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During Lori Vallow Daybell’s first-ever onscreen interview, the “doomsday mom” convicted in the murders of her two kids Joshua and Tylee, the 51-year-old said she expects to be exonerated someday.
Lori Vallow Daybell, Convicted of Murdering Her Kids, Breaks Silence in First-Ever Media Interview
Lori Vallow Daybell has her eyes set on her future.
Nearly two years after the 51-year-old was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2018 murders of her kids Joshua "JJ" Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16—as well as conspiring to murder her current husband Chad Daybell's first wife Tamara "Tammy" Daybell—she revealed in her first onscreen interview that she doesn't expect to stay behind bars forever.
"We will both be exonerated in the future," Lori said of her and Chad—who was convicted in a separate trial on all charges for the three murders in 2024 and sentenced to death—told NBC Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison in an interview that aired March 7. "The same way I will be exonerated."
"After I get exonerated, maybe I'll go on Dancing With the Stars," she continued, "and you can come."
As for how Lori—who also pleaded not guilty to conspiring to murder her late fourth husband Charles Vallow with her now-deceased brother Alex Cox in an upcoming Arizona trial—is so confident about the outcome?
"I have seen things in the future that Jesus showed me when I was in heaven," she said. "We were not in jail, and we were not in prison, and they were still in the
future, from now."
A doomsday-focused religion, of which Lori and Chad were both devotees, had been a driving factor in Lori and Chad's life, with Lori telling Keith that when she met Chad in 2018, "the veil" between heaven and Earth opened and she knew that they had known each other for "eternity."
She also denied being present when Tylee, JJ and Tammy were murdered. Investigators have said they believe her brother Alex, who died of a pulmonary embolism in 2019, was the one who did the killings with alleged orders from Lori and Chad.
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Despite being found guilty on charges of the three killings, Lori—whose trial for Charles' death will begin jury selection March 31—denied any wrongdoing in the murders and instead felt "misunderstood" regarding her circumstances.
"How do you know anything about them?" she asked Keith. "How do you know anything about their life? About how it really is?"
She also slammed the media's portrayal of her throughout the trial—where she was found guilty to commit first-degree murder and grand theft by deception in the killings of her two children—that captivated the public.
"We all know what the media does," Lori, also mom to adult son Colby Ryan, said. "They exaggerate everything and they make stuff up and they twist things around. So, I don't know how it became what it is today. It's amazing to me."
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