PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Lori Vallow Daybell is set to be sentenced Friday for murder conspiracy in the 2019 death of her husband, Charles Vallow, and the attempted murder of her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux.

Vallow and her now husband, doomsday author Chad Daybell, are already serving life sentences for the deaths of Vallow’s children, Tylee and JJ, and Daybell’s wife, Tammy.

True crime correspondent Briana Whitney has interviewed Vallow in jail, in person, twice. However, Vallow got into trouble with the jail, so for her final interview, they could only conduct it via video and phone.

Vallow began by holding up an old picture of her and Chad Daybell.

“This all ends on Friday. Sentences, this is done, it’s really the end of your connection with the outside world. How do you feel about this ending?” asked Whitney.

“Um, I don’t feel like it’s an ending of anything. It’s truly the beginning of work that needs to be done,” Vallow said. “I was convicted in the media long before I went to trial. You know this, everybody knows this.”

“But you have to understand the media coverage came because your kids are dead, and if Chad Daybell had never come into your life would your kids still be alive today?” Whitney asked.

“No. If you understood what actually happened to my children then you would know that it didn’t have anything to do with Chad,” Vallow said.

“But they ended up dead and buried on Chad’s property,” Whitney responded.

It was at this point that the video went down, and nobody could get it back up and working. Often, technical issues arise when communicating with someone incarcerated.

The interview continued by phone when the back and forth got interesting about the deaths of Vallow’s children, Tylee and JJ.

“You told me that Tylee took JJ’s life and then her own. How then would Tylee be able to dismember herself and bury herself if she killed herself?” asked Whitney.

“So, Briana, my love for my children is eternal, and my children are eternal. And they’re just in the next phase of their eternal life, and if people understood that, then they wouldn’t be so set on things that happened here in this life,” Vallow said.

“But they were killed, so how would she have buried herself if she did it herself? I think people need to know that answer,” Whitney responded.

“Well, that’s a ridiculous question that anybody could bury themselves,” Vallow said.

“Who buried them there?” asked Whitney.

“So, we all know that was Alex,” Vallow said.

“Alex buried them there, so Alex was the one that killed them?” asked Whitney.

“No one killed them and I’m not going to go into that again,” Vallow said.

“Did you physically watch your children die?” Whitney asked.

“No, I did not, absolutely. And you know, there’s so much going on now, so much going on here in Arizona with the cases and everything, I thought that’s what you wanted to talk about,” Vallow said.

“It’s all connected into the same web of what happened. And so we’re at the end now, and I want to hear the truth from you,” Whitney said.

“I wasn’t there. Tylee was babysitting. I found them afterwards. It was several hours afterwards. It was horrible, it was the worst thing that ever happened in my life, um, and there’s not much more I can tell you about that,” Vallow said. “You can never be prepared to lose your children. You just can’t. There’s no worse tragedy.”

“This…this sounds so crazy. It sounds crazy considering you were convicted of killing your kids,” Whitney said.

“Well, that…I attribute that to the media, I attribute that to media. I don’t attribute that to the facts,” Vallow laughed.

“Okay, so let me ask you this. Do you believe you’re smarter that the investigators that handled your cases?” Whitney asked in response.

“No, I don’t believe I’m smarter than anybody. I’ve never made that proclamation, I just know truths and they don’t know the truth because they weren’t there,” Vallow said.

Vallow claimed Tylee and JJ were always going to die young, and that they “fulfilled their missions.”

Friday will be her last day with a connection to the outside world to face her sentences for what happened to Charles Vallow and Brandon Boudreaux.

After she is sentenced in Arizona, she’ll be sent back to Idaho to serve her life sentences for the murders of her children.

“On Friday, will you have empathy for Charles’ family and Brandon’s family, who will get up in court and speak their feelings and their truth?” asked Whitney.

“Yeah, absolutely. I have empathy for every human being, and I mourn with those that mourn. I mourn the loss of Charles, people don’t understand,” said Valow. “I’m not upset with anyone for having the feelings that they have.”

“Many of them feel like you are evil,” said Whitney.

“Well, they can have whatever feelings that they want to have, um, and the truth will be made known at some point,” said Vallow.

“But I think most people would argue that your reality is a delusional reality,” said Whitney.

“Well, they can think that if they want to. I mean, everyone is going to find out that that is not true,” Vallow said. “We’re all going to be there together, Briana, you and me and everybody in heaven…when you and I are there, Briana, you can come up to me and say, ‘Oh Lori, you were right.’ And I’ll say, I love you Briana! No matter what you thought or no matter what you judged me of or whatever, I love you,” Vallow said.

Vallow’s sentencing for is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. and will be streamed live on azfamily.com and the AZFamily mobile and streaming TV apps.

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