LORI Vallow’s brother claims she believed she had “spoken to Jesus” and told him that she “would never die”.
Adam Cox revealed there was “nothing odd” while the pair were growing up in southern California, but admitted he noticed an “unsettling shift” in her behavior – months before Vallow’s kids vanished in September 2019.
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In an exclusive ABC 20/20 interview, Adam claimed she would tell him that she’s spoken to Jesus face-to-face.
He said: “I was like, Lori, what you’re saying is not true. This is nonsense.”
Lori’s brother also claimed she would tell him that she was a “translated being” who could not die.
Adam added: “And she goes, ‘You think I’m crazy, don’t you? From that point, she tried to cut everything off with me.”
He reached out to their mom as he said his sister was saying “crazy stuff”.
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Vallow and Daybell, a former pastor, were members of an apparent “doomsday cult” and married just two weeks after Daybell was widowed.
The pair first met at a spiritual conference held in Utah in October 2018.
At the conference, Chad said: “If you’ve had this Holy Ghost experience testify to you, you’re on the right path.”
Crime author John Glatt said in his book The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family that it was almost love at first sight who immediately struck up a conversation – moments after Daybell had delivered his speech on stage.
In one passage, Glatt penned: “Lori immediately approached [Chad] and said she had read all his books. Chad looked up at the beautiful blond apparition standing before him and was instantly smitten.
“It was as if a lightning bolt hit them both. They would never be the same again.”
Daybell is alleged to have told Lori that they had been married seven times before in previous lives.
Messages that were handed over to police appear to show Daybell writing a “love story” to Lori.
Cops branded the texts as a “romantic novel of sorts” and they appear to document the relationship between the couple, according to East Idaho News.
‘A ROMANTIC NOVEL’
One text said: “Friday morning, Oct. 26 driving south on the freeway… A voice said… You will meet an extraordinary woman today who will change your life forever.”
Their names were disguised as James and Elena in the messages.
Another message said: “When their hands touched, he felt a shock pass through him, and his heart started beating fast.
“Elena was gorgeous and vivacious, and James was a little intimidated yet honored that she would talk to him.”
Lori moved to Rexburg, Idaho in August 2019 after her estranged husband Charles Vallow was shot dead by her brother Alex Cox.
In September 2019, her two children, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old JJ Vallow vanished without a trace.
‘VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE’
Throughout the probe, she maintained that her children were safe and living with family members in Arizona.
Cops said that Tylee was last seen alive during a trip to Yellowstone National Park on September 8, 2019.
Meanwhile, JJ was last seen in Vallow’s apartment weeks later on September 22.
Vallow was arrested in February 2020 on charges of deserting and abandoning her children.
Just over four months later, JJ and Tylee’s bodies were found buried in Daybell’s backyard in Fremont County, Idaho.
Daybell and Vallow have since been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of JJ and Tylee.
Adam said: “Our family is nothing the way it used to be… You don’t know who to trust, who’s saying what, what actually happened.”
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Text messages reveal how Chad Daybell felt after first meeting Lori Vallow
