She moved into a fractured FLDS community to help. What she found instead was a self-proclaimed prophet marrying children — and she wasn't going to look away.
From Rachel Dretzin, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director of Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, this four-part Netflix series is one of the most gripping true-crime documentaries in years. Cult expert Christine Marie and her husband Tolga Katas embedded themselves in Short Creek, Utah, gained Samuel Bateman's trust, and ultimately became FBI informants — collecting evidence of child sexual abuse, kidnapping, and human trafficking while maintaining their cover. The access is extraordinary, the footage genuinely shocking. What elevates it beyond typical true-crime fare is its restraint: the series never sensationalizes the FLDS community or its women, instead treating the people caught in Bateman's orbit with empathy and care. Bateman is now serving a 50-year sentence.
Harrowing, urgent, and impossible to stop watching. Set aside time for all four episodes. Now streaming on Netflix.