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CHAD DAYBELL TRIAL: Uncovering Chad's Belief System with historian Barbara Jones Brown

Hidden True Crime

Hidden True Crime

Society & Culture, Documentary, News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Join Hidden True Crime as we follow the Chad Daybell's trial beginning to end. Host Lauren Matthias is in the courtroom every day, doing lunch lives on YouTube and summarizing each day and week right here on Hidden: A True Crime Podcast. Barbara Jones Brown is the co-author of Vengeance Is Mine, The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath (Oxford University Press, 2023), about the most notorious crime in Mormon history near today's St. George, Utah. In 1857, a group of Mormon settlers massacred more than 100 men, women, and children in a California-bound wagon train: BOOK LINK Brown is the director of Signature Books, an indie publisher in Salt Lake City, Utah, which publishes thoroughly-researched books on Utah, Mormon, and Western American History. Previously she was the executive director of the Mormon History Association and historical director of Better Days 2020. Brown holds a Master’s degree in American history from the University of Utah and a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Brigham Young University. LAUREN MATTHIAS was a television reporter for a decade, and has followed the Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell case since 2019. Lauren and her husband John Matthias, a criminal psychologist, started Hidden True Crime in 2020 with their Season: 'Beyond the Veil' a psychological deep dive into the doomsday murders and prophet.  A podcast that started at their dinner table has now turned into the dynamic husband and wife duo of Dr. John Matthias, a forensic psychologist, and Lauren Matthias, an investigative journalist, delving into the psychological facets of unthinkable crimes every week. Thank you for your support through sponsorships, subscribing, listening, and becoming at Patreon member at Patreon.com/HiddenTrueCrime Our Sponsors:* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/HIDDENTRUECRIME* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/HIDDENTRUECRIME* Check out Armoire and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://www.armoire.style* Check out Effecty and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://www.effecty.com* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/hidden-a-true-crime-podcast1836/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Hidden Gems. Thank you for joining me tonight. And Barbara Jones Brown, she is a historian and author, a publisher, a writer writer she is many things I can't wait to introduce

0:17.6

her to all of you tonight it's going to be an incredible show I am going live Boise, Idaho where I've been attending every day

0:25.7

of the Chad Daybell trial. Follow me on Hidden True Crime on this podcast as I cover the trial.

0:33.3

I'll be going live every day at lunch,

0:35.4

and we're doing a lot of members only lives.

0:37.1

And I just want to thank all of you again

0:38.7

for your support while we are here.

0:40.8

And I want to thank Barbara for her support too.

0:43.0

She has been someone that I have been talking to.

0:45.0

Like I said, I am so excited to introduce her to all of you tonight.

0:50.0

Let me read to you a little bit about Barbara. She is the co-author of Vengeance

0:57.1

Is Mind, The Mountain Meadows Massacre, and its aftermath by Oxford University Press, 2023 book, recent publication, the link

1:06.3

to that is in the description of this video and if there are any mods here tonight

1:10.9

please share this book one thing we can definitely do to support

1:14.3

Barbara as well and her time tonight is to is to purchase this book and to support

1:19.8

her incredible work and research which you're going to learn a little bit more about tonight.

1:24.6

She, so what the Mountain Meadows Massacre is about, it's a notorious crime.

1:30.5

In Mormon history, it actually happened near St. George Utah we know that because of

1:35.8

Jody Hildebrandt Ruby Frankie and also the place where

1:39.8

Lori Valo and Chad de Valmette, that's St George Utah, a small southern Utah town, and this happened there as well, but it was actually in 1857.

1:49.7

And it was a group of Mormon settlers who massacred more than 100 men, women, and children.

1:54.7

It's a heartbreaking crime. We're going to learn a little bit more about it tonight.

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