Chilling case of a ‘devoted mother’ who is accused of killing two of her children after meeting a Doomsday preacher who believed people could be possessed by evil spirits is set to be told in new Netflix true crime series
- Netflix documentary series ‘Sins of our Mother’ tells the story of Lori Vallow
- She’s accused of killing two of her kids – Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17
- Once described as a ‘devoted’ mother, she changed after meeting Chad Daybell
- Described as ‘doomsday preacher’, his ideologies are said to have ‘changed her’
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A true crime documentary launching on Netflix next week sets out to answer one question: how did a seemingly normal woman become the most notorious mother in America?
The Sins of our Mother, a three-part series which will be available to stream in the UK from September 14, tells the notorious story of Lori Vallow.
She was once ‘devoted mother of three, a loving wife, and a woman of God’, but after meeting her fifth husband Chad Daybell, ‘something went very wrong’.
Now Vallow, 49, is accused of murdering two of her children – Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow, seven, and Tylee Ryan, 17 – in September 2019 along with the help of Daybell – whose ‘doomsday’ ideologies are said to have ‘changed’ her.
Lori Vallow (centre) pictured here with two of her children (JJ, left) and Tylee Ryan (right) before the killings
Lori Valley was charged with first degree murder in 2021, and if found guilty of the crimes, could face the death sentence
‘Changed’: according to reports, Lori Vallow changed after meeting doomsday preacher Chad Daybell, who is also accused of murder, and has plead not guilty
The pair are set to face trial in January 2023, with Vallow accused of conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her fourth husband, her fifth husband’s wife, and her two youngest children.
Netflix’s series, which features her surviving child Colby Ryan, 26, reveals the details behind the killings, and Lori’s beliefs that convinced her there was a ‘dark spirit’ inside her daughter, and the only way to ‘free the spirit is to kill the body.’
According to Colby, who never knew his biological father, and he and his mother shared a close bond, with his mother ‘leaning on [him] for emotional support’ when he was young, which he says ‘forced him’ to grow up a little bit faster’.
But he says that bond began to fray in 2001, when his mother married her third husband Joseph Ryan.
Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow, left, and Tylee Ryan, right, were last seen in September 2019. Their bodies were eventually discovered buried on Chad Daybell’s property after a nine-month search
Vallow married again in 2006, this time tying the knot with Charles Vallow. Around this time, Colby says his mother’s fixation with doomsday cults began to deepen, which eventually led to him moving out.
‘I’m not exactly sure when [the interest in doomsday cults] started but probably when I was around 11,’ said Colby.
‘I was never brought into it, really. I definitely feared it [the end times] because I heard it from her and because I trusted her.
‘But as I grew up, probably around 17 or 18, I was like: ‘I’m just going to live my life the way I can’.
‘I can’t live a life of impending fear of something happening. I can’t live like that. It’s an anxious life. So I never bought into any of the ideas that it was going to happen.’
In this June 9, 2020, aerial photo, investigators search for the human remains of JJ and Tylee at Chad Daybell’s residence in the 200 block of 1900 east, in Salem, Idaho
Tammy and Charles died around the time JJ and Tylee went missing in September 2019. Charles was shot while Tammy died in her sleep
According to reports, Vallow started reading books by Doomsday preacher Chad Daybell in 2017. Daybell had penned several fictional novels about preparing for the end of the world.
She met Daybell in 2018, and the pair started making religious podcasts together.
They were believed to share what’s been described as a ‘cult-like’ belief system, with Daybell claiming he tell if people were ‘light or dark’, and whether they’d made ‘a contract with God or Satan’.
In addition, they believed in ‘zombies’, which they thought of as bodies which had been possessed by evil spirits.
By 2019, Charles Vallow had become concerned for his own safety, and the safety of his children, and filed for divorce from his wife, who ended up moving closer to closer to Chad Daybell in Idaho in September of that year.
That month, her daughter Tylee Ryan, who Vallow is said to have described as a ‘zombie’, went missing. Days later her son JJ Vallow also disappeared.
Lori’s doomsday ideologies appeared to have influenced her actions. She picked up her core beliefs from her fifth husband, Chad, who believed he could ‘distinguish evil spirits from good spirits’
Colby Ryan, Lori’s oldest son, and her only surviving child, plays a key role in the documentary, which seeks to unravel the complicated story
Lori Vallow’s husband Charles and Chad’s wife, Tammy Daybell, died under mysterious circumstances around the same time the children went missing.
Tammy died in October 2019, two weeks before Lori Vallow and Daybell secretly married in Hawaii. The couple have been charged with her death.
Lori is charged with conspiring to kill her former estranged husband, Charles Vallow, with the help of her now-deceased brother, Alex Cox.
According to Colby, after his two younger siblings vanished in September 2019, his mother refused to tell him what happened to them.
But their remains were found in their stepfather’s backyard in shallow graves in 2020.
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Earlier this month, Vallow was in court for a procedural hearing ahead of her capital murder trial. She refused to enter a plea on the murder charges so a judge entered a not guilty plea on her behalf.
Meanwhile Chad Daybell has plead not guilty, and his children have claimed he has been framed for the murders.
Both may face the death penalty if found guilty of the murders.
Sins of Our Mother will be available to stream on Netflix in the UK from September 14.
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