PHOENIX -- A polygamous sect leader already serving a 50-year federal prison sentence for orchestrating sex involving children was convicted Friday on state child abuse charges after girls were found in an unventilated trailer he was hauling through Arizona. Someone…[Continue Reading...]
Cult leader Samuel Bateman is serving 50 years behind bars after acquiring 20 "wives" – some as young as nine years old. Despite the depravity of his crimes, he continues to wield his sinister influence from his prison cell. Indeed,…[Continue Reading...]
When Naomi "Nomz" Bistline initially auditioned to be in her prison's band, she tried out to be the guitarist. "Then I started singing a little and they said, ‘Put the guitar down. Let's just hear you sing,'" she says. "I…[Continue Reading...]
Netflix‘s Trust Me: The False Prophet (2026) is a four-part documentary series that captured the rise of Samuel Bateman, the self-proclaimed heir to convicted child abuser Warren Jeffs’ Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). If you thought…[Continue Reading...]
As told through the new Netflix documentary, Trust Me: The False Prophet, Sam Bateman operated a polygamist Mormon sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). He took over after the founder, Warren Jeffs, was jailed…[Continue Reading...]
Moroni Johnson, a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), gave four of his underage daughters to Samuel Bateman, the leader of a breakaway religious sect who claimed to be a prophet. Bateman sexually…[Continue Reading...]
Trust Me: The False Prophet drops today on Netflix, exposing a shocking investigation into a polygamist cult leader. A cult expert and videographer risked everything to bring down Samuel Bateman, who claimed to be Warren Jeffs’s successor and controlled over…[Continue Reading...]
Trust Me: The False Prophet follows cult psychology expert Christine Marie and her videographer husband Tolga Katas, who moved to Short Creek, Utah, to document and support a community in crisis. In 2011, Warren Jeffs — leader of the breakaway…[Continue Reading...]
Samuel Bateman claimed he had divine authority to shepherd his own extremist sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS). In reality, he was orchestrating a multi-state scheme to conceal horrific sexual crimes. Netflix is reexamining…[Continue Reading...]
A self-proclaimed prophet’s grip on his followers began to crack after a pair of undercover filmmakers embedded themselves inside his group, quietly recording what they say was the abuse of girls inside a closed-off world. Samuel Rappylee Bateman, who led…[Continue Reading...]
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