Lori Vallow Daybell Breaks Silence After Convicted of Murdering Kids
Originally appeared on E! Online
Lori Vallow Daybell is speaking out for the first time.
The 51-year-old appeared in her first-ever onscreen interview to break her silence on being convicted of first-degree murder in 2023 in the killings of her 7-year-old son Joshua "JJ" Vallow and her 16-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan, as well as conspiring to murder her husband Chad Daybell's first wife Tamara "Tammy" Daybell.
For Lori—who denies any wrongdoing in all three 2019 deaths—she said the media's portrayal of her throughout the trial was completely off base.
"We all know what the media does," Lori told NBC Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison in a March 7 interview. "They exaggerate everything and they make stuff up and they twist things around. So, I don't know how it became what it is today. It's amazing to me."
Describing herself as "absolutely" misunderstood, she continued, "How do you know a person if you've never talked to them in five years? How do you know anything about them? How do you know anything about their life, how it really is?"
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Lori—who was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole for conspiring to commit first-degree murder and grand theft by deception in the killings of her two children—went on to deny being present when Joshua and Tylee were murdered by her late brother Alexander Cox on the alleged orders of her and Chad, who had both become obsessed with doomsday-focused religious beliefs. As she insisted, "I was not there."
Furthermore, the matriarch was confident she and Chad—who was convicted on all charges in 2024 for the three murders and subsequently sentenced to death—will be proven innocent soon, telling Keith, "After I get exonerated, maybe I'll go on Dancing With the Stars and you can come."
And as for the 2019 murder of her estranged husband Charles Vallow? Lori—who pleaded not guilty to accusations that she conspired to commit the killing with her brother Alex—said she's feeling "great" about acting as her own attorney in the upcoming trial over his fatal shooting. (Alex died of natural causes in December 2019 and was never charged.)
However, the Idaho native did admit that taking on the role of a lawyer has been a "difficult thing to do."
Jury selection for the trial over Charles' shooting is scheduled to begin March 31.
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