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Mega Edition: Chad Daybell And The Murder Of JJ Vallow And Tylee Ryan (9/12/26)

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Chad Daybell was an Idaho author and self-styled religious visionary whose apocalyptic beliefs became central to the case involving Lori Vallow Daybell and the deaths of her children, Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, as well as Chad’s wife, Tammy Daybell. Before the murders, Daybell wrote books about near-death experiences, the end times and preparing for societal collapse, and he claimed to receive spiritual visions and revelations. After meeting Lori in 2018, the two developed an increasingly extreme belief system involving reincarnation, “light” and “dark” spirits and the idea that some people had become “zombies” after evil spirits displaced their souls. Prosecutors argued that those beliefs were not just eccentric theology but a framework Lori and Chad used to dehumanize people who stood in their way. Tylee, JJ, Charles Vallow and Tammy Daybell were all described in this spiritual language before their deaths or disappearances.

Daybell’s role ultimately moved far beyond that of a religious influence on Lori. Prosecutors said he conspired with her and her brother Alex Cox to kill Tylee, JJ and Tammy so that he and Lori could be together and benefit financially from insurance and other assets. Tylee and JJ’s remains were discovered buried on Daybell’s property in June 2020, and evidence at trial included texts, phone data, financial records and testimony about the couple’s beliefs and relationship. A jury convicted Daybell in 2024 of murdering Tammy, Tylee and JJ and of conspiracy and insurance-fraud-related charges, and he was sentenced to death. His case became one of the starkest examples of how an increasingly radical religious worldview, personal ambition, money and a secret romantic relationship converged into a series of murders.







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Mega Edition: Chad Daybell And The Murder Of JJ Vallow And Tylee Ryan (9/12/26)

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What's up everyone and welcome back to the program We've been talking a lot about Laurie Valow recently obviously, but on this episode We're gonna talk a little bit about Chad Daybell and learn a little bit more about him and the nonsensical BS He was preaching about and to do that we have an article from all that's interesting The headline inside the case of Chad Daybell the doomsday leader who allegedly Inspired his girlfriend to murder her children this article was authored by Bernadette Geokamazo An apocalyptic author Chad Daybell attracted the attention of an Idaho mom named Laurie Valow who purportedly killed her kids because they were zombies talk about batshit insane Imagine anybody trying to spin you that story about anything never mind your own children Chad Daybell was known for writing about several dark topics

He published 25 books about the apocalypse near death experiences and his grave digging work Oh, I'm sure that was interesting. Let me read a book about a guy who digs graves because that's very compelling stuff there But no one ever expected that Chad Daybell would be linked to murder until he met a woman named Laurie Valow Talk about gasoline being thrown on the fire, huh these two together knuckle in head Laurie Valow and Chad Daybell first crossed paths in 2018 by that point Valow was obsessed with daybell's literature and eager to discuss religion on his podcast Much like daybell's books a lot of these podcasts focused on the end of the world Though both daybell and Valow were married to other people there was an obvious connection between the two and Again, anybody who's out here talking about the end of the world and the apocalypse and all that other bullshit Please just miss me with it. It's right up there with tarot cards and psychics and all of the rest of that occult nonsense

Their connection was largely based upon a set of bizarre shared beliefs Like that of zombies or people whose souls have been replaced by dark spirits Worryingly Valow soon began to refer to her husband Charles Valow and her children Tyler Ryan and JJ Valow as zombies and before long a Trail of unsettling deaths and disappearances would follow the couple the whole zombie thing is bizarre as well You want zombies watch the walking dead or go down to the local skid row in your town and look at all of the Sentinel Attics and you'll have your fill of zombies Once after Charles Valow filed for divorce he was fatally shot by his former wife's brother in July of 2019 the brother later claimed to have been acting in self-defense Lori Valow backed up the self-defense claim and then relocated from Arizona to Idaho to be closer to daybell Yeah, that wasn't suspicious had nothing to do with the fact that Lori Valow wanted to go and live with Shrek, right?

Nothing at all and Charles Valow was just an inconvenient roadblock that had to be removed And then in September of 2019 Tyler Ryan and JJ Valow vanished Their remains were later found on daybells Idaho property in October 2019 Daybell's wife would also be found dead under suspicious circumstances Now Chad Daybell and Lori Valow are both behind bars suspected of playing a role in all of these deaths But who was Chad Daybell and how did an apocalyptic author end up becoming an alleged murderer The bizarre rise of Chad Daybell Born on August 11th 1968 in Provo, Utah Chad guy Daybell grew up in the Mormon faith His parents, Jack Daybell and Sheila Chestnut Daybell were both members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Like many other young Mormons Chad Daybell attended, bring them young University and graduated in 1992 with a degree in Journalism

Daybell briefly served as the managing editor for Cedar Fort Incorporated before starting his own publishing company called Spring Creek Book Company in 2004 Daybell often worked alongside his wife Tammy Daybell whom he had married in 1990 And the couple eventually had five children together Imagine killing your wife the mother of your five children What sort of sick, demented psychopath would do something like that Slowly Daybell began to make a name for himself among the Mormons as both a publisher and the writer Still that wasn't enough to pay the bills, so he also worked as a grave digger and a cemetery sexton to make the ends meet Many authors who worked with Chad Daybell in his early years described having a pleasant experience with a humble man They also said that his religious views appeared to match the more mainstream teachings of the Mormon faith But around 2014 one author named Suzanne Freeman who had released three books with the help of Daybell

Started noticing changes He started publishing non-Mormon doctrine stories and I just told him there is something that's not quite right Freeman said Plus we were working on a book of mind together to take out the LDS stuff and I was kind of surprised By that because he was an LDS author So he started to change right His interests and what he was doing started to morph from mainstream Mormon thought To something a bit more outside of the box and something that obviously morphed into something that turned deadly Daybell would indeed go on to publish 25 of his own books some of which were stranger than others While living on the edge of heaven was based on two near-death experiences that he had The times of turmoil series explored the idea of an apocalyptic America and other traumatic events That would supposedly happen before the second coming of Jesus Christ

Spoiler folks. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting on that happening either anytime soon But while Daybell's increasingly bizarre writings would alienate some of his loyal supporters Including Freeman who soon parted ways with them They would also attract a new audience of enthusiastic readers who took his books to heart and his biggest fan was a woman named Laurie Vallow This is like picking up game of thrones and thinking that everything you read inside of that book Israel thinking that you're gonna hop on a boat head over across the narrow sea and get yourself a dragon That's the same thing here. You got to be just as insane to believe any of this is happening Inside the disturbing relationship between Chad Daybell and Laurie Vallow It was around 2017 when Laurie Vallow began reading Chad Daybell's books and according to Vallow's loved ones She soon became obsessed by that point Vallow was already on husband number four Businessman Charles Vallow whom she had married in 2006

She also had three children two of the children Tiley Ryan and Colby Ryan were from previous marriages and one child Joshua J.J. Vallow had been adopted and the whole situation surrounding J.J. Is just so damn sad It makes me so angry to think that these sick bastards would adopt this kid only to kill him I mean for real and it's my guess that it was Chad Daybell and his influence that ended up leading to these children being killed But none of this stopped Vallow from pursuing a relationship with Chad Daybell whom she had first met in 2018 The two soon started doing podcasts together where they discuss several apocalyptic topics and notably Daybell was just as attracted to Vallow as she was to him You know, here's the thing I'm not somebody that says if you get married and you're with somebody that you have to stay with that person for the rest of your life

That's up to you But why do people have to go to this length just get divorced leave your husband leave your wife whatever and move on But the whole entire I'm gonna kill my ex so I can be with the next guy or the next woman That shit is straight up bizarre and I don't understand how anyone could ever come to the conclusion that that is a good idea One friend of the couple Melanie Gibb said that Daybell told Vallow that they had married each other in previous lifetimes Imagine trying to hustle with that kind of pitch that sort of game Hey, baby, you know, I think that you and I were married several times and several different lifetimes I mean for real who the hell is buying that nonsense You have to be straight up insane to buy that BS in the first place But there's Lori Vallow willing to give up her whole ass family for this obvious snake oil salesman And though Vallow lived in Arizona and Daybell lived in Idaho the pair jump started their relationship Gibb said

Lori had one special phone that her and Chad would communicate with and she had a special phone outside of his cell phone number So it was just for their personal communication can only imagine what those conversations consisted of Considering Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell strange beliefs which Gibb admitted she won't share it was clear that this was no ordinary affair According to Gibb the two often discussed the topics of zombies or people whose souls had been replaced by dark spirits Gibb and other former friends of Vallow later said that she started calling her husband and children Zombies and remember this Melanie Gibb lady is the alibi that Lori Vallow tried to use about where JJ was And we know that that alibi was absolutely blown out of the water By January 2019 Charles Vallow was seriously concerned about his wife's behavior And even went so far as to contact the police for help He told them that his wife had threatened to kill him and that she believed that she was a god preparing for the end of the world

In February of that same year He filed for divorce citing fears for his safety and that of the children Sadly Charles Vallow's fears were apparently not unfounded On July 11th 2019 he was fatally shot by Lori Vallow's brother Alex Cox The brother later claimed that he had fired the shot in self-defense to keep his sister safe during a fight with her ex Lori Vallow who said that she had heard the shooting backed up the self-defense claims as did her daughter tiley Ryan And you know that they manipulated tiley to say what she said because it's obvious that Charles Vallow Wasn't killed in self-defense It's obvious that Alex Cox bitch ass shot and killed Charles Vallow Shortly thereafter Lori Vallow relocated her family from Arizona to Idaho to be closer to Chad Debel Who by then was living in Rexburg The story then took another grim turn when two of Vallow's children vanished in September of 2019

tiley Ryan who was 16 at the time disappeared on September 8th and jj valo who was seven at the time vanished on September 22nd and on October 19th 2019 Chad Debel's wife Tammy mysteriously died. Oh mysteriously is it Chad Debel had been the one to call 911 saying that she had passed away in her sleep The mother of his five children his wife for all of these years And this sick animal has no problem killing her So when we talk about the death penalty Chad Debel definitely deserves it in my opinion line that mother Fucker up right against the wall pull out those machine guns and get busy At first investigators believe that the death was natural especially since Tammy Debel had reportedly been suffering from poor health for a while But it wasn't long before that would be called into question While some might have expected Chad Debel to be mourning his wife's death and Lori Vallow to be desperately searching for her missing children

Neither of those things happened instead just weeks after the shocking incidents Debel and Vallow booked a trip to Hawaii to get married Imagine imagine these people thinking that they were actually going to get away with this A series of horrific revelations Many who knew Chad Debel were stunned to hear that he had married Lori Vallow so quickly after his wife had died I thought Chad really loved his wife said Suzanne Freeman the author who used to work with Chad Debel Why would he marry that soon? This doesn't make any sense. She's not even cold in the grave Even more shocking was his choice of a new bride Why would a man want a mario woman that didn't know where her children were? Freeman said I just couldn't believe it. Yeah, I hear that I mean imagine dating a woman or being with a woman and she can't even tell you where her kids are Yeah, past so obviously We all know that Chad Debel was in on it, but I'm just talking about in general terms

Like there's some bizarre shit that I hear in these stories that we read and I say to myself how in that hell didn't you see the red flags Chad and Lori Vallow Debel returned to Idaho where witnesses heard them say that Lori had no minor children Her sole remaining son Kobe Ryan is in his early 20s But authorities soon launched a national search for the missing kids So Chad and Lori Vallow Debel flew back to Hawaii in December of 2019 It was reported that Chad Debel was booted from the Mormon church for declaring himself to be a prophet Yeah, you're a prophet buddy a real prophet more like an absolute moron of prophet of stupidity perhaps As investigators looked for JJ Vallow and Tyler Ryan they also became suspicious about Tammy Debel's death They even exhumed her body for an autopsy which had not been conducted shortly after her death since her children Where convinced that her demise had been natural

Imagine her kids. I haven't begun to talk about them yet Imagine Chad Debel and Tammy Debel's kids what they must think about all of this I have a whole lot of empathy and compassion for those kids. Let me tell you By January of 2020 Authorities had formally ordered Lori Vallow Debel to produce her children Since she refused to do so she was arrested in Hawaii on February 20th 2020 Shortly thereafter she was extradited to Idaho as the months dragged on some of her former friends like Melanie Gibb Began to reveal shocking details about her and her new husband For instance Gibb revealed the couple's view on zombies She also said that they insisted that they couldn't divorce their previous spouses Because of information they were receiving from the other side of the veil Imagine saying that shit and thinking anyone's gonna believe it besides the most ardent Sikofants because regular people breaking news. We don't believe any of this bullshit

Perhaps most shocking they believe that they were chosen to lead 144,000 people who were preparing for the second coming of Jesus Christ if I had a nickel According to Gibb Chad Debel insisted on meeting with people one-on-one to discuss religion And never held any official gatherings with people who shared his views So it's unclear how many people believed his claims But there's no doubt he had an influence on those who did like Gibb I often see Chad as the hand and Lori as the puppet on the hand. I think that's fair I think that Lori Vallow was somebody that was easily malleable And then somebody like Chad Debel He saw that and he exploited that Does that make her not responsible for her actions or for what happened to those kids? No But I recognize that Chad Debel was the driving force here Despite the shocking revelations and his new wife's arrest Chad Debel remained free

Until the police and the FBI decided to search his Idaho property On June 9th 2020 authorities found human remains which were later revealed to belong to Tiley Ryan and JJ Vallow Tiley Ryan's body had been dismembered and burned and JJ Vallow's body was wrapped from head to toe induct tape Chad Debel was promptly arrested and I couldn't be a cop honestly If I was arresting somebody for something like this They definitely have one of those and I'm using air quotes here if folks one of those trips and falls you see all the time Yeah, they'd have one of those Since that gruesome discovery Chad Debel has been charged in connection with the deaths of Tiley Ryan JJ Vallow and Tammy Debel Meanwhile Lori Vallow Debel has been charged in connection with the deaths of Tiley Ryan JJ Vallow Tammy Debel and Charles Vallow According to authorities Lori Vallow Debel's brother Alex Cox would also be charged Had he and not already died of natural causes in December of 2019 natural causes is it

While it's clear that Cox fired the shot that killed Charles Vallow Cox's cell phone GPS was also placed on Chad Debel's property The day after Tiley Ryan had disappeared and the day after JJ Vallow had disappeared And just 10 days before Tammy Debel died She reported getting shot at in her driveway by a defective paintball gun Now investigators believe that it was an actual gun and that Cox was once again behind the trigger A trial for Chad and Lori Vallow Debel Was set for January but is now split And one can only guess how many more twists in the case will emerge before then And I don't think there's a doubt that there's going to be some more twists and turns before this is all said and done But as for now that's going to do it for this one All of the information that goes with the episode can be found in the description box Everyone and welcome back to the program Chad Debel and Lori Vallow were originally scheduled to be tried together for their alleged crimes

However, after some back and forth in the courtroom between Chad Debel's attorneys And the judge it was decided that the court would sever their cases and try them individually And one of the reasons for that is Chad Debel's lawyer and Chad Debel They say that their version of events is going to differ from Lori Vallow's version of events So we've talked a lot about the fact that Lori Vallow might try and blame Chad Debel But what about Chad Debel pointing the fingers at Lori Vallow And when you're facing the death penalty or life in prison I would think that we'd see at least at some point here one of these two turning on each other And with the trial being split I believe that is way more likely than if they were being tried together So it's going to be interesting to see what happens as this continues to evolve And what sort of legal strategy Lori and her team are going to come up with Because you know they said it wasn't Lori right

They're very adamant about that Lori had nothing to do with it And the prosecutors well they can't say with certainty that Lori killed these kids And that was brought up by the defense during opening statement yesterday So it seems to me that Lori Vallow certainly gearin up to blame everybody else but herself And I have no doubt that Alex Cox's name is going to play a big part in both of these trials Not just Lori Vallow but also Chad Debel So today we're going to continue laying that foundation of context And we have an article to do that from east Idaho news.com This article was authored by Nate Eaton and the headline Attorney has judged to separate Debel trials Says Chad's defense will be diametrically different from Lori's And right from that headline if you read in between the lines It certainly looks like he's gearing up as well for his own version of events This article was originally published on November 10th of 2022

Chad Debel's defense will be diametrically different from his wife's And their trials should be held separately his attorney says Chad and Lori Debel are charged with multiple counts of first degree murder And conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven-year-old Joshua J.J. Vallow And 16-year-old Tiley Ryan two of Lori's kids along with Chad's previous wife Tami Debel Their cases are conjoined but during a hearing with district judge Stephen Boyce At the Fremont County Courthouse on Thursday morning John Prior Chad's attorney argued they need to be severed Our version of the facts of this case will differ greatly from what Ms. Vallow and her legal counsel are going to be presenting prior said Our defense is diametrically different than Ms. Vallow's and the cases need to be separated And again look I don't have any kind of inside information as to what Lori Vallow's team is thinking Or Chad Debel's but it just makes sense to me that at this point it is every man or woman for themselves

And self-preservation is going to come into play Do you really think Chad Debel wants to be the guy blamed for killing these kids? Of course he doesn't and the same obviously goes for Lori Vallow And I have zero doubt that before all is said and done There's going to be a bunch of accusations flying from both camps about who is responsible for what Meanwhile the rest of us are sitting here saying that they both deserve the volcano wearing a white shirt and dark red tie Chad sat silently next to prior for the hour-long hearing Boys did not allow cameras in the courtroom A few members of the public and several Rexburg police and Fremont County Sheriff detectives Observe the proceedings The hearing was scheduled after prior filed a lengthy motion to sever in September And I'm guessing that as they went through all of their plans and all of the evidence That they suspected that eventually at some point Lori was going to turn on Chad and point the finger at him

So are they trying to get the jump on Lori by doing that themselves again We don't know But I think all the signs are there for both of them to try and turn on each other And I have a sneaking suspicion that it's going to be Chad Debel who makes the move first There is a significant amount of information in this case And the result could be the defendant is put to death Given the severity of the consequences, the courts and federal courts have made it a habit to sever capital cases Prior argued now we know that Lori Valo is not facing the death penalty So that's off the table But Chad Debel however, this dude certainly is facing the death penalty And hopefully if he's convicted he gets it Prior mentioned that Chad has waived his right to his speedy trial while Lori has not Her case is on hold until her mental competency can be determined A hearing was held on that issue Wednesday afternoon But it is unknown what occurred as proceedings are sealed

Lori also faces conspiracy to commit murder charge in Arizona for the death of her fourth husband Charles Valo Prior says he plans to use information from that case during his defense arguments for Chad You know all these little things that are being said by prior they have meaning And it's going to lead to Chad Debel trying to pin this all on Lori Valo Wait and see that's my prediction I don't make many of those but that is certainly my prediction here There was a documentary done by Netflix that portrayed this case in a way I don't necessarily agree with they talked about the allegations of what Ms. Valo was allegedly involved in Down in Arizona prior said I am going to be petitioning the court to allow me to use a certain amount of information As it relates to Arizona So is he going to try and pin it on Valo by saying Lori Valo was the brains behind the operation And she was the one that roped Chad Debel in

That's going to be a brazen strategy and if that's the one they're going to use I'm very interested to see how the gerium the court reacts to that kind of strategy Prior also mentioned a concern about gender stereotyping And reference to evidence that shows when it comes to capital cases Jerry sentence meant the death more than women Well, we don't have to worry about that. That's a mood point now Considering Lori Valo is not facing the death penalty and the cases have been severed Freemont County prosecuting attorney Lindsay Blake argued against the motion for severance And said prior had not met the heavy burden defendants bear to have a judge severer case Severance is a last ditch effort. It's meant to be used when no other remedy is available. Blake said Blake argued joint trials are preferred for multiple reasons including minimizing the risk of inconsistent verdicts efficiently using the court Government and witness resources and they can prevent gamesmanship

Well, we know that there's going to be gamesmanship without a doubt Chad Debel is going to watch what happens with Lori Valo And he's going to make some moves based on that There's zero doubt that that's going to occur And for Chad Debel he kind of lucked out by being tried second Because he can get an idea of what the prosecution has now and try and set his defense Said the evidence and witnesses in the Debel cases are similar if not identical And it only makes sense to keep them together This is set to be a 10 week trial We're talking about a severance that would result in a total of 20 week trials between the two Blake said And sometimes that can't be avoided Obviously you want things to run smoothly and if it can be done at the same time concurrently Then that's what you do But at other times you have to make sure that everything is on the up and up So you're not giving anybody a chance to go for that you know new trial on appeal And say there was a technicality because the court

Shit on your constitutional rights So you have to make sure as the judge and the court That you're in lockstep with all of the policies and that the letter of the law has followed to a T Blake suggested one solution to potential problems could be having two juries in session during a joint trial One for Lori and one for Chad if witness or evidence issues were raised that did not apply to one defendant That particular jury could leave the courtroom that seems like it could get rather confusing though I don't know if I'd be down with that and I think what judge boys did was the right move here Obviously, it's gonna make things longer. It drags it out a little bit But it keeps things more uniformed and buttoned down Boyz asked if there had been confessions to the crimes from either Chad or Lori Blake and prior both said they were unaware of any The judge said he will consider the motion to sever and issue a written order at a later date Both Chad and Lori have pleaded not guilty to all charges

So as you can see here and from the other context articles we've been talking about they all seem to infer That Chad daybell is going his own way here and that he's going to point the finger at Lori valo Now as far as Lori valo is concerned I don't know what her deal is going to be like if she truly truly believes in all this stuff They were talking about then Chad daybell is the voice of god as far as she's concerned So is she going to turn on Chad daybell and try and point the finger at him or is Lori going to blame Alex Cox Because we already heard in the opening statements that Lori had nothing to do with this So if it wasn't Lori then it had to be Alex or Chad And on the flip side of that Chad saying well look We have to sever this trial because our stories are going to basically be opposing stories So it's gonna be real interesting to see how this all plays out And with Lori valo on trial now and Chad daybell getting a good look at what the prosecution has

It's going to be interesting to see how that affects Chad daybell's defense All right folks that's going to do it for this one all of the information that goes with the episode can be found in the description box What's up everyone and welcome back to the program We've been talking a lot about Lori valo recently obviously But on this episode we're going to talk a little bit about Chad daybell And learn a little bit more about him and the nonsensical BS he was preaching about and to do that we have an article from all that's interesting The headline inside the case of Chad daybell the doomsday leader who allegedly inspired his girlfriend to murder her children This article was authored by Bernadette Geochamazo And apocalyptic author Chad daybell attracted the attention of an Idaho mom named Lori valo Who purportedly killed her kids because they were zombies talk about batshit insane

Imagine anybody trying to spin you that story about anything never mind your own children Chad daybell was known for writing about several dark topics He published 25 books about the apocalypse near death experiences and his grave digging work Oh, I'm sure that was interesting. Let me read a book about a guy who digs graves because that's very compelling stuff there But no one ever expected that Chad daybell would be linked to murder until he met a woman named Lori valo Talk about gasoline being thrown on the fire, huh these two together knuckle in head Lori valo and Chad daybell first cross paths in 2018 By that point valo was obsessed with daybell's literature and eager to discuss religion on his podcast Much like daybell's books a lot of these podcasts focused on the end of the world Though both daybell and valo were married to other people there was an obvious connection between the two

And again anybody who's out here talking about the end of the world and the apocalypse and all that other bullshit Please just miss me with it. It's right up there with tarot cards and psychics and all of the rest of that occult nonsense Their connection was largely based upon a set of bizarre shared beliefs Like that of zombies or people whose souls have been replaced by dark spirits Worryingly valo soon began to refer to her husband Charles valo and her children Tile Ryan and JJ valo as zombies and before long a trail of unsettling deaths and disappearances would follow the couple The whole zombie thing is bizarre as well. You want zombies watch the walking dead or go down to the local skid row in your town And look at all of the fentanyl addicts and you'll have your fill of zombies Months after Charles valo filed for divorce He was fatally shot by his former wife's brother in July of 2019

The brother later claimed to have been acting in self-defense Lori valo backed up the self-defense claim and then relocated from Arizona to Idaho to be closer to daybell Yeah, that wasn't suspicious Had nothing to do with the fact that Lori valo wanted to go and live with Shrek right Nothing at all and Charles valo was just an inconvenient roadblock that had to be removed And then in September of 2019 Tile Ryan and JJ valo vanished Their remains were later found on daybells Idaho property In October 2019 daybell's wife would also be found dead under suspicious circumstances Now chat daybell and Lori valo are both behind bars suspected of playing a role in all of these deaths But who was chat daybell and how did an apocalyptic author end up becoming an alleged murderer The bizarre rise of chat daybell

Born on August 11th 1968 in Provo, Utah Chad guy daybell grew up in the Mormon faith His parents, Jack daybell and Sheila Chessna daybell were both members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Like many other young Mormons Chad daybell attended bring them young university and graduated in 1992 with a degree in journalism daybell briefly served as the managing editor for cedar fort incorporated before starting his own publishing company called spring creek book company in 2004 daybell often worked alongside his wife Tammy daybell whom he had married in 1990 And the couple eventually had five children together Imagine killing your wife the mother of your five children What sort of sick-domented psychopath would do something like that Slowly daybell began to make a name for himself among the Mormons as both a publisher and the writer

Still that wasn't enough to pay the bills So he also worked as a grave digger and a cemetery sexton to make the ends meet Many authors who worked with Chad daybell in his early years described having a pleasant experience with a humble man They also said that his religious views appeared to match the more mainstream teachings of the Mormon faith But around 2014 one author named Suzanne Freeman who had released three books with the help of daybell started noticing changes He started publishing non-Mormon doctrine stories And I just told him there is something that's not quite right Freeman said Plus we were working on a book of mind together to take out the LDS stuff and I was kind of surprised By that because he was an LDS author So he started to change right His interests and what he was doing started to morph from mainstream Mormon thought to something a bit more outside of the box and something that obviously morphed into something

That turned deadly daybell would indeed go on to publish 25 of his own books some of which were stranger than others while living on the edge of heaven was based on two near-death experiences that he had The times of turmoil series explored the idea of an apocalyptic America and other traumatic events that would supposedly happen before the second coming of Jesus Christ Spoiler folks. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting on that happening either anytime soon But while daybells increasingly bizarre writings would alienate some of his loyal supporters Including Freeman who soon parted ways with them They would also attract a new audience of enthusiastic readers who took his books to heart and his biggest fan was a woman named Lori Vallow This is like picking up game of thrones and thinking that everything you read inside of that book is real Thinking that you're gonna hop on a boat head over across the narrow sea and get yourself a dragon

That's the same thing here. You got to be just as insane to believe any of this is happening Inside the disturbing relationship between chat daybell and Lori Vallow It was around 2017 when Lori Vallow began reading chat daybell's books and according to Vallow's loved ones She soon became obsessed by that point Vallow was already on husband number four Businessman Charles Vallow whom she had married in 2006 She also had three children two of the children Tiley Ryan and Colby Ryan were from previous marriages and one child Joshua J.J. Vallow had been adopted And the whole situation surrounding J.J. is just so damn sad It makes me so angry to think that these sick bastards would adopt this kid only to kill him I mean for real and it's my guess that it was chat daybell and his influence that ended up leading to these children being killed

But none of this stopped Vallow from pursuing a relationship with chat daybell whom she had first met in 2018 The two soon started doing podcasts together where they discussed several apocalyptic topics and notably Daybell was just as attracted to Vallow as she was to him You know, here's the thing I'm not somebody that says if you get married and you're with somebody that you have to stay with that person for the rest of your life That's up to you But why do people have to go to this length just get divorced leave your husband leave your wife whatever and move on But the whole entire I'm gonna kill my ex so I can be with the next guy or the next woman That shit is straight up bizarre and I don't understand how anyone could ever come to the conclusion that that is a good idea One friend of the couple Melanie Gibb said that daybell told Vallow that they had married each other in previous lifetimes Imagine trying to hustle with that kind of pitch that sort of game

Hey, baby, you know, I think that you and I were married several times and several different lifetimes I mean for real who the hell is buying that nonsense you have to be straight up insane to buy that BS in the first place But there's Lori Vallow willing to give up her whole ass family for this obvious snake oil salesman And though Vallow lived in Arizona and daybell lived in Idaho the pair jump started their relationship gibb said Lori had one special phone that her and Chad would communicate with and she had a special phone outside of his cell phone number So it was just for their personal communication can only imagine what those conversations consisted of Considering Lori Vallow and Chad daybell strange beliefs which Gibb admitted she won't share it was clear that this was no ordinary affair According to Gibb the two often discussed the topics of zombies or people whose souls had been replaced by dark spirits Gibb and other former friends of Vallow later said that she started calling her husband and children

Zombies and remember this Melanie Gibb lady is the alibi that Lori Vallow tried to use about where J.J. was And we know that that alibi was absolutely blown out of the water By January 2019 Charles Vallow was seriously concerned about his wife's behavior And even went so far as to contact the police for help He told them that his wife had threatened to kill him and that she believed that she was a god preparing for the end of the world In February of that same year he filed for divorce citing fears for his safety and that of the children Sadly Charles Vallow's fears were apparently not unfounded on July 11th 2019 he was fatally shot by Lori Vallow's brother Alex Cox The brother later claimed that he had fired the shot in self-defense to keep his sister safe during a fight with her ex Lori Vallow who said that she had heard the shooting backed up the self-defense claims As did her daughter tiley Ryan

And you know that they manipulated tiley to say what she said because it's obvious that Charles Vallow Wasn't killed in self-defense It's obvious that Alex Cox bitch ass shot and killed Charles Vallow Shortly thereafter Lori Vallow relocated her family from Arizona to Idaho to be closer to Chad Daybell Who by then was living in Rexburg The story then took another grim turn when two of Vallow's children vanished in September of 2019 tiley Ryan who was 16 at the time disappeared on September 8th and JJ Vallow who was seven at the time vanished on September 22nd and on October 19th 2019 Chad Daybell's wife Tammy mysteriously died. Oh mysteriously is it Chad Daybell had been the one to call 911 saying that she had passed away in her sleep The mother of his five children his wife for all of these years and this sick animal has no problem killing her

So when we talk about the death penalty Chad Daybell definitely deserves it in my opinion Line that motherfucker up right against the wall pull out those machine guns and get busy At first investigators believe that the death was natural Especially since Tammy Daybell had reportedly been suffering from poor health for a while But it wasn't long before that would be called into question While some might have expected Chad Daybell to be mourning his wife's death and Lori Vallow to be desperately searching for her missing children Neither of those things happened instead just weeks after the shocking incidents Daybell and Vallow booked a trip to Hawaii to get married Imagine imagine these people thinking that they were actually going to get away with this A series of horrific revelations Many who knew Chad Daybell were stunned to hear that he had married Lori Vallow so quickly after his wife had died I thought Chad really loved his wife said Suzanne Freeman the author who used to work with Chad Daybell

Why would he marry that soon? This doesn't make any sense. She's not even cold in the grave Even more shocking was his choice of a new bride Why would a man want a mario woman that didn't know where her children were? Freeman said I just couldn't believe it Yeah, I hear that I mean imagine dating a woman or being with a woman and she can't even tell you where her kids are Yeah, past so obviously We all know that Chad Daybell was in on it, but I'm just talking about in general terms Like there's some bizarre shit that I hear in these stories that we read and I say to myself How in the hell didn't you see the red flags? Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell returned to Idaho where witnesses heard them say that Lori had no minor children Her sole remaining son Colby Ryan is in his early 20s But authorities soon launched a national search for the missing kids So Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell flew back to Hawaii in December of 2019 It was reported that Chad Daybell was booted from the Mormon Church for declaring himself to be a prophet

Yeah, you're a prophet buddy a real prophet more like an absolute moron of prophet of stupidity perhaps As investigators looked for JJ Vallow and Tyler Ryan they also became suspicious about Tammy Daybell's death They even exhumed her body for an autopsy which had not been conducted shortly after her death since her children Were convinced that her demise had been natural Imagine her kids. I haven't begun to talk about them yet Imagine Chad Daybell and Tammy Daybell's kids what they must think about all of this I have a whole lot of empathy and compassion for those kids. Let me tell you By January of 2020 Authorities had formally ordered Lori Vallow Daybell to produce her children Since she refused to do so she was arrested in Hawaii on February 20th 2020 Shortly thereafter she was extradited to Idaho as the month straged on some of her former friends like Melanie Gibb Began to reveal shocking details about her and her new husband

For instance Gibb revealed the couple's view on zombies She also said that they insisted that they couldn't divorce their previous spouses Because of information they were receiving from the other side of the veil Imagine saying that shit and thinking anyone's gonna believe it besides the most ardent sick offense because regular people breaking news we don't believe any of this bullshit Perhaps most shocking they believe that they were chosen to lead 144,000 people who were preparing for the second coming of Jesus Christ if I had a nickel According to Gibb Chad Daybell insisted on meeting with people one-on-one to discuss religion And never held any official gatherings with people who shared his views So it's unclear how many people believed his claims But there's no doubt he had an influence on those who did like Gibb I often see Chad as the hand and Lori as the puppet on the hand. I think that's fair I think that Lori Vallow was somebody that was easily malleable and then somebody like Chad Daybell

He saw that and he exploited that Does that make her not responsible for her actions or for what happened to those kids? No But I recognize that Chad Daybell was the driving force here Despite the shocking revelations and his new wife's arrest Chad Daybell remained free Until the police and the FBI decided to search his Idaho property On June 9th 2020 authorities found human remains which were later revealed to belong to Tiley Ryan and JJ Vallow Tiley Ryan's body had been dismembered and burned and JJ Vallow's body was wrapped from head to toe and duct tape Chad Daybell was promptly arrested and I couldn't be a cop honestly If I was arresting somebody for something like this They definitely have one of those and I'm using air quotes here if folks one of those trips and falls you see all the time Yeah, they'd have one of those Since that gruesome discovery Chad Daybell has been charged in connection with the deaths of Tiley Ryan

JJ Vallow and Tammy Daybell Meanwhile Lori Vallow Daybell has been charged in connection with the deaths of Tiley Ryan JJ Vallow Tammy Daybell and Charles Vallow According to authorities Lori Vallow Daybell's brother Alex Cox would also be charged Had he and not already died of natural causes in December of 2019 natural causes is it While it's clear that Cox fired the shot that killed Charles Vallow Cox's cell phone GPS was also placed on Chad Daybell's property The day after Tiley Ryan had disappeared and the day after JJ Vallow had disappeared And just 10 days before Tammy Daybell died She reported getting shot at in her driveway by a defective paintball gun Now investigators believe that it was an actual gun and that Cox was once again behind the trigger A trial for Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell Was set for January but is now split And one can only guess how many more twists in the case will emerge before then

And I don't think there's a doubt that there's going to be some more twists and turns before this is all said and done But as for now that's going to do it for this one All of the information that goes with the episode can be found in the description box What's up everyone and welcome back to the program So the Chad Daybell trial is fully underway And there is a lot of talk that he's going to throw Lori Vallow directly under the bus And I've been saying this for years now That this dude is going to toss her directly under that bus And try and pin the whole entire thing on Lori Vallow Now I understand the attempt but I think it's going to be an absolute failure And that's because there were both obviously culpable There were both involved in planning this And they were both involved in making sure that Alex Cox carried it out But at the heart of it we all know that Bichass

Stoonod Chad Daybell is a straight-up coward And when you're a coward you're going to throw everybody under the bus You're not going to take responsibility for what you did It's everybody else's fault And that's exactly what the defense is going to try and claim as this trial progresses Today we have an article from Daily Mail and the headline It's just pure evil Chad Daybell to turn on Lori Vallow And pin the murders of her children and his first wife on the cult mom As victim Zant says Doomsday couple are the real zombies Well yeah, I could agree with that definitely something messed up with these people And if anybody is a zombie it's Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow This article was authored by Paul Farrell and James Gordon Doomsday prophet you mean Stoonod Chad Daybell Plants to lay the entire blame of the murders of his wife Lori Vallow's children JJ Vallow and Tyler Ryan squarely honor

Daybell's 10-week trial began a night of ho on Wednesday With prosecutors alleging that he conspired the murder His ex-wife Tammy Daybell 49 as well as Vallow's kids All three are believed to have been killed in late 2019 He has no other choice Unless he wants to get the death penalty he better blame Lori Vallow But even attempting to do that he has a very very long path ahead of him There is a lot of evidence that has been compiled over the years That points us to Chad Daybell being guilty One thing's for sure though His lawyer was in the courtroom for the whole entire Lori Vallow trial And we all know that she didn't really defend herself right she didn't put forth any kind of defense So prior is not going to do that he knows that if he tries that approach His guy is as good as cooked so he's going to do everything he can Everything in his power to try and put all the blame on Alex Cox and Lori Vallow

The tactic to shift blame suits Daybell with the so-called cult mom Vallow Having already been tried separately for the killings convicted of all counts last May And sentenced to life behind bars without the possibility of parole So his attempt here is going to be look it was Vallow She was already convicted I don't even know why you have me here That's basically going to be the approach and we all know that that shit is DOA There is not a Jerry in the world that's going to buy that And not a Jerry in the world that's going to buy the narrative that Stoonod Daybell is going to try to pitch The kids J.J and Tylee both disappeared within days of one another in September of 2019 With their remains not being discovered And Daybell's backyard in Rexburg Idaho until June of 2020 While him in the scoffoosa were having a great old time on the beach These little kids were murdered and buried in this ground And being treated as if they were no better than a raccoon

In the Stoonod's own words remember what that Daybell said Oh I just dug a hole for a raccoon that I shot What did you really mean by that? You sick degenerate fuck? Well I don't think it's that big of a leap for us to infer Or speculate what he really meant 17 days after J.J was last seen alive Tammy Daybell then suddenly died in her sleep That's convenient huh? All of a sudden she just happens to die in her sleep Then Chad Daybell calls the authorities they calm the law tops he's done He wants her cremated the next day None of that suspicious An ad of J.J said she now believes Daybell will attempt to display his innocence By shifting the blame on the valo By describing her as someone who had ensnared him into her twisted life He's been throwing her under the bus since it all started I remember his attorney at a preliminary hearing In August of 2020 among after the kids were found He was referring to Laurie as Miss Valo

And not Miss Daybell Valo Or Miss Daybell Aside from the occasional slip up Crescia Easton told the son Well yeah that's his job He wants to put as much space between Valo And his client is possible The only problem for him is they might as well be conjoined twins So good luck trying to separate Valo and Daybell They are one and the same They conspire to murder these kids and to murder Tammy We all know the deal we all know the truth All that's left is to go through these steps and convict this dude So he's been trying to distance himself from her and back away for some time But the idea of creating separation Has become more and more apparent over the years While watching the court hearings And hearing the arguments made by his attorneys So I expect more of that in the weeks ahead Easton believes there is no level to which Daybell won't sink In order to clear his name Well there's no doubt this guy is on the hook for a death penalty He is going to use whatever he possibly can

To try and get himself off the hook And if that means turning on Skafusa And saying that she's the mastermind here And she was the one behind all of it He's gonna do it Easton believes there is no level to which Daybell won't sink In order to clear his name There's going to be a lot of denial and projection I mean whatever they are blaming and accusing other people of They're actually guilty of themselves I mean look at the whole zombie thing Light and dark They were judging the light and darkness of other people But it was them who were allegedly doing the various and egregious crimes Especially against children And unsuspecting spouses Easton explained There's a lot to be said about that right Oh this one's dark, this one's dark, that one's dark He's a zombie, she's a zombie Meanwhile These idiots are out here planning mass murder With Tammy she married Chad And committed her life to being his wife To being a mother to their five children And of picking up the slack on everything

And being the breadwinner She carried the entire family So he can go off and write his books Imagine the level of scumbaggery You have a wife who is willing to go out and work every day So you can pursue your passion to become a writer And this is how you do her You see some scoffoosah with blonde hair at some doomsday conference And everything goes out the window right away, huh To hell with your wife I need to have me a couple minutes with scoffoosah over here And you know have a little bit of fun Meanwhile he has this rock solid lady at home And Tammy who's holding shit down for him And letting him pursue his dreams And as if stepping out on Tammy wasn't bad enough The ultimate act of betrayal would come later on when he killed her So yeah, helicopters, volcanoes There are stories from Tammy's friends Where I've been told that a few weeks before she was murdered The souls of her tennis shoes were sworn so thin Almost through, Easton went on She was working her ass off while her husband

Who was meant to be this priest, this godly person Who's elevated in their church Is texting Laurie calling Tammy a warden And a dark spirit that needs to be vanquished It's just pure evil I'm just glad he's in the hot seat now Easton told the son I hope it's really hot I hope he wiggles and hisses I've heard That's what demons do once you back them into a corner Well I don't know about the demon stuff But if there are demons and there is the god And all that other jazz This dude is going to the lowest level of hell Or he's going to burn for eternity Debel is accused of crafting an alternative reality So that he could fulfill his desire for sex, money and power He has pleaded not guilty to charges of first degree murder Insurance fraud And conspiracy to commit murder and grand theft Nevertheless, Easton believes He will be found guilty just as valo was I can't wait for the moment that they read out That guilty verdict, Easton said I just want to see the fall of Chad Debel

And I want to see him be seen as small As I see him when I look at him with my eyes There's no doubt in my mind He will be found guilty And I look forward to the day reality Accountability And repercussions all come crashing down on him This is his judgment day Well he wanted that judgment day so bad So she's not wrong about that But guess what Chad Debel It's not your god that's sitting in judgment of you It's your peers And considering your scumbaggery I'd be a bit uncomfortable if I were you Last year, Lori Valo, the mother of the dead children, received a life sentence without parole for the killings Prosecutors say the couple justified the three killings By creating a detailed and apocalyptic belief system Part of an elaborate scheme to eliminate Any obstacles to their relationship And obtain money from survivor benefits and life insurance Valo referred to her two youngest kids as zombies One friend testified during her trial

The evidence will show that this was a convenient narrative Would tall jurors This narrative gave them the pretext to remove people from this world for their own good Valo's defense attorney, John Pryor, presented a different picture to jurors Noting that Chad Debel was a religious person But suggesting that his belief in things like premonitions Were fairly mainstream Yeah, maybe if you live in Afghanistan and you're part of the Taliban Normal people don't have premonitions, bro Certainly of god or angels or demons or anything like that Pryor also explained to jurors that Lori Valo's brother, Alex Cox, had a violent history Yet previously been convicted of attacking Valo's third husband And he shot and killed her fourth husband Whenever there was a problem with Lori Valo, Alex Cox Ran to the rescue, Pryor said in opening statements Debel's attorney also argued that his client lived a normal Faith focused life before he met Lori Valo Who he said showered Debel with attention

His legal team described her as a beautiful, vivacious person Who drew Debel into an extramarital relationship Yeah, because Debel had nothing to do with it Tell me you have no kind of defense without telling me you have no kind of defense Chad Debel was just a shrinking flower here And Lori Valo was somebody that just canoodled him into all of this I mean, I get it the power of the pee is something to be Wery of right women have talks of men into some shit throughout history There is no doubt about it But when we're talking about these two, they fed off each other's evil And I believe that they were both equally responsible for what happened And as far as Alex Cox goes, I have said it a million times I believe he's the one that actually killed those kids Now I don't think he did it on his own He did it on orders from Lori and Chad But I think he's the one that actually carried out the brutal disgusting act Debel's attorney also said he would present several experts in DNA, forensics and pathology

Who would testify that it's impossible to determine What caused Tammy Debel's death and that none of Chad Debel's DNA was found with the children's bodies Well again, that's because he might not have killed the kids with his own hands But he was part of the conspiracy And if you're part of the conspiracy, you might as well have pulled the trigger Pretty simple how this works And that's why the prosecutors in the opening statement were talking about the NFL and giving the chiefs as a reference The whole team wins right so everybody gets a ring Well here flip the script If they were all conspiring to kill these kids and to kill Tammy And then that's what happens, they're all guilty Some of Chad and Tammy Debel's adult children will also testify about how Tammy Debel was suffering from a number of maladies But that she refused to see a doctor instead treating her illnesses with herbs and oils at home Chad Debel was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and self-published fiction loosely based on its teachings

In fall of 2019, prosecutors say he tried to fraudulently collect on his late wife's life insurance And Valow continued to collect both children's social security benefits after they died Chad Debel pleaded not guilty to the charges and the trial is expected to take more than two months Prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty if Debel is convicted Debel's defense attorney, John Pryor, did not return phone calls requesting comment The judge is issued a gag order in the case, barring attorneys from talking to the media until the trial is over And it seems like every single judge just issues a gag order from the very jump now That's something that's going to have to be addressed by the Supreme Court because I think a lot of these courts and judges are taking advantage of the gag order and how it's supposed to be used Not every judge obviously, but when the scope is just so broad, that's when it needs to be addressed And it seems like a lot of these gag orders are a bit overbroad

The grim story began in the fall of 2019 when extended family members reported the two children missing and law enforcement officials launched a search that spanned several states The subsequent investigation took several unexpected turns Valow and Chad Debel were having an affair when both of their spouses died unexpectedly Investigators said Valow's husband was shot to death by her brother Alex Cox in Arizona In July of 2019 the brother told police it was in self-defense. Oh, yes, self-defense is it? And if you haven't watched the documentary on Netflix watch it and you'll understand what I mean There is no doubt that Alex Cox assassinated Charles Valow zero doubt Several months later in October 2019 Tammy Debel died Chad Debel initially told police she was battling a illness and died in her sleep But an autopsy later determined she died of his fixation Valow and Chad Debel married just two weeks after Tammy Debel died

Surprising family members and drawing suspicion from the authorities Friends later told detectives that Valow and Chad Debel believed that they had been reincarnated and were tasked with gathering people before a biblical apocalypse Wood said Chad Debel describe both children as being possessed before they disappeared And that he repeatedly predicted to friends that Tammy Debel would soon die The bodies of the children were eventually found buried on Chad Debel's property Tyler Ryan's remains had been dismembered and burned and JJ's remains were bound All right, so it's going to be very interesting to see how Chad Debel is going to progress from here when it comes to his defense And we'll be able to get a little bit more of an idea of which way that defense is going to go Later on today when the proceedings pick back up Inside of the courtroom and like usual after the proceedings will have a recap of what went down Throughout the day

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