Two Idaho Children's Disappearance Traced Back to Doomsday Cult Leader

Chad and Tammy

 Lori Vallow’s story started in 1990 when her future husband Chad Daybell married a woman named Tammy. Tammy was wealthy and impressionable, and Chad had some wild ideas for what the future might have in store for humanity. Tammy was infatuated with Chad’s ideas, and she funded his career as a writer to help promote his outlandish beliefs.

The Edge of Heaven

With Tammy’s funding, Chad was able to start the Spring Creek book Company. This was a privately owned publishing company that only released Chad’s books chronicling his outlandish theories about the downfall of society. These books were deeply rooted in religious ideology, most were overtly racist and xenophobic, and all of them detailed both “scientific” and fictional theories about how the world would end. Together, Tammy and Chad had five children and moved to Salem, Idaho in 2015…

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.