Sep 15, 2026 · 48 min · 16 segments
Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho mother whose apocalyptic religious beliefs concealed the murders of her own two…
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In the late summer of 2019, Lori Vallow was living in Chandler, Arizona with her two youngest kids, seven-year-old JJ, who was adopted years earlier and was on the autism spectrum, and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, a bright outdoorsy teenager who, by most accounts, doted on her little brother.
It was the last time anyone outside Lori's inner circle could say for certain that they saw Tylee alive.
Lori was not reporting them missing, and she was not asking anyone for help finding them.
When relatives asked where the kids were, they got a rotating cast of explanations.
It was not until late November, when Lori's own family grew suspicious enough to call Rexburg, Idaho police for a welfare check, that the case started to take shape publicly.
Even then, Lori and her new husband, a man named Chad Daybell, gave investigators answers that did not add up.
In July of 2019, two months before the kids vanished, JJ's adoptive father, Lori's fourth husband, Charles Vallow, was at the Chandler house to pick JJ up for school.
And in the paperwork, he said something that, at the time, probably sounded too strange to take seriously.
Quote, "'She has stated that she is now a translated being who cannot taste death and has been given great power and authority from Jesus Christ himself.'" Charles told the court he feared for his life, that Lori had talked about being a God assigned to lead 144,000 people into the Second Coming and had warned him not to get in her way.
Within minutes, he was dead, shot by Lori's brother, Alex Cox, who claimed self-defense.
In the late summer of 2019, Lori Vallow was living in Chandler, Arizona with her two youngest kids, seven-year-old JJ, who was adopted years earlier and was on the autism spectrum, and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, a bright outdoorsy teenager who, by most accounts, doted on her little brother.
It was the last time anyone outside Lori's inner circle could say for certain that they saw Tylee alive.
Lori was not reporting them missing, and she was not asking anyone for help finding them.
When relatives asked where the kids were, they got a rotating cast of explanations.
It was not until late November, when Lori's own family grew suspicious enough to call Rexburg, Idaho police for a welfare check, that the case started to take shape publicly.
Even then, Lori and her new husband, a man named Chad Daybell, gave investigators answers that did not add up.
In July of 2019, two months before the kids vanished, JJ's adoptive father, Lori's fourth husband, Charles Vallow, was at the Chandler house to pick JJ up for school.
And in the paperwork, he said something that, at the time, probably sounded too strange to take seriously.
Quote, "'She has stated that she is now a translated being who cannot taste death and has been given great power and authority from Jesus Christ himself.'" Charles told the court he feared for his life, that Lori had talked about being a God assigned to lead 144,000 people into the Second Coming and had warned him not to get in her way.
Within minutes, he was dead, shot by Lori's brother, Alex Cox, who claimed self-defense.
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