[55] On May 25, 2021, Chad and Lori were indicted on the charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, first-degree murder, and grand theft by deception for the deaths of Tylee, and J.J., and Tammy. Joshua, aged 7, and Tylee, age 16, went to Yellowstone National park with Loris and Loris's Brother. Morgan Loew: He tapped into this "prepper" element out there, people who wanted to prepare for Armageddon. Colby and J.J.'s grandparents pleaded with the Daybells to return the children, with the latter offering a reward of $20,000. January 2529, 2021 Lori Vallow's trial for the misdemeanor charges was scheduled to begin. ROB WOOD | Madison County/City of Rexburg Deputy Prosecuting Attorney: And what did you observe when they did that? Morgan Loew: What happened to those kids is is horrendous. Morgan Loew: Lori sort of viewed Alex as the destroyer of bad things in her eyes he was there to take care of the problems. Video footage shows her and her brother, Alex Cox,[c] moving items in and out of the locker prior to her departure. April Raymond: The way she had explained it to me about Charles was that Charles was already dead. I can only say it didn't feel right. Lori was both thrilled and attracted to this belief system and became increasingly fixated on this newfound "purpose" and on Chad. REXBURG Court documents released Friday evening detail the horrific manner in which Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Tylee Ryan were found in Chad Daybell's backyard. Jonathan Vigliotti: What went on in your mind when, weeks after Tammy died, Chad and Lori get married? Her 17-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old son Joshua "JJ" Vallow have not been seen since September, and Vallow has refused to cooperate with the police investigation into her children's disappearance. September 8, 2019 Tylee is last seen in Yellowstone National Park, along with Lori, Alex and J.J. September 23, 2019 J.J. is last seen at his new school, Kennedy Elementary in Rexburg, Idaho. This finding was officially confirmed by Rexburg police on June 13. March 21, 2022 - Judge denied Chad Daybell's request to separate his case from Lori Vallow's case. Some details of their last moments and autopsy have not been made. November 26, 2019 Rexburg Police Department conducts a well-being check on J.J. Lori claims J.J. is with relatives in Arizona and Tylee is away at. Lori's estranged 4th husband, Charles Vallow, was shot and killed in July 2019 by Lori's brother, Alexander Cox, who claimed self-defense; Cox died of a blood clot on December 12, 2019. At this point in the ongoing investigation, only Chad and Lori know the truth about what happened to JJ and Tylee. So, shook up, she called Lori and Chad 12 days later and secretly recorded it. Two months later, Tammy's body was exhumed and autopsied. But the horror was just beginning to unfold. I just kind of loved how she would just play with him and just always have, like, a really good time with him. Neither is Echo Itaaehau's daughter Vaisia, one of Tylee's best friends. [16], Shortly after, the Fremont County prosecutor's office announced they would be handling the case going forward. RAY HERMOSILLO: It was what appeared to be a small body tightly wrapped in black plastic, covered in duct tape. The two soon began a private communication. January 25, 2020 Local authorities locate Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow in. Morgan Loew: A second team of investigators were searching a different part of the yard. Morgan Loew: That taped phone conversation is when you can hear Chad and Lori go from, "Oh, yeah, everything's great," to that change where, "OK we've got a problem here.". POLICE OFFICER [Bodycam video]: Hi, who are are you? July 17, 2020 Lori Daybell's jury trial was set in Madison County for January 2529, 2021, on three misdemeanor charges. He was getting physical with her. A month later, Lori told them she got a new job in California, and sent an email saying she was taking JJ out of school. So angry she was still talking about it when the Rexburg police first came to her door looking for JJ. RAY HERMOSILLO: Under the bucket was a partial human skull. Chad showed his support in the courtroom as Lori was extradited to Rexburg, Idaho. [c] Cox tasered Ryan and threatened to murder him. Tylee, 16, and her 7-year-old brother JJ Vallow were found dead in the backyard of Vallow's now-husband Chad Daybell's home outside of Rexburg, Idaho, on June 9. Morgan Loew: They dug up a cat. I'm still not holding it together. I can't conceive of a scenario where she wasn't involved. Gibb handed that secret recording to authorities, and investigators launched a nationwide search but not just for JJ. June 10, 2020 Kay Woodcock, the biological grandmother of J.J. Vallow, announces that one of the sets of human remains belongs to J.J. Vallow. OFFICER DORENBUSH | Gilbert Police Department: What did she say yesterday? They just I really thought he was comin' home. But what killed them? With Lori now in jail, Chad Daybell returned home. According to Gibb, Chad stated that he had lived 31 different lives on various earth-like planets. Inside Edition obtained court documents unearthed by social media sleuths that appear to show concerns voiced by an . Melanie Gibb testified, "She asked me just to pick up my phone and take a picture of random kids to make it look like it was JJ.". And finally. "When I think of Tylee and JJ, I just think of fun and love. Because, by golly, he has to be dancing in heaven. Morgan Loew: the same color hair as JJ Vallow. He pled guilty and was sentenced to 90 days in jail, which he served in Austin, Texas. Evidence was collected, and Tammy's body was exhumed for autopsy. Speculation and rumors have swirled, leaving the public with more questions than answers. It's the last moments of the children's lives that keeps Echo up at night. Vallow-Daybell and her husband Chad Daybell have pleaded not guilty to murder, conspiracy and grand theft charges in connection with the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow, and Tylee Ryan . September 2019 Lori, with Tylee, and J.J., moves to Rexburg, Idaho, to be with Chad Daybell. And he had so many people that loved him and wanted him. MELANIE GIBB: She said that Kay was trying to kidnap JJ. ROB WOOD: How did Alex Cox bring JJ into the house? Margaret Travillion | LIFE co-founder: I just started crying [cries]. and It was just the beginning. Chad claimed that she had retired the night before "with a terrible cough" and died in her sleep. Tylee spent what's believed to be the last day of her life at Yellowstone National Park with Lori, JJ and Alex. Police Department released video of the full interview they conducted with Tylee Ryan following the death of her stepfather, Charles Vallow [16][2] That night, a neighbor saw Lori and Alex Cox packing a truck outside her home. Vallow had two sons from a previous marriage, Nicholas and Zachary Chase. Conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in relation to the death of her first husband, Charles Vallow; July 29, 2021 Prosecution drops charges for counts of conspiracy to destroy, alter, or conceal evidence against Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow. Ryan told police that Charles Vallow was angry on the morning that. Morgan Loew: Everybody was hoping in the back of their minds that maybe there was a chance the kids were alive. Investigators at Chad Daybell's preliminary hearing In August 2020 described in chilling detail finding the remains of the two children in Daybell's backyard. December 11, 2019 Authorities decide to further investigate the death of Tammy Daybell. Due to this, there is a stay in her case in Idaho. JJ's teacher Julia Allen says he made a big impression in a small amount of time. POLICE OFFICER [Bodycam video]: How long have you lived here? ALEX COX: Yeah, there's blood. "There's no place, not one, that my love can't find you.". CHARLES VALLOW: She said, you're not Charles. The children hadn't been seen alive since the fall of 2019. I didn't hold it together at all. I was not OK with it because she told something to the police that was not true So, I was I had a really bad feeling in my stomach, and I felt very shooken [sic] up by it. LORI VALLOW: Like, "Hi neighbors, sorry" [laughs]. The remains of the two children . LORI VALLOW: We're OK. How are you doing, babe? Morgan Loew: Charles He was worried about his safety and the safety of his children. Nancy Kramer is the executive story editor. CHARLES VALLOW: She threatened me, murder me, kill me. Lori and Tylee and JJ are there, and so is Alex Cox. ALEX COX: Well it was over my sister. [16] After repeated calls to Tylee went unanswered, Colby became more worried. 911 DISPATCHER: And is he hurt? When the little boy who loved to dance first came to LIFE, a school for special needs students, he was a very different child than when he left, says Travillion. Fun times.". It it was in every classroom, in every environment. He filed for an order of protection against Lori at the advice of his attorney, citing a "genuine fear for his life". Police efforts to locate J.J. led to the discovery that Tylee was also missing. On the same day, Chad Daybell had a closed hearing. Chad Daybell referred to Lori as an "eternal being" of 21 separate lives, only five of which had occurred on this planet; the same five he had lived on this planet. Prosecutors charged Lori with conspiracy to murder Charles in June of this year, shortly after she was indicted over the deaths of her kids. Kind of a heaviness on the campus. November 27, 2019 Chad and Lori are seen packing. There has been no new trial date set. And she was like, "Margaret, you're not gonna believe this. [c] In early October 2019, Brandon Boudreaux, the then-estranged husband of Lori's niece, Melani, was shot at in the driveway of his Gilbert, Arizona, home from a vehicle still registered to the deceased Charles Vallow. One of the many tributes to JJ and Tylee. I spotted a big raccoon along the fence. ALEX COX [bodycam video]: and he hit me in the back of the head with the bat So, I went to my room and got my gun, 'cause I always carry it. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the son of Vallow's subsequent . March 6, 2020 In first hearing after being extradited from Hawaii to Idaho, court lowers bail from $5 million to $1 million. Patti Aronofsky is the senior producer. Newly released video shows Tylee Ryan fidget as she talks to Chandler, Arizona police about her stepdad's shooting death. It is horrifying! Morgan Loew: Somehow, in 17 minutes, there was a grave dug and filled in. Because of the second ruling of incompetence, the January 2023 trial date was canceled. May 27, 2021 Lori Vallow is deemed incompetent and unfit to stand trial. Margaret Travillion: It just didn't make any sense why would you tell us he committed suicide last week and he's been gone for two weeks and he was actually shot by your brother? February 24, 2006 Lori Ryan marries Charles Vallow. [9][10][11] Chad was arrested later that day on charges of destruction or concealment of evidence. By the time the remains of 7-year-old JJ Vallow and his 16-year-old sister Tylee Ryan were found buried in shallow graves on Chad Daybell 's property in June 2020, they had become two of the. The police blurred Tylee's face, because she was a minor. This is an area the Daybell family called the pet cemetery. October 2, 2019 Brandon Boudreaux, Lori Vallow's nephew-in-law, is the target of a failed drive-by shooting in. Both Daybell and Vallow are in custody in Idaho facing multiple charges related to the alleged concealment and destruction of evidence, but neither have yet been charged with murder. November 29, 2019 Alex Cox marries Zulema Pastenes of. Benjamin Hyde has known Chad Daybell since the two men were missionaries together when they were 19. Morgan Loew: Every time, Kay Woodcock, would call, there would be a different excuse about where the kids were. He dropped dead six months before JJ and Tylee were found. At the time, Lori was married to businessman Charles Vallow. Requests from Chad to separate his case from Lori's have been denied. Cox said Vallow grabbed the bat from Tylee and came at him. "Paint til you're blue." Vallow (May 25, 2012 c. September 23, 2019)[b] were two American children from Chandler, Arizona, who disappeared in September 2019 and whose remains were found buried in shallow graves on June 9, 2020 in Rexburg, Idaho, in their stepfather Chad Daybell's backyard. Michael McHugh, Diana Modica and Jack Pyle are the editors. A warning: what you are about to read may be disturbing. [16], In October 2019, two Venmo payments were made from Tylee's account to her older half-brother, Colby Ryan. June 9, 2020 Human remains are found on Chad Daybell's property in. And JJ loved blue. And the children who embraced the light. October 8, 2021 - Judge grants Chad Daybell's request for a change of venue. And with Alex Cox went a whole incredible amount of potential information that investigators could've used on this case. [47], Chad and Lori were married in Hawaii on November 5, 2019, two weeks after the death of Chad's first wife, Tammy Daybell. CHARLES VALLOW [to Officer Dorenbush]: She's psychologically, she's gone. Morgan Loew: He goes into the house. [35] The same month, Charles filed for divorce, stating that his wife had "threaten[ed] to murder him", taken US$35,000 from their joint bank accounts, and stolen his truck. Morgan Loew: It appears that Chandler Police believe Lori had something to do with Charles's death. DAVID WARWICK: I asked to see him, and she just said that he was out of control, so she had Alex come and get him . September 28, 2022 - Chad Daybell's lawyers again ask for his case to be separated from that of his wife, Lori Vallow Daybell. May 26, 2022 - The start date of Lori Vallow's trial has been changed from October 11, 2022 to January 9, 2023. ST. ANTHONY, Idaho A married couple accused in a triple murder case will be tried separately, an Idaho judge ruled Thursday. The judge lowered her bail to $1 million. Vallow Daybell's children missing children, Joshua "JJ" Vallow, and Tylee Ryan are . The heartbreaking deaths of Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow have remained a mystery to many. Especially Tylee was a liability for what she knew. Cox (who changed his surname to Pastenes, the surname of his wife) died on December 12, 2019. Morgan Loew: We know that in the spring of 2019, Lori started referring to Tylee as a zombie, to at least one of her close friends. Then came the news that he was never coming back. January 11, 2021 Chad Daybell's trial was scheduled to begin. She ignored it and was arrested on the island of Kauai on child abandonment charges. Tweet. What is what is happening? Recently released autopsy reports, photos, and results have provided crucial insight into the cause of their deaths. By the end of September 2019, Lori had a dead husband, Charles Vallow, and though no one yet knew it, two dead children. The autopsy results are not published but seeing the critical conditions of the children's dead bodies; were killed brutally. [18], Lori Ryan Daybell,[d] also referred to as Lori Vallow Daybell, was born Lori Norene Cox on June 26, 1973, in San Bernardino, California. ROB WOOD [in court]: Where was he located when you saw him? You do it to keep them from yelling or talking. April Raymond: I feel like it's difficult to conceive of a scenario where she didn't. Alex Cox, Lori's brother, incredibly, had also died. LORI VALLOW: Well, they were going to "Frozen "2 today, so they may be at the movies. April Raymond: Part of her mission on Earth was to eliminate the darkness, the demonic the evil. Morgan Loew: Chad had this belief that some people who were on this earth weren't really the people they were supposed to be. Tammy Daybell died in October of 2019 just two weeks before her husband tied the knot with Vallow and about a month before his new wife's children, 7-year-old Joshua "J.J." Vallow and 17 . [56] On May 27, 2021, Lori was found incompetent and unfit to stand trial, and her case was stayed. [ Lori] knows where they are or what has happened to them, but she has 'completely refused to assist this investigation, [choosing instead to leave the state with her new husband]. JJ was wrapped in plastic and. East. He was initially reported missing by relatives concerned about not only the childrenwhom they had not heard from in weeksbut also several other suspicious incidents. How are you guys? [52] At least two local bond companies were reportedly unwilling to work with her.