Forget Big Mistakes — this jaw-dropping new Netflix true crime series is the only TV show you need to stream this weekend

Trust Me: The False Prophet is unmissable

10 Apr 2026, 11:33 by https://www.techradar.com/uk/author/jasmine-valentine · TechRadar

Features By Jasmine Valentine published 10 April 2026

Christine Marie is my new hero (Image credit: Netflix)

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Look, I love Dany Levy as much as the next person. But while Netflix has released his latest comedy series, Big Mistakes, this week to much fanfare, the streamer has quietly dropped its greatest true crime show ever at exactly the same time.

Those who watched Keep Sweet: Prey and Obey back in 2022 may remember Warren Jeffs, the "prophet" leader of the FLDS (The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints).

Known for their radical splinter beliefs and polygamist family units, Jeffs was imprisoned in 2011 for sexually assaulting his underage followers.

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But where one leader disappears, another emerges — and this is exactly what new Netflix series Trust Me: The False Prophet examines. While many followers left at the Arizona-Utah border still believed Jeffs was their prophet, FLDS member Samuel Bateman began to defy his from-prison teachings.

The result? Bateman accrued a small fleet of followers, including three men who willingly gave up their wives, daughters, and women in their care to Bateman's guardianship.

Enter Christine Marie, a former Mormon who moved into the FLDS community under the guise of making a documentary with her husband, music video producer Tolga Katas.

Instead, the pair used extensive footage to help Bateman be jailed in 2024 for child sex offenses, with Marie acting as an undercover FBI informant for over a year.

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