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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

‘Cult mom’ killer Lori Vallow makes bizarre claims about her children’s murders in phone call from jail to son’s podcast

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Lori Vallow, the so-called “cult mom” who was found guilty last year of murdering her two children, has claimed for the first time that her daughter was to blame for the death of her son — and that the teenager then killed herself as she felt guilty about her little brother’s accidental death.

Vallow, 51, made the bizarre claim — which does not match any of the facts of the murders — in a phone call with her surviving adult son that aired on his podcast on Sunday. The interview is the first time Vallow has been heard from publicly since she was sentenced in 2023 for the 2019 murders of her daughter Tylee Ryan, 16, and her son Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7.

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