Email: Lori Daybell asked Chad Daybell to judge missing kids' 'light' & 'dark' spirits
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — As Lori and Chad Daybell are under investigation for the deaths of their previous spouses, newly released emails are shedding light on their "doomsday" religious beliefs.
A year before her children went missing, Lori asked Chad to gauge 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow's "light or dark spirits."
On Oct. 20, 2018, Chad, an author who captivated Lori with his writing on religious doomsday scenarios, responded in an email.
"Here are the family history documents you requested," Chad wrote in the email obtained by Fox10 Phoenix.
The belief, reportedly upheld by Chad, is that people are reborn, or graduate, to the next level when they die. The documents say most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are level two, and that the dark side can only match the light, not exceed it.
"2's and 3's are fluid and can change sides during earth life," Chad wrote. "4.1 and above have made covenants to their side. They rarely switch sides."
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Ryan was listed on the chart as a 4.1D. Her father, Joseph Ryan who previously died, was listed as a 4.3D and "is now sealed away," according to the chart.
Lori, meanwhile, was classified as being on the light side.
Vallow was a 4.2L and his adoptive father, Charles Vallow, scored a 3L.
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Nine months later, Charles Vallow was shot and killed in an alleged confrontation by Lori's brother Alex Cox, who scored a 2L. He claimed the shooting was in self-defense. Cox died in December 2019 under suspicious circumstances.
Charles alleged, in court filing prior to his death, that Lori believed she is "a God assigned to carry out the work of the 144,000 at Christ's second coming in July 2020, and that if [Charles] got in her way of her mission, she would murder him," PEOPLE reported.
After the email, Lori and Chad appeared together on a podcast in December 2018, under the banner "Preparing a People," centered around planning for the end of the world.
In August of 2019, Lori moved from Arizona to Rexburg, Idaho, where Chad lives. Both of her children disappeared the following month after a trip to Yellowstone National Park with her and Cox.
Two months later, and two weeks after the death of his wife Tammy, Chad and Lori married in Hawaii.
Police in Rexburg documented several misleading statements from Lori and Chad about the Tylee and JJ's whereabouts. The couple abruptly left their Rexburg home last November after JJ's grandparents first raised concerns and police failed to locate the boy during a welfare check.
The Daybell's were found in Hawaii, where Lori was arrested on charges related to the disappearance of her children in February.
Last week, an Idaho judge denied lowering Lori's $1 million bail at her third bond hearing. The preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 9 and 10.
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