A devout mother who believed in dark spirits and zombies, she was charged with conspiracy to kill her two children and her ex-husband. Three years after her arrest, she's now under trial.
This is the unbelievable story of the "Doomsday Mom."
This is the unbelievable story of the "Doomsday Mom."
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00:00Now to the growing mystery around a brother and sister who appear to have vanished.
00:04How does she pose a threat to your children?
00:06I don't know, she's gonna flee with them? She's gonna hurt them?
00:08Rexburg police say human remains have been discovered on Chad Daybell's property.
00:30Lori Ryan from Austin, Texas, a hairstylist in Austin.
00:33That's right, the best.
00:34How is the hair in Austin?
00:36It's good.
00:36Good.
00:37Austin's a happening place.
00:38Probably thanks to you.
00:39Pretty much.
00:46Honestly, Lori and Charles looked like they had the ideal marriage.
01:00JJ loved Tylee and listened to what Tylee said.
01:05Are you taking a video of my child?
01:08Your child?
01:18Chad Daybell believes there will be an apocalypse,
01:22the people that are righteous survive, and that he can distinguish evil spirits from good spirits.
01:30Chad believed in light spirits and dark spirits and was
01:41efforting to find 144,000 sort of chosen people who would survive the apocalypse and go to the
01:49new Jerusalem. And I think there's many of his beliefs that are founded in Christianity,
01:56founded in the LDS faith, that he then sort of just elaborated on.
02:10I think when she met him, she was a woman seeking greatness and seeking something
02:17higher than who she was and what she was. And I think that woman at that place in time
02:24found this man and from things that he said to her, felt that he could give her that.
02:37I can't get in touch with my kids.
02:40She's lost her mind. I don't know how else to say it. We're LDS.
02:46She thinks she's a resurrected being and a god. And remember the 144,000,
02:54Jesus is coming next year. She took all the money out of her bank account today.
02:58My truck has gone from the airport. She went to the airport and got it.
03:01So what makes her a danger to herself and to others?
03:04She threatened me, murder me, kill me. She said, you're not Charles. I don't know who
03:08you are, what you did with Charles, but I can murder you now with my powers.
03:16You came at me with a bat.
03:18Was he living here or visiting?
03:20He came to pick up his son.
03:21I didn't see the shot. I heard it. And then I came back around and I saw that he was on the ground
03:26and was freaking out too.
03:28I think Lori's greatest weapon was her lies. And they came so easily out of her mouth. I mean,
03:36almost to the point of like being completely
03:40ludicrous. She would lie about things like lying to Colby about how Charles had died initially.
03:46She told him they had that Charles had had a heart attack
03:49when clearly it's going to come out in the news.
04:16Is JJ safe?
04:29He is safe and happy.
04:41The more we looked into it, the more it became apparent that we needed to take a second look.
04:47Can you tell me where your kids are?
04:57Where are your kids?
04:59No comment. They've been missing for four months. You have nothing to say?
05:03You're over here in Hawaii?
05:06The
05:16children are still missing and the defendant has completely and utterly refused to aid in
05:21any attempts to find the children even before charges were filed.
05:25Tonight, a nationwide search for two missing children has come to a gruesome end. Family
05:36members confirmed that the remains found on Chad Daybell's rural property in Idaho
05:41are the bodies of his stepchildren.
05:43That's really the saddest part of the story. And I think it's
05:46sometimes easy to lose track that two beautiful, bright, talented young children lost their lives.
05:55Chad Daybell was also indicted on two counts of insurance fraud related to life insurance
06:08policies he had on Tammy Daybell, for which he was the beneficiary and received funds after her death.
06:19People were always either darker zombies or turned into zombies. And I was like,
06:23why are all these people in your life turned into zombies?
06:26And what happens to zombies?
06:28Seems like they are dying.
06:39She was so skilled at lying and so skilled at maybe telling the lies that were close
06:44enough to the truth that she was able to sort of control them. But it just gets to
06:47a point where you just you're gonna get caught. And she did.
06:54Did Lori ever indicate anything about having a special mission here on Earth?
07:02She felt that she was part of the 144,000. She felt like they were the head leaders of it.