Idaho “doomsday” mom Lori Vallow believes she and her murderous husband will be cleared and freed from prison — because “Jesus showed” her so, she said in her first interview since being convicted of killing her two youngest children.
“We will both be exonerated in the future,” Vallow insisted in a preview clip of a “Dateline” episode slated to air Friday at 9 p.m. EST.
“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,” she said, while wearing an orange prison jumpsuit with her hands cuffed in her lap.
It’s the first time Vallow has given an interview since she was sentenced to life in prison in May 2023 for murdering two of her kids — Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16 — and her 56-year-old husband Chad Daybell’s wife, Tammy, in 2019 as part of a twisted plot to get married and make off with insurance money.
“You’re the most hated mom in America,” “Dateline” correspondent Keith Morrison told Vallow in a preview for the interview, to which she responded that she was going to reveal what really happened to her family.
“You’ve got a lot of stuff, Keith, but what I tell you will be the truth,” she vowed.
Vallow’s explanation of the truth has been persistently zany — including claims that 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.”
Her tall tales — and career writing self-published apocalyptic novels that expanded the fantasy world around her family’s death — earned her the nickname “Doomsday Mom.”
In reality, though, Idaho jurors ruled Vallow and Daybell decided to murder their family so they could run off together.
Indeed, just two weeks after Daybell’s wife Tammy was suffocated to death, the lovebirds were married.
About a year later, the bodies of Vallow’s children were found in Daybell’s yard.
Vallow’s prior husband, Charles, was shot to death in 2019 by her brother Alex Cox.
Cox has since died of natural causes, but Vallow is going to trial in Arizona at the end of March for charges of conspiring to kill her former husband.
Daybell was sentenced to death after his 2023 conviction.
Dateline also spoke with Vallow’s surviving son, 29-year-old Colby Ryan.
“I always was a positive, see the best in people kind of person. And then I watched someone I knew my entire life do what she did, and it just changed the way I view people,” Ryan said.
“The way that my sister was treated, was with hate. That’s not even human to do what they did to her,” he added.
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