Chad Daybell’s Love Letters to Tammy EXPOSED: Fiction or Reality?
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski and the crew unpack Letter Two from Chad Daybell’s prison writings, where he devotes the entire entry to Tammy Daybell — the wife he was later convicted of conspiring to kill.
Chad paints a glowing portrait of their early romance, marriage, and family life. He gushes over their first meeting, the Oingo Boingo and B-52s concerts they attended, and the book company they built together. He describes Tammy as vibrant, kind, and angelic — almost saintlike in his retelling.
But the irony is suffocating: this is the same man convicted of orchestrating Tammy’s murder, burying children in his backyard, and plotting alongside Lori Vallow in one of the most infamous cult-driven cases in American true crime.
The hosts break down the surreal contradictions. How does a man convicted of family annihilation manage to write love letters that sound like Hallmark scripts? How does nostalgia about “family dance parties” ring when you know what he really did?
With sharp banter and biting analysis, this segment reveals the psychological gymnastics of a killer desperate to rewrite his own history. It’s unsettling, absurd, and a darkly fascinating glimpse into how Chad Daybell sees himself — and how far he’ll go to manipulate even from death row.
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| 0:00.0 | A Better Help ad. |
| 0:02.3 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with Better Help to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:07.6 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:13.0 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:17.4 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel |
| 0:21.3 | good. Because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:25.6 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:29.5 | A better help ad. |
| 0:31.5 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:36.8 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:42.2 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:46.6 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:51.0 | I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:54.9 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:58.5 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 1:06.4 | Let's get the letter number two queued up. And we will go to the second chapter. |
| 1:14.0 | Sometimes the second episode is better than the pilot. |
| 1:17.4 | Here's Chad Daybell. |
| 1:18.9 | Again, this one's about 14 minutes, and we'll listen through it. |
| 1:22.2 | Chad Daybell, Letter number two. |
| 1:24.6 | This letter is devoted to Tammy. |
| 1:26.7 | I loved her, and I still do. She was my love partner and the mother of |
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