Christine Marie’s Family: All About ‘False Prophet’ Star’s Husband & Famous Daughter

Netflix’s latest true crime series, Trust Me: The False Prophet, details the circumstances that led to Samuel Bateman’s 2022 arrest. The self-proclaimed prophet led a polygamist sect of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) members. He took several “spiritual” underage wives, and when he moved to the town of Short Creek on the Utah-Arizona border, he acquired control of the community.

Thanks to the efforts of cult psychologist Christine Marie and her husband, Tolga Katas, Bateman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport a minor for criminal sexual activity and conspiracy to commit kidnapping and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Marie and Katas had moved to Short Creek in 2016, with the latter already working on a documentary about life in the FLDS community. Bateman wanted to be filmed for the project, and the footage the couple captured served as evidence for his later arrest.