And now we're gonna talk about it. He withdrew the petition one month later, saying he "wanted to try to make the marriage work". No post-mortem or autopsy was initially performed. Chad Daybell was also charged with first-degree murder in the death of his former wife, Tammy Daybell. Margaret Travillion: They say it takes a village to raise a child. Morgan Loew: He goes into the house. 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. And he had so many people that loved him and wanted him. Back then, the only two people who didn't seem concerned were Lori and Chad. January 2529, 2021 Lori Vallow's trial for the misdemeanor charges was scheduled to begin. 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. I wish that she had known that there were people that really loved her. Tylee Ashlyn Ryan (September 24, 2002 - c. September 9, 2019) [a] and Joshua Jaxon " J. J. April Raymond: And she had described Tylee as having a dark spirit. "Where are your kids? November 27, 2019 Chad and Lori are seen packing. In attendance were both Gibb and Chad, who was speaking at another conference in Mesa, Arizona. ALEX COX: Yeah, there's blood. The heartbreaking deaths of Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow have remained a mystery to many. In 2016, the Vallow family moved back to Arizona. LORI VALLOW: He's with one of my friends in Arizona. Jonathan Vigliott | CBS News correspondent: How did you hold it together? [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. The only thing we we can know for sure is that At one point, whoever did this, dismembered her body and burned it. They Googled Charles Vallow's name and learned the truth. April Raymond: The way she had explained it to me about Charles was that Charles was already dead. But the horror was just beginning to unfold. Chad Guy Daybell (born August 11, 1968, Provo, Utah)[14] married Tamara "Tammy" Douglas (May 4, 1970 October 19, 2019) in Manti, Utah, on March 9, 1990. ROB WOOD [in court]: Where was he located when you saw him? I don't know what your intention is on this phone call. He dropped dead six months before JJ and Tylee were found. Lori and Chad Daybell were charged with conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. Benjamin Hyde has known Chad Daybell since the two men were missionaries together when they were 19. LORI VALLOW: My husband switched his life insurance policy to her right? 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. Lori goes from saying people are out to get her "I just feel like I'm being tracked all the time. What is it over? How are you guys? March 3, 2023 - Judge has severed the case of Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow. Somebody else must have helped with that. September 29, 2022 - For the second time, Lori Vallow-Daybell's trial has been suspended due to competency concerns. Around the time of the death of Daybell's wife, Lori Vallow and . On May 25, 2021, they were formally charged with murder in the first degree in the deaths Tylee and JJ. February 8, 2019 Charles Vallow files for divorce from Lori. What is what is happening? Morgan Loew: It's hard to discount the idea that a million-dollar life insurance policy would be a motive for a murder. This finding was officially confirmed by Rexburg police on June 13. After a year, the police officers found dead bodies in the Daybells estate. [45] Melani Boudreaux, Lori's niece, reportedly shares these beliefs. And I'll always remember them like that. He and his wife Tammy had five children. His uncle Alex Cox later went to take J. J. to his apartment. Charles Vallow had good reason to be scared. Reality and justice were not far behind. Investigators contended that "'Joshua and Tylee's lives are in danger. 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. ', [] the children are not with Chad and Lori. [16] The couple's biological daughter, Tylee, was born in 2002. There's no, "Oh, my gosh, my husband's dead.". "[16], Authorities soon turned their attention to a Rexburg storage locker rented by Lori in October 2019. I'm still not holding it together. Beneath the rocks, they found thin pieces of wood paneling. [15] Chad and Tammy had five children: Garth, Emma, Seth, Leah, and Mark. And JJ loved blue. CHARLES VALLOW: She thinks she's a resurrected being and a and a god. Recently released autopsy reports, photos, and results have provided crucial insight into the cause of their deaths. September 8, 2021 Judge Boyce found Lori Vallow to still be incompetent based on the progress report from the mental health facility. Joshua Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17, were last seen in September 2019, but their mother, Lori Vallow, and her new hubby never reported them missing and haven't been cooperating with authorities . They dug up a dog. [48] There they told others that Tylee had died in 2017 and/or that Lori had no minor children. 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. RAY HERMOSILLO: I observed what looked to be brown human hair. Morgan Loew: Lori, at that point takes JJ to school. 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. February 26, 2020 In extradition hearing, judge refuses to lower Lori's $5 million bail. I never even considered that they weren't. Hey Lori. [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. Morgan Loew: Every time, Kay Woodcock, would call, there would be a different excuse about where the kids were. 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. Everyone wanted to know what happened to them. Lori and Tylee and JJ are there, and so is Alex Cox. However, police uncovered a cryptic series of messages that proved to be . Several weeks after their initial meeting, Lori's husband left town on a business trip and Lori held an intimate overnight gathering at her home. "Paint til you're blue." His cell phone left a digital map. Wiped out in late September 2019 roughly two weeks after the big sister he adored disappeared. Melanie Gibb testified, "She asked me just to pick up my phone and take a picture of random kids to make it look like it was JJ.". She repeatedly dodges their questions regarding his cause of death. It just seems very unlikely. JJ Vallow, Tylee Ryan. But not everyone believes they played equal parts. December 5, 2018 Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow meet. It's like not a care in the world. Especially Tylee was a liability for what she knew. 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 . Lori was held on US$5 million bail. She was silent as her lawyers put in a plea of not guilty for her. April 28, 2022 - Judge Boyce denied request from Chad Daybell's attorney to drop his charges. July 2019 Days after Charles Vallow's death, Lori learns her late husband had changed the beneficiary of his million-dollar life insurance policy from Lori to his sister, Kay Woodcock, who is also J.J.'s paternal grandmother. Margaret Travillion: I just get so angry. Margaret Travillion: Because he was amazing. But they got one thing wrong. I just kind of loved how she would just play with him and just always have, like, a really good time with him. in journalism,[14] and worked as a cemetery sexton, or gravedigger, among other jobs. 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. 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 the winter of 2019, Charles Vallow changed the beneficiary of his $1 million life insurance policy from Lori to his sister Kay Woodcock, JJ's biological grandmother. 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. JJ's grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock, could barely contain their grief as they listened. And then Police tracked his cell phone to Lori's apartment at 2:45 in the morning on September 9th. 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. [2] When Rexburg police and the FBI arrived the next day to search the home, it was abandoned. 2 men found drugged after leaving NYC gay bars were killed, medical examiner says. I I shot my brother-in-law in self-defense.". DET. And they cut through that. [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. August 21, 2020 Chad Daybell pleads not guilty to all four of his felony counts against him. April Raymond: She did everything for JJ, everything for Tylee. Two months later, Tammy's body was exhumed and autopsied. [16] After repeated calls to Tylee went unanswered, Colby became more worried. 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. Morgan Loew: What happened to those kids is is horrendous. March 21, 2022 - Judge denied Chad Daybell's request to separate his case from Lori Vallow's case. But as they dug further, they found some things that were strange. LORI VALLOW: Like, "Hi neighbors, sorry" [laughs]. [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. Morgan Loew: Alex was Lori's protector. POLICE OFFICER [bodycam audio]: So, we're here . [28] She and Lagioia had a son, Colby, in 1996 (who was later arrested on two counts of sexual assault in Arizona in 2022, charges that were later dropped without prejudice),[29][30] before divorcing on February 25, 1998.[16]. Morgan Loew: That night, we know Alex was in his own apartment. Chad Cox talks with police after shooting Charles Vallow. Margaret Travillion: And I literally remember coming into the classroom in the beginning and him just being very closed off To the later part of him being with us, just to "Miss Margaret" (chuckles). Joshua, aged 7, and Tylee, age 16, went to Yellowstone National park with Loris and Loris's Brother. that's a real thing. Tylee Ashlyn Ryan (September 24, 2002 c. September 9, 2019)[a] and Joshua Jaxon "J. 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. Their conversation was recorded on the officer's bodycam. 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. Prosecutors charged Lori with conspiracy to murder Charles in June of this year, shortly after she was indicted over the deaths of her kids. Tylee Ryan autopsy report The horrible events surrounding the finding of Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Tylee Ryan in Chad Daybell's garden were detailed in court documents which spelled out whereby JJ was wrapped in plastic and restrained with duct tape as Tylee was mutilated and burnt. November 29, 2019 Alex Cox marries Zulema Pastenes of. And his grandmother Kay Woodcock was the threat. 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. Now the cold glare of death would shift focus to Chad Daybell's family. 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 . At the time, she went along with the self-defense story, but could she have changed her mind? And that Tylee knew the truth. JJ was found dead in a duct-taped plastic bag while Tylee's body was burned, dismembered, and left in a pet cemetery on the property. Produced by Liza Finley and Richard Fetzer. February 24, 2020 In child custody court documents. Vaisia Itaaehau: I loved being around JJ and Tylee. Tylee was really protective over JJ. Margaret Travillion: And just that growth of watching him come out of himself was just wonderful. July 29, 2021 Prosecution drops charges for counts of conspiracy to destroy, alter, or conceal evidence against Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow. July 2014 Lori and Charles officially adopt Joshua Jaxon "J.J." Vallow. And so, I'm not sure what hijacked that priority. to that big life insurance payout Kay Woodcock got from Charles Vallow. Due to this, there is a stay in her case in Idaho. He reportedly believed he had numerous past lives and could talk to angels. They found a melted bucket. And finally. Their souls had left them. 2019 American disappearance and homicide case, Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow's marriage and flight, Tylee was last seen September 8, 2019, at. The judge denied her request. April Raymond: I feel like it's difficult to conceive of a scenario where she didn't. It appears the first problem was a 16-year-old girl: Tylee Ryan. Remember, Tylee was there the day Charles Vallow was killed. I hurried and got my gun One shot did the trick. 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. Ryan told police that Charles Vallow was angry on the morning that. It takes a community to raise one of our children and JJ had a community. November 5, 2019 Lori Vallow marries Chad Daybell in Hawaii. Daybell was married. One of those close friends was April Raymond. October 19, 2019 Tammy Daybell is found dead in her home in. It it was in every classroom, in every environment. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. December 2011 Alex Cox's probation ends more than one year before it was originally scheduled to end (May 2013). On November 26, 2019, two months after JJ was last seen, Rexburg Police came knocking on Lori's door looking for the little boy. Investigators at Chad Daybell's preliminary hearing In August 2020 described in chilling detail finding the remains of the two children in Daybell's backyard. They both had unconditional love for each other. August 5, 2021 Prosecution announces they are seeking the. [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. [2], Complicating circumstances around the disappearances was a string of suspicious deaths. May 29, 2021 / 10:42 PM I can't conceive of a scenario where she wasn't involved. LORI VALLOW: Well, they were going to "Frozen "2 today, so they may be at the movies. Police learned what happened to JJ by once again following Alex Cox's cell phone. Then he goes back to his apartment, and then, after 9 in the morning, his cell phone appears in Chad Daybell's backyard. He's not moving. The court released an audio-only version of that conversation. Cox says Tylee came out of her room with a bat. [59], 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. And on January 25, 2020, she was formally served an order to produce Tylee and JJ within five days. A start date of January 2023 for both trials had been set,[58] but was canceled in November 2022 without a new date being set. July 15, 2022 - Lori Vallow-Daybells attorneys ask Judge Steven Boyce to clarify language in charges, separating potentially joined counts. [51] She later agreed to be extradited back to Idaho to fight the charges. 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 . [ 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 her new husband]. With Lori now in jail, Chad Daybell returned home. Jonathan Vigliotti: Why do you think the children were murdered? this one sticks this one is bad. Cox said Vallow grabbed the bat from Tylee and came at him. Chad Daybell and Lori' Vallow's hula dancing days were numbered. The two soon began a private communication. I didn't hold it together at all. June 29, 2020 Police execute another search warrant at the home of Chad Daybell. 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.