Trigger warning: This post contains child harm and murder, and talk of the end of days and doomsday.
Rexburg, Idaho is where our story begins and ultimately ends. Lori has been called a lot of things in the media. "Cult mom", "doomsday mom", and above all, a murderous mom. I know you have seen her on the news and in articles around the world. She and her nutjob husband killed two little kids. Lori's kids. Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow. To me, she is just a heartless bitch who can be controlled by men who are even dumber than her.
Lori wasn't always a bad person. As a matter of fact, Lori was a pretty normal kid and teenager. Born on 06/26/1973 in San Bernadino, Lori was a great sister, aunt, and was smart and beautiful. I suppose that was evident by the number of marriages she had between the age of 1992 and 2001, which was three.
At age 22, she married 23-year-old William Lagioia in Travis County, Texas, on October 22, 1995. She and WIlliam had a son, Colby, in 1996 before divorcing on February 25, 1998.
I am sensing there is quite a bit of crazy running through this family...how about ya'll?
On February 24th, 2006, Lori married Leland Anthony Vallow or as we know him, Charles Vallow. It is very important to mention that Charles was a devout Catholic his entire life but in order to marry Lori, he had to convert to the LDS (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) and so he did. Vallow had two sons from a previous marriage, Nicholas and Zachary Chase and In 2013, the couple adopted Vallow's grandnephew, Joshua Jaxon "J.J." Vallow due to his grandparents being older, his father being unable to take care of him and he had developmental delays, and in late 2014, they moved to Kauai, Hawaii. What I wouldn't give to be on a beach in Hawaii right now writing this.....actually, I would rather not be writing it at all because that means two little innocent children would be alive.
In the fall of 2018, Lori and Charles's marriage began to go south. Lori wasn't around as much, and Charles and her family were picking up on how different she was acting. In late January 2019, Charles comes back from a business trip and is locked out of the house. Lori and the kids are nowhere to be found. Later, she calls him and tells him that she no longer wants anything to do with him. Charles told the police that Lori told him to come and get the kids she didn't care about them, she threatened to murder him, and she thinks she is being resurrected as a God. SMDH. She says that Charles is not even her husband so if she kills him, it's no big deal. This bitch went so far off the rails, she couldn't have found the track with a bloodhound.
Charles files an emergency petition for a psych evaluation and Lori told the police that Charles was cheating on her and that he has been violent in the past and is now getting retribution for her leaving him. Lori, SOMEHOW, passes the psych evaluation and is cleared. Afterwards Lori went to Hawaii and just disappeared for two months. Charles decided to get a divorce and, in his court, documents, states that Lori had stolen money from his business accounts. He also began to talk about how her religious beliefs had taken a dark turn. She stated that she was a translated being, she is bulletproof, and she no longer needed to eat because she was no longer a mortal human being. Just wow.
Then months later, Lori did just what she said he would she would do. Charles was murdered. By Lori's brother Alex in her home. Charles was attempting to pick up JJ from Lori's house after school and Alex "claimed" Charles was trying to be physical with him and hit him with a bat. He was shot dead. Lori told his sons' he was dead ,36 hours later, and through a text message. Cold Hearted. Little did Lori know, right before he was murdered, Charles changed the beneficiary of his 1-million-dollar life insurance policy from Lori to his sister. So, Lori thinking she was going to get all that money and didn't get a fucking dime.
So, Lori packed up her kids in August of 2019 and moved to Rexburg Idaho. J.J.'s grandparents tried so hard to find them. They are getting zero response and they are hearing that Lori is moving all over the place. They began to get afraid. They finally called the Rexburg police to go and do a welfare check. Chad Daybell and Alex Cox where at the apartment when they came. When police went back the next day, the apartment was cleaned out.
On December 24th 2019, The Rexburg Police put out a BOLO (be on the lookout) for Tylee and JJ. JJ's grandparents put up 20,000 dollars for their return. During this time the case had hit media outlets everywhere and Lori and Chad were also being hunted. Police find out that Lori had bought a ticket to Hawaii and had been there shortly after her children disappeared and she was not alone. She was with Chad Daybell. apparently gotten married in Hawaii in early November. Chad was the author of books about near death experiences, doomsday, and the end of days. Lori had read his books and had become obsessed with him and his ideas. The suspicion is growing by the day.
Hawaii police now get involved and issued a search warrant for Chad and Lori's house and their cars. In the car, they found JJ's IPAD, Tylee's ATM card, and both of their birth certificates. it was obvious that kids never lived there. Lori continued to refuse to tell authorities where her kids were. At this point, 4 states were involved in this case. The judge issued an order for Lori to come to court and present the children so that the courts could see they were ok. They never showed.
Chad and Lori were married in Hawaii on November 5, 2019, two weeks after the death of Chad's first wife, Tammy Daybell. How ironic. There they told others that Tylee had died in 2017 and/or that Lori had no minor children. 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. That night, a neighbor saw Lori and Alex Cox packing a truck outside her home. When police reached Melanie by phone, she told police that J.J. was not with her and had not been there for several months. Chad's home was also searched by investigators.
More than a week later, Melanie Gibb called police saying that both Lori and Chad had asked her to lie to police about J.J.'s whereabouts but she refused. Police efforts to locate J.J. led to the discovery that Tylee was also missing. From December 2019 to January 2020, Rexburg police, the Fremont County sheriff's office, and the FBI intensified the investigation into the disappearances of the two children, as well as the investigation into Tammy's death and the flight of Chad and Lori from Idaho. Evidence was collected, and Tammy's body was exhumed for autopsy. "The children are not with Chad and Lori. 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 Chad.'"
Through their lawyer, the Daybells stated that, "Chad Daybell was a loving husband and he has the support of his children in this matter. Lori Daybell is a devoted mother and she resents assertions to the contrary. We look forward to addressing the allegations once they have moved beyond speculation and rumor.
Authorities soon turned their attention to a Rexburg storage locker rented by Lori in October 2019. Inside they discovered items belonging to or associated with Tylee and J.J., such as clothing, bikes, and pictures, all of which had been abandoned when Lori suddenly left Rexburg at the end of November 2019. Video footage shows her and her brother, Alex Cox moving items in and out of the locker prior to her departure.
On February 20, 2020, Lori was arrested by the Kauai Police Department in Princeville, Hawaii, and charged by prosecutors in Madison County, Idaho with two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children. She was also charged with three misdemeanors: resisting or obstructing officers; criminal solicitation to commit a crime; and contempt of court. Lori was held on $5 million bail. She later agreed to be extradited back to Idaho to fight the charges. The judge lowered her bail to $1 million. On May 1, 2020, Lori appeared for a court hearing in Rexburg to request a reduction of her $1 million bail. The judge denied her request.
On March 24, 2020, NBC News reported on documents showing that Chad and Lori became convinced that Tylee and J.J. were "possessed" and had become "zombies." The fuck??? Why do people allow themselves to get involved in this cult shit? I don't get it!
On June 9, 2020, police executed a search warrant at Chad's home, where they discovered human remains buried in a pet cemetery. Chad was booked into jail later that day on obstruction or concealment of evidence; he was later charged with felony murder. On June 10th, his bail was set at $1 million. On July 2, prosecutors dropped two of the charges against Lori – two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children – and instead charged her with obstruction or concealment of evidence in regard to her children's remains.
On July 17, 2020, in light of the two felony counts against Lori having been dropped, her bond was lowered by Madison County judge Michelle Mallard. Judge Mallard decided to decrease bond to $50,000 on each charge, totaling $150,000, but noted that Chad would still need to post $1 million in neighboring Fremont County to get out of jail. In addition to the bond reduction, a jury trial for the Madison County charges against Lori was set for January 25–29, 2021. 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. Lori was charged with grand theft related to "Social Security Survivor benefits over $1,000 allocated for the care of minors Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow that were appropriated after the children were missing and ultimately found deceased." 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." On May 27, 2021, Lori was found incompetent and unfit to stand trial, and her case was postponed. She has since been deemed competent to stand trial after mental health treatment, incompetent, and again competent. Requests from Chad to separate his case from Lori's have been denied. A start date of January 2023 for both trials had been set but was canceled in November 2022. We are about to start this trial and I will be watching the entire time. It has recently been announced that the death penalty is off the table for her. More and more we are not using the death penalty in cases that deserve it. I am pissed and appalled.
On June 10, 2020, the Woodcock and Ryan families confirmed that the human remains found on Chad's property were those of Tylee and J.J. This finding was officially confirmed by Rexburg police on June 13. 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 death. I am sorry JJ and Tylee. I am praying that we get justice for you.
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