Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
She's Gonna Save The World From Zombies - The Lori Vallow story
Tue, 04 Feb 2025
This is the story of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell
Chapter 1: What is Lori Vallow's connection to the apocalypse narrative?
So the apocalypse is coming and the world is going to end, right? And this woman believes she can save us all by unaliving all the zombies? Now, her name is Lori and Lori's a normal housewife living in Arizona. And one day she discovers a series of novels. And these novels are all about the coming apocalypse and how to survive the end of the world.
And Lori is very religious and she's reading these books and she really connects with them. And as she becomes more and more obsessed with the books, she starts spending less and less time with her kids. And eventually she decides to travel from Arizona to Utah to a convention where the author of these novels is going to speak because she wants to meet him.
So the author is this guy, Chad Daybell. And Laurie gets to meet Chad Daybell, and she's all excited, and she tells him how much his books have changed her life. And these two really hit it off. And they start flirting a little, and Chad Daybell tells her they've been married in previous lifetimes. Which, I gotta say, that is one hell of a pickup line.
So eventually, the convention ends, and they go their separate ways. But Lori and Chad decide to stay in touch, and they chat often. And he has her as a guest on his podcast, Long Distance. And they, of course, often talk about how to prepare your soul for the upcoming apocalypse. Now, because of the popularity of his beliefs, Chad Daybell does have a bit of a religious following.
His beliefs are sort of an extreme denomination of Mormonism, which some people describe as a doomsday cult. And the more Lori interacts with Chad Daybell and the more she buys into his doomsday teachings, the more her personality starts to change. And she starts saying crazy things to her friends and family. Like that she's a divine goddess. That she has supernatural powers.
That she's been reincarnated many, many times. That she is one of only 144,000 people who will actually be saved when the world ends. But most importantly, she starts talking about zombies. And not your walking dead, eat your brains type zombies. She and Chad Daybell believe that zombies are a normal person whose soul has been possessed by an evil demon. That's what they refer to as a zombie.
And they think there are zombies all around them, hidden in plain sight. Now, Lori actually has a husband, who we'll just call husband. And at this point in her life, husband is seeing all these changes in her, and he's he's starting to get worried because she's been referring to herself as a goddess and talking about zombies and all kinds of crazy .
But then one day everything changes for husband because Lori comes to him and she tells him that she no longer cares about him. And then after that, she just disappears. She steals his truck and she withdraws $35,000 from their joint bank account and she just bounces. And then two months go by and she's still gone and no one knows where she is.
But as you could have guessed, everyone suspects that she went to Idaho where Chad Daybell lives to be with him. So after two months of being gone, one day she suddenly returns. And of course, she and husband immediately start getting into arguments about all this. And she starts insisting that he is possessed by an evil demon. An evil demon named Ned Schneider.
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Chapter 2: How did Lori Vallow meet Chad Daybell?
Meanwhile, police are like, you know, maybe these missing kids are somehow related to Chad's former wife's sudden death from cardiac arrest. So they go and they dig up Chad's former wife's body to see if she actually died from cardiac arrest. And they autopsy her and guess what they find? No, she didn't die from cardiac arrest. She was actually asphyxiated, meaning someone suffocated her.
So police, they contact Lori and they're like, all right, lady, we're tired of your excuses. You have five days to physically produce your missing kids or you're under arrest. And of course, Lori doesn't produce them. She can't. And three weeks later, bam, they arrest Lori and they charge her with abandonment. Here's her mugshot.
And while Lori's in jail, police get a warrant and they search Chad Daybell's backyard at his previous house back in Idaho. And they start digging around in that yard and there, buried, they find the remains of both of Lori's kids. And sadly, it is theorized that Lori and Chad beat and strangled them to death.
Apparently, Lori and Chad thought her two kids had become zombies, and that the only way to save their souls was to get rid of them before the apocalypse happens. So then, of course, kapow! Police arrest Chad. Here's his mugshot. And they charge him and Lori both with first-degree murder for unaliving the kids.
They also charge Chad with unaliving his wife, and they charge Lori with conspiring to unalive her former husband. Then they go to trial and she's found guilty for everything. And he is also found guilty for everything. And Laurie is sentenced to life in prison while Chad is sentenced to death.
While Laurie's brother Alex, who was also involved in all this, he didn't get charged with anything because he died from blood clots before any of them got arrested, which is very suspicious timing. Oh, and also the apocalypse never happened.
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