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It's very difficult to explain to people

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how all of this happened.

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A slide of snow coming down the mountain,

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and it begins to roll like a snowball.

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Compromise by compromise,

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how does something so small as a snowflake

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build up till an avalanche
was over our heads?

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I grew up knowing
that you have a conscience.

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There's a certain fear
that comes over you.

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The fear that you know you're doing wrong.

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The fear of God.

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One of the subtle things
this wicked man did

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was to destroy conscience.

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I was groveling in sin.

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I didn't want to live like this.

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I envied the corpse.

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I envied the corpse a lot.

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We weren't living very far
from the police station.

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I could have simply walked over there.

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But I just kept thinking,

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will they hear one woman's cry?

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Once I knew that Christine
was the one I could go to

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and ask for this help,

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I thought, "Okay,
now we've got two women, not just one."

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Will they hear it?

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Thursday, July 28th, with Julia.

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When Julia began
disclosing to me, I began recording.

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-I just want to do right.
-Yeah. Yeah.

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Following Samuel to Hell
is not doing right.

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It isn't.

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And a woman does not
have to follow a man to Hell.

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-Right.
-She doesn't.

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It was hard for her at first.

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She started by telling me

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how Sam was getting more and more cruel.

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It was tough for me to tell Christine

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how much of a fake front
is being put on in her presence.

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-Bye-bye.
-Bye.

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-I'm gonna go.
-Bye.

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Thank you, bye.

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Thank you.

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The minute that she would leave,

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he would attack 'em
with the most vulgar language,

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and effing 'em and all sorts of stuff
that was just disgusting.

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I just watched as he began
to feed himself off everybody.

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He's home on the computer
twiddling around,

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and they were out

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cleaning motel rooms
and Airbnbs and working hard.

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Even when they were expecting babies,

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sick or not sick, they would go to work

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to earn the money for him.

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It's one of the girls' notebooks, and…

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and we knew they'd been doing affirmations

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to increase their inner self.

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And then when they were home,
he would make 'em do hours of writing.

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Everything has to do with Samuel.

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Everything is Samuel!

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"And thus saith the Lord
unto my servant, Samuel."

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I wanted to show Christine what
he was doing to manipulate their minds.

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"Samuel, I am
in holy fucking love with you."

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"Samuel, I am
in holy fucking love with you."

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It just became an absolute drill.

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It's like…

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-A mind-control technique.
-Yeah.

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In a week's period of time,

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Julia went to Christine,
I think, three or four times

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just crying and sobbing
and talking for hours.

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Julia never agreed
with giving her daughters,

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especially her minor children,
to Sam Bateman.

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You can grab those Kleenexes.

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She knew it was wrong,

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but she had to obey what the prophet said
and what her husband said.

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Bateman also threatened Julia

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that he was going to take
her one-year-old son away from her

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if she did not obey him.

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Eventually, Christine asked Julia

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if she wanted to talk to somebody about it

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and told her about me.

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Julia was terrified of law enforcement,

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but she knew something had to be done
and didn't know what else to do.

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I just want to get back to my God.

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And my true religion.

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And soon thereafter,

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Dawn was in town,
and Julia agreed to meet with her.

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I thought, you know, this man

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cannot go on and keep hurting people.

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And so I went and started

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telling it all.

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It was very emotional, and it was…

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…it was the hardest thing to do.

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Julia had information
on certain sex acts that occurred

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and where they occurred,

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what occurred,

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what happened during those sex acts.

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This is gonna get gross.

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Um…

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Sam Bateman chose
the people he wanted to be there,

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which would include
adults and minor girls.

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To not get caught by law enforcement,

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Sam was taking precautions not
to get any of the minor girls pregnant,

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but having sexual relations with them.

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He wanted to have
people watching him have sex.

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He wanted other people to be having sex
while he was having sex.

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He would have, uh,

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the fathers having sex with other women,

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with their daughters in the room.

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Sometimes he would have
people watching by video.

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I don't know who was all on video.

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Watching it.

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But you could see Sam on the other bed.

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The goal was to try
to teach the young girls

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how to please Sam Bateman.

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It was clear

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that what I knew

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before meeting Julia
was the tip of the iceberg,

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and it just kept getting worse
and worse and worse.

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Julia knew something had to be done,

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and she was going to help me
nail this motherfucker.

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Julia and I were now working with the FBI.

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Julia, bless her heart,

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she was so good about documenting things.

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She had access
to all the identifying information

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for the wives and for the girls.

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I've got those birth certificate records.

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Any of them that they want,
I'll give them to them.

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Yeah, that's great.

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She was able to provide a lot
of the group communications on Signal.

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I just gave 'em anything
that they asked for.

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Notes I'd made on my phone,

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pictures on my phone,

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pictures of people I love so much.

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My sisters, my daughters.

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It was very grievous, but I had to do it.

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My emotions are just right at my eyelids.

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'Cause I'm just at the beginnings
of what's gonna happen.

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-You know?
-Yeah.

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It's gonna be big, like for Moroni.

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Julia's husband Moroni
was still a very strong believer.

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She had to hide, even from him,

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that she was meeting with me.

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I tried to delete as much of the trail.

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You know, I double-checked my phone.

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Made sure everything
was deleted out of cut-and-paste.

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Everything.

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If Sam sensed anything,

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or if anybody saw me
going to Christine's a lot

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or conversating with her,

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he would question Moroni about it.

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We mostly did it inside.

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I'd even park in such a way that
you couldn't see that my vehicle was here,

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inside the gate.

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We were taking evidence
in the middle of the night.

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2:30, 3:00 in the morning,
we'd go to a secret location.

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Christine would get out of the car,
enter into another car.

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That's just to exchange evidence.

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Julia and I would come up
with ways to keep it hidden.

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We met at Kahuna Burger.

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We met at Tropical Smoothie.

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We drove around a lot.

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I didn't take this

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and, you know, have a conversation
with Moroni or anything,

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because if there's any questioning,
the pressure gets on him, you know?

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Yeah.

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And Moroni is very obedient to him, okay?

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-He reports every minute?
-He reports everything.

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Sam sensed

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that Julia was not going with the program.

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Hi. I love you. Hi.

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He knew.

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I… I just wasn't believing all that.

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When you say, "I fear what's happening."

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"Something's wrong,
and I don't feel good about it,"

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and he would say, "Fear and faith
cannot remain in the same person

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at the same time."

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"And you need to go
and, you know, humble yourself

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because you're giving way to fears."

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And he's been very concerned

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to the point he's turned
those girls away to me… from me.

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And has them entirely convinced

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the word he calls me
over and over in their minds,

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day after day,

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which was a word we never ever
even used or brought into our vocabulary,

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was "a bitch."

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He made her stand in front of the group
and confess that she was a bitch.

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She had to take on this identity

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and say terrible things about herself
and how bad she was.

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Sam was constantly

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coming up with stories
to make all her daughters

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believe things about her
that were not true.

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My children hate me.

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Julia told me

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that Sam was trying to get
more and more control over the girls.

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Sam and his group had two houses.

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There was a blue house
that was big and full of bedrooms.

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At first,
most people lived in the blue house,

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but as Sam became more sexual,

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he took all of his wives and their babies

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and moved them a couple of blocks away

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to the green house,

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which was a tiny house
with only two bedrooms.

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He took these ladies

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and crammed 22 of 'em
into a teeny-tiny, rundown place.

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Sam had a giant bed,

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and he extended it with another bed
so they all slept together.

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He wanted to be completely
in his own little corner

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and have full control over 'em.

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Who he did not allow
in the green house was

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Julia and the other male followers.

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Sam was getting more and more jealous.

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He was so insecure.

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And he began to find reasons
to punish the men.

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There's principles in our religion

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of punishment.

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If men do wrong, they just get punished.
That's all there is to it.

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They've got to suffer a pain of mind

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because they have done wrong.

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They were lusting after your wives?

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They're lusting after my wives.

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That's adultery.
It's the same thing as adultery.

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It's like the second-wickedest thing
that we know about.

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Sometimes Sam would have the wives

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go over to the blue house for a dinner,

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and the male followers were not allowed
to interact with them.

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In fact, Moroni had
a room in the basement.

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He was not allowed
to eat in the dining room.

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He was to stay in his room

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unless he was working.

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They're living in the basement.

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Lud, big smart Lud,

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he can't leave his room.

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Sam just turned on them.

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For no reason.

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They've given their all.
They've given literally their family,

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their monies, everything,

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and then they just get turned on.

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Sam became
this controlling monster over Moroni.

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And Moroni just kept obeying Sam.

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You obey because
there's a certain mind frame

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that even I went through, and that is,

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"Oh God, this has got to be right

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because if it's not right,

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I'm no good."

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"I'm not even worthy to be on this earth."

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But it's a mind frame
that you have to get past

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and say, "Something's wrong."

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Get the girls back,
and you're gonna be fine.

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They need to come home, and they need
to get out of that green house.

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Yeah.

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Julia was able to provide
a lot of information

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that helped solidify the case.

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We were pushing to get warrants
to search Sam's home.

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We were hoping
we would have something to indict Sam on

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so that we could arrest him
when we conducted the search warrants,

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but without a disclosure
from an underage victim,

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the United States Attorney
for the District of Arizona

00:18:13.550 --> 00:18:16.845 align:center
would not approve
child sexual abuse charges

00:18:16.929 --> 00:18:19.098 align:center
in order to be able to arrest him.

00:18:22.267 --> 00:18:24.770 align:center
We still needed more evidence against Sam,

00:18:25.270 --> 00:18:27.773 align:center
so we needed Christine
to keep playing her part

00:18:27.856 --> 00:18:29.817 align:center
and stay close to Sam.

00:18:31.068 --> 00:18:33.237 align:center
You know, give him a rope
and let him hang himself.

00:18:35.405 --> 00:18:37.282 align:center
Pretty! That's pretty!

00:18:37.366 --> 00:18:40.410 align:center
-I told her to show Christine, so she is.
-Come over here.

00:18:40.494 --> 00:18:43.372 align:center
It's not comfortable

00:18:44.081 --> 00:18:46.750 align:center
living a life that is not real to you.

00:18:47.334 --> 00:18:49.128 align:center
I was so trusted.

00:18:49.211 --> 00:18:50.921 align:center
-Love you, guys.
-We love you.

00:18:51.004 --> 00:18:52.089 align:center
You're better off.

00:18:52.172 --> 00:18:54.299 align:center
I mean, they named a baby after me.

00:18:54.383 --> 00:18:57.094 align:center
Bye, Christine Marie.
One little kiss for you.

00:18:58.303 --> 00:19:01.306 align:center
I knew that in order to help them,

00:19:01.390 --> 00:19:02.766 align:center
I had to betray them.

00:19:02.850 --> 00:19:04.601 align:center
You were the first wife.

00:19:04.685 --> 00:19:07.938 align:center
I don't look at myself
that way because we're all equal.

00:19:08.021 --> 00:19:10.440 align:center
I know. I know.
But you were the first wife.

00:19:10.524 --> 00:19:12.901 align:center
You were the courageous one
that started this whole thing.

00:19:12.985 --> 00:19:15.404 align:center
It was Heavenly Father.

00:19:15.487 --> 00:19:16.488 align:center
Yeah.

00:19:18.574 --> 00:19:22.578 align:center
At times, the things Christine had to do
truly became ridiculous.

00:19:22.661 --> 00:19:24.746 align:center
I have some new pieces of information.

00:19:24.830 --> 00:19:25.914 align:center
Okay.

00:19:25.998 --> 00:19:28.125 align:center
Remember how I told you
that… that he thinks

00:19:28.208 --> 00:19:30.669 align:center
that the Queen of England belongs to him?

00:19:30.752 --> 00:19:31.587 align:center
Right.

00:19:31.670 --> 00:19:33.630 align:center
Well, um,

00:19:33.714 --> 00:19:37.968 align:center
he's been having impressions
that he needs to do a music video.

00:19:38.051 --> 00:19:39.928 align:center
It's not for self-aggrandizement.

00:19:40.012 --> 00:19:43.223 align:center
It is for the sole purpose
to get the Queen to come over here

00:19:43.307 --> 00:19:45.893 align:center
because that's the next step
in… in my mission.

00:19:45.976 --> 00:19:47.769 align:center
I don't know why. I don't care why.

00:19:48.270 --> 00:19:50.355 align:center
But that's the next thing
that needs to happen.

00:19:50.439 --> 00:19:52.608 align:center
And he wants to put it on YouTube

00:19:52.691 --> 00:19:55.986 align:center
and so somehow it will get to the Queen,

00:19:56.069 --> 00:19:59.281 align:center
and the Queen will come here
and become his wife.

00:20:00.699 --> 00:20:02.659 align:center
So we are going along with everything.

00:20:02.743 --> 00:20:05.996 align:center
See how this is like… This is so, uh…

00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:07.331 align:center
-Flowy?
-Yeah.

00:20:07.414 --> 00:20:09.875 align:center
This would make, like,
for the background or something.

00:20:12.211 --> 00:20:15.130 align:center
The music video gave us
all this time to interact

00:20:15.714 --> 00:20:17.883 align:center
as we kept gathering evidence.

00:20:17.966 --> 00:20:19.343 align:center
It's called behind the scenes.

00:20:19.426 --> 00:20:22.721 align:center
When you make a music video,
it's very common to get behind the scenes.

00:20:26.433 --> 00:20:28.644 align:center
We'll start doing it
at two o'clock or something.

00:20:28.727 --> 00:20:31.146 align:center
-Okay.
-Go, like, two to nine should be good.

00:20:31.230 --> 00:20:33.690 align:center
Tolga, obviously, was the director.

00:20:33.774 --> 00:20:38.153 align:center
I guess you would say
that I was the art director.

00:20:38.236 --> 00:20:40.197 align:center
-Were you thinking this would go behind?
-Yeah.

00:20:40.280 --> 00:20:42.824 align:center
Wondered if we should drape it
with like a sheet or something?

00:20:42.908 --> 00:20:43.742 align:center
We could do that.

00:20:43.825 --> 00:20:45.160 align:center
I was working with the girls.

00:20:45.244 --> 00:20:46.703 align:center
"We need a better background."

00:20:47.496 --> 00:20:49.915 align:center
"Let's make an arch with flowers."

00:20:49.998 --> 00:20:51.583 align:center
Oh, you used paperweights.

00:20:51.667 --> 00:20:54.294 align:center
-Yeah.
-That's amazing. I never thought of that.

00:20:54.378 --> 00:20:55.837 align:center
You know, "What are you gonna wear?"

00:20:55.921 --> 00:20:57.589 align:center
And really make it seem real.

00:21:07.140 --> 00:21:08.642 align:center
Yeah, probably.

00:21:09.518 --> 00:21:12.521 align:center
Oh, that's so beautiful.
Everything turned out so beautiful.

00:21:13.897 --> 00:21:14.856 align:center
Pretty straight.

00:21:14.940 --> 00:21:15.774 align:center
That one.

00:21:17.484 --> 00:21:20.153 align:center
Yeah, let's just have them line up
and just see the first shot.

00:21:20.237 --> 00:21:22.030 align:center
Can we-- Can you guys line up?

00:21:26.159 --> 00:21:27.369 align:center
Who's gonna lead us?

00:21:31.873 --> 00:21:35.836 align:center
We wanted to show
how little the littlest ones were.

00:21:37.796 --> 00:21:40.173 align:center
And one of 'em was so small,

00:21:41.300 --> 00:21:43.677 align:center
she didn't even fit in the lineup.

00:21:43.760 --> 00:21:45.512 align:center
-Wait a minute.
-I'm just gonna wait.

00:21:46.221 --> 00:21:48.849 align:center
I just want to make it
a little more uniform.

00:21:48.932 --> 00:21:51.518 align:center
No, you're fine
on the wide shot. You're fine.

00:21:51.601 --> 00:21:54.271 align:center
-You're gonna make her taller now.
-I know.

00:21:54.354 --> 00:21:57.316 align:center
It's better. It shows that she's… Yeah.

00:22:00.068 --> 00:22:01.945 align:center
Sing it with feeling, okay?

00:22:02.029 --> 00:22:04.781 align:center
Do you know what I mean
by "sell it with your face"?

00:22:04.865 --> 00:22:07.492 align:center
Like, if we want to believe
what you're saying,

00:22:07.576 --> 00:22:09.328 align:center
let us see it in your facial expressions.

00:22:09.411 --> 00:22:10.370 align:center
-Okay.
-Okay.

00:22:10.454 --> 00:22:12.039 align:center
And music.

00:22:16.460 --> 00:22:19.338 align:center
So much lies in store

00:22:19.421 --> 00:22:25.927 align:center
For the little girl
Who enters at the gate

00:22:27.262 --> 00:22:32.100 align:center
If you continue on this path

00:22:32.184 --> 00:22:37.939 align:center
Every promise God has given
Will come true

00:22:43.653 --> 00:22:46.239 align:center
You guys really sold it
on that one. It was really good.

00:22:48.075 --> 00:22:50.660 align:center
So, why… why is this song important?

00:22:50.744 --> 00:22:55.957 align:center
It just tells the story
of a girl's life in our religion.

00:22:57.417 --> 00:23:00.337 align:center
She's born, and she's given
a name and a blessing.

00:23:01.463 --> 00:23:03.381 align:center
When she's eight years old,
she's baptized.

00:23:05.675 --> 00:23:08.720 align:center
Then, when she's married,
she pretty much has a rebirth and…

00:23:09.638 --> 00:23:11.848 align:center
…and goes into her life.

00:23:23.402 --> 00:23:25.779 align:center
It really is like an orchestra,

00:23:25.862 --> 00:23:27.322 align:center
the way you work together.

00:23:27.823 --> 00:23:29.449 align:center
I'm very impressed.

00:23:29.533 --> 00:23:31.868 align:center
Heavenly Father gets the credit.

00:23:31.952 --> 00:23:34.162 align:center
-Anybody want to take any credit?
-No.

00:23:35.705 --> 00:23:38.250 align:center
Thank you, Heavenly Father,
for this good experience.

00:23:43.755 --> 00:23:45.173 align:center
After the video,

00:23:46.299 --> 00:23:50.846 align:center
we offered to take photos
of each woman with Sam.

00:23:55.267 --> 00:23:56.101 align:center
Our goal was

00:23:56.685 --> 00:23:58.353 align:center
to get

00:23:58.937 --> 00:24:02.274 align:center
Sam with each of his underage wives.

00:24:04.484 --> 00:24:06.570 align:center
But when it came to the underage girls,

00:24:06.653 --> 00:24:07.737 align:center
Sam said,

00:24:09.239 --> 00:24:13.452 align:center
"We better not do that because
that's how they took Warren Jeffs down."

00:24:14.035 --> 00:24:15.996 align:center
"Because they had that photo evidence."

00:24:17.497 --> 00:24:20.125 align:center
And I said,
"Of course. What was I thinking?"

00:24:22.586 --> 00:24:23.795 align:center
Wait, one more.

00:24:25.005 --> 00:24:26.047 align:center
Got it.

00:24:31.845 --> 00:24:37.017 align:center
I'm waiting and waiting for the FBI
to conduct the search warrant.

00:24:38.143 --> 00:24:41.480 align:center
We'd been filming Sam for almost a year.

00:24:43.523 --> 00:24:45.484 align:center
We were on pins and needles.

00:24:45.567 --> 00:24:47.611 align:center
When is the arrest gonna happen?

00:24:53.408 --> 00:24:55.827 align:center
And Julia was panicking.

00:24:56.369 --> 00:24:58.997 align:center
She was living in a swirl of suspicion.

00:25:00.916 --> 00:25:03.418 align:center
Is you comin' with us?

00:25:04.169 --> 00:25:06.129 align:center
Sam wore a high paranoia,

00:25:07.464 --> 00:25:08.548 align:center
and he…

00:25:09.925 --> 00:25:11.134 align:center
he was watching.

00:25:11.968 --> 00:25:14.387 align:center
I had a conversation with Moroni.

00:25:14.471 --> 00:25:15.555 align:center
Was it just you?

00:25:15.639 --> 00:25:17.265 align:center
Yeah, it was just me and him.

00:25:17.766 --> 00:25:19.935 align:center
He turned to me and he said,

00:25:20.810 --> 00:25:23.939 align:center
"Are you having temptations
to report Samuel to the law?"

00:25:24.022 --> 00:25:25.732 align:center
What?

00:25:25.815 --> 00:25:27.067 align:center
He asked me that.

00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:33.573 align:center
Julia was distraught
with the situation that she was living in,

00:25:33.657 --> 00:25:36.201 align:center
and we were concerned about the threats

00:25:36.284 --> 00:25:39.496 align:center
that Sam Bateman would make to her

00:25:39.579 --> 00:25:42.207 align:center
and to her daughters.

00:25:43.875 --> 00:25:47.796 align:center
If Sam found out
what I was doing with Christine,

00:25:47.879 --> 00:25:50.507 align:center
he will… take my children,

00:25:50.590 --> 00:25:53.552 align:center
and he will take those people,
and he will flee.

00:25:53.635 --> 00:25:55.470 align:center
Did you end up coming over to my house?

00:25:55.553 --> 00:25:57.264 align:center
I didn't go to your place.

00:25:57.347 --> 00:26:01.476 align:center
Moroni called me
and said, "Come go for a ride with me."

00:26:01.560 --> 00:26:02.686 align:center
How'd that go?

00:26:02.769 --> 00:26:06.022 align:center
-He drove us up to the cabin.
-Uh-huh.

00:26:06.106 --> 00:26:08.316 align:center
As we got up onto the freeway,

00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:11.152 align:center
he said, "You need to sign some papers…"

00:26:11.236 --> 00:26:12.445 align:center
-What?
-Who said it?

00:26:12.529 --> 00:26:16.449 align:center
"…over guardianship
of and ."

00:26:17.701 --> 00:26:19.327 align:center
Yeah. He said we need to do that

00:26:19.411 --> 00:26:22.664 align:center
so that Samuel can do with them
as he wants.

00:26:22.747 --> 00:26:24.040 align:center
-Oh.
-Wow.

00:26:28.169 --> 00:26:30.964 align:center
Sam had been trying to get all of his

00:26:31.548 --> 00:26:33.633 align:center
wives and children to get passports.

00:26:34.467 --> 00:26:36.636 align:center
There is stuff going on.
There's movements.

00:26:37.387 --> 00:26:39.514 align:center
They're buying a plane
for a quarter million bucks.

00:26:39.598 --> 00:26:41.016 align:center
Oh my goodness.

00:26:41.516 --> 00:26:44.102 align:center
He's gonna leave any second. He's ready.

00:26:44.185 --> 00:26:47.355 align:center
I mean, he's gonna go out of town.
He's gonna take the girls and go.

00:26:47.939 --> 00:26:50.358 align:center
I mean, he's getting a plane. Hello.

00:26:52.652 --> 00:26:56.531 align:center
Even though we did not have
enough evidence to arrest Sam

00:26:56.615 --> 00:26:59.409 align:center
on the child sexual assault charges,

00:26:59.993 --> 00:27:01.953 align:center
there was concern as to what he might do

00:27:02.037 --> 00:27:05.165 align:center
if we did not… act quickly,

00:27:05.248 --> 00:27:06.708 align:center
act decisively

00:27:06.791 --> 00:27:08.668 align:center
to alleviate the situation.

00:27:10.378 --> 00:27:13.840 align:center
So we finally made a plan
to serve the search warrant the next week.

00:27:16.468 --> 00:27:18.970 align:center
-We have been aced out.
-Maybe go over here.

00:27:19.054 --> 00:27:21.681 align:center
-Maybe the other end there.
-Oh, they're not here.

00:27:24.017 --> 00:27:25.810 align:center
Hi. This is Samuel Bateman.

00:27:28.021 --> 00:27:29.481 align:center
The mailbox is full

00:27:29.564 --> 00:27:32.567 align:center
and cannot accept any messages
at this time. Goodbye.

00:27:32.650 --> 00:27:34.653 align:center
I'm supposed to meet Sam and the girls,

00:27:34.736 --> 00:27:36.696 align:center
but I went to the building,
they're not there.

00:27:36.780 --> 00:27:38.615 align:center
And I went to the blue house,
they're not there,

00:27:38.698 --> 00:27:40.617 align:center
and I called, and his mailbox is full.

00:28:12.399 --> 00:28:16.861 align:center
District Two units.
Copy attempt to locate southbound 89.

00:28:16.945 --> 00:28:18.488 align:center
Suspicious vehicle.

00:28:18.571 --> 00:28:23.326 align:center
Unknown box trailer full of people,
including children inside the vehicle.

00:28:23.910 --> 00:28:25.161 align:center
Service 292.

00:28:25.245 --> 00:28:28.498 align:center
And there's fingers sticking
out the top of the door on the trailer.

00:28:28.581 --> 00:28:31.459 align:center
10-4, fingers sticking
out the top of the door of the trailer.

00:28:34.796 --> 00:28:36.589 align:center
232 on 97.

00:28:37.882 --> 00:28:38.967 align:center
232…

00:28:42.053 --> 00:28:45.223 align:center
There's little fingers
coming out of the right door

00:28:45.306 --> 00:28:46.349 align:center
in the trailer.

00:28:50.645 --> 00:28:52.021 align:center
230, copy, 28.

00:28:53.857 --> 00:28:55.275 align:center
Come over here, please.

00:28:56.234 --> 00:28:58.945 align:center
-I'm gonna get that knife off you, sir.
-Yeah.

00:28:59.028 --> 00:29:00.572 align:center
-Any other weapons on you?
-No.

00:29:01.197 --> 00:29:03.491 align:center
Stop reaching in your pockets.
What's your name?

00:29:03.575 --> 00:29:04.993 align:center
-What's that?
-What's your name, sir?

00:29:05.076 --> 00:29:07.203 align:center
-Samuel.
-Samuel? Samuel what?

00:29:11.124 --> 00:29:12.208 align:center
What is your name?

00:29:14.669 --> 00:29:15.670 align:center
Samuel.

00:29:16.254 --> 00:29:17.130 align:center
Samuel what?

00:29:17.630 --> 00:29:19.007 align:center
You have to identify yourself.

00:29:19.090 --> 00:29:21.676 align:center
-You understand that, right?
-I don't know. Yeah, Samuel Bateman.

00:29:21.760 --> 00:29:23.011 align:center
Samuel Bateman?

00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:25.680 align:center
-I don't understand. What…
-Hmm?

00:29:25.764 --> 00:29:27.474 align:center
What are you doing?

00:29:27.557 --> 00:29:30.059 align:center
Samuel, I just got here.
Explain to me what's going on.

00:29:31.102 --> 00:29:32.771 align:center
-Stuff.
-Stuff?

00:29:32.854 --> 00:29:35.648 align:center
We're out here because
there is supposedly people back there.

00:29:37.066 --> 00:29:38.902 align:center
How many other people are in the truck?

00:29:42.447 --> 00:29:44.407 align:center
How many other people are in the truck?

00:29:56.419 --> 00:29:58.713 align:center
Open the driver's side door.

00:30:02.342 --> 00:30:05.136 align:center
Hello. How many people do we have in here?

00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:07.347 align:center
-Four.
-Okay.

00:30:09.641 --> 00:30:11.559 align:center
Want to step out of the car, ma'am?

00:30:11.643 --> 00:30:13.353 align:center
Ma'am. Step out of the car.

00:30:15.063 --> 00:30:16.689 align:center
Are there people back here?

00:30:17.315 --> 00:30:18.233 align:center
No.

00:30:18.316 --> 00:30:19.984 align:center
What about in the trailer?

00:30:20.735 --> 00:30:23.029 align:center
How many people are in the trailer?

00:30:26.199 --> 00:30:28.368 align:center
How many people are in your trailer?

00:30:28.952 --> 00:30:31.037 align:center
-Let's start heading back there.
-Hey, hey.

00:30:31.120 --> 00:30:32.622 align:center
Come with me. Okay.

00:30:32.705 --> 00:30:34.624 align:center
Start walking 'em back.
They don't need handcuffs.

00:30:34.707 --> 00:30:36.292 align:center
We just need to get 'em outta here.

00:30:39.212 --> 00:30:41.047 align:center
We'll go from there, so…

00:30:42.298 --> 00:30:43.675 align:center
This is the police!

00:30:43.758 --> 00:30:45.635 align:center
We're gonna be opening the door.

00:30:46.219 --> 00:30:49.347 align:center
I want your hands empty
and above your head!

00:30:50.306 --> 00:30:53.351 align:center
If you do not,
you will suffer the consequences.

00:30:55.937 --> 00:30:57.814 align:center
Where are the hands? Let's see the hands.

00:30:57.897 --> 00:30:59.524 align:center
Let's get that other door open.

00:30:59.607 --> 00:31:02.569 align:center
There were hands sticking
out of the top of the trailer earlier.

00:31:02.652 --> 00:31:03.778 align:center
Let's see 'em!

00:31:07.198 --> 00:31:08.324 align:center
Let's see your hands.

00:31:08.408 --> 00:31:10.869 align:center
-There they are, in the front.
-Behind the curtain.

00:31:11.369 --> 00:31:13.955 align:center
Okay. Keep your hands up for me.

00:31:14.038 --> 00:31:16.124 align:center
Is there anybody else inside the trailer?

00:31:16.207 --> 00:31:17.750 align:center
No? Perfect.

00:31:21.629 --> 00:31:22.589 align:center
Thank you, guys.

00:31:22.672 --> 00:31:25.341 align:center
Just head back there
with your siblings, okay?

00:31:28.970 --> 00:31:31.848 align:center
We're gonna head back there with them.
Thank you so much.

00:31:40.023 --> 00:31:41.482 align:center
What about him?

00:31:42.191 --> 00:31:44.277 align:center
At this point, he's detained right now.

00:31:44.944 --> 00:31:46.654 align:center
You have to let him go.

00:31:46.738 --> 00:31:49.699 align:center
No, ma'am. You're not gonna
decide the outcome of this.

00:31:49.782 --> 00:31:53.745 align:center
We will decide, and we'll let you know
how everything's gonna happen here, okay?

00:31:55.204 --> 00:31:56.164 align:center
Sound okay?

00:32:01.711 --> 00:32:04.422 align:center
The 14-year-old,
she had a ring on her ring finger.

00:32:04.505 --> 00:32:07.884 align:center
She had a ring on her finger.
They've all kind of, like, hidden those.

00:32:07.967 --> 00:32:09.677 align:center
And you are Naomi?

00:32:09.761 --> 00:32:10.595 align:center
Yes.

00:32:11.596 --> 00:32:13.723 align:center
The one in the red dress he's talking to…

00:32:13.806 --> 00:32:15.808 align:center
-Mm-hmm.
-…is basically the ringleader.

00:32:15.892 --> 00:32:19.103 align:center
She's basically telling them all
not to talk.

00:32:20.021 --> 00:32:23.149 align:center
We need to talk to parents,
whether they come here and pick 'em up

00:32:23.232 --> 00:32:24.901 align:center
or we get 'em on the phone.

00:32:24.984 --> 00:32:29.155 align:center
So we'd like to call and actually talk
to the parents for all the juveniles.

00:32:32.241 --> 00:32:34.827 align:center
I got a call from one of my daughters

00:32:34.911 --> 00:32:36.829 align:center
saying, "Hey, we've been stopped,"

00:32:37.664 --> 00:32:38.498 align:center
and…

00:32:39.415 --> 00:32:41.626 align:center
and three of the young girls
were in the trailer.

00:32:41.709 --> 00:32:46.798 align:center
So I just want
to, uh, make sure that you are…

00:32:46.881 --> 00:32:48.966 align:center
Do you know
where your daughters are right now?

00:32:49.634 --> 00:32:51.177 align:center
-Yes, I do.
-Okay.

00:32:51.844 --> 00:32:53.888 align:center
I knew that the FBI was coming,

00:32:54.931 --> 00:32:59.060 align:center
and I was under
such carefulness at the time.

00:32:59.143 --> 00:33:01.229 align:center
I had to just play it on,

00:33:01.312 --> 00:33:05.984 align:center
or it would have blown apart
everything we'd done so far.

00:33:06.067 --> 00:33:07.860 align:center
And you're aware of who they're with?

00:33:07.944 --> 00:33:10.071 align:center
Um, I believe his name's Samuel?

00:33:10.613 --> 00:33:11.948 align:center
-Yes.
-Okay.

00:33:12.031 --> 00:33:16.619 align:center
And so it was agreed
that my underage daughters could be there,

00:33:16.703 --> 00:33:19.497 align:center
but I also got the officer's information

00:33:19.580 --> 00:33:20.707 align:center
and a phone number,

00:33:21.249 --> 00:33:22.875 align:center
and then I contacted FBI.

00:33:24.836 --> 00:33:28.756 align:center
Julia was frantic
because Sam was possibly being arrested.

00:33:29.340 --> 00:33:32.260 align:center
My biggest thing was,
"Hold on. Do you have information?"

00:33:32.343 --> 00:33:33.886 align:center
"Can I get a hold of this person?"

00:33:33.970 --> 00:33:36.597 align:center
I didn't want our case to be blown,

00:33:36.681 --> 00:33:40.309 align:center
and, luckily, Julia had gotten
the trooper's information.

00:33:43.104 --> 00:33:44.063 align:center
-Hi.
-Hi.

00:33:44.147 --> 00:33:46.941 align:center
So the trooper charged three felonies,

00:33:47.024 --> 00:33:49.736 align:center
which means Sam should be held
at least until tomorrow morning.

00:33:49.819 --> 00:33:53.072 align:center
So we do want to keep him there?
Is that what we… what we want?

00:33:53.156 --> 00:33:56.826 align:center
The longer he stays in
the better it is for me, but, um,

00:33:56.909 --> 00:33:59.370 align:center
we're still having a lot
of discussions about that, so--

00:33:59.454 --> 00:34:00.621 align:center
Hey, listen.

00:34:00.705 --> 00:34:03.082 align:center
One of the girls is on the other line.
Do you want me to…

00:34:03.166 --> 00:34:04.417 align:center
Did you wanna mute your phone,

00:34:04.500 --> 00:34:06.794 align:center
and I'll three-way and talk to her,
and you can listen?

00:34:06.878 --> 00:34:07.962 align:center
-Sure.
-Okay.

00:34:09.672 --> 00:34:11.924 align:center
Hi… What's going on? You know, I got the--

00:34:12.008 --> 00:34:16.012 align:center
Tell me everything's going
to be okay. I just had to cry on you.

00:34:16.095 --> 00:34:17.805 align:center
It's okay. You can cry.

00:34:18.681 --> 00:34:19.974 align:center
It's okay.

00:34:20.058 --> 00:34:22.435 align:center
This is a traumatizing experience.

00:34:23.811 --> 00:34:25.688 align:center
-What's happening?
-What's happening?

00:34:25.772 --> 00:34:29.525 align:center
I feel like I'm out
in a battlefield with nowhere to go.

00:34:29.609 --> 00:34:33.446 align:center
Oh my goodness.
This is such a scary situation.

00:34:33.529 --> 00:34:36.491 align:center
Remember, these people
don't even know who Samuel is.

00:34:36.574 --> 00:34:38.159 align:center
This has nothing to do

00:34:38.659 --> 00:34:41.037 align:center
with your mission

00:34:41.120 --> 00:34:44.540 align:center
or with his calling.

00:34:44.624 --> 00:34:45.666 align:center
Nothing like that.

00:34:45.750 --> 00:34:49.462 align:center
This is really just about
having the girls in the back of the truck.

00:34:49.545 --> 00:34:52.215 align:center
So let's remember, um,

00:34:52.799 --> 00:34:55.635 align:center
to not give it bigger meaning
than it really has.

00:34:57.220 --> 00:34:58.179 align:center
And…

00:34:58.262 --> 00:35:00.598 align:center
-I think I was.
-Yeah.

00:35:00.681 --> 00:35:03.976 align:center
So. Okay, so I'll call you back
when I learn more.

00:35:04.852 --> 00:35:06.854 align:center
-Okay. Thank you so much.
-Okay, thanks.

00:35:06.938 --> 00:35:08.272 align:center
Thank you. Love you. Bye-bye.

00:35:08.773 --> 00:35:10.107 align:center
Thank you. Bye-bye.

00:35:10.191 --> 00:35:11.943 align:center
Okay. Um…

00:35:12.026 --> 00:35:15.071 align:center
Very good. Very good.
You do so well with them.

00:35:15.154 --> 00:35:19.700 align:center
Oh, I don't know if I had to grade myself,
if I would give myself an A.

00:35:19.784 --> 00:35:22.120 align:center
Probably not. Anyway, um…

00:35:22.203 --> 00:35:23.830 align:center
The thing is, it's gonna get media.

00:35:23.913 --> 00:35:25.289 align:center
It's gonna get all kinds of things.

00:35:25.373 --> 00:35:26.624 align:center
-You know?
-Right.

00:35:27.166 --> 00:35:29.460 align:center
-And that's what we don't want.
-Yeah.

00:35:31.420 --> 00:35:32.421 align:center
New tonight,

00:35:32.505 --> 00:35:35.550 align:center
the leader of a small polygamous sect
in northern Arizona

00:35:35.633 --> 00:35:37.051 align:center
facing several charges

00:35:37.134 --> 00:35:40.680 align:center
after law enforcement found him
transporting several young girls

00:35:40.763 --> 00:35:42.807 align:center
inside a trailer in Flagstaff.

00:35:43.391 --> 00:35:46.894 align:center
That man still behind bars
tonight. He pleaded not guilty.

00:35:48.062 --> 00:35:50.857 align:center
The media got interested in the story.

00:35:50.940 --> 00:35:53.943 align:center
And the girls were afraid
for their safety.

00:35:54.610 --> 00:35:57.238 align:center
If a lot of you show up
in your FLDS dresses,

00:35:58.322 --> 00:36:01.284 align:center
the question would be
whether that would create media

00:36:01.367 --> 00:36:02.785 align:center
that you don't want.

00:36:02.869 --> 00:36:05.705 align:center
Yeah, 'cause people
just drive right up and video us.

00:36:05.788 --> 00:36:07.415 align:center
We can't even hide.

00:36:07.498 --> 00:36:09.917 align:center
Does anybody have any gentile clothes?

00:36:11.210 --> 00:36:13.880 align:center
No, but we can figure out how to get 'em.

00:36:15.798 --> 00:36:18.426 align:center
The question is,
what kind of gentile do you want to be?

00:36:18.509 --> 00:36:21.804 align:center
-A modest gentile, a badass gentile?
-A modest.

00:36:21.888 --> 00:36:24.640 align:center
I don't want to be a gentile.

00:36:24.724 --> 00:36:28.644 align:center
Yeah, look at that. That one's perfect
'cause it's like a shirt dress.

00:36:28.728 --> 00:36:31.230 align:center
What about something like that,
with like a tee underneath?

00:36:31.314 --> 00:36:32.231 align:center
Sure.

00:36:32.315 --> 00:36:35.776 align:center
Something that kinda hangs down,
but not like a dress.

00:36:37.778 --> 00:36:39.906 align:center
Uh-oh.
You talking about the girls at home?

00:36:39.989 --> 00:36:42.200 align:center
You can tell us.

00:36:50.249 --> 00:36:54.629 align:center
They took us to the trailer,
and they explained what happened.

00:36:54.712 --> 00:36:57.632 align:center
It's quite a bit different than it was,
but you can kinda look.

00:36:57.715 --> 00:36:59.800 align:center
There's two chairs,
two big chairs in the back.

00:36:59.884 --> 00:37:01.969 align:center
-Camping stuff. Stroller.
-Oh, yeah. Okay.

00:37:02.053 --> 00:37:03.679 align:center
Oh, and that's your bathroom?

00:37:03.763 --> 00:37:07.558 align:center
It was obvious that this was
a system that they had used before

00:37:07.642 --> 00:37:10.519 align:center
to transport… these children.

00:37:10.603 --> 00:37:13.940 align:center
I want your hands empty
and above your head!

00:37:18.110 --> 00:37:21.322 align:center
Later finding out
that the trailer doors weren't secure,

00:37:21.405 --> 00:37:24.158 align:center
and that's how somebody
even knew they were in there.

00:37:24.241 --> 00:37:26.243 align:center
It's 'cause they reached
to hold those doors shut

00:37:26.327 --> 00:37:28.120 align:center
because they started coming unlatched.

00:37:29.288 --> 00:37:31.165 align:center
Yeah, that's how it was.

00:37:31.249 --> 00:37:33.042 align:center
The slightest thing had gone wrong,

00:37:33.125 --> 00:37:35.586 align:center
and those girls would've been flung
onto the freeway.

00:37:36.087 --> 00:37:37.964 align:center
The thought is sickening.

00:37:39.423 --> 00:37:41.467 align:center
Tolga and I are in Flagstaff.

00:37:41.968 --> 00:37:42.927 align:center
How you feeling?

00:37:43.928 --> 00:37:47.556 align:center
It's really nuts.
I feel crazy sick to my stomach.

00:37:47.640 --> 00:37:50.226 align:center
Anyway, we're gonna go.

00:37:50.309 --> 00:37:54.981 align:center
We're gonna pick up the prophet from jail.

00:37:55.564 --> 00:37:58.317 align:center
Torrance is coming in from the Crick.

00:37:58.401 --> 00:38:00.903 align:center
With $150,000.

00:38:02.154 --> 00:38:03.114 align:center
No joke.

00:38:03.948 --> 00:38:06.617 align:center
Cash bond, whatever. Cash bail.

00:38:08.035 --> 00:38:10.830 align:center
-Okay.
-I'm gonna take two of the girls with us.

00:38:13.165 --> 00:38:14.792 align:center
Okay. I'll be back.

00:38:16.002 --> 00:38:20.965 align:center
Call from an inmate
at Coconino County Jail.

00:38:22.216 --> 00:38:24.593 align:center
T is over there with the bail money.

00:38:25.428 --> 00:38:27.430 align:center
-In about ten minutes or so.
-Okay.

00:38:28.222 --> 00:38:29.098 align:center
Okay.

00:38:29.181 --> 00:38:31.100 align:center
We'll see you in not very long.

00:38:31.642 --> 00:38:33.561 align:center
Yeah, thank you. Bye.

00:38:33.644 --> 00:38:35.313 align:center
We need you. Bye.

00:38:37.815 --> 00:38:41.777 align:center
We are driving
out of Flagstaff with Father today.

00:38:42.987 --> 00:38:45.698 align:center
How do you like being
a gentile for 15 minutes?

00:38:45.781 --> 00:38:48.701 align:center
It's nice to kinda fit in
every once in a while, just like--

00:38:48.784 --> 00:38:51.662 align:center
No, not the "fit in."
It's just doing it for him.

00:38:52.246 --> 00:38:53.414 align:center
I don't want to fit in,

00:38:53.497 --> 00:38:57.293 align:center
so I'm actually
extremely comfortable living like I am.

00:38:59.879 --> 00:39:03.174 align:center
Not like this,
but, like, I don't care what they think.

00:39:03.257 --> 00:39:06.927 align:center
-Yeah.
-Because in our minds, we're celebrities.

00:39:07.428 --> 00:39:09.638 align:center
-Right.
-We're different. We're…

00:39:10.139 --> 00:39:10.973 align:center
Right.

00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:16.312 align:center
We've chosen to live higher standards

00:39:16.395 --> 00:39:19.231 align:center
so all it shows people
is that we're living higher standards

00:39:19.315 --> 00:39:21.525 align:center
because we love God and the prophets.

00:39:37.917 --> 00:39:39.835 align:center
She's doing the paperwork to get the bond.

00:39:39.919 --> 00:39:42.004 align:center
Biggest bail she's ever seen

00:39:42.546 --> 00:39:45.007 align:center
in this county as cash.

00:39:45.091 --> 00:39:46.592 align:center
-Wow.
-Yeah.

00:39:46.675 --> 00:39:47.885 align:center
What you here for?

00:39:47.968 --> 00:39:49.720 align:center
-Me?
-You want a friend like this.

00:39:49.804 --> 00:39:52.431 align:center
I'm here to find our friend.

00:39:52.515 --> 00:39:53.349 align:center
And get him.

00:39:53.891 --> 00:39:56.602 align:center
-That's right.
-Our dear, dear friend.

00:40:04.568 --> 00:40:05.903 align:center
Get you out of here.

00:40:10.533 --> 00:40:12.785 align:center
We're gonna go over to that gray door.

00:40:14.036 --> 00:40:15.037 align:center
And…

00:40:16.122 --> 00:40:19.083 align:center
We really didn't want Sam to be released.

00:40:19.166 --> 00:40:21.127 align:center
It was just not something
we could prevent.

00:40:21.210 --> 00:40:23.963 align:center
We worked with it. We worked with it.

00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:26.799 align:center
Looks like my phone fell out or something.

00:40:26.882 --> 00:40:28.551 align:center
No, we took your phone.

00:40:29.343 --> 00:40:30.761 align:center
We're putting it into evidence.

00:40:30.845 --> 00:40:33.180 align:center
-Please, what's happening?
-One male.

00:40:33.264 --> 00:40:35.891 align:center
Your phone will be
at the Department of Public Safety,

00:40:35.975 --> 00:40:38.811 align:center
here in Flagstaff at the crime lab, so.

00:40:41.230 --> 00:40:42.565 align:center
-Hello.
-Hello.

00:40:43.607 --> 00:40:45.067 align:center
Sam posted bail.

00:40:47.444 --> 00:40:49.905 align:center
-Did they give you your phone?
-No, they stole it.

00:40:49.989 --> 00:40:52.074 align:center
-Are you serious?
-Won't give it back either.

00:40:52.158 --> 00:40:54.577 align:center
But the FBI made sure they took his phone.

00:40:55.161 --> 00:40:56.662 align:center
They won't give you your phone?

00:40:56.745 --> 00:40:57.621 align:center
If they're holding it,

00:40:57.705 --> 00:40:59.748 align:center
there's a good chance
you're not gonna get it back.

00:40:59.832 --> 00:41:01.625 align:center
You're gonna lose it for sure.

00:41:02.376 --> 00:41:04.003 align:center
Sam got in our car

00:41:04.086 --> 00:41:08.048 align:center
and immediately started committing crimes.

00:41:08.132 --> 00:41:12.178 align:center
Um, what I'm wondering is… is, uh…
is there a way to factory data reset?

00:41:12.261 --> 00:41:13.721 align:center
I think? At home?

00:41:16.932 --> 00:41:19.518 align:center
They stole my phone
with all that stuff on it.

00:41:19.602 --> 00:41:22.730 align:center
-There's not anything on it, really.
-It has your life story on it.

00:41:22.813 --> 00:41:24.482 align:center
Well, whatever you were busted with,

00:41:24.565 --> 00:41:26.525 align:center
they take it and make it evidence, so.

00:41:26.609 --> 00:41:28.819 align:center
There might not be anything there,
but just… They keep it.

00:41:28.903 --> 00:41:31.238 align:center
You had your life story on it, though.

00:41:31.322 --> 00:41:33.282 align:center
-What do you mean?
-Then all your Signals.

00:41:33.365 --> 00:41:35.784 align:center
-Is there anything bad on it?
-Not really.

00:41:36.785 --> 00:41:38.537 align:center
Can you shut down Signal?

00:41:38.621 --> 00:41:41.373 align:center
-I… I deleted it. I deleted my account.
-Yeah.

00:41:41.457 --> 00:41:42.583 align:center
Oh.

00:41:43.918 --> 00:41:45.920 align:center
Okay, so…

00:41:50.216 --> 00:41:51.133 align:center
Hi.

00:41:51.217 --> 00:41:52.426 align:center
Hi.

00:42:09.818 --> 00:42:11.028 align:center
How are you doing?

00:42:11.111 --> 00:42:12.613 align:center
-Good to see you.
-I love you.

00:42:18.410 --> 00:42:19.870 align:center
When Sam was arrested,

00:42:19.954 --> 00:42:23.249 align:center
it sort of confirms
to his wives that he's a prophet

00:42:23.332 --> 00:42:24.833 align:center
because he's being persecuted.

00:42:27.419 --> 00:42:29.463 align:center
So they felt honored.

00:42:29.547 --> 00:42:31.590 align:center
I mean, this was like

00:42:32.466 --> 00:42:35.302 align:center
being part of biblical history.

00:42:36.971 --> 00:42:38.264 align:center
I wanna tell you something.

00:42:38.347 --> 00:42:41.016 align:center
Going to prison is not a big deal.
It's just like camping.

00:42:41.100 --> 00:42:43.852 align:center
But when Heavenly Father
takes away a spirit from me?

00:42:43.936 --> 00:42:46.230 align:center
That's when it gets serious.

00:42:51.110 --> 00:42:52.861 align:center
Okay, we're gonna take off.

00:42:52.945 --> 00:42:54.196 align:center
We're glad you're out.

00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:57.908 align:center
Okay? Call us if you need anything.
Love you, guys. Take care.

00:42:57.992 --> 00:42:59.326 align:center
Thank you, Christine.

00:43:06.083 --> 00:43:08.002 align:center
I couldn't film anymore.
I couldn't do it anymore.

00:43:08.085 --> 00:43:10.629 align:center
I couldn't see any more
of their love and their… you know.

00:43:10.713 --> 00:43:13.048 align:center
I mean, they… they're crying.
They love him.

00:43:13.132 --> 00:43:16.176 align:center
I'm just imagining
how much they're gonna hate us.

00:43:16.260 --> 00:43:19.471 align:center
You know, how much
they love us and trust us, and…

00:43:19.555 --> 00:43:21.098 align:center
The whole thing just…

00:43:24.727 --> 00:43:28.606 align:center
When he was talking about, um, deleting--
I mean, his phone?

00:43:28.689 --> 00:43:30.524 align:center
-Yeah.
-I filmed that.

00:43:30.607 --> 00:43:31.483 align:center
Oh, good.

00:43:31.567 --> 00:43:33.527 align:center
I was sitting in the back,
and I filmed them

00:43:33.611 --> 00:43:35.904 align:center
saying, "Well,
maybe we can factory reset."

00:43:35.988 --> 00:43:38.699 align:center
-We gotta get that. You know? I sent it.
-Yeah.

00:43:50.085 --> 00:43:51.920 align:center
So have you all kind of calmed down,

00:43:52.004 --> 00:43:54.381 align:center
and you feel okay now
after all that experience?

00:43:54.465 --> 00:43:57.217 align:center
It feels like my heart
is still trying to catch up.

00:43:57.301 --> 00:43:58.552 align:center
The whole thing's weird.

00:43:58.636 --> 00:44:02.056 align:center
It's almost like they changed it
from a misdemeanor to a felony.

00:44:02.139 --> 00:44:03.682 align:center
I just have to wonder

00:44:04.933 --> 00:44:08.771 align:center
if it might have had something to do with,
like, the police from here knew something

00:44:08.854 --> 00:44:10.606 align:center
and called them.
Is there a way to do that?

00:44:10.689 --> 00:44:12.900 align:center
No, they probably…
it probably showed up in the…

00:44:12.983 --> 00:44:14.652 align:center
it probably showed up
in the police record.

00:44:14.735 --> 00:44:16.236 align:center
-Okay.
-They might have called.

00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:17.988 align:center
And say, "Hey,
what happened with you guys?"

00:44:18.072 --> 00:44:19.156 align:center
Yeah. I don't know.

00:44:19.907 --> 00:44:21.659 align:center
After the Flagstaff arrest,

00:44:22.284 --> 00:44:24.161 align:center
he just knew, like, something was up.

00:44:24.870 --> 00:44:27.998 align:center
So we were like,
"You gotta just calm down."

00:44:28.082 --> 00:44:30.417 align:center
I don't think it's gonna be a big deal.

00:44:30.501 --> 00:44:32.378 align:center
-If we worry about it, we will attract it.
-Yeah.

00:44:32.461 --> 00:44:34.296 align:center
If we worry about it, it's gonna happen.

00:44:34.380 --> 00:44:36.423 align:center
I just, I don't trust
the government at all.

00:44:36.507 --> 00:44:39.176 align:center
I just don't think
you have anything to worry about.

00:44:42.221 --> 00:44:45.432 align:center
Sam felt like he was
being targeted by law enforcement,

00:44:45.516 --> 00:44:46.683 align:center
but at that point,

00:44:46.767 --> 00:44:51.271 align:center
I think he believed that it was
strictly local law enforcement after him.

00:44:51.355 --> 00:44:54.983 align:center
He was still unaware that there was
any federal investigation against him.

00:44:55.734 --> 00:44:58.696 align:center
He didn't know that his phone
was in federal custody at that time,

00:44:58.779 --> 00:45:01.573 align:center
where they were looking
for additional evidence.

00:45:02.408 --> 00:45:06.537 align:center
The crazy thing is that Sam's phone
was not the treasure trove of evidence

00:45:06.620 --> 00:45:08.038 align:center
that I was hoping for.

00:45:08.831 --> 00:45:12.418 align:center
He did not have
inappropriate photos of the girls.

00:45:12.501 --> 00:45:13.669 align:center
He did not have

00:45:13.752 --> 00:45:17.673 align:center
inappropriate conversations
with the girls, to… to a large extent.

00:45:17.756 --> 00:45:20.259 align:center
Nothing definitive for… for crimes.

00:45:20.342 --> 00:45:22.594 align:center
But it was when he was released from jail,

00:45:22.678 --> 00:45:25.305 align:center
he was trying to factory reset
his entire phone.

00:45:25.389 --> 00:45:29.309 align:center
Christine was able
to surreptitiously record that.

00:45:29.393 --> 00:45:32.020 align:center
Is there a way to factory reset?

00:45:32.104 --> 00:45:34.314 align:center
And that evidence allowed us to bring

00:45:34.398 --> 00:45:37.192 align:center
federal obstruction
of justice charges against Sam.

00:45:40.988 --> 00:45:44.741 align:center
We finally had what we needed
for the arrest of Sam Bateman.

00:45:45.617 --> 00:45:47.494 align:center
Hey, anything else you need to talk about?

00:45:47.578 --> 00:45:50.080 align:center
Can I film the prayer room,
get a tour of the prayer room?

00:45:50.164 --> 00:45:51.123 align:center
Yeah, of course.

00:45:51.707 --> 00:45:52.708 align:center
Oops, sorry.

00:45:53.500 --> 00:45:56.920 align:center
The FBI was planning a big raid

00:45:57.004 --> 00:46:00.841 align:center
that involved 50 FBI agents
from around different states.

00:46:02.092 --> 00:46:03.218 align:center
See here.

00:46:04.678 --> 00:46:06.346 align:center
The FBI said, "Film everything."

00:46:06.430 --> 00:46:09.016 align:center
This is coming from this.

00:46:09.099 --> 00:46:11.643 align:center
They want to see the entrance
from inside the house.

00:46:13.187 --> 00:46:14.897 align:center
You know, where the cars are.

00:46:17.691 --> 00:46:21.153 align:center
We had to go in prepared for the worst.

00:46:22.029 --> 00:46:24.490 align:center
Do they keep their doors
locked or unlocked?

00:46:24.573 --> 00:46:26.283 align:center
-Locked.
-Okay.

00:46:27.826 --> 00:46:29.453 align:center
They're under strict orders

00:46:29.953 --> 00:46:32.790 align:center
never to open the door to law enforcement.

00:46:33.499 --> 00:46:37.503 align:center
We won't stand out there
for probably even five minutes.

00:46:38.045 --> 00:46:41.715 align:center
It usually doesn't take us long
to open the door ourselves.

00:46:41.799 --> 00:46:44.384 align:center
I… was shaky

00:46:44.468 --> 00:46:46.970 align:center
'cause I didn't know
if there would be violence.

00:46:47.054 --> 00:46:50.432 align:center
Julia had concerns about guns.

00:46:50.516 --> 00:46:53.227 align:center
Did you guys take the gun
from Moroni's closet?

00:46:53.810 --> 00:46:55.354 align:center
That's still there.

00:46:55.437 --> 00:46:58.315 align:center
I believe that they had access
to some rifles for hunting.

00:46:58.398 --> 00:46:59.858 align:center
Do you guys have guns?

00:47:02.528 --> 00:47:06.323 align:center
Huh? It must be yes! It must be yes!

00:47:07.366 --> 00:47:10.494 align:center
There had been reports
that Sam had taken some of the girls

00:47:10.577 --> 00:47:13.455 align:center
out to practice shooting with handguns.

00:47:13.539 --> 00:47:16.708 align:center
So the reports were there
that it was a potential.

00:47:17.751 --> 00:47:18.836 align:center
They told me.

00:47:18.919 --> 00:47:22.839 align:center
They looked me in the eye, and they said
if anything happens to Father Samuel,

00:47:23.340 --> 00:47:27.344 align:center
that they will kill, and they will
level the state with violence.

00:47:28.303 --> 00:47:31.848 align:center
The paranoia is going to tighten them up.

00:47:31.932 --> 00:47:34.768 align:center
I think Nomz is going to be
very, very, very aggressive.

00:47:34.852 --> 00:47:39.106 align:center
-Yeah.
-She's the one that'll do any dirty work.

00:47:39.189 --> 00:47:40.941 align:center
Absolutely anything.

00:47:41.024 --> 00:47:42.442 align:center
Oh, I know.

00:47:42.526 --> 00:47:46.613 align:center
He has essentially
complete control over her mind.

00:47:54.580 --> 00:47:58.292 align:center
Uh, proposing a toast
for the most luckiest girls on Earth.

00:47:58.375 --> 00:47:59.626 align:center
Aw.

00:47:59.710 --> 00:48:01.295 align:center
Why do you feel lucky?

00:48:01.378 --> 00:48:03.380 align:center
Because we are married to the best man.

00:48:05.632 --> 00:48:07.217 align:center
When I married Samuel,

00:48:08.093 --> 00:48:11.263 align:center
it was one of the most beautiful things
I had ever witnessed.

00:48:11.888 --> 00:48:14.099 align:center
And we could feel
Heavenly Father's spirit.

00:48:15.976 --> 00:48:17.769 align:center
He wants our whole heart.

00:48:18.478 --> 00:48:21.023 align:center
And we cannot tie it
to anything on this earth

00:48:21.106 --> 00:48:22.566 align:center
more than God.

00:48:23.984 --> 00:48:25.652 align:center
I do this cheerfully.

00:48:26.153 --> 00:48:28.155 align:center
And there is zero resistance.

00:48:29.156 --> 00:48:31.116 align:center
Because I will obey.

00:48:46.131 --> 00:48:48.008 align:center
I believed he was my only way

00:48:49.509 --> 00:48:50.719 align:center
to Heaven.

00:48:51.511 --> 00:48:52.679 align:center
Back to God.

00:48:53.305 --> 00:48:56.224 align:center
If he held the keys to my salvation,

00:48:57.434 --> 00:49:02.230 align:center
anything I did would damn me
if… if he didn't approve of it.

00:49:04.983 --> 00:49:09.112 align:center
This world's gonna change. The Lord
is gonna use me to change this world.

00:49:09.613 --> 00:49:13.033 align:center
So I was going to be
submissive and obedient.

00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:16.036 align:center
Becoming the perfect wife.

00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:18.872 align:center
I mean, why did our Savior
hang on the cross and spill blood?

00:49:18.955 --> 00:49:21.416 align:center
Because blood is an atoning principle.

00:49:22.042 --> 00:49:23.251 align:center
I became a master

00:49:23.919 --> 00:49:27.673 align:center
at gauging how he wanted me to respond.

00:49:27.756 --> 00:49:29.675 align:center
And that was how I'd respond.

00:49:30.425 --> 00:49:33.261 align:center
I promise there will be men who beg

00:49:34.221 --> 00:49:35.597 align:center
to have their blood spilled.

00:49:35.681 --> 00:49:37.224 align:center
And then, eventually,

00:49:37.307 --> 00:49:38.433 align:center
I would do

00:49:39.434 --> 00:49:40.602 align:center
whatever he wanted.
,