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The Guardian | What drives the heroine of Netflix’s hit documentary Trust Me: The False Prophet?

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Marie, with her blond ponytail, pink cowboy hat, pink boots and pink glasses, was a former beauty queen, ventriloquist and escape artist, now finishing her psychology doctorate. Tolga, once a rock singer, was a videographer, a city dweller who had never been on a hike.

This is the starting point of the Netflix documentary Trust Me: The False Prophet – and unsurprisingly, the couple’s arrival is met with deep suspicion. What follows, though, is gripping TV, recorded as it happened, but paced like a thriller.

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The Most Fascinating Person in ‘Trust Me: The False Prophet’ Isn’t the One You Expect

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Esquire | “Marie, who only dresses in pink, is able to build trust among the community thanks to her obvious empathy and sensible nature. She’s the sort of person you’d go to with a list of problems and return with a crossed-out list.. .That’s in no small part down to Marie, a main character if ever I saw one. Among her past jobs? She was a Miss Michigan, an escape artist, a ventriloquist. Sure! And as we learn, Marie is so intrigued in FLDS because of her own history with such institutions. That comes to the fore in the finale, as Marie must both liberate and betray those around her. “

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Where Are the Survivors of Trust Me: The False Prophet Now?

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Netflix Tudum | Trust Me: The False Prophet follows cult psychology expert Christine Marie and her videographer husband Tolga Katas, who moved to Short Creek, Utah, to document and support a community in crisis. “Groupthink is so powerful,” Christine says. “It’s like superglue. You can’t just wake up when you’re getting your thoughts reinforced by other people you respect and love.”

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New Netflix documentary includes Salt Lake Tribune reporting as it examines abusive Utah polygamous prophet

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Salt Lake Tribune | The documentary, “Trust Me: The False Prophet,” follows cult expert Christine Marie and her videographer husband, Tolga Katas. Their work gathering evidence helped lead to the 2022 arrest of Samuel Bateman — the leader of a breakaway sect of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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