Big Breakdown - Lori Vallow & Chad Daybell's LOVE LETTERS EXPOSED!
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Big Breakdown - Lori Vallow & Chad Daybell's LOVE LETTERS EXPOSED!
Just when you thought the Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow case couldn’t get any stranger, it does.
In this Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels, we dive into the disturbing new prison writings being released by convicted killer Chad Daybell — the same man sentenced to death for murdering his wife Tammy Daybell and conspiring with Lori Vallow in the killings of her children Tylee and JJ.
Now from prison, Daybell is sending out letters that read like a twisted mix of Harlequin romance, religious prophecy, and cringe-inducing erotic fiction. In one infamous “love letter” to Lori — disguised through characters named James and Elena — Chad writes about their supposed eternal bond, their past lives alongside Jesus Christ, and a sexual “scientific phenomenon” he dubs “loin fire.” Yes, loin fire.
The Hidden Killers team reads through these jaw-dropping passages, pausing to analyze how Daybell uses language to manipulate, justify, and romanticize a relationship that ultimately fueled murder. Why does he constantly insist they were married in past lives? Was this repetition a psychological tactic to control Lori? Or was he simply feeding his own delusion while trying to make their crimes feel “ordained”?
Beyond the infamous letter, Daybell’s prison correspondence includes reflections on his Mormon mission, his excommunication from the LDS Church, and even his love for Whitney Houston’s “So Emotional” — which he bizarrely describes as a “sacred hymn.”
It’s part delusion, part manipulation, and part window into a man who continues to craft his own narrative even behind bars.
From loin fire to eternal sealing ceremonies, this episode isn’t just about shock value — it’s about understanding how people like Chad Daybell wrap destructive obsessions in layers of religion, romance, and fantasy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the big breakdown. |
| 0:02.2 | A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden |
| 0:05.9 | Killers podcast and True Crime Today. |
| 0:09.5 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Burski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:18.6 | Well, good morning, America. |
| 0:21.1 | We got some more interesting things to report to you today about Chad Daybell and Lori Valo. |
| 0:28.2 | I know, I mean, they're both in prison for the rest of their lives. |
| 0:31.6 | But the new events, Chad's letters, we're going to get to some of Chad's letters. |
| 0:38.1 | We have letter four, letter five. |
| 0:39.9 | And if we're lucky, there might be a six and seven coming soon. |
| 0:43.7 | They said that he was going to be dropping new ones every single week on certain days of the week. |
| 0:50.0 | We'll see if we get new ones as he slowly divulges his version of the story. And it is kind of fascinating. And that's when we're like, why are you giving it credence? I don't know because it's a crazy story. And trying to get behind the minds of some of these people is what I find really fascinating. So that's coming up. Also, Bob Mata going to be joining us in the second hour. |
| 1:17.1 | We're going to be talking about the Aaron Spencer case. That's the father whose daughter was essayed by a horrible, horrible predator, who then got parole, showed up at his house, kidnapped his daughter in the middle of the night. |
| 1:30.5 | Aaron realizes his daughter's gone, goes out, finds him, and shoots him. |
| 1:36.7 | He has to literally run this guy off the road. |
| 1:40.0 | And in an act of self-defense, and well, because you kidnap my daughter, he shot him. |
| 1:44.6 | And now Aaron Spencer is being brought up on murder charges insane Bob has some things to say about that so do |
| 1:50.9 | we will have all that coming up so be sure to hit subscribe and stick around for it but first |
| 1:56.1 | Todd Stacy are you guys are you guys prepared I guess for this know, I think, Stacy, you've heard of this. |
| 2:04.5 | You've heard the letter. We've talked about the letter before. Yes. But never quite like this. |
| 2:10.1 | I am so stoked. I actually, I have a little quiz that we can play later on. |
| 2:14.5 | Oh, yes. I've got a couple of questions that we can just do a little, is it, is it Chad Daybill or |
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