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Who Is Christine Marie? All About the ‘Trust Me’ Informant That Brought Down Samuel Bateman
Dr. Christine Marie arrived at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints community of Short Creek hoping to assist and support members in need. Instead, she uncovered a disturbing criminal scheme that forced her to intervene.
Marie’s efforts to document the life of self-proclaimed prophet Samuel Bateman—as well as to gather criminal evidence against him—is the foundation of the Netflix docuseries Trust Me: The False Prophet. Streaming on April 8, the four-part project examines how video footage and interviews gathered by Marie helped inform authorities of sexual abuse taking place under Bateman’s watch.
Here’s what you need to know about Marie, her background, and role in Bateman’s capture.
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With Warren Jeffs in Prison for Sex Crimes, Trust Me: The False Prophet Exposes the Evil Man Who Took His Place
In the midst of making Trust Me: The False Prophet, her second Netflix docuseries in five years about sex crimes involving the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), Rachel Dretzin was reminded why it all mattered. An underage bride of Sam Bateman, now serving 50 years for conspiracy to transport a minor for sex and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, told the director that her 2022 series, Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, is what helped lead her to leave Bateman’s web of more than 20 “wives”—nine of whom were minors.
“It made me really feel committed that this story needs to be told. Not just for the women that still follow Sam, but for a lot of people who are under coercive control, these documentaries can have a real impact,” Dretzin tells Vanity Fair. “I know they can because I have the evidence.”
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