The Idaho “doomsday mom,” Lori Vallow, who was found guilty of killing her two children and plotting the murder of her husband’s former wife in 2019, shared in her first television interview post her 2023 life imprisonment conviction, her hope of being released from jail at a later date.
Vallow, along with her husband Chad Daybell who received a death sentence, were responsible for the deaths of Vallow’s children, 7-year-old J.J. Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and also Daybell’s first wife, Tammy Daybell. Prosecutors explained these killings as an extension of their radical beliefs in a “doomsday” ideology, perceiving certain individuals as “zombies.” Despite the evidence, Vallow continues to claim her innocence.
During a recent episode of “Dateline,” Vallow expressed her conviction that she and Daybell would eventually be acquitted by referring to visions she had witnessed of a future where they were not imprisoned, which she believes were shown to her by Jesus during her time in heaven. She emphasized that these visions were set in a time beyond the current moment.
Vallow also took aim at the media in the “Dateline” interview, saying, “They exaggerate everything, and they make stuff up, and they twist things around.”
In her statement to the court, Vallow added she “died in the hospital” while she was in labor with her daughter, Tylee. Doctors revived her, at which point she began seeing spirits.
“One of the times that Tylee came to me as a spirit after she died … she said to me, ‘Stop worrying, mom. We are fine.’ She knows how I worry and how I miss her,” Vallow said at the time.
The so-called “cult mom” was extradited to Arizona in November 2023, about four months after she was sentenced to life without parole in Idaho.
