
What Really Happened at The Lord's Ranch?
Two former residents of The Lord's Ranch go back over 40 years and interview various generations of former residents, staff members, local towns people, and a local award-winning investigative journalist about a religious-based adolescent treatment facility in Warm Springs, Arkansas. The Lord's Ranch was founded by a financial felon from California; named Bud Suhl. After his time incarcerated, Suhl proclaimed he had turned his life around when he found Jesus. He left California and moved to Randolph County, Arkansas with his new wife Shirley. Bud Suhl opened up inpatient and outpatient treatment facilities for troubled youth. The newly found inpatient facility was in a small town of fewer than 300 residents and has since been the subject of numerous investigations that go as high up as the FBI. The Lord’s Ranch even briefly lost their license three years into business due to numerous complaints of abuse. These investigations ultimately made Bud's son, Ted a felon as well. In 2016, around 50 years after Bud’s conviction, Ted was convicted of bribery and fraud. Ted got out of prison about 4 1/2 years early when Suhl's family friend, Mike Huckabee convinced President Donald Trump to commute his seven-year sentence. As it stands right now, nobody has been able to find any documentation indicating how long Bud spent in prison. At any rate, since Ted had his sentence commuted rather than being fully pardoned, he remains a felon for financial crimes committed when his business hit a low point-- just like his father. With allegations of mental, physical, and sexual abuse at The Lord's Ranch, Sammi and Ryan decided to do a deep dive into the matter. Whether it was good, bad, or ugly, they searched for the full truth. The statements in this podcast may sound one-sided but nearly everybody who felt compelled to defend the ranch was unwilling to be interviewed on the podcast. We even offered to let defensive staff members speak while we asked zero questions and agreed to offer no rebuttals to anything the guest said. It would essentially have been a speech in defense of The Lord's Ranch. But unfortunately, most preferred to type words, rather than speaking on the phone. Some have also tried their best to prevent people from coming onto our podcast to share their story. For somebody claiming innocence, that seems rather suspect. At any rate, we continued asking anybody with any kind of experiece with The Lord's Ranch what it was like. These are their stories.WARNNG: Some of the details spoken in this podcast are disturbing. Listen at your own risk.
Episodes
39 episodes
Season 1 Episode 32: Child Molestation and Production of Child Pornography (Part 2)
*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 epis...
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Episode 32
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3:07:28

Season 1 Episode 31: Child Molestation and Production of Child Pornography (Part 1)
*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. ...
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Episode 31
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2:34:58

Season 1 Episode 30: Nathan Harmon Talks Gary Jackson and More
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 E...
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Episode 30
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1:29:20

Season 1 Episode 29: Michael Robinson Tells What He Knows About Sexual Abuse at TLR.
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 el...
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1:55:30

Season 1 Episode 28: Alex Smith (Part 3)
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.The music...
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3:06:28

Season 1 Episode 28: Alex Smith (Part 2)
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....
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2:39:30

Season 1 Episode 27: Alex Smith (Part 1)
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 entir...
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Episode 27
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2:15:07

Season 1 Episode 26: Former Clinician Who Worked at Ted Suhl's Outpatient Therapy Offices
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 marketer...
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Episode 26
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2:30:54

Season 1 Episode 25: The Brother of the Boy Who Died Trying to Escape The Lord’s Ranch.
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...
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Episode 25
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3:40:50

Season 1 Episode 24: Sammi & Ryan Late Night Chat🌙
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.The music composed for this podcast came from Blaq2ba. You can contact him ...
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Episode 24
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2:03:24

Season 1 Episode 23 - Kyle Jensen Gets Beaten Up By Staff At Ten Years Old
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 imm...
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Episode 23
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2:00:04
Season 1 Episode 22: Salem Describes Being Targeted by Pedophiles at the Age of Twelve.
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 wors...
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Episode 22
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2:32:16

Season 1 Episode 21: Sexual Assault Victim Describes Being Stripped to Her Underwear by Male and Female Staff.
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...
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Episode 21
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1:44:30

Season 1 Episode 20: Did Kevin Maxwell Know too Much to be Hired at The Lord's Ranch?
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 th...
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Episode 20
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2:08:10

Season 1 Episode 19: Dustin Taylor Shares How The Lords Ranch Changed His Entire Lives Trajectory
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.The music composed for this podcast...
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Episode 19
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1:53:30

Season 1- Episode 18: Former Male Resident Alleges Violent and Sexual Abuse at The Lord's Ranch
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 s...
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Episode 18
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2:59:08
Season 1 Episode 17: The Bizarre Tale of a Former Lord's Ranch Employee Becoming a Pastor of His Own Church
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...
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Episode 17
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1:32:50

Season 1 Episode 16: Jessica Sheets: The Troubled Teen Industry Hero
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 witho...
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Episode 16
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2:09:36
Season 1 Episode 15 :Jayme Kentmyer: Planes, Suhl's and Huckabees.
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...
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Episode 15
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1:27:25

Season 1 Episode 14: Roderick Shy (Former Staff)
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 w...
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Episode 14
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2:02:56

Season 1 Episode 13: Adam Stuart
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 a...
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Episode 13
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1:15:52

Season 1 Episode 12: Murder For Hire? Sex Trafficking? Epstein? Pedophilia? We'll Tell You What We've Found.
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 lea...
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Episode 12
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1:32:48

Season 1 Episode 11: Drew saw the FBI storm The Lord's Ranch
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 memb...
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Episode 11
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47:10

Season 1 Episode 10: Amanda: A Resident's Mother
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 woul...
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Episode 10
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1:26:36

Season 1 Episode 9: Amanda Cummins
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 ...
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Episode 9
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