LIVE: The Psychological Damage Inside Bateman's FLDS Cult | Part 2

LIVE: The Psychological Damage Inside Bateman's FLDS Cult | Part 2

Author: Hidden Killers Podcast April 16, 2026 Duration: 24:03

Going live for Part 2 of our panel on the Samuel Bateman case and Netflix's Trust Me: The False Prophet. If Part 1 was about how Bateman built his cult, this one is about what it did to the people inside it — and the damage that's still unfolding.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and former FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke are back with Tony for the conversation about the invisible wreckage. The children who wrote about their abuse in journals but couldn't say it out loud to a single adult. The wives who were both victims and participants. The parents who still support Bateman over their own daughters. We're getting into the clinical reality of what coercive religious control does to the human mind — and why rescue doesn't always feel like rescue to the people being saved.

We're taking your questions live. If you watched the documentary and couldn't stop thinking about the women's faces, the way the children moved through those spaces, or whether those family relationships can ever be repaired — bring it. Shavaun has spent thirty years in trauma recovery and wrote a memoir about surviving religious extremism and abuse herself. Robin spent two decades reading human behavior for the FBI. This is the room for the hard questions.

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