Inside the Mormon Doomsday Pipeline: How the LDS Church Produced Lori Vallow, Elleshia Seymour, and a Pattern of Child Victims

Inside the Mormon Doomsday Pipeline: How the LDS Church Produced Lori Vallow, Elleshia Seymour, and a Pattern of Child Victims

Three women. Three abductions. Same beliefs. Same geography. Same church.

Elleshia Seymour is now in Croatian custody after allegedly fleeing Utah with her four children because she believed the apocalypse was coming. She left behind a to-do list instructing herself to shred documents and buy a burner phone. She left a note she described as a "message from God." And she left a secret TikTok account filled with videos warning that Salt Lake City would be destroyed and COVID vaccines were turning people into zombies.

Her children — ages 11, 8, 7, and 3 — are now trapped in a state-run orphanage in Dubrovnik. Their father is there. He can see them two hours a day. The three-year-old doesn't understand why he can't go home.

This case would be disturbing enough on its own. But Elleshia Seymour isn't an anomaly. She's a pattern.

Lori Vallow believed the same things. Her children J.J. and Tylee were murdered — their bodies found in her boyfriend Chad Daybell's backyard. Spring Thibaudeau believed the same things. She fled toward Canada with her teenage son before the FBI caught her.

All three women came from LDS backgrounds. All three developed apocalyptic beliefs centered on the same theology — the same "end times" doctrine the Church teaches as mainstream. All three left children traumatized or dead.

The LDS Church is worth an estimated $265 billion. It was fined by the SEC for hiding its wealth. It excommunicated Chad Daybell — but only after the murders. It excommunicated Julie Rowe — but only after years of influence.

This is the story of a radicalization pipeline that keeps producing victims — and an institution that keeps looking the other way.

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