Mega Edition: Chad Daybell Trial (Part 18) (10/22/26)

Beyond The Horizon · Oct 23, 2026 · 58m · transcript

Day eighteen of Chad Daybell’s trial centered first on Zulema Pastenes, the widow of Lori Vallow’s brother Alex Cox, who gave jurors another firsthand account of the belief system Chad and Lori had built around themselves. Pastenes testified that Chad claimed he could communicate through the veil, access information about people’s pasts and futures, determine whether someone was “light” or “dark,” and identify people whose bodies had supposedly been taken over by evil spirits or “zombies.” She said those ideas originated with Chad and were then passed through Lori to members of their circle…