Son confronts mom, testifies in doomsday plot murder trial
The only surviving child of a woman charged with murdering her two youngest children and a romantic rival confronted his mother about his siblingsโ deaths in an emotional phone call played for jurors Tuesday in a trial that has touched on claims of evil spirits, zombie children and an additional murder charge in Arizona.
Man charged with conspiring to hide kids' bodies in his yard
Court documents say authorities used cellphone information from the now-deceased uncle of two missing Idaho children to find the youths' bodies on a rural property in June 2020. Lori Vallow Daybell and her husband, Chad Daybell, are in custody. The new charges against Chad Daybell were filed Tuesday evening. Lori Daybell is also charged with conspiring to hide the remains and is being held on $1 million bail. Investigators found the children's bodies by tracking the movements of Lori Daybells brother, Alex Cox, using cellphone data.
Documents: Mom called kids 'zombies' before their deaths
Daybell and the children's mother, Lori Vallow Daybell, are in custody. Lori Daybell's attorney has indicated that she intends to defend herself against charges of child abandonment and obstructing an investigation. Gibb reports that when she arrived in Rexburg, Lori Vallow informed her that JJ Vallow had become a zombie,'" Ball wrote. Tylee was last seen Sept. 8, when she went to Yellowstone National Park with her mom, her brother and Cox, court documents say. It was those cellphone records that led police to the bodies, according to the court documents.
Idaho community mourns after remains of 2 kids found
Visitors listen to "In the Arms of an Angel," during a memorial service for Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on Friday, June 12, 2020. Tylee and JJ's remains were found on Chad Daybell's property after a months-long search for the children. Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell are in custody. The children's mother, Lori Vallow Daybell, has been in jail since February on felony child abandonment and other charges. Her new husband, Chad Daybell, was charged with concealing or destroying the bodies after police searched his rural property Tuesday.
With the search for 2 kids at an end, a community mourns
A boy checks out a memorial for Tylee Ryan, 17, and Joshua "JJ" Vallow, 7, at Porter Park in Rexburg, Idaho on Thursday, June 11, 2020. The children's mother, Lori Vallow Daybell, has been in jail since February on felony child abandonment and other charges. Kay and Larry Woodcock, JJ's grandparents, worked for months to keep the search for kids in the limelight. It began with Lori Daybells brother shooting and killing her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, in suburban Phoenix last summer in what he asserted was self-defense. "Those kids deserved better, and we're going to do everything we can to get those kids justice.Olsen said hundreds of people have indicated they want to attend.
2 kids vanished, and it just got stranger. Now, a grim turn
Soon strangers around the world were following the case, transfixed by the increasingly strange circumstances surrounding Lori Vallow Daybell and her new husband, Chad Daybell. The case took a grim turn Tuesday when investigators announced they found human remains while searching Chad Daybell's rural Idaho home. Chad Daybell was arrested on suspicion of concealing or destructing evidence and has been booked into jail. Lori Vallow moved to Idaho with the kids, getting an apartment in the small town of Rexburg and spending time with Chad Daybell. When officers stopped by to question Lori Daybell, they said she and Chad Daybell lied about the children's whereabouts.
Police: Human remains found at property tied to missing kids
FILE - This combination of undated file photos released by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children show missing children Joshua Vallow, left, and Tylee Ryan. Chad Daybell was taken into custody Tuesday, according to police in the small town of Rexburg. The attorney representing both Chad and Lori Daybell, Mark Means, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Lori Daybell has pleaded not guilty to the charges against her and Chad Daybell has not been charged in connection with the case. Law enforcement officers first searched Chad Daybell's home on Jan. 3, removing more than 40 items including several pieces of computer equipment.