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NBC News
12-03-2025
- NBC News
Watch the Dateline episode 'Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview' now
It's a story you know. It's the one about the woman named Lori Vallow Daybell. Also known as the 'Doomsday' mom. You know she was convicted of murdering her children, JJ and Tylee. You know she was also convicted of conspiring to murder her fifth husband's previous wife, Tammy Daybell. You know she was sentenced to life in prison, no parole. You know she's about to go on trial for conspiring to murder her fourth husband, Charles Vallow. A crime she denies. In fact, she denies everything she's been accused of. You know that because everyone's talked about it. Everyone except, of course, Lori herself. Until now. Watch Keith Morrison's exclusive interview with Lori Vallow Daybell on the Dateline episode 'Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview' on Peacock now. You can also watch on the NBC app or listen to it on our podcast. When you're done with the episode, watch Charles Vallow's loved ones reflect on the positive impact he had on their lives. Then watch Tammy Daybell's friends and family talk about what made her so exceptional. Plus, watch as family remembers the lives, cut far too short, of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan. You can also watch the hosts of the 'Hidden True Crime' podcast, forensic psychologist John Matthias and his journalist wife, Lauren, share their thoughts on the case. Plus, listen to this week's episode of Talking Dateline with Keith Morrison and Andrea Canning, in which they take you behind the scenes of the episode and answer your questions from social media.
Yahoo
08-03-2025
- Yahoo
Lori Vallow Daybell tells Keith Morrison she 'will be exonerated' in new interview for Dateline
Lori Vallow Daybell, an Idaho woman who was sentenced to life in prison in 2023 for the murders of her two youngest children, is speaking out from prison on "Dateline" in her first television interview about her conviction. Vallow Daybell tells veteran host Keith Morrison on the episode of "Dateline" airing on March 7 that she believes she and her husband, Chad Daybell, are innocent of the crimes. 'I will be exonerated," she said in an excerpt of the show. "We will both be exonerated in the future.' Vallow Daybell was found guilty in May 2023 of killing her two youngest children, daughter Tylee Ryan, 16, and son Joshua "JJ" Vallow, 7, whose remains were found buried in shallow graves on the property of Vallow Daybell's husband, Chad Daybell, police in Rexbury, Idaho, said. She initially pleaded not guilty. Vallow Daybell was also convicted of conspiring to kill Tammy Daybell, the ex-wife of Chad Daybell, who is Vallow Daybell's fifth husband. Chad Daybell was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in 2024 for the deaths of the two children and his ex-wife. He was sentenced to the death penalty in June 2024 and is currently on death row. Idaho prosecutors portrayed Chad Daybell as an author consumed by thoughts of the apocalypse who referred to people as 'zombies' and 'dark spirits.' Lori Vallow Daybell's ex-husband, Charles Vallow, referred to similar doomsday sentiments when he filed for divorce from her in February 2019. Vallow wrote in court documents filed in Arizona that his wife believed she was a god sent to lead people during the second coming of Christ, and he was concerned for his own safety and the safety of his children. The story of how Vallow Daybell's family believed she got hooked on doomsday beliefs is the subject of a Netflix true-crime series, 'Sins of Our Mother,' which premiered on Sept. 14, 2022. The two-hour special titled "Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview" will air at 9 p.m. ET on March 7 on NBC. The episode also features interviews with retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Doug Hart, and Sheriff Ron Ball, the former lead detective for the Rexburg Police Department, which investigated the murders. Detective Ray Hermosillo, co-lead for the Rexburg Police Department, also speaks about the case. Lori Vallow Daybell's son, Colby Ryan, also talked with Morrison about his relationship with his mother. This is the seventh "Dateline" broadcast featuring the story of the Daybells. Morrison also reported on the story for the popular "Dateline" podcast "Mommy Doomsday." In an interview from prison, Vallow Daybell told Morrison that she believes she and her husband, Chad Daybell, will be freed from their convictions. "I will be exonerated," she said. "We will both be exonerated in the future.' Morrison asked her why she thinks that will happen. "I have seen things in the future that Jesus showed me when I was in heaven," she said. "And we were not in jail and we were not in prison.' Morrison also spoke with Vallow Daybell's son, Colby Ryan, about his reaction to the gruesome murders of his siblings. 'I guess I was always a very positive, see-the-best-in-people kind of person. And then I watched someone that I knew my entire life do what she did," he said. "And it just changed the way I view people. "The way that my sister was treated was with hate. That's not even human to do what they did to her (body), after.' On June 13, 2020, the Rexburg Police Department confirmed that two sets of human remains discovered on Chad Daybell's property located in Fremont County, Idaho, were the bodies of the two article was originally published on
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Friday's ‘Dateline' will feature Lori Vallow Daybell's first TV interview since conviction
Less than two years after being sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her two youngest children, Lori Vallow Daybell is now the subject of the newest 'Dateline' episode, which airs Friday night. The episode marks her first TV interview since she was sentenced on July 31, 2023. Friday's two-hour 'Dateline' program will feature an interview between Vallow Daybell and correspondent Keith Morrison, per The Hollywood Reporter. The interview has been described as 'often combative,' according to USA Today. 'She's a curious character, and I didn't know what was driving her,' Morrison recently said on 'Today.' 'I had a whole bunch of stuff prepared that I wanted to ask her about. But how do you prepare for chaos? She came in and had her own agenda. She wanted to be the aggressor. It was a very interesting little tennis match.' In the interview, Vallow Daybell tells Morrison she believes she and her husband Chad Daybell, who is on death row in Idaho, 'will be exonerated,' per 'Today.' 'We will both be exonerated in the future,' she says, according to 'Today.' For Friday's episode of 'Dateline,' Morrison also spoke with investigators who worked on the case and Vallow Daybell's oldest son, Colby Ryan. 'I guess I was always a very positive, see-the-best-in-people kind of person,' Ryan says, per 'Today.' 'And then I watched someone that I knew my entire life do what she did. And it just changed the way I view people.' 'Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview' airs Friday at 8 p.m. MST on NBC. The interview comes as Vallow Daybell is at the Maricopa County Jail in Arizona, where she is awaiting trial for the death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, East Idaho News reported. Vallow Daybell was charged in Arizona with 'conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the attempted shooting of her niece's former husband, Brandon Boudreaux, and conspiracy to commit murder in connection to the death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow,' as the Deseret News previously reported. Vallow Daybell's conviction came three years after the Rexburg police department in Idaho uncovered remains that were identified as two of her children, 7-year-old J.J. Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, in the backyard of her fifth husband, Chad Daybell. The children had been missing for months, with Vallow Daybell failing to meet the deadline to return them to Rexburg, as the Deseret News reported. Vallow Daybell was also given a life sentence for conspiracy to commit murder in connection to the death of Tammy Daybell, the former spouse of Chad Daybell, per the Deseret News. Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell married roughly two weeks after Tammy Daybell's death. Judge Steven Boyce, who oversaw weeks of emotional testimony and graphic depictions of the murders during the trial, chastised Vallow Daybell for a 'shocking' lack of remorse, as the Deseret News reported. 'The most unimaginable type of murder is to have a mother murder her own children, and that's exactly what you did,' Boyce told Vallow Daybell, as the Deseret News reported. 'It is the most shocking thing I can imagine. 'You had so many other options,' he continued. 'You chose the most evil and destructive path possible.'
NBC News
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Ahead of new murder trial, Lori Vallow Daybell feels certain she will be exonerated in children's deaths
In her first-ever media interview, Lori Vallow Daybell expressed no remorse for the murder of her children and said she feels 'great' acting as her own attorney in the upcoming trial over the fatal shooting of her estranged husband. During an often combative 90-minute interview at an Arizona jail, Lori, 51, told 'Dateline' that she was falsely accused and convicted in the 2019 murders of Joshua 'JJ' Vallow, 7; Tylee Ryan, 16; and her husband's previous wife, Tammy Daybell, 49. Lori said that she and her husband, Chad Daybell, who was also convicted in the three murders, will be exonerated because Jesus showed her the future and they were not incarcerated. 'After I get exonerated, maybe I'll go on 'Dancing With the Stars' and you can come,' she said to NBC's Keith Morrison. For more on the case, tune in to 'Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview' on 'Dateline' at 9 ET/8 CT tonight. Chad, 56, self-published end times-themed novels and claimed to have had near-death experiences that allowed him to see the past and future and into the spirit world. During his 2024 trial, prosecutors said he labeled victims 'dark' or 'zombies' before they were killed. Chad was sentenced to death after his May conviction in an Idaho courtroom on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and insurance fraud. Lori was convicted separately in 2023 of murder in the deaths of her children and conspiracy to commit murder in Tammy's killing. She was given multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole. 'Our theme was, 'This is about money, sex and power,'' Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood said of prosecutors' approach in Daybells' case. 'There were all these tangential religious issues, but it really was about money and sex and trying to control people who were in the way that they called obstacles.' 'They got rid of them, and they profited from that,' Wood told 'Dateline.' Investigators said that they suspect Lori's now-deceased brother, Alex Cox, likely killed Tylee, JJ and Tammy. They believe he tried to fatally shoot Brandon Boudreaux, the estranged husband of Lori's niece, and he admitted killing Lori's estranged husband, Charles Vallow, on July 11, 2019. Cox described the shooting as an act of self-defense, according to an interview he gave to police at the time. But to Doug Hart, a former FBI agent who investigated the killings, Cox was a 'cold-blooded killer.' 'He was the one who was willing to do anything for his sister and ultimately anything for Chad,' he told 'Dateline.' In the months before his death, Charles filed for divorce from Lori and told authorities that he believed she might try to kill him. According to body camera video of the conversation he had with police in Gilbert, Arizona, he said that his wife had come to view herself as a 'resurrected being' and a god. 'She said, 'You're not Charles,'' he told police. ''I don't know who you are or what you did with Charles … but I can murder you now.'' Lori met her new husband, Chad, at a religious conference in Utah in 2018 — a meeting she described to 'Dateline' as 'amazing.' 'I recognized him spiritually,' Lori said. 'And he recognized me spiritually, that we had known each other for eternities.' Days before his killing, Charles discovered his wife was having an affair with Chad and sent an email to his wife, Tammy, saying he had 'disturbing information' about their respective spouses, law enforcement documents in the case show. After her estranged husband's fatal shooting, Lori contacted the company linked to his $1 million life insurance policy and learned she was no longer the beneficiary, according to a text message she sent to Chad. In the message, which was introduced as evidence at Lori's murder trial, she appeared to refer to Charles as 'Ned' and said he'd probably changed the policy in March — 'before we got rid of him.' 'It's a spear through my heart,' she said, according to the text. Cox, Lori's brother, died in December 2019 of what the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner said was a pulmonary embolism. In 2021, a grand jury indicted Lori on a charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with her estranged husband's death. That charge has since been upgraded to first-degree murder. Lori was also charged with conspiring to kill Boudreaux, her niece's estranged husband who also lived in the Phoenix area, and will be tried separately on that charge. She has pleaded not guilty in both cases. In her interview with 'Dateline,' Lori cited the upcoming trial and declined to discuss the text message or other details related to the upcoming cases. 'Did you watch your children die?' Morrison asked at one point. 'That's a really sad question,' she responded, adding: 'I was not there.' Seven weeks after her estranged husband's death, Lori moved with JJ and Tylee from Arizona to an apartment in Rexburg, Idaho, that was a short drive from Chad's rural property. The children vanished that September, and their remains were found nine months later on Chad's property. JJ had been buried in a pet cemetery, prosecutors said at trial, while Tylee was dismembered and burned in a fire pit. In her interview, Lori denied that her new husband identified the children as 'dark,' saying that was 'a narrative that you've been running.' In an interview last year with her older son on 'Scar Wars,' his podcast, Lori implied that her daughter might have killed her son accidentally and, filled with grief, then taken her own life. 'It must be nice and easy to blame my dead little sister for everything,' the older sibling, Colby Ryan, told 'Dateline.' 'That's all lies.' On Oct. 19, 2019 — weeks after the disappearance of JJ and Tylee — Chad and his son dialed 911 to report that they had found his then-wife, Tammy, dead at their home, a recording of the call shows. Tammy's death was initially attributed to natural causes, but investigators later exhumed her body and conducted an autopsy that found she died by asphyxiation. Chad and Lori married weeks after Tammy died and received a nearly half-million-dollar life insurance payout connected to the death, prosecutors said at Lori's trial. In her interview with 'Dateline,' Lori asserted her innocence in Tammy's death, saying they 'proved' in court that she died of natural causes. Lori is now set to stand trial in Charles' killing. A judge ruled in December that she can act as her own attorney — a process she described to 'Dateline' as a 'great' but 'difficult thing to do.' Jury selection is scheduled to begin March 31. A trial date has not been set for Boudreaux's case.
USA Today
07-03-2025
- USA Today
Lori Vallow Daybell to make first TV appearance: How to watch Dateline interview
Lori Vallow Daybell to make first TV appearance: How to watch Dateline interview Show Caption Hide Caption 'Doomsday' leader Chad Daybell sentenced to death Chad Daybell was sentenced to death for murdering his ex-wife and two stepchildren, two days after he was found guilty. "Doomsday Mom" Lori Vallow Daybell is speaking her truth for the very first time. The Idaho mom, who was convicted of murdering her two children in July 2023, sat down with Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison for an exclusive interview, set to air Friday night on NBC. The 51-year-old and her fifth husband, Chad Daybell, are currently serving time in prison for the deaths of Chad's first wife Tamara Douglas Daybell and Lori's two children: 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua 'JJ' Vallow. Lori Vallow Daybell also faces charges in Arizona of conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the shooting death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and the attempted murder of her niece's ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux. Vallow Daybell maintains her innocence, telling Morrison in the "extensive and often combative interview" that she and her husband will be exonerated. "I will be exonerated. We will both be exonerated in the future," Vallow Daybell said. 'I have seen things in the future that Jesus showed me when I was in Heaven. And we were not in jail, and we were not in prison.' The two-hour Dateline special also features interviews with investigators and Vallow Daybell's oldest son, 28-year-old Colby Ryan. Here's what to know about the Dateline special, "Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview" and how to watch it. Who is Lori Vallow Daybell? And what did she do? Vallow Daybell was previously described as a "devoted mother of three, a loving wife, and a woman of God," according to a Netflix documentary about her. The San Bernardino native has been married five times and went by different names, including Lori Norene Cox, Lori Ryan Daybell, Lori Norene Lagioia and Lori Vallow Daybell. She had two kids during her marriages, Colby and Tylee, and later adopted JJ with fourth husband Charles Vallow. Vallow Daybell lived in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert with Vallow after the two were wed in 2006. She moved to Rexburg, Idaho, a few months after Vallow's untimely death in July 2019. Vallow Daybell was accused of working with her late brother, Alex Cox, who told Chandler police he shot Charles Vallow in self-defense. Vallow Daybell met Chad Daybell, a married father of five, at a conference in St. George, Utah, in October 2018. The couple married in Hawaii in November of 2019, two months after Tylee and JJ disappeared and a few weeks after the death of Daybell's longtime wife, Tamara Douglas Daybell. Vallow Daybell was arrested in February 2020 and later extradited to Idaho for failing to comply with a court order mandating her to produce the children. JJ and Tylee's remains were found on Chad Daybell's property four months later. Vallow Daybell and Daybell, as early as 2018, began to "endorse and espouse religious beliefs for the purpose of encouraging and/or justifying" the deaths of Tylee, JJ and Tammy Daybell, according to indictments obtained by USA TODAY in May 2021. Lori Vallow Daybell told a friend, Melani Gibb, that she believed her children were "zombies." Gibb also told authorities the couple were part of the 'Church of the Firstborn' with a mission to lead the '144,000' mentioned in the Book of Revelation and to rid the world of 'zombies.' The couple first appeared on a podcast together almost a year before the children went missing, and family and friends said they were espousing divergent, "prepper" beliefs. Chad Daybell is on death row in Idaho. Vallow Daybell is currently in prison and is awaiting trial for the death of Charles Vallow. More true crime inspired television: Natalia Grace Barnett case subject of 'Good American Family' How to watch Lori Vallow Daybell's first TV interview "Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview" airs Friday, March 7 at 9 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CT on NBC. Viewers can also catch the Dateline special on Peacock the next day. Ryan opens up about his relationship with his mother and a number of investigators, including retired FBI agent Doug Hart, and former Rexburg Police Department detectives Ron Ball and Ray Hermosillo, and shares new details about the case over the course of the two-hour special. Watch preview of Lori Vallow Daybell's Dateline interview Contributing: Raphael Romero Ruiz and Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic part of the USA TODAY Network, Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY
