“Doomsday Mom” Lori Vallow Daybell is speaking her truth for the very first time.

The Idaho mom, who was convicted of murdering her two children in July 2023, sat down with Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison for an exclusive interview, set to air Friday night on NBC.

The 51-year-old and her fifth husband, Chad Daybell, are currently serving time in prison for the deaths of Chad’s first wife Tamara Douglas Daybell and Lori’s two children: 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow.

Lori Vallow Daybell also faces charges in Arizona of conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the shooting death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and the attempted murder of her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux.

Vallow Daybell maintains her innocence, telling Morrison in the “extensive and often combative interview” that she and her husband will be exonerated.

“I will be exonerated. We will both be exonerated in the future,” Vallow Daybell said. “I have seen things in the future that Jesus showed me when I was in Heaven. And we were not in jail, and we were not in prison.” 

The two-hour Dateline special also features interviews with investigators and Vallow Daybell’s oldest son, 28-year-old Colby Ryan.

Here’s what to know about the Dateline special, “Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview” and how to watch it.

Who is Lori Vallow Daybell? And what did she do?

Vallow Daybell was previously described as a “devoted mother of three, a loving wife, and a woman of God,” according to a Netflix documentary about her.

The San Bernardino native has been married five times and went by different names, including Lori Norene Cox, Lori Ryan Daybell, Lori Norene Lagioia and Lori Vallow Daybell. She had two kids during her marriages, Colby and Tylee, and later adopted JJ with fourth husband Charles Vallow.

Vallow Daybell lived in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert with Vallow after the two were wed in 2006. She moved to Rexburg, Idaho, a few months after Vallow’s untimely death in July 2019. Vallow Daybell was accused of working with her late brother, Alex Cox, who told Chandler police he shot Charles Vallow in self-defense.

Vallow Daybell met Chad Daybell, a married father of five, at a conference in St. George, Utah, in October 2018. The couple married in Hawaii in November of 2019, two months after Tylee and JJ disappeared and a few weeks after the death of Daybell’s longtime wife, Tamara Douglas Daybell.

Vallow Daybell was arrested in February 2020 and later extradited to Idaho for failing to comply with a court order mandating her to produce the children. JJ and Tylee’s remains were found on Chad Daybell’s property four months later.

Vallow Daybell and Daybell, as early as 2018, began to “endorse and espouse religious beliefs for the purpose of encouraging and/or justifying” the deaths of Tylee, JJ and Tammy Daybell, according to indictments obtained by USA TODAY in May 2021.

Lori Vallow Daybell told a friend, Melani Gibb, that she believed her children were “zombies.” Gibb also told authorities the couple were part of the “Church of the Firstborn” with a mission to lead the “144,000” mentioned in the Book of Revelation and to rid the world of “zombies.”

The couple first appeared on a podcast together almost a year before the children went missing, and family and friends said they were espousing divergent, “prepper” beliefs.

Chad Daybell is on death row in Idaho. Vallow Daybell is currently in prison and is awaiting trial for the death of Charles Vallow.

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How to watch Lori Vallow Daybell’s first TV interview

“Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview” airs Friday, March 7 at 9 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CT on NBC. Viewers can also catch the Dateline special on Peacock the next day.

Ryan opens up about his relationship with his mother and a number of investigators, including retired FBI agent Doug Hart, and former Rexburg Police Department detectives Ron Ball and Ray Hermosillo, and shares new details about the case over the course of the two-hour special.

Watch preview of Lori Vallow Daybell’s Dateline interview

Contributing: Raphael Romero Ruiz and Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic part of the USA TODAY Network, Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY