1 00:00:13,346 --> 00:00:16,266 -Okay, it's rolling. Go ahead. -Well, that's cool. 2 00:00:16,766 --> 00:00:20,687 Tolga and Christine had a lot of videos of us. 3 00:00:23,481 --> 00:00:24,983 Sam trusted them, 4 00:00:25,483 --> 00:00:29,821 but… I was a little suspicious. 5 00:00:31,781 --> 00:00:34,242 One time, I actually told him, 6 00:00:34,325 --> 00:00:38,538 I was like, "I think there's something going on." 7 00:00:39,581 --> 00:00:41,791 But he didn't believe me. 8 00:00:41,875 --> 00:00:44,294 I told them yesterday that I trust Tolga and Christine 9 00:00:44,377 --> 00:00:46,379 with our stuff more than myself. 10 00:00:46,463 --> 00:00:48,465 -More than yourself? -Wow. 11 00:00:48,548 --> 00:00:52,260 He blew me off and then got after me for not trusting him 12 00:00:52,343 --> 00:00:53,678 to trust them. 13 00:00:53,762 --> 00:00:56,639 So after that, I didn't say anything. 14 00:00:58,099 --> 00:01:00,602 I was just being obedient. 15 00:01:02,562 --> 00:01:06,441 When you do filming that doesn't have audio, it's called B-roll. 16 00:01:06,524 --> 00:01:09,611 So B-roll is just video with audio in the background. 17 00:01:09,694 --> 00:01:11,321 -That's what it's called? -Uh-- 18 00:01:11,404 --> 00:01:15,992 The FBI told us the raid was imminent. 19 00:01:16,076 --> 00:01:17,619 Then we have the stories… 20 00:01:17,702 --> 00:01:18,912 -Behind it. -Right. 21 00:01:18,995 --> 00:01:21,372 -It is powerful. -So we have our audio… 22 00:01:21,456 --> 00:01:26,795 The FBI wanted us to help come up with a ruse to get Sam away from the girls. 23 00:01:27,378 --> 00:01:30,131 So we played upon Sam's ego. 24 00:01:30,715 --> 00:01:34,511 What do you think of this? In the studio, sit down with a mic on, 25 00:01:34,594 --> 00:01:38,014 and we get your talking… your life story. 26 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:40,475 Explain your feelings, you know, your emotions. 27 00:01:40,558 --> 00:01:41,726 Yeah. 28 00:01:41,810 --> 00:01:44,187 We planned an interview of him 29 00:01:44,270 --> 00:01:48,900 that we said was gonna be very helpful for the world to know who he really was. 30 00:01:49,776 --> 00:01:53,238 Maybe we do one on Tuesday in the morning with you. One on… 31 00:01:53,321 --> 00:01:55,615 -We'll figure it out. -…Wednesday in the morning… 32 00:01:55,698 --> 00:01:58,535 Tolga and Christine wanted to interview Sam. 33 00:01:59,410 --> 00:02:02,997 They said it was for the documentary, but after a year, 34 00:02:03,081 --> 00:02:05,250 then you're wondering, "Really?" 35 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:08,837 Can I get you to walk into the room? Christine, you stay there. 36 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:10,630 -Just sit like that at the beginning. -Okay. 37 00:02:10,713 --> 00:02:13,007 All right. I'm right here, you're saying? 38 00:02:13,091 --> 00:02:16,803 I was observing, like, what's going on. 39 00:02:17,387 --> 00:02:18,888 What's she up to? 40 00:02:19,472 --> 00:02:21,391 So, let's start at the beginning. 41 00:02:21,975 --> 00:02:23,226 What are your dreams? 42 00:02:24,185 --> 00:02:29,732 I want to be an instrument in God's hands to rule this earth in love and kindness. 43 00:02:30,483 --> 00:02:33,236 -Do you like my answers or are they dumb? -I love them. 44 00:02:34,279 --> 00:02:36,406 I just had this gut fear 45 00:02:36,990 --> 00:02:39,200 feeling inside, like, 46 00:02:39,784 --> 00:02:40,994 who do I trust? 47 00:02:42,453 --> 00:02:43,413 Nobody? 48 00:03:32,712 --> 00:03:33,546 Rolling. 49 00:03:33,630 --> 00:03:36,966 Okay, I'm turning my phone on "Do not disturb." 50 00:03:37,967 --> 00:03:38,927 Okay. 51 00:03:40,303 --> 00:03:42,722 -You want to recomb it somehow? -Yeah. 52 00:03:47,852 --> 00:03:50,313 Don't sit where I can see you. I might get distracted. 53 00:03:56,069 --> 00:03:57,362 I got my pinchers ready. 54 00:03:59,030 --> 00:04:00,490 Pinch you on your bum. 55 00:04:02,033 --> 00:04:04,035 We were filming Sam… 56 00:04:04,911 --> 00:04:06,329 …do this interview. 57 00:04:07,830 --> 00:04:09,249 Are you a prophet? 58 00:04:12,585 --> 00:04:15,171 I would be a liar if I said I wasn't. 59 00:04:15,755 --> 00:04:18,049 And we purposely made sure 60 00:04:18,132 --> 00:04:20,301 that the interview was not finished. 61 00:04:20,385 --> 00:04:22,011 Let me see that other list. 62 00:04:22,679 --> 00:04:24,555 I'll save that question till tomorrow. 63 00:04:26,474 --> 00:04:28,309 Are we good for tonight? 64 00:04:28,393 --> 00:04:30,228 Christine and Tolga, 65 00:04:30,311 --> 00:04:32,647 they had him going back the very next morning 66 00:04:34,232 --> 00:04:37,026 so that we could make our entrance in their warehouse. 67 00:04:37,110 --> 00:04:39,195 Okay, so, for tomorrow, 68 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,364 I have a challenge for you guys. 69 00:04:41,990 --> 00:04:46,244 I would like them to each write a question for you. 70 00:04:47,161 --> 00:04:49,789 I'm gonna come and pick 'em up tomorrow. 71 00:04:50,915 --> 00:04:52,333 The plan was, 72 00:04:52,417 --> 00:04:55,712 I was gonna be with the girls in the green house. 73 00:04:56,879 --> 00:04:58,673 Tolga was going to be with Sam. 74 00:04:59,257 --> 00:05:00,258 Okay, dinner! 75 00:05:00,341 --> 00:05:02,260 Yay! 76 00:05:02,343 --> 00:05:03,845 Turn on that light, would you? 77 00:05:04,721 --> 00:05:06,389 There were three structures to be searched. 78 00:05:07,307 --> 00:05:09,350 Two houses and one warehouse. 79 00:05:10,727 --> 00:05:12,895 The goal was to obtain evidence 80 00:05:12,979 --> 00:05:14,772 of his sex-related crimes. 81 00:05:15,690 --> 00:05:17,483 Just, we're shooting him tonight, 82 00:05:17,567 --> 00:05:20,403 and we kept the lights up and everything for tomorrow. 83 00:05:20,486 --> 00:05:21,362 Okay. 84 00:05:21,446 --> 00:05:23,156 Now, on the green house, 85 00:05:23,239 --> 00:05:26,534 opening the door could be interpreted as, 86 00:05:26,617 --> 00:05:29,829 "Oh, she must be the one that told on us." 87 00:05:29,912 --> 00:05:34,917 But having the door jammed in, I don't want the babies to be terrified. 88 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:38,338 So, ultimately, I'll probably be the one to open the door. 89 00:05:39,380 --> 00:05:41,049 I don't want to put you in a position 90 00:05:41,132 --> 00:05:42,759 that you don't feel comfortable in. 91 00:05:42,842 --> 00:05:46,554 If you think you're not gonna feel comfortable in that house at that time, 92 00:05:46,637 --> 00:05:47,555 don't go. 93 00:05:48,097 --> 00:05:49,140 Oh, I'm going. 94 00:05:52,852 --> 00:05:54,520 Sam confirmed. Okay. 95 00:05:55,772 --> 00:05:58,691 8:00 a.m. I said, "Christine's gonna go to the green house, 96 00:05:58,775 --> 00:06:01,903 get questions from the girls. They'll be there probably an hour later, 97 00:06:01,986 --> 00:06:04,113 and then you'll meet me at the place at 8:00 a.m." 98 00:06:07,742 --> 00:06:08,659 I'm a little scared. 99 00:06:08,743 --> 00:06:11,913 You're… You're gonna be in with them. You're just gonna say, "What's going on?" 100 00:06:11,996 --> 00:06:12,997 Just… you know. 101 00:06:13,081 --> 00:06:16,376 Tomorrow's a big day. 102 00:06:17,251 --> 00:06:18,586 Are you gonna sleep? 103 00:06:18,669 --> 00:06:20,171 -No. -Me either. 104 00:06:22,507 --> 00:06:24,050 Let me ask you a question. 105 00:06:24,133 --> 00:06:27,220 What should I wear when I take down a pedophile, huh? 106 00:06:27,887 --> 00:06:29,639 What is the proper outfit? 107 00:06:30,181 --> 00:06:31,015 Hmm? 108 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:48,825 There was a large number of law enforcement getting prepared 109 00:06:48,908 --> 00:06:49,992 to serve the search warrant. 110 00:06:50,660 --> 00:06:52,036 They're waiting on my word? 111 00:06:54,122 --> 00:06:56,999 We send a code, and it's all systems go. 112 00:06:58,835 --> 00:07:01,170 We were very nervous because 113 00:07:01,254 --> 00:07:05,716 there were 50 law enforcement counting on us. 114 00:07:06,676 --> 00:07:08,970 -You gotta be careful. -I know. 115 00:07:18,688 --> 00:07:19,939 Hi. 116 00:07:21,315 --> 00:07:23,860 Do you want some Cool Whip? Here, baby. 117 00:07:23,943 --> 00:07:25,445 Christine showed up 118 00:07:25,945 --> 00:07:27,447 really early in the morning. 119 00:07:27,530 --> 00:07:29,031 She'd never come that early. 120 00:07:31,075 --> 00:07:34,996 Sam had already left for this interview that they were recording. 121 00:07:35,830 --> 00:07:38,666 I remember feeling like, "Hey, something's weird." 122 00:07:41,043 --> 00:07:42,670 When I went there that morning, 123 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:45,590 everything was so calm and normal. 124 00:07:45,673 --> 00:07:47,550 But probably not right until dinner. 125 00:07:47,633 --> 00:07:50,970 I thought, "Their life is about to turn upside down." 126 00:07:52,096 --> 00:07:56,392 I was at the warehouse with Sam and three of his wives. 127 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:04,567 I look outside. 128 00:08:06,694 --> 00:08:09,197 I don't see any police, nothing. 129 00:08:10,448 --> 00:08:11,491 I go back, 130 00:08:12,283 --> 00:08:13,367 sit down. 131 00:08:14,118 --> 00:08:16,454 I'm rolling here. Get ready. 132 00:08:17,121 --> 00:08:19,457 Boom. FBI is there. 133 00:08:23,044 --> 00:08:24,754 The camera was rolling, 134 00:08:25,338 --> 00:08:27,340 and they said, "Turn it off." 135 00:08:29,675 --> 00:08:31,761 I think Sam was very surprised 136 00:08:31,844 --> 00:08:34,764 that it was the FBI and that he was facing federal charges. 137 00:08:34,847 --> 00:08:36,307 He didn't say much. 138 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:40,269 They put him into the car. 139 00:08:41,020 --> 00:08:42,355 Sam was taken away. 140 00:08:43,022 --> 00:08:43,940 It was checkmate. 141 00:08:45,107 --> 00:08:48,152 And then the FBI goes to the green house. 142 00:08:50,905 --> 00:08:53,574 A call came in from one of Sam's wives, 143 00:08:53,658 --> 00:08:55,159 who wasn't in the green house. 144 00:08:55,743 --> 00:08:58,788 They said, "We have a search warrant to search this warehouse 145 00:08:58,871 --> 00:09:02,416 and any person in it and everything in it." 146 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:05,086 And I'm like, what in the heck? 147 00:09:05,586 --> 00:09:06,629 Uh-oh. 148 00:09:06,712 --> 00:09:10,508 There's an officer at Joan's. They're blocking the driveway. 149 00:09:10,591 --> 00:09:11,717 Joan's blocking the driveway? 150 00:09:11,801 --> 00:09:13,052 Okay. I'll get-- 151 00:09:16,472 --> 00:09:18,057 This could be dangerous. 152 00:09:18,140 --> 00:09:21,018 If they try, they die, and we die, 153 00:09:21,102 --> 00:09:22,562 and they'll be accused of murder. 154 00:09:22,645 --> 00:09:25,314 Where's my pepper spray? I need an AR-15. 155 00:09:29,694 --> 00:09:30,820 I was in the shower. 156 00:09:32,029 --> 00:09:37,493 I heard the speakers going off outside, like, telling everybody to come outside. 157 00:09:38,452 --> 00:09:40,413 And that the home was surrounded. 158 00:09:40,997 --> 00:09:43,624 We have a search warrant for this residence. 159 00:09:43,708 --> 00:09:45,960 Come out the front door with your hands up, 160 00:09:46,043 --> 00:09:47,962 and follow the officers' commands. 161 00:09:48,045 --> 00:09:50,548 Christine was like, "You have to go out. You gotta go out." 162 00:09:51,173 --> 00:09:55,094 I did not want anyone to engage in violence. 163 00:09:55,177 --> 00:09:57,763 I'm gonna check. I'm gonna check, you guys. 164 00:09:57,847 --> 00:09:59,056 So I went out, 165 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:03,603 and I told them I will come out with them one at a time. 166 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:12,403 I'll never forget how I felt as I was walking the younger girls out. 167 00:10:13,904 --> 00:10:14,989 Feeling like, 168 00:10:16,490 --> 00:10:17,825 they don't know this, 169 00:10:18,367 --> 00:10:20,620 but I'm walking them to their freedom. 170 00:10:22,496 --> 00:10:25,333 And they're also about to really, really hate me. 171 00:10:28,711 --> 00:10:30,713 I was one of the first ones that went out. 172 00:10:31,922 --> 00:10:35,092 There was, like, a line of FBI agents. 173 00:10:36,218 --> 00:10:38,346 And that was when it hit, like, 174 00:10:39,472 --> 00:10:43,142 "Wow, this is real." Like, we're really being raided. 175 00:10:45,686 --> 00:10:49,899 They had patted us down and took our phones and everything. 176 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:53,653 And started taking one person at a time and interviewing them. 177 00:10:55,988 --> 00:10:58,866 One of our goals when serving the search warrants 178 00:10:58,949 --> 00:11:01,452 was to interview all of the wives, 179 00:11:01,535 --> 00:11:03,079 all of the minor children, 180 00:11:03,621 --> 00:11:08,292 and to see what… if we could get any information from any of them. 181 00:11:10,461 --> 00:11:12,755 In the interview, I lied. 182 00:11:13,255 --> 00:11:14,548 I lied a lot in it. 183 00:11:15,132 --> 00:11:17,218 Of the interviews that I conducted, 184 00:11:17,968 --> 00:11:19,011 I would say 185 00:11:20,012 --> 00:11:22,723 100% of 'em didn't tell the truth. 186 00:11:24,475 --> 00:11:26,977 They didn't admit that they were married to Sam. 187 00:11:27,061 --> 00:11:29,230 They didn't admit that the girls were married to Sam. 188 00:11:29,814 --> 00:11:31,774 That's what Sam taught 'em to do. 189 00:11:33,401 --> 00:11:36,612 We stood out there in the rain for a little while. 190 00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:40,074 I knew the girls were clearly distressed as to what was going on. 191 00:11:44,453 --> 00:11:45,496 And then, 192 00:11:46,664 --> 00:11:51,085 DCS showed up to take the underage wives into state custody. 193 00:11:52,169 --> 00:11:55,047 I just want to make sure we can assess safety. 194 00:11:55,548 --> 00:12:00,261 DCS had requested court orders to take the girls without letting us know. 195 00:12:00,344 --> 00:12:02,179 And so, it was a surprise to me 196 00:12:02,263 --> 00:12:05,683 when they showed up at the house to take the nine girls. 197 00:12:06,809 --> 00:12:10,187 The teenage girls have to come with Department of Child Safety. 198 00:12:10,271 --> 00:12:12,064 We've been given court authorization. 199 00:12:12,148 --> 00:12:13,399 Where's Christine? 200 00:12:13,482 --> 00:12:16,819 If anybody interferes with it, to include following us, etc., 201 00:12:16,902 --> 00:12:17,903 they can be arrested. 202 00:12:17,987 --> 00:12:21,365 We have the government, then you have God. We are accountable to God, that's all. 203 00:12:21,449 --> 00:12:24,034 -You don't want… -He's the one who gave us these children. 204 00:12:24,118 --> 00:12:25,703 We've had issues with, 205 00:12:25,786 --> 00:12:27,621 once a child is in placement, 206 00:12:27,705 --> 00:12:29,415 a parent will go pick that kid up. 207 00:12:29,498 --> 00:12:31,625 That's actually considered kidnapping now, 208 00:12:31,709 --> 00:12:32,960 and it's a felony. 209 00:12:36,088 --> 00:12:37,757 We need each other. 210 00:12:41,469 --> 00:12:43,262 And we're gonna pass the test. 211 00:12:43,345 --> 00:12:44,263 We are. 212 00:12:45,431 --> 00:12:47,808 Not even a day. Not even a day. 213 00:12:47,892 --> 00:12:51,187 They said that if we didn't let you, they would arrest us. 214 00:12:51,771 --> 00:12:53,522 We can't stop 'em. 215 00:12:54,106 --> 00:12:56,817 They said you can bring your dresses if you want. 216 00:12:57,318 --> 00:12:59,069 You didn't take any clothes? 217 00:12:59,153 --> 00:13:00,988 No, I did not. 218 00:13:06,869 --> 00:13:08,204 This way. 219 00:13:10,831 --> 00:13:13,501 They're not separating us from our mothers 220 00:13:13,584 --> 00:13:15,878 or anybody else. 221 00:13:19,006 --> 00:13:20,424 God damn you! 222 00:13:21,634 --> 00:13:23,594 I don't want any men in any vehicle. 223 00:13:23,677 --> 00:13:25,262 Are they in all the vehicles? 224 00:13:25,346 --> 00:13:26,680 No, we have… 225 00:13:26,764 --> 00:13:28,974 They're not gonna want to ride with a man. 226 00:13:29,058 --> 00:13:31,769 -Yeah, I do not want to ride with a man. -I don't trust you. 227 00:13:32,311 --> 00:13:35,022 And He will come again 228 00:13:35,606 --> 00:13:38,734 And one by one, we'll rise 229 00:13:38,818 --> 00:13:41,654 To praise His holy name 230 00:13:42,238 --> 00:13:44,490 Risen 231 00:13:44,573 --> 00:13:49,286 To bring us home again… 232 00:13:49,370 --> 00:13:51,080 Okay, girls, we gotta go, okay? 233 00:13:51,163 --> 00:13:54,458 It's gonna be okay. The faster we do it, the faster it's over. 234 00:13:54,542 --> 00:14:00,381 And He'll bring us home again 235 00:14:01,757 --> 00:14:03,759 Mother, can I give you a hug? 236 00:14:03,843 --> 00:14:04,969 It's gonna be okay. 237 00:14:05,052 --> 00:14:07,805 We're gonna come get you. Heavenly Father's on our side. 238 00:14:16,105 --> 00:14:17,857 -Bye-bye. -I got 'em. 239 00:14:23,195 --> 00:14:25,406 Sam's nine underage wives 240 00:14:25,489 --> 00:14:29,034 were taken to Phoenix and put into a group home. 241 00:14:31,579 --> 00:14:35,040 And some of Sam's adult wives came over to my house. 242 00:14:41,881 --> 00:14:43,799 They took Samuel. 243 00:14:52,474 --> 00:14:55,185 I took a backpack with a bunch of personal information 244 00:14:55,269 --> 00:14:57,980 and stuff that's his, and I threw it out the window. 245 00:14:58,063 --> 00:15:00,190 -Right before they came in. -Where? Oh, good, good. 246 00:15:00,274 --> 00:15:01,984 Yeah. Will they get it? 247 00:15:02,067 --> 00:15:04,320 -No, they won't get it. You'll be okay. -Okay. 248 00:15:04,403 --> 00:15:05,529 What'd you throw out? 249 00:15:05,613 --> 00:15:06,989 I threw it out the bathroom window 250 00:15:07,072 --> 00:15:09,533 when they… when they had surrounded the front door. 251 00:15:09,617 --> 00:15:12,870 It's okay. Just calm down. Sit down and relax. Don't worry. 252 00:15:12,953 --> 00:15:16,540 They had my social security number already. 253 00:15:16,624 --> 00:15:21,378 Where did they get all that information? 'Cause they exactly knew. 254 00:15:21,462 --> 00:15:25,507 They came in like, "Yeah, you're… you're Naomi. You're Shiny." 255 00:15:26,967 --> 00:15:29,637 I was starting to see, like, there's more to the picture. 256 00:15:31,513 --> 00:15:35,392 There's somebody within the group that's been giving them 257 00:15:36,310 --> 00:15:37,645 a lot of this stuff. 258 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:39,855 I don't trust. 259 00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:42,566 I think this has been brewing for a long time. 260 00:15:42,650 --> 00:15:47,071 Because they just know way too much information. 261 00:15:48,572 --> 00:15:50,866 We know the FBI are doing their job, 262 00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:53,744 but they come because somebody else called 'em. 263 00:15:55,829 --> 00:15:56,830 Your girls are here. 264 00:15:56,914 --> 00:15:59,792 I think I'm gonna go into the car and crank it on the Bluetooth. 265 00:15:59,875 --> 00:16:00,918 One second. 266 00:16:01,001 --> 00:16:04,254 Just hooking up to the Bluetooth speaker 'cause it's so low to hear. 267 00:16:04,338 --> 00:16:07,091 -Here we go. Can you hear? -Yes. 268 00:16:07,591 --> 00:16:09,468 Samuel? 269 00:16:09,551 --> 00:16:12,429 -They took all of our phones. -Are you serious? 270 00:16:12,513 --> 00:16:14,640 Like, none of us have phones. 271 00:16:14,723 --> 00:16:17,309 I have no idea what's going on. 272 00:16:18,268 --> 00:16:20,896 Just be cheerful. We're not doing anything wrong anyway, 273 00:16:20,980 --> 00:16:24,149 so when they find out it's just a bunch of lies, then 274 00:16:24,650 --> 00:16:26,986 I'm sure they'll just let me go, so. 275 00:16:27,945 --> 00:16:29,905 -Okay? -Okay. 276 00:16:30,990 --> 00:16:33,075 Do they have you in a holding cell? 277 00:16:34,076 --> 00:16:35,119 Yeah. 278 00:16:37,329 --> 00:16:38,330 We need you. 279 00:16:39,331 --> 00:16:41,041 -Be fervent, okay? -Okay. 280 00:16:41,125 --> 00:16:42,793 We're not doing anything wrong, 281 00:16:42,876 --> 00:16:44,962 so it must have been just a simple misunderstanding, 282 00:16:45,045 --> 00:16:46,839 so I should be out tomorrow, hopefully. 283 00:16:46,922 --> 00:16:48,132 -Okay. -Okay. 284 00:16:48,215 --> 00:16:53,303 They said this investigation has been going on before the Flagstaff thing. 285 00:16:58,350 --> 00:16:59,727 After the raid, 286 00:17:00,269 --> 00:17:04,148 I wanted to help them break free of Sam's hold on them. 287 00:17:05,441 --> 00:17:08,902 I wanted to hear what was going on with you, and I… I, um… 288 00:17:08,986 --> 00:17:12,990 I don't care if they have me in custody as long as Father's out. 289 00:17:13,490 --> 00:17:16,994 But I do know that they've got some evidence 290 00:17:17,077 --> 00:17:20,789 that is very, very close. So… 291 00:17:20,873 --> 00:17:22,958 What do you mean by "very close?" To what? 292 00:17:23,042 --> 00:17:29,256 Somebody that knows everything that we do and say. 293 00:17:30,466 --> 00:17:31,341 So… 294 00:17:33,385 --> 00:17:37,931 I'm not-- Don't know if it's traitors, or what, among us. 295 00:17:38,015 --> 00:17:39,183 Yeah. 296 00:17:39,266 --> 00:17:44,897 I wanted them to wake up before they found out that I was a mole. 297 00:17:44,980 --> 00:17:46,523 You help everybody. 298 00:17:46,607 --> 00:17:50,152 Not only help us, but you'll go help anybody who asks for help. 299 00:17:50,235 --> 00:17:52,780 You are so kind. You are such an angel. 300 00:17:52,863 --> 00:17:55,282 I'm worried about you, and I just want you to be okay, 301 00:17:55,365 --> 00:17:58,368 and I want you to just be together and safe and happy. 302 00:18:01,872 --> 00:18:04,291 After the arrest and search warrants, 303 00:18:04,374 --> 00:18:05,626 we had 304 00:18:06,877 --> 00:18:09,338 a truckload of evidence. 305 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,926 We had seized cell phones. 306 00:18:14,009 --> 00:18:18,097 We had seized computers. We had seized journals. 307 00:18:20,057 --> 00:18:24,478 Calendars to get dates of things that happened, of travel that occurred. 308 00:18:28,023 --> 00:18:32,027 But even with the evidence we got from the search warrant, 309 00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:36,698 we still did not have a good child sexual abuse charge. 310 00:18:38,408 --> 00:18:40,661 The girls were in such a tight-knit group 311 00:18:41,245 --> 00:18:43,956 and still believed that Sam was the prophet. 312 00:18:45,165 --> 00:18:48,001 Without an underage victim disclosure, 313 00:18:48,502 --> 00:18:53,215 there was not a likely chance of prosecution for a sex crime. 314 00:19:00,264 --> 00:19:01,557 After his arrest… 315 00:19:02,349 --> 00:19:04,393 Can you say, "Hi?" Hi! 316 00:19:04,476 --> 00:19:06,979 …we went back to the blue house. 317 00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:10,065 He waves like the Queen of England. 318 00:19:10,774 --> 00:19:14,778 We weren't supposed to be in communication with the underage girls. 319 00:19:14,862 --> 00:19:18,907 We're not worried about these girls because they are with each other. 320 00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:23,704 They were all together in the group home, 321 00:19:24,371 --> 00:19:28,292 but they got access to a phone. 322 00:19:28,375 --> 00:19:30,460 Good night, we love you. 323 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,550 As soon as my two girls had been taken into custody, 324 00:19:37,509 --> 00:19:41,388 then I immediately began to plan getting out. 325 00:19:42,848 --> 00:19:44,266 You moving in? 326 00:19:44,349 --> 00:19:46,935 -Is this your last load? -I think so. 327 00:19:47,019 --> 00:19:48,020 Awesome. 328 00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:51,565 I knew I needed to show that I have a safe place 329 00:19:51,648 --> 00:19:53,817 and that I can physically and… 330 00:19:54,318 --> 00:19:56,236 mentally take care of them 331 00:19:57,112 --> 00:19:59,239 so I could get back custody. 332 00:19:59,907 --> 00:20:03,035 -Do you do it on this side or this side? -It's this way. 333 00:20:03,619 --> 00:20:06,997 I wanted her to get her girls back and reunite her family. 334 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:12,920 But also, I wanted her to get out of that environment full of Sam believers 335 00:20:13,003 --> 00:20:15,964 because what on earth would happen to her 336 00:20:16,048 --> 00:20:20,344 if they found out she did not believe, and she went to the FBI too? 337 00:20:26,725 --> 00:20:29,978 One day, the lady at the group home 338 00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:31,813 that was taking care of the girls 339 00:20:32,356 --> 00:20:35,400 had a paper from the DCS. 340 00:20:36,026 --> 00:20:38,445 She had written this note 341 00:20:38,528 --> 00:20:41,156 and ripped it up and put it in the garbage. 342 00:20:41,865 --> 00:20:44,785 One of the younger girls had gotten it out 343 00:20:45,786 --> 00:20:47,996 and taped it back together. 344 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,582 She took a picture of that and sent it to me. 345 00:20:50,666 --> 00:20:51,833 And it said 346 00:20:52,501 --> 00:20:55,712 something about the girls trust 347 00:20:57,089 --> 00:21:00,592 the FBI informant, Christine Marie. 348 00:21:03,637 --> 00:21:04,888 Tolga! 349 00:21:06,807 --> 00:21:09,476 -What? -DCS just outed us. 350 00:21:09,559 --> 00:21:10,602 What? 351 00:21:11,436 --> 00:21:12,938 They know. They know. 352 00:21:13,021 --> 00:21:15,148 What do you mean? Saying what? 353 00:21:15,732 --> 00:21:18,986 That we turned them in. What do you mean, saying what? 354 00:21:21,363 --> 00:21:23,448 The court documents that DCS provided 355 00:21:23,532 --> 00:21:26,702 made it very clear that it was Christine and Tolga and Julia 356 00:21:26,785 --> 00:21:28,578 that had provided information. 357 00:21:28,662 --> 00:21:30,956 They are on to us now. 358 00:21:31,039 --> 00:21:32,165 Yep. 359 00:21:32,249 --> 00:21:33,917 That was not anticipated. 360 00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:37,170 They had been working to help all the women, 361 00:21:37,254 --> 00:21:40,173 and it just went down… 362 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:42,384 down the toilet. 363 00:21:44,386 --> 00:21:46,513 I… I felt like they'd betrayed me. 364 00:21:47,681 --> 00:21:52,269 And I sent some really mean texts to Christine and Tolga. 365 00:22:04,031 --> 00:22:07,367 One of the girls just told Tolga to fuck off. 366 00:22:07,451 --> 00:22:09,911 And then she followed it up with 367 00:22:10,412 --> 00:22:11,788 something like, 368 00:22:11,872 --> 00:22:13,665 "Have a nice life, traitor." 369 00:22:13,749 --> 00:22:15,625 -It was Nomz? -Yep. 370 00:22:16,251 --> 00:22:18,670 Everybody was really angry. 371 00:22:20,130 --> 00:22:22,883 Any pictures, anything you have of us, 372 00:22:22,966 --> 00:22:24,968 you need to give back to us. 373 00:22:27,262 --> 00:22:29,389 Because you guys haven't been honest. 374 00:22:29,473 --> 00:22:32,559 You guys give it back to us and delete it off your devices. 375 00:22:32,642 --> 00:22:34,895 We're on your side. We're not on the other side. 376 00:22:34,978 --> 00:22:36,021 You're a liar. 377 00:22:36,104 --> 00:22:39,316 -I know this is gonna be hard for you-- -Then don't say it. 378 00:22:39,399 --> 00:22:41,276 No, it's that I care. 379 00:22:41,777 --> 00:22:44,905 -I know it's going to be hard for you-- -I know that you don't care. 380 00:22:44,988 --> 00:22:46,782 -I do care. -You have… 381 00:22:46,865 --> 00:22:47,991 I do care because-- 382 00:22:48,075 --> 00:22:52,204 Through your actions, you've split apart a family. 383 00:22:52,704 --> 00:22:54,539 Someday you're gonna understand 384 00:22:54,623 --> 00:22:57,876 that… that I really do love you guys and that part is really true. 385 00:22:57,959 --> 00:23:01,213 I mean, your children should not be having sexual experiences. 386 00:23:01,755 --> 00:23:03,173 -You don't-- -Christine. 387 00:23:03,256 --> 00:23:06,134 Jesus's family didn't go to Judas for comfort, 388 00:23:06,218 --> 00:23:07,803 and we're not coming to you for comfort. 389 00:23:07,886 --> 00:23:09,638 I want you to get your children back. 390 00:23:09,721 --> 00:23:12,849 I'll get 'em back. I'll have every last one of them. 391 00:23:12,933 --> 00:23:14,643 And God will fight our battles. 392 00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:16,311 He will deliver us. 393 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:17,729 We will be free. 394 00:23:17,813 --> 00:23:21,233 And we will be with Samuel, together forever. 395 00:23:39,501 --> 00:23:41,044 I remember them saying, 396 00:23:41,128 --> 00:23:43,505 "You're the only one that hasn't betrayed us." 397 00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:45,173 You know? 398 00:23:45,715 --> 00:23:47,676 I just… 399 00:23:47,759 --> 00:23:50,554 But I'm not betraying them. I'm helping them. 400 00:23:51,346 --> 00:23:52,222 Right? 401 00:24:04,943 --> 00:24:09,406 The text messages started coming in from the people I loved, 402 00:24:09,489 --> 00:24:12,117 even from my underage daughters. 403 00:24:13,076 --> 00:24:14,870 I would have liked to have had 404 00:24:15,954 --> 00:24:19,040 time with my daughters before they found out. 405 00:24:21,251 --> 00:24:25,839 I was very concerned what my husband, Moroni, would do. 406 00:24:27,466 --> 00:24:30,302 He had been so very loyal to Sam. 407 00:24:34,598 --> 00:24:35,640 Moroni called. 408 00:24:36,725 --> 00:24:38,685 He said, "Are you ready to talk?" 409 00:24:39,186 --> 00:24:41,271 I just wonder if this is the day 410 00:24:41,354 --> 00:24:43,690 I say something, carefully, 411 00:24:43,773 --> 00:24:46,067 'cause he wants me to go on a ride tonight. 412 00:24:56,411 --> 00:24:57,537 That night, 413 00:24:58,079 --> 00:25:00,332 Moroni and I, we talked. 414 00:25:00,832 --> 00:25:04,753 And I talked to him like I'd never talked to him before in my life. 415 00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:10,091 I says, "We're adults, 416 00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:11,468 we're parents, 417 00:25:11,968 --> 00:25:14,387 and we're following a false prophet, 418 00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:18,433 and he's leading us right to hell, 419 00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:20,560 and I'm not gonna go there anymore." 420 00:25:21,228 --> 00:25:23,813 I says, "But you have to choose." 421 00:25:25,607 --> 00:25:28,902 He said, "Either we're damn right or we're damn wrong." 422 00:25:29,653 --> 00:25:30,862 I said, "Moroni, 423 00:25:31,947 --> 00:25:33,031 we're damn wrong, 424 00:25:34,324 --> 00:25:37,619 and if you want to sit where that man's gonna sit, 425 00:25:37,702 --> 00:25:39,371 in prison for life, 426 00:25:39,454 --> 00:25:40,872 you can sit with him." 427 00:25:42,457 --> 00:25:43,833 "You can choose." 428 00:25:43,917 --> 00:25:46,002 "But I choose to get out of this hell, 429 00:25:46,086 --> 00:25:48,171 and I choose to get my children out of it." 430 00:25:51,383 --> 00:25:52,884 And he left that night, 431 00:25:53,677 --> 00:25:56,012 and he said he threw up all night long. 432 00:25:57,055 --> 00:25:58,557 Out of anguish. 433 00:25:59,474 --> 00:26:01,560 And I said, "You will go through it 434 00:26:01,643 --> 00:26:03,061 as you realize 435 00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:06,773 what we've done as parents to our children." 436 00:26:08,316 --> 00:26:10,527 I'd never been so bold like that. 437 00:26:23,248 --> 00:26:25,917 I don't even know how to describe it. It's… 438 00:26:27,335 --> 00:26:29,671 It's like reviewing again and again 439 00:26:31,339 --> 00:26:33,842 the greatest mistake you made in your life. 440 00:26:34,342 --> 00:26:35,844 I'm responsible. 441 00:26:35,927 --> 00:26:36,886 It's like, 442 00:26:38,054 --> 00:26:40,265 what was… what is there in me that… 443 00:26:43,727 --> 00:26:45,812 allowed that to escalate like that? 444 00:26:47,105 --> 00:26:48,732 Unchecked, so to speak. 445 00:26:50,567 --> 00:26:51,610 Remarkable. 446 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,199 About six weeks after Sam was arrested, 447 00:26:58,283 --> 00:27:03,455 Moroni contacted the FBI and agreed to be interviewed. 448 00:27:09,544 --> 00:27:10,920 During his interview, 449 00:27:11,004 --> 00:27:14,924 we learned how much he was involved with Sam Bateman. 450 00:27:15,592 --> 00:27:19,012 Sam has raped my little girls, my adult daughters, 451 00:27:19,095 --> 00:27:20,889 my wives, and me. 452 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,142 He was able to verify 453 00:27:24,225 --> 00:27:28,271 that his daughters were involved in many of the group sex acts, 454 00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:30,982 where Moroni was having sex with somebody, 455 00:27:31,066 --> 00:27:32,817 and Sam was having sex with somebody, 456 00:27:32,901 --> 00:27:34,736 and Moroni's daughters were there. 457 00:27:35,737 --> 00:27:38,865 I did it. I'm the responsible person for this. 458 00:27:38,948 --> 00:27:41,201 I'm the one that declared it was from God. 459 00:27:41,826 --> 00:27:45,121 Moroni was, in a way, a victim of Sam's manipulation. 460 00:27:46,873 --> 00:27:51,461 But I find it very hard to accept or justify 461 00:27:51,544 --> 00:27:56,257 that a father would allow their minor children 462 00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:59,511 to go to somebody who 463 00:28:00,887 --> 00:28:04,974 is… having sex with young girls. 464 00:28:07,102 --> 00:28:09,562 He eventually accepted a plea agreement. 465 00:28:10,605 --> 00:28:12,482 He will be sentenced 466 00:28:12,565 --> 00:28:15,235 because he certainly was responsible for 467 00:28:15,985 --> 00:28:17,779 crimes against his daughters. 468 00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:25,453 I think that Moroni was hoping to regain his honor for his family, 469 00:28:27,247 --> 00:28:31,042 but his daughters still believed Sam was the prophet. 470 00:28:34,212 --> 00:28:36,923 -You have a call from… -Samuel Bateman. 471 00:28:37,006 --> 00:28:38,299 -Father! -Hi. 472 00:28:38,383 --> 00:28:40,260 I'm so grateful for you. 473 00:28:40,343 --> 00:28:41,261 Thank you. 474 00:28:42,011 --> 00:28:44,806 Samuel called every day, 475 00:28:45,473 --> 00:28:46,558 all day, 476 00:28:47,142 --> 00:28:48,226 on the phone. 477 00:28:49,602 --> 00:28:53,148 When you're in jail, as long as you have money on your books, 478 00:28:53,231 --> 00:28:55,400 you can make video calls. 479 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:59,654 And because he was the prophet, if he wanted money on his books, 480 00:28:59,738 --> 00:29:02,323 Torrance was putting money on his books. 481 00:29:02,907 --> 00:29:05,118 Where is my darling little girls? 482 00:29:06,536 --> 00:29:11,624 The underage girls were connected, listening to his orders. 483 00:29:12,125 --> 00:29:15,086 Action is another form of belief. 484 00:29:15,879 --> 00:29:19,424 Sam wanted us to get the girls out of custody from the start. 485 00:29:20,008 --> 00:29:23,094 He told us that they belonged to him, they were his. 486 00:29:23,178 --> 00:29:24,095 Step up. 487 00:29:24,846 --> 00:29:26,097 -Okay. -Okay. 488 00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:28,850 I asked him, "If we get caught, 489 00:29:28,933 --> 00:29:30,769 what are they gonna do to us?" 490 00:29:31,811 --> 00:29:33,563 And he said, 491 00:29:33,646 --> 00:29:37,233 "They've already done whatever they could to you 'cause they took me." 492 00:29:38,026 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaking of himself. 493 00:29:41,321 --> 00:29:42,697 I was like, "Yeah, 494 00:29:43,531 --> 00:29:45,241 that is the worst thing." 495 00:29:45,325 --> 00:29:49,788 And then Sam told us to go pick 'em up and run. 496 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,336 We took two vehicles. 497 00:29:58,379 --> 00:29:59,881 By the time we got there, 498 00:30:00,548 --> 00:30:03,885 it was around eleven o'clock at night. 499 00:30:04,469 --> 00:30:07,514 We picked them up near, like, the freeway bridge. 500 00:30:08,014 --> 00:30:09,516 Where should we go? 501 00:30:11,810 --> 00:30:13,937 He didn't tell us where to take 'em. 502 00:30:15,647 --> 00:30:17,607 So we split up. 503 00:30:18,858 --> 00:30:22,487 And the underage girls went with my sister-wife. 504 00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:29,494 A group of girls belonging to an offshoot 505 00:30:29,577 --> 00:30:32,205 of the fundamentalist LDS church vanished 506 00:30:32,288 --> 00:30:35,124 from Child Protective Service custody in Arizona. 507 00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:38,253 Bateman has had a number of calls with his wives, 508 00:30:38,336 --> 00:30:41,047 leading them to believe that they are on the run. 509 00:30:41,798 --> 00:30:46,052 The eight girls who ran away range in age from 11 years old to 16. 510 00:30:48,137 --> 00:30:49,848 The girls are missing. 511 00:30:50,723 --> 00:30:53,810 There was some plan, and they all got picked up this morning. 512 00:30:53,893 --> 00:30:56,271 -And all of their stuff is gone. -Oh my God. 513 00:30:56,354 --> 00:30:58,773 They might be trying to head out of the country. 514 00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:02,026 How people even knew where to find them… 515 00:31:02,527 --> 00:31:04,737 It was like an orchestrated heist. 516 00:31:06,406 --> 00:31:07,740 My two daughters, 517 00:31:08,241 --> 00:31:09,826 the youngest girls, 518 00:31:09,909 --> 00:31:11,578 were missing out of custody. 519 00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:15,206 I was just in an absolute mental state. 520 00:31:16,332 --> 00:31:18,042 FBI is all over this. 521 00:31:18,668 --> 00:31:21,004 -Yeah. -Now all of these mothers are suspects. 522 00:31:21,087 --> 00:31:23,047 They already put out an alert for the border 523 00:31:23,131 --> 00:31:26,384 because they had some inclination they might be trying to leave the country. 524 00:31:27,260 --> 00:31:30,346 Question is, who was driving that car, and where are those girls now? 525 00:31:36,352 --> 00:31:38,271 When the kidnapping occurred, 526 00:31:38,354 --> 00:31:43,234 I was concerned because if I lost my victims, 527 00:31:43,318 --> 00:31:46,571 I would never get that definitive statement 528 00:31:47,405 --> 00:31:50,325 of what Sam was doing to them. 529 00:31:50,408 --> 00:31:54,495 We had no information as to where they were going. 530 00:31:57,498 --> 00:32:00,001 None of the wives were accounted for. 531 00:32:01,544 --> 00:32:03,212 So we needed to find them. 532 00:32:07,634 --> 00:32:10,011 The green house has been empty, 533 00:32:10,678 --> 00:32:13,765 but Moroni saw a van parked there. 534 00:32:15,224 --> 00:32:16,184 Go straight. 535 00:32:16,267 --> 00:32:19,020 -There's still that same light on. -The lights are on. 536 00:32:19,103 --> 00:32:20,480 If they knew the girls came out, 537 00:32:20,563 --> 00:32:22,607 they're not that stupid to bring them here. 538 00:32:22,690 --> 00:32:25,652 -They do stupid things. -They do stupid things. You're right. 539 00:32:26,653 --> 00:32:28,196 So we called the police. 540 00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:30,156 The question is, who's in there? 541 00:32:32,116 --> 00:32:34,410 I had come back to the green house 542 00:32:34,494 --> 00:32:36,371 to pick up food and stuff. 543 00:32:36,871 --> 00:32:39,457 And a policeman showed up. 544 00:32:40,041 --> 00:32:42,168 All I remembered is opening the door 545 00:32:42,961 --> 00:32:46,047 and they asked me my name and I told them. 546 00:32:46,631 --> 00:32:48,341 I see all the cars there now. 547 00:32:49,175 --> 00:32:51,219 We seriously don't need to be in the way. 548 00:32:51,302 --> 00:32:54,180 No, we're not in the way, baby. They don't have enough men. 549 00:32:54,263 --> 00:32:55,848 There's only eight people 550 00:32:55,932 --> 00:32:58,601 working the entire department of Colorado City. 551 00:32:59,852 --> 00:33:04,107 He was asking where all the underage girls were. 552 00:33:04,691 --> 00:33:07,610 And at that point, I had no idea. 553 00:33:09,362 --> 00:33:12,365 But the policeman said, "You're under arrest." 554 00:33:12,865 --> 00:33:15,410 The next thing I remember, I was… 555 00:33:17,912 --> 00:33:18,746 running. 556 00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:21,833 -There she is. -That's Nomz. 557 00:33:21,916 --> 00:33:24,252 She's jumping the wall. Don't run. 558 00:33:24,335 --> 00:33:25,962 Back there, that way. 559 00:33:26,045 --> 00:33:28,172 Yeah. Go this way. Go this way, Tolga. The way we came. 560 00:33:28,256 --> 00:33:30,466 -Over there. -She was over there, by the dumpster. 561 00:33:30,550 --> 00:33:31,467 Get out. 562 00:33:32,301 --> 00:33:33,845 Oh my gosh. 563 00:33:33,928 --> 00:33:35,471 Come grab her. 564 00:33:35,555 --> 00:33:36,764 She ran so fast, 565 00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:39,600 and eight police officers couldn't catch her. 566 00:33:46,607 --> 00:33:48,526 I made it all the way to the mountains… 567 00:33:50,570 --> 00:33:52,030 when I started thinking, 568 00:33:53,114 --> 00:33:54,449 am I really running? 569 00:33:55,742 --> 00:33:59,245 And I turned around and went back 570 00:34:00,204 --> 00:34:03,332 to turn myself in and didn't have the courage. 571 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,919 So I climbed up… I climbed under 572 00:34:07,837 --> 00:34:11,049 a box trailer in the neighbor's yard 573 00:34:11,591 --> 00:34:13,217 and climbed up in the axle. 574 00:34:20,308 --> 00:34:22,727 Nomz is a fugitive of justice. 575 00:34:22,810 --> 00:34:25,104 There's a nationwide arrest warrant, 576 00:34:25,188 --> 00:34:28,483 and if you take her in, you're harboring a fugitive, 577 00:34:28,566 --> 00:34:30,151 and immediately call 911. 578 00:34:30,651 --> 00:34:31,527 Okay. 579 00:34:31,611 --> 00:34:33,446 She's in big, big trouble. 580 00:34:33,529 --> 00:34:36,699 He's been running her brain for so long, she doesn't know how to use it. 581 00:34:36,783 --> 00:34:38,117 That's true. 582 00:34:38,618 --> 00:34:39,744 She has passion. 583 00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:42,288 She has commitment. 584 00:34:42,371 --> 00:34:44,582 It's all… It's in all the wrong places. 585 00:34:45,875 --> 00:34:47,543 I'm very worried about her. 586 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,338 I wonder where she went. 587 00:34:55,176 --> 00:34:56,677 I was there all night. 588 00:34:57,929 --> 00:34:59,764 It was freezing. 589 00:35:00,848 --> 00:35:03,643 I froze my leg really bad. 590 00:35:06,562 --> 00:35:08,397 The next morning, then, 591 00:35:09,524 --> 00:35:11,818 I climbed out and 592 00:35:12,819 --> 00:35:14,195 turned myself in. 593 00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:20,284 When Naomi was arrested, 594 00:35:21,077 --> 00:35:23,663 I picked her up, and I interviewed her 595 00:35:23,746 --> 00:35:25,665 on the way to the federal facility. 596 00:35:26,374 --> 00:35:29,001 She wasn't making her own decisions. 597 00:35:29,085 --> 00:35:32,004 She was doing what she had been told, um, 598 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,298 and she was very scared. 599 00:35:34,799 --> 00:35:38,970 But she didn't know where the minor girls were hiding. 600 00:35:41,013 --> 00:35:43,850 However, because Sam was in prison 601 00:35:43,933 --> 00:35:45,643 talking to his wives, 602 00:35:46,269 --> 00:35:49,355 we had teams going through those phone calls. 603 00:35:49,939 --> 00:35:52,275 Step up. It helps us. 604 00:35:52,775 --> 00:35:54,318 -Okay. -Okay. 605 00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:56,070 We identified adult wives 606 00:35:56,154 --> 00:35:59,198 who had picked up the girls from their group homes 607 00:35:59,282 --> 00:36:01,159 and taken them out of state. 608 00:36:01,242 --> 00:36:03,286 He said which vehicles to use, 609 00:36:03,369 --> 00:36:05,913 whether to split up, to go different directions. 610 00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:08,833 I was able to track down different Airbnbs 611 00:36:08,916 --> 00:36:13,629 that had been reserved or rented on specific accounts 612 00:36:14,797 --> 00:36:18,759 and found an address of an Airbnb that had been rented 613 00:36:18,843 --> 00:36:23,055 by Torrance Bistline up in Spokane, Washington. 614 00:36:28,144 --> 00:36:31,772 I was able to make contact with a local sheriff's department 615 00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:34,650 and ask them to go check on the house. 616 00:36:36,527 --> 00:36:39,739 Nobody answered the door to the law enforcement knocks, 617 00:36:39,822 --> 00:36:42,825 but he saw a van leave the house 618 00:36:43,326 --> 00:36:46,162 and pulled them over for a traffic violation. 619 00:36:49,165 --> 00:36:49,999 Names? 620 00:36:50,082 --> 00:36:52,793 I know… I know they're all in there, in the car. 621 00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:54,545 -FBI's told me they're missing. -Mm-hmm. 622 00:36:55,338 --> 00:36:59,634 They identified the eight children that we were looking for. 623 00:36:59,717 --> 00:37:02,386 We've had enough of fucking bastards. 624 00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:05,014 We're sick of you fucking bastards. 625 00:37:05,097 --> 00:37:08,267 I hope you realize how wicked you guys are. 626 00:37:08,351 --> 00:37:11,979 We were able to get all the girls back into DCS custody. 627 00:37:13,564 --> 00:37:15,775 They all were with Moretta Johnson. 628 00:37:16,943 --> 00:37:22,240 So Moretta was arrested for kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping. 629 00:37:24,408 --> 00:37:26,702 -Wait, what happened? -Moretta. 630 00:37:26,786 --> 00:37:28,996 -In the car? -Were the girls arrested? 631 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,916 Moretta had the girls. She was the adult with the children. 632 00:37:31,999 --> 00:37:33,167 Oh my gosh. 633 00:37:36,295 --> 00:37:39,966 Moretta is totally innocent of it. 634 00:37:45,346 --> 00:37:46,514 I know. 635 00:37:46,597 --> 00:37:48,057 When I went for help, 636 00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:51,894 I envisioned myself behind those bars 637 00:37:54,397 --> 00:37:55,982 speaking to my children, 638 00:37:56,816 --> 00:38:00,194 saying, "You go on. You're safe." 639 00:38:00,778 --> 00:38:03,114 Would to God I could trade our places. 640 00:38:03,823 --> 00:38:05,366 She don't belong there. 641 00:38:06,367 --> 00:38:09,328 She depended on us as parents 642 00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:11,998 to guide her. 643 00:38:15,418 --> 00:38:17,128 Bateman's wife, Moretta Johnson, 644 00:38:17,211 --> 00:38:19,171 the teen found with the girls in Washington, 645 00:38:19,255 --> 00:38:22,300 was arrested and will be transferred back here to Arizona. 646 00:38:23,092 --> 00:38:26,387 Two other women were also arrested for their involvement. 647 00:38:27,596 --> 00:38:30,599 I had no idea I was gonna be taken to prison. 648 00:38:35,521 --> 00:38:36,355 At first, 649 00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:39,775 I was really lost. 650 00:38:41,694 --> 00:38:44,030 My entire life, I was taught that 651 00:38:44,697 --> 00:38:46,532 obedience was everything. 652 00:38:46,615 --> 00:38:48,034 The first law of heaven. 653 00:38:49,076 --> 00:38:50,494 And now, here I am 654 00:38:51,162 --> 00:38:52,455 in prison 655 00:38:52,955 --> 00:38:54,915 for my perfect obedience. 656 00:38:56,083 --> 00:38:57,752 That was when I started to… 657 00:39:00,838 --> 00:39:03,466 wonder about my beliefs. 658 00:39:07,553 --> 00:39:09,680 Even though most of my life, 659 00:39:09,764 --> 00:39:12,433 Warren Jeffs was in prison, 660 00:39:12,933 --> 00:39:15,519 in our eyes, he was so holy and righteous. 661 00:39:16,479 --> 00:39:21,067 Sam would read Warren's personal diaries to us almost every night. 662 00:39:22,568 --> 00:39:27,114 Sam was getting a lot of his ideas out of Warren's diaries. 663 00:39:34,121 --> 00:39:36,582 Being isolated in prison, 664 00:39:36,665 --> 00:39:40,336 I actually started thinking a little bit more about it. 665 00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:47,426 I had been in jail for four or five months, 666 00:39:47,510 --> 00:39:50,054 and one day 667 00:39:50,137 --> 00:39:53,015 we were going to the courts for a status hearing 668 00:39:53,557 --> 00:39:55,601 about the situation with Sam. 669 00:39:56,519 --> 00:40:00,189 And they accidentally put me in a cell next to him. 670 00:40:01,565 --> 00:40:03,859 And he talked to me for four hours. 671 00:40:05,736 --> 00:40:07,196 He got all emotional 672 00:40:07,279 --> 00:40:11,700 and was telling me, "Oh, I haven't got to talk to anybody for a whole year." 673 00:40:12,410 --> 00:40:14,787 He hadn't even been in there for an entire year. 674 00:40:15,371 --> 00:40:19,083 And that was the first time I actually recognized, 675 00:40:19,917 --> 00:40:21,168 "He's lying to me." 676 00:40:23,379 --> 00:40:26,090 After that, my whole mind shifted. 677 00:40:29,385 --> 00:40:31,595 Once I questioned one little thing, 678 00:40:32,596 --> 00:40:36,934 then a whole flood, like a tsunami of questions came in. 679 00:40:37,935 --> 00:40:39,478 What am I doing with my life? 680 00:40:39,562 --> 00:40:41,564 Why do I believe the way I believe? 681 00:40:41,647 --> 00:40:43,232 Is there even a God? 682 00:40:45,901 --> 00:40:50,281 And I realized I had been lied to my entire life. 683 00:40:50,364 --> 00:40:52,241 I was born in lies. 684 00:40:52,867 --> 00:40:55,453 And I couldn't even blame my parents for it. 685 00:40:55,953 --> 00:40:57,329 They were born in lies. 686 00:41:00,124 --> 00:41:01,292 When I look back, 687 00:41:01,959 --> 00:41:06,005 I see that girl in third person. 688 00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:11,594 I thought I was in love with him. 689 00:41:12,094 --> 00:41:15,931 But now looking back, I understand it was complete fear. 690 00:41:20,019 --> 00:41:23,397 The things that were going on inside were completely 691 00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:26,150 different than what was showed. 692 00:41:26,859 --> 00:41:28,986 You have to let him go. 693 00:41:30,321 --> 00:41:31,739 It's not me. 694 00:41:31,822 --> 00:41:35,159 It was… an entirely different person. 695 00:41:41,790 --> 00:41:44,335 It's very disturbing. 696 00:41:45,753 --> 00:41:48,422 Beyond what anybody could fathom. 697 00:42:00,434 --> 00:42:02,102 It's hard 698 00:42:03,562 --> 00:42:06,148 not knowing if the girls are doing okay. 699 00:42:08,317 --> 00:42:10,277 Are you able to communicate with Nomz? 700 00:42:10,361 --> 00:42:13,489 Yeah, she's getting pretty homesick. 701 00:42:13,572 --> 00:42:16,033 She wants to come home pretty bad. 702 00:42:16,742 --> 00:42:18,410 Well, send her love from us. 703 00:42:18,494 --> 00:42:22,164 She might not appreciate it, but maybe by now she will. 704 00:42:28,087 --> 00:42:29,547 After the kidnapping, 705 00:42:29,630 --> 00:42:32,299 all of the minor girls were separated. 706 00:42:32,383 --> 00:42:35,594 They were no longer in group homes. They all went to foster homes. 707 00:42:36,470 --> 00:42:40,724 They were no longer communicating with Sam or the other older wives. 708 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,437 And that's when things in this case started to open up. 709 00:42:49,275 --> 00:42:52,653 I was able to talk to my daughters in foster care. 710 00:42:53,195 --> 00:42:54,405 Hi! 711 00:42:55,155 --> 00:42:56,824 When they were separated, 712 00:42:57,408 --> 00:42:59,451 they started to have a better understanding 713 00:42:59,535 --> 00:43:01,704 about certain things that happened. 714 00:43:02,705 --> 00:43:04,957 And I had to say to my girls, 715 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,252 "Could you have said no, or, 'I don't want to do this,' 716 00:43:09,253 --> 00:43:11,505 without being punished in some way?" 717 00:43:12,381 --> 00:43:14,717 And they all had to say, "Uh, no." 718 00:43:15,884 --> 00:43:22,016 We talked, like, over and over about… …coming forth with the truth. 719 00:43:22,099 --> 00:43:24,310 The truth is really the best. 720 00:43:24,393 --> 00:43:26,770 It was one of Julia's underage girls 721 00:43:26,854 --> 00:43:28,814 who came forward first. 722 00:43:32,109 --> 00:43:35,988 She finally admitted that having sex with Sam did occur. 723 00:43:37,865 --> 00:43:41,952 And she then talked to some of the other girls that had been with Sam. 724 00:43:42,036 --> 00:43:44,955 And a few more of them started to come forward. 725 00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:51,545 They provided the full scope of what was happening on a daily basis. 726 00:43:53,213 --> 00:43:56,800 At a certain point, Sam Bateman was canceling all the religious classes 727 00:43:56,884 --> 00:43:58,302 and at-home schooling 728 00:43:58,385 --> 00:44:02,222 so that he could have sex with all of the girls, all of the time. 729 00:44:02,973 --> 00:44:04,516 In addition to Sam, 730 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,145 we got verification from minor victims 731 00:44:08,228 --> 00:44:12,316 against Sam's adult followers that he had wrapped up into this scheme. 732 00:44:12,399 --> 00:44:14,818 So we arrested Torrance and Ladell 733 00:44:15,402 --> 00:44:18,238 and five adult wives of Sam. 734 00:44:18,322 --> 00:44:20,699 And we finally got information that we needed 735 00:44:20,783 --> 00:44:24,203 for child sexual abuse charges against Sam Bateman. 736 00:44:25,496 --> 00:44:26,705 It… It was big. 737 00:44:30,459 --> 00:44:33,921 Tonight, a polygamist leader based in Colorado City, Arizona 738 00:44:34,004 --> 00:44:37,424 is facing serious charges of sexual conduct involving children. 739 00:44:38,008 --> 00:44:40,010 Newly unsealed court documents today 740 00:44:40,094 --> 00:44:43,555 show a grand jury indicted him on additional charges. 741 00:44:44,181 --> 00:44:47,059 The allegations are beyond disturbing. 742 00:45:07,121 --> 00:45:10,958 The US Attorney's Office said it was the largest prosecution of the kind 743 00:45:11,041 --> 00:45:13,293 in the state that they could recall. 744 00:45:13,377 --> 00:45:14,753 In my entire career, 745 00:45:14,837 --> 00:45:18,549 I have never worked as hard as I had to work for this case. 746 00:45:18,632 --> 00:45:21,468 It being my last case, it… 747 00:45:25,180 --> 00:45:27,599 it validated my entire career. 748 00:45:34,231 --> 00:45:35,607 Samuel Bateman, 749 00:45:35,691 --> 00:45:37,901 the polygamist self-proclaimed prophet, 750 00:45:37,985 --> 00:45:40,654 has now been sentenced to 50 years in prison, 751 00:45:40,738 --> 00:45:43,198 the maximum sentence for that plea deal. 752 00:45:43,782 --> 00:45:47,494 FBI investigators state much of their information came from a couple 753 00:45:47,578 --> 00:45:50,122 who had been filming a documentary with Bateman, 754 00:45:50,205 --> 00:45:54,501 earning his trust to interview his wives and document their testimonies. 755 00:45:56,170 --> 00:45:57,880 My false prophet 756 00:45:58,714 --> 00:46:01,675 was never held accountable for what he did to me. 757 00:46:02,593 --> 00:46:03,510 Oh. 758 00:46:06,221 --> 00:46:08,098 So, with these young ladies, 759 00:46:08,182 --> 00:46:11,435 I was driven to make sure 760 00:46:11,518 --> 00:46:13,771 that it would be different for them. 761 00:46:22,404 --> 00:46:24,823 I was incarcerated for 21 months. 762 00:46:27,075 --> 00:46:29,495 When I first got out of prison, 763 00:46:30,454 --> 00:46:31,497 I was free 764 00:46:32,206 --> 00:46:34,166 for the first time in my life. 765 00:46:37,211 --> 00:46:38,545 Thanks. 766 00:46:38,629 --> 00:46:39,838 Sure. 767 00:46:40,506 --> 00:46:41,924 It's taken time, 768 00:46:42,549 --> 00:46:45,886 but I feel like I was, like, reborn. 769 00:46:47,387 --> 00:46:50,557 Like, every other week, I have a new obsession, 770 00:46:50,641 --> 00:46:52,684 a new thing I'm learning… 771 00:46:53,268 --> 00:46:57,397 …that I had never seen or, like, never even experienced before. 772 00:46:59,775 --> 00:47:02,486 There's just so much that you can do. 773 00:47:04,947 --> 00:47:07,449 I don't plan on staying in the Crick forever. 774 00:47:12,996 --> 00:47:16,750 I'm in college, studying psychology. 775 00:47:17,501 --> 00:47:20,838 I want to understand what happened to me. 776 00:47:22,673 --> 00:47:26,134 Did you ever ask yourself, how did we do these things that 777 00:47:26,218 --> 00:47:27,928 are not even in our value system? 778 00:47:28,637 --> 00:47:32,015 I'm learning that I'm not alone. 779 00:47:32,099 --> 00:47:35,769 It takes bravery to stand out and walk on your own. 780 00:47:37,229 --> 00:47:38,856 With Christine, 781 00:47:38,939 --> 00:47:41,650 I didn't realize how similar our lives were. 782 00:47:44,111 --> 00:47:46,947 Is this an emotional support cat? 783 00:47:47,030 --> 00:47:48,240 Well, hello! 784 00:47:49,783 --> 00:47:53,704 I understood, finally, why she did what she did. 785 00:47:56,832 --> 00:47:58,000 Where are you? 786 00:47:58,083 --> 00:47:59,376 Pick up Moretta. 787 00:47:59,459 --> 00:48:01,253 This is amazing. How do you feel? 788 00:48:01,336 --> 00:48:02,337 Uh… 789 00:48:02,421 --> 00:48:05,757 A little anxiety with it, but excitement. 790 00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:07,467 Yes! 791 00:48:08,260 --> 00:48:11,013 Moretta had spent a year in prison. 792 00:48:16,393 --> 00:48:17,936 Did you tell him that? 793 00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:21,064 Her words are "prison set me free." 794 00:48:22,024 --> 00:48:23,817 I don't want to let go of her. 795 00:48:23,901 --> 00:48:27,487 It helped her to get into a thought process of her own. 796 00:48:29,031 --> 00:48:30,157 For me, 797 00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:33,368 I've learned some pretty tough and hard lessons, 798 00:48:33,452 --> 00:48:36,830 and one of them is, I… I should be able to ask questions 799 00:48:36,914 --> 00:48:38,457 as a… as a woman. 800 00:48:42,544 --> 00:48:43,795 Moroni and I, 801 00:48:45,213 --> 00:48:47,925 we don't live together as married at this time. 802 00:48:49,801 --> 00:48:53,430 How do I teach my daughters to walk away from it if I can't? 803 00:48:54,389 --> 00:48:55,390 To the fullest. 804 00:49:55,534 --> 00:49:57,452 -Get out of the camera. -Just stand there. 805 00:49:58,578 --> 00:49:59,579 Come here. 806 00:50:05,752 --> 00:50:06,628 Got it.