', [] the children are not with Chad and Lori. May 2, 2022 - The prosecution announced that they will be seeking the death penalty for Lori Vallow. 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. Cindy Cesare and Alyssa Estrada are the lead development producers. I felt in shock. BOISE Additional testing is underway on the bodies of Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow after the Ada County Coroner's Office completed autopsies earlier this month. Remember, Tylee was there the day Charles Vallow was killed. They abandon everything in Rexburg, including the contents of Lori's storage unit, and disappear until found in Kauai in late January. October 8, 2021 - Judge grants Chad Daybell's request for a change of venue. January 30, 2020 Lori misses court-ordered deadline to produce J.J. and Tylee. All that potential, all that love gone. And I'll always remember them like that. MELANIE GIBB: Hi Chad. Even if her mother didn't [cries]. 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. 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 . There has been no new trial date set. His birth name was Canaan Todd Trahan. J. J. was last seen on the evening of September 22, 2019, at his mother Lori Daybell's Rexburg apartment. Margaret Travillion: Because he was amazing. The way they found that body leads you to believe that JJ was still alive Because you don't go through all that trouble to somebody who's already dead. "48 Hours" and correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti detail the investigation into the heartbreaking national search for two missing children, the life of their mother Lori Vallow, and what is ahead in the case against Vallow and her new husband Chad Daybell, who have each been indicted on murder charges for the deaths of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow. Morgan Loew: It appears that Chandler Police believe Lori had something to do with Charles's death. Below that, a layer of black plastic. Video footage shows her and her brother, Alex Cox,[c] moving items in and out of the locker prior to her departure. The two soon began a private communication. Chad showed his support in the courtroom as Lori was extradited to Rexburg, Idaho. Authorities believe it is was they who embraced the darkness. Morgan Loew: I think what Lori didn't bank on was that Melanie had a conscience and Melanie was really worried about what happened. And evilness took over their bodies. His uncle Alex Cox later went to take J. J. to his apartment. Her younger adopted brother, J.J., was last seen alive on September 23, 2019, at Rexburg's Kennedy Elementary School. "Where are your kids? Lori was both thrilled and attracted to this belief system and became increasingly fixated on this newfound "purpose" and on Chad. RAY HERMOSILLO: Under the bucket was a partial human skull. January 2529, 2021 Lori Vallow's trial for the misdemeanor charges was scheduled to begin. June 29, 2020 Police execute another search warrant at the home of Chad Daybell. The whole school turned out to celebrate the little boy who loved to dance. 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. 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[Lori speaks] OK, just stand over there for just a second, guys. [27] At age 22, she married 23-year-old William Lagioia in Travis County, Texas, on October 22, 1995. 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 . Ryan filed for divorce on August 13, 2004, which was finalized on May 18, 2005. April Raymond traveled from Utah to Rexburg, Idaho, where it all began. 0:57. It was updated on May 29, 2021. While JJ was missing, no one at his old school spoke his name as if that somehow made it less real. 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. Cox says he came back and shot Charles Vallow dead. April 19, 2022 - Lori Vallow is arraigned. JJ was wrapped in plastic and. Tylee was really protective over JJ. Benjamin Hyde: That gives me the willies, look at this! '", Through their lawyer, the Daybells stated that, "Chad Daybell was a loving husband and he has the support of his children in this matter. February 24, 2006 Lori Ryan marries Charles Vallow. [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. OFFICER DORENBUSH: OK. Lori and Chad Daybell were charged with the same crime: conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. According to Gibb, Chad stated that he had lived 31 different lives on various earth-like planets. At 9:55 a.m. on September 23, 2019, Cox returned to Chad Daybell's backyard. January 25, 2020 Local authorities locate Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow in. [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. August 7, 2020 It is reported that Chandler, Arizona Police are planning to file a conspiracy to commit murder charge against Lori Daybell for the death of Charles Vallow. Tylee was last seen September 8, 2019, at Yellowstone National Park with her brother J.J., her mother Lori, and her uncle Alex Cox,[c] Lori's brother. The scary story tells about the life and crimes of Lori Vallow Daybell, who has been called the "doomsday mom" by the media. Margaret Travillion | LIFE co-founder: Our administrator came into my office. February 10, 2020 CBS News reports police found Tylee's cell phone with Lori's belongings in Hawaii. Judge Mallard decided to decrease bond to US$50,000 on each charge, totaling US$150,000, but noted that Chad would still need to post US$1 million in neighboring Fremont County to get out of jail. 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. They found a melted bucket. in journalism,[14] and worked as a cemetery sexton, or gravedigger, among other jobs. [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. Morgan Loew: Every time, Kay Woodcock, would call, there would be a different excuse about where the kids were. 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. 911 DISPATCHER: And is he hurt? [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. They both had unconditional love for each other. LORI VALLOW: He's with one of my friends in Arizona. That's an awful coincidence . And that there was a demon living inside of him. But no one acted on it and Vallow let his guard down. Do you think she played an active role in the deaths of her children? One of the many tributes to JJ and Tylee. But around 2017, friends say Lori's relationships with her kids began to shift about the time she started reading the books of Chad Daybell. Echo Itaaehau: I didn't. Both Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow were found dead in Chad Daybell's estate in Salem, Idaho, and their cause of death is still not confirmed. 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. 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?". DET. CHAD DAYBELL phone call]: Hello, sweet Melanie. Back then, the only two people who didn't seem concerned were Lori and Chad. Chad Cox talks with police after shooting Charles Vallow. Reality and justice were not far behind. POLICE OFFICER [Bodycam video]: How long have you lived here? 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. [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. A warning: what you are about to read may be disturbing. [16] In 2007, Ryan was attacked by Lori's brother, Alexander Lamar "Alex" Cox, who claimed Ryan had been abusive to Lori and the children. Tylee Ryan’s cause of death. A smiling Lori Vallow on police bodycam video after learning her husband was dead. 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. Joshua, aged 7, and Tylee, age 16, went to Yellowstone National park with Loris and Loris's Brother. Police had followed Alex's Cox's cellphone data to the children's graves, and on June 9, 2020, Chad Daybell was arrested. They just I really thought he was comin' home. In court, Melanie Gibb described getting a call from Lori asking her to back up the "Frozen" story: MELANIE GIBB: and that she told the police that I had JJ, that I was at a movie called "Frozen," that she asked me just to pick up my phone and take a picture, random picture of kids running around. A cemetery posted a personal ad for a goose whose mate died. 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. An Idaho judge says Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell's triple murder case will be tried separately. Cox legally changed his name to Alex Pastenes just before his marriage. April Raymond JJ was very difficult to take care of So I really admired how patient she was with him and how much care she took of him. On February 20, 2020, Lori was arrested in Kauai, Hawaii, and charged with desertion and nonsupport of her dependent children. 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. They are investigating her for conspiracy to commit murder. Morgan Loew: Charles He was worried about his safety and the safety of his children. [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. Police Department released video of the full interview they conducted with Tylee Ryan following the death of her stepfather, Charles Vallow After a year, the police officers found dead bodies in the Daybells estate. [57] She has since been deemed competent to stand trial after mental health treatment, incompetent, and again competent. Since the children's remains were found, they are no longer considered missing and the investigation is now focused on determining the circumstances surrounding their deaths.[60][61][62]. In late 2019, he married Zulema Pastenes in, Daybell has been known by a variety of different legal names. Morgan Loew: Everybody was hoping in the back of their minds that maybe there was a chance the kids were alive. Lori told Gibb she was hiding JJ because he was in danger. "Paint til you're blue." Nancy Kramer is the executive story editor. They wanted to start fresh. JJ and Tylee Autopsy Report The couple, Lori Willow and Daybell, are charged with first-degree killing and are on death row, so the court hasn't released the autopsy results yet. 1:11. 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. His last confirmed sighting was at Rexburg's Kennedy Elementary School. But the horror was just beginning to unfold. A #forensic expert looks at what we know of evidence and where. The court released an audio-only version of that conversation. and I really love JJ. He passed away in 2018 of natural causes, according to investigators. And he had so much love- - so much love. 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. And with Alex Cox went a whole incredible amount of potential information that investigators could've used on this case. This is Chad Daybell's backyard. Lori's attorney had no comment and Chad's attorney did not respond. March 3, 2023 - Judge has severed the case of Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow. July 29, 2021 Prosecution drops charges for counts of conspiracy to destroy, alter, or conceal evidence against Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow. And we got nothing for me to raise JJ. CHANDLER POLICE OFFICER [bodycam video]: So, you get in an argument? However, in June 2020, the remains of the two children were found buried on the property of Chad Daybell, who has been charged with multiple counts related to their deaths. [2], Complicating circumstances around the disappearances was a string of suspicious deaths. I didn't hold it together at all. 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. "When I think of Tylee and JJ, I just think of fun and love. She was released from the mental health facility into the custody of the Fremont County Sherriff. POLICE OFFICER [Bodycam video]: Hi, who are are you? Jonathan Vigliotti is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. And then Police tracked his cell phone to Lori's apartment at 2:45 in the morning on September 9th. 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. Yeah. Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow died grisly deaths, and police allege their mother, Lori Vallow, was behind the murders. [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. Vallow had two sons from a previous marriage, Nicholas and Zachary Chase. Because so many people were affected. Vallow Daybell's children missing children, Joshua "JJ" Vallow, and Tylee Ryan are . 2 men found drugged after leaving NYC gay bars were killed, medical examiner says. Morgan Loew: What happened to those kids is is horrendous. 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. She had heard enough excuses. 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October 31/November 1, 2019 Alex Cox and Lori's niece, Melani Boudreaux, reportedly seen by Melani's ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux, packing up in. 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. Lori goes from saying people are out to get her "I just feel like I'm being tracked all the time. Cox (who changed his surname to Pastenes, the surname of his wife) died on December 12, 2019. READ ALSO: Where was Cooper Noriega found? December 2011 Alex Cox's probation ends more than one year before it was originally scheduled to end (May 2013). Tammy's autopsy took so long since it began, Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow have been charged with conspiracy to hide the bodies of her two kids, Tylee Ryan, 17, and JJ Vallow, 7, on his Salem property and are facing a summertime trial in Fremont County, Idaho in part because she had been dead for two months by the time she was exhumed . His cell phone left a digital map. No post-mortem or autopsy was initially performed. And just let them know that I love them, and I've never met anyone like them. 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 . Back in Rexburg, on November 26, police visited Lori's townhouse at the request of J.J.'s grandmother, Kay Woodcock, to conduct a welfare check on J.J. Lori told police that J.J. was in Arizona with a family friend, Melanie Gibb. On Dec. 20, 2019, the Rexburg Police Department went public on their search for JJ and Tylee. Gibb later recalled Chad lavishing attention on Lori and expounding upon his unusual religious beliefs and "the deeper mysteries of God" with a small group of the overnight guests. April Raymond: Tylee had a network of people that really did love her, and I don't know if she knew that. 2001 Lori Norene Cox marries Joseph Anthony Ryan Jr. September 24, 2002 Tylee Ryan is born to Lori and Joseph, who later divorce. Alex told them Charles and Lori got into a fight. 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. April Raymond says Lori told her one of those evil beings was her own husband Charles Vallow. Vaisia Itaaehau: I just always had that hope that they were alive. 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. April Raymond: Part of her mission on Earth was to eliminate the darkness, the demonic the evil. It's like not a care in the world. July 17, 2020 Lori Daybell's jury trial was set in Madison County for January 2529, 2021, on three misdemeanor charges. His partner in this venture was a man identified in media only by the name Douglas, a graphic artist and manager. September 24, 2019 Lori informs J.J.'s school that he will no longer be attending and will be homeschooled instead. Police in Hawaii searched Lori's rental car looking for evidence of the kids. Lori's brother, Alex Cox, the man she considered her protector, moved into the same complex. [9][10][11] Chad was arrested later that day on charges of destruction or concealment of evidence. JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan found dead. March 6, 2020 In first hearing after being extradited from Hawaii to Idaho, court lowers bail from $5 million to $1 million. The police arrived and shot video of Cox on the curb outside the home. Autopsy confirms remains found on Chad Daybell's property belong to JJ Vallow, Tylee Ryan Chad Daybell was booked into the Fremont County Jail after police say they found what appears to be human . Cox was born Alexander Lamar Cox and was known by the diminutive "Alex". He's perfectly fine. CHARLES VALLOW [to Officer Dorenbush]: She's psychologically, she's gone. This is an area the Daybell family called the pet cemetery. She was extradited to Idaho and transported there by officials on March 5, 2020. End of 2014 Charles and Lori move to Kauai, Hawaii, with Tylee and J.J. April 3, 2018 Joseph Ryan dies of apparent heart attack. He's the sweetest soul I've ever met. ALEX COX: Well it was over my sister. [54], On June 9, 2020, police executed a search warrant at Chad's home, where they discovered human remains buried in a purported pet cemetery.