Morgan Loew: In 30 years, I've never covered a story quite like this.
Lori Vallow's son's birth mom had devastating reaction to JJ's death Prosecutors allege that Vallow and Daybell became obsessed with doomsday-focused religious beliefs that led them to commit four murders. And now we're gonna talk about it. Daybellowned a religious publishing company, and his own writing focused on fringe beliefs, including what he said were his own near-death experiences and the end times. Im sorry you feel that way, she said. It was then that they realized his sister Tylee was also missing. Vallow Daybell claimed the only way to get rid of a zombie was to destroy the persons body, prosecutors say, and one friend told police she heard Vallow Daybell call the children zombies before they disappeared. Lori Vallow and Cox were questioned at the time but werent charged, as they claimed self-defense. "48 Hours" reached out to Chad and Lori's attorneys to ask whether their clients had some involvement in the children's deaths. But shortly after what would have been Tylees 17th birthday in September of 2019, the tone and syntax of those texts changed.
A look at who's who in the murder trial of slain kids' mom Charles Vallow - Charles was JJ's adoptive father and Tylee's stepfather. to that big life insurance payout Kay Woodcock got from Charles Vallow. Around September 1, 2019, Lori, Tylee and JJ moved into a town home in Rexburg, Idaho not far from where Chad Daybell lived with his wife, Tammy. Kay Woodcock, the biological grandmother of slain 7-year-old Joshua "J.J." Vallow, detailed Lori Vallow's shift in priorities from her children to her "Doomsday cult" on and she was kind of like another mama to him. On May 25, 2021, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell were formally charged with murder in the first degree in the deaths Tylee and JJ. Judy Tygard is the executive producer.
Mandy Leger: JJ Vallows biological mom died from anguish and Witnesses have described finding the bodies of JJ and Tylee as well as Vallow Daybell's religious beliefs. But by 2019, that marriage had also soured. CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti and "48 Hours" producers offer trial recaps and analysis in a weekly podcast. He married Tammy Daybell in the 1990s, and they had five children together. Tylee was born around 2002. Ms Vallow then went on to meet and marry Charles Vallow. OFFICER DORENBUSH: OK. I was not OK with it, because she told something to the police that was not true that I had no knowledge of, Gibb told the court, adding that she "had a really bad feeling in my stomach.". Melanie Gibb and her boyfriend David Warwick, both of whom testified at Daybell's hearing, were staying with Lori in Rexburg the last weekend of JJ's life. 3. He had a lot of energy. Julia Allen: He was a spitfire, for sure. Investigative reporter and CBS News consultant Morgan Loew has covered this story since the beginning. Zombies are described in the court documents as human bodies that have had their original spirits forced from them and have been possessed by a demon, a disembodied spirit or a worm or slug. She is the biological mother of Tylee Ryan, 16, and the adoptive mother of Joshua Vallow, 7, who were reported missing in November 2019. BOISE, Idaho Prosecutors say the mother charged in a triple murder case took part in a complex conspiracy that included unusual spiritual beliefs and efforts to kill those who stood in the way of her goals. He was adopted by her third husband. Lori Vallow is accused of killing two of her children and a former husband and conspiring to kill the late wife of her current husband, Chad Daybell. April Raymond: I feel like they were a liability. The prosecution is arguing that Vallow Daybell wanted, as Fremont County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsey Blake said in her opening statement, "money, power and sex," and wouldn't let anything stand in her way. By December, police and the FBI were searching for 16-year-old Tylee and 7-year-old JJ. CHARLES VALLOW [to Officer Dorenbush]: She's psychologically, she's gone. "Where are your kids? Lori's brother, Alex Cox, the man she considered her protector, moved into the same complex. She told the news outlet that it is feasible that he could have died of a heart attack, but she has questions about the autopsy. Joe Ryan was cremated. His mother, Lori Vallow, who is Joshua's adopted mother and Tylee's biological mother, knows where the missing kids are or what happened to them but has refused to help with the case, according to Rexburg police. With Lori now in jail, Chad Daybell returned home. Melanie Gibb, a former friend of Lori Vallow. She also testified against Daybell at a preliminary hearing in August 2020. Lori and Chad Daybell were charged with the same crime: conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. that's a real thing. Before she could complete the program, JJ's adoption to the Vallow family had already been finalized, they claimed.
JJ Vallow's biological grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock, said that the last time they spoke to the 7-year-old was in August. Kay Woodcock asked police in Rexburg, Idaho, to check on JJ in November but Vallow Daybell told police he was in Arizona with a family friend. Julia Allen | JJ's teacher: there was this feeling at LIFE when the remains were found. Margaret Travillion: They say it takes a village to raise a child. That pet cemetery just behind a bush where investigators found the charred remains of Tylee Ryan. Soon after, Vallow Daybell and her children moved to Idaho. But it was Tylee's bond with JJ that Vaisia will always remember. Tylee Ryans father, Joseph Ryan, died in 2018 of a heart attack. Lori explained why. As indicated in court records, Tylee Ryan, at age 5, also said that her father had sexually abused her and Colby. FILE - A boy looks at a memorial for Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow in Rexburg, Idaho, on June 11, 2020. Here are some of the important names to know as prosecutors and defense attorneys make their cases. They started by removing a top layer of earth on a 4 foot-by-2 foot patch of grass that was shorter than the rest. You do it to keep them from yelling or talking. Here are some of the key people involved in the case: Lori Vallow Daybell, a 49-year-old Rexburg mother, accused of killing her two children, JJ and Tylee, and conspiring to kill her husband Chad Daybells then-wife. When JJ was there, you knew he was there. JJs father, Charles Vallow, is actually Woodcocks brother: He adopted JJ as a baby because JJs biological parents including Woodcocks son were unable to care for the child. Tylee's friend Vaisia posted a kaleidoscope of memories online. Prosecutors allege she and her current husband, Chad Daybell, killed the children and their spouses as part of an obsessive doomsday religious belief. LORI VALLOW: He's with one of my friends in Arizona. No one wanted this. Tammy Daybell, the first wife of Chad Daybell, died in October 2019. I didn't hold it together at all.
Vallow JJs father, Charles Vallow, is actually Woodcocks brother: He adopted JJ as a baby because JJs biological parents including Woodcocks son were unable to care for the child. Lori, Alex and Tylee were questioned at the police headquarters. Please enter valid email address to continue. Melani Pawlowski outside a courthouse in Mesa, Ariz., on Feb. 27, 2020. 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. It just seems very unlikely. investigative reporter Morgan Loew asks Lori Vallow Daybell on March 5, 2020, as she was extradited from Hawaii to Rexburg, Idaho, to face child abandonment charges.
Missing Idaho kids mystery: Older son begs mom to come home Morgan Loew: Chad had this belief that some people who were on this earth weren't really the people they were supposed to be. "I spoke to her the night before she died, and at that point, she just wanted to find out the truth of how [JJ] ended up being murdered - she wanted to know that more than anything - and how he ended up being put in that dysfunctional environment, to begin with. A second suggested that her sudden death at the age of 46 was likely a direct cause of all the anguish and stress she endured losing JJ. The boy was born to Woodcock's son and his wife, but Woodcock and her husband, Larry, cared for him as his biological parents were unable to. They dug up a dog. Charles Vallow had good reason to be scared. Morgan Loew: Somehow, in 17 minutes, there was a grave dug and filled in. Lori Vallow's kids Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow have Joseph Anthony Ryan, is Tylees father. For the first day of trial, the 60 seats available were reportedlyreserved within two minutes. The 7-year-old boy was killed and found buried in a shallow grave in June 2020 on Chad Daybells property. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. They later adopted Joshua Jaxon JJ Vallow. Tammy Daybell was initially described as having died in her sleep of natural causes. / CBS News. Ryan, 27, is Vallow Daybells only living child. He was last seen on Sept. 23, 2019, at Kennedy Elementary School in Rexburg, according to KPVI. But by 2019, that marriage had also soured. Morgan Loew: That night, we know Alex was in his own apartment. Meanwhile, Chad Daybells wife, Tammy Daybell, died suddenly in October, and he and Vallow Daybell married two weeks later. Alex Cox was the brother of Vallow Daybell who fatally shot his sisters husband, Charles Vallow, in Arizona. That's not that's not what a friend does. According to a probable cause affidavit filed against Daybell, Gibb told authorities she had visited the couple at their home between Sept. 19, 2019, and Sept. 23, 2019. He and his wife Tammy had five children. Daybell waived his right to a speedy trial, and a judge granted the request, so his will happen at a later date.
J. J. Vallow Biological Parents, Age, Siblings, Charles Vallow Chad Daybell is also charged in the triple murder case. By the time the deadline came around on January 30, Lori had failed to comply with the order. Her father was Vallows third husband, Joseph Ryan, who died of a heart attack in 2018 and had been in a bitter custody battle with Vallow over Tylee. First Republic Bank seized by regulators, then sold to JPMorgan Chase, Reward offered as manhunt for Texas shooting suspect reaches "dead end", Louisiana's health care deserts put women, babies at risk, doctors say, How a tall Texan became an unlikely Australian rules football star, Second convoy of U.S. citizens fleeing Khartoum arrives at Port Sudan, ISIS chief killed by Turkey's intelligence agency, Erdogan says, General Mills issues Gold Medal flour recall over salmonella concerns, Investors sue Adidas over Kanye West Yeezy deal, Shaquil Barrett's 2-year-old daughter dies in drowning accident, Sheriff says Texas shooting suspect "could be anywhere now", Top moments in "doomsday mom" Lori Vallow Daybell's murder trial, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell case: A timeline of events, A timeline of events in the Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell case, charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder, charged with conspiring to murder her late husband, convinced that doomsday is around the corner. Wiped out in late September 2019 roughly two weeks after the big sister he adored disappeared. April Raymond: She did everything for JJ, everything for Tylee. They both had deception in them.. On January 25, 2020, Lori was issued an ultimatum by police: She had five days to produce JJ and Tylee to authorities, otherwise, she'd be arrested. Patti Aronofsky is the senior producer. Benjamin Hyde: That was the number one thing that told me something was horribly wrong . And then Police tracked his cell phone to Lori's apartment at 2:45 in the morning on September 9th. The day after, Lori Vallow informed the school JJ would not be attending anymore. 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.". I I shot my brother-in-law in self-defense.". So angry she was still talking about it when the Rexburg police first came to her door looking for JJ.
A look at who's who in the murder trial of slain kids' mom The 7-year-old boy was killed and found buried in a shallow grave in June 2020 on Chad Daybells property. ROB WOOD: OK. And then what did she tell you? She had heard enough excuses. RAY HERMOSILLO: I observed what looked to be brown human hair. Kay and Larry Woodcock are JJs biological grandparents, who were outspoken to the media as authorities searched for Tylee and JJ. 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. I felt in shock. Tylee Ryan was Vallow Daybells biological daughter. J.J.s birth father is Kay Woodcocks son, who lost custody of the boy before he was adopted by Charles and Lori Vallow. A jury of 10 men and eight women will hear the case. Hey Lori. Police had followed Alex's Cox's cellphone data to the children's graves, and on June 9, 2020, Chad Daybell was arrested. April Raymond: And she had described Tylee as having a dark spirit. While not yet scheduled, his lawyers initially asked for it to be pushed back to the fall of 2023. The friend, Melanie Gibb, told police she had not seen JJ for months. 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 most famous missing children in America. Leger's death came almost exactly two years after JJ's remains were found. Alex told them Charles and Lori got into a fight. That was such a huge red flag to me. RAY HERMOSILLO [in court]: They began pulling up the sod and topsoil which revealed three large white rocks, flat rocks. He adopted Colby Ryan and was the biological father of Tylee. As a baby, JJ JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan at Yellowstone National Park on September 8, 2019. Margaret Travillion: We're gonna talk about JJ dancing in heaven. "Part of her mission on Earth was to eliminate the darkness, the demonic the evil," Raymond said. Lori Vallows murder trial is underway, a complicated case in which she is accused of killing two of her children and her estranged husband and conspiring to kill her current husbands late wife.
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