Doomsday couple Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow made headlines for their involvement in a tangled web of missing children and dead relatives.

After months of searching, local authorities located the newlywed mother and stepfather vacationing in Hawaii — without their missing children.

Now, questions are circling around the doomsday organization at the heart of the mystery called Preparing a People. Here's everything you need to know.

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The tangled web of missing children and mysterious deaths surrounding doomsday couple Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell seems like it was ripped right out of a Lifetime movie script: two missing children, a prophesized death of Chad's first wife, and the passing of Lori's brother, who killed her first husband in what he claimed was "self-defense."

Connecting all of the mysterious events the couple have left in their wake is a doomsday forum that helped bring the couple together: Preparing a People. Here's everything you need to know about their doomsday beliefs.

What is "Preparing a People?"

According to the website, its mission is to "prepare the people of this earth for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ." Following the chain of mysterious events Vallow and Daybell have left in their wake, the organization associated with Preparing a People called Color My Media has attempted to distance themselves from the mysterious couple.

The website clarified they are a multimedia company that put on Preparing a People which they define as a "series of lecture events focusing on self-reliance and personal preparation."

"It is not a 'group' and is not a 'cult' or something people join, but has educational lecture events that can be attended or watched on video," a statement on the Preparing a People website read. "We also do not share any of Chad Daybell's or Lori Vallow's beliefs if they are contrary to Christian principles of honesty, integrity, and truth, or if they do not align with the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."

The company denied any involvement with the "missing children, nor any nefarious, criminal, illegal, or occult activities" on its company website. Color My Media Inc. and Preparing a People have not immediately responded to Insider's requests for comment.

Relatives raised concerns about a "cult"

Daybell, a 51-year-old author, had penned and self-published more than 25 doomsday books for Mormon audiences including fantasies of a dystopian world wrought by bioterrorism attacks and catastrophic natural disasters.

Daybell had spoken at several Preparing a People events and he and Vallow had appeared together on an episode of the organization's podcast where they discussed insights from his two near-death experiences and his "visionary gift." (The podcast episode is no longer available to stream online.) According to Daybell's friend, the visionary gift led him to see the death of his first wife Tammy, Fox 13 first reported.

"He was emotionally distraught, he was crying and he said that his angels had told him that he was going to lose Tammy," Daybell's friend, Julie Rowe, told Fox 13.

Vallow's relatives blamed the downward-spiral of her first marriage with Charles Vallow on a religious group that they referred to as a "cult," however they did not explicitly reference Preparing a People. Vallow

"He was highly concerned about it: Her emotional state, her mental state, and the fact that she had made threats about him," Charles' sister, Kay Woodcock, told the Salt Lake Tribune. "It all culminated into that cult that she's in."

In divorce paperwork filed by Charles Vallow prior to his death and seen by the Tribune, he claimed that Lori Vallow believed she was a god preparing for Christ's second coming in July 2020, "receiving spiritual revelations and visions to help her gather and prepare those chosen to live in the New Jerusalem after the Great War as prophesied in the Book of Revelations."

In the paperwork, Charles detailed a phone call in which Lori told him she was a "translated being who cannot taste death sent by God to lead the 144,000 into the Millennium."

He also claimed that his wife had threatened to murder him if he got in her way and moved large sums of money into an unknown bank account amounting to $35,000, Fox 10 reported.

Charles Vallow died in July 2019 after being shot by Lori Vallow's brother, Alex Cox. Alex Cox then died in December without being charged.

After Charles' death, Vallow moved to Rexburg, Idaho, from Arizona with the couple's adopted son J.J. That was where Vallow met Daybell. Two months after moving to Rexburg, and following the death of his first wife, Lori and Chad married.

Charles Vallow's relatives made multiple attempts to reach J.J., they said, but their calls went unanswered, That prompted them to ask local authorities to conduct a welfare check on the boy in November, who has special needs. Vallow and Daybellnitially claimed that her two children, seven-year-old J.J. and 17-year-old Tylee, were staying with relatives in Arizona.

By the time authorities discovered the couple lied about the children's whereabouts and attained a search warrant for their home, Vallow and Daybell were nowhere to be found.

Where Lori and Chad are now

While Vallow and Daybell have yet to face any charges for the string of mysterious events, the couple denied any wrongdoing towards their family members through an attorney.

"Chad Daybell was a loving husband and has the support of his children in this matter," their attorney, Sean Bartholick, told the Rexburg Standard Journal in December. "Lori (Vallow) Daybell is a devoted mother and resents assertions to the contrary. We look forward to addressing the allegations once they have moved beyond speculation and rumor."

The couple's attorney has not immediately answered Insider's request for comment.

After authorities in recently located the pair vacationing in at Hawaiian resort — without the children— an Idaho court ordered Vallow on Monday to produce the two children to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare in Rexburg within five days. If Vallow fails to physically produce her children, she may be subjected to civil or criminal contempt of court, news station KSAZ reported.