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Beyond the Veil: When Lori Met Chad and the Dream of Immortal Love Part I Feb 20, 2021

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Join us for an in-depth dinner conversation about belief formation and the desire for ideal love. We dig as deep as we can into Lori Vallow Daybell’s psyche and start to put all of the pieces together to develop a comprehensive psychological portrait of how and why these murders occurred. Tonight, we explore Lori’s role in these tragic events through an examination of Lori’s yearning for other-worldly love as a panacea for all her worldly pain and suffering.

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Beyond the Veil: When Chad Met Lori and the Dream of Immortality Nov 20, 2020

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Join us for an in-depth dinner conversation about death anxiety, terror management theory and Chad’s desire to achieve immortality. We dig as deep as we can into Chad Daybell’s psyche and start to put all of the pieces together to develop a comprehensive psychological portrait of how and why these murders occurred. When Chad met Lori a seemingly inescapable cascade of events and psychological elements began to unfold that ended in multiple murders. Join us to discover why.

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Beyond the Veil: Revisiting Chad and a Tribute to Tammy Daybell Oct 27, 2020

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Tonight, we revisit Chad’s role in the murders through a close examination of his family upbringing, books and career choices based upon new information since our first episodes. We lay the foundation for the combustible moment when Chad and Lori meet and nothing can deter them from their murderous mission. Lauren concludes dinner with a personal tribute to Tammy Daybell.

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Beyond the Veil: The Fearlessness and Filicide of Lori Vallow Daybell Oct 07, 2020

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We get closer to answering the big questions at dinner tonight- Why do human beings murder? Why did Lori really kill her children? We examine the research on filicide and psychopathy to provide some insight into these thorny questions in addition to bringing in a famous child murderer from the past, Diane Downs, to assist in our analysis. Before finishing dinner, we explore the roles of courage and fearlessness in homicide. What does fearlessness have to do with murder? And what does real courage look like and how can we attain it?

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Beyond the Veil: The Many Extremes of Lori Vallow Daybell Part II Sep 23, 2020

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In this second half of dinner we explore the relationship between borderline personality disorder and violence potential. We also make the connection between Lori’s extremism and research on terrorists and terrorism. Is Lori a terrorist? Is Chad a terrorist? What makes a terrorist? We conclude our lengthy two-week dinner with a tribute to the many victims of crime and the emotional impact of delving deeply into crime.

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Beyond the Veil: The Many Extremes of Lori Vallow Daybell Part I Sep 10, 2020

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We pick up where we left off in the last episode with the impact of Lori’s family upbringing upon her personality dynamics and life decisions, exploring Lori’s propensity for the extremes in emotions, behaviors and beliefs. We ask: Does Lori have a personality disorder? Was she sexually abused? Is she a borderline personality disorder? Have her past traumas and family wounds contributed to her decision to murder her children? Join us for dinner tonight to find out.

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Beyond the Veil: The Making of Lori Vallow Daybell Aug 30, 2020

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In this episode we begin to disentangle the twisted web that is Lori Vallow Daybell through a close examination of her family upbringing and dynamics. We explore the Cox family system (Lori’s family of origin) through the story of Narcissus and explain how this classic mythological tale still holds sway today.

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Beyond the Veil: Midnight Musings on Chad Daybell’s Preliminary Hearing Aug 20, 2020

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In a late-night dinner, we explore some of the implications and repercussions from Chad Daybell’s preliminary hearing. We also discuss serial killer signatures and typologies as they relate to this case.

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Beyond the Veil: Oprah and Portals and Daybell- Oh My! Jul 30, 2020

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Before we move on to explore Lori Vallow’s role in these murders, we examine Chad Daybell’s peculiar obsession with portals and his and Lori’s disdain for Oprah Winfrey- and what these two quirky beliefs mean for this case and, more generally, for understanding the criminal mind and the human condition.

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Beyond the Veil: Inside Chad Daybell’s Murderous Mind Jul 22, 2020

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We begin to piece together the disparate elements of Chad Daybell’s life and the underlying motivations for the murderous schemes he devised along with Lori, examining how and why his upbringing, avoidance of his mortality and the quest for significance all led to his eventual crimes.

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