He was seven years old, with a wide, toothy grin and a laugh that shook his whole body. His name was Joshua, but everyone called him JJ. The missing boy and his family lived in Unit #175. In good weather, the evidence of small children is everywhere: bicycles and metal scooters and toys dropped mid-play on the grass, as if their users had been called inside for dinner and trusted that no one would take their things. In the fall, some residents set out bundles of dried cornstalks and pumpkins, and the lawns crunch with a confetti of fallen leaves. In all their beige sameness, a child might get lost trying to find their way home if not for the occasional wreath, or a garden bed marking the way. They are finished with beige carpeting and beige marble.
They have the same faux brick facades and the same tightly clipped squares of green lawn.
The tall town houses of the Rock Creek Hollow community are all painted in the same muted beige tone. On an icy morning two days before Thanksgiving, a pair of police detectives were dispatched to the town house on Pioneer Road to get an answer. He had been gone for days, or maybe weeks, or even months, but no one could say for certain. In this excerpt, drawn from allegations in courtroom testimony, police body cam footage, and original reporting, readers meet the couple on a frigid day in November 2019, just before everything started to fall apart. Prosecutors in Idaho say they will seek the death penalty for both. Both are accused of first degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and conspiracy.
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Right now, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell sit in jail, awaiting a trial that is scheduled for January 2023.
And it is a story of how a horror plot can play out in real-life, right in front of everyone’s eyes, and no one will bat an eye. This is a story of snake oil charlatans and fake prophecies, of a beauty queen whose husbands keep ending up dead. In When the Moon Turns to Blood, Sottile’s book out on June 21, she interrogates the apocalyptic belief system of the children’s mother, Lori Vallow, and the doomsday writings of her husband, Mormon fiction writer Chad Daybell, tracing their origins to a paranoia that exists inside the culture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It raised the alarm of journalist, Leah Sottile, who had written about fringe beliefs at the edges of the LDS Church - particularly the “White Horse Prophecy”: a disputed revelation condemned by the mainstream church that blends Patriotism into the faith, and posits that a few chosen Mormons will save the Constitution in the End Times. In late 2019, speculation swirled around the disappearance of two children from a small Idaho city - that perhaps the reason they couldn’t be found had something to do with their parents’ “cult-like” religious beliefs. And extremism sits quietly in church pews on Sundays. The truth is that violent far-right ideologies simmer on school boards and inside police departments, rage across social media platforms and from flag poles. But after the 2016 election of a president who made far-right fringe views the new norm for the Republican party, and after the January 2021 storming of the United States Capitol by hundreds of conspiracy-minded citizens hoping to overturn the election, Americans can no longer treat extremist ideologies as an affliction of people far away, out there, out of view. It’s an uncomfortable thing to admit that America is a country besieged by extremist ideologies.
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