Friends say Lori Vallow Daybell espoused delusional beliefs loosely based in theology from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before she allegedly killed her children.
Ex-husband claims Lori Vallow Daybell believed she was a god-like figure and called her children “zombies.”
Her husband, Chad Daybell, faces the same charges. And they are both also charged in the October 2019 death of Daybell’s late wife.JJ’s grandparents, Larry and Kay Woodcock of Louisiana, were increasingly worried about the kids in 2019. For the first half of the year, Lori Vallow Daybell was still married to JJ’s father, Charles Vallow, but the two were estranged and he had filed for divorce.
Detectives meanwhile learned that his previous wife, Tammy Daybell, had unexpectedly died in October 2019 of what was initially reported as “natural causes,” and the family had declined an autopsy. Vallow Daybell’s close friend Melanie Gibb told investigators that the couple used a scoring system to determine whether people were good or evil, and that they believed people became “zombies” when they were possessed by evil spirits.
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