Samuel Bateman created an offshoot of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) after their leader, Warren Jeffs, was arrested. Here's everything to know about Samuel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bateman’s rise was made possible by a leadership void. When FLDS leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for ...

Christine Marie, a cult expert and subject of the Netflix documentary "Trust Me: The False Prophet," is sharing how she ...

Samuel Bateman made several women, including Naomi 'Nomz' Bistline, and children his 'spiritual wives' in order to sexually abuse them Caroline Blair is a writer for PEOPLE. She has been writing about ...

A man who declared himself a prophet and the heir to an imprisoned cult leader is the subject of a new Netflix documentary that follows a couple exposing his crimes. Samuel Bateman represented himself ...

Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet is structured less as a conventional true crime retelling and more as a primary source reconstruction. Built around hundreds of hours of footage, recorded ...

A new Netflix true crime doc goes inside the takedown of the self-proclaimed prophet. For the second time, Netflix and director Rachel Dretzin are chronicling abuse within an offshoot group of the ...

Naomi “Nomz” Bistline, one of the former wives of cult leader Samuel Bateman, is speaking out about her experience after leaving the religious group. Bistline, who was one of his 20 “wives,” ...

Key figures in exposing polygamist cult leader Samuel Bateman’s abuse are continuing their advocacy, while many of his former child brides have left the FLDS community. Bateman, convicted in 2024 of a ...