information about the CS, or about ritual child abusers in Utah, are encouraged to contact IRA at Goel1830 on Telegram, or at 1830goel@gmail.com.
Bonus Content
Revelation in Death: Last Will and Testament of Nedra Dee Roney McKell
On April 30, 2013, the Last Will and Testament of Nedra D, NcKell was notarized and witnessed. Nedra Roney also executed an Amendment in Total and Complete Restatement of the Nedra D. McKell Trust, hanging the name of the trust from from the Nedra Roney Trust to the Nedra D. McKell Trust. Seven days before the Last Will and Testament and the Trust were filed, the prosecution filed its case against Robert McKell for six criminal counts related to his abuse of his developmentally disabled daughter Summer. The first article of the will listed seven children with Robert McKell, but the names of Cheyenne Ross McKell and River McKell were crossed out with a pen. Nedra made it explictly clear that for the purposes of her will, Cheyenne Rose McKell and River McKell were deemed to have predeceased her. In her designation of fiduciaries, Nedra McKell explicitly barred four of her brothers from serving as fiduciaries under the will, the trust, or any trust created by the the will or the trust. Those brothers were Park R. Roney, Burke F. Roney, Rick Roney, and Mark A. Roney.
The will contained a pour over trust provision, which received whatever assets would have been included and devised in Nedra’s will. This enabled Nedra to bypass probate, and to avoid paying estate taxes.
In order to exculpate Robert McKell during his four year battle with the prosecutors over his sexual assault case, Nedra and Robert had likely hired an Oregon based online publication, the US Observer, to which they leaked Summer McKell’s psychiatric evaluation and medical records, while also leaking information related to River McKell’s sexual assault of a younger sibling, which Summer McKell allegedly participated in by either holding the victim down during the assault or holding the bedroom door shut. The US Observer articles were printed up and sent via U.S. mail to over a million homes in Utah County, necessitating a change of venue motion to ensure a fair trial. This had the added effect of delaying Robert McKell’s trial.
Tellingly, Nedra McKell did not exclude her daughter Summer from her will, despite labeling her an accomplice in River McKell’s sexual assault of another sibling during Robert McKell’s legal travails related to his abuse of Summer.
The question remained: why did Nedra McKell bar four of her brothers by name from serving as fiduciaries for her estate or trust? In death, her will revealed the divisions of the Roney family, but not their underlying causes. Nedra explicitly identified two children as being predeceased for the purposes of the will, but she stayed steadfastly loyal to the husband whose plea deal resulted in his registration as a sex offender for abusing their disabled daughter.
This was despite Robert C. McKell’s prior conviction for assault, and a protective order that resulted in his 22 month incarceration when the Utah County Sheriff’s Office raided his home and found weapons and ammunition. McKell had skipped the protective order hearing on April 29, 2003, and his possesion of weapons and ammunition were in direct violation of the order’s stipulations.
The question of how a man with a prior history of domestic violence and assault was able to legally adopt Nedra Roney’s children remains unanswered. The fact that Robert C. McKell went on to become a registered sex offender for abusing his disabled 18 year old daughter is not surprising in light of these facts, and given Nedra McKell’s prior history of substance abuse, addiction, and mental instability which resulted in her children being removed from her custody, placed in protective custody, and institutionalized or placed in proctor homes due to violence, it is not surprising that two of her children were linked to sexual abuse.
River McKell allegedly perpetrated the abuse, which provides a basis for asking if he was a victim of childhood sexual abuse. Summer McKell was the victim of sexual abuse at the hands of Robert McKell, and allegedly aided her brother River in his sexual assault of another unnamed sibling. IRA has contacted various parties from the previous article in this series to request interviews. We will update our readers as we gain information from those interviews.
Ivins’s namesake, Heber Grant, was the son of Rachel Ivins. His father Anthony was Heber Grant’s cousin, and Anthony Ivins was called to head up the LDS colonies in Mexico, where he performed plural marriages after the the LDS had officially repudiated the practice.
Ah, yes….The CS property exchange patterns coming back to haunt them - another of their weaknesses being revealed. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.