Vallow Daybell timeline -- Prologue: guilty -- The scattered tribes -- Somewhere cold -- 'I can't get in touch with my kids' -- The scientific pheoomenon known as 'loin fire' -- 'I shot my brother-in-law' -- 'Someone shot at me' -- 'Lori, where are your children?' -- Sometimes social media isn't that social -- He can pierce the veil -- Your young men will see visions -- You will be accountable for your knowledge -- The pet cemetery -- The long run-up -- All rise-Lori Vallow's trial -- Absolute power corrupts -- Visions of gloryu and the bounded choice -- Echoes of Narcissus -- All rise reprise-Chad Daybell's trial -- The new Jerusalem -- Arizona wants me -- Epilogue-guilty -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works cited

It all started when Lori Vallow met Chad Daybell at a doomsday prepper event. Their story grew like a wildfire that creates its own weather, and what happened next will shock even the most experienced true crime reader. Clinging to and manipulating one another, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell believed the return of Jesus Christ was imminent and that God had chosen them to lead the 144,000 and usher in the new millennium. When the people closest to them began dying, it became clear they would stop at nothing to be together and fulfill their mission. When the bodies of Lori's missing children--J.J. and Tylee--were discovered in Chad's backyard, the strange and complex story of their fundamentalist Mormon beliefs were revealed in all their true horror