SEASON OF THE WITCH
The conspiratorial world that produced Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell may be extreme, but it is anything but fringe.
Leah Sottile is the author of When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Time. Her investigations, longform features, profiles, and essays have been published by The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Atavist, Outside, and the Atlantic, among others. She is host of the podcasts Two Minutes Past Nine, on BBC Radio 4, and Bundyville—which was nominated twice for a National Magazine Award. She lives in Oregon.
The conspiratorial world that produced Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell may be extreme, but it is anything but fringe.
Even as a boy, the man who would one day become caught up in one of the nation’s most mysterious murder cases was obsessed with death.