The conspiratorial world that produced Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell may be extreme but it is anything but fringe.
On the warm summer day whenlearned she would spend the rest of her life behind bars for killing her children, it was one kind of conclusion to her years-long saga, but hardly the true ending of the story.
That poolside scene was so telling. Pretty and religious, no one had ever suspected Vallow had a bad bone in her body. She was the embodiment of wholesome and clean, and even the people around her were reluctant to cast a cold eye on her radical religious beliefs. When she spoke of dark spirits, zombies, portals and psychics, they simply listened. Few batted an eye when she told them Jesus had appeared before her, and meant it literally.
Ballard’s backstory was, of course, more complicated. His star rose in one particularly Mormon circle: a set of conferences that push a take on the LDS faith that prizes both personal revelation and mysticism, all with a constitutionalist bent. They are the kinds of events where astrologers and energy workers stand on stage next to hyper-conservative preppers and alternative historians, appealing to believers who wants to level-up their faith.
History is filled with powerful men denying that they ever harmed anyone, and continuing to rule. The hyper-conservative people who lionize Ballard and believe a Q-tinged worldview might have simply ignored such allegations. But what they couldn’t ignore were the rare words of the LDS Church leaders, who issued a statement condemning him. To ignore the church in favor of Ballard meant to turn away from God.
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