Lori Vallow became obsessed with a coming religious doomsday and believed her children were zombies whose bodies had to be destroyed, prosecutors say. There were rumours of a cult. She's now been found guilty of murder.
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Tammy was found dead in October 2019 of what doctors at the time thought was natural causes. Vallow and Daybell were married just two weeks after Tammy's funeral. But prosecutors say those beliefs veered toward the extreme, with the couple saying people were"dark" or"light", telling friends and acquaintances that"dark" people had been taken over by evil spirits.
Apocalypticism - the religious belief that the end of the world is imminent - in Western culture goes back thousands of years, retired professor Stephen Kent, an expert on cults, tells Sky News. Since the prophecy was made in 1832 a string of extremist individuals have claimed to be"One Mighty and Strong" and some have extracted dangerous behaviours from their followers, including murder.
It took Briell Decker four years and multiple attempts to break out of the Mormon cult she was born into, unscrewing a window in the compound where she was being held in solitary confinement and running for her freedom in 2013. Unlike so many others Briell was able to escape the FLDS - but it was no sure thing and involved a lot of failed attempts.
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