Murder, Faith & End Times: Leah Sottile on Lori Vallow & Chad Daybell

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. If you still manage to read the news, good job. You’ve then no doubt heard that “Doomsday Mom” Lori Vallow is currently on trial for the deaths of her 16-year-old daughter Tylee and seven-year-old son J.J. The court proceedings, which are expected to last about 10 weeks, will hopefully bring an end to this harrowing yet enthralling story, which turned 49-year-old mom and Christian extremist Lori Vallow into an international media fixture, seemingly entangled in a web of infanticide, zombies, escapes to Hawaii, and a trail of mysterious deaths that remain suspicious as hell. On today’s episode, we’re joined by freelance journalist and author Leah Sottile, whose book When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Faith, and End Times, illuminates the story of the former beauty queen and her grave-digger turned doomsday novelist slash extremist douchebag husband, Chad. Take a listen to learn more as Sottile breaks the case down, explaining how Vallow’s tale is just symptomatic of something larger. Leah's Twitter Leah's Website Please note, this series includes details of sexual abuse. Listener discretion is strongly advised. If you, or someone who know, is a survivor of sexual assault, abuse, grooming, child abuse, or human trafficking, RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers support at 800.656.HOPE (4673). Also… Hear Ye, Hear Ye: The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad. Other Links: Check out our lovely sponsors Join ‘A Little Bit Culty’ on Patreon Get poppin’ fresh ALBC Swag Support the pod and smash this link Cult awareness and recovery resources CREDITS: Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames Production Partner: Citizens of Sound Producer: Will Retherford Senior Producer: Jess Tardy Writer: Holly Zadra Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts,
0:03.6	and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:07.8	That's true.
0:08.5	Any of the fire content provided by our guest bloggers, sponsors, or authors are of their opinion,
0:13.6	and are not intended to malign any religion group, club, organization, business individual,
0:18.2	anyone, or anything.
0:19.3	Unless you're abusing people, then I have a problem aligning you.
0:22.6	Also, we're not doctors, psychologists, or wizards.
0:25.8	We're just two non-experts trying to make you a friendly, informative podcast that helps you
0:30.2	understand culty shit.
0:40.6	Hey everybody, Sarah Edmondson here.
0:43.0	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippie, Sarah's husband, and you're listening to a little bit culty.
0:49.4	aka a lbc.
0:51.1	A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side.
0:54.4	We've been there, and back again, a little about us.
0:57.2	True story, we met, and fell in love, in a cult, and then we woke up and got the hell out of dodge.
1:02.9	And the whole thing was captured in the HBO documentary series The Vow,
1:06.6	now in its second season.
1:08.2	I also wrote about our experience in my memoir, SCART,
1:11.2	the true story of how I escaped next year, the cult that bound my life.
1:15.1	Look at us, couple of married podcasters who just happened to have a weekly date night.
1:19.6	Where we interview experts and advocates and things like cult awareness and mind control.
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