In this Stories from the Vault episode, Mark Mueller recounts one of the strangest and most disturbing cases of his legal career, a civil case involving a Dominican lay monk, alleged exorcisms, and deeply vulnerable women seeking help.What began as an unusual phone call turned into a complex investigation involving spiritual authority, sexual trauma, psychological vulnerability, and the misuse of power. The case centered on a man known as “Brother Wrinn ,” who traveled with a group of Dominican monks performing exorcisms among undereducated Hispanic women, asking invasive sexual questions and conducting rituals that left multiple women confused, dissociated, and questioning what had happened to them.As more women came forward with strikingly similar experiences, Mark took depositions that revealed alarming gaps in training, oversight, and accountability. One deposition, involving a survivor with multiple personalities and a psychologist present to help interpret the testimony, remains one of the most unusual courtroom moments Mark has ever experienced.This story isn’t about belief versus disbelief. It’s about consent, ethics, and what happens when spiritual authority is placed in unqualified hands. The case ultimately settled, with conditions that removed the monk from contact with the community.Stories from the Vault is where unusual, forgotten, and unbelievable legal stories live — told straight, with humanity and care. --------"Mark Mueller is a nationally recognized trial attorney and the host of the Truth & Justice League Podcast, where justice meets humanity. With over three decades of experience fighting corporate negligence, environmental harm, and medical injustice, Mueller brings listeners inside the real-life cases that shaped his career, and exposed the systems that put profits over people. A pioneer of the historic Transvaginal Mesh litigation, Mueller has also represented Indigenous communities, including the Blackfoot Brave Dog Society and Lakota Sioux Sundance Chiefs, in landmark cases defending sacred land and cultural rights.Through weekly episodes featuring frontline advocates, artists, legal experts, and "Stories from the Vault" drawn from Mueller’s own case files, the podcast shines a light on the machinery of injustice, and the people working to dismantle it. Equal parts legal exposé, personal reckoning, and call to action, the Truth & Justice League Podcast is built to inform, inspire, connect and empower a rising movement of everyday heroes."