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, the FLDS community on the Utah-Arizona border, had spent decades training itself to leave its own children alone. Polygamy was "just how they live." Underage marriages were "their lifestyle." 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 actually doing inside that house, the answer kept coming back the same — yeah, that looks real, but we can't act on it. In this second part of our three-part conversation, Christine takes me through that wait. Was it incompetence, or was the town protecting one of its own? Why she didn't reach for the FBI sooner. What it cost her, every month, to know what was happening and be sent home again. The recording she captured in late 2021 — Bateman, in his own voice, describing handing three of his wives to three of his men, one of them a minor — that finally moved the case. The mother she flipped, Julia Johnson, whose four daughters had been given to Bateman. The morning she helped pull the girls away from him so federal agents could move in. And the regret she still carries — what she'd do differently to get him stopped faster, knowing every month the wall held was another month those girls weren't safe. 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 #ShortCreek #TrustMeFalseProphet #PoliceFailure #FBIRaid #TrueCrime #Cults #Netflix