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Mary Ellen Resendez-Schwezo

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140 total appearances

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

But there's so much concern over where these kids are and whether they're okay, because at that time, we're not really thinking that the kids were murdered. So she gets a court date and the judge says she's got to produce these kids. Lori doesn't show up. And so a short time later, they arrest her in Hawaii. So by February of 2020, she's being extradited to Idaho.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

But there's so much concern over where these kids are and whether they're okay, because at that time, we're not really thinking that the kids were murdered. So she gets a court date and the judge says she's got to produce these kids. Lori doesn't show up. And so a short time later, they arrest her in Hawaii. So by February of 2020, she's being extradited to Idaho.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

She's facing charges of child desertion and not providing for the children. Basically charges to hold her until they can figure out what happened to JJ and Tylee. Months later in June, JG and Tylee are found in Lori's fifth husband's backyard, and they're dead.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

She's facing charges of child desertion and not providing for the children. Basically charges to hold her until they can figure out what happened to JJ and Tylee. Months later in June, JG and Tylee are found in Lori's fifth husband's backyard, and they're dead.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

So eventually, Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow are charged with the murder of JJ and Tylee.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

So eventually, Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow are charged with the murder of JJ and Tylee.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

So Lori grew up in a Mormon family, and her parents were part of the Sovereign Citizen Movement. It's kind of an extreme ideology that doesn't believe they're beholden to the U.S. government. Vallow, we know, was married about five times before. the first marriage happening when she was very young. Her longest marriage is to Charles Vallow.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

So Lori grew up in a Mormon family, and her parents were part of the Sovereign Citizen Movement. It's kind of an extreme ideology that doesn't believe they're beholden to the U.S. government. Vallow, we know, was married about five times before. the first marriage happening when she was very young. Her longest marriage is to Charles Vallow.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

It lasted 13 years, and when we interviewed her family, they felt it was the perfect match. Charles and her really hit it off. That is until she meets Chad Daybell. Chad was a doomsday author. He was living up in Rexburg, Idaho. The family originated in Springville, Utah. So Chad says in his books that he has had these two near-death experiences, and they basically allow him—

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

It lasted 13 years, and when we interviewed her family, they felt it was the perfect match. Charles and her really hit it off. That is until she meets Chad Daybell. Chad was a doomsday author. He was living up in Rexburg, Idaho. The family originated in Springville, Utah. So Chad says in his books that he has had these two near-death experiences, and they basically allow him—

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

to see or get messages from the other side of the veil. Laurie's niece, Melanie Boudreau-Polowski, talks about Chad having this pendulum, and he would get messages from however this pendulum would swing, but that he could see light and dark spirits. He would eventually, if you listen to Melanie Gibb, Gloria's best friend at the time, she talks about these dark spirits were called zombies.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

to see or get messages from the other side of the veil. Laurie's niece, Melanie Boudreau-Polowski, talks about Chad having this pendulum, and he would get messages from however this pendulum would swing, but that he could see light and dark spirits. He would eventually, if you listen to Melanie Gibb, Gloria's best friend at the time, she talks about these dark spirits were called zombies.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

And in order for the spirit to be released, the body form had to die. They would just, either they would become too dark that they would die or, you know, they would have to die.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

And in order for the spirit to be released, the body form had to die. They would just, either they would become too dark that they would die or, you know, they would have to die.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

Yeah, I think when you start looking at the body count, it kind of takes you back to 2019. In January of 2019, there's footage of Charles Vallow. He has just come back from a business trip, and his truck is missing from the airport. He calls Gilbert police, and he is locked out of his house. His house is dark. He's asking police to help him get into his home.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

Yeah, I think when you start looking at the body count, it kind of takes you back to 2019. In January of 2019, there's footage of Charles Vallow. He has just come back from a business trip, and his truck is missing from the airport. He calls Gilbert police, and he is locked out of his house. His house is dark. He's asking police to help him get into his home.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

And when he does get into the home, it's empty. His belongings are gone. The kids are gone. The cars are gone. His work computers are gone. And he's telling Gilbert police that something's wrong with his wife. He loves his wife. He doesn't want anything to happen to her. But she's not well. She's telling him that she's a translated beating.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

And when he does get into the home, it's empty. His belongings are gone. The kids are gone. The cars are gone. His work computers are gone. And he's telling Gilbert police that something's wrong with his wife. He loves his wife. He doesn't want anything to happen to her. But she's not well. She's telling him that she's a translated beating.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

Yes. And he's telling Gilbert police, she's telling him she doesn't need to eat and that she could kill him if she wants. And of course, now he's really concerned because he's got this empty house. And on that night, he doesn't know where his kids are. And so Lori shows up the next morning to the Gilbert police station. And she kind of tells a different tale.

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The Crime Scene: 'Doomsday Mom' Found Guilty, Again

Yes. And he's telling Gilbert police, she's telling him she doesn't need to eat and that she could kill him if she wants. And of course, now he's really concerned because he's got this empty house. And on that night, he doesn't know where his kids are. And so Lori shows up the next morning to the Gilbert police station. And she kind of tells a different tale.