CHANDLER POLICE OFFICER [bodycam video]: So, you get in an argument? Morgan Loew: Somehow, in 17 minutes, there was a grave dug and filled in. [46], As of September23, 2019[update], a doorbell video of J.J. playing with a friend is the last known video of him taken. Jonathan Vigliotti: What went on in your mind when, weeks after Tammy died, Chad and Lori get married? Both J.J. and Tylee had witnessed the incident; according to an unidentified son of Charles' from a previous marriage, Lori did not inform the family about the shooting and he learned about it from the news. July 17, 2020 Lori Daybell's jury trial was set in Madison County for January 2529, 2021, on three misdemeanor charges. This finding was officially confirmed by Rexburg police on June 13. Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell to be tried separately in triple murder case The scary story tells about the life and crimes of Lori Vallow Daybell, who has been called the "doomsday mom" by the media. RAY HERMOSILLO: Under the bucket was a partial human skull. November 4, 2019 Alex Cox and Melani Boudreaux arrive in Rexburg. There were so many times that I would die laughing. November 5, 2019 Lori Vallow marries Chad Daybell in Hawaii. Chad showed his support in the courtroom as Lori was extradited to Rexburg, Idaho. He passed away in 2018 of natural causes, according to investigators. I wish that she had known that there were people that really loved her. [6][7][8] On June 9, 2020, police executed a search warrant at Chad's home and discovered the remains of J.J. and Tylee. The Chandler (Az.) Tylee was really protective over JJ. Vallow had two sons from a previous marriage, Nicholas and Zachary Chase. 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. Lori and Chad Daybell were charged with conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. LORI VALLOW: My husband switched his life insurance policy to her right? Lori later told police that she walked past Vallow on the floor and went outside. Vaisia Itaaehau: I just always had that hope that they were alive. After JJ and Tylee's remains were found, they were taken to the Ada County Coroner's Office for an autopsy. And when she actually got to talk with him, it, yeah, just escalated from there. A guardian who was involved in the custody battle between Lori Vallow and Tylee Ryan's father expressed concern about Tylee's well-being a decade before she and her younger brother were found dead. 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 . When JJ was there, you knew he was there. The court released an audio-only version of that conversation. May 29, 2021 / 10:42 PM The remains of 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and her 7-year-old adopted brother JJ Vallow were found in shallow graves in June 2020. Within an hour of entering the house that morning, Vallow was lying on the floor in a pool of blood shot in the chest by Alex Cox. Everyone wanted to know what happened to them. And so, I'm not sure what hijacked that priority. 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. and she was kind of like another mama to him. They saw him several times during their stay. At Chad Daybell's preliminary hearing, Detective Ray Hermosillo testified the child was covered head to toe in duct tape. Morgan Loew: Chad had this belief that some people who were on this earth weren't really the people they were supposed to be. But as they dug further, they found some things that were strange. Because, by golly, he has to be dancing in heaven. I can't conceive of a scenario where she wasn't involved. JJ & Tylee Vallow's Causes of Death: How Did They Die? - Heavy.com Chad Cox talks with police after shooting Charles Vallow. So, what makes her a danger to herself and to others? And finally. [17], No post-mortem or autopsy was performed on Tammy's body at the time, as Chad had declined to do so and the county coroner did not overrule his decision. She finally reached out to the police. "[16], Authorities soon turned their attention to a Rexburg storage locker rented by Lori in October 2019. POLICE OFFICER [bodycam audio]: So, we're here . Vaisia Itaaehau: She took beautiful pictures, so we would just go to the beach and just take pictures and kind of capture certain moments She was just so clever and always just like really quick comebacks, like so witty. She remains incarcerated in Kauai awaiting extradition to Idaho. Chad Daybell and Lori' Vallow's hula dancing days were numbered. You do it to keep them from yelling or talking. November 30, 2019 Newly divorced Melani Boudreaux marries Ian Pawlowski of Rexburg in Las Vegas, one day after Alex Cox (Melani's uncle) wed Zulema Pastenes. Especially Tylee was a liability for what she knew. Documents detail horrific manner JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan were found in OFFICER DORENBUSH: She threatened to murder you? [15] Chad and Tammy had five children: Garth, Emma, Seth, Leah, and Mark. Lori's brother, Alex Cox, the man she considered her protector, moved into the same complex. If there is a picture book that captures the JJ Vallow educators at LIFE school came to love, Margaret Travillion says it's this one: "Wherever you are my love will find you. Margaret Travillion: Because he was amazing. The heartbreaking deaths of Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow have remained a mystery to many. 'Cause I didn't want to. Gibb and Warwick testified that Cox put JJ to bed in Lori's room. December 28, 2021 - Judge removes Mark Means from Lori Vallow's defense team because there is a conflict of interest relating to having previously represented her husband Chad Daybell. Police had followed Alex's Cox's cellphone data to the children's graves, and on June 9, 2020, Chad Daybell was arrested. She ignored it and was arrested on the island of Kauai on child abandonment charges. When the police returned to Lori's home, she embellished her story even more. Tylee's body was dismembered and burned, according to court documents, while JJ's. OFFICER DORENBUSH | Gilbert Police Department: What did she say yesterday? April Raymond: Part of her mission on Earth was to eliminate the darkness, the demonic the evil. In 2016, the Vallow family moved back to Arizona. March 21, 2022 - Judge denied Chad Daybell's request to separate his case from Lori Vallow's case. [19] In 1992, at the age of 19, she married high school boyfriend Nelson Yanes, but the marriage ended in divorce shortly afterwards. It was one of many tributes to the two lost children. MELANIE GIBB: I appreciate those words, but if you really love me, you wouldn't have told the police that I had JJ with me. This is to make sure that she and Chad Daybell will be tried together. Morgan Loew: He said, "I need to report a shooting. That's not that's not what a friend does. Lori was both thrilled and attracted to this belief system and became increasingly fixated on this newfound "purpose" and on Chad. This story previously aired on October 3, 2020. [35] On September 24, 2019, Lori contacted the school to tell them that she was withdrawing J.J. from classes, claiming she would be homeschooling him. I don't know who you are, what you did with Charles. [51] She later agreed to be extradited back to Idaho to fight the charges. A warning: what you are about to read may be disturbing. [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. Sometime between 9 p.m. and midnight on September 22, the last night of their visit, Lori, Melanie and David were in the kitchen doing a religious podcast when Alex Cox appeared. Despite all of Lori's talk about demons inhabiting Charles's body, Morgan Loew says her motive may have been more mundane: money. He had a lot of energy. LT. RON BALL | Rexburg Police Department: Who's he with in Arizona? December 11, 2019 Authorities decide to further investigate the death of Tammy Daybell. RAY HERMOSILLO [in court]: They began pulling up the sod and topsoil which revealed three large white rocks, flat rocks. [57] She has since been deemed competent to stand trial after mental health treatment, incompetent, and again competent. I didn't hold it together at all. Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Tylee Ryan were found dead on the property of their step-father's home this week, police say, a horrific discovery that . And the FBI tracked the messages of Lori and her husband so they could find the real culprit easily. Lori goes from saying people are out to get her "I just feel like I'm being tracked all the time. I'm still not holding it together. At this point in the ongoing investigation, only Chad and Lori know the truth about what happened to JJ and Tylee. It appears the first problem was a 16-year-old girl: Tylee Ryan. LORI VALLOW: OK, sure. Authorities believe it is was they who embraced the darkness. Tylee Ashlyn Ryan (September 24, 2002 - c. September 9, 2019) [a] and Joshua Jaxon " J. J. On the same day, Chad Daybell had a closed hearing. How Did JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan Die? Here's What We Know 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. Chad Daybell, a former gravedigger turned author, podcaster and doomsday prophet, was a married father of five. Because so many people were affected. ROB WOOD: What did she ask you to do with that, again? Gibb handed that secret recording to authorities, and investigators launched a nationwide search but not just for JJ. What is what is happening? 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. To his sister. This is an area the Daybell family called the pet cemetery. ST. ANTHONY, Idaho A married couple accused in a triple murder case will be tried separately, an Idaho judge ruled Thursday. 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. August 26, 2021 - Chad Daybell waives his right to a. August 30, 2021 - Lori Vallow still found to be incompetent, due to incomplete status update from mental health facility. [e] According to Gibb, by the end of the weekend, Chad told Lori the two had been married in seven previous lifetimes. [16] Vallow, a lifelong Catholic, became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), converting to his new wife's faith. Judge severs Chad and Lori Daybell's case - Ksltv.com He reportedly believed he had numerous past lives and could talk to angels. Jonathan Vigliotti: What did you think when you saw the photos of Chad and Lori in Hawaii, the ukulele in hand all smiles. The two soon began a private communication. They found a melted bucket. His lawyers also asked that the trial be pushed back to the fall of 2023. His cell phone left a digital map. [27] At age 22, she married 23-year-old William Lagioia in Travis County, Texas, on October 22, 1995. He's perfectly fine. Morgan Loew: He was at that property for over two hours that morning. Soon his secret was out. The couple was raising two children Tylee, Lori's teenage daughter from a former marriage, and their adopted son JJ, the grandson of Charles's sister Kay Woodcock. DAVID WARWICK: She said that he was being a zombie and climbed up on the cabinets, climbed up on top of the fridge, smashed her picture of Christ down, and then climbed up onto the upper cabinets and got between the top of the cabinet and the ceiling. Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow's Cause of Death: How Did They Die? Did Lori In 2018, Ryan died of a reported heart attack. Video footage shows her and her brother, Alex Cox,[c] moving items in and out of the locker prior to her departure. Just two months before Idaho mom Lori Vallow's two kids went missing, she and her 17-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan spoke to Arizona investigators about the shooting death of Lori's husband, 62 . Cox was never charged in connection to Charles Vallow's death. [16] By February 2019, according to Charles Vallow, Lori was informing him that "she no longer cared about him or J.J." and claimed that she was the reincarnated wife of LDS founder Joseph Smith, then vanished for 58 days. An aerial view of Todd Daybell's backyard, where the remains of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan were found in June. On May 25, 2021, they were formally charged with murder in the first degree in the deaths Tylee and JJ. First published on October 3, 2020 / 11:09 PM. Michael McHugh, Diana Modica and Jack Pyle are the editors. On Dec. 20, 2019, the Rexburg Police Department went public on their search for JJ and Tylee. What is it over? Tylee & JJss Cause Of Death, How Did Tylee & JJs Die? February 8, 2019 Charles Vallow files for divorce from Lori. While JJ was missing, no one at his old school spoke his name as if that somehow made it less real. He previously served as a foreign correspondent for the network's London bureau. They were the center of her world. How are you guys? In a subsequent interview, one of Tammy and Chad's children, Emma, said that her family has not been contacted regarding the results of her mother's autopsy. April Raymond: I feel like they were a liability. 'Cause he had so much possibility. LORI VALLOW: Wow, this is a big mess, I just talked to the guy on the phone. No post-mortem or autopsy was initially performed. Ten days later, Tammy was found dead in her home, purportedly from natural causes. January 2529, 2021 Lori Vallow's trial for the misdemeanor charges was scheduled to begin. This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 19:21. 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? After months of silence, they started speaking JJ's name and couldn't stop. In the filing, Charles claims that, in late January 2019, Lori threatened to murder him if he got in the way of her, July 11, 2019 Charles Vallow is shot dead in. Chad was charged with insurance fraud "related to a life insurance policy he had on Tammy Daybell for which he was the beneficiary and received funds after her death". Chad claimed that she had retired the night before "with a terrible cough" and died in her sleep. Chad and Tammy Daybell's five children remain steadfast in their belief that their father had nothing to do with the death of their mother, or the murders of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan. Margaret Travillion: They say it takes a village to raise a child. Vaisia Itaaehau: If I had one more day with JJ and Tylee, I would want them to know how much they did for me. The remains of the two children . December 5, 2018 Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow meet. LORI VALLOW: He's with one of my friends in Arizona. Reality and justice were not far behind. Lori started doing podcasts with Daybell and began telling people she was a supernatural being appointed by God to lead the 144,000 chosen into the millennium. It was updated on May 29, 2021. LORI VALLOW: Like, "Hi neighbors, sorry" [laughs]. Ryan's sister Annie said on the "Dr. Phil" show that Vallow didn't tell her or other family members about Ryan's death for weeks. Jonathan Vigliotti is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. It was then that they realized his sister Tylee was also missing. [16], Shortly after, the Fremont County prosecutor's office announced they would be handling the case going forward. A #forensic expert looks at what we know of evidence and where. LORI VALLOW: Well, they were going to "Frozen "2 today, so they may be at the movies. The two have been indicted on several charges in connection to the deaths of two of Lori's children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, and Chad's first wife, Tammy Daybell: Lori Vallow Daybell JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan First-degree murder; . Some details of their last moments and autopsy have not been made. Jonathan Vigliotti: Why do you think the children were murdered? February 24, 2020 In child custody court documents. CHAD DAYBELL phone call]: Hello, sweet Melanie. I never even considered that they weren't. Then came the news that he was never coming back. Tylee Ryan cause of death - vimbuzz.com The judge denied her request. Morgan Loew: What happened to those kids is is horrendous. Tylee and JJ Cause of Death: What Reason Does Their Autopsy Report Their conversation was recorded on the officer's bodycam. I didn't hold it together at all. So angry she was still talking about it when the Rexburg police first came to her door looking for JJ. Morgan Loew: It's hard to discount the idea that a million-dollar life insurance policy would be a motive for a murder. Morgan Loew: Lori, at that point takes JJ to school. Police. [56] On May 27, 2021, Lori was found incompetent and unfit to stand trial, and her case was stayed. 1:11. August 6, 2021 James Archibald, a death-penalty-certified attorney, is appointed as co-counsel for Lori Vallow. January 30, 2020 Lori misses court-ordered deadline to produce J.J. and Tylee. That was such a huge red flag to me. Cindy Cesare and Alyssa Estrada are the lead development producers. DET. [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. We know that Lori was angry about that. And they cut through that. Tylee Ryan autopsy report Obituary Tylee Ryan autopsy report By Samuel Sasu May 4, 2022 On June 10, 2020, the Woodcock and Ryan families confirmed that the human remains discovered on Chad's property were those of Tylee and J.J. Morgan Loew: Everybody was hoping in the back of their minds that maybe there was a chance the kids were alive. Autopsies for 'Cult mom' children found dead in Chad Daybell's backyard Due to this, there is a stay in her case in Idaho. Why haven't the remains of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan been released to ALEX COX: Well it was over my sister. to that big life insurance payout Kay Woodcock got from Charles Vallow. Morgan Loew: We know that shortly after Charles's death, Lori tried to claim that life insurance policy he had changed the beneficiary to his sister. March 9, 1990 Chad Daybell and Tamara Douglas are married. She also believed she had been appointed another, more ominous role, says Raymond. Lori and her new fifth husband, Chad Guy Daybell, claimed that J.J. was staying with family friend Melanie Gibb in Arizona, where they had lived before moving to Idaho in early September 2019, which Gibb later denied. April Raymond says Lori told her one of those evil beings was her own husband Charles Vallow. East. Cox says Tylee came out of her room with a bat. Ryan filed for divorce on August 13, 2004, which was finalized on May 18, 2005. CHARLES VALLOW [to police officer]: She's unhinged. On May 1, 2020, Lori appeared for a court hearing in Rexburg to request a reduction of her $1 million bail. this one sticks this one is bad. Neither is Echo Itaaehau's daughter Vaisia, one of Tylee's best friends. Lori's attorney had no comment and Chad's attorney did not respond. [34] In 2013, the couple adopted Vallow's grandnephew, Joshua Jaxon "J.J." Vallow (born 2012),[35] and in late 2014, they moved to Kauai, Hawaii.[16]. An Idaho judge says Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell's triple murder case will be tried separately. 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. Investigators contended that "'Joshua and Tylee's lives are in danger. The children hadn't been seen alive since the fall of 2019. ", Margaret Travillion [reading aloud] "If you're working or playing or sitting with friends you can [cries] dance til you're dizzy." [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. He's not moving. April Raymond: And she had described Tylee as having a dark spirit. Recently released autopsy reports, photos, and results have provided crucial insight into the cause of their deaths. Cox alleged that he went to confront Charles about abusing his sister, whereupon "Charles Vallow struck him in the head with the bat, so he went to get his gun. May 25, 2012 Joshua Jaxon "J.J." Vallow is born, the son of Charles Vallow's nephew. I just kind of loved how she would just play with him and just always have, like, a really good time with him. October 2019 Lori's brother, Alex Cox, believed to be seen on video security footage using Lori's storage unit numerous times during this period, usually alone. The corpses of J.J. and Tylee were discovered at Chad’s residence on June 9, 2020, after authorities carried out a search order there. Lori and Chad Daybell were charged with the same crime: conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. They are investigating her for conspiracy to commit murder. RAY HERMOSILLO: I observed what looked to be brown human hair. "Outside and . Authorities in Arizona are also investigating the shooting death of Lori's former husband, Charles Vallow. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. And with Alex Cox went a whole incredible amount of potential information that investigators could've used on this case.