Episode Details

Every case has a before. In the Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell case, the before is where the warning signs are hiding in plain sight.

Part 1 of our docu-series starts with a tape. In October 2018, Lori Vallow sat in an Arizona living room and told her friends she had once planned to murder a man. She never said his name. Her third husband, Joseph Ryan, had died that April. Officially, it was heart disease. Unofficially, it is the first question mark in a story that would soon be full of them.

From there, Tony Brueski walks through Lori's life the way the record lays it out: the pageant stage, the game show, the marriages, the custody accusations a judge never sustained, and the day her brother Alex Cox was waiting in a parking lot for Joseph Ryan with a stun gun. Then Charles Vallow arrives, and with him JJ, a little boy his grandmother Kay Woodcock adored.

And then there's Chad Daybell. A gravedigger turned sexton turned end-times novelist who claimed near-death experiences, visions, and a prompting to move to Idaho. His wife Tammy built the business that made him a name. Friends and family pushed back as his ideas grew darker. Tammy, by every account, said nothing and kept the family going.

Part 1 ends the night before they meet. Everything after that night is the rest of the series.

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