This Grave Digger and Prepper Is Now a Man Accused of Murder

Yahoo! News ^ | Sun, March 31, 2024

[nickcarraway]

Lori Vallow packed her bags for a weekend trip to St. George, Utah, in late October 2018. She and a few friends were traveling north from Arizona to attend a weekend preppers conference held at a local high school.

At the time, Vallow was married to her fourth husband and had two children and adopted another. But that didn’t stop her from catching the eye of the author and seminar speaker she was here to see. Chad Daybell had already built a reputation, the former Utahn whose apparent near-death experiences had prompted his foray into the world of preppers — those preparing for catastrophe, if not the many end-of-days scenarios that fill the internet. By this time Daybell was known in his field as an author with apocalyptic stories to tell. One of his early books published in 2001 titled, “One Foot in the Grave,” is described as “a collection of true graveyard stories” from his time working as a sexton — a fancy word for gravedigger, among other things.

Vallow was attracted to the world of preppers, as she read some of Daybell’s doomsday-themed books, including a series about the end of the world. It brought an instant connection on that fall weekend in St. George.

[wardaddy]

Strange case

[Lean-Right]

Been to St. George.
Beautiful Mormon territory.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Guilty.

[riverrunner]

Wow

[quilterdebbie]

He and Lori are evil. I believe he did it.

[Qiviut]

Chad killed wife Tammy. Lori’s brother Alex likely killed the kids for Lori & Chad & buried them on Chad’s property. He also shot & killed Lori’s 4th husband, Charles Vallow, claiming self defense - shooting later declared a homicide. Alex is deceased - ‘natural causes’. He was beginning to suspect he was the ‘fall guy’ for Lori & Chad when he died.

[utax]

Chad Dumbbell - kid killer. Was she worth it???

[sergeantdave]

And God sent a multi-generational horde of hippies and survivalists to punish His wayward flock.