The local sergeant watched Christine Marie's footage. He believed every frame. He still wouldn't move. That's the truth that almost broke this case — and it might be the most enraging part of the entire Samuel Bateman story. Short Creek had spent decades training itself to leave its own children alone. Polygamy was "just how they live." The local police had stopped seeing what was right in front of them long before Bateman declared himself a prophet. So when Christine and her husband Tolga brought them tape after tape of what Bateman was doing inside that house, the answer kept coming back — yeah, that looks real, but we can't act on it. The recording that finally moved the case came in late 2021. Bateman, in his own voice, describing handing three of his wives to three of his men — one of them a minor. Christine flipped a mother named Julia Johnson, whose four daughters had been given to Bateman. She helped pull the girls away so federal agents could move in. Every month the wall held was another month those girls weren't safe. Christine still carries that. The rescued girls sat across from trained forensic interviewers and said nothing about what happened to them. Their journals — seized by the FBI — were full of it. Dates. Details. Names. Written in their own handwriting. They could put it on paper but they physically could not speak it. Shavaun Scott has spent thirty years working with trauma survivors and people escaping coercive control. Robin Dreeke ran the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Program. They examine what the documentary footage reveals about body language most viewers are mistaking for choice. What Bateman's "atonement ceremonies" — group acts framed as divine commandment — did to his followers' ability to recognize harm. Why eight girls went willingly with Bateman's wives when they were taken from foster care. And the impossible moral calculation at the center of the co-defendants' cases — women raised FLDS, married off as teenagers, conditioned from birth, and convicted for facilitating harm to children. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SamuelBateman #FLDS #ChristineMarie #TrustMeNetflix #ShortCreek #ShavaunScott #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PoliceFailure