Lauren Lee Smith (pictured at top and below left) stars as Vallow, a devout Christian who - after discovering the writings of Chad Daybell ( Marc Blucas) and then meeting him at a book signing - becomes convinced (at Daybell's suggestion) that dark forces have inhabited those closest to her with the intent of destroying her. Based on a true-crime story, the film is a dark tale of a mother's obsession with religion, the rapture and the afterlife - one that leaves a string of bodies in its wake and really should be viewed to be believed. This episode has everything: an orgy at the Papal Palace where they threw chestnuts all over the place like a horny game of Boar on the Floor baroque methods of poisoning, including a key covered in tiny spikes, a fancy ring shaped like a lion with fangs that punctured the skin, and poisoned ladies’ gloves truly hair-raising methods of increasing fertility and powerful women who may or may not have been as bad as they’ve been portrayed by the history books and media.Lifetime's ripped from the headlines, month-long Summer of Secrets programming event culminates this weekend with the premiere of Doomsday Mom: The Lori Vallow Story.
Both families’ histories are absolutely riddled with royal intrigue, sexy scandals, and poisonous plots, giving our hosts plenty to sink their teeth into as they imbibe colorful cocktails made with blue Curaçao, a nod to the blue-blooded subjects. They go long on this episode about two of the most powerful and infamous dynasties in European history, the Borgias and the Medicis.
Hosts Nick and Sinead are two British history buffs who pair fancy cocktails with old-timey-wimey poisoning crimes for a delightfully macabre treat. The Poisoners’ Cabinet, which celebrates its one-year anniversary with this season finale, is the kind of podcast that I keep in my back pocket and binge when I want something a bit lighter than usual it’s more like a British murder mystery you’d find on AcornTV than the latest straight-from-the-headlines special on Oxygen. (This scenario did not include accommodations for their spouses, Charles Vallow and Tammy Daybell.) Things get creepy quickly, and we hear about it directly from those who knew Lori and Chad in interviews conducted by Morrison and relayed in mesmerizing, disturbing detail. Daybell and Vallow quickly became close and began to plot out a new reality - a community of fellow believers located in Rexsburg, Idaho. THE sister of cult mom Lori Vallow died young of unknown causes. The second episode cracks open the specifics of Vallow’s religious beliefs and the person who exposed her to them - Chad Daybell, the leader of a group obsessed with the end times and who believed he’d had 31 previous lives. Doomsday Mom: The Lori Vallows Story is a documentary that revolves around Lori. Yet, in a new podcast hosted by Keith Morrison and produced by Dateline and NBC News in partnership with Neon Hum, we get a closer look at how this all played out.
We also know about the other deaths that took place in Lori’s orbit (including that of her former husband) and the connection she had to a doomsday cult. By now, we know the fate of Lori Vallow’s two children, JJ, 11, and Tylee, 17, who went missing in September 2019.
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