Samuel Bateman thought he was being made famous. Christine Marie was actually building the case that would put him away for fifty years. And he had no idea — even with her sitting at his table every day with a camera. She didn't go to Short Creek hunting for him. She and her husband Tolga had moved to that stretch of the Utah-Arizona border to film something else entirely, hoping to give voice to a community still recovering from Warren Jeffs going to prison. Then this self-proclaimed prophet stepped out of the wreckage, claiming Jeffs was speaking through him, taking "spiritual wives" — some of them children — and saw two outsiders with cameras as the answer to his ambitions. He let them in. Christine had already lived through coercive control with another false prophet years before. She could read Bateman on sight. Every move he was making, she'd seen made on her. She knew exactly what kind of trust to perform to keep his guard down. A broke, homeless man walked into a fractured religious community and three years later he was driving Bentleys, commanding fifty followers, and fathers were handing him their young daughters as spiritual wives. Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott pull apart the behavioral playbook Bateman used — how he read the vulnerability of a community reeling from Jeffs' imprisonment, why his demand for public confessions was about manufacturing complicity not accountability, what his obsession with being filmed reveals about his self-image, why police walked away twice after questioning him, and how he maintained enough control from a federal detention cell that three women risked life sentences to carry out his orders through a shared tablet. Christine tells what it actually cost to live that double life. How a community of paranoid believers came to trust her. When "documentary maker" quietly turned into "mole" in her own head. And whether Bateman truly believed he was a prophet — or knew the whole time he wasn't. 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 #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #WarrenJeffs