Christine Marie From “Trust Me” Reveals How She Beat Sameul Bateman
About this episode
Christine Marie discusses her experiences and insights from her time within Samuel Bateman's FLDS inner circle and her role in bringing him to justice.
The Netflix docuseries Trust Me: The False Prophet introduced the world to Christine Marie — the cult psychologist and survivor who walked into Samuel Bateman's FLDS inner circle, gathered the evidence the FBI used to put him in federal prison for fifty years, and is still living in Short Creek today. The documentary couldn't tell you everything. This conversation can. This is the complete extended interview — all three parts in one continuous sit-down. Christine takes Tony through how she got inside. She and her husband Tolga moved to Short Creek in 2016 to film a different project entirely, and then Bateman emerged from the post-Warren Jeffs FLDS community and declared himself the next prophet. He let them in because he thought their cameras would make him famous. He had no idea Christine had once fallen for a false prophet herself, years before, and could read every move he was making. She walks Tony through the years of getting local police to do nothing despite watching her footage. The late-2021 recording — Bateman describing "the Atonement," three of his wives, one a minor, handed to three of his men — that finally moved the FBI. Julia Johnson, the mother she flipped…
People in this episode
Host: Tony
Guest: Christine Marie
Topics covered
- cult psychology
- true crime
- survivor stories
- FBI investigations
- documentary insights
Keywords
- cult
- FLDS
- Samuel Bateman
- Christine Marie
- FBI
- true crime
- documentary
- Trust Me
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: FBI, Netflix
Books & works: Trust Me: The False Prophet
Places: Short Creek
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