Preparing a People Cult: Vallow & Daybell Trials
Children and ex-spouses dead and murder trial of Vallow proceeds in Idaho, USA
According to Elisha Fieldstadt at NBCnews.com the female half of this cult couple Lori Vallow is the Idaho woman charged with murder in the deaths of her two children. She pleaded not guilty last Tuesday. Vallow entered the plea at her arraignment at the Fremont County Courthouse, about 40 miles north of Idaho Falls.
Charges were read and not guilty pleas were entered on her behalf by attorney Boyce, KTVB reported. Vallow spent a year in a mental hospital after being declared mentally unfit to stand trial. Recently restored to competency "fit to proceed" the trial is beginning.
About the kids. According to NBC Tylee was last seen on Sept. 8, 2019. Police were able to find a photo from that day of Tylee on a trip to Yellowstone National Park with Vallow, Vallow’s brother Alex Cox and Joshua, according to authorities. Joshua, who had special needs, was last seen alive on Sept. 23, 2019, at Kennedy Elementary School in Rexburg. When police went to Vallow’s home to conduct a welfare check at the prompting of his grandmother that November, Joshua was nowhere to be found.
More bodies besides the kids have turned up in this bizarre affair. The couple married immediately following Daybell's first wife turning up dead in her home in 2019. She was a mere 49 years old. After her body was exhumed the coroner changed the cause of death to murder from natural causes.
More bodies still were found. Vallow’s ex-husband (number four) Charles Vallow turned up in 2019 too. He was shot by Vallow's brother in Arizona, at that time deemed self-defense by Cox, Vallow's brother. But the death was ruled a homicide. The man was filing for divorce from Vallow as he died.
On his divorce filing he wrote that his wife "believed she was reincarnated and was a god sent to lead people during the second coming of Jesus in 2020... if he got in her way she would kill him". Turns out her brother did it instead
The NY Post by Emily Crane wrote that Vallow faces numerous charges. Vallow and Daybell have "bizarre beliefs of doomsday predictions and zombies". The couple started preaching these things while still married to their other spouses in 2018. Amidst all the deaths, they were found in Hawaii minus the kids, authorities offered. It astounds me to no end what people do in the name of God.
Via Insider.com we can get a glimpse of what their brand of kooky beliefs were. Preparing a People via their website states they aimed to "prepare the people of this earth for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ." Color My Media which helped previously has distanced themselves from the crazy cult couple in the wake of the body pile.
The website clarified they are a multimedia company that put on Preparing a People which they define as a "series of lecture events focusing on self-reliance and personal preparation."
Websites are still up where they formed a blog and a podcast though the content is scarce.
We all await the beginnings of the Vallow trial and more news on Daybell is yet to come. I will report more as it comes to light here on this channel, so take a moment to subscribe for free.