Doomsday Mom (2021)

The life of Lori Vallow from late 2017 to early 2020 is dramatized. This phase of her story begins in Chandler, Arizona during her marriage to her fourth husband Charles Vallow; they live with her biological daughter with her third husband Joseph Ryan, teenage Tylee Ryan; and adolescent Joshua Vallow, "JJ", Charles' biological great-nephew, diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum, whom they had adopted. Their life had always centered on Lori's long-held Mormon beliefs, including the Second Coming of Christ and the accompanying ultimate bliss. They primarily associated with like-minded people, including Lori's niece Lanie Boudreaux, friend Melanie Gibb, and Lori's biological brother Alex Cox, whom Lori had always felt was her ultimate protector on Earth. With all the pain that she had endured in her life, Lori was worried that it was not in God's plan to have her among the chosen few to make it into that Second Coming. That worry was heightened when Lori became aware of the writings of Chad Daybell, who claims to have had signs not only as to that imminent Second Coming but also the death and destruction preceding it, i.e. the apocalypse. There was an immediate emotional and physical attraction between Lori and Chad upon meeting, and Lori moved the family to Rexburg, Idaho to be closer to him although he was already married. In Lori's needs, they went on a joint mission to ensure their passage into the Second Coming, and to be together now, which, on this Earth, entailed getting rid of the humans in their lives that had been inhabited by demons as seen in visions by Chad.