A look at the religious circle surrounding Chad and Lori Daybell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhQXLBxtDhM
Born on August 11, 1968, in Provo, Utah, Chad Guy Daybell grew up in the Mormon faith. His parents — Jack Daybell and Sheila Chesnut Daybell…
A look at the religious circle surrounding Chad and Lori Daybell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhQXLBxtDhM
Born on August 11, 1968, in Provo, Utah, Chad Guy Daybell grew up in the Mormon faith. His parents — Jack Daybell and Sheila Chesnut Daybell — were both members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Like many other young Mormons, Chad Daybell attended Brigham Young University and graduated in 1992 with a degree in journalism.
Daybell briefly served as the managing editor for Cedar Fort, Inc. before starting his own publishing company called Spring Creek Book Company in 2004. Daybell often worked alongside his wife Tammy Daybell, whom he had married in 1990. And the couple eventually had five children together.
Slowly, Daybell began to make a name for himself among the Mormons as both a publisher and a writer. Still, that wasn’t enough to pay the bills, so he also worked as a gravedigger and a cemetery sexton to make ends meet.
Many authors who worked with Chad Daybell in his early years described having a pleasant experience with a “humble” man. They also said that his religious views appeared to match the more mainstream teachings of the Mormon faith. But around 2014, one author named Suzanne Freeman, who had released three books with the help of Daybell, started noticing changes.
“He started publishing non-Mormon doctrine stories… and I just told him there’s something that’s not quite right,” Freeman said. “Plus, we were working on a book of mine together to take out… the LDS stuff, and I was kind of surprised by that because he was an LDS author.”
Daybell would indeed go on to publish 25 of his own books, some of which were stranger than others. While Living on the Edge of Heaven was based on two near-death experiences that he had, the Times of Turmoil series explored the idea of an apocalyptic America and other traumatic events that would supposedly happen before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
But while Daybell’s increasingly bizarre writings would alienate some of his loyal supporters — including Freeman, who soon parted ways with him
