Samuel Bateman Got Fifty Years — So Why Are His Followers Going Back?

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.Some of his adult wives still call him their prophet. Some of the girls 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. Christine describes it as an IV of indoctrination — certainty flowing one phone call at a time into people whose entire identity was built inside a system designed to make leaving feel like death. Warren Jeffs did the same thing from a Texas prison cell for over a decade. Now Bateman is running the same play.Christine tells what she actually knows about what Bateman feeds his followers from inside. 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, as fallen, as enemies. Why some women can walk out of a coercive group and build a real life the way Christine herself did, and why others can't. 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.Short Creek is still standing. Same theology. Same isolation. Same obedience structure. Robin Dreeke and Shavaun Scott examine why the FLDS survives when other cults collapsed. They talk about Faith Bistline — who lost her entire family to Bateman and is now raising the children they helped destroy. What works to help children still inside high-control groups when pulling them out has devastating consequences and leaving them in has worse ones. And the question that hangs over everything: is Short Creek going to break the cycle, or is the machine just sitting there waiting for its next operator? Both experts answer directly. Their answers might not be the ones you expect.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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 #WarrenJeffs #RobinDreeke #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime