Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Lori Vallow Daybell, convicted of murdering two of her children, sits down with Keith Morrison for her first TV interview; Lead detectives speak out exclusively about the investigation. Listen to ‘Mommy Doomsday,’ Keith’s original podcast on the case: Apple: https://apple.co/3FkEJ1p Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6O1U4NMmvQbvrbnBayyomu Keith Morrison and Andrea Canning go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’ Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/41J7PyX Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xAX9A5IItoFQNAmLIdzOu In Dateline’s After the Verdict series, Keith Morrison catches up with Colby Ryan, son of Lori Vallow Daybell, in front of a live audience in Nashville. Their conversation revisits the events that changed Colby’s life and explores how he has found strength and purpose in the aftermath. After the Verdict is available exclusively to Dateline Premium subscribers: https://dateline.supportingcast.fm/listen/dateline-nbc-premium/after-the-verdict-picking-up-the-pieces

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.0	You've been known as the doomsday mom.
0:04.0	Good one, Keith.
0:05.0	Most hated mom in America.
0:07.0	I heard that.
0:08.0	I thought we were going to be friends.
0:09.0	Well, you.
0:10.0	I'm friends with everybody.
0:12.0	I love everybody.
0:13.0	She's the notorious mother tangled in a dark web of murder.
0:18.0	Lori Vallow Daybell.
0:20.0	It's mind-blowing. The media loves to take tragedies and turn them into crimes.
0:24.5	Children, spouses, gone. So tell me what happened to Tiley and JJ. Did you kill them? Is that where
0:31.7	you're going? Now, the first television interview ever. I'm asking you a question. Did you watch your children die?
0:40.3	That's a really sad question.
0:41.3	That's my mom, you know?
0:43.3	My siblings are gone.
0:45.3	If she would ever tell anybody the truth, you'd think it would be you.
0:48.3	That's what she said.
0:49.3	She is calculated.
0:51.3	You did not kill a soul.
0:52.3	Absolutely not.
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