He's serving fifty years. He still picks up the phone every day. And the women he calls still pick it up on the other end. Samuel Bateman is in federal prison — and a meaningful number of the women Christine Marie risked everything to save have walked right back into his sphere by their own choice. Some of Bateman's adult wives still call him their prophet. Some of the girls and women Christine helped pull out of his house have returned. The conviction didn't end his control. The sentence didn't end his control. He calls. They listen. The certainty keeps flowing one phone call at a time — what Christine describes as an IV of indoctrination right into their veins. The same pattern held with Warren Jeffs twenty years ago. Now it's holding with Bateman. Short Creek is still standing. Same theology. Same isolation. Same obedience structure that produced both Jeffs and Bateman. Every co-defendant was convicted. And the question Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet leaves you with is the one this conversation answers: are we going to be doing this again in ten years with a different name? Christine tells what she actually knows about what Bateman is feeding his followers from inside his cell. The split between the women who got out for good and the women who returned — and whether the ones who left are now seen as traitors. The ugly question she keeps coming back to: whether some adults can be reached at all, or whether some people only ever feel at home inside something broken. Robin Dreeke and Shavaun Scott examine why the FLDS survives when other cults collapsed after their leaders fell. They talk about Faith Bistline — who lost her entire family to Bateman and is now raising the children they helped destroy. What actually works to help children still inside high-control religious groups when pulling them out has devastating consequences and leaving them in has worse ones. And the question both experts answer directly: is Short Creek going to break the cycle, or is the machine just waiting for its next operator? 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 #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #WarrenJeffs #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime