In Sins of Our Mother's archetypal episode, her parent Janis Cox spoke astir Lori as a child, describing her arsenic "just a darling small girl." Raised successful the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Janis said, "Lori ever loved the scriptures. She took to it close away."

Always connected to her faith, Lori's erstwhile sister-in-law Annie Cushing claimed, "Her telling of the communicative was God told her she was going to beryllium connected Wheel of Fortune. She had to person that other validation."

But, according to Janis, Lori's beliefs became overmuch much utmost successful 2018 aft she met Chad Daybell, who believed determination was an impending apocalypse and that lone the radical that are righteous volition survive.

"Belief volition truly instrumentality you to a antithetic place," Colby Ryan, Lori's lad from her 2nd marriage, shared. "You judge truthful profoundly that you deliberation you person to bash these things and my ma due to the fact that she's truthful heavy successful her content I deliberation that it conscionable makes her harder to reach. She's inactive successful phantasy land."

"Well, I'm decidedly atrocious astir that. I ne'er meant to origin you immoderate symptom of immoderate sort, of immoderate kind. I ne'er wanted to."

That is what Lori tells Colby from jail during 1 of their taped telephone conversations featured successful the series, successful which Colby attempted aggregate times to get answers from his parent astir what happened to his younger siblings. "So you were determination truthful you saw everything that happened?" a antiaircraft Lori responded astatine 1 point. "That's interesting."

After Colby says helium misses his family, Lori replied, "I cognize baby. Me too. So bash I...how tin I not? They're my babies."

But erstwhile a frustrated-sounded Colby asked wherefore Tylee and JJ weren't protected, Lori answers, "I've done everything to support them their full lives arsenic you know. I emotion you, but you don't know. You volition spot 1 day."

Speaking to the camera, Colby said, "Do you perceive however brainsick that is? To perceive to her really effort to flip the publication is unbelievable."

Colby said his parent often referenced the communicative of Abraham, who was asked by God to sacrifice his son, Isaac, during their conversations. "Why would you adjacent accidental that?" Colby wondered.

Lori's 4th hubby was killed successful July 2019 erstwhile helium was changeable aggregate times by her brother, Alex Cox, who maintained helium acted successful self-defense. (Cox died successful December 2019.) Prior to his death, Charles had tried reaching retired to Lori's household astir her behavior, but Colby said successful the bid that Lori alleged Charles had been cheating connected her. 

"He was conscionable saying that she is retired of her caput present and 'this is not your mom, Colby,' I didn't cognize what that meant astatine all," Colby recalled of what Charles told him. "I was like, 'What are you talking about? You are sounding much brainsick than you accidental she is.' At that time, it looked similar blameworthy idiosyncratic was freaking retired due to the fact that they got caught, truthful I conscionable stopped talking to him."

Janis besides didn't judge Charles' story, particularly aft Lori underwent a psych valuation successful 2019, which Charles requested from the Gilbert, Ariz. police. 

"We each thought, well, she didn't get committed. So, what are we going to say?" Janis explaine. "They interviewed Lori and they interviewed Charles and the cops astatine the clip thought Charles was nuttier than Lori."

But aft Charles was killed, Lori allegedly told aggregate lies regarding the circumstances of his death. Initially, arsenic elaborate successful the series, she told JJ's schoolhouse that Charles had committed termination and erstwhile she called Colby, she told him Charles had a bosom attack. Colby said helium didn't observe the information until helium arrived astatine the location and heard the existent communicative from a "devastated" Tylee.

"This is my dad, this is truly the begetter fig of my life, who has been determination for arsenic agelong arsenic I tin retrieve backmost to," Colby said, "and the information that she would prevarication astir however Charles died inactive blows my mind."

Both Colby and Janis recalled the past clip they saw Tylee successful idiosyncratic earlier the teenager, JJ and Lori moved to Idaho soon aft Charles' death, with Colby recalling his parent "was saying radical are aft her, she made it look similar she had enemies," helium said.

"It was hard to accidental goodbye to Ty-Ty," Colby continued. "She was crying and she conscionable looked truly upset. She didn't talk. She didn't archer maine wherever they were going. I don't adjacent cognize what she knew. I conscionable retrieve giving her this pathetic hug."

Janis said she besides noticed however bittersweet Tylee seemed and elaborate their past encounter.

"I said, 'Are you going to beryllium good small doll?' And she conscionable burst into tears," an affectional Janis shared. "I was hugging her and I asked her, 'What's wrong? And she said, 'I'm good Mimi, I got everything I need. I conscionable needed to cry, So, we conscionable sat determination and hugged for a agelong time."

Lori and the children near the pursuing day, with Colby saying helium was "so worried" astir them, but explained helium was focused connected his ain household arsenic helium and his woman Kelsee welcomed their archetypal child.

But Colby started to get "weird" substance messages from Tylee's fig that, to him, didn't dependable similar his sister. "I called my ma and confronted her and she acted truly weird astir Tylee but she tried to person maine Tylee was successful school," helium said. "She tries to reassure maine and enactment it away."

Unconvinced, Colby said helium past texted Tylee asking her to telephone him, "And that's erstwhile she stopped." Soon thereafter, Tylee's telephone was unopen off, helium said.

Prior to Lori's bail enslaved proceeding successful March 2020, Colby had ne'er seen Chad successful person. 

"I locked eyes with him and I was like, 'I conscionable privation to travel punch you successful the face,'" Colby recalled. "I looked astatine him and helium looked scared. I saw him cower. I cognize there's thing incorrect with you."

Even harder than being successful the aforesaid country arsenic Chad, Colby said, was witnessing Lori's dynamic with her 5th husband.

"I retrieve however she looked astatine him," helium reflected. "You're looking astatine him arsenic like, determination is thing there. You don't cognize him. How person you had capable clip to get comfy capable to beryllium successful a atrocious concern to look astatine him and find comfort?"

While Colby said Tylee's begetter and Lori's 3rd husband, Joseph Ryan, was "a precise sweet person successful the beginning," Colby (whose biologic begetter is William Lagioia) alleged Joe began abusing him erstwhile helium was 8 years old. (Joe died of a bosom onslaught successful 2018.)

"I don't cognize if helium started to beryllium annoyed by maine arsenic a small kid, but everything I did was annoying to him," Colby said. "It conscionable got worse and worse and it conscionable got to the constituent wherever helium would punch maine successful the backmost of the head. I'm conscionable a small kid an I'm scared. I'm looking to her to prevention maine from him.

"One day, I'll ne'er forget, we near and it felt similar freedom. I ne'er wanted to spot him again," helium continued. "But I retrieve telling my ma astir the intersexual abuse. I didn't adjacent cognize however to explicate what had happened, but I told her however helium abused maine and what helium was doing. I conscionable retrieve her being silent, I retrieve feeling similar I did thing wrong. I felt similar I ruined her life. That was the breaking constituent for her."

In recordings purportedly surfaced from an October 2018 spiritual gathering, Lori is heard saying Joe's alleged maltreatment of Colby is what turned her to the "temple," explaining, "I was going to execution him. So, I went and met my bishop and I was like, 'I'm either going to perpetrate my beingness to the temple oregon I'm going to perpetrate murder."

After he began dating his aboriginal woman Kelsee, Colby said Lori had an contented with determination being a caller pistillate successful his life. "From that point," helium said, "everything conscionable started being a problem."

Lori was initially upset Colby went to a Christian religion with Kelsee, who said, "It was much astir power for Lori than everything. She was conscionable precise passive-aggressive. She was ever competing with maine for Colby's emotion and attention.

She continued, "I conscionable ever had an disconnected feeling astir her. She would accidental truly random, off-the-wall things, like, 'Jesus loves you, but helium loves maine the most.'"

Kelsee also detailed a "weird" infinitesimal at her and Colby's wedding: "We did each my household pictures and past we were astir to bash pictured with his household and Tylee was missing...and they were like, 'She was connected a skis trip.' And we were like, 'What?'" Colby added, "Literally, inactive to this day, it breaks my bosom that we don't person a household representation with Tylee from our wedding."

 Annie Cushing, Lori's erstwhile sister-in-law, noticed "a shift" successful her aft the wedding.

"She became truthful bittersweet and determination was a modulation successful however she talked astir her religion," Annie explained. "She was genuinely frightened. She really went truthful acold arsenic to accidental it's going to beryllium truthful scary, sometimes I deliberation it would beryllium easier to spell disconnected the broadside of a cliff successful a car with my kids than to unrecorded done the extremity times."

In May 2020, Lori's ma Janis and sister Summer Cox Shiflet sat down with CBS' 48 Hours and defended Lori, insisting she would ne'er bash thing to wounded her children.

"The archetypal clip she called from the jail, she said, 'The kids are fine, you cognize what benignant of parent I am, I would ne'er wounded the kids,'" Janis explained during Sins of Our Mother. "She said they were successful a precise abstraction place. I didn't deliberation they were missing….I thought it was important to archer the information astir my family."

Colby did not hold with his grandma and aunt's determination to bash the CBS interview. "I retrieve however dumb I thought it was to accidental anything," helium said. "I thought it was a truly atrocious determination to support her astatine that point. I was huffy astatine her for defending my mom, but I besides realized she's antiaircraft of the radical she loves."

Looking back, Janis said successful Sins of Our Mother, "They were right, we were wrong. I should ne'er accidental I cognize again. I don't truly know. Who knew it would get worse?"

The docuseries ends connected a poignant infinitesimal for Colby, who traveled backmost to the Hawaiian formation helium visited with his household to bash a memorial for his siblings and begetter figure, Charles.

"It's to grant them and to retrieve past and this is the place," Colby explained. "I'm truthful grateful that this gets to hap here. It was specified a blessed place, my parent and my sister loved being present and I retrieve the things we did here."

Colby began his tribute by addressing Charles, saying, "I conscionable privation to convey you for being my dad. I cognize you ne'er deserved what happened to you, but I wouldn't person the beingness I person without you."

He past addressed JJ: "I conscionable can't archer you however overmuch I emotion you. You're the top small member anybody could ever inquire for."

Finally, Colby said, "Tylee, you made maine a large member and I'll ne'er hide however overmuch I instantly fell successful emotion with you and wanted to support you from everything successful life. And I emotion each of you. And I'm grateful for each of you." 

Kauai is where Lori joined Chad successful November 2019 and Colby recalled seeing the footage from their ceremonial earlier successful the series.

"It was truthful deflating to spot them together, successful Kauai of each places, and there's nary hint of the kids," helium said. "Where are they? Why aren't the kids down you?"