Morgan Loew: Chad had this belief that some people who were on this earth weren't really the people they were supposed to be. April 28, 2022 - Judge Boyce denied request from Chad Daybell's attorney to drop his charges. I can only say it didn't feel right. that's a real thing. In 2016, the Vallow family moved back to Arizona. One payment was sent on October 10, with a message that read "we love you", and the second payment was sent on October 16, with a heart emoji. Michael McHugh, Diana Modica and Jack Pyle are the editors. This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 19:21. [49], More than a week later, Gibb called police saying that both Lori and Chad had asked her to lie to police about J.J.'s whereabouts but she refused. Chad Daybell, a former gravedigger turned author, podcaster and doomsday prophet, was a married father of five. Jonathan Vigliotti: What did you think when you saw the photos of Chad and Lori in Hawaii, the ukulele in hand all smiles. But what killed them? April Raymond: There were people from all walks of life at that memorial And it didn't really matter our differences, but we were all there for Tylee and JJ. Court documents later show that Tylee's body was dismembered and partially burned, while J.J.'s body was wrapped in black plastic bags and secured with duct tape. March 21, 2022 - Judge denied Chad Daybell's request to separate his case from Lori Vallow's case. Recently released autopsy reports, photos, and results have provided crucial insight into the cause of their deaths. This story previously aired on October 3, 2020. [16], On October 9, 2019, Tammy reported on her Facebook profile and to police that she had been shot at, in her driveway, by a masked man with what she believed was a defective paintball marker. With Lori now in jail, Chad Daybell returned home. In a troubling sign of the deception to come, Lori told a completely different story to JJ's school Lauren's Institute for Education or LIFE. [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. But it was Tylee's bond with JJ that Vaisia will always remember. 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 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. 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. I just can't bear that thought. Noah Rodriguez. CBS News. 0:57. Daybell was a former gravedigger-turned-novelist and podcaster from Rexburg, Idaho, who some say was something of a local cult leader, says Morgan. The discovery of the children in Chad Daybell's backyard was the result of a complicated six-month investigation that unraveled a sordid tale of murder, greed and religious fanaticism a story that began with their mother, Lori Vallow, who, to her friend April Raymond, was a woman who once seemed incapable of harming her own children. LORI VALLOW: That's why the neighbors don't know us very well. Now the cold glare of death would shift focus to Chad Daybell's family. Morgan Loew: What was striking about the footage that we saw was that There's no remorse. February 24, 2006 Lori Ryan marries Charles Vallow. he never hesitated to resort to violence if he believed he was defending his sister. March 9, 1990 Chad Daybell and Tamara Douglas are married. The body of Chad's wife, Tammy Daybell, has been exhumed and investigators are now calling her death suspicious. He's there for a couple of hours. The police blurred Tylee's face, because she was a minor. 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. Lori Daybell is a devoted mother and she resents assertions to the contrary. Cox (who changed his surname to Pastenes, the surname of his wife) died on December 12, 2019. Investigative reporter and CBS News consultant Morgan Loew has covered this story since the beginning. UNIDENTFIED PERSON #1: Could you get a hold of her at some point and say, "Can you please call back the officer that's been trying to call you?". OFFICER DORENBUSH: OK. [38] Charles was also concerned for Tylee, but he was unable to include her in the filings as she was not his biological daughter and thus he had no legal standing. By the summer of 2019, Charles Vallow had gone to the police twice claiming there was something desperately wrong with his estranged wife Lori Vallow. April Raymond: I feel like it's difficult to conceive of a scenario where she didn't. [48] There they told others that Tylee had died in 2017 and/or that Lori had no minor children. 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. Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow died grisly deaths, and police allege their mother, Lori Vallow, was behind the murders. DET. He and his wife Tammy had five children. This finding was officially confirmed by Rexburg police on June 13. [49] When police reached Gibb by phone, she told police that J.J. was not with her and had not been there for several months. Cox legally changed his name to Alex Pastenes just before his marriage. He also claimed he could read light and dark auras. 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. Around 2015, Lori read Chad Daybell's Standing in Holy Places series of books, reportedly becoming "obsessed" with them. Do you think she played an active role in the deaths of her children? The remains of the two children . Due to this, there is a stay in her case in Idaho. Alex Cox, Lori's brother, incredibly, had also died. And with Alex Cox went a whole incredible amount of potential information that investigators could've used on this case. ST. ANTHONY, Idaho A married couple accused in a triple murder case will be tried separately, an Idaho judge ruled Thursday. 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. The only thing we we can know for sure is that At one point, whoever did this, dismembered her body and burned it. ROB WOOD: What did she ask you to do with that, again? In the fall of 2018, Lori and her friend Melanie Gibb attended a "Preparing a People" event, where Lori was introduced to Chad for the first time. At Chad Daybell's preliminary hearing, Detective Ray Hermosillo testified the child was covered head to toe in duct tape. READ ALSO: Where was Cooper Noriega found? [33], On February 24, 2006, Lori married Leland Anthony Vallow (August 17, 1956, Calcasieu, Louisiana July 11, 2019, Chandler, Arizona), commonly known as Charles Vallow, in Las Vegas, Nevada. An aerial view of Todd Daybell's backyard, where the remains of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan were found in June. 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. POLICE OFFICER [Bodycam video]: Hi, who are are you? [Lori speaks] OK, just stand over there for just a second, guys. And the only way to release their spirits to heaven was to kill the bodies. We know that Lori was angry about that. Little is known about his death as investigators await results from an ongoing autopsy. December 2011 Alex Cox's probation ends more than one year before it was originally scheduled to end (May 2013). Morgan Loew: Alex was Lori's protector. 911 DISPATCHER: And is he hurt? Soon after the newlyweds returned to Rexburg from Hawaii, JJ's grandmother, Kay Woodcock, sounded the alarm. They wanted to start fresh. Chad's home was also searched by investigators. 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. April 11, 2022 - Judge Boyce declares that Lori Vallow is now competent to stand trial. It takes a community to raise one of our children and JJ had a community. Soon his secret was out. Police. Morgan Loew: the same color hair as JJ Vallow. Joshua, aged 7, and Tylee, age 16, went to Yellowstone National park with Loris and Loris's Brother. Lori and Chad Daybell were charged with the same crime: conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. Lori later told police that she walked past Vallow on the floor and went outside. [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. Tylee was really protective over JJ. Cox was never charged in connection to Charles Vallow's death. Morgan Loew: What happened to those kids is is horrendous. June 9, 2020 Human remains are found on Chad Daybell's property in. Inside they discovered items belonging to or associated with Tylee and J.J., such as clothing, bikes, and photographs, all of which had been abandoned when Lori suddenly left Rexburg at the end of November 2019. He and Tammy moved there from Springville, Utah, that June. 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. Prosecutors charged Lori with conspiracy to murder Charles in June of this year, shortly after she was indicted over the deaths of her kids. Instead of helping search, they skipped off to another vacation back in Hawaii. Lori was held on US$5 million bail. She ignored it and was arrested on the island of Kauai on child abandonment charges. It was updated on May 29, 2021. Remember, Tylee was there the day Charles Vallow was killed. February 2019 to March 2019 Lori Vallow disappears for 58 days. 2 men found drugged after leaving NYC gay bars were killed, medical examiner says. In late 2019, he married Zulema Pastenes in, Daybell has been known by a variety of different legal names. POLICE OFFICER [Bodycam video]: How long have you lived here? But I love you with all my heart, and I have forever, and I will always love you. But what about the man who led them to Daybell's backyard? and she was kind of like another mama to him. "48 Hours" reached out to Chad and Lori's attorneys to ask whether their clients had some involvement in the children's deaths. LORI VALLOW: Wow, this is a big mess, I just talked to the guy on the phone. Police efforts to locate J.J. led to the discovery that Tylee was also missing. It was a fresh start all right, but not in California. Judy Tygard is the executive producer. Margaret Travillion | LIFE co-founder: Our administrator came into my office. 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. ', [] the children are not with Chad and Lori. Seventh District Judge Steven Boyce determined that . June 13, 2020 Authorities officially confirm the remains are those of the children. When JJ was there, you knew he was there. [56] On May 27, 2021, Lori was found incompetent and unfit to stand trial, and her case was stayed. Jonathan Vigliotti: What did you think when you read that email? Conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in relation to the death of her first husband, Charles Vallow; Beneath the rocks, they found thin pieces of wood paneling. [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. Then he goes back to his apartment, and then, after 9 in the morning, his cell phone appears in Chad Daybell's backyard. In 2001, Lori married Joseph Anthony Ryan Jr., who legally adopted Colby. On January 31, 2019, Charles Vallow is seen on police bodycam video tell officers his wife had become "unhinged," and had threatened to murder him. The whole school turned out to celebrate the little boy who loved to dance. Her younger adopted brother, J.J., was last seen alive on September 23, 2019, at Rexburg's Kennedy Elementary School. October 9, 2019 Tamara "Tammy" Daybell calls police after a masked assailant attempted to shoot her in her garage with what she believed was a paintball gun. The results were completed by February 2021 but have not been made public. March 3, 2023 - Judge has severed the case of Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow. Their cases have been merged and their team has moved to dismiss the charges and obtain a change of venue. ALEX COX: Yeah, there's blood. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the son of Vallow's subsequent . [52] At least two local bond companies were reportedly unwilling to work with her. 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. Hey Lori. There has been no new trial date set. Echo Itaaehau [in tears]: I just can't bear the thought of Tylee being scared and JJ being scared or know or knowing what was happening and by who. Morgan Loew: I don't know that regular people could begin to understand how he could live in that house All the while those kids were buried 50 feet away in the backyard. April Raymond: I feel like whatever story we were given about how Charles was killed was not the truth. How come you're not telling anybody where your kids are?" JJ had autism and Lori seemed the ideal mother for him, says Raymond. And he had so many people that loved him and wanted him. 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. No post-mortem or autopsy was initially performed. She was extradited to Idaho and transported there by officials on March 5, 2020. Julia Allen: He was a spitfire, for sure. [14], In 2015, Chad claimed he heard a voice telling him to relocate to Rexburg, Idaho. Speculation and rumors have swirled, leaving the public with more questions than answers. LORI VALLOW: I don't know why you're being controversial to me or if you're recording this conversation for the police or whatever. 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. Tylee spent what's believed to be the last day of her life at Yellowstone National Park with Lori, JJ and Alex. And I'll always remember them like that. December 11, 2019 Authorities decide to further investigate the death of Tammy Daybell. MELANIE GIBB: Take a picture of random kids to make it look like it was JJ. Evidence was collected, and Tammy's body was exhumed for autopsy. Vaisia Itaaehau: She was a fan of his writing. 2001 Lori Norene Cox marries Joseph Anthony Ryan Jr. September 24, 2002 Tylee Ryan is born to Lori and Joseph, who later divorce. In 2004, Chad founded Spring Creek Book Company, which he used to self-publish his end times fiction and other religious books. ROB WOOD: How did Alex Cox bring JJ into the house? I never even considered that they weren't. 2007 Alex Cox (Lori's brother) attacks Joseph Ryan with a taser and threatens his life; Cox sentenced to 90 days in jail and 5 years of probation. Chad believed the "Dark" individuals were from this earth but were followers of Satan. Vallow had two sons from a previous marriage, Nicholas and Zachary Chase. Cox says Tylee came out of her room with a bat. Below that, a layer of black plastic. Lori Vallow Daybell and her husband Chad Daybell were set to stand trial on April 3, 2023, over the murders of her children, JJ, 7, and Tylee, 17, but at a status hearing, Judge Boyce severed the . Yeah. [57] She has since been deemed competent to stand trial after mental health treatment, incompetent, and again competent. Inside Edition obtained court documents unearthed by social media sleuths that appear to show concerns voiced by an . 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. February 4, 2021 Prosecutor Lindsey Blake takes over the Fremont County case involving Tamara Daybell's death.