In Part IV of this series, the connection between Allison Roney and harpist Lysa Rytting was detailed. Lysa Rytting was David Lee Hamblin’s daughter Rachel Jones’s harp teacher, and she was also the harp teacher for Allison Roney. Allison Roney’s father Garry B. Garrett was a Nu Skin executive, giving him both a business and familial tie to the Roney family. Additionally, Gary B. Garrett shows up in property transactions with the Mitton-Staples family at 1307 E 2300 North in Provo, which he purchased from real estate partnerships controlled by Julie Mitton Staples and Melanie Yorgason. Julie Mitton Staples was a harp teacher as well, for both Rachel and her sister Katherine.
The Hamblin Victims Statements explicitly detail the involvement of the Mitton family with the CS, specifically alleging that Jay Mitton gave the Hamblin children a talk in 1999-2000 about polygamy, claiming that it was required for one to enter the Celestial Kingdom. Mitton then gave the Hamblin children a patriarchal blessing.
Jay Mitton’s sister in law Ewon Mitton allegedly provided psychic readings for the Hamblin children as well. Rachel Jones worked as a nanny for Melanie Yorgason and her husband Josh during 1998-1999, and she had previously been sent to help Melanie Mitton become a better CS Peacemaker in her family, as Rachel had served as the Peacemaker in her immediate family.
A central theme of the Hamblin Victims’ Statements is that CS members cluster together in certain neighborhoods where the CS has an existing presence. The thesis of this series is simple enough: the Roney family’s staggering accrual of properties in the Provo neighborhoods where known CS families lived is an indicator that the Roney family is a CS family. The documented sexual abuse in Nedra Roney McKell’s family, including parent child molestation and sibling on sibling molestation, provides yet another indication of the Roney family’s likely involvement with the CS and its practices.
Lysa Rytting’s own family has interesting connections that are relevant to the CS and its penetration of the LDS.
Lysa Lyn Wight.
Born in 1959 to Theodore A Wight and Marcia Ann Stringham, Lysa Wight was one of six children. Her three brothers and two sisters grew up like Lysa in a home defined by music, as their father was a flautist who played 11 years with the Utah Symphony, and their mother played viola with the symphony for 3 year. The Wight boys did not develop musical aptitude in any instrument, but their three sisters all became proficient on the harp.
In 1983, Lysa Wight married Bryce Wallis Rytting, whose father Lorry E Rytting was the Director of the Public Communications Department for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Rytting had established the public relations office for the LDS Church in England, and he had worked as a reporter for the Deseret News.
Bryce Rytting earned his Ph.D in Musicology from Princeton, and he currently serves as the music director of the Utah Valley Symphony and the permanent conductor for the Utah Regional Ballet. He was the chair of the Music Department at Utah Valley State College from 2002 to 2010.
Bryce Rytting’s brother Paul attended law school at BYU, and he is the current Director of Risk Management for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In that capacity, Paul Rytting works closely with Kirton McConkie to handle incoming child sexual abuse complaints. Risk Management’s purview involves litigation against the LDS, and as such, Paul Rytting handles documentation and processes for documents concerning complaints to the LDS Abuse Hotline, whose records are destroyed on a daily basis by Kirton McConkie.
During a motion hearing, Paul Rytting admitted that the LDS had records “relating to acts of sexual abuse that allegedly occurred in the years 1975-1977.” This proves that the Rytting’s role in risk management for the LDS has a direct link to abuse allegations made against LDS personnel in civil suits, as well as complaints made by victims and their families that were funneled both LDS Risk Management and Kirton McConkie. It also puts a potential CS family member in a position to interdict child sexual abuse allegations made against other CS members.
Conclusion
The emerging circumstantial evidence continues to implicate the Roney family, and now the Rytting family, as possible CS members. The Hamblin Victims’ Statements were clear: CS families seek to arrange marriages within CS bloodlines for the purposes of consolidating spiritual power-thought by the CS to be connected to bloodlines-and also enhancing temporal power in order to preserve the CS from exposure or culpability for its criminal acts, which allegedly include child rape and murder. The marriage between Allison Garrett and a Roney scion would fit this CS requirement, as would the Rytting family’s position with respect to the LDS’s Risk Management Department.
Additionally, CS members would retain a CS music instructor for their children in order to ensure that their activities were kept confidential, and also to reinforce CS doctrines in all facets of their children’s lives. Lysa Rytting was selected by two families with alleged and likely CS connections to instruct their children on the harp. The significance of the harp was examined in the prior article in this series, and it is telling that Lysa Rytting and her sisters all learned how to play harp under their parents’ tutelage.
Just Roselle Hamblin insisted that her daughters learn to play harp, the Wight parents ensured that their daughters became harpists. The parallels are obvious.
Let's add another family with "alleged" ties to the CS according to the Hamblin victim statements who selected Lysa Rytting to be their harp instructor:
Alex Bigney (named by both Eliza and Kate as having participated in the Hamblin's ritual abuse) and his wife helped their 3 sons form a Celtic musical group, "Kirkmount" in the '90's. According to the following newspaper articles, Lysa Rytting was selected by the parents as the harp teacher for Alex jr.
https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=24208948&q=%22kirkmount%22&rows=100&sort=date_tdt+asc%2Cparent_i+asc%2Cpage_i+asc
https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=22848540&q=%22lysa+rytting%22&rows=100&sort=date_tdt+asc%2Cparent_i+asc%2Cpage_i+asc
The harp, huh. Who'da thunk?