What Really Happened at The Lord's Ranch?

Season 1 Episode 32: Child Molestation and Production of Child Pornography (Part 2) Jul 23, 2023

*WARNING* Listener discretion is advised. This episode may be difficult for some people to listen to as it contains sexually explicit descriptions involving one or more minors and one or more adults.
This is Part Two of two episodes. Should you choose to hear this interview, listen to this episode AFTER listening to Part One of the interview.

Picking up where we left off in Part One, this episode further delves into alleged abhorrent behavior by former staff members at The Lord's Ranch. There will be moments of silence during this episode due to necessary pauses in the conversation.

If this testimony doesn't warrant an investigation, I don't know what does.

Season 1 Episode 31: Child Molestation and Production of Child Pornography (Part 1) Jul 23, 2023

*WARNING* Listener discretion is advised. This episode may be difficult for some people to listen to as it contains sexually explicit descriptions involving one or more minors and one or more adults.
This is Part One of two episodes. Should you choose to hear this interview, listen to this episode BEFORE listening to Part Two.
A former resident of The Lord's Ranch goes into graphic detail of what I believe to be the most disturbing interview ever shared on this podcast. Due to the length of our exchange, this podcast has been broken up into two episodes. There will be moments of silence due to necessary pauses in the conversation.

Season 1 Episode 30: Nathan Harmon Talks Gary Jackson and More Jul 10, 2023

Nathan Harmon went to The Lord's Ranch for two years in the 90's. In this emotionally charged episode, we discuss his experience-- including stories about former staff who are still affiliated with industries involving children. This included Emmett Presley, Gary Jackson, and several others.
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Season 1 Episode 29: Michael Robinson Tells What He Knows About Sexual Abuse at TLR. Jul 04, 2023

Michael Robinson went to The Lord's Ranch in the late 90's/early 2000's. If you've been listening to previous episodes, you've heard his name mentioned more than once.
Michael Robinson is now the first person to go on record about an elderly male counselor who allegedly routinely pursued sexual intercourse with young black residents. Mike goes into detail about where and what his counselor allegedly attempted to do. He also goes into detail about his counselor apologizing profusely when Mike wouldn't allow him to touch him inappropriately.
He also tells of how he immediately reported the incident to two staff members named Gary Jackson and Steve Marlow. Despite the alleged attempted solicitation of a minor, the staff member remained employed by The Lord's Ranch for years to come. Mike was simply given a different counselor to solve the problem.
I've heard numerous stories about this counselor--nearly identical-- from multiple people, but nobody wanted to go on record about it.....until now. Mike hopes that sharing his experience will encourage others to come forward about his former counselor, Emmett Alden Presley--AKA Mr. P.
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Season 1 Episode 28: Alex Smith (Part 3) Jun 25, 2023

In our third and final installment of our interview with Alex Smith, we expound on what was previously spoken about in the previous episodes and Alex shares new memories of what he saw and experienced at The Lord's Ranch.
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Season 1 Episode 28: Alex Smith (Part 2) May 12, 2023

In Part 2 of this interview, Alex delves into physical abuse for refusing to say he was a Christian. He also discusses multiple instances of sexual misconduct, and he shares a very personal story that will quite possibly bring you to tears.
This was a very heartbreaking episode and while interviewing, I personally had trouble maintaining my emotional composure.
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Season 1 Episode 27: Alex Smith (Part 1) May 10, 2023

This is the first of a series of interview segments in what turned out to be the longest podcast we've done to date. It's a roller coaster of emotions, violence, sexual abuse, and more. There will be more episodes to come until this entire interview is concluded.
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Season 1 Episode 26: Former Clinician Who Worked at Ted Suhl's Outpatient Therapy Offices Apr 07, 2023

Kelly Green worked at one of Ted Suhl's numerous Arkansas outpatient facilities as a clinician. She volunteered to share her time with us and told us about multiple ethically questionable business tactics utilized by Ted Suhl. They had marketers planted at schools and courthouses who were incentivized to bring kids into The Lord's Ranch and/or Arkansas Counseling Associates. (This was the name of their outpatient treatment offices spread throughout the state.)
This conversation provided us with some fascinating insider information. In reading large portions of the court transcripts from Ted's fraud/bribery case, I find none of the information to be particularly surprising. The only part that truly shocks me is that they were allowed to use these business tactics at all. (But then again, I've seen them get away with worse.)
This office was unlike any place she had worked at in the past. She worked there until the FBI's case against Ted Suhl essentially pancaked Suhl's entire psychiatric treatment operation like an M-1A1 Abrams flattening cars during the WACO standoff.
At any rate, I also added a homework assignment for our listeners at the end of this episode. I'm hoping that this conversation will help provide insight to our listeners. And I also hope I can count on our listeners to help us answer the two questions I ask in this episode
I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. Kelly is a wealth of knowledge and I'm extremely grateful for her participation! :)
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Season 1 Episode 25: The Brother of the Boy Who Died Trying to Escape The Lord’s Ranch. Feb 12, 2023

On February 13, 1995, Robert Westerhoff and Christopher Chandler escaped The Lord’s Ranch in a staff vehicle after a staff member left their keys out. Robert was known for being an escape artist from facilities and he took advantage of the keys being left behind. After driving 100 miles, he fell asleep at the wheel and drove off into a large ravine. Robert died in that accident and Chris was airlifted to a hospital with a ruptured spleen. Terry Westerhoff was Roberts's younger brother. Terry wants to get the message out to everyone that The Lord's Ranch was an inadequate facility. The staff member's inexperience made them ill-prepared to properly run a residential treatment facility. But cheap labor and staff ignorance was purposely chosen over expensive tenured employees, and obeying the law.
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Season 1 Episode 24: Sammi & Ryan Late Night Chat🌙 Jan 14, 2023

Sammi & Ryan had a late-night chat about some of their podcast controversies and various topics that dip in and out of the history of The Lord's Ranch.
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Season 1 Episode 23 - Kyle Jensen Gets Beaten Up By Staff At Ten Years Old Jan 02, 2023

Kyle Jensen alleges a staff member punched him in the face over and over again when he was only ten years old. The staff failed to remember that Kyle was scheduled to see his parents the next day. Once Jason remembered, it was too late. The immense damage was done--Black eyes, busted lips, etc. Kyle Jensen only stayed at The Lord's Ranch for a month because a staff member named Jason thought he could get away with beating a ten-year-old like a grown man. Fortunately for Kyle, his parents were there the next day to see the carnage on his face. The ranch's nurse actually tried to claim they were self-inflicted wounds. It seemed like yet another pathetic attempt to make the ranch seem like an innocent facility. They must have the worst luck imaginable if even 10% of their explanations are true.
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Season 1 Episode 22: Salem Describes Being Targeted by Pedophiles at the Age of Twelve. Dec 18, 2022

Salem had nowhere to go. Due to problems at home, he would be bounced from facility to facility and was essentially taken care of by the state. Of the locations, he had to stay, without hesitation, Salem says The Lord's Ranch was the worst of them all. In his own words, his stay at The Lord's Ranch "fucked him up."
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Season 1 Episode 21: Sexual Assault Victim Describes Being Stripped to Her Underwear by Male and Female Staff. Dec 13, 2022

Pasha Bell was a victim of sexual assault at the young age of 12. Because of this, she acted out and was sent to The Lord's Ranch for treatment.
Allegedly, during her weekly phone call with her family, she began asking to come back home. As a result, Pasha said a staff member disconnected her phone call without warning. Pasha said she cried as a result and when she got back to her Ranch bedroom, she was stripped down to her underwear by a large male and female staff member. She tried to fight them off to no avail. A nurse gave her a shot of Thorazine and she says she lost consciousness almost immediately. She was carried from her bedroom by her hands and legs in front of the entire house and was placed in an empty quiet room; wearing nothing but her underwear--not even a bra. As a recent sexual assault survivor, this was extremely traumatic for her. They left her drugged and unconscious while lying on the floor exposed through a window of a locked quiet room until around 3am.
The drug they injected her with was so powerful, she was unable to go to school the next morning. She shares this story and much more about her time spent at The Lord's Ranch.
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Season 1 Episode 20: Did Kevin Maxwell Know too Much to be Hired at The Lord's Ranch? Dec 09, 2022

Kevin Maxwell had years of experience helping people with mental health and substance abuse problems. Considering The Lord's Ranch routinely hired people with absolutely zero experience, it seemed like he would be a shoo-in for the job they were hiring for. Is it possible that he knew too much and represented a threat to the illegal company culture?
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Season 1 Episode 19: Dustin Taylor Shares How The Lords Ranch Changed His Entire Lives Trajectory Dec 08, 2022

Dustin Taylor's first treatment facility was the controversial Lord's Ranch. Dustin alleges that what began as fun and games changed his entire trajectory in life for the worse. This is Dustin's story.
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Season 1- Episode 18: Former Male Resident Alleges Violent and Sexual Abuse at The Lord's Ranch Dec 02, 2022

Brad Wallace tells us his story about being at The Lord's Ranch. From staff allowing residents to assault him, to a violent male staff member sexually assaulting him, this was a difficult time in his life. His courage to come forward with his story is admirable and takes tremendous courage.
We're all proud of him for overcoming what was a horrendous experience in his life. Brad Wallace is letting other male victims that they aren't alone.
He should be proud of himself.
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Season 1 Episode 17: The Bizarre Tale of a Former Lord's Ranch Employee Becoming a Pastor of His Own Church Nov 21, 2022

In this episode, we speak to Jane Robertson about her experience as a church member at Living Water Worship Center--a cult-like church in Arkansas with multiple connections to The Lord's Ranch.
I won't give away many details, but I will say this....The reaction to the seizure freaked me out the most. Some people are so hindered by delusion that it can be fatal.
I'll never understand this thought process and quite frankly, I'm glad I won't.
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Season 1 Episode 16: Jessica Sheets: The Troubled Teen Industry Hero Nov 16, 2022

When a child was stuck at The Lord's Ranch while her Mom was terminally ill with cancer, Nurse Jessica Sheets gave her a brilliant loophole that had the young girl back at home within days. But the amazingly kind gesture didn't come without its consequences. I think every facility needs a nurse like Jessica Sheets.
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Season 1 Episode 15 :Jayme Kentmyer: Planes, Suhl's and Huckabees. Nov 11, 2022

In this episode, Jayme shares her experience with Medicaid fraud while working in the office and what she believes were three large staff members beating up a smaller kid in a shed. A long-time office employee told her that all phone calls were recorded (similar to how kids were told the classrooms were bugged when they were interviewed by people in suits in 2006.) She also talks about how often she saw planes land at the ranch after I brought up Mike Huckabee's weekly visits to meet with Bud Suhl.
You know we often say this place was like a federally funded cult? Jayme said the speaker at their mandatory office worker bible study said the following:
"The world is coming to an end. And we have 3,000 acres. And we are up on this hill. And you ALL will be saved. Nobody else will."
What does that sound like to you? Perhaps a quote from Charles Manson or David Koresh? That place was a federally funded cult owned by a felony con artist.
I also provide an update on some of our recent findings and experiences with this investigation at the end:
1. I finally found out the true catalyst to how I and some other boys ended up in Level 1. And it wasn't what I thought.
2. The Ranch used to build lakes on their property and even landed planes in them. I learned about this after bringing up the frequent visits from Mike Huckabee-- former governor known for spending order a quarter million on renting private planes and also for flying in the Arkansas Police Plane--The Beachfront 200, which is known for its ability to land on uneven ground in short distances.
3. A longtime office worker claimed that every landline on the ranch was tapped and recorded
The 2006 raid may not have been the FBI although we initially thought it was. We haven't confirmed who conducted it, but there was an entity of people in suits that did show up and investigate the ranch by asking the kids questions. Multiple kids have reported being told by staff that the room was bugged by the ranch before they could be interviewed.
4. The FBI definitely raided the ranch later on (I believe in 2012.) This may have been connected to Ted’s financial crimes that he allegedly claimed were a set up by Former President Barrack Obama to persecute Christians.
5. The rumors surrounding Philander Kirk’s death and whether or not they have any validity. I also speculate on why the Ranch would even want to cover up the true details and if some people knew, wouldn’t there be some charges and a news story to go along with it?
6. I spoke with Roderick after releasing the podcast. In this episode, I'll update you on where he, and I stand.
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Season 1 Episode 14: Roderick Shy (Former Staff) Nov 10, 2022

Roderick is the first staff member who is willing to come on the show while stating that he feels The Lord's Ranch was a good place. I found this quite admirable.
For those who listen to this podcast, I want you to remember that we're all humans and we all make mistakes; and most importantly we all have our low points in life.
I enjoyed talking to Roderick and I hope you enjoy listening to our conversation.
I'd like to apologize ahead of time for some of the communication issues Roderick and I had while we spoke over the phone. I believe there's about an eight-minute stretch of buzzing noises and the audio kind of cuts high and low. I'm not sure if that stems from the battery issue on Roderick's iPhone or something on my side but I want you to know that I'm aware of it and I'll see there if there's any way to fix it and upload an improved file. I think I should be able to figure it out.
Thank you for your support for all of the victims who have shown the courage to come forward with their stories.
And a special thanks to Roderick Shy for having the courage to come on and have a conversation. He took time out of his day to do that interview and that was very kind of him.
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Season 1 Episode 13: Adam Stuart Nov 08, 2022

Adam talks about the violence he both witnessed and experienced while at The Lord's Ranch. He also feels he might have been overmedicated ( A complaint we've heard more than once) to the point of having trouble getting out of bed.
Adam also had the funniest story I've ever heard while doing these interviews. It involves a female nurse. That's all I'm giving away.
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Season 1 Episode 12: Murder For Hire? Sex Trafficking? Epstein? Pedophilia? We'll Tell You What We've Found. Nov 04, 2022

We spoke with an award-winning Investigative Journalist who has taken a special interest in The Lord's Ranch for well over a decade. As we delve into this investigation, separating truth from fiction is important. But it's also important to leave no stone unturned. We must go where the investigation leads us. We also need to remain transparent and unbiased with our findings.
Linda Collins might have been murdered for different reasons than was originally suspected. It could have involved former judge Phillip Smith--her ex-husband. Before being murdered, Linda Collins told friends that he abused her, thought he might be trying to poison her, and was caught watching child pornography. The pornography incident is why he was supposedly banned from working as a judge. He was also one of the chief judges who sent kids to The Lord's Ranch. (The other was Judge Kevin King who passed away on 1/18/2019 in Jonesboro.
To be clear, none of us are conspiracy theorists. But there's reason to believe this situation with The Lord's Ranch goes as far as being connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Stay tuned for that.
Due to the abuse, we experienced while in their custody, we aren't fans of The Lord's Ranch. However, if YOU had a positive experience, you are still welcome to come on the show and share your experience. Like any human being, we all have biases. But I can set those aside while asking you about your experience at the ranch. : )
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Season 1 Episode 11: Drew saw the FBI storm The Lord's Ranch Nov 01, 2022

Drew is a former resident of The Lords Ranch. He saw Randy Barber (The guy running for Randolph County Judge who has yet to comment on multiple eyewitness accounts of his abusive behavior at The Lord's Ranch) being one of the meanest staff members. He saw violence and more blood than he had ever seen in his entire life during his tenure at The Lord's Ranch. Drew also witnessed the FBI storm Ted's little empire of mud and depression.
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Season 1 Episode 10: Amanda: A Resident's Mother Oct 31, 2022

Amanda shares her story of how people at The Lord's Ranch told her that with her help, a judge could deem her daughter incompetent to keep her in the Ranch's custody until she was 21. At the time, Sammi was nearing her 18th birthday, which would have meant she could be discharged as a legal adult. However, anybody who knew Sammi knew she had far above-average intelligence. So calling her incompetent was a blatant lie--as was the description of the place before she was flown down to Arkansas from Alaska. The biggest qualm the ranch staff seemed to have with Sammi was her adamant stance of being an atheist--a stance that prompted the staff members to tell all of her peers on a regular basis that Sammi was going to hell--despite religion being advertised as an optional portion of the program.
She talks about what it was like being a parent trying to deal with The Lord's Ranch. For example, when Amanda tried to pull Sammi out after deciding this wasn't a good place for her, The Lord's Ranch made threats to use the legal system to keep her until she was 21. This left her mom's hands tied and her own daughter was legally held hostage in what many now describe as an abusive cult.
Bear in mind, she hadn't broken any laws to be where she was. She went to this place for help with trauma and The Ranch only piled it on more. Whether it be phone calls with Sammi cut short without warning due to her telling the truth about how they treated her there, or for Sammi expressing any kind of unhappiness during a phone call. Amanda talks about how they would only return her calls when they were trying to plant ideas in her head such as the incompetence plea. Otherwise, she couldn't ever seem to get through to anybody about her own daughter once they had her in their custody.
She was often left in the dark while her child was being used as a source of income for a bootleg treatment facility run by mostly incompetent adults who appeared to derive pleasure from mistreating the children under their "care."
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Season 1 Episode 9: Amanda Cummins Oct 29, 2022

In this episode, a former female resident of The Lord's Ranch/Trinity Behavioral Health shares what her time was like.
She stayed in the facility for longer than she was supposed to and her family had to go to court without telling the facility and request she be discharged as planned. At first, the Ranch wouldn't let her go and made her family leave the property. But when they returned with a lawyer and a police officer, the staff reluctantly released her back to her family.
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BONUS: Car Accident Story / Prayer Oct 27, 2022

We were contacted by some people who wanted to share this story. This information could be benign, but nevertheless, with a facility that had so many clandestine pitfalls, we believe in full transparency in a public investigation.
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Season 1 Episode 8: Latressa Brown Oct 24, 2022

Latressa Brown of Alaska describes male staff members harming rather than restraining female residents and what it was like to recover from her time at The Lord's Ranch.
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Season 1 Episode 7: Max Brantley (FORMER STAFF MEMBER) Oct 20, 2022

A former staff member describes some of the unnecessary violence he alleges he was unfortunate enough to see at The Lord's Ranch.
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Season 1 Episode 6: Ronnie Monroe Oct 17, 2022

Ronnie Monroe went to The Lord's Ranch in 1987. I was stunned at the details I heard about her timeline and I think you will be too.
(If you zoom in on the pic, you'll see Ronnie walking three miles up that dirt road after everyone else road home in an air-conditioned van, courtesy Bud "The Felony Family Man" Suhl. He liked kids from Alaska because they made him more money. Don't let the conman fool you. His own staff didn't even know he was a felon. His life was a lie and so is Ted's. He's a white Gustavo Fing who actually eats Los Pollos Hermanos and has the body to prove it.
"Well, Bud must have turned his life over to the Lord and changed. What a tremendous testimony to the power of Christ." OR his son too became a felon because that's who they always were as a family. Do some digging and the Suhls you know are not the Suhls in real life.
Maybe he conned you when he decided to build his own Charles Manson ranch too.\-- full of girls for staff to sexually pursue..Setting up 16-year-olds to marry staff members in their 40s? What kind of kind-hearted man does that? And those trips to Mexico. What's the real story there? They suck at making pamphlets. So I doubt they went down there to hand some out and talk about Jesus while they're more criminal than their residents. Perhaps something else was for sale.
Then that savior complex.....using black kids as props and your own son Ted chokes one of them for catching him wanting to marry a resident. (she's passed on since then, but I've spoken with her family. A man named Ted Suhl was in love with her and wanted to marry her, they said.) Nobody ever got arrested for child abuse--especially the cops who worked there too. Then Judge Kevin King and Judge Phillip Smith helped the ranch in more ways than one.
I don't believe in fate but being sent to this hell hole was perfect for people like us to expose the flaws in our system. May your smug smiles disappear for all of eternity. Or at least apologize for what you've done. You owe us that much.
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Season 1 Episode 5: Kadin Fair Talks About Staff Bribes and Abuse Oct 14, 2022

Kadin alleges he was at The Lord's Ranch (known as Trinity Behavioral Health at the time) in either 2012 or 2013. He tells stories of staff helping to orchestrate violent assaults on children they didn't like, and some of the staff being violent while simultaneously grinning and mocking the child they were harming.
It was all very disturbing. He also alleged that staff would incentivize kids for assaulting others with a points system. As sickening as it is, it's not surprising to hear. The company culture at The Lord's Ranch either brought out the worst in people or would gravitate child abusers to Warm Springs, Arkansas.
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Season 1 Episode 4: Jami Wells Oct 11, 2022

Jami alleges that sexual encounters between male staff and residents became commonplace and that she was drugged and molested by Ted Suhl. She also suffered a broken arm and the ranch staff tried to hide it from ever being found out by keeping her in a private home. She alleges she only saw a therapist once. I'm guessing Medicaid paid full price anyway.
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Season 1 Episode 3: Anonymous Former Staff Member Oct 09, 2022

In our first interview with a former Lord's Ranch staff member, we get the rare opportunity to hear the perspective of one of the people who actually worked at The Lord's Ranch and wasn't a sociopath. He talks about fraud, physical abuse, staff breaking children's bones and making it out to be their fault, and staff watching pornography with residents in the staff room at their house. Ted Suhl refused to believe any of it was true or that anything was a staff member's fault when this anonymous staff tried to remedy the illegal activity. Tes Suhl told the staff member that he was lying and that he was a liar.
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🚨 Bonus: Post Show Recap Season 1 Episode 1 Oct 08, 2022

Surprise!
We will be doing post-show recaps for every episode this season. That means we'll discuss each episode on air in the form of a miniature episode. This one was different because we essentially had a conversation about an episode where we introduced ourselves. I believe the recaps from our upcoming interviews will be even better.
We'd also like to interact with our listeners, so be sure to listen to the directions at the end of the podcast so you know what you need to do to get your question/statement read on air during our next post-show recap.
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Season 1 Episode 2: Maurice Collins Recalls Staff Breaking His Shoulder and Ranch Staff Refusing Him Medical Treatment. Oct 07, 2022

Maurice Collins came from the streets of Chicago. If every allegation about The Lord's Ranch were proven to be true, his life in Chicago would still be more dangerous. Regardless, Maurice went to The Lord's Ranch when he was 14 and the pain has followed him into his late 30s. He spent three years there until he graduated.
While he was a resident, Maurice claims a staff member potentially broke, fractured, or dislocated his shoulder in front of every resident in his unit. At the time, Maurice said he wasn't being a threat to himself or others--which would make it illegal to do. This kind of complaint was common from former residents.
Collins said they refused to take him to the hospital or to even see an onsite nurse. Maurice made a homemade sling out of a shirt for his arm when the staff at The Ranch refused to provide him with any medical assistance. He remembers crying himself to sleep from the agony and crying on his way to church the next day. It was three months before he could use it properly again, he experienced agony for weeks without any medical care. He was not given a reason.
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Season 1 Episode 1: Introduction to The Lord's Ranch. Meet Your Podcast Hosts Oct 04, 2022

In this episode, Ryan and Sammi share their stories of how they ended up from the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska all the way down in Warm Springs, Arkansas. They share a few stories about when they began to realize this wasn't your average treatment.
Sammi re-enacts some of her original letters that she wrote once she realized the pamphlet she was given wasn't anything like the Ranch appeared to be.
They both share stories of how they beat the system in various ways while they learned to survive in the most bizarre place they had ever been.
Sammi and Ryan talk of their first times getting into trouble, they tell stories about some of the meaner staff during their stays between 2004 and 2006.
But more than anything they introduce the listeners to The Lord's Ranch in Warm Springs Arkansas, and the two cohosts who will be taking you on this unusual. journey.
Gear up. We're just getting started.
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Flaws in the Medicaid System Have Caused Countless Atroctities Oct 01, 2022

Flaws in the Medicaid system have caused multiple teenagers to suffer illegal abuse. People are committing these crimes with impunity all over the country.
We need to fix this broken system. Stop ignoring troubled teens.
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Former Lord's Ranch Resident Describes Physical and Sexual Abuse. Oct 01, 2022

There are numerous sexual, emotional, and physical abuse allegations coming out of these long-term treatment facilities. Until the alleged perpetrators receive the proper form of justice, this will only continue.
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Violence Allegations (Trailer 2) Sep 28, 2022

Several former residents and some former staff claim the staff used to utilize corporal punishment whenever a kid was disrespectful or non-compliant. Ted Suhl has vehemently denied this in the past. They claim that they only restrain residents when they're being a threat to themselves or others.
Meanwhile, there are over 40 years of allegations that staff would regularly attack male and female residents when they weren't being a threat to themselves or others. (This includes Ted Suhl) Even some former staff members have said the same thing during this investigation.
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What Really Happened at The Lords Ranch?! (Trailer 1) Sep 27, 2022

In Warm Springs Arkansas, a religion-based adolescent mental health facility was scattered down long dirt roads and behind thick clusters of trees.
Nobody would have ever guessed that a large chunk of the town was owned by one single family. The family owned a residential treatment facility that was spread throughout the larger houses in the town. It harbored kids from parts of Texas, Chicago, and even all the way up in Alaska. Some kids stayed for months--others for years. Bud Suhl showed us that if you make the right connections, even as a felon, you can talk your way into millions.
Ted Suhl is either learning that lesson now, or after decades of exploiting children, he's financially set for life. I'd lean towards the latter.
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