Trust Me: The False Prophet

When cult expert Christine Marie and her videographer husband, Tolga Katas, moved to Short Creek, Utah, they planned to support a fractured community still reeling from the imprisonment of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a Mormon breakaway group whose members practice polygamy. What they eventually found instead was a new FLDS leader claiming divine authority — and evidence of abuse they couldn’t ignore. Christine and Tolga’s harrowing journey to expose his crimes and get help for the young victims he’d harmed unfolds in the four-part documentary series Trust Me: The False Prophet, which is now streaming.

Trust Me: The False Prophet chronicles the rise of Samuel Bateman, the self-proclaimed heir to Jeffs, as seen through the eyes of the couple who infiltrated his inner circle. The four-part documentary series follows Christine and Tolga as they gain Bateman’s trust and uncover evidence of unignorable evil — revealing the depths of his control and the women brave enough to speak up.

4 episodes

Available on Netflix

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