Imagine a doomsday power couple so committed to the apocalypse that they decided to speed up the guest list. Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell—an Idaho‑Hawaii romance built on fringe prophecies, zombie talk, and enough red flags to start their own parade—left a trail of suspicious deaths, missing children, and baffled investigators in their wake.

Lori, later dubbed “Doomsday Mom,” embraced Chad’s end‑times visions and self‑appointed spiritual rankings, convincing herself that inconvenient family members were possessed or “dark spirits.” According to investigators, this belief system—plus a dash of insurance money and an extramarital affair—fueled a series of murders spanning Arizona to Idaho, including Lori’s children, Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, whose remains were found buried on Chad’s property in 2020.

The saga only grew stranger: Lori’s estranged husband Charles was shot by her brother Alex Cox; Chad’s wife Tammy died under suspicious circumstances; and the couple fled to Hawaii while police searched for the missing kids. Their apocalyptic love story ended not with the end of the world, but with guilty verdicts, life sentences, and appeals arguing everything from legal errors to constitutional violations.

Intro Audio: Gavin Prater

Outro Audio: Jason Poe