When Naomi "Nomz" Bistline initially auditioned to be in her prison's band, she tried out to be the guitarist. "Then I started singing a little and they said, ‘Put the guitar down. Let's just hear you ...
Nomz Bistline was once a false prophet's wife in breakaway FLDS group. Now she’s telling her story — from abuse and control to jail and a new freedom.
Samuel Rappylee Bateman was sentenced in 2024 to 50 years in prison—but what happened to the polygamist leader’s child and ...
A new Netflix documentary, Trust Me: The False Prophet, examines the shocking and heartbreaking polygamist sect led by Samuel Bateman, a man who had over twenty ‘spiritual wives’ including ten ...
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 ...
It’s been 20 years since Warren Jeffs, the “prophet” who ran the cult-like polygamist Mormon offshoot the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Short Creek, Utah, was arrested ...