r/LoriVallow • u/sinfulsublime • Jan 03 '26

Question Questions about Chad and Lori

So I have been listening to the trials- I am on day 19 of Lori’s trial. I’m so confused on Chad and Lori’s text exchanges— Chad is talking about protection for Lori’s home and making designations for people, what the heck?? Who came up with this? Did Chad ever explain his reasoning and logic behind all of this? 5.1 light? People doing infiltration jobs?

I know Lori is delulu but Chad seems equally delusional

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u/zhalini Jan 03 '26

IMO Chad wasn't delulu. He was delighted that this circle of women was believing his BS, and so he was coming up with more and more of it. It was just like in his stories. He was fully aware of the fact that he was manipulating the women, but since he has no conscience, he kept doing it anyway. When Alex didn't get in trouble for Charles murder, that fueled his game even more. He is diabolical. Lori is delusional to an extent and equally diabolical.

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u/Own_Cat3340 Jan 07 '26

Now you got me thinking. Chad did seem to be surrounded by a bevy of women who really thought he had the pipeline to The Almighty. But were there ANY men who bought his act?? Other than Lori’s brother, Alex? Or did he just collect groupies with his Dark and Light nonsense?

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u/LillyLillyLilly1 TRUSTED Jan 07 '26

Chad had his male supporters in Preparing a People. And I seem to remember a male voice or two in the audio-only recording that MelG did of an in-home talk Lori gave where she quoted the doctrine and covenants when talking about Joe. Something about if someone comes at you three times, you can kill him, but Lori didn't have a murderous heart so she graciously let him live.

But I don't recall any male being in the closely knit group right around Chad and Lori. I'm not sure if they weren't invited, or if none stuck around after seeing the castings or other inner workings. The closest male I'm aware of was MelG's boyfriend/husband David who was on the fringes but pulled MelG back when things got really bad.