See the exact moment Lori Vallow & Chad Daybell meet before couple ‘became convinced of doomsday plot & killed her kids’
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LORI Vallow and “doomsday cult leader” Chad Daybell first locked eyes at a spiritual conference in 2018.
Footage appears to show Lori listening intently in the audience while Chad speaks at the event held in St George, Utah.
4 Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow first met at a spiritual conference in 2018 Credit: ABC
4 Messages that were handed over to police appeared to show Daybell writing a ’love story’ to Lori Credit: Mega
The moment Vallow and Daybell first met has been shared in an ABC 20/20 clip ahead of a documentary that’s set to air today (January 21).
At the conference, Chad said: “If you’ve had this Holy Ghost experience testify to you, you’re on the right path.”
Messages that were handed over to police appear to show Daybell writing a “love story” to Lori.
Cops branded the texts as a “romantic novel of sorts” and they appear to document the relationship between the couple, according to East Idaho News.
One text said: “Friday morning, Oct. 26 driving south on the freeway… A voice said… You will meet an extraordinary woman today who will change your life forever.”
Their names were disguised as James and Elena in the messages.
Another message said: “When their hands touched, he felt a shock pass through him, and his heart started beating fast.
“Elena was gorgeous and vivacious, and James was a little intimidated yet honored that she would talk to him.”
Beth Karas, ABC News consultant, said: “It appears to be autobiographical, so it does give us a lot of insight into those first days and weeks of the relationship between Chad and Lori.”
Daybell and Vallow have since been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the September 2019 deaths of Lori’s kids Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan.
The two kids had been missing for nine months when their bodies were eventually found buried in the backyard of Daybell’s east Idaho home in June 2020.
Lori’s brother Adam Cox is also set to speak out about the couple’s relationship in the 20/20 doc.
‘THIS IS NONSENSE’
He recalled how he taught his younger sister to shoot a basketball as the pair grew up in South California.
Adam told ABC: “There was nothing odd, there was nothing alarming or something that you would think, ‘How could she go off and do these things?”
He admitted that he saw an “unsettling shift” in his sister’s behavior, claiming she would tell him that she’s spoken to Jesus “face-to-face”
Adam said: “I was like, Lori, what you’re saying is not true. This is nonsense.”
Vallow and Daybell, a former pastor, were members of an apparent “doomsday cult” and married just two weeks after Daybell was widowed.
Daybell bizarrely believed the spells in the Harry Potter books were real and could be cast by those with a “great focused will”, according to crime author John Glatt’s book, The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of An American Family.
He also claimed wizards, sorcerers, and zombies were all real and that he was an immortal “translated being”.
And, Daybell alleged that “translated beings” possessed powers of teleportation, allowing them to travel through portals and carry out the Lord’s work, according to the book.
The pair married just months after Tylee and JJ were last seen alive.
Tylee and JJ vanished without a trace in September 2019 as cops opened a probe.
Throughout the investigation, Vallow reportedly stated her kids were safe and living with family members in Arizona.
She was arrested in February 2020 on charges of deserting and abandoning her children.
Just over four months later, JJ and Tylee’s bodies were found buried in Daybell’s backyard in Fremont County, Idaho.
But, one of his children Seth Daybell told CBS in August: “He knew how to dig graves and that doesn’t sound believable to me. This is a man who buries pets, at like, as deep as he can.”
4 Chad Daybell apparently believed in the spells in the Harry Potter stories, a book claims Credit: AP
4 The remains of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan were found buried in Daybell’s backyard in Idaho in 2020 Credit: AP
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Who is Colby Ryan and where is he now?
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COLBY Ryan is famously known as the son of Idaho’s Lori Vallow, who is accused of murdering her 16-year-old daughter, Tylee, and 7-year-old son, JJ.
The family made headlines in September 2019 after Tylee and JJ vanished and were never reported missing.
2 Colby Ryan is Lori Vallow’s son
Who is Colby Ryan and where is he now?
Colby is one of Lori Vallow’s three children.
In June 2020, he was seen writing a touching tribute about his siblings, who were found dead at Lori’s husband Chad Daybell’s home in Idaho.
“I don’t even know how to start this,” Colby wrote, according to the New York Post. “But to my beautiful, Amazing, sweet angels. The only peace I have is knowing you are in paradise. I’m broken over this.
“I have more love for both of you than you could ever know. I miss you both. I love you both. This seems like a nightmare. It seems unreal," he continued.
Outside of his family, little information is available on his personal life and whereabouts today as he has tended to stay out of the spotlight.
Who is Colby’s mother?
Born June 26, 1973, Lori, 48, is famously known as the mother of Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, two Idaho children who mysteriously disappeared in September 2019.
Vallow was arrested in Hawaii in February 2020 after failing to produce proof of life for her missing kids to the Madison County Prosecutor’s Office in January.
At the time, police said Vallow and Chad, had lied about the kids’ whereabouts and even their existence.
Following her arrest, she was then committed for mental treatment and ruled not competent to stand trial.
She is accused of killing her two kids and conspiring to kill two other people.
Chad is also charged with the murders of JJ and Tylee as well as the murder of his former wife Tammy Daybell, 49, who died under “suspicious circumstances” in 2019, crimes he has pleaded not guilty to.
Chad and Lori reportedly tied the knot two weeks after Tammy’s death.
Their trial is scheduled to begin in January 2023.
2 Lori is accused of murdering her two children Credit: Dateline
Was Colby Ryan sexually abused?
In May 2020, Colby came forward and claimed he was sexually abused as a child by Lori’s third husband.
He also said his stepfather, Joseph Ryan, was physically abusive and would often hit him without reason.
“He went out of his way to make a point when he would spank me and weird things like little hits on the head, and thought it was funny,” Colby told Dateline at the time.
“So there was just a lot of things like that,” he continued, adding that, “he was sexually abusive as well.”
When host Keith Morrison then asked if Joseph sexually abused Colby, he responded with a nod and said: “Yeah.”
Court documents obtained by The Sun revealed that Colby was never actually adopted by Joseph but did take his last name.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.
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