Two key investigators in the raid of the polygamist compound near Eldorado talked for the first time today. They offered up key details, but other questions still remain.

For starters, Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran said he has an informant on the inside. Although the Sheriff wouldn’t specify if that person lives on the YFZ ranch, he did say they’d been in contact for four years — that’s about the time when FLDS members moved into the neighborhood.

Sheriff Doran says the informant was crucial in providing him with details on the cultural aspects of how FLDS operates. Doran says the raid wouldn’t have been possible without that person’s information but he wouldn’t elaborate further.

Captain Barry Caver, a Texas Ranger, talked about the raid itself. As this story was unfolding over the weekend, we were all asking ourselves how was it that each day, more and more children kept coming out of the compound? Were they being hidden? Caver explained today that the members of the church played something of a shell game, shifting children from building to building as troopers searched each one.

Caver also said law enforcement approached the Temple last because they knew it would cause the most trouble. Captain Caver asked for entry into the building, which was denied. FLDS members believe the space is sacred and can’t be entered by non-members. In fact he says about 50-some odd men surrounded the Temple, praying, crying and singing, but offered little other resistance. One member was arrested for trying to block police from entering the Temple.

Capt. Caver said he wanted to do everything he could not to damage the building while still gaining access. He even hired a locksmith to come out and pick locks on a door– but still it wouldn’t budge, so a SWAT team busted through it. Capt. Caver wouldn’t tell us exactly what the inside was like, but he said, generally, it had three floors and a basement. An affidavit released yesterday mentions the existence of a bed inside the temple that the informant says had been used to consummate the marriages between adult men and girls under 17 years old. Caver wouldn’t comment on this, but said a bed (or beds, he wouldn’t specify a number) was located on the third floor of the temple.

The location of the 16-year old girl who called for help, telling of her forced marriage and rape, is still unknown. There have been reports that law enforcement knows that her alleged “spiritual” husband, Dale Evans Barlow, is at a polygamist community in Arizona. Police won’t say when he’ll be arrested or if others from the compound will face charges. They say the investigation is still ongoing.

And what happens to the 416 children? Representatives of the state will go before a judge next Thursday to ask that they be allow to keep custody of them. Parents will also be allowed to petition the judge for their children’s return.