At present, folks know Lori Vallow Daybell because the so-called “doomsday mom,” stemming from protection of her youngsters’s disappearance and deaths. She’s been known as a “monster” and a “cult mom.”
Vallow Daybell, accused alongside together with her husband Chad Daybell, was sentenced to life with out parole after an Idaho jury discovered her responsible in Might 2023 on all expenses for her position within the deaths of her 16-year-old daughter, Tylee Ryan; her 7-year-old adopted son, Joshua “JJ” Vallow; and her husband’s first spouse, Tammy Daybell. She had pleaded not responsible. In Might 2024, Chad Daybell was convicted on all counts.
The married couple additionally face different expenses associated to the mysterious deaths of their former spouses. Each pleaded not responsible.
2006: Fortunately married
Lori and Charles Vallow wed in 2006.
Kay Woodcock
Earlier than all of the notoriety, Lori married businessman Charles Vallow. Pals say it gave the impression to be a contented marriage. Collectively, the couple was elevating Tylee Ryan, Lori’s daughter from a earlier marriage.
2014: JJ joins the household
Lori and JJ Vallow
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Lori and Charles Vallow adopted JJ Vallow. He was the grandson of Charles’ sister. JJ had autism and April Raymond, who was Lori’s buddy, says Lori was “patient,” a perfect mom for him.
Vaisia Itaaehau met the Vallow household once they lived in Arizona. She says Tylee embraced her position as a giant sister, that Tylee even jokingly referred to JJ as her personal baby.
2017: Household dynamics change
Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow and Lori Vallow.
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Someday round 2017, relations say Lori Vallow’s relationship together with her youngsters modified. Her buddies say she had been studying the books of doomsday creator Chad Daybell. Daybell, who wrote a number of fiction books about making ready for the top of the world, lived exterior Rexburg, Idaho.
2018: Lori Vallow meets Chad Daybell
Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell [driver’s licence photos]
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Someday in 2018, Lori Vallow met Chad Daybell. Lori Vallow’s buddies say there was a connection between the 2 and so they started doing non secular podcasts collectively. Daybell was additionally married. Collectively along with his spouse Tammy Daybell, he was elevating 5 youngsters.
Lori Vallow’s buddy Melanie Gibb would later say she heard Chad Daybell and Lori speaking about “zombies”— folks whose souls have been changed by “dark spirits.” Lori’s former buddy, April Raymond, instructed “48 Hours” that Lori began referring to her husband, Charles Vallow, as a “demon.”
2019: In search of assist
On January 31, 2019, Charles Vallow is seen on police bodycam video telling officers his spouse had grow to be “unhinged.”
Gilbert Police Division
In 2019, Charles Vallow turned very fearful about Lori, and he went to the police along with his considerations. He instructed them Lori believed she was a “god” making ready for the top of days. He additionally stated Lori had threatened to homicide him.
February 2019: Charles Vallow’s fears
Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow
Kay Woodcock
Charles Vallow filed for a divorce from Lori. In court docket paperwork, Charles expressed that he feared for his and the youngsters’s security.
July 2019: A demise investigation
Alex Cox talks with police after capturing Charles Vallow.
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Charles Vallow went to the home the place Lori Vallow was residing with the youngsters in Chandler, Arizona. Charles was alleged to drop their son JJ off at college. However when he went inside the house, Charles was shot useless by Lori’s brother, Alex Cox.
Cox instructed police that Lori and Charles bought right into a struggle. Alex claimed he was defending his sister and shot Charles in self-defense. Lori and Tylee — who each say they heard the capturing — instructed comparable tales of self-defense.
September 2019
Lori Vallow moved nearer to Chad Daybell. She relocated her children to Rexburg, Idaho. Lori’s brother, Alex Cox, moved into the identical house advanced.
Sept. 8, 2019: Tylee Ryan vanishes
JJ Vallow, Tylee Ryan, and their uncle, Alex Cox, at Yellowstone Nationwide Park on September 8, 2019. Police say that is the final identified picture of Tylee earlier than she disappeared.
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Lori Vallow, Tylee, JJ, and Alex Cox went to Yellowstone Nationwide Park. Police say that is the place the final identified picture of Tylee was taken earlier than she vanished. Melanie Gibb has stated that Lori had referred to Tylee as a “zombie.”
Sept. 9, 2019
The morning after Tylee Ryan disappeared, investigators say that Alex Cox’s cellphone GPS positioned him in Chad Daybell’s yard, on the property for about 2 hours. About 14 minutes after Cox’s GPS confirmed him leaving the property, Chad Daybell texted his spouse, Tammy Daybell. The textual content learn: “… I spotted a big racoon [sic] along the fence. I hurried and got my gun, and he was still walking along. I got close enough that one shot did the trick. He is now in our pet cemetery…”
Sept. 22, 2019: JJ Vallow disappears
JJ Disappears: A photograph of JJ sporting purple pajamas taken on September 22, 2019, in what’s believed to be final identified picture of the 7-year-old.
Chandler Police Division
Police say JJ Vallow was final seen on Sept. 22, 2019.
Melanie Gibb says that she and her boyfriend, David Warwick, have been staying with Lori Vallow in Rexburg that weekend. On the evening of Sept. 22, Warwick says he noticed Alex Cox carry JJ into Lori’s house. However the subsequent morning, in keeping with Warwick, when he requested to see JJ, Lori reportedly instructed them that JJ was “being a zombie” and that Cox needed to take him away.
Sept. 23, 2019
The day after JJ was final seen, investigators say Alex Cox’s cellphone confirmed that Cox returned to Chad Daybell’s yard. This time, Cox was there for under 17 minutes.
Oct. 19, 2019: One other demise
Chad and Tammy Daybell
Emma Murray
With Lori Vallow’s youngsters’s whereabouts unknown, tragedy struck Chad Daybell’s household. Daybell’s spouse, Tammy Daybell, died. The couple’s son, Garth Daybell, stated Tammy died in mattress and that he and Chad known as 911.
The Daybell youngsters instructed “48 Hours” they declined an post-mortem. They are saying the coroner instructed them Tammy’s demise gave the impression to be pure causes. They believed that as a result of they are saying their mother was in sick well being previous to her demise.
Nov. 5, 2019: Chad and Lori wed
Roughly two weeks later, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell bought married on a seashore in Hawaii.
Later that month, JJ’s grandmother, Kay Woodcock, requested police to test on JJ’s welfare. Woodcock stated she was involved and hadn’t heard from JJ in months.
Nov. 26, 2019: Lacking children
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Rexburg police went to Lori Vallow Daybell’s home on the lookout for JJ. Police say Vallow Daybell lied to them, claiming that JJ was secure and staying in Arizona together with her buddy, Melanie Gibb. At first, Gibb wasn’t forthcoming about JJ’s whereabouts however later known as police and instructed them JJ hadn’t been together with her.
Whereas Rexburg police tried to find JJ, investigators quickly realized that his sister, Tylee Ryan was additionally lacking, and launched a nationwide seek for the youngsters.
December 2019
Whereas investigators looked for the lacking youngsters, Lori and Chad Daybell traveled again to Hawaii.
In December 2019, Fremont County Sheriff’s Investigators grew suspicious about Tammy Daybell’s demise. They exhumed her physique to conduct an post-mortem.
That very same month, Lori’s brother, Alex Cox, died in Arizona. It was decided he died of pure causes.
Jan. 25, 2020
Authorities served Lori Vallow Daybell an order requiring her to supply her youngsters.
Feb. 20, 2020: An arrest
Lori Vallow Daybell was arrested in Hawaii on February 20, 2020.Two weeks later, she was extradited to Idaho.
Kauai Police Division
After failing to conform, Lori Vallow Daybell was arrested in Hawaii. Two weeks later, she was extradited to Idaho.
June 9, 2020: Looking Chad Daybell’s yard
The FBI, Rexburg PD and Fremont County Sheriff’s Workplace descend upon Chad Daybell’s house and property seeking the lacking youngsters.
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Even after Vallow Daybell’s arrest, the couple refused to say the place the youngsters have been. On June 9, 2020, the FBI, Rexburg Police and Fremont County Sheriff’s Workplace descended upon Chad Daybell’s house and property.
Authorities dug in areas of the yard the place Alex Cox’s cellphone had pinged in September 2019. Tragically, they uncovered human stays buried in shallow graves.
JJ Vallow had been buried underneath a tree and about 50 yards away; investigators discovered Tylee’s grave within the Daybell’s pet cemetery. Prosecutors imagine she was buried in the identical location Chad Daybell referenced when he texted Tammy Daybell 9 months earlier, saying he was burying a raccoon.
Investigators dug up a part of the pet cemetery and located no raccoon. However Daybell’s household instructed” 48 Hours” there was a second pet cemetery on the property that was not searched.
Chad Daybell was arrested.
June 2020
Authorities later confirmed that they recognized the stays as JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan. A memorial was constructed alongside the Daybell’s fence to honor the victims.
Might 2021
Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell have been charged with first-degree homicide for the deaths of JJ and Tylee. Daybell was additionally charged with murdering his first spouse, Tammy Daybell.
June 2021: Chad Daybell in court docket
Chad Daybell pleaded not responsible to all the costs.
June 2021: Lori Vallow Daybell’s case on maintain
In June 2021, Lori Vallow Daybell was additionally charged with conspiring to homicide Charles Vallow. That very same month, a decide dominated Lori incompetent to face trial whereas she receives psychological well being remedy.
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Lori Vallow Daybell was additionally charged with conspiring to homicide Charles Vallow. That very same month, a decide dominated Lori incompetent to face trial whereas she receives psychological well being remedy. She had not but entered a plea; her case was on maintain.
August 2021: Awaiting trial
Chad Daybell along with his lawyer John Prior,
Fremont County Courthouse
Prosecutors introduced they’ll search the demise penalty in opposition to Chad Daybell. Daybell is jailed, awaiting trial.
September 2021: Talking out
Chad Daybell’s youngsters, clockwise from high left, Mark Daybell, Leah Murphy, Seth Daybell, Garth Daybell and Emma Murray.
Chad and Tammy Daybell’s youngsters — talking publicly for the primary time collectively — instructed “48 Hours” they imagine their father is harmless. Daybell’s daughter, Emma Murray, says she believes Chad was framed by Alex Cox and Lori Vallow Daybell.
April 11, 2022: Lori Vallow Daybell match to face trial
Choose Steven Boyce dominated Lori Vallow Daybell is now mentally competent to face trial within the Idaho homicide case. He didn’t present different particulars about her remedy or psychological situation. She is scheduled to be formally arraigned in court docket subsequent week and each Lori and Chad Daybell are set to face trial collectively early subsequent 12 months.
April 19, 2022: Choose enters plea on Lori Vallow Daybell’s behalf
Lori Vallow Daybell refused to enter a plea to homicide and different expenses, prompting Choose Steven Boyce to enter a not responsible plea on her behalf. Vallow Daybell and her husband, Chad Daybell, have been each on the courthouse within the jap Idaho city of St. Anthony for court docket proceedings; Vallow Daybell for an arraignment that was delayed for months whereas she underwent remedy at a psychological well being facility, and Chad Daybell for a listening to over the trial venue.
Might 4, 2022: Lori Vallow Daybell might face demise penalty
Lori Vallow Daybell will qualify for capital punishment if she is convicted at her trial later this 12 months as a result of the slayings have been exceptionally wicked and carried out for monetary acquire, in keeping with court docket paperwork filed by prosecuting attorneys from Fremont and Madison counties on Might 2.
Aug. 16, 2022: Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorneys search change in expenses
Lori Vallow Daybell, proper, sits by an lawyer for a listening to on the Fremont County Courthouse in St. Anthony, Idaho, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022.
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Attorneys for Lori Vallow Daybell requested a decide to ship the case again to a grand jury as a result of they are saying that the conspiracy expenses are oddly constructed and will confuse a jury. Daybell and her husband Chad Daybell have pleaded not responsible to homicide, conspiracy and grand theft expenses in reference to the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan.
Sept. 23, 2022: Cameras to be banned from courtroom
Jan. 7, 2023: Choose: Lori Vallow Daybell, Chad Daybell not allowed to satisfy face-to-face
Choose Steven Boyce rejected a request from Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorneys that she and her husband be allowed to satisfy in individual and on the cellphone to debate methods and settlement choices. Attorneys for Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell introduced a number of requests throughout a movement listening to together with that the trial be delayed till 2024 – a request from Chad Daybell’s attorneys – and that the demise penalty be taken off the desk – a request from Lori Vallow Daybell’s legal professionals.
March 2023: Two trials to be held
Choose Steven Boyce granted a movement by Chad Daybell’s attorneys to sever the trials, which means separate trials shall be held. Lori Vallow Daybell’s trial is scheduled to start out on April 3. Chad Daybell’s trial has not but been scheduled.
March 21, 2023: Lori Vallow Daybell is not going to face demise penalty in upcoming trial
Prosecutors have been looking for the demise penalty for each defendants, however Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorneys stated it ought to be taken off the desk in her case as a result of they won’t have time to completely evaluation a considerable amount of proof that was turned over in current weeks. Throughout a listening to, Choose Steven Boyce agreed. He famous that Vallow Daybell has not waived her proper to a speedy trial, so the continuing couldn’t be rescheduled to offer her protection group ample time to evaluation the proof. The demise penalty nonetheless applies to Chad Daybell’s case.
April 3, 2023: Lori Vallow Daybell’s trial begins
Attorneys started deciding on 18 potential jurors for the trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, charged in what prosecutors say was a doomsday-focused plot. Authorities summoned 1,800 potential jurors to the courthouse in late March, requiring every of them to finish a 20-page questionnaire in hopes of winnowing out anybody unable to pretty strive the case. In the end, 12 jurors and 6 alternates are listening to the case.
On April 10, the prosecution and protection within the trial of Lori Vallow Daybell made their opening arguments to a jury in Boise, Idaho.
Might 12, 2023: Lori Vallow Daybell responsible on all expenses
Lori Vallow Daybell listens as the decision is learn in her trial for homicide and conspiracy.
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An Idaho jury discovered Lori Vallow Daybell, the mother charged with homicide within the deaths of two of her youngsters, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, responsible on all expenses. Vallow Daybell, 49, was additionally charged with conspiracy to commit homicide within the deaths of the youngsters and the demise of her husband’s first spouse, Tammy Daybell. She was additionally accused of stealing Social Safety funds issued for the youngsters.
June 2, 2023: Trial date set for Chad Daybell
Chad Daybell will face trial practically a 12 months after his spouse. Choose Steven Boyce, who’s overseeing each instances, set his trial date for April 1, 2024.
He, too, shall be tried on the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho.
July 31, 2023: Lori Vallow Daybell sentenced
Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life with out parole, the utmost penalty, on the costs of homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide. She was additionally given a 10-year sentence for grand theft in addition to ordered to pay greater than $50,000, together with fines, a civil penalty for every of the three victims and restitution.
“You had so many other options. You could have gotten divorced; you could have found someone else to take care of those kids. And as the state was able to prove at trial, you chose the most evil and destructive path possible,” stated Choose Steven Boyce on the sentencing.
“You justified all of this by going down a bizarre religious rabbit hole, and clearly you are still down there,” he stated.
Dec. 7, 2023: Lori Vallow Daybell arraigned in two separate instances
Lori Vallow Daybell was charged with conspiracy to commit homicide within the 2019 demise of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, who died after police say he was shot by her brother, Alexander Lamar Cox. Cox claimed he shot Vallow in self-defense.
Daybell and Cox, who additionally died in 2019, have been additionally accused of attempting to homicide her niece’s husband, Brandon Boudreaux, who was shot at in 2019 whereas driving close to his house. She additionally faces a cost of conspiracy to commit homicide in that case. Boudreaux was unharmed within the incident.
The court docket entered pleas of not responsible for Daybell on each expenses.
June 1, 2024: Chad Daybell sentenced to demise
Chad Daybell
Chad Daybell was sentenced to demise on June 1, 2024, practically a 12 months after his second spouse, Lori Vallow Daybell, was convicted and sentenced to life in jail.
On Might 30, Daybell was convicted of first-degree homicide of his first spouse, Tammy Daybell, and two of his then-girlfriend Lori Vallow’s youngsters, Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, in addition to for conspiracy within the murders and of insurance coverage fraud.
April 22, 2025: Jury finds Lori Vallow Daybell responsible of conspiracy in Charles Vallow’s demise
Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted of conspiracy to commit homicide in the 2019 killing of her estranged husband in Arizona. The Phoenix jury returned the decision after beginning deliberations on April 21.
Charles Vallow, who was Vallow Daybell’s fourth husband, was fatally shot by Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, in July 2019. Regardless of not being a lawyer, Vallow Daybell represented herself on the trial, which started on March 31. She now faces one other life sentence within the Arizona case.
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