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Chandler, Gilbert deaths tied to cult mystery

29 Dec 2019

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A former East Valley woman has left behind a trail of bodies as authorities attempt to trace the whereabouts of her and her two children amid speculation about her connection to a doomsday cult.

The FBI is on the lookout for 46-year-old Lori Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, after the couple abruptly fled their Idaho home last month. Local authorities had been checking on the welfare of Vallow’s two children since no one had seen or spoken to the juveniles for months.

Now all four family members are missing and have left their relatives confused as to where they may have gone. Some have speculated Vallow’s joined a mysterious cult, while others are hopeful no foul play has taken place.

Three people connected to Vallow and Daybell have all died within the last few months. One was shot to death at a residence in Chandler. A death in Gilbert is still under investigation.

Charles Vallow, the missing mother’s ex-husband, was killed during a domestic dispute on July 11 in the 5500 block of South Four Peaks Place.

According to Chandler Police, Vallow came to Chandler to pick up his son from Lori. Once he arrived, an argument ensued and Lori’s brother, Alexander Cox, intervened by shooting Vallow dead.

Chandler Police determined in July, Cox acted in self-defense and chose not to arrest him.

Cox died on Dec. 12 in Gilbert after police found him unresponsive at his home. His cause of death won’t be determined until an autopsy is completed, according to the Gilbert Police Department.

Cox died the day after authorities in Idaho opened an investigation into the death of Daybell’s former wife.

On Dec. 11, the body of Tammy Daybell, 49, was exhumed for an autopsy. Investigators initially suspected Daybell died of natural causes on Oct. 19 at her home in Fremont County, Idaho.

Within a couple weeks of Tammy’s death, authorities claimed her husband married Lori Vallow – sparking the suspicions of local investigators.

Chandler, Gilbert deaths tied to cult mystery
 
As requested, below is a more legible version of today's press release:

UPDATE ON MISSING CHILDREN VALLOW/RYAN 12-30-2019
The Rexburg Police Department and the Madison County, Idaho Prosecutor’s Office want to thank everyone who has worked with us to find Joshua Vallow and Tylee Ryan since our press release on December 20th. The search for Joshua and Tylee is ongoing. We appreciate everyone who has brought attention to this situation by sharing information with our offices and on social media. We are very grateful for the help of the FBI and their resources. Finally, we are grateful for all the media outlets who have shared press releases and stories relating to these missing children. We continue to welcome any information regarding these children’s whereabouts from informed citizens, investigative journalism, or any other source.

Since we first received a missing child report on November 26th, our number one priority has been finding Joshua and Tylee. We have taken every step available to us, including executing multiple search warrants, interviewing multiple sources, and running down every lead we have found. We strongly believe that Joshua and Tylee’s lives are in danger. We are aware that in the weeks after Tammy Daybell’s death, Lori Vallow/Daybell and Chad Daybell told witnesses that Lori’s daughter had died a year before the death of her father, which is untrue. Around that same time Chad told another witness that Lori had no minor children.

Many people have inquired as to why we have not filed charges yet in this case. Our primary concern at this point is simply locating Joshua and Tylee and charging decisions will be made in due course based upon the evidence available. If we find that harm was done to these children within our jurisdiction, we will prosecute whoever caused that harm.

As stated in our previous press release, Lori Vallow/Daybell, the adopted mother of Joshua and biological mother of Tylee, has completely refused to assist this investigation. We know that the children are not with Lori and Chad Daybell and we also have information indicating that Lori knows either the location of the children or what has happened to them. Despite having this knowledge, she has refused to work with law enforcement to help us resolve this matter. It is astonishing that rather than work with law enforcement to help us locate her own children, Lori Vallow has chosen instead to leave the state with her new husband.

We publicly call on Lori Vallow/Daybell and Chad Daybell to do the right thing and come forward with the information they have about the location and welfare of Joshua and Tylee. This entire investigation could have been avoided if Lori and Chad had simply been honest with law enforcement. We further continue to ask that anyone with any information regarding the location or welfare of Joshua and Tylee share that information with law enforcement.

Rexburg Police Department
 
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“Lori Vallow/Daybell has completely refused to assist this investigation.”

Police say the missing children are notwith Lori and Chad Daybell. #fox10phoenix

Justin Lum Fox 10 on Twitter

Rexburg Police say there’s info indicating Lori Vallow knows where JJ and Tylee are but won’t cooperate. Investigators say the newlyweds have left the state. #fox10phoenix

Justin Lum Fox 10 on Twitter

Authorities on possible charges. Priority is “locating Joshua and Tylee and charming dexisions will be made in due course based on evidence available.” #fox10phoenix

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Missing Idaho children: Film adaptation of stepfather’s book canceled as search for children continues

30 Dec 2019

RIVERTON, Utah — An actress and a filmmaker who said they had been working with Chad Daybell are now sharing their experience with the author after finding out he's been implicated in the disappearance of his stepchildren.

[...]

For Valentina Yingling and Devin K. Hansen, it's shocking to see the news about Chad.

Valentina is the face on the cover of Chad's book, "Chasing Paradise." It took her by surprise when earlier this year her family saw Valentina's picture in the bookstore.

"They’re like, 'Hey is this you? Or do you have a twin?' I’m like, 'No, that’s me… where did you find that picture?'" Valentina said, of her confusion on why her picture was on this book.

She said it was a stock photo from a photoshoot she had done. Valentina explained she reached out to Chad, upon realizing the main character in the book shared similarities to her own life and family.

From there, the suggestion was thrown out to turn the book into a movie, with Valentina portraying the main character.

That led to a meeting in May, when Valentina said Chad came down from Idaho to West Jordan, to meet up with herself and local filmmaker Devin K. Hansen.

"He talked about how he was really interested in afterlife, and things like that," Valentina said. "That’s what his book is about."

Valentina and Devin described how they kept in touch with Chad after the meeting, tossing ideas back-and-forth, and sending Chad scripts to look over.

Things seemed normal, they indicated, until a few months ago when Chad went silent.

"September was the last time that we got a response from him at all," Valentina said.

She said he didn't reply to messages after that.

Devin pulled out his phone to look up the last text.

"He said, 'Thanks so much.' This was on Monday, September 23 of 2019," Devin said.

September 23rd is the exact day Rexburg Police said Lori Daybell's adopted son Joshua and daughter Tylee were last heard from.

Read More: Missing Idaho children: Film adaptation of stepfather’s book canceled as search for children continues
 
Tammy Daybell reported a masked man shot at her with a paintball gun 10 days before her ‘suspicious’ death

30 Dec 2019

REXBURG — Ten days before Tammy Daybell died, a masked man approached and shot at her several times with a paintball gun. She filed a report with the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office and a deputy investigated the claim.

Daybell passed away Oct. 19 and investigators are calling her death suspicious. A week and a half earlier, on Oct. 9, she went on a neighborhood Facebook group and described what happened as she was getting out of her car.

“Something really weird just happened, and I want you to know so you can watch out,” Daybell wrote. “I had gotten home and parked in our front driveway. As I was getting stuff out of the back seat, a guy wearing a ski mask was suddenly standing by the back of my car with a paintball gun. He shot at me several times, although I don’t think it was loaded. I yelled for Chad and he ran off around the back of my house.”

Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries says Daybell called his office and reported the incident. At the time, investigators believed it was likely a prankster and they never found the masked man.

“Our deputy went out there and investigated the report but he was unable to find anything,” Humphries tells EastIdahoNews.com.

Tammy Daybell reported a masked man shot at her with a paintball gun 10 days before her 'suspicious' death | East Idaho News
 
How a Gilbert drive-by shooting is tied to the Idaho missing children

31 Dec 2019

Months before the mysterious disappearance of Joshua Vallow and Tylee Ryan garnered national attention, one of their relatives was shot at in Gilbert while driving home from the gym.

The bullet missed Brandon Boudreaux's head by inches, according to court documents. The shooter fled and the investigation is ongoing, according to Gilbert police.

The attempt on Boudreaux's life occurred Oct. 2. The Jeep that his would-be killer was driving was registered to Charles Vallow.

[...]

Boudreaux's ex-wife, Melani Boudreaux, is Lori's niece. She began spending time with Lori and the religious group and suddenly demanded a divorce over the summer, Brandon Boudreaux said.

"I thought I had a happy marriage, so it was pretty overwhelming," Brandon said.

Before the divorce was final, someone driving Charles Vallow's vehicle attempted to kill him, Brandon said.

Brandon was about to pull into his driveway when he saw a gun with a silencer poke out of the Jeep's window, he said. He heard a gunshot as his driver's side window shattered.

Police later confirmed that the vehicle was registered to Charles Vallow.

[...]

After his attempted murder, Brandon asked the court for full custody of his four children and requested Melani not see the children without supervision.

"The agents investigating (the shooting) have indicated to (Brandon) that they have concerns over the children's safety if they remain in the care of mother unsupervised," Brandon's attorney wrote in a court filing.

In that filing, Brandon's attorney expressed his concerns about Melani's relationship with her aunt, Lori Vallow. Melani frequently spent time with Lori and took their children to her home, according to the filing.

Brandon said through his attorneys that he worried his children were "at risk of imminent physical and emotional harm" if they were to return to their mother.

When she was alerted to the shooting, Melani did not express concern for his safety or the safety of the children, Brandon claims in court documents.

About two weeks after the shooting, Melani texted Brandon that she had decided to move to Boise, according to court documents.

"The kids could remain with you in Arizona, you would have to arrange for daycare, and I could have the kids for school holidays and summers. Or I could take the kids to Idaho and enroll them in school there and you could have the kids for school holidays and summers. Please let me know what you'd like to do," Melani texted Brandon.

A judge granted Brandon temporary custody of the children. Brandon said he is living with the children in hiding out of state.

In November, Melani was arrested on suspicion of trespassing on Brandon's parents' property in America Fork, Utah, according to the Utah County Sheriff's Office. She was released from custody the same day.

Read more: How a Gilbert drive-by shooting is tied to the Idaho missing children
 
Doomsday writer Chad Daybell claimed to have visions about first wife’s mysterious death

31 Dec 2019

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Chad — who has published several books about doomsday or near-death experiences — told his friend Julie Rowe that he had visions about first wife Tammy Daybell’s death.

“He was emotionally distraught, he was crying and he said that his angels had told him that he was going to lose Tammy,” Rowe told news station Fox13.

Earlier this year, Chad spoke on the phone to Rowe and relayed again his premonitions about Tammy’s death.

“And I asked him, ‘Do you still see Tammy dying?’ And he said, ‘Yes I do,’” Rowe said.

Three weeks later, 49-year-old Tammy was found dead in her home from what authorities initially determined were natural causes. But her body has been exhumed and authorities are awaiting toxicology results about her cause of death, police said.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/31/dooms...e-visions-about-first-wifes-mysterious-death/
 
‘Doomsday cult’ mom of missing kids is linked to recent attempted murder

January 1, 2020

One of the relatives of the Idaho mom whose two children are missing was the victim of an attempted murder that may be tied to the kids’ mysterious disappearance, according to a new report.

Brandon Boudreaux believes the radical doomsday cult that relative Lori Vallow Daybell joined is behind the children’s disappearance, as well as a drive-by shooting outside his home in Gilbert, Arizona, AZ Central reported.

Boudreaux was married to Daybell’s niece, Melani, who was also recruited to the group known as Preparing a People.

He said that Melani demanded a divorce soon after she started spending more time with Daybell and the religious group, which describes itself as preparing people for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

“I just don’t know how people can get so wrapped up that they can end up in this space where these people are. It’s just so radical, so different,” Boudreaux said.

Before the divorce was settled, Boudreaux was returning from the gym in October when someone fired at the driver’s side window of his car, the outlet said.

Read More: https://nypost.com/2020/01/01/dooms...ng-kids-is-linked-to-recent-attempted-murder/
 
Police believe Rexburg mother knows something about children's disappearance

Authorities believe the mother of two Rexburg children who have been missing since at least late November either knows where the kids are or what happened to them but isn’t cooperating with the investigation.

Police said they attempted to perform a welfare check of the children — Joshua Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17 — after they were reported missing by extended family members who hadn’t heard from them since September. At the time of the welfare check, their mother, Lori Vallow, and her new husband, Chad Daybell, falsely claimed the children were staying with relatives in Arizona, police said.

When police returned the next day, they discovered the couple had fled the city; their whereabouts are unknown.

“We know that the children are not with Lori and Chad Daybell and we also have information indicating that Lori knows either the location of the children or what has happened to them,” police said. “Despite having this knowledge, she has refused to work with law enforcement to help us resolve this matter. It is astonishing that rather than work with law enforcement to help us locate her own children, Lori Vallow has chosen instead to leave the state with her new husband.”

[...]

Police called on Lori and Chad Daybell to “do the right thing and come forward with the information they have about the location and welfare of Joshua and Tylee. This entire investigation could have been avoided if Lori and Chad had simply been honest with law enforcement.”

The couple issued a statement to the Rexburg Standard Journal through a lawyer last week, saying they love their son and daughter and look forward to addressing “allegations once they have moved beyond speculation and rumor.”

Police said they have not filed charges yet because they are primarily concerned about locating the children, and decisions about making charges will be made in “due course.”

“We have taken every step available to us, including executing multiple search warrants, interviewing multiple sources and running down every lead we have found,” police said in the press release.

Two weeks before her death, Tammy Daybell contacted the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office to report someone had threatened her with a paintball gun.

“We did send an officer out,” Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries told the Rexburg Standard Journal. “She said that somebody was dressed in black and wearing a ski mask. She thought they had a paintball gun.”

Humphries said that she told the responding officer that she was close enough to have hit the man but instead called her husband Chad.

“She wasn’t shot, and there wasn’t any evidence to who it was,” Humphries said. “She figured it was a prankster. That’s what we wrote it up as. She wasn’t injured. Beyond what she told us, we had nothing to go on.”

Vallow’s former in-law, Brandon Boudreaux, who was married to her niece, told the Standard Journal that Lori and Chad had known each other for years and had bonded over their shared religious views, which were focused on the end of the world. Chad Daybell has written books discussing the “end days” and has spoken at some events promoted by “Preparing A People,” a media publishing company specializing in content related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the company had also published podcasts featuring Lori as a speaker.

Preparing A People put out a statement last week saying the organization is not a religious sect and the company would no longer represent or promote media content featuring Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow.

“We are cooperating with law enforcement, and ask anybody who has information that could assist investigators in Arizona or Idaho to please contact them,” said owners Michael and Nancy James. “We ask for prayers on behalf of the missing children JJ and Tylie, and ask that the truth of whatever happened will be brought to light soon.”

Boudreux said he is increasingly concerned about the wellbeing of Vallow’s children.

“They were there as witnesses when her husband (Charles) was shot,” he said. “Another thing we have to look at is that everybody who was there that day is missing or gone.”

Police and the Madison County Prosecutor’s Office thanked everyone who has come forward with information so far, the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their help, everyone who has been sharing information on social media and media outlets that have drawn attention to the case, and asked that anyone else out there with more information contact law enforcement.

Police believe Rexburg mother knows something about children's disappearance
 
1 Jan 2020

Months before the mysterious disappearance of Joshua Vallow and Tylee Ryan garnered national attention, one of their relatives was shot near Phoenix while driving home from the gym.

The bullet missed Brandon Boudreaux's head by inches, according to court documents. The shooter fled and the investigation is ongoing, according to Gilbert police.

The attempt on Boudreaux's life occurred Oct. 2. The Jeep that his would-be killer was driving was registered to Charles Vallow.

Vallow died July 11 — shot to death by his wife's brother while his son Joshua Vallow, 7, and his half-sister, Tylee Ryan, 17, watched.

Boudreaux believes Charles' death, the children's disappearance and his attempted murder are connected to a religious group that the children's mother, Lori Vallow, joined about 18 months ago.

"I just don't know how people can get so wrapped up that they can end up in this space where these people are. It's just so radical, so different," Boudreaux said.

Cult connections? Man links 'radical' religious group to his attempted murder in Arizona and 2 missing children in Idaho
 
Expert: Mother of missing children and her new husband are part of a cult

1 Jan 2020

It is known that Chad Daybell is a religious author, but could he also be a cult leader?

"This reminds me of the Lundgren Group in Kirtland, Ohio when children disappeared, parents disappeared, and Lundgren later was convicted of murder, and he was executed in 2006," said Rick Ross.

Ross, who has studied destructive cults and controversial groups since 1982 and is the founder of the Cult Education Institute, says it's clear that Chad Daybell appears to be a cult leader.

"Number one, that it’s a personality-driven group with a living leader who has absolute authority," said Ross.

Both Daybell and Lori Vallow contributed to podcasts for a group known as "Preparing A People": Doomsday preppers focused on the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus Christ. Former relatives of Vallow say her personality changed after getting close to Daybell, and another source has told FOX 10 that Vallow has read several of Daybell's books, years before their marriage.

"Preparing A People" has issued a statement in the wake of the investigation that reads, in part: "We feel it inappropriate to represent or promote any media content that featured or contained references to either Chad Daybell or Lori Vallow."

"Which, in my book, is leverage to control and manipulate people. That is, to create a sense of urgency about the end of the world so that you can coerce people through that fear to obey you, follow whatever dictates you lay out," said Ross. "The leader isolates people, manipulates them to get undue influence, and that is often been called a process of thought reform or cohesive persuasion."

Idaho authorities say Vallow told witnesses that Tylee died a year before her father did, and Daybell allegedly said she had no children. Police say the couple has left Idaho, and won't cooperate in the investigation.

"I think that Chad Daybell is hiding and not cooperating for a reason, and whatever that reason is, it doesn’t seem to be good," said Ross.

According to Ross, it is normal for cult members to go off the grid and disappear. Ross says he believes Daybell's group is extreme, and that Daybell's leadership could be linked to JJ and Tylee's disappearance.

"They see them as expendable, and people do disappear, and this would be the most extreme type of group and the Daybell Group does seem to be rather extreme," said Ross.

Read more: Expert: Mother of missing children and her new husband are part of a cult
 
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