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When the Moon Turns to Blood
When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times | Leah Sottile
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WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious deaths surrounding former beauty queen Lori Vallow and her husband, grave digger turned doomsday novelist, Chad Daybell. When police in Rexburg, Idaho perform a wellness check on seven J.J. Vallow and his sister, sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan, both children are nowhere to be found. Their mother, Lori Vallow, gives a phony explanation, and when officers return the following day with a search warrant, she, too, is gone. As the police begin to close in, a larger web of mystery, murder, fanaticism and deceit begins to unravel. Vallow’s case is sinuously complex. As investigators prod further, they find the accused Black Widow has an unusual number of bodies piling up around her. WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD tells a gripping story of extreme beliefs, snake oil prophets, and explores the question: if it feels like the world is ending, how are people supposed to act?
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True crime. This is an up to the minute account of the case of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, two Mormon fringe extremists who killed her two kids, her husband and his wife. It all began with Chad‘s supposed near death experience followed by his insipid books making him a prepper favorite. He had his own little cult going. It‘s a story that will anger you and appall you. It‘s also the kind of story that‘s common in the Mormon church.

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🎧 1:40:25/8:58:02 (16%)

If I could describe this title... at the moment... in five words, they would be: twisted religious beliefs, blood atonement.

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Christine Oh wow - I feel like I have watched several Dateline episodes about these two. 2y
Librariana @Christine - And I can't say I've watched a single one, but there was quite a bit of news coverage about them here in the PNW at the time of the children's presumed disappearance. The author is going more in depth into the history of LDS at this spot in the book... its fringe groups and some of their more anti-government ideologies... how those have sometimes influenced and are connected to past crimes in the US like Manson, McVeigh, etc. 2y
Christine That‘s definitely the most interesting part of the story to me - sounds like this book is going well beyond the sensationalist aspects (there are so many to choose from!). 2y
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