Lori Vallow has broken her silence from prison to reveal the shocking ‘evidence’ she claims will exonerate both her and her husband.
Vallow, 51, was sentenced to multiple life sentences with no chance of parole in July 2023 for murdering two of her children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow, 7, and conspiring to kill her husband Chad Daybell’s former wife, Tammy Daybell.
Daybell was sentenced to death for the 2019 murders of his first wife and Vallow’s two children.
Now, speaking from behind bars to Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison, Vallow says a vision from God saw her roaming free in the future.
In the near-30 second clip, Morrison asks Vallow, who sits handcuffed before him in a bright orange jumpsuit, how she ‘could possibly think’ Chad would be exonerated after the pair’s crimes.
‘The same way I would be exonerated. We will both be exonerated in the future,’ Vallow 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 and they were still in the future, from now.’
During the interview, Morrison told the cold-blooded mother that she was ‘the most hated mom in America.’ To that, Vallow boldly responded that she would reveal what really happened to her family.
‘You’ve got a lot of stuff, Keith, but what I tell you will be the truth,’ Vallow vowed.
Dateline’s full interview is set to air on Friday night.
Her explanation of the horrific events and discoveries made by police has, so far, been nothing short of derranged.
Vallow once claimed she was a goddess ushering in an apocalypse and that her kids died so their bodies could be cleansed of evil spirits that had possessed them and turned them into ‘zombies.’
The Sugar City-native had also previously made her career writing self-published apocalyptic novels that expanded the fantasy world around her family’s death. The strange behavior helped her to earn the eerie moniker: ‘Doomsday mom’.
Prosecutors believe that Daybell – who is an author of religious doomsday scenarios – and Vallow’s life together revolved around a small cult.
The group believed in preparing for the imminent end of the world and eliminating people whose spirits had turned ‘dark.’
In reality, though, jurors in Idaho ruled that the demented pair actually decided to murder their family so they could run off together.
Vallow’s two children were reported missing by JJ’s out-of-state grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock, nine months before their slain bodies were found in June 2020, buried on Daybell’s Idaho property.
Sixteen-year-old Tylee had been dismembered and burned, meanwhile, seven-year-old JJ, was wrapped in plastic and bound by duct tape.
It was revealed at the doomsday preparing mother’s trial that her youngest son was asphyxiated – the process of being deprived of oxygen. However, her teen daughter’s cause of death was undetermined due to the state of her remains.
Daybell’s wife, Tammy, 49, died at the home she shared with Daybell years earlier, in October 2019.
Like JJ, Tammy’s cause of death was also revealed to be asphyxiation, though it was initially ruled accidental.
Yet, just weeks after his wife of over three decades died, Daybell married Vallow in Hawaii.
In July 2023, Vallow was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of her two children and for conspiring to murder Daybell’s then-wife.
She was also convicted of grand theft by deception in the case for collecting government payments after the murders of her children.
The following year, Daybell was sentenced to death after he too was convicted of the murders of the two children and his first wife.
Daybell was married to Tammy for 31 years and shares five children with her.
The Dateline episode featuring Vallow and her prolific case is set to air on Friday, March 7 on NBC.
The special episode will also feature interviews with Vallow’s third child, Colby Ryan, 28, former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Doug Hart, Madison County Sheriff Ron Ball and Rexburg police Detective Ray Hermosillo, according to People.