ID - Joshua Vallow & Tylee Ryan, Rexburg, Sept 2019 TIMELINE ONLY - *NO DISCUSSION*

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Detailed Case Timeline Part I (Update 8)
MISSING: Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell
Person of Interest: Chad Guy Daybell ​

1968 - Chad Guy Daybell is born in Provo, UT.

1973 - Lori Norene Cox is born in San Bernardino Co, CA.

Aug 1985 - 17 yo Chad has near-death experience cliff jumping at Flaming Gorge Reservoir in northern Utah. He claims to have crossed into another dimension & realized there was a world beyond. 1- How it all began | cdaybell.com

1985 to 1987 - Chad works as a Springville Parks Department Worker & Supervisor (KSL-TV)
1986 – Chad graduates from HS in Springville, UT. He was an honor roll student and nominated as “teenager of the month” his sr year (1985 & 1986 Springville Herald, newspapers.com).

1987-1989 – After HS graduation, Chad takes a LDS mission in a Spanish-speaking area of Morristown, New Jersey. Chad writes in his 2017 autobiography that while serving his mission in NJ he felt he was “actually witnessing the First Vision.” Mormons believe Joseph Smith received the First Vision & was chosen to be the Lord’s prophet. (Fox13 Salt Lake City, Daily Mail)

June 1988 to 1992 & 1996 – Unk date) Tammy Douglas (Daybell), worked for Springville City as a billing secretary and receptionist (KSL TV).

August 1989 to August 1991 – Chad works part time as cemetery sexton in Springville, UT & starts college at Brigham Young University (BYU) (Chad’s website Archives).

Approx 1989- 1991 – Lori is a on the cheer squad at Eisenhower High School in Rialto, CA. Lori is “a flyer” - the girl the team threw into the air. Lori's parents didn't come to her cheer competitions. However, Lori’s HS friend, BFL, says, "As a cheer squad, we were always at Lori's house. Her mom and dad let us hang out there. We used to swim... Everybody was just so welcoming. They had a big family." The Cox family were "very, very devout Mormons," BFL said, and Lori attended religious classes in mornings before school (Inside Edition).

Approx 1989- 1991 – Lori got good grades in HS and talked about going to BYU for college, however she never went to college (Inside Edition).

9 March 1990 - Chad Daybell and Tamara "Tammy" Douglas marry in the Manti Temple. They met while attending BYU. They would go on to have 5 children & 3 grandchildren during their nearly 30 year marriage. (Tammy’s Obit).

1990’s – Chad & Tammy did extensive genealogy research on Tammy’s family & temple paperwork for 100’s of her ancestors (Chad’s blog).

1991 – Lori started dating boys her senior year of HS. "It's weird because it wasn't until our senior year that she even had a boyfriend. She was very much to herself and she hung around just the girls…There was hardly ever boys with us. But in senior year, that's when she started kind of like branching out a little bit." – Lori’s friend BFL (Inside Edition).

18 May 1991 – Charles Vallow marries his 2nd wife Cheryl while living in Austin, TX; They had 2 sons during their 12 year marriage (East Idaho News).

12 June 1991 – Lori Cox graduates from Eisenhower HS in Rialto, CA. (San Bernardino County Sun, Newspapers.com ) The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California on July 10, 1991 · Page 24

12 Sept 1991 – Lori rides her horse, Nellie, to visit her boyfriend in Fontana, CA. A newspaper features her photo as she rides down Valley Blvd, just east of Cherry St (San Bernardino County Sun, Newspapers.com ). The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California on September 13, 1991 · Page 31

About 1991 or 1992 – Lori marries her 1st husband while she is still a teenager. Her 1st husband is her boyfriend from high school and he is not Mormon. This relationship ends in divorce. (GH family interview; Post Register, Inside Edition).

About 1992 - Lori moved away from Rialto, CA soon after her divorce (Inside Edition).

1991/1992 – Chad works as Asst City Editor for BYU’s newspaper, The Daily Universe. The following semester he served as City Editor (Chad’s website archives).

April 1992 – Chad graduates from BYU with bachelor’s degree in Journalism (Chad's blog).

1992 – After graduation Chad took job as copy editor and headline writer w/Standard-Examiner in Ogden, UT. The family lived in the suburb Washington Terrace in Ogden (Chad’s website archives).

1993 – Chad has 2nd near-death experience. He is hit by a wave at La Jolla Cove, CA. He claims his spirit visited his deceased grandfather, who showed him future events. Chad claims this “caused his ‘veil’ that separates mortal life from the Spirit World to stay partially open, so he often feels as if he has a foot in both worlds” (Chad's Blog).

1993 – Chad says in a 2015 blog post that not long after his 2nd near-death experience he was driving south on I-15 in Orem, UT past Geneva Steel when he saw a vision of the steel plant changed into subdivisions. Geneva Steel would later close in 1999-2001 and in 2015 Chad claims he foresaw that happening. A similar vision in 2005 supposedly inspired Chad to write a futuristic book series (Chad’s Blog).

4 Dec 1995 - April 2000 – Chad hears about an opening in Springville for a cemetery sexton in 1995 and takes the job in order to move his family back to Springville and closer to their grandparents (Chad’s website archives). Employment records show Chad became a Cemetery Supervisor in July 1996 and resigned in 1999 (KSL TV).

22 Oct 1995 – Lori marries her 2nd husband William Lagioia in Travis County, Texas. Her 1st son Colby (CR) is born during this relationship. This marriage ends in divorce (Court records).

17 Dec 1996 – Lori’s files for divorce against her 2nd husband in Bexar County, Texas. (Court records).

1997 - Two years after Chad became a sexton again, he is shoveling snow at the cemetery when he hears a voice say “It’s time to write your books.” (Chad’s blog 3- A voice in the cemetery | cdaybell.com ).

25 Feb 1998 – Lori’s 2nd divorce is finalized (Bexar Co Court records).

25 May 1998 - Stacey Cox Cope, the sister of Lori and Alex Cox, dies supposedly of diabetic shock; Stacey is survived by a young daughter named Melani (family interviews on GH; Daily Mail). Stacey Lynn Cope (1966-1998) - Find A Grave...

17 March 1999 – Chad Daybell is featured in an article about publishing his first book “An Errand for Emma.” The book is a fiction story set in 1868 with a teen girl main character that is based on Chad’s then 4 year old daughter’s personality. At the time of the article Chad is once again working as a cemetery sexton in Springville - a job he says he purposely took in order to spend more time with his family and have time to write books (BYU Universe).

2001 – Chad claims that Tammy’s grandmother, LC, had a visit from a deceased ancestor, RM; RM supposedly thanked Chad and Tammy thru LC for submitting temple paperwork in the ancestor’s name. Tammy’s grandmother passed away in 2005 and Chad would later claim he received a visit and message from LC in 2011 (Chad’s blog).

April 2001 – Chad is working for Access Computer Products’ in Provo, Utah (Chad’s website archives).

2001 – Lori Marries her 3rd husband, Joseph Anthony Ryan, Jr (JR). Exact date of marriage is unknown, but JR’s sister, Annie, confirmed the year. JR adopts Lori's son from her previous marriage (Post Register) JR’s sister Annie say her brother’s marriage to Lori got off to a joyful start. “They were just madly in love. I had never seen Joe that happy,” (KSLTV).

29 Oct 2001 – Chad does an interview about his job working as a Springville Cemetery Sexton and a book he wrote about it. "It's a physically demanding job," Chad also noted that a 4-year-old visitor once referred to him as "the sexy one." Chad says family members often talk with him about their feelings, "Taking care of the graves is rewarding, as well as helping widows and grieving family members deal with the trauma… Sad times are always when you have to bury babies. That's always a poignant moment." Chad recounts a time when he had to dig up a casket so a mortician could retrieve a wedding ring he had forgotten to remove for the family and another time when a man wanted to set up a Christmas tree and run an extension cord for lights, "I couldn't really exaggerate or fabricate any of these stories, they're just too bizarre… I always get a creepy feeling right in the middle of those,” Said Chad pointing to some juniper bushes, “I don't know what happened there and I don't know why; chills just go up your spine, like you're being watched." (Deseret News).

24 Sept 2002 - Tylee Ashlyn Ryan is born to Lori and JR. JR’s sister Annie said, “My brother had never been married and he had never had a child, so he was over the moon.” (KSLTV).

18 Mar 2003 – Chad’s books are pulled from the shelves of Deseret Book Stores, allegedly due to an irreverent scene in "Chasing Paradise," where a warrior angel drop-kicks a naughty spirit through a wall. Chad is working as managing editor of Cedar Fort publishing at the time (Deseret News).

27 Jun 2003 – Charles Vallow divorces his 2nd wife Cheryl (East Idaho News).

Abt 2004 – Lori wins $17,500 on “Wheel of Fortune” (CrimeOnline).

2004 – Lori is contestant in the Mrs. Texas pageant; she is a semi-finalist, but eliminated in the final round of competition (CrimeOnline).

Feb 23 2004 – Lori is listed on a General Warranty Deed for the home she shares with JR in Driftwood, TX (Hays Co Property records).

1 Mar 2004 – Chad and Tammy start their own book publisher, Spring Creek Book Company (Daily Mail, Heavy).

13 Aug 2004 - Lori’s 3rd husband JR files for divorce in Hays Co, Texas. JR fights Lori in the courts trying to gain full custody of Tylee for several years. (Court records, family interview on Grey Hughes).

2005 - Tammy's grandmother, LC, passes away (Chad’s blog).

2005 – Chad starts working on his “Standing in Holy Places” book series with the first novel called “The Great Gathering” which is set 10-15 years in the future. Chad claims on a blog post in 2015 that his futuristic books included actual visions he had of the future that came to pass, including the recession of 2008 and a steel mill that shut down in 1999. (Chad’s blog 17- Writing “The Great Gathering” | cdaybell.com ).

18 May 2005 – Lori & JR’s divorce is finalized in Hays Co, Texas (Court records).

6 Sept 2005 – Lori is listed on a Trustee Deed for the home she shared with JR in Driftwood, TX (Hays Co Property records).

2006 – Lori’s brother Alex is doing stand-up comedy shows in Phoenix where he meets a friend (MT). (Fox10 Phoenix).

24 Feb 2006 - Lori marries her 4th husband, Leland "Charles" Anthony Vallow (CV) in Las Vegas, NV; Lori is CV’s 3rd wife (Clark Co marriage records, East Idaho News).

6 Mar 2006 – Springville Herald writes an article about Chad’s new book, "The LDS Top 5 Charts" all about celebrities who are also LDS.

11 Mar 2006 – Chad signs copies of his new book at Provo East Bay Seagull Book, 1326 S. University Avenue in Provo, UT (Springville Herald).

08 Aug 2006 – Lori’s ex-husband, JR, files in the 22nd District Court of TX for custody enforcement/modification in the interest of Tylee (Court records).

2007 – CV’s 2nd ex-wife begins to have concerns about Lori’s mental health. “She just seemed off. There were a lot of strange goings-on at their home to the point that a judge ordered cameras to be put in their home to protect the children,” Cheryl says (East Idaho News).

11 July 2007 – Chad’s book “The Great Gathering” is first published by Brigham Distributing for Nook. In Aug 2007 Chad’s Spring Creek Book Company also released the book in Amazon Kindle and Paperback versions. In the book, “one of his characters dies for a noble purpose. The death “was unfortunate, but let me assure you that it wasn’t an accident.” (Adam Herbets, Fox13 SLC).

Aug 2007 – Lori’s brother AC tells his Phoenix friend, MT, that he has to go to Austin, TX to deal with some “family affairs”.

5 Aug 2007 – Lori’s brother, AC, attacks & threatens her 3rd ex-husband, JR in Travis Co, TX. JR was leaving after a custody visit with Tylee when AC approached him in the parking lot, pulled a stun gun & shocked JR with it twice. JR got up to flee and AC chased him. JR fled past a witness who saw AC with the stun gun and AC walked away after that (Court Docs, FOX 10 Phoenix).

6 Aug 2007 – JR goes to the hospital with chest pains the day after the stun gun attack and is admitted for observation. He is also diagnosed with a fractured wrist from the fall to the ground during the attack (Court Docs, FOX 10 Phoenix).

15-16 Aug 2007 – An “affidavit for arrest and detention” of Alex is made & filed in Travis Co, TX for the stun gun attack on JR (Court Docs, FOX 10 Phoenix).

2008 – Abt a year after the stun-gun attack on JR, AC pleads guilty to aggravated assault in the second degree and serves 3 months in jail (Court Docs, FOX 10 Phoenix).

2008 – While serving 90 days for his attack on JR, AC writes 4 letters to his friend MT; MT says AC “usually found a way to mention his ex-brother in law”. One letter reads "Do me a favor. Call Janis. Ask her to put Joe's address on a post card and his license plate number. I think it will be popular here." The "Janis" mentioned is Lori and AC's mother. In another letter, AC writes "P.S., can you get a picture from Lori of one of her ex-husbands and send it to me? Some of the guys would like to hang out with him." (FOX 10 Phoenix).

2008 – The “Great Recession” hits the US; In a 2015 blog post Chad claims that the 2008 recession was just like he predicted it happening in his books but he knew that the end was “still several years away” because one of the key parts of the book involves the government encouraging human microchip implants (Chad’s Blog).

2008 – Chad and Tammy file for Bankruptcy. The bankruptcy records show they have over $100,000 in debt related Spring Creek Book Company. They have assets totaling $149,657.21 but debts in the amount of $353,853.21. Assets include a home in Springville worth $135,900, less than $100 in their bank accounts, various household items and their book company worth an estimated $0. Also listed as asset - 'Copyrights to twenty (20) books written by debtor/website. (annual income of about $2,000, however this decreases every year)' They own a 1997 Mazda Protege (worth $2k) and 2005 Chrysler Town & County van (worth $10k), a turtle, two rabbits and a parakeet. They owe $95,352 to Gmac Mortgage for their home, $7,024 on a 2nd mortgage and $36,699.11 to Central Bank for a 'Statutory lien.' They list five kids ranging from 8 years to 16 years. Both list their jobs as book publishers - Chad's average income was $3,385 and Tammy pulled in $1,579. The docs listed monthly expenses in the amount of $3,927. At the time, Chad was working part-time at Springville City Corp and Tammy was working part-time as an Overload Tech. (Radar Online, Daily Mail).

2008 – Lori’s niece, Melani, daughter of late Stacey Cox Cope, marries Brandon Boudreaux (BB) (Daily Mail).

Mar 2008 - Lori and CV sign a "lien release form" together in Travis Co, TX (Court records).

Aug 2008 to 2009 - Chad works as a Part-Time Cemetery Maintenance Worker in Springville, UT (KSL TV).

19 Dec 2008 – JR requests dismissal of an appeal against Lori Vallow in the 3rd court of Appeals, 345 District Court of Travis Co, Texas; the court grants his request. Joseph Anthony Ryan, Jr. v. Lori N. Vallow--Appeal from 345th District Court of Travis County

26 Jan 2009 – Lori and CV sign forms for authorization for someone to pay property tax on their behalf in Travis Co, Texas (Court records).

1 Feb 2009 – Chad takes a cemetery sexton job in Spanish Fork City. He says he took the job due to the recession’s impact on the book publishing industry (Spanish Fork Press/Daily Herald).

17 July 2009 - Lori’s Ex-husband, JR, again files a custody suit against Lori in the State of TX. This suit is carried over to the AZ courts and a note about it in Maricopa County, AZ records that reads: “FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS INTERLOCUTORY/OF 7/17/09 IN SUIT TO MODIFY PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP” (Court Records).

2009 – A civil court finds Lori in contempt and charges her with judicial interference for disobeying a child custody agreement with Joseph Ryan in regards to Tylee (Feb 2020 bond reduction hearing).

2009 – Lori is found guilty of 7 different civil contempt charges (Per Prosecutor Wood in Lori’s Initial Appearance 6 Mar 2020).

2010 – Chad and Tammy’s Bankruptcy case is officially closed, with about $203,000 of their debt forgiven (Daily Mail).

2011 – Lori’s brother Alex is ordered by a Travis Co, TX Court to pay Lori’s ex-husband/Tylee’s father, Joseph Ryan, $5000 in restitution for the 2007 taser assault; Alex is placed on probation (Fox10 Phoenix).

27 July 2011 – Lori calls and cancels a July 30th court ordered psych eval appointment, saying that her sister in another state gave birth to a baby with medical complications and Lori was leaving town to be with her sister. Lori requested to change her appointment to Oct 4th (KSLTV).

30 July 2011 – Lori was originally scheduled for a court ordered pysch eval in relation to a custody case concerning CV’s 2 sons. She canceled this saying she was going out of town (KSLTV).

31 July 2011 – A psychologist decides to call Lori to schedule an appointment earlier after a concern that Lori is a “flight risk” was brought up in court (KSLTV).

1 Aug 2011 - Lori showed up early for her psych eval appointment (KSLTV).

5 Aug 2011 – Lori’s Ex-husband, JR, files “Petition to modify child custody, parenting time and child support” in Maricopa County, AZ Family Court. JR claims Lori will not let him see his daughter, Tylee, despite their custody agreement. (Court records, AZ Family News).

13 Aug 2011 – A process server serves Lori with the Aug 5th petition through serving her husband CV. The document ordered Lori to undergo a psychological evaluation after she told social workers “death would be an option before giving Tylee to her father, Mr. Joseph Ryan, even for a visit.” The document goes on to say “These are real and serious concerns,” (KSLTV).

2011 - A civil court again finds Lori in contempt and charges her with judicial interference for disobeying a child custody agreement with Joseph Ryan in regards to Tylee (Feb 2020 bond reduction hearing).

23 Sept 2011 – Chad claims that Tammy’s deceased grandmother, LC, visited him and told him Tammy needed to stop playing the computer game “Frontierville” and get back to working on genealogy and temple work; Chad typed up the message and gave it to Tammy and her parents to read that day; Sept 23 was LC’s birthday so they took this as a sign she had spoken to him; Chad says in a 2015 blog post that every Sept 23rd he waits for another visit, but so far LC’s been quiet (Chad’s Blog).

25 May 2012 - Joshua Jaxson “JJ” Vallow is born in Louisiana. He weighs 2lb 14 oz at birth. JJ would later be diagnosed with special needs- Autism and ADHD, and prescribed medication. JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW cared for him for 9 or 10 months prior to allowing KW’s brother, CV and his wife, Lori, to adopt him (Rexburg Standard Journal, East Idaho News).

5 June 2012 - Lori’s Ex-husband, JR, files more petitions against Lori to modify child custody and child support arrangements for Tylee in Maricopa County, AZ. The court battle goes on until 2014 when it appears that JR won his case as the document reads: “Stipulation To Credit (Offset) Petitioner/Father's Child Support Obligations for Seven (7) Months Commencing June 1, 2014” (Court records).

May 2013 to Oct 2014 - Chad works as Springville Cemetery Sexton (KSL TV).

11 Apr 2013 – Baby JJ takes his first steps at 13 months old (East Idaho News).

Approx 2013 – CV and Lori begin the legal process to adopt JJ.

2014 – Chad first meets Julie Rowe on an online forum called AVOW; Chad helped publish her book about a near-death experience she had in 2004. She became close friends with the Daybells and there was a 3 year period of time where Julie would visit Chad & Tammy in their Rexburg home at least once a month (Fox10 Phoenix, Fox13 SLC).

April 15, 2014 – Tylee answers questions on Askfm. https://******/tyleearyan

May 2014 – Tylee Joins Twitter. Tylee Ryan (@tyleearyan) | Twitter

1 June 2014 – JR wins a custody petition against Lori involving adjustment of child support and parenting time with Tylee. Docs read: “Stipulation To Credit (Offset) Petitioner/Father's Child Support Obligations for Seven (7) Months Commencing June 1, 2014” (Court records).

25 July 2014: CV and Lori finalize the adoption of JJ (KW; Post Register); The final decree of adoption from the 14th Judicial District Court Parish of Calcasieu, Louisiana establishes Lori and Charles as JJ’s legal parents (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc).

August 2014 – Chad’s mom rents a large cabin in Island Park, Idaho for an extended family vacation trip. On this Idaho trip Chad hears a voice say “You’ll live here soon.” (Chad's Blog 14- Following the path to . . .Idaho? | cdaybell.com ).

End of 2014/Beginning of 2015 -Lori and Charles Vallow move to Hawaii with JJ and Tylee to start a juice bar called "Juice Island". This business was reportedly a failure and they would eventually move back to AZ (Note: Date based on business filing dates and social media posts; story about the juice bar was from insider posts on WS and confirmed by business filings).

8 Dec 2014 – Lori and Charles Vallow register a business called “Juice Island Hawaii LLC” in Princeville, HI.

Approx 2015: Lori becomes “obsessed with Chad’s books,” especially his “Standing in Holy Places” series. A friend of Lori's says: “Those books she got really obsessed with and started buying me those books too. She must have gotten close to him from his book.” (Fox 5; Post Register). In one of those books a character named Tad is upset at his wife Emma for following prophesies signaling the end of the world. Tad says, “I’m not the one tearing our family apart. You’re the one who is selfishly taking my children away!’” Also in the series the fictional Tad “is running from law enforcement and describes how difficult it is to sleep.” (Adam Herbets, Fox13 SLC).

12 Jan 2015 - Lori and Charles Vallow register a business called “JUICE ISLAND - PRINCEVILLE LLC” in Princeville, HI.

Feb 2015 - Chad has a vision of walking a path and hearing a voice say, “Moving to Rexburg will be a tremendous blessing to your children and your grandchildren.” A few weeks after that Chad was eating dinner with his family and said “When we move to Rexburg . . .” He had not brought it up before and “Tammy wasn’t thrilled” but soon Tammy agreed and was looking at real estate in Rexburg (Chad's blog 14- Following the path to . . .Idaho? | cdaybell.com ).

June 2015 – Chad and Tammy Daybell buy a house and move to Rexburg, Idaho. Tammy worked as assistant librarian at Madison Middle School. She later became the librarian at Central Elementary School in Sugar City, Idaho (Chad's blog).

25 June 2015 – Tylee Tweets a photo with a friend captioned: “4 more days until Hawaii with this chick”.

11 July 2015 – Tylee Tweets a photo with a friend doing Charlie’s Angel poses, captioned: “Partner’s in Crime”.

27 July 2015 – Tylee Tweets a photo with a friend captioned “gonna miss this girl”.

4 Aug 2015 – Lori and Charles Vallow register a business entity called “JUICE ISLAND - LIHUE LLC” in Princeville, HI.

27 Sep 2015 - Total Supermoon Lunar Eclipse, AKA “Blood Moon”.

Oct 2015 – Chad takes over the day to day operations as Editor of a newsletter called Global Research Initiative (GRI), in conjunction with a forum called LDS-AVOW. The original founder of GRI, Roger K. Young will act as guest commentator (GRI Website).

2016 – Chad works as “sales executive at Falls Printing” (according to his LinkedIn & Daily Mail).

Approx 2016 or 2017 – Lori and Chad may have met for the first time as early as 2016 or 2017. Lori’s friend says in a Dec 2019 interview that Lori first became “obsessed” with Chad’s books about 4 years ago. JJ’s grandmother, KW says in a 30 Jan 2020 presser that she believes Lori & Chad may have met in 2016 or 2017. (Friend interview, Fox7 Austin, & KW’s Presser video).

2 January 2016 – Tylee joins Poshmark in Jan 2016 but there is no visible activity after Jan 2.
Tylee Ryan's Closet (@tyleearyan) | Poshmark

1 Feb 2016 – Lori posts a photo to Instagram from Anini Beach, Kalihiwai, HI.
@lolo4kauai on Instagram: “Just a morning stroll in paradise”

2 Mar 2016 – Tylee creates a project on Prezi about Abraham Lincoln: Baltimore Sun

12 Mar 2016 – Tylee retweets a post that says “someone help me i cant stop being hungry”. This is her last activity on Twitter. Tylee Ryan (@tyleearyan) | Twitter

2 Jun 2016 – Alex is featured on a youtube video doing Looney Tunes impressions for a radio show producer, KD (Fox 10 Phoenix).

18 June 2016 – Tylee posts a beach photo taken in Kakaha, Hawaii to her photography Instagram. @tylee.photography on Instagram: “Black sand beaches”

8 July 2016 – Tylee posts a photo to her photography Instagram with the caption “Hanalei dayss”. @tylee.photography on Instagram: “Hanalei dayss”

19 July 2016 – Tylee creates an account on fanfiction.net with the username “typicaltylee” typicaltylee | FanFiction

20 July 2016 - Lori gets a traffic ticket for using her phone while driving in Kauai, HI. (Court records).

24 Sept 2016 – Tylee’s 14th birthday. Lori wishes Tylee happy birthday on her Instagram. @lolo4kauai on Instagram: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my little girl who is all grown up!! your mommy loves u so much ”

28 September 2016 – Lori dissolves one of the 3 Hawaii business entities (Juice Island - Lihue LLC). The other Juice Island LLC’s are listed as “delinquent” for 2016, 2017 and 2018 due to no filings and the state administratively dissolved the entities in 2018.

Dec 2016 – Tylee is listed on the Honor Role as a Freshman at Kapaa High School in Hawaii. http://kapaahighschool.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/PCNC-Connection-Dec-2016.pdf

Late 2016/Early 2017 - Lori and the children move from HI to AZ (Date based on business filings and Tylee's school enrollment in HI).

8 Feb 2017 to 23 Mar 2017 - Tylee is enrolled at Desert Ridge High School in Gilbert, AZ (AZ Family News).

7 Mar 2017 – Chad writes on his blog that he is close to finished writing a book called “Reclaiming Liberty,” but he will not be releasing it until there is “a major earthquake in the western United States”. He also announces that he will release a short autobiography about his two near-death experiences. Update on Reclaiming Liberty | cdaybell.com

16 Mar 2017 – Tylee creates a project on Prezi about Linear Functions: #1:

28 March 2017 – Tylee is enrolled in Perry High School in Chandler, AZ and finishes the school year there (AZ Family News).

29 Mar 2017 – Tylee creates a Roblox account under username “Typicaltylee”. Profile - Roblox

19 May 2017 – Chad announces on his blog the release of his autobiography “Living on the Edge of Heaven” discussing his two near-death experiences and his interactions with deceased relatives. At the beginning of the book is a dedication to his wife Tammy: “My one and only.” Chad writes in the book he has had visions of himself as an older man “helping build New Jerusalem,” and “I appear to be in better shape in the future than I am now, probably due to the lack of fast food in Zion.” (Chad’s blog, Fox13 SLC Special Report w/Adam Herbets)

June 2017 – Family members say Lori and Chad first met sometime around June 2017 (Daily Mail).

Summer of 2017 – Chad meets author and podcaster, Melanie Gibb (MG), for the first time after he speaks at a campout in Northern Utah. MG invites him to speak in her hometown of Mesa, Arizona (Chad's Forward for MG's book).

24 Sept 2017 – Tylee’s 15th birthday. Lori posts a “happy birthday” message to her on Instagram that mentions Perry High School in Gilbert, AZ. @lolo4kauai on Instagram: “My Beautiful daughter turned 15 today ! Happy birthday Ty Ty !! I love you so much!!! JJ says "hi Tylee Ryan Perry High School " ”

Dec 2017 – Lori and Chad made their first appearance together on a podcast (Daily Mail)

See PART II (Update 8) for more...

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part II (Update 8)
MISSING: Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell
Person of Interest: Chad Guy Daybell ​

Dec 2017 to early 2018 – Charles Vallow talks to dog trainer, NM, about getting JJ a service dog. NM recommends a Goldendoodle breed commonly trained for children on the autism spectrum and NM trains the dog for JJ. JJ named his dog Bailey after NM’s own dog with the same name. Bailey helps JJ sleep through the night. "Sometimes kids with autism will wander off, they will get distracted. Bailey was there to keep him on task and alert the parents if he was wandering off…He would get up in the middle of the night and they had to have all the doors locked and everything secured so he wouldn’t wander off into the neighborhood," said NM. "When we got to that point in the lesson, the Vallows said that was one of the first nights JJ stayed in his bed and slept through the night, because he had Bailey in bed there with him," said NM. (Fox10 Phoenix, ABC15).

Jan 2018 – Lori’s son Colby gets married in the backyard of Lori & Charles’ home at 3688 E Runaway Bay Pl, Queens Creek, AZ. Tylee arrives late for the wedding after the photos are already taken. CR says life at this time was “totally normal” and everyone was happy. CR lived with Lori and CV until he was married and then he moved out to start his own family with his wife. CR says while Lori & CV had arguments like any married couple it was a normal, good relationship at this time (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

2018 – Tylee and her brother Colby begin a “mentoring” type relationship through texting each other. The siblings don’t talk on the phone much other than an occasional facetime but CR says he makes an effort to text Tylee frequently and ask her how she is doing (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

Late March 2018 - Joseph Anthony Ryan, Jr. -- 3rd ex-husband of Lori, and father of Tylee dies in his apartment in Maricopa County, AZ. His body is not found until a neighbor’s dog detects a strange smell and the neighbor calls police (KTVB7, KSL-TV).

3 Apr 2018 - Joseph Anthony Ryan, Jr. -- 3rd ex-husband of Lori, and father of Tylee, is found deceased in his AZ home. The ME’s report reveals that a neighbor asked for a welfare check on JR when he hadn’t seen JR for approx 1 week. Police used a key from the landlord to enter JR’s locked apartment and found him dead in bed. The coroner’s report says that samples of the liver and thigh muscles were taken to be “held” for toxicology, but the death was not considered suspicious; it is unclear if toxicology was ever run. The death was ruled a heart attack and JR was cremated, meaning no 2nd autopsy can be done (Maricopa Co ME Report, Fox13 Phoenix). After JR’s death Lori applies for and receives SS survivor benefits for Tylee, or so she told her sister-in-law, KW (KW’s 30 Jan 2020 Presser).

Early Apr 2018 – Lori is notified of the death of her ex-husband, JR, but she doesn’t tell JR’s family about it (KSLTV).

After 3 Apr 2018 - After JR's death, Lori reportedly tells a family member she received JR’s life insurance policy and plans to share it with Tylee. Lori also allegedly said to the family member that JR was "evil" and "God took care of him." (AZ Family News).

May 2018 – About 5 weeks after JR’s body was found, JR’s sister, Annie, finds out about JR’s death from her other brother. No one had claimed JR’s body, so officials found ran a background check and called her brother. “That really took me back, I thought ‘you knew and didn’t tell me?” Annie said. (KSLTV)

May 2018 – Lori asks JR’s sister Annie (Tylee’s aunt) to visit AZ to support Tylee. “I decided to put my personal feelings aside about not being told about Joe’s death and I flew out there, hoping to connect with Tylee,” Annie said. When Annie arrived in AZ, Lori discouraged Tylee from mourning her father’s death. “When I got there, it was as if, nothing had happened,” Annie said. “People were hardly talking about Joe and when Lori did, the tenor was — she would actually say, ‘the world is a better place without Joe Ryan.’” Annie also noticed, “There was also a lot of tension between Tylee and Lori” (KSLTV).

24 May 2018 –After visiting Lori and Tylee, JR’s sister Annie texts her daughter: “It was absolutely exhausting. I dealt with so many lies, even with little things. I think [Lori’s] unhinged and untethered from truth” and “Lolo was crazy. I saw a dark side of her when I was there that makes me question some of her claims” and “I regret going down there. She may be a sociopath.” And “Way More. That’s what makes me feel Lori was a sociopath. To her, this was all a game. She had no empathy for the suffering anyone else was experiencing, including Tylee” (KSLTV).

After May 2018 – Tylee’s aunt Annie was so shaken that she decided to cut ties with Lori. “I just left exhausted from the constant campaigning [against Joseph Ryan] and Lolo’s out-of-control ego. But I feel trapped. I connected with Tylee but don’t want anything to do with Lolo ever again.” Annie said in a text message to her daughter. That visit was the last time Annie ever saw Tylee (KSLTV).

June 2018 – Note: According to the Feb 14th 2020 Dateline episode June 2018 is when Lori and Charles moved back to AZ from HI, however, this date does not make sense with the events listed above, notably CR’s January 2018 Wedding at Lori and CV’s house in AZ, JJ getting his dog Bailey from an AZ trainer and Tylee’s Aunt visiting them in AZ the month after Joe Ryan died. Unsure if it is the correct month/year listed.

June 2018 – Chad finishes writing his “Times of Turmoil” book series and "felt prompted" to speak about the book in AZ in July. He contacts author Melanie Gibb and MG arranges a joint speaking event with Chad and another speaker (Chad’s blog).

3 June 2018 – Tylee creates a 2nd Roblox account under username “Tyleearyan”. Profile - Roblox

7 June 2018 – Tylee joins Wattpad; Her location is shown as Chandler, AZ. Tylee Ryan (@TyleeRyan) - Wattpad

27 June 2018 – Chad announces a book signing on his blog for his book “Reclaiming Liberty”, the last book in his “Times of Turmoil” series.

30 June 2018 – Chad holds a book signing in Sugar City, ID (Chad’s blog It’s finally here! | cdaybell.com ).

13 July 2018 – Chad speaks at an event in Mesa, AZ with another author and he has a book signing after; This event was arranged by Chad’s author friend, Melanie Gibb (Websleuths Verified Insider).

25 July 2018 – Tylee adds song “watch” by Billie Eilish to her Youtube channel. This appears to be her last activity on Youtube. tylee ryan

24 Sept 2018 – Tylee’s 16th birthday.

Sept 2018 - Chad starts speaking on a podcast called "Glimpses Through the Veil" (Podcast website & Event Flyers).

15 Sept 2018 - Chad speaks at a prepper event in Brigham City, Utah (Event Flyers).

26-27 Oct 2018 - Chad speaks at a prepper event in St George, Utah (Event Flyers).

Oct 2018 – Lori’s husband, CV, finds multiple emails between Lori and Chad (Fox10 Phoenix).

16-17 Nov 2018 - Chad speaks at a prepper event in Mesa, AZ (Event Flyers). A forged email written in Charles’ name, and sent to Chad in June 2019, claims Chad stayed at Lori and Charles’ AZ home during this event. It’s unclear if Chad actually stayed there during this event (Fox10 Phoenix, KSL).

Late 2018 – Lori and Chad met at a “prepper event” in AZ where Chad gave a talk. (Dateline).

Nov 2018 – Brenda Dye is elected to her position as Fremont Co Coroner. She has a high school education and works as an advanced EMT at Fremont Co EMS (Post Register).

4 Dec 2018 – Lori does her first podcast with Melanie Gibb (MG) & Jason Mow (JM) titled “Time to Warrior Up”. JM says he first met Lori at Temple, they had an “instant connection” and he knew she was a “gatherer”. JM then connected Lori with MG. JM tells a story about working for the Phoenix PD and how he had a fight with a suspect; JM was seriously injured during the fight – detached hamstrings from the pelvis. JM says he retired from Phoenix PD in 2017. During the podcast, “Lori mentions how suffering leads to salvation and that even though she doesn’t want her kids to suffer, she understands they have to in order to see the light.” (Fox 10 Phoenix).

5 Dec 2018 – Lori & Chad, along with Melanie Gibb & Jason Mow, do a 2nd “Time to Warrior Up” podcast with the topic mostly being about the end of the world (East Idaho News, HLN True Crime).

Jan 2019 – Chad is a guest interview on “Time To Warrior Up” podcast with Lori co-hosting the podcast along with hosts JM & MG (podcast website).

Jan 2019 – A prescription for JJ’s autism medication, Risperidone, is filled (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc, East Idaho News).

Jan 2019 (Approx) - Lori emails Chad a video of herself dancing; Charles found the video because Lori was not technologically savvy and did not delete the email from the “sent” folder. This lead CV to believe Lori was having an affair with Chad (According to CV’s sister KW, in Jan 30, 2020 Presser).

Jan 2019 – Chad sends an email to Lori on the subject "Seven missions to accomplish together." The email includes translating ancient records, writing a book about it, identifying locations in AZ for "white camps," the presidency of the Church of Firstborn, establishing food distribution as tribulations start, ordaining individuals to translation and providing supplies to righteous family members (Fox10 Phoenix).

Late January 2019 – Abt 2 weeks before CV files for divorce, Lori takes JJ and moves out of the Chandler, AZ home she was sharing with CV. JJ’s grandmother, KW, says Lori told CV she no longer cared about him or JJ. Then Lori abandons Charles and JJ for 58 days; her whereabouts during this time are unknown and her communication with CV is limited; KW says she believes Tylee was staying with other relatives during this time. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix, KSLTV News).

28 Jan 2019 - Enterprise Rent-A-Car emails CV to say that 2,000 points were transferred out of his rewards account; CV later realizes that Lori transferred the points. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

28 & 29 Jan 2019 - Lori makes multiple transfers of money totaling $35,000 from CV’s business accounts to their personal joint account and then moves the money again from the personal account into an unknown bank account. CV asks Lori to return it all, but she ignores him; CV tries to stop the transfers, but the bank says Lori is a signatory and the payment can't be stopped (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

29 Jan 2019 - CV says Lori called that day and told him she is a god and a "translated being who cannot taste death sent by god to lead the 144,000 into the Millennium". The conversation between Lori and CV would later be documented in both an order of protection and divorce filings: “[Lori] believes that she is receiving spiritual revelations and visions to help her gather and prepare those chosen to live in the New Jerusalem after the Great War as prophesied in the Book of Revelations." Lori also allegedly threatened to murder CV if he stood in her way (Protection Order & Divorce docs, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Jan 2019 – CV is on a business trip in Houston when Lori calls him. Lori kept calling CV by the name “Nick Schneider” on the phone. When CV asked who Nick was, Lori said that CV was Nick because Nick had killed CV and taken his identity. Divorce docs say that Lori again threatens to murder CV when he returned to AZ; she allegedly said she had an angel to help her dispose of CV’s body. She also said she would ruin him financially (Protection Order & Divorce documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

Late Jan 2019 - CV files a petition with Community Bridges Healthcare for a 72-hour hold and evaluation, according to the documents; the staff called Gilbert Police to bring Lori in for treatment if they make contact with her; However Lori is never taken in for the hold and the petition expires (Divorce documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Jan 2019 - Lori allegedly cancels CV’s plane ticket from TX back to AZ using his computer to log in and cancel online without CV’s knowledge. CV is forced to buy a last minute $600 ticket when he arrives at the airport and finds out Lori canceled his ticket. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Jan 2019 – When CV finally arrives back at the Phoenix Airport, he finds that his truck, which he had parked at the airport before leaving AZ, is gone. Lori had a spare key and removed the truck before CV came back. CV attempts to contact Lori but ends up taking a taxi to Mesa and then has a friend pick him up to take him home from there. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Jan 2019 – When CV arrives back at his AZ home he finds Lori has changed the locks and removed “the majority of CV’s possessions”, including CV’s business computer and CV’s shoes, clothing and underwear; Lori also took JJ’s service dog’s collar, JJ’s medicine, clothing and i-pad. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Jan 2019 – Lori calls CV after he returns to AZ and says she is staying in a hotel with JJ. She says she doesn’t want anything to do with the children anymore; she says she will drop off JJ at school in the morning and CV can pick him up in the afternoon. Lori refuses to return CV’s truck for 3 days, so he has to pay for a rental car to go to work and JJ’s school (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Jan 2019, Morning – Gilbert PD is notified of an involuntary hold order to pick up Lori and take her to Community Bridges for 72 hours of observation. GPD goes to CV’s house looking for Lori and talks to CV there; CV tells them Lori changed the locks and moved out (Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Jan 2019, Morning – Lori takes JJ to school. While she is walking JJ inside CV arrives and takes Lori’s purse, phone and car keys out of her car to try to prevent her from leaving before police could get there to pick her up on the involuntary hold order. CV calls GPD to notify them of Lori’s location and request they pick her up, but Lori had a spare car key and left before police arrive (Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Jan 2019 – CV finds a hotel key card for Hyatt in Lori’s purse and goes to the hotel to try to figure out where Lori is staying. GPD made contact with CV at the hotel. The LEO asked CV if he was concerned about JJ’s welfare since CV says Lori was acting unstable; CV suggested that GPD could wait at the school in case Lori came to get JJ and then they could pick her up for the involuntary hold order. GPD told CV they would not do a “sting operation” to pick Lori up. CV then told GPD he needed to go to the bank (Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Jan 2019, 12:36 PM – Lori along with Tylee and Lori’s friend go to Gilbert PD with a harassment complaint. Lori says that her husband, CV, stole her purse from her car while she walked JJ into school. Lori also accuses CV of cheating on her while on his business trips. GPD calls CV with Lori’s permission; CV says that he went to JJ’s school to help GPD serve Lori with an involuntary hold petition. CV says that he saw Lori’s purse outside the school and picked it up to keep it safe; The LEO on the phone informs CV he could be charged with theft but that Lori only wants her property back; CV replies that he wants his share of the money Lori had removed from their business account. CV asks GPD if they are going to serve Lori with the petition for involuntary hold since she is there at GPD. The GPD officer on the phone tells CV he is not aware of the petition but if CV agrees to bring the petition and Lori’s purse to GPD he will have it verified by his sergeant. CV agrees to bring the items to GPD. The GPD LEO talking to Lori finds her to be “in a normal state of mind” and ends up allowing Lori to go to the facility on her own to talk to staff, rather than have GPD escort her (Fox10 Phoenix).

Approx. Jan 2019? – Lori is staying with her brother Alex. Lori and AC are seen arguing loudly in the street outside of AC’s San Tan Valley, AZ home. A neighbor says he thought Lori and AC were married the way they were arguing. “She was screaming at him accusing him of bringing disgrace on their family”. After the fight Lori left AC’s house and was not seen there again by the neighbor (Exact date unknown, Jan 10, 2020 Daily Mail says “about a year ago”).

Late Jan/Early Feb 2019 (Approx) – Lori’s son, Colby, finds out from his cousin that something happened between Lori and Charles and that Lori had moved out of CV’s home. Lori begins to decrease her communication with her married son at this time and CR was not aware of everything that was happening nor does he know exactly where Lori and Tylee were living for the days she left CV (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

1 Feb 2019, 6:45 AM – Gilbert PD follows up with Community Bridges and is told that Lori checked herself in there but she was discharged only a few hours later (Fox10 Phoenix).

Feb 2019 – Chad writes the forward for author MG’s new book “Feel the Fire.” (MG's book website).

Feb 2019 – Chad allegedly tells author/friend Julie Rowe that he and Tammy are “tight on money and he was doing his best to keep his marriage together” (KTVB7, Fox10Phoenix).

Feb 2019 – Lori’s first grandchild is born to Colby (CR) & his wife. Lori came to the hospital to see the baby. CV did not come to see the baby. CR says as a new parent he was just trying to figure out things for himself at this time in his life while all this drama was going on with Lori and CV. Lori lead CR to believe that CV had cheated on her and that was the reason she left him; that made CR angry at CV; Prior to this CV had been excited for the arrival of CR’s new baby, referring to the child as his granddaughter; CV attempted to text Lori’s family members to tell them he was innocent of cheating but CR wasn’t ready to talk to him; CR cut off communication with CV and Feb 2019 is the last time he and CV talked (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

Early Feb 2019 – Lori calls her friend from Kauai, April R (AR), and says she has just landed in Kauai with Tylee; Lori says she was leaving CV and asked if she could stay with AR. At first AR thought this was a fight that would blowover but she noticed Lori was very different, she was disorganized and “manic” (Dateline).

Approx Feb 2019 – While in Kauai, Lori tell her friend AR that CV has been having an affair and he had turned mean and violent; AR says that does not sound like the CV she knew; it seemed like Lori was villainizing CV. Lori told AR how she had sabotaged CV by canceling his flight home to AZ and taking his truck from the airport, etc. (Dateline)

Approx Feb 2019 - Lori also tells AR about Chad Daybell’s books and the podcasts she had been doing with a new religious group; Lori tells AR about a friend from the group named Zulema (ZP). Lori says ZP has “the power to control the elements”. AR says that Lori seemed “really enamored” with ZP but the things Lori told AR about ZP’s “powers”, AR called “laughable”. Lori says she believes AR is one of the 144,000 chosen ones and Lori is there in Kauai to “gather” her. AR said she did not believe herself to be one of those people (Dateline).

Approx Feb 2019 - Tylee spends most of her time in Kauai sleeping and seems depressed, while Lori talks constantly about death; Lori told AR that CV was already dead and had a demon living inside of him but later Lori changed her story to say she expected to get a call any day saying CV was dead (Dateline).

Feb 2019 – CV is taking care of JJ but Lori refuses to return JJ’s medicine, clothing, i-pad and the service dog’s special collar. Lori also never contacts CV to ask about JJ’s wellbeing nor does she request parenting time. CV says this causes JJ emotional stress as his autism makes it difficult for him to understand the situation. JJ needs his medicine, his usual clothing, his i-pad with special apps on it that calm him down, and the dog’s collar so the dog can go wherever JJ goes (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

4 Feb 2019 – Fearing for his life, CV files an Order of Protection against Lori and told his attorneys, “I want to make sure that everyone knows that if something happens to me, Lori & Alex did it.” The order also requests protection for JJ and says Lori is a danger to him. The order says Lori is not to possess firearms and must participate in counseling. The order further says Lori is to stay away from CV’s Gilbert home, CV’s Gilbert workplace & JJ’s school, Lauren’s Institute for Education in Gilbert, AZ even if CV is not present at any of those locations (Protection Order, Fox 10 Phoenix).

5 Feb 2019 – JJ is absent from LIFE Academy (KTVB7).

5 Feb 2019 – CV receives an email from an employee about commission money owed to the employee; The employee threatens legal action if he doesn’t get paid soon. Because Lori refused to return the money, CV was short on payroll and could not pay some CA contractors what they were owed (Divorce documents, Fox10 Phoenix, Post Register).

6 Feb 2019 - “On or about Feb. 6, 2019, Charles realized that Lori had transferred 2,000 Rent-A-Car points out of their joint account,” That same day CV found out Lori had called JJ’s school to ask if he was in class. “(Charles) is worried that (Lori) may be planning to use the rental car points to leave the state and potentially take J.J. with her” (Divorce Documents, Post Register).

8 Feb 2019 – CV begins initial process of filing for divorce against Lori. However, in March CV drops the divorce and they remained legally married (Maricopa Court records).

11 Feb 2019 – The Sheriff of Orange County, CA contacts CV and discusses filing theft charges against Lori for taking the business money. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

11 Feb 2019 – JJ’s father, CV, visits LIFE Academy and claims Lori had "gone crazy" and was hearing religious voices. CV told the school Lori had disappeared and no one knew where she was and he had a protection order against Lori. CV says he is pulling JJ out of school and taking him out of state until he was safe (KTVB7).

14 Feb 2019 – Valentine's Day - CV signs divorce paperwork that outlines in detail all that Lori has done and said the last few months; CV says he wants sole custody of his adopted son, JJ and he also wants the property and money Lori took returned. The documents make disturbing allegations concerning Lori's mental stability (Fox10 Phoenix).

15 Feb 2019 – CV, thru an attorney, electronically files divorce documents the day after he signed them. The docs say that Lori threatened CV, telling him she was a god preparing for Christ's second coming, which she believes will happen in July 2020; (Fox10 Phoenix).

15 Feb 2019 - CV’ lawyers file a second document asking for temporary custody of JJ, exclusive use of the house and vehicle, return of the stolen money and return of his and JJ’s personal items. However, no one could find Lori to serve her with divorce papers (Post Register).

Feb 2019 - CV learned Lori was going to Boise with a friend for a talk or conference; CV and his lawyers made attempts to serve Lori divorce papers and order of protection papers at the airport, a hotel, and a public event. All attempts to find Lori were unsuccessful (Fox 10 Phoenix; Post Register).

15-16 Feb 2019 – Chad attends a 2-day event in Boise and Middleton, ID. Chad Speaks at the event on Feb 16. The organizers of the event say this is the last time Chad spoke at one of their events (Event Flyer, PAP Media Statement).

Feb 2019 – CV hears that Lori is living with her brother Alex in San Tan Valley, AZ. CV then attempts to serve Lori with papers at AC’s house but that too was unsuccessful, despite the fact that both Lori & AC’s cars were in the driveway at AC’s home (Post Register).

Feb 2019 - Lori and Tylee checked into a Kauai resort after CV filed for divorce. They stayed for around a month, according to resort workers, and then returned to the mainland (EastIdahoNews).

End of Feb 2019 – CV brings JJ back to LIFE Academy but Lori is still MIA (KTVB7).

21 Feb 2019 – Officials at JJ’s school, Lauren’s Institute for Education (LIFE Academy), make a report to CPS because Lori had still not been located. (Fox10 Phoenix).

Late Feb 2019 – In the midst of filing for divorce from Lori, CV talks to his sister, KW, about his life insurance. “Charles and I had a conversation. He had a $1 million dollar policy with Lori as the beneficiary and he told me he wanted me to be the sole recipient…I told him to leave it ttodo his boys but he was worried about what Lori was going to do,” KW says (East Idaho News, Fox10 Phoenix)

1 Mar 2019 - CV files to dismiss divorce proceedings against Lori (Post register).

6 Mar 2019 – The court approves dismissal of CV’s divorce proceedings against Lori and they remain legally married but separated (Maricopa Co Court records, Post register).

7 Mar 2019 – Charles formally withdraws JJ from school at LIFE Academy in Gilbert and moves to Houston. CV's older son helped CV and JJ move from Arizona to Texas, after Lori had changed. "Lori had basically just disappeared, and he had no idea where she went for I think two-ish months, and so eventually he was like ‘alright, I have to move away for JJ’s sake, for JJ’s safety’ and so he decided to move to Houston,” said the son. Eventually, JJ would reunite with Lori and Tylee in Chandler, AZ (Fox10 Phoenix).

Approx. Late March? About 2 months after Lori went to Kauai in early Feb 2019, she returns to the mainland US; Lori’s friend AR heard that Lori was back with Charles and assumed whatever crisis Lori had been having had passed (Dateline).

Apr 2019 (Approx) – By this time Lori has stopped communicating on a regular basis with her son Colby. Prior to her moving out of CV’s home in Jan 2019 Lori and CR would text or call every couple days but communication gradually decreased until about Apr when CR says their communication had become more of a “check in” once a month or every few weeks rather than a constant back-and-forth relationship. (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

Apr 2019 – One of CV’s sons sees JJ for last time (East Idaho News).

9 Apr 2019 – Chad’s author friend Julie Rowe is excommunicated from the LDS church “partly because of her willingness to discuss her belief in multiple mortal probations.” (Fox13 SLC).

15 Apr 2019 - Natalie Marie Pawlowski files for divorce from Ian Robert Pawlowski, final decree issued on July 25, 2019 (Court Docs).

May 2019 – Chad travels to West Jordan, UT to meet actress Valentina and filmmaker Devin K Hansen about making his book "Chasing Paradise" into a movie (Fox13 Salt Lake City).

25 May 2019 – JJ celebrates his 7th birthday. Video shows him blowing out a candle shaped like a 7 on a chocolate birthday cake. (HLN Video)

31 May 2019 – Chad is scheduled to speak at a conference, but he canceled his appearance in advance of the event due to a “Family Emergency” (Event adverts note the change).

June 2019 – Lori’s niece, Melani, tells BB, her husband of 11 years, she wants a divorce. BB says he believes it was due to Melani's new religious beliefs after following her aunt and Chad into what he calls a “cult.” (Post Register).

13 June 2019 – Lori uses Venmo to send her oldest son CR money with the note “Medicine” and a heart. This is the last time Lori used Venmo to send money. Lori Vallow

22 June 2019 – Lori is on a podcast with MG, JM and Thor titled: 23 Time to Warrior Up ~ What Most Women Really Want!

Late June 2019 – Charles returns to AZ to try to make his relationship with Lori work; They re-enroll JJ in LIFE Academy in Gilbert, AZ; Lori enrolls JJ in LIFE’s summer program (Fox10 Phoenix, KTVB7).

Abt 20 June 2019 – CV and Lori rent a new rental house together from a landlord/friend, JP, in Chandler, AZ. This is the house where CV would later be fatally shot (East Idaho News, Fox10 Phoenix).

28 June 2019 – Someone set up a fake email address in Charles Vallow’s name and uses it to send a letter to Chad Daybell. Lori’s husband, CV, finds the email on his computer at his house; CV believes the email address and fake email were created by Lori. The forged letter to Chad reads in part: “We really enjoyed having you stay with us back in November... I appreciated you taking time to talk to me about the book I've been working on…I'm willing to pay you well to help me get this book into shape as my ghostwriter. I really liked your autobiography…Is there any way you could come here for a couple of days and help me get the book underway? … I'm out of town until Saturday, but I would gladly fly you down here early next week before the holiday and cover your expense. You could stay in our guest room like before, or in a hotel if you prefer. I hate to take you away from your family, but I know this book is vital to my speaking success. I understand if you don't want to take part in the project, but I would definitely make it worth your time. With admiration, Charles” (Fox10 Phoenix, KSL)

29 June 2019, 10:39 am – Lori’s husband, Charles, sends an email to Lori’s brother, Adam, claiming Lori created an email alias for CV in order to communicate with Chad. CV attaches the fake letter sent the day before on the fake email address. CV’s email reads in part: “I'm not sure if [sic] the relationship with her and Chad Daybell but they are up to something. She created this email alias for me as I've never set this one up. She sent this yesterday and I guess she forgot all her emails are on the computer at my house. I asked her to explain it and she started blaming you, Brandon and me for perpetuating a scheme against her... She will not explain it. I am going to send it to Chad Daybell's wife. Her name is Tammy and I found her email address on their website. I've got her cell number too. Sounds very suspicious to me…Whenever she gets caught doing this kind of stuff she starts blaming everybody else. Mostly me, you and Brandon…I was the only one brave enough to try to get her help in January and look what happened to me. The whole family put a scarlet letter on me…” (Fox10 Phoenix).

2 July 2019 – Lori does a podcast with MG and another woman titled: 24 Time to Warrior Up~Redeeming Our Entrance into His Presence.

4 July 2019 – Independence Day.

8 July 2019 – BB files a divorce/child custody case against Melani (Lori’s niece) in Maricopa Co, AZ; doc reads: “Affidavit Regarding Minor Children” (Court records).

10 July 2019 - CV texts Lori to say he would be there at 7:30 am to pick up JJ on Wed and take him to school and he also wants to take JJ to school Thurs & Fri. Lori tells CV he can take JJ to school but he cannot stay in house; She says she will book him a hotel room nearby (Chandler PD interview docs, Fox10 Phoenix).

10 July 2019, 7:49 PM - CV texts his landlord, JP saying he wants to find a new place to live because things are not working out with Lori. They plan to meet to talk about it the next morning (East Idaho News).

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Detailed Case Timeline Part III (Update 8)
MISSING: Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell
Person of Interest: Chad Guy Daybell ​

A Timeline of July 11th 2019, the day Charles Vallow was Shot to Death

Summary: On the morning of 11 July 2019, Charles Vallow was fatally shot twice in the chest at his rental home in 5500 block of S. Four Peaks Place, Chandler, AZ, allegedly by Lori's brother Alex Cox during a family argument. Lori was living in the house with Tylee and JJ but separated from CV at the time. CV came to the house to pick up JJ. Lori, Tylee and JJ were all at the house when the shooting occurred. AC claims he was hit in the head with a baseball bat during the incident. AC called 911 and performed CPR on CV until Chandler PD & emergency crews arrived. Police initially ruled the death self-defense and no charges were filed; However, Chandler PD have since said the investigation remains open due to the missing children case (Fox10 Phoenix, Daily Mail).

Abt 6:30/7:00 am – Lori’s brother, Alex, says he wakes up after spending the night in Lori’s Chandler, AZ rental home (curbside bodycam interview w/Alex).

Morning – Lori’s husband, CV, wakes up at a hotel where he has been staying for a few weeks while Lori and the kids live in the rental house. At some point he tells a hotel employee to expect him and his son JJ back for breakfast that morning. It is unclear what time CV left the hotel to go pick up JJ (Fox10 Phoenix).

7:30 am - Lori says she had JJ’s backpack ready for school and she looked at the clock to note the time (Lori’s CPD interview).

Abt 7:35-7:40 am – Lori claims CV arrives at about 7:35ish to 7:40 and is running late, which was unusual for him; he is usually punctual. She tells him to “go now” and get breakfast for JJ from Burger King. Lori claims CV takes JJ to the car but had left his phone on the kitchen counter and comes back in for it. Lori picks up CV’s phone and refuses to give it back to him. Lori says she was trying to see texts he had on his phone and asking him about his texts to her other brother Adam. Lori says she wouldn’t give CV back his phone and he was screaming at her to give him back his phone. Lori said she was “just holding it there” and he was screaming at her. Lori said she was “kind of walking around the house so he couldn’t get it” and “he was kind of reaching for it”. (Lori’s CPD interview).

11 July 2019, 7:50 am -Tylee says she wakes up hearing yelling in the hallway outside her bedroom door and grabs a bat she keeps next to her bed. Tylee comes out of her room and sticks out the bat. CV grabs the bat to pull it out of Tylee’s hands, Tylee lets go of the bat and falls to the floor. AC grabs CV from behind, they both fall to the floor and somehow CV hits AC on the back of the head with the bat. Tylee is sent out to the car to stay with JJ at some point after her fall to the floor. Lori says she doesn’t know when AC went to get his gun or if he already had it on him during the fight. (Lori & Tylee CPD interviews).

11 July 2019, Approx 7:5X? - 8:XX? am - Lori says she heard a gunshot and walked from the kitchen to the living room to find Charles' body. Then she checks on the kids in the car. She almost went back inside before ultimately driving off. This conflicts with Alex’s account given in his curbside interview that Lori and the kids left before he shot Charles (Fox10 Phoenix).

11 July 2019, Approx 7:5X? - 8:XX? am - Tylee says she is outside in the car making sure JJ does not go back inside when she hears a loud noise; Tylee did not know what the noise was at first-- at the time she heard it she thought it was the sound of someone hitting the metal bat on the floor really hard. By the time of her police interview, however, Tylee says she found out what the sound actually was. After the gunshot Lori immediately comes outside. After coming out Lori sent Tylee back inside through the garage to get Lori’s purse out of the master bedroom closet. Tylee says she didn’t see anything when she went back inside. While no timeframe is given for how long the fight lasted, Lori says several times in her interview that this whole thing happened quickly (Lori & Tylee CPD interviews).

11 July 2019, Approx. 8:XX? - Lori Drives away in CV’s rental car with JJ and Tylee to take JJ to school. It takes about 15 minutes to drive to JJ’s school. No time frame is given for when Lori drove away but Lori says the fight happened quickly and that she was only in the car for “a minute” wondering what to do before deciding to drive JJ to school and get him and Taway from the scene (Tylee & Lori’s CPD Interview).

Abt 8:20 am – The time JJ’s school gates open (Lori’s CPD Interview).

Abt 8:32 or 8:35 am – The time that AC says he shot CV according to his “er, couple of minutes” statement at the beginning of the 911 call. He says later that the shooting happened about 5 minutes before he called 911.

8:37 am - Alex makes a 6 min call to 911: "I got in a fight with my brother-in-law. and I shot him in self-defense," AC says. An EMT instructs AC over the phone on how to perform CPR on CV; AC answers questions about what happened and says his is doing the chest compressions while talking. AC says his gun, a .45 caliber pistol, is in a bedroom and no one else is in the house. AC at first says the shooting happened “a couple minutes ago” then later in the call he says it happened “5 minutes before I called”. AC says CV “came at me with a bat” and “I’ve never seen him that enraged before”; AC says CV lives in Houston; AC is not sure where Lori went but he thinks she has taken JJ to school. 911 operator asks Alex to walk outside with his hands up; AC complies with the cellphone cradled in his shoulder (911 call, Fox10 Phoenix, NBC12 News).

Abt 8:43 am – Body cam video shows police entering the house after Charles was shot and after Alex exits. We see CV’s blurred body on the living room floor laying parallel to a large wall mirror. CV is face up with his arms spaced out evenly at his sides and his feet towards the kitchen; his head is in the direction of the front door. The bat is on the floor near the wall, it is located to the right and above CV’s body, not in his hand. Police clear the rest of the home and note that the gun is on the floor in a bedroom. The bedroom is pink with black and white stripes. Alex claims in his curbside interview this was the bedroom he was staying in the night before; AC says he took the gun back there after shooting CV and cleaned up his head before calling 911. Police cannot find any identification on CV’s body and they look around the house trying to find his wallet (bodycam video, Fox10 Phoenix, AZ Republic).

Abt 8:43 am – Body cam videos show curbside interview with Alex at the scene of the house where CV was shot to death. "What happened today? How did it get to this?" the LEO asks AC. "I don't know. He was enraged," AC replies. AC says “He was accusing me…” but he doesn’t finish that thought as a loud Fire Engine pulls up. LEO tells AC to move away from the loud truck then asks AC “What was he accusing you of?” AC replies “I don’t know. He was just yelling at me.” AC says that Lori, JJ & Tylee left the house shortly before the shooting occurred. Then AC says, "It was over my sister. He was getting physical with her, so my niece came out with her bat and he took the bat away…" but the LEO interrupts and asks "Wait a minute. I thought you said your niece left?" AC replies "She did. this was before," AC says he grabbed Charles from behind, and they fell to the ground. When AC gets back up, he explains how he gets hit in the back of his head. "I turned around and he hit me in the back of the head with the bat, so I went to my room and got my gun, 'cause I always carry it," AC says. AC claims he warned Charles to drop the bat before shooting him twice in the chest. We also learn that AC doesn’t live at the house, he is just visiting Lori and stayed the night before; AC drives a truck as a long haul trucker but he is on vacation; AC says he was planning to “do something fun” that day (body cam video, Fox10 Phoenix, AZ Republic).

Abt 8:48 am – Body cam video shows Lori & Tylee returning to the house where CV was shot; they park across the street from the house and approach the LEO talking to Alex; LEO tells Lori and Tylee to wait by the car across the street. After a while LEO talks to them curbside to get their names, phone numbers and ID; Lori says CV lives in Houston, they are separated and that she moved into the house about 3 weeks before; Tylee says she is 16, her driver’s license is inside the house; Tylee says she once drove to Arizona from Texas all by herself (Fox10 Phoenix).

Morning – Alex, Lori & Tylee are all taken to the Chandler PD station for more interviews. Alex is taken in a separate vehicle and all 3 are interviewed in separate rooms.

Approx 9:16 am – Alex is placed in the back of a police car to be transported to the station. Bodycam video records some of the conversation on the way there. LEO pats AC down, takes all the items out of his pockets and puts in a clear plastic bag, then gives him a bottle of water to drink. AC is placed in the back of the car without any handcuffs. LEO turns on the air-conditioning and tells AC how to adjust his own vent in the back. They make small talk about the weather and how hot it is in AZ as LEO drives. AC asks LEO about his vest and how hot it is to wear. AC asks if Chandler is more dangerous or Fallujah and LEO replies he wouldn’t know, he has never been to Fallujah. LEO asks AC why he has a rental car & AC says it’s not his rental, AC says he drives the F-150 truck in the driveway. LEO says he didn’t realize that and radios back to the other LEOs still at the house to make sure they know the rental car Lori drove away in belongs to CV and the truck belongs to AC. LEO asks AC about the truck he drives for work; It’s a 10 speed automatic, it struggles to go up hills; AC picks up hazardous waste in Arizona and takes it to Arkansas for his job (CPD bodycam, Gray Hughes video).

Approx 9:34 am – Alex and LEO driving him arrive at the station parking garage. LEO escorts AC into the office, still no handcuffs and asks him to stand by a desk for a minute while LEO looks around for an empty room. LEO asks if AC needs to use the bathroom. LEO asks AC to put his things down on a conference table in a room with several chairs and directs AC which chair to sit in. LEO examines the back of AC’s head with a flashlight and asks him how his head feels. AC says “a little sore, but not bad.” LEO asks AC if he is having any headaches and AC says “a little bit.” LEO asks AC if he feels nausea and AC says “a little but not bad.” LEO asks if he wants to have a dr look at his head and AC says, “no, it’s more adrenaline than anything.” LEO asks for medical history; AC says he is slightly overweight and his blood pressure was a little high his last physical, but he’s not on any medication and doesn’t have any medical conditions (CPD bodycam, Gray Hughes video).

Approx 9:43 am – Lori is interviewed at CPD, after she uses the restroom. The LEO interviewing her asks Lori to confirm she lives at the house where the shooting occurred and for some background. Lori repeats that she moved in about 3 weeks ago; they were previously in Houston. CV and her are separated but he rented the house for her in AZ so she could be near her family. CV was always “all about” JJ but never about Tylee. Lori explains that JJ is CV’s great-nephew and JJ had been “a drug baby”. They adopted JJ. CV travels all the time for work.

Lori says CV visited once since they moved from Houston and brought her some things but he hadn’t been back and had sent her “all these threats”. Lori mentions “It was on her phone all the time”. LEO asks about the threats and Lori says the LEO would have to see them, CV was always mad at her; CV didn’t want a divorce, but she didn’t like him and didn’t want to deal with him. They have been married 14 years. Lori says CV has always been “horrible to her” while pointing to the room where Tylee was waiting; Lori says CV was always getting into huge fights with Tylee “and it was a lot of things.”

Lori said CV told her “all of a sudden” that he was coming Wed night and he wanted to see JJ. Lori says she told CV she would never keep JJ from him and he could come take him to school anytime he wanted. LEO asks for clarification on when they moved, when they separated and why CV was buying Lori a house in the area. Lori corrected LEO and says CV promised to rent her a house. Lori says that they lived in AZ for a long time, all her family was there, but CV “ripped their son out of school and said they were moving to Houston”; Lori advised she didn’t want to go to Houston and she didn’t go with them at first; She let CV take JJ to Houston and she didn’t file anything. CV filed something and told her she was only going to get supervised visits with JJ because she was crazy. Lori says she “just didn’t talk to him for like 30 days and let him take care of their son, to let her husband see what she has been doing for the last 7 years.” Lori says she has other kids and grandkids too. Lori says “she knew he would be begging her to pick him up, which she stated he did.”

Lori says that eventually CV asked her to come back and that she did move to Houston “for the family”. She and Tylee “left everything to go to Houston.” Lori then talked about problems getting services for JJ and how CV “didn’t do anything”.

Lori indicated CV hadn’t been here in a couple weeks and he had been “nasty” when he was here. CV contacted her and said he was coming Wednesday night and he was going to pick JJ up and take him to school Thursday and then pick him up Thursday and take him Friday. Lori seemed fine with that but told CV he couldn’t stay at the house because he couldn’t get along with Tylee. Lori says CV gets into huge fights with Tylee and Tylee hates CV.

Lori told CV he couldn’t stay at the house and she would get him a hotel; he stays in hotels all the time when he travels, his business pays for it. Lori say CV’s job gives him freedom so he doesn’t have to stay home every day and take care of a special needs child. Lori indicated she does that. Lori says she was a single mom before she married CV; "she has 2 kids and he had 2 kids and they got married and tried to make a family”.

Lori stated that JJ goes to school all day and she talked about how she is just getting his services back. Lori talked about how JJ has been a nightmare because CV ripped JJ out of his routine. Lori described how JJ freaks out when he finds out dad is coming because he associates when dad took him to Houston so Lori didn’t tell JJ that he was coming. CV didn’t bother her last night which she was kind of surprised about because she was expecting “kind of an ambush” that he would just come over and be “just mean”. Lori was expecting CV to say it was his house and he was on the lease so he could stay there; “Lori said that is his macho kind of attitude.”

Lori says CV came over this morning and she was getting JJ ready; LEO asks if CV came [into town] last night and Lori says yes but she didn’t hear from him except that he texted her to say he would be there at 7:30 to pick up JJ.

Lori says CV came over in the morning and he was banging on the door. Lori said “here we go” so she was just trying to be nice and had JJ’s stuff ready for school. Lori stated he had said he would be there at 7:30 but it was more like 7:40, 7:35ish but she wasn’t sure. Lori remembers looking at the clock at 7:30 and indicated he is usually very punctual. Lori says JJ acknowledged his dad and then ran to Lori and said CV wasn’t taking him to school; Lori says she was trying to make things calm and told JJ it was ok that daddy drive him to school. Lori says CV was being real “Smirky” and “Jerky” to her but she was ignoring.

LEO asked if her brother AC lived there with them. Lori said her brother had stayed there last night because Lori was worried CV would come over and “cause trouble with” her. Lori said she just wanted someone else there, wanted her brother there. Lori trusts her brother. Lori lived with AC when CV took JJ to Houston. Lori said she was getting JJ’s stuff ready and CV was saying he was leaving in 20 minutes, mentioning it was 15 minutes to the school. Lori mentioned that you can’t get there early because they don’t open the gates until about 8:20 or something. Lori suggested to him that they go now, because she didn’t want him in the house, so they could go to Burger King and get breakfast. JJ is very particular about food and wants chicken fries and Sprite for breakfast.

Lori told CV to go and he agreed so Lori gave him the backpack and they got in the car. Lori stated CV “always leaves something in the house, that he always comes back and he never leaves the first time” and she is always expecting CV to come back in the house. Lori advised CV had left his phone on the counter. The LEO asked where JJ was and Lori confirmed CV took JJ and his backpack to the car in the driveway but came back in for his phone.

Lori said his phone was on the counter and then Lori had his phone. He told Lori to give him his phone and she told him “why don’t you show me your text that you’ve been texting.” Lori says CV has been acting really “weird” like he he’s been “plotting something”. Lori asks CV why he was there, why he came into town and then she brings up that her other brother Adam came into town at the same time. Lori says she hasn’t talked to Adam in a long time and “she was questioning as to why they talk and if they talk”. Lori Say CV has been sending texts like “you’re going down” and he is “blaming her for their marriage breaking up and other marriages around them and calling her a destroyer of families.”

Lori stated CV “goes nuts” and then indicated that he’s gone nuts before and that she and Tylee have had to leave with JJ before, 5 times over the years. They’ve stayed in a hotel for 2 days before “because he goes nuts”; Lori said “you don’t know what’s going to set him off.” Lori mentioned that they have JJ and he is special needs and it’s really hard. LEO asks what Lori means by “go nuts” and Lori says yelling and screaming. LEO asked about physical violence and Lori says “grabbing and pushing them but never punching them.” Lori says CV has gotten physical with Tylee and with her grown son; LEO asked “physical how?” and Lori says CV got into a fight with her older son, Colby, when he was 16. Lori says CV “went after Tylee two times in Hawaii and he went like he was going to hit Tylee” but Lori got between them. Tylee was 13 & 14 at the time.

LEO returns the conversation to what happened this morning. Lori said CV came back in and she wouldn’t give him back his phone and he was screaming at her to give him back his phone. Lori said she was “just holding it there” and he was screaming at her. Lori said she was “kind of walking around the house so he couldn’t get it” and “he was kind of reaching for it”. Lori said Tylee came out of her room upset and she had a bat. Tylee told CV to “leave her mother alone” and Lori says CV screamed at Tylee “Don’t you hit me with that bat.” Lori said her brother Alex heard the commotion and he came out into the main room.

Lori said CV is screaming and is super upset. Lori doesn’t know if Tylee swung at him or what but CV grabbed the bat from Tylee and went to hit Tylee with the bat and her brother grabbed him from behind to stop him from hitting Tylee. Lori said then they [AC & CV] get into “the thing and he’s hitting her brother with the bat” and “they’re on the ground like grappling around or whatever.” Lori said it happened quickly. LEO asks if CV hit AC with the bat while they were grappling and Lori says yes and is swinging with her right arm downward; Lori says CV is swinging the bat back and forth and they are on the ground. Lori said she is freaking out and is trying to go around and knows JJ is in the car.

Lori says CV gets up and moves the bat towards her; Lori motions with her right hand “as if a person would be swinging backhanded.” Lori says she is going around the other side and trying to get out of his range so he can’t hit her. Lori starts to say she told Tylee and then she stops and explains to the LEO Tylee is on the ground because when CV took the bat Tylee “fell back”. Lori told Tylee to go get in the car with JJ because she didn’t want JJ coming in and she wanted Tylee out and didn’t want the kids in the house for whatever “this fight was going to be”.

LEO asks what CV and AC were yelling during this fight and Lori says things like “get off me” and “ow” but she “didn’t really remember specifics”. Lori says there were not many words “during the heat of it that she remembered,” LEO confirmed Tylee went outside and then asks what happened. Lori says AC and CV got up and CV was coming at her with the bat, yelling at her to give him his phone. “She still had the phone in her hand and all this happened really quickly.” Lori went around kind of the circle and AC was there. LEO asked how CV was holding the bat and Lori motioned with her right hand as if in a backhand and then said he was holding it backwards with one arm. Lori said he was holding it in a way that if he swung it he would have swung it backwards. Lori said “she was kind of turned around and they all (all three the kids were outside) heard the gunshot. LEO asked that she heard the shot and she said yes. LEO asked if Lori actually saw the shot or if she only heard it. Lori said she had gone around to the kitchen to get away from him and then come back around. “Lori said that she didn’t see the shot, that she heard it, and she came back around and she saw [CV] on the ground.”

Several lines of the interview are redacted. Lori got in the car and they left.

LEO asked again about when Lori came around and saw CV on the ground where was AC. Lori says AC was right in front of CV and it all happened very quickly. LEO asked if Lori and AC said anything to each other after CV was shot and Lori said no that they were in shock. Lori went to check on the kids and was going to go back in maybe but she didn’t. Some more lines are redacted. Lori was in the car for a minute wondering what to do and she didn’t know what to do; JJ was in the car and Tylee was freaking out. Lori decided to take JJ to school and away from the scene.

LEO asked Lori if she knew at what point AC had the gun—did he have it on him during the fight or did he have to go get it. Lori stated she didn’t know. She didn’t see him leave the room but it was all so fast. LEO asked if AC normally carried a gun. Lori says AC is a gun person and has guns. LEO asks if Lori knew AC had a gun when he came over to her house. She says no but “she wouldn’t be surprised if he did because he’s professional with guns.” LEO again asked if Lori heard AC or CV say anything while she was trying to get away, prior to when she heard the shot. Lori thought about it & said no.

LEO asks Lori if there was anything else that they didn’t cover. Lori thought for several moments. She said CV was just “so angry, super scary”, and she described how a 16 year old acts when you take away their phone. She says there was something on the phone that CV didn’t want her to see and he was freaking out. Lori says CV was “freaking out to the point that she thought he would hit her in the head with the bat to get the phone.” LEO asks if Lori thought it was possible CV would hurt her and she says “absolutely” and also Tylee. Lori says he would never hurt JJ. Then she adds that CV did hurt her brother AC, he was going “ballistic” and it was “bad.”

Approx 10:14 am – Tylee is interviewed at CPD. Tylee says she woke up around 7:50 because she heard yelling right outside her door. She says she immediately jumped up; She explains she has a baseball bat from when she lived with her uncle; when she was at home alone it made her feel safer, she is not old enough for pepper spray; LEO says he has never been in the house and asks her where her bedroom door opens to. She explains the layout of the house. There is a hallway with 3 bedrooms-- hers, the guest room where AC stayed and JJ’s room- then the kitchen and then the room “where everything kind of happened” was a big empty room with mirrors on the walls. She opened the door and it was her stepdad CV outside the doorway and her uncle AC kind of in the doorway and she could hear her mom behind him.

Tylee says that CV was screaming at AC and Lori but Tylee doesn’t remember what he was saying. Tylee says she told CV he was too close and asked him to take a step back. Tylee says that CV replied “don’t tell me what to do”. Tylee says she stood there and AC kind of moved out of the way and Lori went past him into “the big room where everything happened” and Tylee walked with them. LEO asked if they were more in the hallway and she clarified that they were at the end of the hallway. Tylee says she didn’t really do anything with the baseball bat, “she just kind of held it there”. Tylee says they were both yelling; LEO asks who she means was yelling when she says “they” and Tylee says only CV was really yelling and Lori was “responding”. Tylee couldn’t say what they were saying.

Tylee said she kind of stuck the baseball bat out there and CV grabbed it and tried to take it but she held onto the end. Tylee says she eventually fell and CV took the bat and held onto it. She saw CV take a step back; she thinks AC grabbed him and took him back. Tylee says her mom told her to go with JJ and she ran out the door. Tylee says JJ was in the front seat so she opened the door and stood there. Eventually Lori came out and they left from there.

LEO asked if Tylee knew what happened or if Lori explained anything to her. Tylee says she heard a noise and she knows what it was now, but at the time she thought it was the sound of the bat hitting the floor. There are several lines of text redacted next

LEO asks Tylee again to describe where she was and why she put the bat up. Tylee describes standing more next to Lori, not between Lori and CV and she says she put the bat up because CV was getting too close. The LEO asks what Tylee thought CV was going to do and Tylee says, “hit her.” Tylee says for the most part it has been very mundane but there have been “violent times” when she was scared CV would hit Lori. Tylee says CV and her “have always kind of never got along, since she was little.” Tylee says there have been a few times that they have gotten into fights and she has been scared.

The LEO asks Tylee to describe again what happened when CV grabbed the bat. Tylee says she stuck it out and motions with a 2-hand hold. Tylee says CV told her she would go to jail if she hit him with it and Tylee didn’t say anything. She says she held it out and CV took it, she sort of lunged forward and lost her footing. Tylee says Lori said “Just Let go” and Tylee slipped and fell on her side. After that her mom told her to go so she ran out the door. LEO asks if when she fell could she see what CV did with the bat. Tylee says no she wasn’t really looking in that direction. The LEO asked again about when CV took a step back if Tylee saw AC pull him back. Tylee says she didn’t really see AC pull him back but it seems like that’s what happened. She says she didn’t think CV would have stepped back on his own. LEO then asks if Tylee saw what happened with AC and CV when her mom told her to go. Tylee says no.

LEO asks if after Tylee went out and Lori came outside to the car did she never go back inside. After Lori came outside to the car, Tylee says she went back into the house through the garage door to get Lori’s purse from her closet so they would have her wallet. Tylee says she didn’t see or hear anything when she went back inside. LEO asks her if she went back in after Lori came out and after hearing the loud noise and Tylee confirms. LEO asks where Lori was when Tylee heard the loud noise. Tylee thinks for a moment and says she believes Lori was inside but the door opened almost immediately after.

LEO asks Tylee to describe how everyone (AC, Lori & CV) were acting emotionally while it was happening. Tylee says CV “looked honestly like a crazy person, screaming, and his face was beat red.” Tylee says “she saw [CV’s] face for a split second when he took the bat from her and it didn’t look like him, that he looked like pure rage and he was seeing rage.” Tylee says that was the craziest she has ever seen him. Tylee says AC was being calm, not super calm because it was stressful. AC was just standing there and not saying much and he was being protective of her mom. Tylee says again that CV was yelling and Lori was just kind of talking. LEO asks if she could remember what they were saying or why CV was mad. Tylee says she didn’t and she was sorry. She doesn’t remember what they were saying and she just heard yelling.

11 July 2019 – After the police interview Alex, Lori & Tylee, all 3 are transported together in a police van back to the house where CV was shot to go over the scene LE. A detective who was in the van says the ride back to the house was “bizarre” and “it was the weirdest ride I’ve ever had with 3 strangers”; Lori was “happy-go-lucky”, smiling and talking about how Tylee was going to go to BYU-Hawaii; she was very nonchalant on the ride back (Dateline).

11 July 2019, Morning – An employee at the hotel where CV was staying expects CV and JJ to return to the hotel for breakfast, but instead police detectives come to the hotel and inform the employee that CV is dead (Fox10 Phoenix).

11 July 2019, Morning – Property manager, JP, finds out that there is crime scene tape around the house Charles and Lori are renting from him. JP texts both Lori and CV “Are you OK?” Lori replies around 11 AM to say “we are ok, ill explain later” (East Idaho News).

11 July 2019 – Without knowing what had happened, one of CV’s adult sons texts and calls him and receives no reply, “I was texting him and I remember calling him a couple times the morning he had gotten shot, and he didn’t respond. It was really weird. He usually returns calls and texts relatively fast, so something was off.” (East Idaho News)

11 July 2019, Midday – Lori calls her son Colby and says that Charles died from a heart attack at the house. CR was shocked and went to the house later to see if he could comfort his family. Soon after he came in and hugged Tylee he found out that CV had actually been shot to death. CR “froze up” at this news and didn’t know what to say. CR admits he freaked out and started cussing at Lori and asking her what was going on because “this was a million times worse” than what she had first told him happened. Lori offered no explanation for initially lying to CR. Lori told CR the story of the fight they had that lead to CV getting shot. CR says that he has never seen CV “in a rage” the way that Lori described (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

11 July 2019, Afternoon - Neighbors report seeing a loud pool party with music and many people swimming in the backyard of the Chandler AZ house where CV was shot to death that morning. Alex stayed at the house for several days even though he lived elsewhere in the area (Post Register).

11 July 2019 – Charles Vallow’s family members learn of CV's death on the news. CV’s son says Lori has stayed mum on the details. "She couldn’t tell you that there was a shooting?" asked FOX 10's Justin Lum. "No," the son replied, "She refused to tell us." (Fox10 Phoenix).

See Part IV (Update 8) For More...

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part IV (Update 8)
MISSING: Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell
Person of Interest: Chad Guy Daybell ​

12 July 2019, 4:36 pm – Lori sends a group text to Charles' 2 adult sons:
“Hi boys. I have very sad news. Your dad passed away yesterday. I’m working on making arrangements and I’ll keep you informed with what’s going on. Im still not sure how to handle things. Just want you to know that I love you and so did your dad!! *Heart Emoji*”
One son replies “Lori what happened”
Lori texts: “We are still waiting for the ME report. I’ll let you know more when I can.”
Another reply from one of CV’s sons: “Where is he? And what happened?”
Lori texts: “I’ll call you when I can bub. He is here in Arizona.”
For several hours and days after that CV’s son texts questions & Lori refuses to give details on how CV died. She keeps saying she is waiting to hear from the ME (Fox10 Phoenix).

14 July 2019 – Lori leaves a voicemail for CV’s adult son. She starts by saying “It’s Lolo, I just wanted to talk to you and see how you’re doing.” She still had not provided any details about what happened to CV. He calls back but Lori doesn’t answer. This is the last time CV’s son received a call from Lori (Fox10 Phoenix).

15 July 2020 - Lori called CV’s life insurance company. Lori was denied access to information on the account because she was no longer CV’s beneficiary and the agent told her she would not be receiving any money. (East Idaho News).

Approx 18 July 2019 – About a week after CV’s death, Lori tells LIFE Academy that CV had committed suicide. LIFE looked into it and learned CV was killed as part of a family dispute; LIFE subsequently filed a report with Arizona's Department of Child Safety (KTVB7).

18 July 2019 – The funeral home where CV’s body was taken posts a notice about his death which only says “L Charles Anthony Vallow was born on August 17, 1956 in Lake Charles, LA and passed away July 11, 2019 in Chandler, AZ.” Family members find the memorial and post comments and photos to remember CV.

20 July 2019 – One of CV’s adult sons texts Lori, “If you won’t answer those questions, can we please have his watches and other stuff he always talked about and had around?” Lori responds within an hour saying she will send some items to his house. This is the last communication the son has with Lori. When the box arrives the son is disappointed in what Lori sent saying, “My dad had a collection of watches, very fancy watches. He wore nice watches for years and years so I thought she was going to send me some of them…The package arrived and inside were two cheap Timex watches you’d find at CVS. Anything that was worth money, we didn’t get. I’m assuming she sold everything else.” (East Idaho News).

22 July 2019 – Lori sends an email to Dog Training Elite asking about finding a new family for JJ’s service dog Bailey; Lori say it’s due to a “change in life circumstances” (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc).

25 July 2019 – Ian Robert Pawlowski and Natalie Marie Pawlowski divorce is finalized in Madison County, Idaho (Court Docs, Rexburg Standard Journal).

Approx Late July - Lori refuses to tell CV’s sons where CV’s body is or if a funeral is planned. CV’s sons eventually figure out the mortuary where their dad was taken and go there to talk to the funeral director. “He was very shaky and nervous. We asked him for information and he said something like, ‘I can’t tell you that. It was requested that I tell you nothing,'” CV’s son said. (East Idaho News).

29 July 2019 – CV’s obituary is published in American Press. It is written by CV’s siblings and Lori is not mentioned.

Approx 29 July 2020 - about 2 weeks after Lori called the life insurance company she sends a text to JJ’s grandmother, KW. “It was a photo of the ‘change of beneficiary’ form that she must have gone digging for…It named me as the sole beneficiary and she wrote, ‘Five kids and no money and his sister gets everything.'” The text was the last time KW heard from Lori. (East Idaho News).

Approx July/Aug 2019? – Lori apparently told JJ’s grandparents KW & LW, and other people, that Tylee was attending BYU in Rexburg, ID. This was a lie; Tylee never attended BYU (Note: Date they were told this is unclear, but this detail comes from Dateline; JJ’s grandparent last had contact from Lori in July 2019 and last had contact from JJ Aug 10, 2019).

3 Aug 2019, 4 pm- 9 pm - A memorial service is held for CV at the Lake Charles Civic Center in LA, but Lori never shows up. Neither does JJ. KW & LW had begged Lori to allow JJ to attend, but she ignored their requests (East Idaho News)

5 Aug 2019 - JJ starts the new school year at LIFE (KTVB7).

6 Aug 2019, 5:33 pm (AZ timezone) - Venmo in Tylee’s name sent money to her older brother CR with a heart and two exclamation points. Tylee Ryan

9 Aug 2019 – Lori lists JJ’s service dog, Bailey, for sale for $2500 using the contact name Lolo Ryan. The listing says it cost $7000 to train the dog and he is trained for people with autism. The listing also says the owner of the dog (Charles Vallow) is deceased. https://animal.direct/pdf-export.html?listingID=20875

10 Aug 2019 – JJ has a Facetime conversation with his paternal grandparents, KW & LW for the last time. This was a "35 second" Facetime. It appeared someone was monitoring what JJ said and he didn’t call back afterward, like he usually would. (KSL TV, ABC World News).

Approx mid-to-late Aug 2019 – JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW, call LIFE Academy to ask about JJ's welfare, because they haven't seen him in a while (KTVB7).

Aug 2019 - Chad attends a conference in St. George where he sets up a table to sell his books. Chad told an event attendee that Tammy was not at the conference because she was working (Rexburg Standard Journal).

22 Aug 2019 – Lori makes a podcast with MG titled: 1 Feel the Fire ~ Seeking & Finding Sweet Jesus

30 Aug 2019 - JJ’s last day attending LIFE Academy in AZ (Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Aug 2019 – Lori calls NM, the man who trained JJ’s service dog Bailey, saying she was moving and needed NM to come get Bailey “right now” and find him a new home. Lori tells NM that CV died and she, JJ & Tylee are moving to Idaho to be near her daughter who is in school there (But Lori has no other daughter that we know of besides Tylee). NM asks if everything is ok and Lori says “It’s just too hard to talk about”.

30 Aug 2019 - NM goes to pick up the dog from Lori. "They were in the middle of moving…She had the SUV in the middle of the driveway. They were throwing bags in there. JJ was in the backseat on his tablet," says NM, but he never saw Tylee that day. "When Lori brought Bailey out, she asked if I’d found a home for him yet…She said, 'Well, if Tylee asks, just tell her you have because she’s really upset about all of this.'" NM didn’t find out CV was shot to death until later (Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Aug 2019 – Lori, Tylee & JJ drive up to Colby’s workplace in Tylee’s Jeep. He comes out to talk to them briefly and they tell him they are moving the next day. CR says when he hugged them goodbye he did not know they were leaving AZ nor where they were moving to, but he thought it was good that Lori was getting the kids out of the house where CV died. Lori also told CR she got a new job but did not mention where the job was or what she was doing. Tylee seemed sad to be moving away and didn’t say much. (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Aug 2019 – Colby facetimes with JJ and Tylee for the last time. “They were normal, and that was the thing, it didn’t seem like anything crazy, they were just trying to, you know, live their normal lives and we just were talking like normal…Having a normal conversation.”(Dr. Phil Show)

31 Aug 2019 – Lori moved out of the AZ home where CV was shot to death, at the request of the property manager. She took JJ and Tylee to Idaho after moving out (Idaho Post Register).

Sept 2019 – Tylee’s phone sends texts to her brother CR throughout Sept but they become less frequent by October (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix). Every time CR tries to call Tylee after Aug 30, Lori makes excuses on why Tylee can’t talk to him (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc).

1 Sept or 2 Sept 2019 - Lori moved with children JJ and Tylee, along with Alex and a friend from AZ to Rexburg, ID (Fox 13 Salt Lake City; Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc).

1st Week of Sept 2019 – Tylee was seen by a neighbor, SB, who helped Lori and AC move into 2 townhouse-style apts in the same complex in Rexburg. Lori, her children, her brother and a friend had all driven up from AZ. SB helped them move in a few weeks before school started. SB only met Tylee once and never saw her again. Lori told SB she moved there to attend college. (Fox 13 Salt Lake City).

2 Sept 2019 – Labor Day.

3 Sept 2019 – Lori enrolled JJ in Kennedy Elementary School in Rexburg, ID (Fox 13 Salt Lake City).

5 Sept 2019, 7:26 am – Lori calls and sends an email to LIFE Academy in AZ to withdraw JJ from school, saying she got a new job out of state. Despite the email, Lori never followed the formal practice to withdraw JJ and the school never received a request from JJ’s new school, Kennedy Elementary in Rexburg, for transfer of his records. The letter makes mention of Lori’s husband dying “last month” even though it had been nearly 2 months since CV’s death. School officials also say Lori claimed CV’s death was a suicide. (Fox10 Phoenix)

6 Sept 2019, 2:46 pm – A neighbor takes a picture of JJ and Tylee standing over a pile of toys outside their Rexburg apt; the neighbor texts the photo to someone else who asks what is going on. The neighbor replies “The new kid [JJ] brought a laundry basket full of toys (mostly like stuffed plushie types) and dumped them all in the massive puddle in the corner of the grass.” (KSL TV).

Approx 7 Sept 2019 – Lori’s brother Alex lived with her about a week before renting his own apt in the same complex in Rexburg (LocalNews8 ABC).

Approx 7 Sept 2019 – JJ told his friend, neighbor SB's son, that he and his sister would be leaving soon. "They played everyday almost, until [JJ] said he was moving to his grandmother's…They told my son that, 'Oh yeah, we're going to go visit my grandmother.' We didn't know where that was. I said, 'Oh, okay,' and I understood because school was about to start. The semester was about to start and she was going to school, from what I understood," SB said (LocalNews8 ABC)

7 Sept 2019 – Lori’s account or electronic device is logged into a classroom communication app from JJ’s former school, LIFE Academy in AZ, and Lori’s user account is shown as having viewed a post made by the school (Fox10 Phoenix).

7 Sept 2019 – Chad’s wife Tammy volunteers at a Rexburg Rescue Run event. Chad was not present with Tammy at the event (Websleuths Verified Insider posts).

7 Sept 2019 – Lori does a podcast with MG titled “2 Feel the Fire ~ What is a Baptism of Fire?”

8 Sept 2019 – Tylee is seen for the last time last on a trip to Yellowstone with Lori, JJ and Alex. Police obtained phone records that show Lori, AC and J.J. went to Yellowstone National Park. There is also a photo of Tylee at the park entrance from Lori’s iCloud account. “This is the last time we can find any record of [Tylee Ryan] being with Lori Vallow. We have found no witnesses who can verify they have seen TR since Sept. 8, 2019,” (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

11 Sept 2019, 7:07 pm - Venmo in Tylee’s name sent money to her older brother CR with a heart.

16 Sept 2019 – Chad and Lori do a podcast along with MG called: “3 Feel the Fire ~ Chad Daybell Sharing Jesus' Love”.

17 Sept 2019 approx 3:15 pm – JJ is seen playing outside Lori’s Pioneer Road apt in Rexburg on a neighbor’s doorbell camera video (2KUTV).

18 Sept 2019, 2:00 - A nanny Lori found on care.com first comes to meet Lori and JJ. The nanny later told RPD she understood her employment was going to be ongoing (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc). During that first visit, Lori was welcoming and hugged the nanny but reportedly told several falsehoods “She explained to me how they recently moved here from Arizona. Her husband had just died of a heart attack and how J.J doesn't quite understand the situation…Her daughter also lives in Rexburg and is going to college. She said her daughter doesn't like to babysit J.J without being paid so she wanted me to work for her. Occasionally her daughter would come visit for dinner or to do laundry, but she never said that she lived there with them. It appeared that only Lori and J.J lived there... ” the nanny said (AZfamily). The probable cause doc says no evidence has been found of Tylee ever enrolling in college in BYU-Idaho or any other BYU campus.

19 Sept 2019 -The new nanny arrives to watch JJ; "When I walked inside, [Lori] mentioned how she was waiting for her brother to come and leave with her to the airport. She said she was going to the Idaho Falls airport. She said her brother also lived here in Rexburg." "[Lori] mentioned how if she got home later to give JJ his medicine right before bed because it makes him tired fast. She joked about how she liked that because some days when he was extra tough for her to handle, she would give him his meds and have him go to bed early..." While Lori is gone JJ has a melt-down; when Lori returns she shows JJ an “overwhelming” amount of love according to the nanny. (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News, Fox13 SLC).

19 Sept 2019 - A Rexburg woman has a long conversation w/ Chad on a flight to Mesa, AZ. During the conversation, they talked about their families, religion, and Chad's books; the anonymous woman has read a few of them and says, "[Chad] told me he was not writing those novels anymore about an apocalypse or something. He was just going in a total new direction in the books that he was writing." Chad tells her he is on his way to help a female relative in the Valley (i.e. the Phoenix area) who needs to remodel her home. "He said I hope we can get this work done in the time that I have before I have to be back," recalled the woman (Fox10 Phoenix).

21 Sept 2019 – A Book of Mormon Evidence and Universal Model of Science Event is held in Rexburg. The event flyer on the website advertises “Come to Yellowstone in September”.

23 Sept 2019 – The Autumnal Equinox (Last day of Summer/First day of Fall).

23 Sept 2019 – Chad texts ”Thanks so much” to Filmmaker Devin K Hansen about the movie project. Chad did not reply to any texts from Hansen after this date. (Fox13 Phoenix)

23 Sept 2019 – JJ was last seen attending Kennedy Elementary School in Rexburg, ID.

24 Sept 2019 – Lori unenrolled JJ from Kennedy Elementary School in Rexburg, ID, telling administrators she planned to homeschool him. No requests were made for JJ’s transcripts (Fox 13 Salt Lake City; East Idaho News; Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc).

24 Sept 2019 - Tylee’s 17th birthday. Nobody has reported seeing her on this day. At one point Rexburg's Assistant Police Chief Gary Hagen said, “It sounds like the last time anybody had seen the kids were somewhere on the 23rd or 24th of September,” (Daily Mail) However, the probable cause doc released in Feb 2020 states the last time Tylee was confirmed seen by anyone is Sept 8th, 2019 (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc).

24 Sept 2019 - The nanny contacts Lori, and Lori tells her that JJ has gone to stay with his grandma for several weeks and that her services are no longer needed "...[Lori] responded to me that JJ was with his grandparents for a month and that she was in Hawaii. She said in about a month, when they come back, that I could work again..." (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News, Fox13 SLC).

26 Sept 2019 - Eviction proceedings against Lori’s brother Alex are filed in San Tan Valley's Pioneer Justice Court (Court docs).

26 Sept 2019 - National Public Lands Day (Entry into Yellowstone is FREE).

26 Sept 2019 thru 7 Oct 2019 - Madison School District, where JJ was previously enrolled, is closed for the spud harvest break. Spud Harvest moved up a week for North Fremont students

28 Sept 2019 – Colby is growing concerned that Tylee hasn’t called him or facetimed him in weeks. A text chain between CR and Tylee’s phone number shows his concern:
CR: Hey Ty!! Happy Birthday I’m so proud of you! I know you have been through [a lot]… trust god, its all gonna be okay...
Tylee’s Phone: thanks colbs. I love you.
CR: Hey ty are you okay?
Tylee’s Phone: I’m good just tired… Call you back later. Love you.
CR: Okay call me tonight please
Tylee’s Phone: at the movie. I’ll call you after
CR: Ty, please call me after your movie. I’m worried about you.
Tylee’s Phone: Worried about me? What?
CR: …I Just want to hear you talk …
Tylee’s Phone: Ok this week was busy I’ll call you soon.
CR: Okay please call me tonight if you can
CR says he kept trying to push Tylee to call him but every time it seemed like she pushed him away. She would keep saying “I’m busy” and that doesn’t make any sense to him. (Dr Phil Show).

Approx 28 Sept 2019 – About 3 weeks before Tammy dies Chad allegedly tells his author friend Julie R in a frustrated voice: "My plan can't move forward until Tammy's dead." (Inside Edition).

30 Sept 2019 thru 11 Oct 2019 – The Sugar-Salem School District, where Tammy works as librarian is closed for spud harvest break. Calendars

Late Sept 2019 – The son of one of Lori’s Rexburg neighbors asks if JJ can come play with him; Lori tells the child JJ went to live with his grandma “ … one of their children went to Lori’s apartment sometime in late September to play with JJ, and the child was informed by Lori Vallow that JJ was not there and that he had gone to stay with his grandma” (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

Late Sept or Early Oct - About 3 weeks before Tammy’s death – Julie R and Chad call each other. Julie said “And I asked him, do you still see Tammy dying? And he said yes I do,” (Fox13 Salt Lake City).

1 Oct 2019 – Proof of service is filed indicating Lori’s brother Alex was served with an eviction notice for his San Tan Valley rental house (Court docs).

1 Oct 2019, 2:08 – Approx 3:32 pm - Lori signs a $53-per-month rental agreement for a 10×10 unit at Self Storage Plus in Rexburg. Oct 1 is the only time Lori visits the unit alone; She is driving a blue Nissan Rogue. She is seen removing a heavy tote from her car and placing it into the unit after she signs the contract. Later CCTV shows Lori and/or a man associated with her visiting the unit nine times in October and once in November (East Idaho News, Dateline).

2 Oct 2019, abt 7:20 am - BB, estranged husband of Lori’s niece Melani, takes his 2 older children to school and 2 younger children to a custody exchange with Melani. Then he goes to the gym and returns home approx. 9:13 am (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

2 Oct 2019, abt 9:14 am – BB is shot at in the driveway of his Gilbert, AZ home; A bullet narrowly misses BB and shatters the driver’s side window of his Tesla. At first BB thought the shooter was using a paintball gun, due to the sound it made, but when he examines his car he sees a bullet hole and realizes it was a real gun with a silencer. The shooter is driving a vehicle matching the description of Tylee’s Jeep. BB calls 911. “Did you see the guy that, that actually—” The dispatcher begins to ask. “I didn’t see who it was,” BB answers. Much of the call is redacted. It’s unclear what he was telling the dispatcher but in later interviews, we learn BB suspects it was Alex driving. BB knew CV well, knew all about AC shooting CV in July and recognized the Jeep. After GPD arrive and take BB’s statement, a police report is filed, and an attempted murder investigation begins. The Jeep was caught on CCTV and was later confirmed to be registered to the late Charles Vallow. After the shooting attempt on his life, BB takes his 4 children and goes into hiding with them (Family interview on GH; Fox News & Arizona Republic, Dateline).

2 Oct 2019, Approx 2:25 pm – Lori and a man visit her Rexburg storage unit in her car for about 7 minutes; Enhanced video shows the man is likely Chad. Timestamps on the video show Lori’s blue Rogue arriving at 1:25 p.m. but owner of storage facility says clocks were off by one hour (East Idaho News).

2 Oct 2019, 2:27 pm - Lori & the man thought to be Chad get out of the vehicle near the unit she rented the day before (East Idaho News).

2 Oct 2019, 2:29 pm – The man who looks like Chad pulls a tire out of the back of the Rogue and rolls it into the storage unit (East Idaho News).

2 Oct 2019, 2:30 pm – The man who appears to be Chad & Lori carry what appears to be a removable rear car seat together and place it into the storage unit (East Idaho News).

2 Oct 2019, 2:32 pm – Lori and the man who looks like Chad shut the door and leave the facility. On the way out the door he slaps her on the butt, and she responds as if they are a couple (East Idaho News).

3 Oct 2019, 2:11 pm - Lori and a man, who looks like her brother Alex (AC), visit her Rexburg storage unit in Lori’s Rogue for about 4 minutes. AC removes both the tire and the seat from the storage unit and places them in the car. AC walks differently than the man seen from the day before (thought to be Chad) and he carries the tire rather than rolling it. AC also carries the car seat by himself, rather than working with Lori like the day before (East Idaho News).

4 Oct 2019 - Tammy Daybell visits her parents in Springville, UT about 15 days before she died; She was healthy and doing Zumba and a clogging class according to her dad.

4 Oct 2019 - A judgement is entered in the San Tan Valley eviction case against Alex (Court records).

Between 6 Oct – 26 Oct 2019 – A man (possibly Alex), visits Lori’s Rexburg Storage unit alone 5 times. He drops off a variety of items, including gun cases (East Idaho News)

6 Oct 2019, 1:42-1:50 pm – A man thought to be Alex visits Lori’s storage unit alone in a pick-up truck belonging to Alex and takes something out of the unit; he stays about 8 minutes (Dateline).

9 Oct 2019 - Tammy has an encounter with a masked man with a gun outside her Salem home, which she contacts the police about. She also posted about it on Facebook:
“Something really weird just happened, and I want you to know so you can watch out,”...“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...” (East Idaho News, Daily Mail)

10 Oct 2019, 5:39 pm – Venmo in Tylee’s name sent money to her older brother CR with a heart and “We love you”. CR says the money sent through Tylee’s account was from his mom Lori. CR figured his mom was having Tylee send money through her account because Lori is not very tech savvy. (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

13 Oct 2019 - BB, husband of Lori’s niece Melani meets with Rich Robertson (RR), an AZ-based private investigator w/R3 Investigations. "He was so anxious that we actually met in my office on a Sunday morning and he told me this wild tale of killing and missing people and religious cults and that he had been the victim of a drive-by shooting…Basically, the bottom line for him at that point was he was hoping I could find Alex Cox and the Jeep that Alex was driving, and he hoped that I could find his wife, whom he had lost contact with for about two weeks…They were going through a divorce and they were supposed to exchange their four kids and she didn't show up for the last meeting. And then he was the target of the drive-by shooting and he thought that he recognized his assailant as being Alex Cox." RR said (Inside Edition)

15 Oct 2019 - A Writ of Restitution is requested (Sheriff/constable eviction) to evict Lori’s brother Alex from his San Tan Valley rental house (Court docs)

15 Oct 2019, 8:11 pm - About 2 Weeks after BB was shot at, Melani allegedly texts BB saying that she has decided to move to Boise, ID. Melani: “I have made the decision to move to Boise. We will need to create a new schedule for the kids. We can pay to go to mediation again or save the money by coming to a mutual agreement. I’m fine with whatever you decide. 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” 8:12 pm BB: “Seriously?” 8:16 pm Melani: “Yes” 8:20 pm BB: “Why how is that good for our kids? I don’t understand. I will keep them in az and figure it out but why these kids are going to need us both. They need things to stay the same and to have structure.” 8:34 pm BB: “When are you moving?” 8:48 pm BB: “Is that it? No more information this is pretty important can you give me more details if you are planning on moving you should have them right?” 9:05 pm Melani: “I’m planning to go next week” 9:05 pm BB: “What day” 9:07 pm BB “Are you still planning on having the kids this week and weekend?” (Arizona Republic) Justin Lum Fox 10 Phoenix

16 Oct 2019, 11:05-11:11 am – A man visits Lori’s storage unit alone in a pickup belonging to Alex and puts something into the unit (Dateline).

16 Oct 2019, 1:43 pm (ID Timezone) - Venmo in Tylee’s name again sent money to her older brother CR with a heart. This is the last activity on Tylee’s social media.

18 Oct 2019 – Tammy goes to bed having a coughing fit (according to Chad when he called her family to tell them she was dead).

19 Oct 2019 - Tammy is found dead by family members in her ID home at 202 N 1900 E, Rexburg (Salem), ID; A Fremont Co officer goes to the Salem home in response to a call about Tammy’s death. The Fremont Co Coroner Brenda Dye arrives at the home as well and examines the body. No autopsy is performed. Dye writes a death certificate. The coroner initially ruled the death “natural causes,” and decided Tammy didn’t need an autopsy, but police later determined her death is suspicious and exhume her on Dec 12th for autopsy. (Fox13 Salt Lake City).

19 Oct 2019 – On the day Tammy dies her daughter calls Julie Rowe: “And she said Julie do you know what I’m most scared of and I said no what and she said my dad getting remarried,” Julie said. (Per Julie’s interview with Fox10 Phoenix Feb 29 2020)

19 Oct 2019, 10:21 pm – Tylee’s AZ friend sends Tylee a text to say she misses her and had been thinking about her. She didn’t get a reply until six days later (Post Register).

After 19 Oct 2019 – Chad collects $430,000 from Tammy’s life insurance policy following her Oct. 19, 2019 death (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

21-24 Oct 2019 – The ID school where Tammy was librarian holds a book donation drive in her memory and makes a remembrance corner in the library to help the children remember her. Central Elementary Book Fair

22 Oct 2019 – Funeral services are held in Utah and Tammy Daybell is buried in Springville, Utah (Tammy's Obit).

22 Oct 2019, 3:14 - 3:24 pm - A man visits Lori’s storage unit alone in the pick-up truck belonging to Alex and he takes something out of the unit (Dateline).

22 Oct 2019 – BB and Melani’s divorce is finalized (Consent Decree); BB requested full custody of their 4 children on the grounds that he believes Melani was behind the attempt on his life in early October; He also requested Melani not see the children without supervision; Melani did not show up for court to challenge custody of the children; (Court records; Arizona Republic). Family Court Case Information - Case History

22 Oct 2019 – Final eviction notice is served via sheriff/constable at the San Tan Valley rental house of Lori’s brother Alex.

23 Oct 2019 - A 2nd memorial service for Tammy Daybell is held in Rexburg, Idaho. Tammy’s children participate and Chad speaks; The closing song is ‘Families Can Be Together Forever’ and a poem called ‘Your Mother is Always With You’ is printed in the program. “It was really weird because the casket wasn’t even there. It all came together so quick and felt rushed. There weren’t a lot of people at the service,” says a friend of the Daybells. (East Idaho News, Tammy's Obit).

24 Oct 2019 – Chad moves out of the Salem, ID house he shared with Tammy and two of his adult kids. He told his kids he wanted to sell the house and the book publishing business he and Tammy had built since 2004, but they convinced him not to. He later says he has plans to go to Hawaii to edit a book. (WS Verified Insider posts).

25 Oct 2019 - 11:14 am (AZ time) – Tylee’s AZ friend receives a reply to her Oct 19 text saying, “hi. miss you guys too ...luv ya.” The friend didn’t think it sounded like Tylee. “She spelled out her words for the most part,” the friend said. “Plus, she would have texted more if I reached out.” (Post Register).

25 Oct 2019, 12:48 – 12:57 pm (ID Time) - A man visits Lori’s storage unit alone in a pick-up truck belonging to Alex and he takes something out of the unit (Dateline).

26 Oct 2019 – Run for A Refugee 5K, Tammy had been training to run this 5 that was held a week after her death (Daily Mail, WS Verified Insider).

26 Oct 2019, 5:07–5:17 pm - A man visits Lori’s storage unit alone in the pick-up truck belonging to Alex and he puts something into the unit (Dateline).

28 Oct 2019, 2:00-2:06 pm – 2 men driving Alex’s pick-up truck are seen on CCTV at Lori’s Rexburg Storage Unit moving kids’ bikes into the unit; they also take items out of the unit. The men are believed to be Chad and Alex, together only days after Tammy’s funeral (East Idaho News, Dateline).

28 Oct 2019 – Lori’s niece Melani signs lease agreement to move into Unit #174 at 565 Pioneer Rd in Rexburg. This unit is right next to the Unit Lori moved into in Sept. The lease says that only 1 adult (Melani) and 4 children will be living there (Fox 10 Phoenix).

29 Oct 2019 – A neighbor’s Ring doorbell camera captures footage of Lori still living in the Pioneer Rd apt and an unidentified woman coming to visit her (2KUTV).

Late Oct 2019 – Tylee’s brother CR notices that Tylee’s texts to him had become less frequent and changed. The texts did not sound like Tylee and were not written the way she normally would reply (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix)

31 Oct 2019, Halloween – Around Halloween time the nanny hired through care.com in Sept again texts Lori to ask if her services are needed for JJ. There was no response (AZ Family).

31 Oct 2019 – Chad sends a newsletter to GRI website members titled: “Moving into the Second Half of My Life.” The letter begins: “My dear wife Tammy passed away in her sleep early Saturday, October 19. When I awoke at around 6 a.m., it was clear she had been gone for several hours. It came as a shock. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t been awakened somehow, but all indications are that her spirit simply slipped away during the night. Her face looked serene, with her eyes closed and a slight smile. It was devastating to discover her that way, but I’m so grateful that her death was peaceful.” Chad also writes that after her death Tammy told him “several messages…and I’m in the process of implementing what she has told me to do. She has indicated that my life has two parts that were planned even before I came to earth.” (East Idaho News).

31 Oct 2019 – Lori’s niece, Melani, reserves a U-Haul from Gilbert Self Storage in AZ. The rental application says she is moving to “byu idaho student housing” in Rexburg, ID and will drop off the U-Haul at Self Storage Plus in Rexburg (Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Oct 2019, 3:29 pm – Melani & Alex fly from Idaho Falls to Mesa, AZ on Allegiant flight 531, sitting in seats 5C & 5B (Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Oct – Nov 1 2019 – Late at night on Oct 31, RR, A private investigator hired by BB, observes Alex & Melani load up U-haul outside Melani’s Chandler home and discard children's items on the curb. "It was all kids' stuff, it was clothing, it was blankets, it was toys, mattresses, bedding materials. It was all in a pile out there on the curb with a little cardboard sign on it that said, 'Free,'" RR says. RR says he tracked Melani to Rexburg, not Boise: “We saw them loading the U-Haul they rented in Arizona and took to Rexburg and we saw where they were living but we didn’t see the kids,” RR said (KTVB7 News, AZ Family, Inside Edition).

See Part V (Update 8) for more...

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part V (Update 8)
MISSING: Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell
Person of Interest: Chad Guy Daybell ​

Nov 2019 – The Jeep involved in the shooting attempt on BB is located in Rexburg and seized with a search warrant from Gilbert PD. It is identified as a grey Jeep Wrangler with TX plates and as the vehicle that Tylee regularly drove and was registered to the late CV. (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc).

1 Nov 2019 – A Gilbert PD detective begins intermittent surveillance of Lori while investigating the attempted murder/drive-by shooting at BB that took place Oct 2 in Gilbert, AZ. That detective reports that he never once saw JJ nor Tylee in the month of Nov. (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc).

2 Nov 2019, 1:24 am – Melani posts to her facebook that she is offering a $10,000 reward for information about her husband and children’s whereabouts (Adam Herbets, Fox13 SLC)

3 Nov 2019 – Melani continues to look for her children before leaving for Rexburg. RR followed Melani and AC using a GPS tracker on their vehicle as they went to friends' houses looking for the kids on the day before they left for Idaho. "It was clear to us that she was aggressively trying to find the kids, even though she left all the kids' stuff on the curb… And she was traveling with Alex Cox, so that increased the anxiety for Brandon and his kids," Said RR (Inside Edition).

4 Nov 2019 - Melani and AC arrive in Rexburg, ID (Inside Edition).

5 Nov 2019 – Only a couple weeks after Tammy’s death, Chad Daybell is married to Lori Vallow in a beach ceremony in Kauai, Hawaii. A photographer takes more than 600 photos in 45 minutes of the ceremony taking place without any family present. JJ & Tylee are also not at the wedding. “An officiant lead the ceremony as flower petals shaped in a heart surrounded the husband and wife, later Chad is seen playing a ukulele as Lori smiles, hula dancing.” (Fox10 Phoenix; Rexburg PD Dec 20, 2019 Press Release). Rexburg Police Department

After 5 Nov 2019 – Chad informed family members he had remarried. Chad told Tammy’s family members that he would never visit them in Utah. Chad told family he was in Hawaii and told his parents they were free to visit him. No one knew Chad planned to remarry and family members were in disbelief that he would remarry 2 weeks after Tammy's death (WS Verified Insider).

After 5 Nov 2019 - After Lori & Chad married, Lori tells family members that Tylee died in 2017, a year before Tylee’s dad JR died in 2018, and Chad tells family members that Lori has no minor children. Both statements are untrue. Rexburg PD released this info in Dec 30, 2019 press release; (Rexburg Journal). Chad tells his parents in Springville, UT that Lori was an “empty-nester.” Chad tells his sister-in-law (Tammy’s sister) Lori has no juvenile children. (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

After 5 Nov 2019 – A few weeks after Tammy’s death, a family friend talks to Chad’s son: “We were talking about how his family is doing and he told me his dad remarried…I thought it was a joke because he kind of laughed about it afterward. I laughed and he said, ‘No, I’m serious. My dad went to Hawaii on a business trip and met a widow and they just got married.'” The friend didn’t know how to respond and says the Daybell children seemed unhappy their dad remarried already. The friend also recalls, “I’ll never forget he said, ‘My dad’s not a bad guy – he’s just done some bad things.'” (East Idaho News).

7 Nov 2019 – Newlyweds Lori and Chad show up at a house with a room for rent on the island of Kauai. “They said that they waited all day for God to tell them which house to go to and he told them to come to mine,” said the homeowner JM. JM says “they were like 2 teenagers that had just been set free. They were just giddy.” Chad fills out a rental application stating his monthly income is $30,000 as author and owner of Spring Creek Book Company. He gives a move in date of Nov 9th and lists “Lori Daybell, my wife” as his emergency contact. (Fox10 Phoenix).

8 Nov 2019 – Chad sends an email to JB, Owner of Kauai Dreams Realty: "We are interested in seeing this property. Would the owners be interested in leasing this property to a clean couple with no pets or children?" (Fox10 Phoenix)

12 Nov 2019 – A few days after Chad’s Nov 7th rental application the homeowner JM reads Tammy Daybell’s obituary and feels like something was wrong with how happy Lori and Chad were acting when they visited her house to view the room for rent. JM sent a text to Chad asking about Tammy’s death. Chad texted back: “Hi J****, yes, Tammy’s passing was such a shock. I woke up that morning and she had clearly been dead for a couple of hours, but she had such a peaceful look on her face. At her burial I felt her tell me she was happy and already busy helping our family on the other side of the veil. I felt she helped me reconnect with Lori so quickly, and it has actually helped my children move forward.”
JM sent a reply text: “Oh wow. Did the Coroner say what was the cause? So you and Lori knew each other already?”
Chad changed his mind about renting from JM (Fox10 Phoenix).

Approx Nov 2019 - Chad is released from his calling as Executive Secretary to the Bishop in his LDS church ward in Idaho. The Bishop announced from the pulpit that if anyone needed to schedule a meeting, to do so with another brother of the ward (WS Verified Insider).

12 Nov 2019, around 6 pm - LE documents say Lori’s niece, Melani (MB), trespassed onto the property of her in-laws in American Fork, UT. MB came to look for her husband BB and their kids. BB's parents took all the kids upstairs and BB told MB she could not be there. A LEO called MB on the phone and she claimed BB kidnapped her kids and she hadn’t seen them in over a month. The LEO told MB she could face criminal charges for trespassing if she returned (Fox10 Phoenix).

14 Nov 2019 – Lori’s brother Alex Cox drives their niece Melani (MB) back to BB’s parents’ home in a 2020 Kia Telluride. BB’s family calls 911 to report MB is there again, ringing the doorbell, banging on the door and yelling and she was seen going into the garage. BB’s father yells “Get out of my house! The police are on their way! Get away from my door! Now!” then he tells the 911 operator “Somebody tried to kill my son three weeks ago, and we believe that she’s involved in it.” Police say they found MB coming out of the garage when they arrived on the scene. BB's family say MB brought a court order saying she could take the children. At this time, BB was in AZ. Police cited her for criminal trespassing and told her to leave the property or she would be taken into custody. Police later found cause for a domestic violence enhancement and determined MB should be arrested. MB turned herself into AFPD and was booked into Utah County Jail for the misdemeanor. She was released on $2500 bail the same day. Alex posted $1950 for MB’s bail (Arizona Republic, Utah County Sheriff's Office Booking records, Fox10 Phoenix).

Mid Nov 2019 – Chad and Lori return to Rexburg after their Kauai honeymoon and live together in the townhouse Lori rented in Sept 2019 (Dateline).

Mid Nov 2019 – JJ’s grandparents didn’t know about Lori’s new husband nor did they know that Lori had moved to Rexburg, ID. KW is still worried about JJ and has trouble sleeping; With no contact from Lori nor JJ in months, KW decides to look at CV’s email account. KW knows her brother’s frequently used passwords and guesses correctly the first time. Once logged in she sees a recent email from Amazon showing an order has been shipped to an address in Rexburg, ID. KW realizes that is Lori’s new address. As soon as the sun comes up, KW calls a detective in AZ to tell him where to find Lori. KW requests a welfare check of JJ at the Rexburg address. However, it was about 2 weeks before Rexburg PD is able to make contact with someone at the address to conduct the welfare check (Dateline).

Abt 19 Nov 2019 – About a week before conducting a welfare check on JJ and Tylee, a police officer came to SB’s door asking questions about Lori and her children. SB is the neighbor who had helped Lori move into her Rexburg townhouse with the children in Sept 2019 (Fox 13 Salt Lake City).

21 Nov 2019 - Lori’s account or electronic device is logged into a classroom communication app from JJ’s former school, LIFE Academy in AZ, and Lori’s user account is shown as having viewed a post made by the school (Fox10 Phoenix).

24 Nov 2019, 1:16-1:20 pm – Lori and a man (believed to be Chad) are seen on CCTV in a car visiting Lori’s Rexburg storage unit for about 4 minutes; they remove items and also place items into the unit. This is the last visit to the storage unit by Lori and/or any of the men associated with Lori (East Idaho News, Dateline).

25 Nov 2019 – Rexburg PD is contacted by Gilbert PD after JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW, requested a welfare check (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News)

26 Nov 2019 - Rexburg PD attempt to conduct a welfare check on JJ, the adopted 7- year-old special needs son of Lori Vallow, at their residence at 565 Pioneer Road in Rexburg, ID (Dateline; Rexburg Press Release From Dec 20, 2019).

26 Nov 2019 - RPD first talk to Alex and Chad outside Lori’s apt. “Chad acted as if he didn’t know Lori very well and stated he didn’t know her phone number,” the probable cause doc states. “Alex told the detectives that [JJ] was with his grandma, KW, in Louisiana, which was not likely to be true due to the fact that KW was the individual who first called in a missing child report to the Gilbert PD.” Alex tells RPD Lori might be in Apt 107, but when RPD checks Apt 107 they find the unit is empty and vacant (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

26 Nov 2019 – After talking to RPD Chad tries to drive away but a detective stops him. Chad then says the last time he had seen JJ was in Apt 107 in October. He also admits that he knows Lori’s phone number and provides it (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

26 Nov 2019 - RPD finds Lori in her apt; She tells them JJ is with her friend Melanie Gibb (MG) in Gilbert, AZ. LE calls MG but cannot reach her on the phone. LE talk to Lori again, and she says MG and JJ are at “Frozen 2.” LE tells Lori to tell MG to call them. An affidavit filed Feb 18, 2020 says this statement Lori made about JJ being with MG “delayed the investigation into the whereabouts and safety of JJ by requiring us to take time to investigate a lead that was verified as false.” (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News)

26 Nov 2019 – After RPD leave, Lori and Chad each contact their friend MG separately; Both Lori and Chad ask MG to tell police that she has JJ even though JJ is not with her. MG says she declined the requests of Chad and Lori and she did not lie to the police on their behalf (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News)

26 Nov 2019, about 9:30 pm - Rexburg PD have not heard from MG so they call Gilbert PD. LE in Arizona go to MG’s home but she is not there. GPD reaches MG by phone; She tells them JJ has not been there for several months. (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News)

26 Nov 2019 – 2 nights before Thanksgiving Lori’s neighbor, SB, says he saw Lori and her brother Alex packing up a truck. SB thought they were traveling for the holiday. Lori left behind her belongings, and left JJ's toys on the front porch. (Fox 13 Salt Lake City).

27 Nov 2019 – 2 detectives visit Lori’s son Colby at his home in AZ to ask him if he has JJ and Tylee living with him or if he knows where they are located. This was the first time that CR was made aware that Lori had moved with the kids to Idaho. CR calls his mom to ask her what is going on and Lori says “I got it, I’ll take care of it,” and that was it. That was the last time CR talked to his mom (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

27 Nov 2019 – Rexburg PD receives request to help AZ LE execute search warrants at 595 Pioneer Road in relation to the investigation into JJ’s welfare and location. Rexburg PD were authorized to collect blood, fingerprints, hair and hygiene products to collect DNA; personal items such as toys, clothing and shoes; electronic devices; school records and documents related to state assistance received on behalf of JJ as well as bank records “which may be evidence of payments received on behalf of the child as well as payments or expenses made for the child.” (East Idaho News)

27 Nov 2019; 10:13 a.m - A phone related to their investigation is pinged at the general location "right now" when dispatched. However, when LE arrive Lori and Chad have abruptly vacated the home and left town; LE has reason to believe that they did not have JJ with them when they left Rexburg. Subsequently, the local LE contacts the FBI to ask for assistance in locating JJ: Rexburg Police Department

27 Nov 2019 – Neighbors watch as the FBI raids 3 units at 565 Pioneer Rd in Rexburg: Lori's Apt #175, Lori’s niece Melani’s Apt #174 and Lori’s brother Alex's Apt #107 in the same complex. LE breaks the front door of AC’s apt to get inside and finds there is nothing inside except for a couple of small items in the garage. Note: A neighbor stated #174 belonged to Lori’s sister, but the affidavit reveals it was Melani’s unit (Fox 13 Salt Lake City, local News 8; Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

27 Nov 2019 - During the search of Lori’s apt, police note that most of the clothing has been removed but some furniture remains. Police find a prescription med called Risperidone prescribed to JJ to treat irritability caused by autism; It was filled in Jan 2019 and still had 17 pills in the bottle. Police verified that the prescription has not been filled in ID (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

27 Nov 2019, 1:58-2:00 pm, Rexburg PD contacts the owner of Self Storage Plus in Rexburg (Dateline).

27 Nov 2019, 5:08-5:21 pm – Police serve a search warrant for Lori’s Rexburg Storage unit for “any evidence that the boy was residing at any of these residences, and/or evidence of foul play or the commission of a crime, and/or evidence of the child’s current location.” Inside the unit there were bikes, a scooter, winter clothing, blankets w/photos of the kids, a photo album, sports equipment, a backpack with JJ’s initials and a jersey w/CR’s name (East Idaho News)

27 Nov 2019 -- During the investigation into JJ’s disappearance, LE learns that Lori’s teen daughter Tylee Ryan moved with Lori to Rexburg on Sept 1 or 2 but Tylee has not been seen since early Sept. Lori said Tylee was attending classes at BYU-Idaho, but records show she was never enrolled at any BYU campus (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

28 Nov 2019 – Thanksgiving Day.

Approx 28 Nov - Dec 1, 2019 – Chad spends Thanksgiving weekend on vacation with his family in Southern California, traveling there via SLC airport. Photos posted to social media show Chad at the airport and later Knott’s Berry Farm, an amusement park in Buena Park, CA. Lori wasn't in any of the photos and her location during this time is unconfirmed. The CA trip was concluded Dec 1 and photos were posted on social media Dec 2 (WS Verified Insider posts).

29 Nov 2019, 8:01 pm – Lori’s Brother, Alex Cox, marries her friend Zulema Pastenes (ZP) in Clark County, NV. They marry in an 8 minute ceremony at “A Chapel of Love” in Las Vegas. No one attends the wedding; The witness on the wedding certificate is the chapel security guard. Also on the wedding certificate, Alex requests his name be changed from Alexander Lamar Cox to Alexander Lamar Pastenes; The owner/minister at the wedding chapel remembers the wedding because of that nontraditional request, which he says has never happened before; he also recalls, “They were very cold. It was business they just wanted to get in and get out.” The wedding took place about 2 weeks before AC’s death (Clark Co Marriage Records; Fox 10 Phoenix, Post Register).

30 Nov 2019, 5:23 pm – Lori’s niece, Melani, marries Ian Pawlowski (IP) at Lucky Little Chapel in Las Vegas, Clark County, NV. Melani’s Uncle Alex (Lori’s brother) was the witness for the ceremony (Clark Co Marriage Records; Fox10 Phoenix, Post Register).

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Detailed Case Timeline Part VI (Update 8)
MISSING: Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell
Person of Interest: Chad Guy Daybell ​

1 Dec 2019 - Chad and Lori fly from Los Angeles to Kauai on American Airlines. Police do not believe they returned to the mainland after that time. The children are not with them and have not been seen by anyone in Hawaii. (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News, CNN).

Dec 2019 – Rexburg PD contacts the Kauai PD and requests help locating Chad and Lori. KPD confirms that Lori and Chad are on the island (KPD Press Conference from 21 Feb 2020).

Early Dec 2019 – approx. first week of December some boxes from Idaho are delivered to the porch of a vacant Kauai townhome that is for sale. SL, a neighbor and real-estate agent calls the realtor that listed the house; SL is asked by the listing agent to put the boxes inside the townhome. Several days later SL met Lori and Chad who said they had signed a long-term rental contract on the townhome (East Idaho News).

2 Dec 2019 – IP’s ex-wife NP allegedly video calls IP’s mother, whom she had not spoken to since their divorce 8 months prior. NP supposedly relayed that she had been in contact with Melani’s ex-husband BB and he had told her Melani was in a cult and had tried to have him killed. (East Idaho News)

2 Dec 2019 – IP’s mother allegedly calls him to tell him about the phone call from NP. (East Idaho News).

3 Dec 2019 – NP calls IP on his way to work and they allegedly discuss how to keep their kids safe and about plans to go talk to the police (East Idaho news).

3 Dec 2019 – IP allegedly talks to Detective Hope and Detective Hermosillo and an FBI agent named Ricky. IP allegedly told LE that it’s possible Chad, Lori and Alex planned shooting at BB and that Tylee & JJ may be in serious danger. IP also allegedly said that Alex and ZP were staying in Las Vegas “preparing earthquakes” and that an earthquake would hit SLC and many “possessions” would happen after earthquakes due to a “high number of injured”. IP allegedly allowed the police to pull data from his phone (East Idaho News).

3 Dec 2019 – Lori’s niece Melani was supposedly “interrogated by police for five hours” and allegedly told IP that two of the officers were possessed with spirits of “two of the original twelve disciples of Cain.” (Fox10 Phoenix). Discovery docs confirm Melani was interviewed on this date (Discovery released 16 Mar 2020, & Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

4 Dec 2019, Afternoon – IP allegedly meets with police again, this time a Lt Ball and an FBI agent named Travis. LE allegedly gave IP a recording device that looks like a thumb drive on a keychain. IP allegedly wanted to record anything that could help find JJ & Tylee, locate Lori & Chad and understand what happened when BB was shot at. (East Idaho News)

4 Dec 2019, 10:54 pm – IP’s ex-wife NP emails an associate of BB, trying to find him. Her ex-husband had just married his ex-wife. NP says Melani told IP that a demon possessed his ex-wife NP’s body and her spirit came to Melani in a vision or dream to tell her that. NP also wrote she learned Melani was “interrogated by police for five hours” the day prior and told IP that two of the officers were possessed with spirits of “two of the original twelve disciples of Cain.” There is also mention of Melani allegedly saying NP’s kids’ spirits are full of light but that can change at any moment. “I heard something about a missing person that she may be involved in. I don’t know the details on that one,” NP wrote. NP also wrote that IP may go to police for help. She said IP was terrified and asked her to take the kids away on his weekend because “he doesn’t want them around her [Melani]. He has never done that ever.” NP concludes by saying IP told her to “look up the names Alex Cox and Chad Baybell (Daybell)” (Fox10 Phoenix).

Early Dec 2019 – Melani’s new husband IP texts his ex-wife, NP: “Don’t Respond. I need you to encourage Brandon to keep info he gets on the down low until I can get this sorted out. I want to help, but it will be tough if every starts figuring out what I’m learning. She didn’t know before hand what was going to happen. They made the attempt, failed and told her about it after the fact. I understand he doesn’t want the kids around her because of all this, but I believe if she can see them, it will put a huge dent in her trust with her uncles. She’s scared and had been told her two middle children are dead. She has a family court date on 12/11. I’m trying to get her to go” (Fox 10 Phoenix)

4 Dec 2019 - FBI in Phoenix investigates Lori and her fellow podcasters Melanie Gibb (MG) and Jason Mow (JM). Intelligence analysts listened to podcasts the trio did together and quoted Lori in the email chain (Fox10 Phoenix).

5 Dec 2019 – RPD interviews NP & IP. (Discovery released 16 Mar 2020, & Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

6 Dec 2019 - RPD is contacted by Melanie Gibb. MG says that both Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow called MG on Nov 26, 2019, at separate times and asked her to tell police that she had JJ even though JJ was not with her. “Melanie informed RPD that she declined Chad’s and Lori’s requests.”

6 Dec 2019 – Chandler PD serves a search warrant for JJ’s records at LIFE Academy in Gilbert AZ. The warrant says there is probable cause to believe there is property/persons connected to a “Conspiracy to Commit Homicide First Degree” and that the offense occurred on July 11, 2019. The records to be turned over include identifying info, family info, medical condition info, prescribed medications, time of attendance, documented contact with family and any forwarding info to new schools. The school had 3 days to comply with the warrant. (Fox 10 Phoenix).

6 Dec 2019 - Gilbert PD serves search warrants for the kids’ medical records at Gilbert Pediatrics. LE initially only plan to get records for JJ, however, before the officer leaves, an employee says that JJ’s sister was also a patient. The officer speaks with a detective who decided to obtain Tylee’s records also with a warrant. (Fox10 Phoenix)

8 Dec 2019, Approx 1:28 pm – Melani’s new husband IP texts his ex-wife NP “I don’t know if I can convince her to go to the family court hearing on Wednesday. I’m trying but she “got an answer” last night from God. Her uncles have her so wrapped up. They’re telling her she needs to move to Ammon. That’s not going to happen because I’m not going to leave Rexburg. They think it has something to do with jurisdiction. Dumbest thing ever. Don’t respond. Just wanted to update you earlier because I had a quick second to call. Stay safe.”

9 Dec 2019 - Lori’s account or electronic device is logged into a classroom communication app from JJ’s former school, LIFE Academy in AZ, and Lori’s user account is shown as having viewed a post made by the school (Fox10 Phoenix).

Approx 10 Dec 2019 – An anonymous resident of Kauai says Lori and Chad arrived on the island around 12/10. The source says he never saw JJ & Tylee, but Lori & Chad were often by the pool (Fox10 Phoenix).

11 Dec 2019 – abt 6:30 am – After determining that her death is suspicious, authorities exhume Tammy Daybell’s body for autopsy. LE had to have a court order to exhume and tried to keep the process as confidential as possible. Her family was not notified. Cemetery workers, Idaho LE, County attorneys, coroners, coroner’s assistant, and funeral director witness the exhumation. Her body is returned by 2:30 pm the same day (KSL).

12 Dec 2019, about 3:20 pm – Lori’s brother, Alex Cox, is found unconscious and laying in feces on an upstairs bathroom floor in Gilbert, AZ. Joseph Lopez (JL), the 25 year old son of AC’s “girlfriend,” is the one who finds AC and calls 911. “He just passed out here on the, on my bathroom,” JL says when he calls 911. The dispatcher asks: “Can you lay him flat on his back, on the ground?” “Um… I’ll try,” JL says. “It’s just, there’s feces there and I’m trying to just keep cool right now.” The 911 call reveals that JL does not know AC’s last name nor age and JL is also unaware that AC married his mom ZP in Las Vegas on Nov 29. ZP returns home moments before EMTs arrive and says she knows CPR. Alex dies that day; his cause of death is still unknown. LE has said the autopsy results could take 3 months (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix)

Mid-Dec 2019 (Approx.) – Lori & Chad are reported to be in Kauai, Hawaii staying at a rented home in a gated community in Princeville. Neighbor and area real estate agent, SL, met them when they moved into the unfurnished 3BR/3BA townhome which had been vacant for quite a while and was listed for $719K. SL says they signed a lease with the listing agent to stay long-term and brought their own furniture. Lori and Chad were mostly guarded and did not share anything with SL about their personal life and why they were in Kauai. Then they sort of disappeared. “I don’t think I ever saw them at the pool or anything like that. (The house) seemed vacant most of the time. I didn’t see lights on or anything like that,” SL says. “I hardly ever saw them at all, and I never saw them with anybody else, so I don’t know if they were living there or not.” (EastIdahoNews, Fox10 Phoenix).

18 Dec 2019 – RPD interviews Chad’s parents JD & SD (Discovery released 16 Mar 2020, & Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

19 Dec 2019 – Detective Hermisillo allegedly contacts IP and tells him they have another warrant for Alex’s Rexburg Apt and allegedly asks for the code to the garage so they didn’t have to break the door; IP allegedly shared the garage code. LE allegedly went with a forensics team to look for evidence of JJ having been there. (EastIdahoNews)

19 Dec 2019 - Melani allegedly saw LE at her uncle Alex’s Apt and spent the afternoon at IP’s Apt next door. (EastIdahoNews)

19 Dec 2019 – IP allegedly enters Alex’s apt to see if they have taken anything and to look for the warrant. After that IP allegedly returns to his Apt where Melani is and allegedly tells her he has been talking to police (EastIdahoNews).

20 Dec 2019 - Rexburg Police post on facebook asking for help locating the endangered missing children, JJ and Tylee. They call the death of Tammy suspicious and say it is thought to be linked to the missing children. Rexburg Police Department

20 Dec 2019 - Rexburg PD said the parents are not cooperating with officers’ attempts to check on the welfare of the children.

20 Dec 2019 – Lori’s son Colby finds out about the search of the Rexburg townhouse and that Lori and her new husband had fled Idaho after the media published articles about the missing kids. When CR saw the news he freaked out and tried to call his mom again but her phone number was gone. CR also found out through the news that Lori had married Chad—he had never heard the name Chad Daybell before in his life. CR says he was pissed off, frustrated and confused when he heard (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

20 Dec 2019 - Lori’s account or electronic device is logged into a classroom communication app from JJ’s former school, LIFE Academy in AZ, and Lori’s user account is shown as having viewed a post made by the school (Fox10 Phoenix).

21 Dec 2019 – Police release photos of Lori and Chad, calling them persons of interest. “They told us several stories about where the children are, but when we investigate, the children don’t exist where they say they should,” Rexburg Police Chief Shane Turman told EastIdahoNews.com Friday. “We don’t know where they are at, but we think they are in pretty serious danger.”

21 Dec 2019 – Melani’s husband, BB, posts on his Facebook about the attempt on his life: "On October 2nd on my way home from the gym someone sat outside my home and shot a gun at me they hit my vehicle and missed my head by inches. I have reason to believe that this was related to all of the following events…My wife at this time melani began spending a lot of time with this group, at the end of june she demanded a divorce claiming revelation about things that were not real and there was no evidence given just a claim of being told by the savior," BB wrote (Inside Edition)

22 Dec 2019 – KW & LW, grandparents of JJ, plead for any information on the location of the children, "Just show me JJ, show me Tylee, let us see that those kids are OK," their grandfather pleads (Fox10 Phoenix).

22 Dec 2019 – BB, Lori’s former nephew by marriage, says Lori drastically changed after meeting Chad. BB also pleads for the kids’ safe return, "They're both just innocent and they didn't deserve to be involved in any of this." (Fox10 Phoenix)

23 Dec 2019 – BB spoke to the press claiming that Lori and Chad were part of a cult that his ex-wife Melani has also joined. BB also claims that there was an attempt on his life connected to this case:
“I spent the last 11 years of my life spending time with Lori and her now-deceased husband Charles,” BB said. “I don’t know what happened to those kids, but I know there’s people who do, and they’re not talking...”

“You can’t be a member of the church and believe those things,” BB said. “I think it’s an infatuation with the end of the world and an infatuation with power, and they’re using it to try to make money off of people’s beliefs.”

“A couple months ago there was an attempt on my life, so I went into hiding with my kids,” BB said, referencing his 4 young children with Melani. “All I could think was: "Someone's shooting at me. What do I need to do? I need to hit the gas and get out of here."

23 Dec 2019 - Attorney Sean Bartholick issued statement on the Daybells’ behalf:
“Chad Daybell was a loving husband and has the support of his children in this matter. Lori Daybell is a devoted mother and resents assertions to the contrary. We look forward to addressing the allegations once they have moved beyond speculation and rumor.”

23 Dec 2019 – KW, sister of Charles Vallow and grandmother of JJ, says she is skeptical that JJ and Tylee are still alive, "If I have a worst enemy, I would never wish this on them. I would never wish this on anybody," said KW. "She just turned off. The person we knew just went away and she did not want JJ anymore. We were just trying to tell her, God. please let her go to a fire station, a church or something." (Fox10 Phoenix)

24 Dec 2019 – CR, oldest son of Lori and brother of Tylee, release a Youtube video discussing the case. “Every week or two weeks has been something — new news that just sinks your heart through your stomach,” CR said. “I didn't know there was a whole other family involved or anything." (Fox13 News, Fox10 Phoenix)

24 Dec 2019 – KW says Charles and Lori were separated for a few months before his death after Charles suspected her of infidelity. She said Lori was financially dependent on Charles. KW believes Lori had joined a cult after listening to religious podcasts she made discussing the “end of days” (Idaho State Journal).

24 Dec 2019 - Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Danny Coulson speculates that JJ and Tylee are being held by members of a cult that is preparing for the end of the world (Fox News).

24 Dec 2019 - Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries says he has reason to believe the children were pulled out of school so they could be homeschooled. He also says “For any kind of an investigation to go forward, we need facts. Certainly, if someone has some information that is factual, or they know where we can obtain evidence, we would be very interested in knowing about that,"… “Social media does tend to lend itself to lots of gossip, which doesn't really help anybody." (KTVB7)

24 Dec 2019 – BH says he was friends with Chad and they served a mission together in NJ. He is in shock from the reports that Chad is now under investigation. “I just was horrified, shaking when I first saw it because this is the last guy that I ever thought would be involved in something like this.” (KJZZ News, Fox13 News)

24 Dec 2019 – A Daily Mail source says that Chad Daybell was excommunicated from the LDS church in the Fall of 2019 for declaring himself a Prophet. The LDS spokesman declined to comment. (Daily Mail, Radar Online).

25 Dec 2019 – Christmas Day.

After Christmas - Gilbert PD calls NM, the trainer of JJ’s service dog Bailey, to ask questions about Bailey in connection with JJ's disappearance (Fox10 Phoenix).

27 Dec 2019 – An anonymous friend says Lori became obsessed with Chad's books about 4 years ago. Friend says she can't wrap her head around what's happening; remembers Lori as amazing mother who devoted herself to Tylee and Joshua; "She would fly her daughter's friend from Arizona to come see her just so that she would have a better week. I mean she's like mother of the year here…She was 100% into the end of times, the end of the world and she would tell me no you really gotta start preparing for the end of the world. You gotta start getting your stuff together. She would order stuff all the time she would tell me I needed to read all these books [The "Standing in Holy Places" books written by Chad] "Those books she got really obsessed with and she started buying me those books too. She must have gotten close to him from his books…Lori would say things to me like 'I'm never gonna get divorced again. I'm on my fourth husband’… And then she would tell me, 'You gotta get rid of your husband. We'll just go off and do our own thing.'” Says the friend. Lori would allegedly say: "It's gonna be the end of the world and we should all just drive off a cliff and kill us and our kids and die all at the same time." (Fox7Austin)

27 Dec 2019 – Julie Rowe says Chad had visions Tammy would die. “Angels had told him that he was going to lose Tammy,” Julie told a local TV station . Julie said Chad told her he wanted to get out of the publishing business but that Tammy did not. “He said I’m ready to get out and Tammy doesn’t want to get out. When she passes, I’m done, I can’t keep doing this.” Julie also says the missing children are safe. “I do know the kids are safe. I can see them,” she said. “I can see their energy and that they’re in a bright house.” (The Daily Beast)

28 Dec 2019 - Rexburg Police Capt. Gary Hagen told EastIdahoNews.com “I don’t think we’re any closer than what we were two weeks ago … (and) time is always of the essence in any case, especially something like this.” Hagen also addressed rumors that this is all related to a child custody battle. “That’s what they claim, but we have proved that there is no active custody battle,” Hagen said. (KSL News)

30 Dec 2019 – LE releases statement: “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,” the release says. “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.” Rexburg Police Department

30 Dec 2019 – Rexburg PD says Lori told witnesses Tylee died a year before the death of her father Joseph Ryan - which is false. Police also say Chad said around the same time that Lori has no minor children – also false. These false statements were made sometime after Tammy died and after Lori & Chad married.

30 Dec 2019 – Actress Valentina and filmmaker Devin K Hansen say they have not heard from Chad since Sept 23, 2019 and that the project to make his book into a movie is officially canceled (Fox13).

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Detailed Case Timeline Part VII (Update 8)
MISSING: Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell
Person of Interest: Chad Guy Daybell ​

2 Jan 2020 – Owners of the Rexburg Self Storage facility where Lori rented a until on Oct 1st 2019 notify police that Lori’s credit card has been declined multiple times (East Idaho News).

3 Jan 2020 – Lori’s oldest son CR speaks out on Good Morning America saying he has “absolutely no idea” where his siblings are. He says he is in the dark like everyone else and just praying that they are safe somewhere. (GMA Video).

3 Jan 2020 – FBI and local LE search the Daybell’s home at 202 North 1900 East, Rexburg, ID. Fremont Co Sheriff Len Humphries says they have “sufficient probable cause to get a search warrant for the home. Officers are searching for forensic evidence such as blood or chemicals, which might shed some light on the Daybell case.” (East Idaho News).

3 Jan 2020 - Officers spend time in the Daybell home and search a shed on the property. At one point, they used metal detectors, probes and rakes to go over several portions of the yard. More than 43 items were collected from the home, including “computers, cell phones, journals, documents and medications," which have been sent to forensic experts for examination. (East Idaho News. Post Register).

3 Jan 2020 - FBI spokeswoman Sandra Yi Barker confirms that the FBI is assisting with the case. “We were contacted by Rexburg Police on Nov. 27,” Barker said. “I won’t get into details but we are offering investigative, forensic and technical assistance in Idaho and Utah. Today, members of our Evidence Response Team are in Rexburg assisting with evidence collection. Our victim specialist has also been made available to the families of Joshua Vallow and Tylee Ryan.”

3 Jan 2020 - LE concluded the search at the Daybell property. Detectives wrapped up at the home and finished serving the search warrant Fri evening. They released the home to Chad Daybell's adult children, who Sheriff Humphries said currently live in the house. The sheriff would not specify what was found in the search, but described it as “evidence” and “primarily about Tammy." “The evidence collected today will be sent off for examination by experts,” said Sheriff Len Humphries of Fremont County, Idaho, adding it could take months to process.
(KMVT News, Fox13 Salt Lake City).

3 Jan 2020 - Sheriff Len Humphries says they believe the death of Tammy is related to the missing children. "Those are the two pieces of this," he said. "And how they're related we're not quite sure, but we do believe they are related." He said Chad and Lori refuse to speak to law enforcement and have left the state. He said a lawyer reached out to them weeks ago, saying he was the point of contact for the couple. "We do think they've left Idaho," Sheriff Humphries said. "But that's about all." (Fox 13 Salt Lake City).

3 Jan 2020 - FOX 10 Phoenix releases disturbing court paperwork from Feb 2019 when CV initially filed for divorce from Lori. Charles eventually dropped the divorce case in March 2019; In the divorce documents it says Lori claimed she was married to the Book of Mormon prophet Moroni and that she had lived multiple past lives on different planets. Lori also believes she was married to James the Just and was Mary French in the 1800’s, the grandmother of Joseph Smith, Jr. She also claims to be “a translated being” that cannot die and that she was sent to lead the 144,000 into the new millennium.

3 Jan 2020 – Fox 10 Phoenix interviews CV’s older son on the phone; he asks his name not to be published and says, "I'm terrified for JJ. I’m terrified for Tylee," "I’m terrified for everyone surrounding them and their safety. I’m terrified for my family’s safety."

4 Jan 2020 – A neighbor of Lori in Rexburg, SB, speaks to Fox13 Salt Lake City. "It's crazy. Just baffling," JJ, often played with SB’s kids. A couple weeks into the school year, he said he learned JJ was moving. "What we were told... he was going to move with his grandmother, go visit," Rexburg Police have since said that didn't happen (Fox13 Salt Lake City, Local News 8).

Early Jan 2020 – Sometime around the first weekend in Jan, Lori and Chad stay a couple days at the Kauai Beach Resort in HI.

5 Jan 2020 – CV’s sister, KW & her husband LW flew from LA to ID to meet with Rexburg PD & FBI to discuss disappearance of JJ & Tylee. KW say she loved Lori “as a sister,” but later suspected Lori and Chad were having an affair based on emails exchanged between the two. After Lori met Chad, KW says she started noticing changes in Lori’s behavior. KW says the final in-person conversation she had with Lori was in 2018, in a car on the way to the airport.
KW believes Lori & Chad may have taken JJ and Tylee because they were witnesses to the shooting of CV.
“I don’t have any expectations. I’ve never done this before. I have no idea. I just feel like I need to be in Idaho,”
“I’d love (Chad and Lori) to be arrested. Have her in one room and Chad in the other? Absolutely.”
“Charles told me he had recordings of her. He said, ‘Nobody will believe me,’ and he recorded her one night,”
“Even though it’s deleted, nothing is ever deleted electronically or whatever. However that is … for her to say she’s a translated being and she is reincarnated? That is scary!” -KW (KSTU; East Idaho News)

5 Jan 2020 – Lori’s oldest son, CR, makes a youtube video speaking directly to Lori and asking her to “do the right thing”; "Mom, I want to talk to you like I'm sitting across the room from you," CR said, "You have the power to end this"; CR also asks Lori to let Tylee & JJ Facetime with him so he can see that they are ok. (Fox13 Salt lake City)

5 Jan 2020 –Lori’s former property manager, JP, writes a fb post saying he asked Lori to move out by Aug 31, 2019; JP was disturbed by details surrounding CV’s July 11, 2019 death at the Chandler, AZ rental house managed by JP. JP wrote that on the same day CV died Lori texted him, “we are ok, Ill explain later,” when he texted her wondering why police were at the house. JP also wrote that Lori threw a pool party later that afternoon:
“That day the neighbors reported a pool party at the house, the same day Charles was murdered, with loud music and lots of people swimming. Neighbors also reported Alex was staying at the house for several days following the shooting even though he lived in the same area. I spoke with Lori several times days following the shooting and she never sounded shocked, sad or heartbroken, as you would think a bride would be watching her husband die,” (Post Register).

6 Jan 2020 – JJ’s grandparents, LW & KW are interviewed by RPD (Discovery released 16 Mar 2020, & Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

6 Jan 2020 – Sheriff Len Humphries gives interviews about the case. He reveals Tammy may have been poisoned but says tests won't be completed for at least another two weeks. “We're looking for poison, but we are just having to wait for lab results,” Humphries said, “You could say we are in a sort of holding pattern right now.”
More quotes from Sheriff Humphries:
“From an investigation point of view this is a disaster,”
“There are multiple agencies involved — us, Rexburg police, the FBI, as well as police departments in Arizona.”
“There are people who have died strangely in several places, and two kids that we have absolutely no idea where they are.”
“Add to that, the mother is known to have told family members that her daughter died a year ago, which we know is not true.”
”And then she claimed that the 17-year-old had run off with the 7-year-old and didn't say anything to authorities.”
“What kind of parent doesn't help try to find their own kids when they are missing?”
Humphries also said he believes Chad and Lori have left Idaho but are still in the United States (East Idaho News, Daily Mail).

6 Jan 2020 - Tylee’s AZ friend shares the last text she received from Tylee’s phone was on Oct. 25 at 11:14 AM. The friend isn’t sure if Tylee sent the text. The friend texted Tylee on Oct. 19 to say she missed her and had been thinking about her. 6 days later a reply text said, “hi. miss you guys too ...luv ya.” The friend says she didn’t think the text sounded like Tylee. “She spelled out her words for the most part,” “Plus, she would have texted more if I reached out.” “When she lived here, she responded immediately,” the friend said, “And when she moved, it slowly decreased in response time.”
The friend also shares: Tylee had originally planned to stay in AZ, but decided to go to ID for JJ’s sake. Tylee had her GED, so she did not go to HS in ID. Tylee had never mentioned her mother’s religious beliefs to her friend. Tylee said they were moving because Lori got a job in ID. “Apparently that was false,” the friend said. (Post Register).

6 Jan 2020 - Ellsworth Family Law releases statement saying Charles Vallow “expressed genuine fear for his life and under our advice obtained an Order of Protection against Lori Vallow” in early 2019 (Fox10 Phoenix; Justin Lum Fox 10 on Twitter ).

7 Jan 2020 – JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW, hold a press conference in Idaho. They are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the children’s whereabouts. They spent the weekend meeting with Rexburg PD & the FBI. JJ loves to swim and is hardly afraid of anything in life. Tylee is a typical teenage girl who graduated early from HS and has a close group of friends. KW & LW spoke with JJ several times a week and often those conversations were short, but it wasn’t unusual for JJ to call his grandparents back several times in the same day. Lori never prevented the Woodcocks from talking to or visiting with JJ. During their last 35 sec Facetime with JJ in Aug it appeared someone was monitoring what he said and he didn’t call back after that. They also noticed that JJ’s hair didn’t appear to be as groomed as it had been previously. Lori used to be a cosmetologist and took exceptional care of JJ’s hair. The picture of JJ on the missing poster shows his hair matted and not in it's usual style. KW & LW have launched a Find JJ and Tylee website asking for tips from the public.

Some Quotes from the Jan 7th Presser:
“These are beautiful young children. They’re two extremely intelligent young children and we want them back. We want them back in our family,” -LW

“If there is anything that Lori can come forth with and help us, please do it. She knows how much we love these kids, and we want only the best for them. That’s it. It’s that simple. Please give them back to us.” -LW

“All I want before I go is just to see those children, I just want to hear him beat on the drums, I want to hear him say, ‘Papa, let’s go ride’ or ‘Let’s go to Checkers and let’s go get a hamburger.’ I’m hoping beyond hope that that happens in the near future.” -LW

“Sometimes [JJ] may call and say, ‘Papa!’ and then, he’d just go away. ‘Gotta go, bye!’” -LW

“J.J. is my heart, I’m hoping this will allow one person to simply say ‘I saw (him). I know where he’s at,’ and give us that information, so that we can bring J.J. and Tylee back." -LW

“We want and believe that they are alive, and that’s the reason for the reward,""It’s the reason, we don’t say, the ‘d’ word. We’re not going to because we hope and pray these kids are alive." -LW

“If somebody two years ago would have said ‘This is what’s going to happen with Lori,’ I would have never believed it, Kay would have never believed it. If Kay and I would have had any thought in the future that we were going to be involved in an issue like this, we never would have let J.J. up for adoption. It never would have happened, and now this happened. Lori was a good mother when J.J. was young. You couldn’t ask for a better mother.” -LW

“Lori, you know how much we love J.J. You know my heart beats for him. Kay loves him. All our family loves JJ. Pick up the phone. Call me. Call Kay. If you don’t want to talk to authorities, talk to us." – LW

“If this reward can prompt that, then that’s what I want. They’re good kids. They don’t deserve this. And we as a family don’t deserve it.” -LW

“Please, just let us know where the kids are. It’s not difficult. It would end all of this.” -KW

“We don’t know why we weren’t allowed more access to him, but we reached out constantly in every way – email, voicemail, text, phone call, whatever – and never, ever got a response so that was very concerning to us,” -KW

“It sends chills up our spines,” "That’s just (what) brought it home for us. ‘Oh, my God, this is something really bad.'" -KW, when asked about Lori’s false claims that Tylee died in 2017.

“Charles suspected they were having an affair. He told me about it. He told me what he had that made him think that. He was spot on. There were just some things that we discussed, and he showed me (the evidence).” – KW, when asked about Lori and Chad’s relationship.

8 Jan 2020 - Lori’s account or electronic device is logged into a classroom communication app from JJ’s former school, LIFE Academy in AZ, and Lori’s user account is shown as having viewed a post made by the school (Fox10 Phoenix).

8 Jan 2020 - The former attorneys of the late Charles Vallow say that CV filed an order of protection against Lori in Feb 2019 and told his attorneys, “Steve, I want to make sure that everyone knows that if something happens to me, Lori & Alex did it.” The lawyers say they could not find Lori in Feb 2019 to serve her with the order of protection papers and they even tried looking for her in Idaho (Fox 10 Phoenix).

8 Jan 2020 – A hotel employee says that she expected CV and JJ to return to the hotel for breakfast on July 11 but instead police came to the hotel and informed her CV was dead (Fox 10 Phoenix).

9 Jan 2020 – JJ’s grandparents KW & LW record a segment with Dr OZ Show (Fox 10 Phoenix).

9, 10, & 11 Jan 2020 – Josh Wilson, Principal of Kennedy Elementary in Rexburg, gives statements: “We truly hope for the safety of everybody involved and hope for a positive outcome”. JW says that Lori unenrolled JJ on Sept 24 & told administrators she planned to homeschool; JW says there was no previous activity that would indicate a need for concern from the school; They have not received a request to send JJ’s records to another school but if Lori is homeschooling, she would not need to notify them; The records would remain with Kennedy Elementary (Fox 13 Phoenix, East Idaho News).

10 Jan 2020 – Chad’s bother, Matt, releases a statement pleading for Chad to come forward and cooperate with the investigation. Matt also says he has not been close to Chad since childhood, does not know any more info than the media and asks for privacy for himself, his wife and children.

10 Jan 2020 – A former neighbor of Alex in San Tan Valley, AZ says that about a year ago Lori and AC were seen arguing loudly in the street (Daily Mail).

11 Jan 2020 – Fox10 Phoenix publishes affidavit of warrant for AC’s 2007 arrest in Austin, Texas. The docs describe how AC tased Tylee’s dad JR twice & “made a threat to kill him” after JR had a custody visit with Tylee. AC plead guilty to aggravated assault in the second degree and served 90 days in jail.

11 Jan 2020 - KD, a former producer for a radio show Alex was featured on, shares video of AC doing Looney Tunes impressions from 2016 and says, "In all impressions, he was a good looking funny guy and like I said, charming" (Fox 10 Phoenix).

11 Jan 2020 – Lori and Chad stay in Room 2509 at Kauai Beach Resort, paying $294 for one night. The 5th-floor room with king bed & mountain views was booked under the name Lori Ryan & using a driver's license with an address LE did not know about. (Daily Mail).

12 Jan 2020 - The A&E network series “Live P.D.” features JJ’s grandparents KW & LW.

13 Jan 2020 – The police report, 911 call and body camera footage from the July 11, 2019 shooting death of Charles Vallow is released by Fox10 Phoenix.

Approx 13 Jan 2020 – 12 days before Lori is served with an order to produce the kids, staff members from Dateline stake out the island of Kauai looking for any sign of Lori and Chad or JJ and Tylee. East Idaho News shared with Dateline a tip they received about “a ping” from Lori’s phone placing her near a house in Princeville, Kauai, HI where she previously lived with Charles. Dateline drives by the house and some nearby townhouses but doesn’t see them. Dateline also gets confirmation from the Kauai police that Lori and Chad are there, but there is no evidence of JJ & Tylee ever being on the island with Lori and Chad. KPD asks Dateline to be careful not to spook Lori and Chad. (Dateline, East Idaho News).

14 Jan 2020 – Melani is again interviewed by RPD (Discovery released 16 Mar 2020, & Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

14 Jan 2020 – RPD receives Security Video from Yellowstone National Park (Discovery released 16 Mar 2020, & Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix)

14 Jan 2020 – A probate case is filed for the estate of Charles Vallow in Harris County, Texas. Web Inquiry

14 Jan 2020 – The Dr OZ show airs an interview with JJ’s Grandmother KW about the missing children (Fox10 Phoenix).

15 Jan 2020 - Fox10 Phoenix obtains and publishes copies of Gilbert PD reports from Jan 31, 2019. The reports detail a complaint Lori made against CV for taking her purse out of her car at JJ’s school. Also detailed are efforts by CV to get Lori picked up for an involuntarily 72 hour hold with psych evaluation. Lori does not file any charges against CV and police allow her to go to the psych eval on her own, rather than being transported. The report says police followed up and found that Lori voluntarily checked in to Community Bridges and was discharged a few hours later.

15 Jan 2020 – Fox10 Phoenix obtains and releases body cam video from July 11, 2019 of Lori and Tylee’s interview with a LEO outside the home where CV was shot to death. Lori says CV lives in Houston and that she moved into the house about 3 weeks before CV’s death.

16 Jan 2020 – The Madison County Prosecutor files an Order On Petition Under the Child Protection Act in the 7th Judicial District, Madison County, ID In The Interest Of Tylee and JJ. The order says “for good cause shown,” JJ & Tylee are to be placed in shelter care in the custody of the ID Dept of Health and Welfare once they are located; The order says the Dept of Health and Welfare is to conduct an investigation into the health, safety and welfare of the children and report back to the court within 15 days. The order says Lori must physically turn over the children to either the ID Dept or Health and Welfare in Rexburg or the Rexburg Police department within 5 days of being served the order. The children will be appointed a guardian ad litem and an attorney. Finally, it says “Violation of this order may subject Lori Vallow to criminal and civil contempt of court.” (Court Docs, East Idaho News).

19 Jan 2020 – Fox10 Phoenix obtains and releases more details on Melani’s trespassing charge from Nov 2019.

23 Jan 2020 – The Maricopa County coroner’s office releases the autopsy report for Lori’s 3rd ex-husband and Tylee’s father, Joseph Anthony Ryan, Jr. The report reveals that a neighbor last saw JR approx. one week before his body was found. JR body was described as “moderately decomposed”; Due to the level of decomp the ME could not take blood samples and had to instead take an extra sample of muscle tissue from the thigh to store for toxicology testing. The ME also took a sample of liver (Fox10 Phoenix).

24 Jan 2020 – RPD receives more Security Video from Yellowstone National Park (Discovery released 16 Mar 2020, & Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

24 Jan 2020 – 29 Jan 2020 – A Rexburg PD detective traveled to Kauai to surveil Lori and Chad; At no time were JJ and Tylee seen with Lori and Chad (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc).

24 Jan 2020 – SL, a real estate agent and neighbor at the Kauai Townhome where Lori and Chad have been living since mid-Dec has a brief conversation with Chad as he is leaving the house. Chad said he was leaving because the condo was scheduled to be shown to a potential buyer. (East Idaho News).

25 Jan 2020 – Kauai PD serves Lori in Princeville, HI with Child Protection Order filed by Madison County, Idaho Prosecutor’s Office on behalf of JJ and Tylee. The order requires Lori to produce Tylee & JJ to either the ID Dept of Health & Welfare or a judge in Madison Co Courthouse within 5 days. Failure to do so means Lori could face criminal and civil contempt of court charges (Court Docs, East Idaho News).

26 Jan 2020, morning – A Rexburg PD detective observes Lori and Chad on a beach. Tylee and JJ are not with them (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

26 Jan 2020, abt 3:30 pm -Kauai Police Dept and federal agents serve search warrants on Lori & Chad outside of Kauai Beach Resort in Hawaii. KPD pull Lori & Chad over along the Kuhio Hwy and they enter the hotel parking lot. KPD seizes a black Ford Explorer, the rental car Lori & Chad drove. Lori & Chad are separated in the backs of 2 police SUVs while the warrant is served. After 30 min a tow truck takes away the rental car. LE found birth certificates belonging to Tylee and JJ, Tylee’s financial transaction card, JJ’s iPad, another iPad that was logged into JJ’s Apple account and JJ’s school registration receipts from Kennedy Elementary. Police learned that Tylee’s financial transaction card, which was with Lori, had been used since Tylee was last seen. (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

26 Jan 2020 - Police go to Lori and Chad’s condo in Princeville to execute another search warrant there. LE found beach chairs, 2 yoga mats and beach towels, but nothing belonging to children. 2 bedrooms were in the unit, but the second room “had no sign of being lived in or otherwise occupied.” (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc; East Idaho News).

26 Jan 2020 - Media reports that Lori & Chad have been staying at 4141 Queen Emma's Dr Apt 3, Princeville, HI 96722 and have been closely monitored by LE. The missing children, JJ and Tylee are not with them.

26 Jan 2020 – After being detained, Lori & Chad are not arrested, and are allowed to walk into the hotel together. Lori carries a large amount of cash in a plastic bag. East Idaho News reporter Nate Eaton follows Lori & Chad and asks for comment on the missing children, the death of Tammy and the order to produce the children within 5 days. Chad does not speak. Lori only says “No Comment,” and “That’s great,” in reply to the reporter informing her that people are praying for JJ and Tylee.

27 Jan 2020 - Madison Co. Prosecutor’s Office & Rexburg PD release a statement: “Child protection actions are normally confidential and sealed to protect the anonymity of the parties. However, the Madison County Prosecutor’s Office has obtained an order from the Court on the case allowing us to unseal and disclose [the order]”…

“The Madison County Prosecutor’s Office asked the Court for permission to unseal and disclose the existence of the Child Protection Action and the above mentioned Order to alert the public and anyone with knowledge of the location or health and safety of the children. All other documents related to the child protection case remain under seal.”

The release also says there is no evidence that Tylee & JJ were ever w/Lori & Chad in Hawaii and failure to comply w/order may subject Lori to civil or criminal contempt of court.

27 Jan 2020 - Kaua‘i Police Department releases statement that they are assisting with the missing children case. The statement says Lori & Chad have been staying on Kaua‘i for an unconfirmed period of time. It also says: “On Jan. 25, Kaua‘i police served [Lori] with an order of petition in an attempt to have her physically produce her children to the Idaho Dept of Health & Welfare. On Jan 26, Kaua‘i police and Rexburg police executed a search warrant in support of the ongoing investigation related to the whereabouts of the two children. There are no local charges or any current warrants of arrest.” Kaua'i Police Department

27 Jan 2020 - Fremont Co Sheriff Len Humphries says the timing of the Kauai search warrants has nothing to do with Tammy’s autopsy results. Authorities have not yet gotten the autopsy report back. While it was previously reported by some media outlets that Tammy’s family had been privately told the autopsy results, Humphries says there are no results available yet to anyone (Post Register).

27 Jan 2020 - General Manager of Kauai Beach Resort, RM, says Lori & Chad stayed there previously approximately 3 week ago for 1 or 2 days. “I’ve been working with detectives for several weeks,” RM said. Lori & Chad recently booked another stay for Sunday, according to RM. On Sunday, authorities were lying in wait near the resort. However, RM says they are not staying at the resort at this time (Post Register).

27 Jan 2020 – JJ’s grandmother and Lori’s former sister-in-law, KW, gives interviews and makes a direct plea to Lori: “Lori, if you have an ounce of compassion left in your entire body — please produce the kids.”

When asked about Lori’s response of “That’s great,” to being told the country was praying for the missing children KW says: “I felt like she was arrogant. She was demeaning to the kids, to not even acknowledge that they’re missing,”
KW says Kauai Beach Resort is Lori’s favorite resort and KW has stayed there in the past with Lori, Charles, Tylee & JJ. KW & LW say they are going to travel to Idaho on Wed Jan 29 (Fox10 Phoenix, KPVI News).

27 Jan 2020 – Lori and Chad left the Kauai Beach Resort and checked into Kauai Marriott Resort with several suitcases. Staff members at the Marriott confirmed Lori and Chad stayed there for one night on Jan 27 (KTVB, East Idaho News).

28 Jan 2020 – A news crew got a tip that Lori and Chad had switched hotels in Kauai and were planning to take a flight to Mexico. The crew staked out both the front and back entrances of the hotel hoping to see them leaving (Dateline).

28 Jan 2020, afternoon – Staff members at the Kauai Marriott Resort say Lori and Chad checked out after staying only one night. However, Lori and Chad could still be at the resort because they were talking about going to the pool and beach area. A news crew with Dateline videoed Chad and Lori walking to the parking lot in swimsuits, with day bags (no luggage) like they were going to the beach. When asked, “Where are the kids?” Lori says, “No comment” and “Leave us alone, no comment”. Then they turned and went back into the hotel lobby and did not re-emerge (KTVB, East Idaho News, Dateline).

29 Jan 2020 – JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW return to Idaho. They hope that Lori will appear as ordered by the court and produce JJ and Tylee alive and well. “It’s scary, but I’m being optimistic in saying that just the next few days will probably pass very slowly, I’m sure because we’re waiting for Thurs to get here and I just feel like there will be some kind of resolution by Thurs, Thurs at the latest. Whether it’s happy or sad, I don’t know. In the meantime, we’re going to keep hoping and praying that it will be a joyous occasion Thursday,” – KW (KPVI News).

29 Jan 2020 – JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW file a petition to obtain guardianship of JJ in Madison County, ID. If the children are located, they will be placed in custody of state agency and then appointed guardian. If given guardianship of JJ it would be temporary & last 6 months. KW & LW say they have no legal rights to file for custody of Tylee but that they would welcome her: “We will definitely offer that to Tylee. We’re more than happy to have her as well,” (Fox10 Phoenix, Post Register).

29 Jan 2020 – Madison Co Prosecutor Rob Wood makes a statement: “While the court did allow us to announce the existence of the case and the order that Lori Vallow produce her children, any and all other documents, hearings, and court filings are sealed and confidential by law… As such we legally cannot comment on any other aspect of the case.” (East Idaho News).

30 Jan 2020 – Dozens of journalists and news crews from across the country descend on the snowy town of Rexburg, hoping to see Lori show up with Tylee & JJ. At least 10 people wait in the lobby at Rexburg PD (Rexburg Journal). KSL reporter Garna Mejia reports from in front of Tammy and Chad’s Salem home, where some of his adult children still live; Chad’s DIL answers the door but declines to comment. Mejia also says on her twitter feed “we stopped by at his attorney’s place and were told he is out of town.”

30 Jan 2020 - Nate Eaton, East Idaho News, reports from in front of the Department of Health and Welfare, one of 2 places Lori could produce JJ & Tylee to comply with the child protection court order. Alternatively, Lori could take the children to the Rexburg police station on Main St to obey the order by the deadline. However, there is no sign of the children and no sign of Lori.

30 Jan 2020 – JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW, meet with Rexburg police and the Madison Co Prosecutor to discuss the case. KW could not comment on what they talked about but she said in a presser, "They're not gonna let the grass grow under their feet with this, they're going to keep this moving," referring to LE’s next plan of action. (KW’s Presser, East Idaho News).

30 Jan 2020, 5 PM - The deadline passes for Lori to physically appear in Idaho and produce JJ and Tylee to the Dept of Health and Welfare or the RPD or else face contempt of court; There is no sign of Lori or the children appearing in Idaho (Fox10 Phoenix, Fox13 Salt Lake City).

30 Jan 2020 After 5 PM - Lori and Chad are still in Hawaii. Sources say there were no signs Lori had planned to travel to Rexburg for the deadline. A Kauai resident says he saw a man and woman fitting the description of Chad and Lori, inside their rental unit. An anonymous relative close to the case says “it was less than a 1% chance Lori would ever show up in Idaho today” (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Jan 2020 – Madison Co Prosecutor & Rexburg PD decline to comment on Lori’s failure to comply with the order. Due to the rest of the order being sealed by the courts, the public may not know if any actions are taken to issue an arrest warrant (East Idaho News).

30 Jan 2020 – Official statement from Kaua‘i Chief of Police Todd G. Raybuck regarding case involving two missing Idaho children:
“We appreciate the tremendous outpouring of concern from the public and the media regarding this sensitive case. We kindly ask that you please allow the authorities to continue to conduct this ongoing investigation and give them the space and opportunity to do their due diligence.” Kaua'i Police Department

30 Jan 2020 – JJ’s grandma KW gives a presser after Lori fails to show up in Idaho with Tylee and JJ. LW was originally going to speak as well but he is not feeling well and returned to his hotel room to rest. Quotes from KW: “I just can’t... I don’t know what to do. I had my hopes up for today... hopefully being able to see our grandson.”
"I know she doesn't have them I pray that they are with a family somewhere that is caring for them," “I would like for her to be in jail until she talks,” “If that’s a month or a year or whatever the situation, she needs to be there until she talks. She’s got to say where they are. She has to.” “How do you not have your child for four months? What kind of a mother does that? The only word that is coming to my mind right now is ‘monster’ and as much as I loved Lori…all this has just been very disheartening and I have so many questions,” “We’ve had a really rough few weeks and then once we learned about the order being given to her Saturday, that really gave us more hope that at least we’re now seeing things happening,” "I'm not at all surprised of that. Lori's not going to make this easy, she's got an end game in her head, although this is not a game, but obviously she thinks it is." When asked if she knew where Lori was KW said, "probably sitting on a beach somewhere while we're sitting here wondering where the kids are." "I pray there's an extraditable warrant issued and they bring her in front of the judge," KW said about Lori. "It seems the next steps is in the judge's hands." "I can't say for sure what's going to happen next, other than, I hope it's something that's going to get her attention because I'd love to know where those kids are and I think all of America wants to know where they are," A reporter asks KW if she can elaborate on what evidence Charles had of Lori having an affair with Chad. KW says that Lori is not very technologically savvy; KW says Lori emailed Chad a video of herself in Jan 2019 dancing and did not delete the email from the sent folder. KW says she believes Lori and Chad may have first met as early as 2016 or 2017.

30 Jan 2020 – RPD interviews SWS, a new employee at Madison Middle School since December 2019 (Discovery released 16 Mar 2020, & Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).


31 Jan 2020 - Lori’s account or electronic device is logged into a classroom communication app from JJ’s former school, LIFE Academy in AZ, and Lori’s user account is shown as having viewed a post made by the school (Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Jan 2020 – Summaries of Chandler PD interviews of Lori & Tylee from the July 11, 2019 shooting death of Lori’s 4th husband Charles Vallow are released by Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix.

31 Jan 2020 – Lori’s son, CR, releases an emotional youtube video titled: “To My Family”. Some quotes from CR directly to Lori:
“I love you because you’re my mom. But at the end of the day, I’m in the same spot, everybody’s in the same spot with no answers.”
“I feel ignored, I feel angry, I feel like I’m so confused and still trying to go on every single day.”
“Last night I just thought I’d feel better by some type of answer, but if anything it just made everything worse.”
“I feel like I’ve just lost everything in such a short amount of time, the only reason I’m doing this is because I feel like this is the only way I get to talk to you.”
“I want you to show them and step up and do the right thing and that's what I’ve been praying for and that's all I want, is to see the kids and for this situation to have some type of closure.” (Fox10 Phoenix, KTVB7 News).

31 Jan 2020 - Kauai PD says no arrests in this case. "We're just on standby waiting for Rexburg PD... honestly I don't know what the status is on that." (Adam Herbets Twitter)

31 Jan 2020 – A Special airs called “FOX 13 Investigates: The Writings of Chad Daybell”; Reporter Adam Herbets conducts FB Lives before and after with Q & A about the case. A professor specializing in profiling says he believes the FBI is looking through Chad’s books for clues. “(Agents) can look into the psychology of people like this,” Chris Bertram said. “Two books that I’m going to read first? His autobiography and his last publication.” Excepts from Chad’s books are highlighted during the special.

“The most common question I receive is, ‘What parts of your books are based on what you’ve seen in vision, and what part did you make up?’” Chad Daybell wrote in his autobiography. “The short answer is that I don’t fictionalize any of the events portrayed. I’m really not that creative… My torn veil allows information to be downloaded into my brain from the other side. The scenes I am shown are real events that will happen.”

“That tells us something about his personality,” Bertram said. “He believes what he is hearing gives him direction in his life… We may see hidden messages in these writings.” (Fox13 SLC Special Report w/Adam Herbets)

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Detailed Case Timeline Part VIII (Update 8)
MISSING: Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell
Person of Interest: Chad Guy Daybell ​

2 Feb 2020 – Lori & Chad reportedly attend meetings at LDS Church in Kapa’a, HI. They are seen speaking w/the bishop, acting as if everything is OK and as if they don’t have a care in the world. They were also overheard saying that the media was lies and one-sided. JJ and Tylee were not in church with them (Nate Eaton, East Idaho News).

2 Feb 2020 – Nate Eaton with East IdahoNews is sitting in church when he gets a text from his weekend editor saying the owner of a storage facility wants to speak to him; Nate stepped out of church to call the owner who wanted to help in the case of the missing kids; The owner says Lori rented a unit from him Oct 1st and LE served a search warrant on Lori’s unit in Nov; he offers to share CCTV video of Lori and others visiting the storage unit Lori rented (Dateline).

2 Feb 2020 – Lori’s son, CR, gives an interview to Fox10 Phoenix reporter Justin Lum.

2 Feb 2020 – Internet forum Pathway to Zion announces it is shutting down. In a message to members of PTZ, Chad’s author friend, HS writes, "A few days ago I was given a warning about our community…It took a few days of prayer and discussion to get over the shock. The drama with Chad and Lori has emboldened unscrupulous local church leaders across the United States to use memberships to different communities as a sign of apostasy. PTZ membership will be used as grounds for ex-communication... The only responsible way to deal with this is to close the community and destroy the assets that belong to this community." HS warned members to avoid discussing "non-mainstream topics in public" for their own protection, and specifically mentioned "Energy Healing" and "Multiple Mortal Probations" as being outside of "the current church's gospel diaspora." HS says, "If you do choose to ignore this advice, please note that you will look like a nail that needs hammering to the hammers that are looking for anything out of place... discuss these things in public at your own peril... It is not worth it to lose your temple recommend by trying to defend out of mainstream ideas or teachings. At this point in time, having access to the temple is greater than anything else." (Fox13 SLC).

3 Feb 2020 – Charles Vallow’s 2nd ex-wife gives an interview to East Idaho News.

4 Feb 2020 - Lori’s account or electronic device is logged into a classroom communication app from JJ’s former school, LIFE Academy in AZ, and Lori’s user account is shown as having viewed a post made by the school (Fox10 Phoenix).

4 Feb 2020 – Alex Cox’s new widow, ZP, files a probate case in Maricopa Co, AZ. Probate Court Case Information - Case History

5 Feb 2020 – JJ’s grandparents KW & LW plan to fly to NYC to tape a 2nd episode with the Dr Oz Show. (Post Register)

5 Feb 2020 - Reporter Justin Lum of Fox10 Phoenix obtains and releases a letter that Lori wrote to Life Academy in Gilbert, AZ withdrawing JJ from the school on Sept 5th, after they had already relocated to Idaho. Lori claims she got a job out of state. Lori also allegedly told school officials that JJ’s father, CV, died from suicide.

5 Feb 2020 – Reporter Justin Lum of Fox10 Phoenix obtains and releases the Order of Protection documents that Charles Vallow filed against Lori Feb 4, 2019.

5 Feb 2020 - Reporter Justin Lum of Fox10 Phoenix obtains and releases the Dec 6, 2019 search warrant for JJ’s school records from LIFE Academy in Gilbert, AZ.

5 Feb 2020 – Lori and Chad’s condo in Kauai is quiet and neighbors say they’ve only seen them once since Sat, Feb 1. All curtains are shut and no answer at the door (Kim Powell, AZ Family).

5 Feb 2020 - Self Storage Plus in Rexburg puts out a statement:
“Self Storage Plus hopes for the speedy and safe return of Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan,”…“Self Storage Plus is working with local authorities who are investigating this matter and, so as not to jeopardize their investigation, will not be providing any further information at this time.”

5 Feb 2020 - L.I.F.E Academy in Gilbert AZ, where JJ previously attended school, releases a statement: "Our hearts continue to ache during this time. We all want to know where JJ is and know that he's safe. JJ is a beautiful boy who has a smile that goes on for days. His joy of life was contagious. He started with us as a very quiet child, and soon blossomed into a child who loved coming to class, loved being with his friends and loved to talk about his family." (Fox10 Phoenix).

5 Feb 2020 - Rich Robertson (RR), a private investigator hired by BB after the Oct 2 shooting attempt on his life gives an interview to KTVB7. “The person [Brandon] recognized, the person he suspected was the person who did the shooting was the same person who killed Charles Vallow,” -RR.
“The vehicle that was involved in the shooting belonged to Charles Vallow, It was a green Jeep Cherokee with Texas license plates. He recognized that as his former in-law and he suspected Charles Vallows' killer, Alex Cox, was the one driving that jeep.” -RR.
“Lori Vallow certainly got Melani involved in this, by all accounts, the Vallow and the Boudreaux marriages were all idyllic. They were loving couples, they had picture-perfect families. They were like something out of a magazine until they got involved in this kind of cult situation and things started going off the rails.”- RR
“Chad Daybell was someone who was involved in Lori Vallow’s life for some time–a year or two prior… and they all got kind of sucked into this belief system and Chad Daybell seemed to be a leader in that group,” -RR
RR also told KTVB CV had a $1 million life insurance policy. Originally, Lori was beneficiary, but later CV's sister, KW, was & that is still being resolved (KTVB7).

6 Feb 2020 – Audio of a 911 call from Melani’s husband, BB, after he had been shot at Oct 2, 2019 is released (Fox13 Salt Lake City & Fox10 Phoenix).

6 Feb 2020 – Audio of a 911 call from Melani’s trespassing charge in Nov 2019 is released (Fox13 Salt Lake City & Fox10 Phoenix).

6 Feb 2020 – Audio of a 911 call from the son of Alex Cox’s new wife upon finding AC unresponsive on the bathroom floor Dec 12, 2019 is released (Fox13 Salt Lake City & Fox10 Phoenix).

6 Feb 2020 – Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix releases a report detailing gun and blood evidence after the July 11 shooting death of CV. AC’s gun, a Springfield XD .45 caliber handgun was found next to an orange duffel bag. “Inside the bag, a black hard sided case with .45 caliber magazines and ammunition. The detective recalls the magazine having five cartridges inside. The magazine indicated 13 cartridges could be loaded. The rest of the report describes the blood found in the kitchen sink, layout of the home and no sign that Charles had been moved.” The report says the blood in the sink was photographed but not swabbed for evidence. The report also says the officer made the decision to clean a large pool of blood on the floor. Eventually, AC was brought back to the scene to go over his actions.

6 Feb 2020 - Fremont Co Sheriff’s Office says they are investigating a life insurance policy that Tammy took out at her work with the Sugar-Salem Central Elementary.
“She did have an insurance policy from her work. I don’t know how much it was for,” said Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries. (Rexburg Standard Journal).

Approx 7 Feb 2020 -Tylee and JJ’s church records were not transferred into the ward, and neither were Chad’s (East Idaho News).

7 Feb 2020 – In an interview with Fox10, NM, the owner and head trainer at Dog Training Elite says Lori called him right before her move to ID and asked him to take JJ’s dog Bailey back. "I'm picking up the dog, trying to help them out," said NM. "[Lori] said this tragedy happened, and she needed to move. She told me they were moving up north. I think she said Idaho or something like that. One of her daughters was in school in Idaho. She said they were moving up there to be with her, and so I said 'OK, let me see if I can find a home.' She said 'I need you to come get him right now.'" (Fox10 Phoenix).

7 Feb 2020 – A dispatch call is released from the Fremont County Attorney’s Office detailing a 17 minute phone conversation between a detective from Gilbert, AZ and a dispatcher with Fremont Co, ID. There is no date or time stamp. The detective called to request information on the death of Tammy. From the call: “Oh, yeah… I was the one that actually took that call…So why is someone from Arizona wanting to know? That’s crazy,” the dispatcher says.
“Yeah, isn’t it funny how everything ties together? We just have some cases down here, that… that got our attention with Miss Daybell,” the detective answers.
“The family did not want an autopsy, so they just went straight to the funeral home and the family refused an autopsy,” she tells the detective.
“The family said they don’t want an autopsy, therefore… the coroner just signed off, then and there?” He asks. “And then the funeral home took Miss Daybell? Is that how that works?” “Yes,” the dispatcher responds. “That’s, that’s pretty much how it works.” (Fox13 Salt Lake City).

9 Feb 2020 – For the 2nd week in a row Lori and Chad visit the LDS Church in Kapa’a, HI. This time they are caught on camera walking in holding hands; They do not turn towards nor acknowledge the camera but quickly walk inside without a word (GMA).

9 Feb 2020 – Fox10 Phoenix releases photos from Lori and Chad’s beach wedding in Kauai and for the first time we learn that the ceremony took place Nov 5, 2019.

9 Feb 2020 – Tylee’s paternal aunt, sister of Joseph Ryan Jr, Annie Cushing, speaks to the media for the first time. The last time Annie saw Tylee was in 2018 after JR died. Lori did not tell Annie or any of JR’s family about JR’s death. They had to find out 5 weeks later from LE after no one claimed JR’s body. Annie went to AZ to try to comfort Tylee. One of Annie’s biggest concerns is since Tylee was homeschooled, she doesn’t know the exact date of her disappearance. “We know when JJ was last seen but nobody seems to know when Tylee was last seen,” Annie said (KSLTV)

9 Feb 2020 – KSL also uncovered court documents from Aug. 2007 of Tylee’s custody battle with disturbing information. A Texas court ordered a psychological evaluation for Vallow after she told social workers that “death would be an option before giving Tylee to her father, Mr. Joseph Ryan, even for a visit.” “These are real and serious concerns,” the documents stated.

Approx 10 Feb 2020 - FBI reaches out to Phoenix Police for info on the 2018 death of Lori's third husband, Joseph Ryan (AZ family News article pub 10 Mar 2020).

10 Feb 2020 – The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare must deliver a report to the judge on the investigation into the health, safety and welfare of JJ & Tylee by Feb 10. The case is sealed so we don’t know if this happened (East Idaho News).

10 Feb 2020 – Fremont County Prosecutor denies a records request from Fox10 Phoenix for the 911 call and police reports from the day of Tammy Daybell’s death, due to the active investigation (Fox10 Phoenix).

10 Feb 2020 – Good Morning America shows the new video of Lori and Chad going to church on Sunday and also releases beach wedding photos from Nov 4th, 2019.

10 Feb 2020 – CBS reveals that LE found Tylee’s phone with Lori in Hawaii. “[Tylee's] phone was used several times after she disappeared, but it's unclear who was using it, CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti reports.”

10 Feb 2020 – Fox10 Phoenix has to pull the wedding photos of Lori and Chad from their Feb 9th report after the photographer revokes permission and asks for compensation for the images.

10 Feb 2020 - A message is posted to a private AVOW forum by a user identified as the site's owner/webmaster, CP, and claiming to be a message from Chad: "Thanks for the update. The issue is that people are linking me to Julie's beliefs, which I studied but rejected. Lori and I have been absolutely silent for three months. I am constrained by my lawyers from saying more until the legal mess is complete, but be assured I will be back," the alleged message from Chad read. "Hopefully the subscribers will be there when I can fully return to GRI [an AVOW forum] and tell my experiences. I appreciate your support." The message was shared with the press by Julie Rowe on Feb 21 (Inside Edition).

10 Feb 2020 – Forum PTZ owned by Chad’s author friend, HS, becomes “read only” in preparation for shutting down (Fox13 SLC).

11 Feb 2020 - Fremont County Sheriff's Office says Tammy's autopsy results could take up to a year (KTVB).

11 Feb 2020 - KTVB's request for 911 call from day Tammy died is denied by the Fremont County prosecutor's office (KTVB).

11 Feb 2020 – KW gives an interview about the guardianship petition: “It will give us temporary guardianship for JJ once found. Then he won’t be placed into social services here in Idaho. If we’re here, we will able to get him immediately. We’ll have immediate custody of him once found,” Said KW (KPLC-7 TV)

11 Feb 2020 – The HLN show "True Crime Live" with Mike Galanos previews a special on the case set to air on Feb 12; audio excerpts from one of Lori’s “Time to Warrior Up” podcasts is played on the show.

11 Feb 2020 – Dr Oz features the case for the 2nd time. When asked about Tammy, KW says, “She is an innocent victim, just like Charles is an innocent victim. Just like JJ, just like Tylee, just like us," "Just everybody in her world – Lori has just exploded it for her own selfish needs or desires” (KTVB).

11 Feb 2020 – Tammy’s father tells a reporter over the phone that the family doesn’t want their silence to come off as indifference. He says they care deeply, but this is how they’re honoring Tammy (2KUTV).

11 Feb 2020 – Fremont Co Sheriff gives interviews regarding Tammy’s death investigation. "There's varying degrees of cooperation among different family members,” Humphries said. "I know there was a report that we had met with the family privately and released the results to them; that was totally fictitious." He also addressed a recording of a Fremont Co dispatcher saying Tammy's family refused an autopsy. “They just kinda looked at her, and I was advised that the family didn’t want an autopsy, and they just went to the funeral home, and the family refused an autopsy,” a dispatcher told Gilbert, Ariz Police Det Ryan Pillar in a phone call. “I know that was a recording that came out of our office. You have to understand that was a dispatcher who was very new and didn’t have the complete information…She did not have all the facts.” "It kind of gives the impression that the families are the ones who make the determination whether or not there is an autopsy, and that actually is the coroner that makes the determination, regardless of whether or not the family wants one done. If the coroner believes that it's necessary, then it happens," said Humphries. (2KUTV, Post Register, Fox10 Phoenix).

11 Feb 2020 – Dateline begins releasing promo videos for 2-hour Special on Feb 14th.

12 Feb 2020 – JJ’s grandma, KW, reveals that JJ’s father, CV, removed Lori from his life insurance policy in Feb 2019. CV instead made KW the sole beneficiary of the $1 Million policy. The policy was NOT contingent on KW having custody of JJ, but CV believed Lori didn’t want JJ and that KW would end up raising him if CV died. KW believes Lori got rid of JJ out of revenge. KW says, “I believe if Charles had left her the million dollars, she would have given JJ back to us and we would be extremely happy…I wish he would have because JJ is worth more than anything in the world. She puts a price on people and if they are no longer of value to her, she eliminates them.” (East Idaho News).

12 Feb 2020 – A radio host and producer in Kauai posts a photo of Lori and Chad holding hands while casually shopping in a Longs store (Jobe Allen, Kong Radio) Jobe Allen on Twitter

12 Feb 2020 – Lori and Chad are seen shopping at Costco in Lihue, HI. A source says “they seem relaxed as Lori’s kids are nowhere to be found. I’m told many on small island of Kauai aren’t happy w/ situation.” (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

12 Feb 2020, 04:45 PM – JJ’s grandparents KW & LW return to Idaho for a status hearing “In the Matter of the Guardianship and Conservatorship of: Joshua Vallow, A Minor Child”. After 2 hours in the courthouse they came out with their attorney, Kyle May and gave a brief statement; no decisions were made (Court records, East Idaho News).

12 Feb 2020 – In a preview for Dateline, AR, a friend of Lori’s, says Lori has been “telling people there's a lot of media hype around her right now. And she's waiting for that to die down.” AR says, “I would describe it as something a little more serious, a lot more serious” (Daily Mail).

12 Feb 2020 – JJ’s former school, LIFE Academy in AZ says Lori has allegedly been logging into the school app to view announcements after JJ was no longer enrolled there. Her account was seen logged in at least 7 times on posts from 9/7 to 2/4, with some of the instances occurring around Thanksgiving and when the story of the missing kids broke just before Christmas. The school has since removed her access and released a statement. "We cannot speculate as to why Lori or someone using her accounts or electronics would continue to follow the classroom or our organization during this time frame," read a part of the statement (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

14 Feb 2020 (?) – An FBI agent named Ricky allegedly calls IP. IP allegedly wrote about this call: "I will no longer openly cooperate with the police or the FBI, but I will through a lawyer. My final straw was when I received a call on Friday from Ricky where he threatened charges of lying to a federal office and/or being an accessory in the disappearance of Tylee and JJ because Melani couldn't clearly answer questions about the religious aspects of the investigation. After I shared my doubts with her, her world shattered. She couldn't answer those questions because she doesn't know what she believes about those things anymore. There was so much information dumped on her by Chad and Lori that she can't remember what she learned from them, from the podcasts she listened to, or on her own. A 20-year veteran FBI agent throwing a hissy fit after one shaky interview tells me all I need to know about how they want to handle this." (Fox10 Phoenix).

14 Feb 2020 – Valentine’s Day. A 2 Hour Dateline special titled “Where Are The Children?” airs Friday at 8 p.m. on KPVI. The episode will also be posted online here.

16 Feb 2020 – Melani’s new husband IP takes a computer to his ex-wife, NP. NP finds a document on the computer outlining religious the beliefs of Melani, Lori & Chad. NP believes IP wrote the letter: READ: Exhibit from Brandon Boudreaux's court filing | East Idaho News (Fox10 Phoenix, East Idaho News).

16 Feb 2020 – Lori and Chad leave Kauai to fly to Maui.

16 Feb 2020, about 1:30 pm – Lori and Chad are seen arriving at the Kahului airport on Maui. A woman recognized them while on the shuttle from the airport to the rental car annex; she took pictures of Lori & Chad at the Hertz rental car counter with their luggage and backpacks. The woman said Lori had “smudged black eyeliner, layers of face makeup and bags under her eyes” (East Idaho News).

17 Feb 2020 – Presidents Day.

18 Feb 2020, Morning – A woman videos Lori & Chad leaving a hotel in Ka’anapali, Maui, where they had stayed in an approx. $500/night ocean front room for two nights. The woman videoing says she called out, “I hope they find your children!” but Lori and Chad did not respond (Fox13 Salt Lake City)

18 Feb 2020, about 2:00 pm – Lori and Chad are again seen at the Kahului airport in Maui checking in for a flight back to Kauai. They were quiet and kept to themselves. A police officer came to the gate to verify that Lori and Chad were on the flight after they checked in. Lori and Chad were kissing and acting "lovey dovey" according to a passenger on their flight (East Idaho News; Fox10 Phoenix)

18 Feb 2020 - Lori and Chad arrive back in Kauai and are seen walking through the airport with the same luggage and backpacks they took to Maui only 2 days earlier. An ABC News crew videos Lori and Chad leaving the airport and asks them where the kids are. Lori holds up her phone toward the camera crew as if she is videoing them with her camera phone as she walks; Lori and Chad get into their rental car without a word (East Idaho News, ABC World News).

18 Feb 2020 – An anonymous churchgoer from the church Lori and Chad attended twice in Kauai speaks to AZ Family News. “John” remembers when JJ was in diapers and when Tylee was only in elementary school. “She [Lori] looked like a good mother. She was [a] very protective mother, and Charlie [Charles Vallow] was the same…he was quiet. He was friendly. He was always smiling. He was a nice person. He was a nice member-- a nice brother,” John said. John says he wants the public to know that the church does not agree with Lori and Chad's "doomsday" views. "That is them, not our church because our church is not thinking about telling people what day or what year or when is going to be the end of the world." (AZ Family).

18 Feb 2020 – An Affidavit of Probable Cause is filed by Madison Co Prosecutor Rob Wood in the 7th Judicial District Court on the State of Idaho: Affidavit of Probable Cause

See Part IX (Update 8) for More...

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part IX (Update 8)
MISSING: Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell
Person of Interest: Chad Guy Daybell ​

19 Feb 2020 – BB files paperwork in an ongoing custody battle with Lori’s niece Melani. BB claims to have info from Melani’s new husband, IP. BB says IP has been cooperating with LE. The docs say IP listened to Melani confess that she conspired to kill BB and that Lori’s brother Alex was the shooter. "Melani's new husband has even provided statements to law enforcement that Melani told him shortly after their marriage that she conspired with her uncle to kill Brandon. Melani's new husband has even given up his own parenting time out of fear of what Melani may do or have done to his children," says the court filing. The docs also allege Melani knows where JJ and Tylee are but is refusing to cooperate. Also according to the docs, Melani will sometimes say things like: “Children are full of light, and then just like that they go dark.” (Fox10 Phoenix, East Idaho News).

20 Feb 2020 – Justin Lum with Fox10 Phoenix interviews MT, a former friend of Lori’s brother Alex from his 2006 comedy days in Phoenix. MT shares letter she received from AC while he was serving time in jail for the assault on Lori’s ex-husband/Tylee’s father, Joseph Ryan. MT believes Lori convinced AC that her ex harmed Tylee. "I can’t fathom how Alex would have come to this conclusion, that Joe was harming Tylee, if Lori hadn’t been telling him that," says MT (Fox10 Phoenix).

20 Feb 2020 approx 2:20 pm (HST) – Lori and Chad are seen being placed into separate police cars outside their Kauai condo. Lori is arrested on a warrant issued by Madison County, ID. Her charges include: 2 felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children, resisting or obstructing officers, criminal solicitation to commit a crime, and contempt of court. Lori is held at KPD on $5 Million bond. Chad is not arrested and is free to go (Fox10 Phoenix, East Idaho News).

20 Feb 2020 – Kauai PD issues a statement on Lori’s arrest: Kaua'i Police Department on Twitter

20 Feb 2020 – Lori’s booking mugshot is released by Kauai PD.

20 Feb 2020 – Madison Co, Idaho Prosecuting Attorney releases a statement on Lori’s charges saying Lori is accused of abandoning Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Tylee Ryan, delayed law enforcement's attempt to find them, encouraged an individual not named in the statement to delay law enforcement's attempts to find the children, and failing to obey a court order to produce the children to Idaho authorities; the max sentence for deserting a child, under Idaho law, is 14 years in prison (Fox10 Phoenix). Justin Lum Fox 10 on Twitter

20 Feb 2020 – JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW, give brief interviews on their reaction to the news of Lori’s arrest: “We are elated. We are relieved. We are ready for the next step which for Lori is: where are the kids? Where are the kids? Where are the kids?” said KW.
"Joy. We are very, very happy," said KW "Joy, joy, joy," said LW. "We knew it was coming. We just didn't know when…I just know they have put so much work into this," Said KW (East Idaho News, Fox10 Phoenix).

21 Feb 2020 – Tylee’s Aunt Annie gives a statement on Lori’s arrest: "The thought of Lori not being in a swanky hotel room tonight is the first hint of justice I have felt in this process." (Garna Mejia, KSL).

21 Feb 2020 – Chad arrives at Kauai courthouse dressed in white shirt & blue tie. Before Lori’s hearing begins, Chad is photographed praying outside the courtroom with an unidentified woman (Nate Eaton, East Idaho News).

21 Feb 2020 - Lori appears for her first court hearing in Kauai. Her lawyer requests an extradition hearing and asks that her bond be lowered to $10,000. Lori’s lawyer also claims she doesn’t have a passport but the prosecutor asks that stipulation be made that if Lori should happen to have a passport and makes bail, her passport must be turned into police as a condition of bond. The judge agrees with the prosecution and rules Lori must turn in any passport she may have if she makes bail; The judge keeps Lori’s bond at $5 Million and sets the next hearing for Monday, Mar 2, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=261&v=KAbLceWMVkI&feature=emb_logo

21 Feb 2020 – Chad is videoed leaving the court room after Lori’s hearing. He doesn’t say a word as reporters follow him out of the courthouse asking questions. A Hawaii local in the parking lot asks Chad how the hearing went and “Where are your children, Chad?” but Chad gets in his car and drives away without a word (Mitch Carr, 12 News)

21 Feb 2020 – Kauai Police Dept hold a press conference after Lori’s hearing.

21 Feb 2020 - Lori is booked into the Kauai Community Correctional Center and a new mugshot of her in orange jumpsuit is released.

21 Feb 2020, about 4:30 pm – Chad is seen by a local at the First Hawaiian Bank in Princeville. It’s unknown if he was there trying to get money to post Lori’s $5 million bond. (Nate Eaton, East Idaho News).

After 21 Feb 2020 but before 28 Feb 2020 – A message posted by Owner/Admin (Head SheepDog) at Another Voice of Warning LDSAVOW. Com forum writes: "Had another conversation with chad this evening. There were 30 some different news agencies camped outside his condo all trying to get him to talk. They are sticking to the original plan of saying nothing whatsoever about the kids until they are in court. Yes, there is a plan, and they are following it through to the end. Yes, there really is a compelling reason for them NOT to offer up a photo or video or voice recording of either of the kids.Yes, I still stand by all my previous comments that the kids are just fine, alive and well.
"Chad has been working on writing down their side of the story, and just as soon as they are actually in a courtroom we will get all the hidden details that will explain to everyone just what has been going on. Sorry for being cryptic. But as was just proven recently, everything I say here on behalf of him WILL BE USED AGAINST him in the court of public opinion and in the court of law. We have but to endure a few more weeks of this media circus, and all the hate, false accusations and innuendo. Once the extradition has been completed Chad will return to defend himself at long last (AZ Family News).

22 Feb 2020 – Chad is seen talking on his phone inside his SUV while parked outside a local supermarket in Kauai (Daily Mail).

22 Feb 2020 – Idaho Governor, Brad Little, comments on the missing children: "That extradition hearing will come from Madison county, in Rexburg, come to our office, we will run it through our system, and then we will send it back and it will go to Hawaii for extradition, and I think that is where it is right now. I hope there is justice and I hope the children are found." (KMVT/KSVT).

22 Feb 2020 – MSM releases child custody documents filed by BB on Feb 19th. The docs state: "Brandon believed Melani, his wife at the time, had a million dollars of reasons to have him killed ... hoping to cash in on the policy to help support the cult that she is believed to be a part of…Melani's knowledge of the whereabouts of her aunt's two missing children and her unwillingness to cooperate with law enforcement is daunting and her current husband has told law enforcement that Melani says sometimes children are full of light and then just like that they go dark." BB & his attorney say Melani feels the “suspicious death of her uncle (Alex Cox) who was the shooter in the incident involving children, has somehow freed her from her role in the attempt on (Brandon’s) life.” The docs allege the “cult” Lori, Chad, and Melani are all in has had “numerous members, adults and children alike, (who) have been being killed off like flies.” (Fox10 Phoenix; Adam Herbets, Fox13 SLC).

22 Feb 2020 – BB says he feels as if he is the “spouse who got away” from a cult that includes Chad, Lori, and Melani. He wishes Charles and Tammy could have also survived, for the sake of the kids, especially JJ & Tylee. Now BB fears for the life of his own kids (Adam Herberts, Fox13 SLC).

22 Feb 2020 – Rexburg neighbors share Ring doorbell camera footage of JJ playing outside from Sept 17 and doorbell video from Oct 29 of an unidentified woman approaching and entering Lori’s apt while Lori stands in the doorway; Neighbors also share a photo of JJ and Tylee in the yard with a pile of toys from Sept 6th. Neighbors say JJ spent long periods of time outside without supervision; they kept the video due to concern about his behavior, saying he seemed irritable and angered easily. Lori didn’t inform them about JJ having autism and she told at least two neighbors JJ was her “niece’s drug baby,” after they confronted her about his behavior and lack of adult supervision. (KSL TV).

23 Feb 2020 – East Idaho News interviews former members of a prepper group called AVOW that Chad and Lori have been a part of, in an attempt to shed light on their beliefs and how they differ from the mainstream LDS church.

24 Feb 2020 – East Idaho News releases the court documents filed by BB on Feb 19th.

24 Feb 2020 – Press Secretary for Idaho Governor issues a statement saying his office has not yet received request for Lori’s extradition (Fox10 Phoenix).

24 Feb 2020 – Sources report Chad has canceled his condo lease and plans to move out by 2/28 and leave Kauai. The condo is reportedly in escrow (Fox10 Phoenix).

24 Feb 2020 – ABC news reporter Marcus Moore approaches Chad at a Kauai gas station and asks if the kids are ok. Chad responds: “I can’t comment” He added “Just grateful for any support. We just have to wait for the legal process to work through.” Moore asked again if the kids are okay and Chad say “I have to go. No comment.” (GMA/ABC News).

24 Feb 2020 – Chad is seen visiting the Kauai Community Correctional Center where Lori is being held (KCCC) (KITV4 ABC)

24 Feb 2020 – JJ’s grandparents do a brief interview saying they believe there is “no chance” that Lori will bond out in Hawaii; They also believe Chad will be arrested eventually and they hope to get answers from both Lori and Chad. KW & LW also say there was never any custody battle over the kids before they were missing, KW especially points out that there would never be any custody claim between them in relation to Tylee (Tylee is not their granddaughter) and KW asks why would Tylee be missing “It doesn’t add up and it’s not true,” says KW (KTVB7).

24 Feb 2020 – Tylee’s Aunt Annie, the sister of the late Joe Ryan, does an interview with East Idaho News. "One of the really pressing questions that I’ve asked throughout this entire thing is when was Tylee last seen…I’ve asked that question over and over and over...I was glad to have some kind of date stamp. But at the same time, it was clearly a disconcerting thought of her being out at this national park with this cast of characters and just wondering what they had on their minds," says Annie in response to the new info released that Tylee was last seen in Yellowstone on Sept 8th.
When asked about her brother’s death Annie says: "I really just go back and forth because on the one hand, it is feasible that he could have died of a heart attack because heart disease does run in our family. At the same time, I have questions about the autopsy," and notes that JR's height and build were incorrect and he had been dead around a week before he was found. JR did have a life insurance policy but she is unsure who received the money. "There’s no question in my mind Joe absolutely would have had life insurance and there’s absolutely no question Lori would not have been the beneficiary…I do wonder if he had it in a trust for Tylee that matured when she turned 17 because JJ was last seen the day before Tylee’s 17th birthday. I have no idea but everything surrounding this whole ordeal seems to be motivated by money."
Annie expresses confidence that Lori will face additional charges and believes others could be arrested. "It’s just been the most mind-numbing thing to watch," she says, choking back tears. "It’s just the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen play out. I live in New York City and it’s weird to walk by a newsstand and see my family. Yet whatever I’m suffering pales in comparison to what these kids suffered." (East Idaho News).

24 Feb 2020 – Prosecutors release bank records showing Chad’s average balance is $138,782.42 at First Hawaiian Bank and his current balance is around $152,000. Prosecutors say Lori is a flight risk, “Given the extensive media attention, she is clearly aware that the authorities have prioritized her case…She also has the means to move across an ocean.” (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

25 Feb 2020, 8:31 am – Lori’s attorney files a petition seeking bail reduction (Fox10 Phoenix). Lori Vallow's Petition to Reduce Bail

25 Feb 2020 - "Sources close to the investigation say detectives are waiting for the snow to melt in Yellowstone to begin searching for more clues about Tylee's whereabouts" (AZ family).

25 Feb 2020, about 2:00 (HST) – Chad visits Lori privately for 1 hour at KCCC. Hawaii Dept of Public Safety issues a statement about the visit saying wardens can hold separate visits when “high profile situation creates higher than normal levels of attention, traffic & security strain for our small jail facilities." Chad parked parking lot of the Kauai jail and spent several minutes in his car on the phone before heading toward the front door. (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix, Daily Mail)

25 Feb 2020, about 3:15 pm – Chad exits the jail gets in his rental Jeep and drives about 5 miles to a Walmart in Lihue. In his car in the parking lot, Chad uses his phone for about 15 min for what appears to be “an intense conversation”. (Daily Mail)

25 Feb 2020, about 3:30 pm – Chad walks around inside Walmart for about 20 minutes carrying a piece of white paper and exits carrying the same piece of paper. (Daily Mail)

25 Feb 2020 – The mother of one of Tylee’s best friends speaks to AZ Family News. She says “I can’t wrap my head around it” and says Lori was always the fun mom who took the kids on adventures. “We know Lori and my daughter loves Lori and think of her as a second mom…the kids must be OK wherever they’re at [sic]” says the friend.

25 Feb 2020 – Nate Eaton interviews UB, the woman who took photos of Lori and Chad at the Hertz Rental Car counter in Maui on Feb 17th. UB recognized them stories she had seen in the news. "Chad was really recognizable but Lori looked a lot different than the pictures I had seen.. She was dressed in black, heavy clothes and it was 80 degrees outside. She had big bags under her eyes. I had eye contact with her and she just looked like she felt untouchable - like she knew people would recognize her and it didn’t bother her." UB said her heart "sank to her legs" and she was concerned they may be on the run from LE. After getting off the shuttle, UB tried to call police but couldn't get a cell signal. "I had just read that she had been talking to a friend and told her all the speculation around them was media hype that she was waiting for it to die down.. I wanted to have an exchange with her where she knew it wasn’t just the media and the police who were watching for them or cared about the children - that there are parents all over, just like me, who see her and are watching her. People who aren’t going to stop looking for the children.," says UB. Lori looked right at UB through the glass and UB mouthed the words, "I see you. Where are your children?" "I’ll never forget the look on her face. She kind of shrugged and raised the corner of her mouth and eyebrow and she wanted me to know she knows where they are… I really wanted to say something but it was a scary situation. There’s a lot of death around the case and my husband was really nervous about me making a scene." UB sent her photos to the Rexburg PD and detectives referenced them in court docs as evidence Lori and Chad did not have Lori's children with them (East Idaho News).

25 Feb 2020 – The marriage certificate for Melani’s Nov 30, 2019 wedding to IP is released (Fox10 Phoenix)

25 Feb 2020 – CrimeOnline interviews a friend of Lori’s, Tami Joyce. TJ first met Lori in Westlake, TX, in the late 1990s/early 2000s but hasn’t seen Lori since 2007. Lori had not met her 3rd husband Joe Ryan when TJ first met her but was soon introduced to him. Lori and JR had a brief courtship and married within months. Lori and JR had Tylee and JR adopted Lori’s son CR; TJ could not recall if CR had a relationship with his bio father. TJ says Lori had been very much in love with CR’s father and wanted a life with him, but that the man, whose name TJ could not remember and who she never met, “did not want that.” TJ says Lori worked as a hairstylist and appeared to be happy with her 3rd husband Joe Ryan in the early years but the marriage “did not end well.” TJ says Lori adored her children and took great care of them and also took very good care of herself, abstaining from drinking and smoking, living a healthy lifestyle. “She wouldn’t even have a glass of wine,” TJ said and typically went running twice a day. (Crime Online).

25 Feb 2020 – Fox10 Phoenix’s Justin Lum posts subpoenas from Madison County Prosecutor’s Office. The docs command Lori and Chad’s Princeville landlord, the Kauai Beach Resort and Kennedy Elementary School (Rexburg, ID) to produce all records related to Lori, Chad and JJ Vallow to the court on March 9th, 2020 at 9 AM. The orders cover all records from 1 Aug 2019 to the present.

26 Feb 2020, 9am (Idaho Time) – JJ’s grandparents KW & LW attend a telephonic status conference with Judge Eddins in “the Matter of the Guardianship and Conservatorship of: Joshua Vallow, A Minor Child” (Court records iCourt Portal - Online records & payments for the Idaho courts ).

26 Feb 2020, 2 pm (HST) – Lori appears in court for bond reduction hearing. Her attorney again argues the amount is excessive. He also says “Her husband lives here and she has established residency here in the past.” Kauai Co Prosecutor responds that Lori has a history of defying court orders, including child custody cases in 2009 and 2011. “Our position remains that Ms. Daybell certainly is a flight risk, she has resided in numerous states in recent years and is in open defiance to court orders,” The prosecutor says. Judge Watanabe denies Lori’s request for bail reduction, confirming bail at $5 Million; Lori’s attorney says Lori wishes to waive an extradition hearing and return to Idaho immediately. Lori signs waiver of extradition, meaning she will be taken back to Idaho to defend herself against charges including two felony counts of child abandonment. Chad is not in the courtroom. LEOs from ID will travel to HI “as soon as possible” to transport Lori to the Madison Co Jail (Fox10 Phoenix, East Idaho News).

26 Feb 2020 – While Lori is in court Chad is seen back at the Princeville condo with workers loading furniture into a Rent-A-Center truck (GMA, Nightline ABC).

26 Feb 2020 - An explosive statement released by Melani’s lawyer states Melani (Lori’s niece) does not know the whereabouts of JJ and Tylee. Melani goes on to say her ex-husband, BB, has lied in order to wrongfully influence the child custody case; Melani blames the media for reporting “one-sided and unsubstantiated accusations.” Melani then makes her own allegations against BB and denies being in a cult. (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

27 Feb 2020 – Neighbors report Chad has moved out of 4141 Queen Emma’s Drive #3 in Princeville; One neighbor said “He is finally gone.” (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

27 Feb 2020 about 2:10 pm (HST) – Chad is seen in the Shared Blessings Thrift Shop on Kauai. A woman named Sharon stops him and talks to him in the parking lot for 2-3 minutes. Chad tells her he is dropping off donations because he's moving back to Idaho "soon" to support Lori. Sharon asks, "Couldn't Lori get out of jail if she just said where the kids are?" Chad responds, "It isn't that easy." Chad tells Sharon he wasn't in court yesterday because of the media "circus" and says the story isn't being reported properly. He specifically says that East Idaho News is wrong. Sharon asks if Chad is still LDS and he says he is. Sharon did not have her phone on her but got a photo of Chad's Jeep after she got to her car. Then Sharon sent the photo and the details of the exchange to Nate Eaton. Nate invites Chad to contact him and set the record straight: “Chad - if you see this and we are indeed getting our stories wrong, please call me. Email me. Message me. I will talk to you and listen to you. Help me clear up any rumors. Let me hear your side and tell the world your thoughts. Because this story isn't going away - and neither are we.” (Nate Eaton, East Idaho News)

27 Feb 2020 – Chad is seen checking in for a flight at a Hawaii airport. Several people with cellphone cameras video him and ask him “Where are the kids, Chad” and “Are you finally leaving Hawaii?” On his way out of HI Chad told ABC News "the kids are safe," but refused to give any more details. His Hawaii neighbors said he told them the same thing. (Inside Edition, ABC News).

27 Feb 2020 – One of CV’s sons speaks to Nate Eaton and shares text messages Lori sent to him after his father’s death. The son asked Nate not to use his real name, so Nate calls him “Steve” for the article. “I loved to hang out and play with [JJ] and watch movies and run around. He would call me all the time – something like 15 to 20 times a day – and then it dropped to two to three times a day, and then it just stopped…I figured maybe he’s going to school or something like that. I never thought anything bad was going to happen to him or Tylee.” Steve was never close with Lori, even though he spent summers and weekends with her and his dad. He describes his relationship with Lori as “acquaintances.” When Steve heard Lori was in custody, he says it was the “first good news (he has) heard in months and months.” Steve realizes he may never know the whole story surrounding his dad’s death, but wants answers about Tylee and JJ. He hopes justice is served soon and the children are found. “The truth will come out. They need to be found and Lori needs to be held accountable… I have been worried about my safety and my family’s safety because I don’t know how many followers she and Chad have. This needs to end,” said Steve. (East Idaho News).

27 Feb 2020 – Lori’s niece Melani attends a child custody hearing in Mesa, AZ. Walking into court with her are her aunt Summer (Lori’s sister), Zulema Pastenes (widow of Alex Cox) and Melani’s current husband Ian Pawlowski, as well as her attorneys. Reporters video Melani and her entourage in the parking lot and ask her where JJ and Tylee are, if JJ & Tylee are alive and when she last spoke to Lori. Melani does not comment but smiles as she enters the courthouse. Her lawyer tells the reporters to “respect the court.” (Justin Lum, Fox 10 Phoenix).

27 Feb 2020 – During the hearing, called a resolution management conference, Melani’s lawyer motions to hold BB in contempt. Her lawyer says BB filed false information in court as well. BB’s lawyer is there to represent him but BB is not present and is not in AZ. The judge rules all parties have to appear. The next hearing is set for March 26 (Justin Lum, Fox 10 Phoenix).

27 Feb 2020 – Melani’s attorneys come out of court after the hearing and comment on what happened today and allegations against Melani. Their statement says in part “Melani is very fond of her aunt. Her fondness has little to do with her religious beliefs, but more about the kind of person she thinks she is.” Her lawyers also say she has spoken with the FBI 3 times and she has no info on the location of JJ and Tylee (Justin Lum, Fox 10 Phoenix).

27 Feb 2020 – Dr Phil episode about the case airs.

27 Feb 2020 – Nightline on ABC covers the case.

28 Feb 2020 – About 1:30 pm - Chad reserves a rental car from the SLC airport to drive to Rexburg, ID (KSL).

28 Feb 2020 – Fox10 Phoenix releases an email Chad wrote to a Kauai landlord on Nov 8th, 2019 saying "We are interested in seeing this property. Would the owners be interested in leasing this property to a clean couple with no pets or children?"

28 Feb 2020 - The Gilbert PD says they "are unable to substantiate the claims" made about Melani in child custody court filings submitted by BB (Eric Grossarth, East Idaho News).

29 Feb 2020 – Leap Day.

29 Feb 2020, about 10:30 am - Chad returns rental car to Enterprise in Rexburg, ID. Witnesses say another man in a small blue vehicle picked Chad up from there (East Idaho News).

29 Feb 2020 – JJ’s grandfather, LW, appears on Fox & Friends Weekend show. He has a message for Chad: "Chad, I know you are on the way back to Idaho…When you get there, please do a lot of soul searching…Somewhere in that vicinity there are two children and we want them back safe and we hope that you will have this come-to-Jesus meeting with yourself and address these issues as soon as possible." (Fox News).

29 Feb 2020 – Fox10 Phoenix releases portions of emails between Lori and Chad from October 2018 and interviews with Julie Rowe.

29 Feb 2020 - Forum PTZ, owned by Chad’s author friend, HS, is deleted as previously planned (Fox13 SLC).

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Detailed Case Timeline Part X (Update 8)
MISSING: Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell
Person of Interest: Chad Guy Daybell ​

1 Mar 2020 – Multiple news outlets report that Chad told ABC News “The kids are safe” before he got on a plane to return to Idaho (Rexburg Standard Journal).

1 Mar 2020 – A private facebook group called "Release Lori Vallow" reaches 652 likes and 1,918 followers. 100’s of comments denounce the page; 429 people rated the group a 1 on a scale of 1 to 5. (KSL).

1 Mar 2020 – Nate Eaton with East Idaho News does an interview with Gray Hughes about his coverage of this case.

2 Mar 2020 - FBI mobile command unit truck arrives in Rexburg and is set up behind the Rexburg Police Dept. “We continue to assist Rexburg Police and our command center is there to provide logistical support,” FBI spokeswoman Sandra Barker says (East Idaho News).

2 Mar 2020, 5:30 pm - Madison County Court releases an administrative order on media coverage within the courtroom ahead of Lori’s extradition. (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

2 Mar- 4 Mar 2020 – Various media outlets film outside the home where Tammy died. A sign on the door reads “WE ARE NOT SPEAKING WITH MEDIA” and a new sign staked in the yard reads “PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESPASSING.” Chad’s son comes out to retrieve the mail at one point, but does not comment (AZ Family, Fox10 Phoenix)

3 Mar 2020 - Madison Co. Prosecutor confirms Kennedy Elementary (JJ’s Idaho school), Madison County School District (the district for Kennedy Elementary), Kauai Beach Resorts and Lori & Chad’s Hawaii landlord have all fulfilled subpoenas requiring them to present records; Requests 9 Mar 2020 hearing date vacated. (Garna Mejia, KSL)

3 Mar 2020 - Madison County Sheriff’s Office says deputies are en-route to pick up Lori for extradition to Idaho. (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix)

3 Mar 2020 – JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW arrive in Rexburg in anticipation of Lori’s extradition. KW gives interviews: “It’s just another hurdle cleared. We’ve got a ways to go still... I’m optimistic. I’m excited that I can finally lay eyes on her. Maybe now she’ll start feeling the heat… I’m just ready to get this legal stuff taken care of. But the one answer I want is ‘Where are the kids?'” KW also notes reports Chad claimed the kids are “safe” saying, “You can be safe in heaven. You can be safe on earth. By saying ‘someone’s safe’ – it just depends on what their idea of safe is.” KW describes filing for guardianship of JJ in Jan: “Up until then, we hadn’t filed for anything nor would we have if Lori wasn’t doing all this crazy stuff. If she was stable, I would have never stepped between a mother and a child,” (Rexburg Standard Journal)

3 Mar 2020 – Press and LE and court personnel attend a planning meeting at the Madison County Courthouse concerning Lori’s upcoming hearing. It’s announced in the meeting that security will be very tight on Friday Mar 6th. The public is welcome to attend but seating is very limited. Media will be allowed to stream live video with one video camera (shared as pool camera). No other cameras allowed in the building. (East Idaho News).

4 Mar 2020 – Status Hearing on guardianship of JJ is canceled (Vacated).

4 Mar 2020, 9 am (HST) – Status hearing is held in HI on Lori’s extradition to Idaho. Lori appears for the hearing wearing prison garb and glasses. The Kauai prosecutor says an Idaho transport team has arrived; Lori is scheduled to be picked up in the afternoon and transported on a red-eye flight. Lori’s defense attorney wants to be informed if transport plans change; he also wants it on the record that Lori has invoked her right to remain silent; he does not want Lori questioned by police without her attorney present during the transport, while waiting for the plane or when they land in Idaho. The judge replies that once Lori is picked up by Idaho authorities, she is out of the Kauai court’s jurisdiction. Lori’s attorney replies that he understands but he wants to “make a record of that so that [Lori’s] Idaho attorney may suppress any statements that they might try to elicit.” The judge ends the hearing by saying, “I just want to state for the record that the county of Kauai, the state of Hawaii has acted expeditiously in assisting the State of Idaho in this extradition.” (KTVB).

4 Mar 2020 – An anonymous friend of the Daybells who attended Tammy’s Rexburg memorial service gives an interview (East Idaho News).

4 Mar 2020 – Media reports on a letter Chad wrote to GRI/AVOW members only 9 days after Tammy’s death (East Idaho News).

4 Mar 2020 - Sources say the $430,000 in life insurance Chad received after Tammy’s death came from several policies and Chad made “significant” increases to at least 1 policy prior to Tammy’s death (East Idaho News).

4 Mar 2020 – An anonymous friend of the Daybells says she had a conversation with one of their sons a few weeks after Tammy died in which the son told her his dad had remarried already. (East Idaho News).

4 Mar 2020 - Lori’s new attorneys, Edwina Elcox, Brian Webb and Mark Means file motions for bond reduction to be heard at her initial appearance. They also file a motion requesting all evidence and discovery from the prosecution in the case (Fox10 Phoenix).

4 Mar 2020 – Kim Powell with AZ Family News, stops by Christopher Parrett’s house. CP, owner of AVOW forum, has claimed Chad and Lori are “totally vindicated” on his website. CP answers the door and says no comment, won’t tell if Chad is inside. As the reporter and her cameraman leave CP opens the door and takes their photo (AZ Family).

4 Mar 2020 - A Rexburg woman says she had a long conversation w/ Chad on a flight to Mesa on Sept 19, 2019. "My husband was sitting in an aisle seat, and I was sitting in the other aisle seat across from him, and Chad Daybell was sitting in the middle seat right by me," says the woman (Fox10 Phoenix).

4 Mar 2020 – Madison County Sheriff posts that fire code only allows 300 people in the courthouse. The court room only has seating for 72. Seating is first come first serve and everyone is expected to be seated 30 minutes before the 2pm start time. Certain seating will be reserved for staff and family per court order.

4 Mar 2020, abt 11:30 pm (HST) – Lori leaves Hawaii to return to Idaho.

5 Mar 2020 - Chad’s attorney Sean Bartholick says he couldn’t comment on why he is no longer representing Lori, except to say it would be a conflict of interest for him to represent both Chad and Lori (Adam Herbets, Fox13 SLC).

5 Mar 2020 - NBC is designated pool camera for broadcasting Lori’s initial court appearance (Fox10 Phoenix).

5 Mar 2020 – The last known photo of Tylee at Yellowstone is released. The photo shows Tylee hugging JJ with Alex in the background. Another photo from the day shows Lori and JJ taking a selfie. Also released are photos of the truck they drove to the park, a 2017 Ford F-150 pickup, w/AZ license “CPQUINT”.

5 Mar 2020 - FBI & Rexburg Police Department request visitors to Yellowstone National Park on September 8, 2019, submit photos and video.

5 Mar 2020 – JJ’s grandparents KW & LW meet w/Madison Co Prosecutor (12 News).

5 Mar 2020 – JJ’s grandparents KW & LW give media interviews before Lori’s hearing. KW says she and her husband Larry will not give up until Lori tells them where the kids are. KW says she does not care about money and will give Lori anything, including the money from Charles life insurance & her own house if Lori will just give them JJ alive. (ABC15)

5 Mar 2020 – Lori is returned to Idaho. She is escorted wearing plain clothes with handcuffs and at least 3 officers surround her at all times in the airports. They fly commercial planes from Kauai to Los Angeles to Seattle to Boise. From Boise they take a private jet belonging to the Idaho State Police to the Rexburg airport. When they land at the Rexburg airport, Nate Eaton is there asking Lori questions as she is escorted from the plane into a vehicle. She doesn’t say a word. She is driven to the Madison County Jail where a crowd of journalists and curious citizens with cameras have been camped out all day waiting to see Lori being transported into the jail. She is booked into the Madison County Jail and a new mugshot is released. Lori is seen briefly being moved between buildings, wearing an orange and white prison jumpsuit with a ballistic vest. (East Idaho News, Fox10 Phoenix).

5 Mar 2020 - A Hawaiian man working for Dateline arrives in Idaho with 2 Hawaiian leis made by his wife for JJ and Tylee; He presents the leis to JJ’s grandparents LW & KW ahead of the hearing to let them know Hawaiians are standing behind them (Nate Eaton, East Idaho News).

6 Mar 2020 - People tie blue and pink ribbons for JJ and Tylee in a tree outside of the Madison County courthouse in Rexburgm ID (Kim Powell, AZ Family News).

6 Mar 2020 – Lori attorneys file motion asking for 2 separate trails- 1 trial for counts 1,2,3,4 and 1 trial for count 5 in her criminal complaint. Count 5 is misdemeanor contempt of court for failing to produce JJ & Tylee to the court by the Jan 30 deadline. (East Idaho News)

6 Mar 2020, 2:00 pm (MST) – Lori’s Initial Appearance in court in Idaho for the criminal charges of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children, resisting or obstructing officers, criminal solicitation to commit a crime, and contempt of court - willful disobedience of court process or order. Judge asks how Lori would like to be addressed, her attorney answers “Mrs Daybell.” Judge asks Lori is she understands her rights. Lori says “yes.” Judge asks Lori is she retained the 3 judges in court as private counsel. Lori says yes. Judge reads Lori the charges and possible penalties and asks her if she understands each of them. Lori replies “Yes” after each charge to indicate she understands. Judge sets 2 day preliminary hearing for Mar 18 & 19. Next the Judge hears the motion to reduce bond. Lori’s attorney asks for bond in the amount of $10,000 but also asks that bond be set no higher than $50,000. She argues $5 Million is excessive and a violation of Lori’s right to presumption of innocence; she asks that the judge set bond based on the charges, not on the court of public opinion. Prosecutor argues Lori is a flight risk, he goes over her history of fleeing, her history of being held in contempt, her lack of ties to the community, the 3 suspicious deaths that she is related to and the fact that JJ & Tylee are still missing; Lori’s attorney is allowed to have a final argument for the motion for bond reduction. Judge reduces bond to $1 Million and sets the following conditions if she makes bail: 1. Lori must sign a waiver of extradition form allowing her to be brought back before the court from any & all jurisdictions 2. Lori cannot leave the ID counties of Bonneville, Jefferson, Madison & Fremont. 3. Lori must wear an ankle monitor with 24/7 monitoring 4. Lori must appear for all future court appearances, maintain contact with her counsel and abide by all laws of the US.

6 Mar 2020 – After Lori’s hearing family members of JJ & Tylee give interviews on the steps of the Madison County courthouse. JJ’s grandfather LW says it doesn’t matter to him if Lori posts bond, what matters is if she tells where the kids are; “This isn’t about whether I like Lori. This isn’t about whether I like Chad. This is about 2 children,” Says LW.

6 Mar 2020 – After the hearing Chad leaves the courthouse with his attorney out a different exit from everyone else. They get into a sedan parked in the jail vehicle parking lot and drive out a locking gate with barbed wire that has to be opened and closed by LEOs; the driveway with the gate is next to Chad’s attorney’s office. A crowd presses around the car as it waits to turn onto the street. Reporters ask Chad questions through the passenger window with no response. Chad’s attorney is driving and honks the horn several times to clear the people in front of him before turning onto the street and driving away from the courthouse.

6 Mar 2020 – Judge Eddins signs Order Reducing Bail and Conditions of Bail: https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/case/CR33-20-0302/Order Reducing Bail and Condition of Bail.pdf

6 Mar 2020, evening – Reporters remain camped out by the jail watching for any sign of Lori making bail. A bag of clothing is seen being carried out of the sheriff’s office and into Women’s Detention Center but there is no confirmation of any connection to Lori; Sources says ankle monitor is ready to go should she make bail; A shift supervisor says Lori is in a cell by herself. At the end of the night no bondman arrives. The 2 bail bonds places in Rexburg declined. An Idaho Falls company says they’re trying to work w/ Lori’s reps but she doesn’t have enough collateral. 1. Lori needs to prove she has $1M in assets 2. Bond company’s insurance needs to assess risk and 3. $100K (10%) needs to be wired to account of bondsman which could take 24 hours (KSL, Fox10Phoenix).

6 Mar & 7 Mar 2020 – Fox13 SLC reports on Pathway to Zion (PTZ), a forum associated with Chad that has shut down out of fear members could be excommunicated from the LDS church. The forum was run by Hector Sosa, Jr. (HS). Chad’s company published HS’s books. HS claims to be able to receive visions from God and has publicly defended Chad. HS posted a message to his members on Feb 2nd titled “End of An Era” in which he gave his reasons for closing and said the website would be “read only” starting Feb 10th and disappear completely Feb 29th. Before PTZ was deleted HS uploaded 45 files, many related to preparations for the end of the world, onto a public Dropbox account.

6 Mar 2020 – A member of PTZ does an anonymous interview under the name “Jim”. Jim says he felt like the website had taken a dark turn since its creation and not all members of PTZ necessarily had the same beliefs. Jim says, "I kind of became a part of that community for some time. Anybody can get caught up into that…I don't think anything good is coming from these forums... It seems like they're taking bits and pieces of LDS doctrine. They're twisting it." Jim comments about HS, “I feel like he was scared…It still seems like he’s defending Chad… Why have they explained it to you but nobody else? Why won’t they say anything to the media? Why won’t they tell us where the kids are? … There’s dark entities in play here and/or a mixture of mental health issues. It could be one or the other or both.” (Fox13 SLC)

6 Mar 2020 – Julie Rowe does an interview about PTZ closing and Chad’s beliefs. Julie defends the idea of multiple mortal probations and says it’s different from reincarnation. "The people that started (Pathway to Zion) started it for Chad and I and other dreamers and visionaries who were being persecuted…I don’t want to identify who I’ve been necessarily. I can just say that I’ve had many lives on this planet… The true doctrine is past lives. I've never been a butterfly or caterpillar. I've never been a dog. I am always a human. I am always female." Julies says about Chad, "Well, he told me he was James the Less… I’ve never told him how many planets I’ve been on. I don’t even know how many planets I’ve been on. I don’t care about that. I’m trying to get through this life…I don’t believe he was making it up. I believe he had deceiving spirits talking to him." Adam Herbets asks, “Do you think Chad has been excommunicated?” Julie replies, “He has not been yet, but I’m sure he will be…Chad and Lori think that they are a part of the Davidic Presidency. Chad thinks he’s a Davidic President or Davidic Servant that’s going to help translate people and start the Church of the Firstborn and all this stuff, and that is an absolute deception. That’s a lie.” Julie also says, “I know, as of a month ago, (HS) was still talking to Chad…Hector and I are casual friends. We talk about things we see… He’s not happy with me that I’ve spoken out.” (Fox13 SLC).

7 Mar 2020 – Video circulates of Lori being dropped off at the jail in a grey Ford SUV matching the one that pulled away from the Rexburg airport in video captured by Nate Eaton with East Idaho News. Dozens of reporters camped out at the jail waiting for Lori’s arrival had filmed a white van pulling into a sally port and the garage door closing. The PIO for MCSO allegedly told reporters Lori was in the white van. Media accuses LE of using the white van as a decoy. Kim Powell says, “Every other inmate we saw was brought in through the sally port door on the side, so why the special treatment?” MCSO says it is possible Lori was taken to the jail through a different door and not through the sally port due to “safety concerns.” Other journalists question if Lori and Chad are getting special treatment and bring up Lori wearing makeup for her first hearing and Chad exiting out a separate door to a private vehicle in a fenced in jail parking lot (Fox10 Phoenix, ABC15, AZ Family News, KSL TV).

7 Mar 2020 – Nate Eaton of East Idaho News posts a photo of a cupcake from a local grocery store bakery that says “Where’s the Kids” on it with orange & white striped frosting.

7 Mar 2020 – Nancy Grace says she is shocked Lori “wore red lipstick and smiled broadly during her court appearance Friday, showing a seemingly callous disregard for her missing children”. NG says, “she showed up in style with makeup, blue toenail polish and pink handcuffs…nnd she took the time to curl her hair in cascades down around her face…I'm not a fashion [critic], but while the FBI, the police and the grandparents are looking for her children, she has time to put on lipstick?" (Fox News).

8 Mar 2020 – A special airs called “Exhumed Evidence” on Tammy’s death and exhumation. Springville city police Chief Martinez says “From a Springville perspective, it'd be interesting to find out what happened to Tammy. Then ultimately, where are the kids? If nothing happened to them, where are they & why are they not being brought forward?” Rod Oldroyd, Springville City administrative services manager says “We did [the exhumation] as confidential as we could…Many other people were here that had to be here – witnesses, county attorneys, the sheriff from Idaho, sheriff from Utah, coroners, coroners’ assistants, funeral director – all of that had to be done,” RO also says “I have known Chad and Tammy for a long, long time – as many people in Springville have…To this day, if I thought of Tammy Daybell, it would be that she’s smiling and she’s happy. That’s how she was.” (KSL TV).

9 Mar 2020 – Lori still has not made bail; she remains in segregated portion of the jail, but not in isolation. Deputies are ready should she find a bondsman to bail her out (East Idaho News). Gary Walton, President of Beehive Bail Bonds in SLC says he believes there's "not a bonding agency in the country that would underwrite [Lori Daybell's] bail." (ABC4 Utah)

9 Mar 2020 - Sources say Lori’s brother, Alex, may be linked to both Tammy's death and Charles’ death via digital evidence; Alex died in Dec before he could be questioned. The “[Alex] has been described as the family hitman.” New video shows Alex holding a bullet at a shooting range and saying “that is a 50 caliber semi-automatic.” (CBS News, AZ Family News).

9 Mar 2020 - An Idaho Falls-based apparel company, Swanson’s All American Sports, announces it will be selling hoodies, sweatshirts and T-shirts with “Where are the kids?” printed on the front. $5 from every shirt sold will be donated to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. (East Idaho News).

9 Mar 2020 – Gilbert PD & Chandler PD confirm detectives will travel to SLC this week to meet with other agencies involved in this case. (CBS News).

10 Mar 2020 - Fremont County Sheriff confirms 2 officers will attend the meeting at FBI field offices in SLC, along with Gilbert PD & Chandler PD (KTVB). The FBI could not confirm they’d be present, though their field office is located in SLC. Rexburg Police did not confirm if they would attend (Fox10 Phoenix).

10 Mar 2020 - A woman who is a member of Chad’s "cult" talks about Chad’s spiritual powers and why she still supports him. She said both she and Chad communicate with spirits, and are true Mormons. She said they stockpile food & supplies because the world will end; she will not judge Chad, because all people are sinners. She referred to her organization as a cult, but it was unclear whether she was being sarcastic. When asked what the group was called, she said "Preparing a People." PAP held events and hosted podcasts featuring Chad & Lori among others. The owner of PAP states there is no connection between PAP and any cult or occult activity. "Life is sacred to us. We are innocent of any involvement in Chad or Lori’s personal lives (and never knew Lori or any family members). Our relationship was mostly business, both owning our own separate businesses. We have wondered if Chad/Lori used us for their media purposes, without us knowing what was going on behind the scenes. It does feel like a big betrayal, and probably to anyone who attended our events," states co-owner Nancy James. NJ also states that PAP no longer holds events. (Morgan Loew, CBS5).

10 Mar 2020 – It is revealed that the FBI reached out to Phoenix Police about a month ago in regards to an investigation into the 2018 death of Lori's third husband, Joseph Ryan. Police say they provided information, but so far, the FBI has not asked them to do any further investigation (AZ family News).

10 Mar 2020 – Lori remains in jail. Media reports that bondmen are refusing to work with her to secure the $1 Million bond because they are worried about being stiffed with the full $1million bail if Lori fails to appear in court. (Daily Mail

10 Mar 2020 – Joe Shortino, an evangelist from CO, arrives in Rexburg with a 200 lb wooden cross he has carried across the country in the past and a ram’s horn shofar. Attached to the cross are an American Flag and Prisoner of War flag and a crown of thorns. “The Lord specifically told me that I should come to Rexburg. I’m here to pray for your town and the people. I know there’s been a lot of stuff going on here specifically with the missing children. The Lord said that’s why I’m here - to pray for the town,” JS says. (Rexburg Standard Journal).

11 Mar 2020 – Lori’s son CR says he got a chance to speak to his mother over the weekend as she remains in Jail. He pleaded with her to do the right thing and says it was an emotional conversation. Lori told CR she loves him but no further details could be provided even to him. (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

11 Mar 2020 – Danielle Kingston, A bondsman who met with Lori explains why her company is not writing Lori’s bond at this time: "It’s not about the money. I told her I don’t want to write the bond. I’d rather just have this go away if she would provide where the kids are located. If she could provide that assurance and proof of life, this goes away,” DK also says, “We’ve talked about a number of conditions – having someone from our company with her 24 hours a day, having her cooperate with police, things like that…We take this very seriously, and there are a lot of moving pieces involved in this entire thing.” (East Idaho News).

11 Mar 2020 – Enhanced video is released showing who was at Rexburg storage with Lori on Oct 2nd and Oct 3rd. The video reveals that it was likely Chad with Lori on Oct 2nd and not Alex as originally thought. It appears to be Alex with Lori at the unit on Oct 3rd (East Idaho News).

11 Mar 2020 - Madison County Prosecutor Rob Wood and attorneys for Lori file “Stipulation to Continue” requesting to move preliminary hearing to May 7th & May 8th at 9 am. Both parties ask for more time to exchange and review discovery. Lori waives her right to have a prelim hearing with a set amount of time (East Idaho News, Fox 10 Phoenix). https://s3-assets.eastidahonews.com...3/11171847/Stipulation-to-Continue-Prelim.pdf

11 Mar 2020 – Lori’s attorney files a motion to have Judge Eddins disqualified without cause under Idaho Criminal Rule 25: https://s3-assets.eastidahonews.com...cation-Pursuant-to-Idaho-Criminal-Rule-25.pdf

11 Mar 2020 – Fox10 Phoenix releases Dec 4th 2019 emails from the FBI obtained via a public records request with City of Chandler. An email chain confirms FBI in Phoenix looked into not only Lori, but also her fellow podcasters Melanie Gibb (MG) and Jason Mow (JM). Intelligence analysts listened to the podcasts the trio did together.

11 Mar 2020 - The FBI releases statement about SLC meeting:
"The FBI, the Rexburg Police Department, and numerous law enforcement agencies investigating cases related to Lori Vallow and her missing children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, are meeting this week in Salt Lake City to coordinate, review, and share information. This is not a new effort. Similar coordination meetings have been routinely conducted since the beginning of these investigations. As sensitive matters may be discussed, and as the investigations remain active and ongoing, we are not providing any further information about the meetings." (KJZZ News).

11 Mar and 12 Mar 2020 – LEOs from Gilbert PD, Chandler PD, Rexburg PD & Fremont County Sheriff’s Office go to Utah for a meeting at FBI field offices in SLC, to coordinate, review, and share information on the investigations tied to Lori & Chad & the missing kids (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix, KSL TV).

12 Mar 2020 – Madison County Court hearing for the appointment of guardian/conservator of JJ Vallow is canceled (Vacated) (Court records).

12 Mar 2020 – Judge Eddins hears arguments on the phone pertaining to the motions filed to disqualify himself. The Judge hears audio from the state and audio from the defense. The Judge took the arguments under advisement and decided to take time to research before making his ruling.

13 Mar 2020, 2:00 pm – Judge Eddins holds a telephonic hearing to rule on motions filed to disqualify himself. Prosecutor Wood is present while attorneys Webb and Means are on the telephone. Judge asks if all parties are OK with him first ruling on the joint motion made by the prosecutor and one of Lori’s defense attorneys to delay the preliminary hearing date to May 7 & 8. Attorney Webb says he and Elcox plan to withdraw as counsel for Lori and leaves the argument up to Mark Means. The Judge continues the trial as requested. Next Judge Eddins rules on the motion to disqualify himself without cause under Rule 25. He determines that the “contested hearing” rule is open to interpretation and it is every defendant’s right under Idaho law to get a new judge once without giving cause. Judge Eddins agrees to disqualify himself without cause and new Judge will be appointed for the prelim hearing.

13 Mar 2020 – A new judge is appointed. Magistrate Judge Michelle Mallard will preside over Lori’s preliminary hearing on 5/7-5/8. (Court Docs).

16 Mar 2020 – The Madison County Jail says it isn’t changing its preparations over coronavirus due to Lori being there. “Her presence doesn’t change our preparation in anyway. She gets treated the same as any other inmate we have,” says PIO Isaac Payne (Deseret News).

16 Mar 2020 – Lori’s attorney Mark Means files official notice of withdrawal of Webb & Elcox as Lori’s counsel, saying he does not object to their withdrawal. MM remains Lori’s attorney (Fox10 Phoenix)

16 Mar 2020 – The prosecutor’s office releases Initial Discovery Disclosure documents to the defense with 1000’s of pages, 100’s of photos & some videos. Docs include unredacted RPD reports, interviews w/ family of Chad, Lori & JJ, Yellowstone, Idaho Falls Airport & Storage Plus CCTV & RPD body cam video from welfare check/search warrant (Fox 10 Phoenix, KTVB).

17 Mar 2020 – Lori’s attorney Mark Means releases statement: “In the coming days we look forward to the opportunity to work through the judicial process to prove Mrs. Daybell’s innocence.” (ABC news).

18 Mar 2020, 7:09 AM (UTC) – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake happened about 3 miles from Magna, UT, in the Salt Lake City area. Some buildings were damaged, but no deaths and no injuries occurred.

18 Mar & 19 Mar 2020, 9:00 am – (CANCELED) Lori’s 2 day Preliminary Hearing was originally on this date but vacated and changed to May 7 & 8 at request of both the prosecutor and the defense (Court Docs).

19 Mar 2020 - Brian Webb and Edwina Elcox officially filed a motion for leave to withdraw as counsel. "Good cause exists for granting this motion based upon the standards set forth in the Idaho Criminal Rules and Idaho Rules of Professional Conduct," the document states. "Counsel cannot reveal more information than this without disclosing privileged attorney-client communications" (Fox10 Phoenix).

19 Mar 2020 – More docs released in the ongoing child custody case between Lori’s niece Melani and BB for their 4 kids. One exhibit provided by BB’s lawyers shows lease for Rexburg townhome/apt that Melani signed in late Oct 2019. Photos show belongings of the kids left on curb in AZ as Melani left for Rexburg. BB says LE confirmed Melani got married to IP weeks after moving and is pregnant with IP’s child. Docs allege Melani applied for U-haul truck & said she was moving to BYU Idaho student housing. Boarding passes w/ Melani & her uncle Alex Cox’s names show flight from Idaho Falls to Mesa. BB’s PI caught them packing truck late at night 10/31. Another exhibit filed by BB’s lawyers says they found docs on IP’s computer alleging he wrote outline of beliefs of Chad, Lori & Melani. Source says Ian spoke to FBI about this. Mentions the 144,000, translated beings & multiple probations. (Fox 10 Phoenix).

19 Mar 2020 – More Docs released from BB’s lawyers. Natalie Pawlowski (NP), ex-wife of IP, says she found a document on a computer IP brought her on 2/16. She believes IP wrote this letter. It reads in part, “Melani had been told by Chad & Lori that their children had been possessed & had become zombies.” NP also says she got texts from her ex-husband, IP, in early December saying, “They made the attempt, failed and told her about it after the fact. I understand he doesn’t want the kids around her because of all this, but I believe if she can see them, it will put a huge dent in her trust with her uncles. She’s scared and had been told her two middle children are dead.” It is believed the uncles referred to are Chad and Alex. (Fox10 Phoenix).

20 Mar 2020 - Judge Michelle Radford Mallard signs “Amended Order Reducing Bail and Conditions of Release”. Bail is still set at $1 Million and conditions are the same as the order signed by Judge Eddins Mar 6: https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/case/CR33-20-0302/Amended Order Reducing Bail and Conditions of Release.pdf

25 Mar 2020 – Melani has a criminal court hearing scheduled in Utah for her trespassing case (Adam Herbets, Fox13 SLC).

26 Mar 2020 – The next child custody hearing between BB and Melani is scheduled (Post Register).

16 Apr 2020, 1:00 pm - Status Conference Scheduled in Madison County Court hearing for the appointment of guardian/conservator of JJ Vallow (Court Records).

7 May & 8 May 2020, 9:00 am - Lori’s 2 day Preliminary Hearing is scheduled in Madison Co, ID.

22 July 2020 – Lori told CV that she believes July 2020 is the date of the second coming of Christ; In Jan 2019 Lori allegedly threatened to murder CV if he stood in the way of her preparing for this date. “I think it’s July 22, 2020?,” KW said. “I don’t know what’s going to happen July 23, you know. Charles told me. He had recordings of her. He said nobody will believe me, and he recorded her one night.” (Fox10 Phoenix, Divorce records, Click2Houston).

Note: If a specific source is not noted in brackets above, then there may be multiple news sources reporting the same info. Source Links are located in the Media thread.

 

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@Gardener1850 's timeline bump

Detailed Case Timeline Part X (Update 8)
MISSING: Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell
Person of Interest: Chad Guy Daybell ​

1 Mar 2020 – Multiple news outlets report that Chad told ABC News “The kids are safe” before he got on a plane to return to Idaho (Rexburg Standard Journal).

1 Mar 2020 – A private facebook group called "Release Lori Vallow" reaches 652 likes and 1,918 followers. 100’s of comments denounce the page; 429 people rated the group a 1 on a scale of 1 to 5. (KSL).

1 Mar 2020 – Nate Eaton with East Idaho News does an interview with Gray Hughes about his coverage of this case.

2 Mar 2020 - FBI mobile command unit truck arrives in Rexburg and is set up behind the Rexburg Police Dept. “We continue to assist Rexburg Police and our command center is there to provide logistical support,” FBI spokeswoman Sandra Barker says (East Idaho News).

2 Mar 2020, 5:30 pm - Madison County Court releases an administrative order on media coverage within the courtroom ahead of Lori’s extradition. (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

2 Mar- 4 Mar 2020 – Various media outlets film outside the home where Tammy died. A sign on the door reads “WE ARE NOT SPEAKING WITH MEDIA” and a new sign staked in the yard reads “PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESPASSING.” Chad’s son comes out to retrieve the mail at one point, but does not comment (AZ Family, Fox10 Phoenix)

3 Mar 2020 - Madison Co. Prosecutor confirms Kennedy Elementary (JJ’s Idaho school), Madison County School District (the district for Kennedy Elementary), Kauai Beach Resorts and Lori & Chad’s Hawaii landlord have all fulfilled subpoenas requiring them to present records; Requests 9 Mar 2020 hearing date vacated. (Garna Mejia, KSL)

3 Mar 2020 - Madison County Sheriff’s Office says deputies are en-route to pick up Lori for extradition to Idaho. (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix)

3 Mar 2020 – JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW arrive in Rexburg in anticipation of Lori’s extradition. KW gives interviews: “It’s just another hurdle cleared. We’ve got a ways to go still... I’m optimistic. I’m excited that I can finally lay eyes on her. Maybe now she’ll start feeling the heat… I’m just ready to get this legal stuff taken care of. But the one answer I want is ‘Where are the kids?'” KW also notes reports Chad claimed the kids are “safe” saying, “You can be safe in heaven. You can be safe on earth. By saying ‘someone’s safe’ – it just depends on what their idea of safe is.” KW describes filing for guardianship of JJ in Jan: “Up until then, we hadn’t filed for anything nor would we have if Lori wasn’t doing all this crazy stuff. If she was stable, I would have never stepped between a mother and a child,” (Rexburg Standard Journal)

3 Mar 2020 – Press and LE and court personnel attend a planning meeting at the Madison County Courthouse concerning Lori’s upcoming hearing. It’s announced in the meeting that security will be very tight on Friday Mar 6th. The public is welcome to attend but seating is very limited. Media will be allowed to stream live video with one video camera (shared as pool camera). No other cameras allowed in the building. (East Idaho News).

4 Mar 2020 – Status Hearing on guardianship of JJ is canceled (Vacated).

4 Mar 2020, 9 am (HST) – Status hearing is held in HI on Lori’s extradition to Idaho. Lori appears for the hearing wearing prison garb and glasses. The Kauai prosecutor says an Idaho transport team has arrived; Lori is scheduled to be picked up in the afternoon and transported on a red-eye flight. Lori’s defense attorney wants to be informed if transport plans change; he also wants it on the record that Lori has invoked her right to remain silent; he does not want Lori questioned by police without her attorney present during the transport, while waiting for the plane or when they land in Idaho. The judge replies that once Lori is picked up by Idaho authorities, she is out of the Kauai court’s jurisdiction. Lori’s attorney replies that he understands but he wants to “make a record of that so that [Lori’s] Idaho attorney may suppress any statements that they might try to elicit.” The judge ends the hearing by saying, “I just want to state for the record that the county of Kauai, the state of Hawaii has acted expeditiously in assisting the State of Idaho in this extradition.” (KTVB).

4 Mar 2020 – An anonymous friend of the Daybells who attended Tammy’s Rexburg memorial service gives an interview (East Idaho News).

4 Mar 2020 – Media reports on a letter Chad wrote to GRI/AVOW members only 9 days after Tammy’s death (East Idaho News).

4 Mar 2020 - Sources say the $430,000 in life insurance Chad received after Tammy’s death came from several policies and Chad made “significant” increases to at least 1 policy prior to Tammy’s death (East Idaho News).

4 Mar 2020 – An anonymous friend of the Daybells says she had a conversation with one of their sons a few weeks after Tammy died in which the son told her his dad had remarried already. (East Idaho News).

4 Mar 2020 - Lori’s new attorneys, Edwina Elcox, Brian Webb and Mark Means file motions for bond reduction to be heard at her initial appearance. They also file a motion requesting all evidence and discovery from the prosecution in the case (Fox10 Phoenix).

4 Mar 2020 – Kim Powell with AZ Family News, stops by Christopher Parrett’s house. CP, owner of AVOW forum, has claimed Chad and Lori are “totally vindicated” on his website. CP answers the door and says no comment, won’t tell if Chad is inside. As the reporter and her cameraman leave CP opens the door and takes their photo (AZ Family).

4 Mar 2020 - A Rexburg woman says she had a long conversation w/ Chad on a flight to Mesa on Sept 19, 2019. "My husband was sitting in an aisle seat, and I was sitting in the other aisle seat across from him, and Chad Daybell was sitting in the middle seat right by me," says the woman (Fox10 Phoenix).

4 Mar 2020 – Madison County Sheriff posts that fire code only allows 300 people in the courthouse. The court room only has seating for 72. Seating is first come first serve and everyone is expected to be seated 30 minutes before the 2pm start time. Certain seating will be reserved for staff and family per court order.

4 Mar 2020, abt 11:30 pm (HST) – Lori leaves Hawaii to return to Idaho.

5 Mar 2020 - Chad’s attorney Sean Bartholick says he couldn’t comment on why he is no longer representing Lori, except to say it would be a conflict of interest for him to represent both Chad and Lori (Adam Herbets, Fox13 SLC).

5 Mar 2020 - NBC is designated pool camera for broadcasting Lori’s initial court appearance (Fox10 Phoenix).

5 Mar 2020 – The last known photo of Tylee at Yellowstone is released. The photo shows Tylee hugging JJ with Alex in the background. Another photo from the day shows Lori and JJ taking a selfie. Also released are photos of the truck they drove to the park, a 2017 Ford F-150 pickup, w/AZ license “CPQUINT”.

5 Mar 2020 - FBI & Rexburg Police Department request visitors to Yellowstone National Park on September 8, 2019, submit photos and video.

5 Mar 2020 – JJ’s grandparents KW & LW meet w/Madison Co Prosecutor (12 News).

5 Mar 2020 – JJ’s grandparents KW & LW give media interviews before Lori’s hearing. KW says she and her husband Larry will not give up until Lori tells them where the kids are. KW says she does not care about money and will give Lori anything, including the money from Charles life insurance & her own house if Lori will just give them JJ alive. (ABC15)

5 Mar 2020 – Lori is returned to Idaho. She is escorted wearing plain clothes with handcuffs and at least 3 officers surround her at all times in the airports. They fly commercial planes from Kauai to Los Angeles to Seattle to Boise. From Boise they take a private jet belonging to the Idaho State Police to the Rexburg airport. When they land at the Rexburg airport, Nate Eaton is there asking Lori questions as she is escorted from the plane into a vehicle. She doesn’t say a word. She is driven to the Madison County Jail where a crowd of journalists and curious citizens with cameras have been camped out all day waiting to see Lori being transported into the jail. She is booked into the Madison County Jail and a new mugshot is released. Lori is seen briefly being moved between buildings, wearing an orange and white prison jumpsuit with a ballistic vest. (East Idaho News, Fox10 Phoenix).

5 Mar 2020 - A Hawaiian man working for Dateline arrives in Idaho with 2 Hawaiian leis made by his wife for JJ and Tylee; He presents the leis to JJ’s grandparents LW & KW ahead of the hearing to let them know Hawaiians are standing behind them (Nate Eaton, East Idaho News).

6 Mar 2020 - People tie blue and pink ribbons for JJ and Tylee in a tree outside of the Madison County courthouse in Rexburgm ID (Kim Powell, AZ Family News).

6 Mar 2020 – Lori attorneys file motion asking for 2 separate trails- 1 trial for counts 1,2,3,4 and 1 trial for count 5 in her criminal complaint. Count 5 is misdemeanor contempt of court for failing to produce JJ & Tylee to the court by the Jan 30 deadline. (East Idaho News)

6 Mar 2020, 2:00 pm (MST) – Lori’s Initial Appearance in court in Idaho for the criminal charges of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children, resisting or obstructing officers, criminal solicitation to commit a crime, and contempt of court - willful disobedience of court process or order. Judge asks how Lori would like to be addressed, her attorney answers “Mrs Daybell.” Judge asks Lori is she understands her rights. Lori says “yes.” Judge asks Lori is she retained the 3 judges in court as private counsel. Lori says yes. Judge reads Lori the charges and possible penalties and asks her if she understands each of them. Lori replies “Yes” after each charge to indicate she understands. Judge sets 2 day preliminary hearing for Mar 18 & 19. Next the Judge hears the motion to reduce bond. Lori’s attorney asks for bond in the amount of $10,000 but also asks that bond be set no higher than $50,000. She argues $5 Million is excessive and a violation of Lori’s right to presumption of innocence; she asks that the judge set bond based on the charges, not on the court of public opinion. Prosecutor argues Lori is a flight risk, he goes over her history of fleeing, her history of being held in contempt, her lack of ties to the community, the 3 suspicious deaths that she is related to and the fact that JJ & Tylee are still missing; Lori’s attorney is allowed to have a final argument for the motion for bond reduction. Judge reduces bond to $1 Million and sets the following conditions if she makes bail: 1. Lori must sign a waiver of extradition form allowing her to be brought back before the court from any & all jurisdictions 2. Lori cannot leave the ID counties of Bonneville, Jefferson, Madison & Fremont. 3. Lori must wear an ankle monitor with 24/7 monitoring 4. Lori must appear for all future court appearances, maintain contact with her counsel and abide by all laws of the US.

6 Mar 2020 – After Lori’s hearing family members of JJ & Tylee give interviews on the steps of the Madison County courthouse. JJ’s grandfather LW says it doesn’t matter to him if Lori posts bond, what matters is if she tells where the kids are; “This isn’t about whether I like Lori. This isn’t about whether I like Chad. This is about 2 children,” Says LW.

6 Mar 2020 – After the hearing Chad leaves the courthouse with his attorney out a different exit from everyone else. They get into a sedan parked in the jail vehicle parking lot and drive out a locking gate with barbed wire that has to be opened and closed by LEOs; the driveway with the gate is next to Chad’s attorney’s office. A crowd presses around the car as it waits to turn onto the street. Reporters ask Chad questions through the passenger window with no response. Chad’s attorney is driving and honks the horn several times to clear the people in front of him before turning onto the street and driving away from the courthouse.

6 Mar 2020 – Judge Eddins signs Order Reducing Bail and Conditions of Bail: https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/case/CR33-20-0302/Order Reducing Bail and Condition of Bail.pdf

6 Mar 2020, evening – Reporters remain camped out by the jail watching for any sign of Lori making bail. A bag of clothing is seen being carried out of the sheriff’s office and into Women’s Detention Center but there is no confirmation of any connection to Lori; Sources says ankle monitor is ready to go should she make bail; A shift supervisor says Lori is in a cell by herself. At the end of the night no bondman arrives. The 2 bail bonds places in Rexburg declined. An Idaho Falls company says they’re trying to work w/ Lori’s reps but she doesn’t have enough collateral. 1. Lori needs to prove she has $1M in assets 2. Bond company’s insurance needs to assess risk and 3. $100K (10%) needs to be wired to account of bondsman which could take 24 hours (KSL, Fox10Phoenix).

6 Mar & 7 Mar 2020 – Fox13 SLC reports on Pathway to Zion (PTZ), a forum associated with Chad that has shut down out of fear members could be excommunicated from the LDS church. The forum was run by Hector Sosa, Jr. (HS). Chad’s company published HS’s books. HS claims to be able to receive visions from God and has publicly defended Chad. HS posted a message to his members on Feb 2nd titled “End of An Era” in which he gave his reasons for closing and said the website would be “read only” starting Feb 10th and disappear completely Feb 29th. Before PTZ was deleted HS uploaded 45 files, many related to preparations for the end of the world, onto a public Dropbox account.

6 Mar 2020 – A member of PTZ does an anonymous interview under the name “Jim”. Jim says he felt like the website had taken a dark turn since its creation and not all members of PTZ necessarily had the same beliefs. Jim says, "I kind of became a part of that community for some time. Anybody can get caught up into that…I don't think anything good is coming from these forums... It seems like they're taking bits and pieces of LDS doctrine. They're twisting it." Jim comments about HS, “I feel like he was scared…It still seems like he’s defending Chad… Why have they explained it to you but nobody else? Why won’t they say anything to the media? Why won’t they tell us where the kids are? … There’s dark entities in play here and/or a mixture of mental health issues. It could be one or the other or both.” (Fox13 SLC)

6 Mar 2020 – Julie Rowe does an interview about PTZ closing and Chad’s beliefs. Julie defends the idea of multiple mortal probations and says it’s different from reincarnation. "The people that started (Pathway to Zion) started it for Chad and I and other dreamers and visionaries who were being persecuted…I don’t want to identify who I’ve been necessarily. I can just say that I’ve had many lives on this planet… The true doctrine is past lives. I've never been a butterfly or caterpillar. I've never been a dog. I am always a human. I am always female." Julies says about Chad, "Well, he told me he was James the Less… I’ve never told him how many planets I’ve been on. I don’t even know how many planets I’ve been on. I don’t care about that. I’m trying to get through this life…I don’t believe he was making it up. I believe he had deceiving spirits talking to him." Adam Herbets asks, “Do you think Chad has been excommunicated?” Julie replies, “He has not been yet, but I’m sure he will be…Chad and Lori think that they are a part of the Davidic Presidency. Chad thinks he’s a Davidic President or Davidic Servant that’s going to help translate people and start the Church of the Firstborn and all this stuff, and that is an absolute deception. That’s a lie.” Julie also says, “I know, as of a month ago, (HS) was still talking to Chad…Hector and I are casual friends. We talk about things we see… He’s not happy with me that I’ve spoken out.” (Fox13 SLC).

7 Mar 2020 – Video circulates of Lori being dropped off at the jail in a grey Ford SUV matching the one that pulled away from the Rexburg airport in video captured by Nate Eaton with East Idaho News. Dozens of reporters camped out at the jail waiting for Lori’s arrival had filmed a white van pulling into a sally port and the garage door closing. The PIO for MCSO allegedly told reporters Lori was in the white van. Media accuses LE of using the white van as a decoy. Kim Powell says, “Every other inmate we saw was brought in through the sally port door on the side, so why the special treatment?” MCSO says it is possible Lori was taken to the jail through a different door and not through the sally port due to “safety concerns.” Other journalists question if Lori and Chad are getting special treatment and bring up Lori wearing makeup for her first hearing and Chad exiting out a separate door to a private vehicle in a fenced in jail parking lot (Fox10 Phoenix, ABC15, AZ Family News, KSL TV).

7 Mar 2020 – Nate Eaton of East Idaho News posts a photo of a cupcake from a local grocery store bakery that says “Where’s the Kids” on it with orange & white striped frosting.

7 Mar 2020 – Nancy Grace says she is shocked Lori “wore red lipstick and smiled broadly during her court appearance Friday, showing a seemingly callous disregard for her missing children”. NG says, “she showed up in style with makeup, blue toenail polish and pink handcuffs…nnd she took the time to curl her hair in cascades down around her face…I'm not a fashion [critic], but while the FBI, the police and the grandparents are looking for her children, she has time to put on lipstick?" (Fox News).

8 Mar 2020 – A special airs called “Exhumed Evidence” on Tammy’s death and exhumation. Springville city police Chief Martinez says “From a Springville perspective, it'd be interesting to find out what happened to Tammy. Then ultimately, where are the kids? If nothing happened to them, where are they & why are they not being brought forward?” Rod Oldroyd, Springville City administrative services manager says “We did [the exhumation] as confidential as we could…Many other people were here that had to be here – witnesses, county attorneys, the sheriff from Idaho, sheriff from Utah, coroners, coroners’ assistants, funeral director – all of that had to be done,” RO also says “I have known Chad and Tammy for a long, long time – as many people in Springville have…To this day, if I thought of Tammy Daybell, it would be that she’s smiling and she’s happy. That’s how she was.” (KSL TV).

9 Mar 2020 – Lori still has not made bail; she remains in segregated portion of the jail, but not in isolation. Deputies are ready should she find a bondsman to bail her out (East Idaho News). Gary Walton, President of Beehive Bail Bonds in SLC says he believes there's "not a bonding agency in the country that would underwrite [Lori Daybell's] bail." (ABC4 Utah)

9 Mar 2020 - Sources say Lori’s brother, Alex, may be linked to both Tammy's death and Charles’ death via digital evidence; Alex died in Dec before he could be questioned. The “[Alex] has been described as the family hitman.” New video shows Alex holding a bullet at a shooting range and saying “that is a 50 caliber semi-automatic.” (CBS News, AZ Family News).

9 Mar 2020 - An Idaho Falls-based apparel company, Swanson’s All American Sports, announces it will be selling hoodies, sweatshirts and T-shirts with “Where are the kids?” printed on the front. $5 from every shirt sold will be donated to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. (East Idaho News).

9 Mar 2020 – Gilbert PD & Chandler PD confirm detectives will travel to SLC this week to meet with other agencies involved in this case. (CBS News).

10 Mar 2020 - Fremont County Sheriff confirms 2 officers will attend the meeting at FBI field offices in SLC, along with Gilbert PD & Chandler PD (KTVB). The FBI could not confirm they’d be present, though their field office is located in SLC. Rexburg Police did not confirm if they would attend (Fox10 Phoenix).

10 Mar 2020 - A woman who is a member of Chad’s "cult" talks about Chad’s spiritual powers and why she still supports him. She said both she and Chad communicate with spirits, and are true Mormons. She said they stockpile food & supplies because the world will end; she will not judge Chad, because all people are sinners. She referred to her organization as a cult, but it was unclear whether she was being sarcastic. When asked what the group was called, she said "Preparing a People." PAP held events and hosted podcasts featuring Chad & Lori among others. The owner of PAP states there is no connection between PAP and any cult or occult activity. "Life is sacred to us. We are innocent of any involvement in Chad or Lori’s personal lives (and never knew Lori or any family members). Our relationship was mostly business, both owning our own separate businesses. We have wondered if Chad/Lori used us for their media purposes, without us knowing what was going on behind the scenes. It does feel like a big betrayal, and probably to anyone who attended our events," states co-owner Nancy James. NJ also states that PAP no longer holds events. (Morgan Loew, CBS5).

10 Mar 2020 – It is revealed that the FBI reached out to Phoenix Police about a month ago in regards to an investigation into the 2018 death of Lori's third husband, Joseph Ryan. Police say they provided information, but so far, the FBI has not asked them to do any further investigation (AZ family News).

10 Mar 2020 – Lori remains in jail. Media reports that bondmen are refusing to work with her to secure the $1 Million bond because they are worried about being stiffed with the full $1million bail if Lori fails to appear in court. (Daily Mail

10 Mar 2020 – Joe Shortino, an evangelist from CO, arrives in Rexburg with a 200 lb wooden cross he has carried across the country in the past and a ram’s horn shofar. Attached to the cross are an American Flag and Prisoner of War flag and a crown of thorns. “The Lord specifically told me that I should come to Rexburg. I’m here to pray for your town and the people. I know there’s been a lot of stuff going on here specifically with the missing children. The Lord said that’s why I’m here - to pray for the town,” JS says. (Rexburg Standard Journal).

11 Mar 2020 – Lori’s son CR says he got a chance to speak to his mother over the weekend as she remains in Jail. He pleaded with her to do the right thing and says it was an emotional conversation. Lori told CR she loves him but no further details could be provided even to him. (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

11 Mar 2020 – Danielle Kingston, A bondsman who met with Lori explains why her company is not writing Lori’s bond at this time: "It’s not about the money. I told her I don’t want to write the bond. I’d rather just have this go away if she would provide where the kids are located. If she could provide that assurance and proof of life, this goes away,” DK also says, “We’ve talked about a number of conditions – having someone from our company with her 24 hours a day, having her cooperate with police, things like that…We take this very seriously, and there are a lot of moving pieces involved in this entire thing.” (East Idaho News).

11 Mar 2020 – Enhanced video is released showing who was at Rexburg storage with Lori on Oct 2nd and Oct 3rd. The video reveals that it was likely Chad with Lori on Oct 2nd and not Alex as originally thought. It appears to be Alex with Lori at the unit on Oct 3rd (East Idaho News).

11 Mar 2020 - Madison County Prosecutor Rob Wood and attorneys for Lori file “Stipulation to Continue” requesting to move preliminary hearing to May 7th & May 8th at 9 am. Both parties ask for more time to exchange and review discovery. Lori waives her right to have a prelim hearing with a set amount of time (East Idaho News, Fox 10 Phoenix). https://s3-assets.eastidahonews.com...3/11171847/Stipulation-to-Continue-Prelim.pdf

11 Mar 2020 – Lori’s attorney files a motion to have Judge Eddins disqualified without cause under Idaho Criminal Rule 25: https://s3-assets.eastidahonews.com...cation-Pursuant-to-Idaho-Criminal-Rule-25.pdf

11 Mar 2020 – Fox10 Phoenix releases Dec 4th 2019 emails from the FBI obtained via a public records request with City of Chandler. An email chain confirms FBI in Phoenix looked into not only Lori, but also her fellow podcasters Melanie Gibb (MG) and Jason Mow (JM). Intelligence analysts listened to the podcasts the trio did together.

11 Mar 2020 - The FBI releases statement about SLC meeting:
"The FBI, the Rexburg Police Department, and numerous law enforcement agencies investigating cases related to Lori Vallow and her missing children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, are meeting this week in Salt Lake City to coordinate, review, and share information. This is not a new effort. Similar coordination meetings have been routinely conducted since the beginning of these investigations. As sensitive matters may be discussed, and as the investigations remain active and ongoing, we are not providing any further information about the meetings." (KJZZ News).

11 Mar and 12 Mar 2020 – LEOs from Gilbert PD, Chandler PD, Rexburg PD & Fremont County Sheriff’s Office go to Utah for a meeting at FBI field offices in SLC, to coordinate, review, and share information on the investigations tied to Lori & Chad & the missing kids (Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix, KSL TV).

12 Mar 2020 – Madison County Court hearing for the appointment of guardian/conservator of JJ Vallow is canceled (Vacated) (Court records).

12 Mar 2020 – Judge Eddins hears arguments on the phone pertaining to the motions filed to disqualify himself. The Judge hears audio from the state and audio from the defense. The Judge took the arguments under advisement and decided to take time to research before making his ruling.

13 Mar 2020, 2:00 pm – Judge Eddins holds a telephonic hearing to rule on motions filed to disqualify himself. Prosecutor Wood is present while attorneys Webb and Means are on the telephone. Judge asks if all parties are OK with him first ruling on the joint motion made by the prosecutor and one of Lori’s defense attorneys to delay the preliminary hearing date to May 7 & 8. Attorney Webb says he and Elcox plan to withdraw as counsel for Lori and leaves the argument up to Mark Means. The Judge continues the trial as requested. Next Judge Eddins rules on the motion to disqualify himself without cause under Rule 25. He determines that the “contested hearing” rule is open to interpretation and it is every defendant’s right under Idaho law to get a new judge once without giving cause. Judge Eddins agrees to disqualify himself without cause and new Judge will be appointed for the prelim hearing.

13 Mar 2020 – A new judge is appointed. Magistrate Judge Michelle Mallard will preside over Lori’s preliminary hearing on 5/7-5/8. (Court Docs).

16 Mar 2020 – The Madison County Jail says it isn’t changing its preparations over coronavirus due to Lori being there. “Her presence doesn’t change our preparation in anyway. She gets treated the same as any other inmate we have,” says PIO Isaac Payne (Deseret News).

16 Mar 2020 – Lori’s attorney Mark Means files official notice of withdrawal of Webb & Elcox as Lori’s counsel, saying he does not object to their withdrawal. MM remains Lori’s attorney (Fox10 Phoenix)

16 Mar 2020 – The prosecutor’s office releases Initial Discovery Disclosure documents to the defense with 1000’s of pages, 100’s of photos & some videos. Docs include unredacted RPD reports, interviews w/ family of Chad, Lori & JJ, Yellowstone, Idaho Falls Airport & Storage Plus CCTV & RPD body cam video from welfare check/search warrant (Fox 10 Phoenix, KTVB).

17 Mar 2020 – Lori’s attorney Mark Means releases statement: “In the coming days we look forward to the opportunity to work through the judicial process to prove Mrs. Daybell’s innocence.” (ABC news).

18 Mar 2020, 7:09 AM (UTC) – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake happened about 3 miles from Magna, UT, in the Salt Lake City area. Some buildings were damaged, but no deaths and no injuries occurred.

18 Mar & 19 Mar 2020, 9:00 am – (CANCELED) Lori’s 2 day Preliminary Hearing was originally on this date but vacated and changed to May 7 & 8 at request of both the prosecutor and the defense (Court Docs).

19 Mar 2020 - Brian Webb and Edwina Elcox officially filed a motion for leave to withdraw as counsel. "Good cause exists for granting this motion based upon the standards set forth in the Idaho Criminal Rules and Idaho Rules of Professional Conduct," the document states. "Counsel cannot reveal more information than this without disclosing privileged attorney-client communications" (Fox10 Phoenix).

19 Mar 2020 – More docs released in the ongoing child custody case between Lori’s niece Melani and BB for their 4 kids. One exhibit provided by BB’s lawyers shows lease for Rexburg townhome/apt that Melani signed in late Oct 2019. Photos show belongings of the kids left on curb in AZ as Melani left for Rexburg. BB says LE confirmed Melani got married to IP weeks after moving and is pregnant with IP’s child. Docs allege Melani applied for U-haul truck & said she was moving to BYU Idaho student housing. Boarding passes w/ Melani & her uncle Alex Cox’s names show flight from Idaho Falls to Mesa. BB’s PI caught them packing truck late at night 10/31. Another exhibit filed by BB’s lawyers says they found docs on IP’s computer alleging he wrote outline of beliefs of Chad, Lori & Melani. Source says Ian spoke to FBI about this. Mentions the 144,000, translated beings & multiple probations. (Fox 10 Phoenix).

19 Mar 2020 – More Docs released from BB’s lawyers. Natalie Pawlowski (NP), ex-wife of IP, says she found a document on a computer IP brought her on 2/16. She believes IP wrote this letter. It reads in part, “Melani had been told by Chad & Lori that their children had been possessed & had become zombies.” NP also says she got texts from her ex-husband, IP, in early December saying, “They made the attempt, failed and told her about it after the fact. I understand he doesn’t want the kids around her because of all this, but I believe if she can see them, it will put a huge dent in her trust with her uncles. She’s scared and had been told her two middle children are dead.” It is believed the uncles referred to are Chad and Alex. (Fox10 Phoenix).

20 Mar 2020 - Judge Michelle Radford Mallard signs “Amended Order Reducing Bail and Conditions of Release”. Bail is still set at $1 Million and conditions are the same as the order signed by Judge Eddins Mar 6: https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/case/CR33-20-0302/Amended Order Reducing Bail and Conditions of Release.pdf

25 Mar 2020 – Melani has a criminal court hearing scheduled in Utah for her trespassing case (Adam Herbets, Fox13 SLC).

26 Mar 2020 – The next child custody hearing between BB and Melani is scheduled (Post Register).

16 Apr 2020, 1:00 pm - Status Conference Scheduled in Madison County Court hearing for the appointment of guardian/conservator of JJ Vallow (Court Records).

7 May & 8 May 2020, 9:00 am - Lori’s 2 day Preliminary Hearing is scheduled in Madison Co, ID.

22 July 2020 – Lori told CV that she believes July 2020 is the date of the second coming of Christ; In Jan 2019 Lori allegedly threatened to murder CV if he stood in the way of her preparing for this date. “I think it’s July 22, 2020?,” KW said. “I don’t know what’s going to happen July 23, you know. Charles told me. He had recordings of her. He said nobody will believe me, and he recorded her one night.” (Fox10 Phoenix, Divorce records, Click2Houston).

Note: If a specific source is not noted in brackets above, then there may be multiple news sources reporting the same info. Source Links are located in the Media thread.

 

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A mini timeline for the dates 8th/9th September 2019 and 22nd/23rd September 2019, and surrounding dates. additions to existing timeline in red.


6 Sep 2019, 12:41 pm to 12:53 pm (duration 12 mins) – Alex’s phone pings at Chad Daybell’s house, not in the back yard. (06/10/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball)

6 Sept 2019, 2:46 pm – A neighbor takes a picture of JJ and Tylee standing over a pile of toys outside their Rexburg apt; the neighbor texts the photo to someone else who asks what is going on. The neighbor replies “The new kid [JJ] brought a laundry basket full of toys (mostly like stuffed plushie types) and dumped them all in the massive puddle in the corner of the grass.” (KSL TV).


Approx 7 Sept 2019 – Lori’s brother Alex lived with her about a week before renting his own apt in the same complex in Rexburg (LocalNews8 ABC).

Approx 7 Sept 2019 – JJ told his friend, neighbor SB's son, that he and his sister would be leaving soon. "They played everyday almost, until [JJ] said he was moving to his grandmother's…They told my son that, 'Oh yeah, we're going to go visit my grandmother.' We didn't know where that was. I said, 'Oh, okay,' and I understood because school was about to start. The semester was about to start and she was going to school, from what I understood," SB said (LocalNews8 ABC)

7 Sept 2019 – Lori’s account or electronic device is logged into a classroom communication app from JJ’s former school, LIFE Academy in AZ, and Lori’s user account is shown as having viewed a post made by the school (Fox10 Phoenix).

7 Sept 2019 – Chad’s wife Tammy volunteers at a Rexburg Rescue Run event. Chad was not present with Tammy at the event (Websleuths Verified Insider posts).

7 Sept 2019 – Lori does a podcast with MG titled “2 Feel the Fire ~ What is a Baptism of Fire?”

8 Sept 2019 – Tylee is seen for the last time last on a trip to Yellowstone with Lori, JJ and Alex. Police obtained phone records that show Lori, AC and J.J. went to Yellowstone National Park. There is also a photo of Tylee at the park entrance from Lori’s iCloud account. “This is the last time we can find any record of [Tylee Ryan] being with Lori Vallow. We have found no witnesses who can verify they have seen TR since Sept. 8, 2019,” (02/18/2020 Affidavit of Probable Cause; East Idaho News).


8 Sep 2019 (Sunday) : - 06/10/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball

– trip to Yellowstone NP was further established (by FBI CAST unit – cellular analysis survey team) by tracking the GPS, cell tower connections and Google account info on Alex Cox’s phone.

- they drove there in Alex’s silver Ford F-150.

6:40 pm - Alex’s phone exited the west entrance of YNP.

6:45 pm - 7:02 pm (duration 17 mins) – Alex’s phone at Buckaroo’s BBQ grill in West Yellowstone, Montana. (WSers have noted that it was likely closed on a Sunday)

Then 1 hour 35 minutes later…​

8:37 pm - 9:35 pm (duration 1 hour) – Alex’s phone at Lori’s apartment.

Then 8 minutes later…​

9:43 pm - 9:53 pm (duration 10 mins) – Alex’s phone at Maverick on Main Street, Rexburg, a gas station and convenience store.

Then 51 minutes later…​

10:44 pm - 11:15 pm (duration half an hour) – Alex’s phone at Lori’s apartment.

Then half an hour later…​

11:44 pm – Alex’s phone at his own apartment.



9 Sep 2019 (Monday) :- 06/10/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball

midnight - 12:44 am (overall duration 1 hour) – Alex’s phone at his own apartment.

Then 2 hours later…​

2:42 am - 3:37 am (duration 55 mins) – Alex’s phone at Lori’s apartment. (This is the only time in September he appears to go to Lori’s apartment between midnight and 6:00 am.)

Then one hour later…​

4:37 am - 8:59 am (duration 4 hours 20 mins) – Alex’s phone at his own apartment.

Then 22 minutes later…​

9:21 am - 10:39 am (duration 1 hour 18 mins) Alex’s phone at Chad Daybell’s property, at 9:21 am behind the home near the east end of the barn. (202 N 1900 E, Rexburg).

10:47 am – Alex’s phone City of St Anthony (5 min drive from Chad Daybell residence – but could be a (flyer) random cell tower ping)

10:57 am - 11:39 am (duration 42 mins – overall duration at Daybell property = 2 hours or 2 hours 18 mins) – Alex’s phone at Daybell residence.

Then 13 minutes later...​

11:52 am - 12:02 pm (duration 10 mins) – Alex’s phone at Dell Taco in Rexburg.

11:53 am – text Chad to Tammy – “Well, I’ve had an interesting morning! I felt I should burn all of the limb debris by the fire pit before it got too soaked by the coming storms. While I did so, I spotted a big racoon 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. Fun times!”

11:56 am – text Chad to Tammy – “Gonna shower now and then go write for a while at BYU. Love you!”

after 12:02 pm and for rest of day – Alex’s phone at his own apartment.

2:47 pm – text Tammy to Chad – “Good for you!”

2:48 pm – text Chad to Tammy – “I’m back home now”


11 Sept 2019, 7:07 pm - Venmo in Tylee’s name sent money to her older brother CR with a heart.

16 Sept 2019 – Chad and Lori do a podcast along with MG called: “3 Feel the Fire ~ Chad Daybell Sharing Jesus' Love”.

17 Sept 2019 approx 3:15 pm – JJ is seen playing outside Lori’s Pioneer Road apt in Rexburg on a neighbor’s doorbell camera video (2KUTV). Kay Woodcock believes it is obvious that JJ was not on his medication. A year after JJ stayed with them, grandparents have not given up hope | East Idaho News

18 Sept 2019, 2:00 - A nanny Lori found on care.com first comes to meet Lori and JJ. The nanny later told RPD she understood her employment was going to be ongoing ( 02/18/2020 Affidavit of Probable Cause ). During that first visit, Lori was welcoming and hugged the nanny but reportedly told several falsehoods “She explained to me how they recently moved here from Arizona. Her husband had just died of a heart attack and how J.J doesn't quite understand the situation…Her daughter also lives in Rexburg and is going to college. She said her daughter doesn't like to babysit J.J without being paid so she wanted me to work for her. Occasionally her daughter would come visit for dinner or to do laundry, but she never said that she lived there with them. It appeared that only Lori and J.J lived there... ” the nanny said (AZfamily). The probable cause doc says no evidence has been found of Tylee ever enrolling in college in BYU-Idaho or any other BYU campus.

19 Sept 2019 -The new nanny arrives to watch JJ; She parked in the back in the visitor parking by their garage. "When I walked inside, [Lori] mentioned how she was waiting for her brother to come and leave with her to the airport. She said she was going to the Idaho Falls airport. She said her brother also lived here in Rexburg." "[Lori] mentioned how if she got home later to give JJ his medicine right before bed because it makes him tired fast. She joked about how she liked that because some days when he was extra tough for her to handle, she would give him his meds and have him go to bed early..." Lori’s brother came over and was quiet, then he and Lori left in Lori’s car with Lori driving. JJ had a toy he carried everywhere with him called “ducky” from Toy Story. It was made by Lori and him. The nanny noticed that JJ’s room didn’t seem to have a bed in it, only toys, and he slept on a thin mattress in the corner of Lori’s room. Lori said that she had to put 2 locks on the door because "sometimes JJ escapes". After dinner JJ went to play with the child next door. While Lori is gone JJ has a melt-down; when Lori returns she shows JJ an “overwhelming” amount of love according to the nanny. Lori walked in from the garage with her brother and the friend they picked up from the airport, a woman who did podcasts. The nanny didn’t see a suitcase. Lori paid the nanny about $40 in cash. ( 02/18/2020 Affidavit of Probable Cause ; East Idaho News, Fox13 SLC). Nanny statement to cops on Lori Vallow


19 Sep 2019 – Melanie Gibb visited Lori in Rexburg, staying 4 nights. Soon after MG arrived Lori told her JJ had become a “zombie”. Lori had already told MG her belief about zombies which she learned from Chad. “Gibb reports that the term “zombie” refers to an individual whose mortal spirit has left their body and that their body is now the host of another spirit. The new spirit in a “zombie” is always considered a “dark spirit”. While the “dark spirit” inhabits the host body, the person’s true spirit goes into “limbo” and is stuck there until the host body is physically killed. As such, death of the physical body is seen as the mechanism by which the body’s original spirit can be released from limbo.” Lori had pointed out JJ’s behaviors, such as “sitting still and watching TV”, “claiming JJ said he loved Satan” and an “increased vocabulary” as evidence JJ was now a zombie. MG observed JJ and felt his behavior to be the same as she had always observed it. 06/10/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball


19 Sept 2019 - A Rexburg woman has a long conversation w/ Chad on a flight to Mesa, AZ. During the conversation, they talked about their families, religion, and Chad's books; the anonymous woman has read a few of them and says, "[Chad] told me he was not writing those novels anymore about an apocalypse or something. He was just going in a total new direction in the books that he was writing." Chad tells her he is on his way to help a female relative in the Valley (i.e. the Phoenix area) who needs to remodel her home. "He said I hope we can get this work done in the time that I have before I have to be back," recalled the woman (Fox10 Phoenix).

21 Sept 2019 – A Book of Mormon Evidence and Universal Model of Science Event is held in Rexburg. The event flyer on the website advertises “Come to Yellowstone in September”.


Weekend 21/22 Sep 2019 – the affidavit of probable cause states that Melanie Gibb and her boyfriend David Warwick stayed at Lori’s residence in Rexburg the weekend of Sep 22 and 23 2019. That would be Sunday and Monday based on those dates. MG stated (EIN interview) she left Rexburg on Monday morning, 23 Sep 2019. 06/10/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball


22 Sep 2019 – late, night of (Sunday) - Last verifiable sighting of JJ in Lori’s apartment (#175), by Melanie Gibb and David Warwick. (Alex Cox lived at #107). David, Melanie and Lori were going to do a podcast. DW said JJ was acting up and so Alex took JJ to his apartment. When Alex returned later that night he was carrying JJ who appeared to be asleep with his head on Alex’s shoulder. DW saw it as a tender moment. ( 06/10/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball )


23 Sept 2019 – The Autumnal Equinox (Last day of Summer/First day of Fall).

23 Sept 2019 – JJ was last seen attending Kennedy Elementary School in Rexburg, ID. (superseded by 06/10/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball )


23 Sep 2019:- 06/10/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball

btw 8 and 9 am (Monday) – When DW woke up he asked Lori where JJ was. Lori informed DW and MG that JJ had been acting like a zombie and had been crawling on the kitchen cabinetry between the cabinets and the ceiling, and knocked a picture of Jesus off the refrigerator. Lori said that Alex had come and taken JJ.

– JJ had an unexcused absence from school.

9:55 am - 10:12 am (duration 17 mins) – Alex is on Chad Daybell’s property near the pond at the northern edge.

23 Sept 2019 – Chad texts ”Thanks so much” to Filmmaker Devin K Hansen about the movie project. Chad did not reply to any texts from Hansen after this date. (Fox13 Phoenix)


24 Sep 2019 – Kennedy Elementary School in Rexburg was in the process of creating a new individual education plan for JJ due to his autism - undated but still incomplete when Lori withdrew him. Lori called Vickie Barton of the Madison School District and informed her JJ was going to Louisiana with his grandparents and wouldn’t be home until the end of October or later. (06/10/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball)


Please note this update does not include any information from Melanie Gibb's interviews with EIN. These will be added in the next update.

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part I of XXI (Update 9)

List of Initials / Persons associated with the case:

FOUND DECEASED: Joshua Jaxson “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell and Chad Guy Daybell​

AlC = Alex Cox (Lori’s brother, died 2019) - aka AxC
AdC = Adam Cox (Lori’s brother)
AnC = Annie Cushing (Joe Ryan’s sister)
AR = April Raymond (Lori’s friend)
AS = Angela Stone (ex-CD groupie)
AVOW = Another Voice of Warning

BB = Brandon Boudreaux (ex-husband of MBP)
BC = Barry Cox (Lori’s father)
BD = Benjamin Douglas (Tammy Daybell’s brother)

CD = Chad Daybell
CP = Christopher Parrett (owner of AVOW, Another Voice of Warning)
CR = Colby Ryan (Lori’s son)
CV = Charles Vallow (died 2019)
CW = Charles Vallow's ex-wife, mother of their two sons

DW = David Warwick (MG’s friend)

EG = Eric Grossarth (Reporter East Idaho News)
EM = Emma Murray (Chad and Tammy Daybell’s daughter, married to Joseph)

GB = Gabe Bonilla (CV's friend/witness/Bishop)
GD = Garth Daybell (Chad and Tammy’s son)
GH = Gray Hughes (WS member and YouTuber)
GS = Garrett Smith (Cox/Pawlowski family attorney)

HD = Heather Daybell (MtD’s wife)
HS = Hector Sosa Jr. (author, creator of internet forum Pathway to Zion; PTZ)

IP = Ian Pawlowski (husband of MBP)

JC = Janis Cox (Lori’s mother)
JD = Jack Daybell (Chad’s father)
JG = Jason Gwilliam (Tammy Daybell’s sister-SG’s husband)
JJ or JV = Joshua Jaxson Vallow
JL = Justin Lum (Reporter Fox10 Phoenix)
JM = Jason Mow, aka Richard J Mow (ex-police, friend)
JoR or JR = Joseph Ryan aka Joe (Lori’s 3rd husband, died 2018) - aka JAR
JuR = Julie Rowe (Chad’s friend)
JV = Jonathan Vigliotti (CBS reporter)

KR = Kelsee Ryan (CR’s wife)
KM = Keith Morrison, Dateline
KW = Kay Woodcock (JJ’s paternal grandmother)

LDS = Latter Day Saints
LM = Leah Murphy (Chad and Tammy Daybell’s daughter, married to Adam)
LS = Luis Soltren (Dateline associate)
LVD = Lori Vallow Daybell (nee Cox) aka LV
LW = Larry Woodcock (JJ’s grandfather, husband of Kay)

MBP = Melani Boudreaux Pawlowski (Lori’s niece, nee Cope. aka MB pre-marriage to IP)
MiD = Michael Douglas (Tammy Daybell's brother)
MkD = Mark Daybell (Chad and Tammy’s son)
ML = Morgan Loew (Reporter)
MM = Mark Means (Defense Attorney for LVD)
MtD = Matt Daybell (Chad's brother)
MwD = Matthew Douglas (Tammy Daybell’s brother)
MG = Melanie Gibb (Lori’s friend)
MT = Mary Tracy (AlC's friend)

NE = Nate Eaton (reporter East Idaho News)
NG = Nancy Grace
NM = Neal Mestas (JJ's dog Bailey's trainer)
NP = Natalie Pawlowski (ex-wife of IP)

PaP = Preparing a People
PD = Paul Daybell (Chad’s brother)
PhD = Phyllis Douglas nee Cooper (Tammy Daybell’s mother)

RD = Ron(ald) Douglas (Tammy Daybell’s father)
RJ = Robert Jarvis (Cox/Pawlowski attorney)
RR = Rich Robertson (private investigator)
RW = Rob (Robert) H Wood (Madison County Prosecutor)

SC = Steve Cope (MBP’s father, formerly married to SLC)
SF = Suzanne Freeman (author of books published by CD's company)
SLC = Stacey Lynne Cope (Lori's sister, nee Cox, died 1998, mother of Melani; MBP or MB)
SeD = Seth Daybell (Chad and Tammy's son)
ShD = Sheila Daybell (Chad's mother)
SG = Samantha Gwilliam (Tammy Daybell's sister, married to JG)
SS = Summer Shiflet (Lori’s sister, nee Cox)

TD = Tammy (Tamara) Daybell nee Douglas (died 2019)
TR = Tylee Ryan
TdR = Ted Rowlands (Court TV)

ZC = Zac Cox (AdC’s son)
ZP = Zulema Pastenes (AlC’s wife)

Timeline Part I of XXI (Update 9) - List of Initials / Persons associated with the case

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part II of XXI (Update 9)

Beginning TO 24 Feb 2006 (wedding day of Charles Vallow and Lori Ryan)

FOUND DECEASED: Joshua Jaxson “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell and Chad Guy Daybell​

17 Aug 1956 - Charles Leland Vallow's birth.
c. 1960 - JoR's birth
18 Jan 1968 - Alexander Lamar Cox's birth.
11 Aug 1968 - Chad Guy Daybell is born in Provo, UT.
4 May 1970 - Tammy Daybell (nee Douglas) birth.
26 Jun 1973 - Lori Norene Cox is born in San Bernardino Co, CA.

1981 to 1987 – (teenage) – CD’s maternal grandfather Guy Chesnut told him a story about meeting a messenger from heaven in the temple.”I was a teenager when Grandpa first told me this experience, and it really had an impact on me. Up to that point, I figured only the prophet or apostles could receive visits from messengers. But I realized it could happen to common members of the Church under the right circumstances” (source InsideEdition)

Aug 1985 - 17 yo Chad has near-death experience cliff jumping at Flaming Gorge Reservoir in northern Utah. He claims to have crossed into another dimension & realized there was a world beyond. 1- How it all began | cdaybell.com

1985 to 1987 - Chad works as a Springville Parks Department Worker & Supervisor (KSL-TV)
1986 – Chad graduates from HS in Springville, UT. He was an honor roll student and nominated as “teenager of the month” his sr year (1985 & 1986 Springville Herald, newspapers.com).

1986 – CD wrote in @Redvines86 yearbook (they were in the same HS class for 6 years) with regards to one of her female friends, wtte ‘I don’t think she’s good for you, I think you should be friends with other people’. The female friend was “a very strong female who didn’t put up with a lot from anybody” … “he [CD] always did better with girls…, had a lot of friends that were girls, …more so than guys”. (source WS youtube interview )

1987-1989 – After HS graduation, Chad takes a LDS mission in a Spanish-speaking area of Morristown, New Jersey. Chad writes in his 2017 autobiography that while serving his mission in NJ he felt he was “actually witnessing the First Vision.” Mormons believe Joseph Smith received the First Vision & was chosen to be the Lord’s prophet. (Fox13 Salt Lake City, Daily Mail)

1987-89 – Fellow missionaries 3 decades ago, Hector Fernandez, and Trent Price:-

HF: “Chad was really loved, really respected, we thought he was really the best of us.”
TP: “In the bible you’d see David was head and shoulders above, and that was like him. Both physically and spiritually above us. [Chad and Tammy] were inseparable. They obviously connected right away. One of these huge waves hit him and rather than be in his body he felt he was out of his body, having a conversation with a grandfather and learning about his future life.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

June 1988 to 1992 & 1996 – Unk date) Tammy Douglas (Daybell), worked for Springville City as a billing secretary and receptionist (KSL TV).

1989 – 1992 – age early twenties – CD’s second alleged near-death experience, being hit by a wave. (source book Living on the Edge of Heaven published in 2017)

Apr 1989 – MB/MBP's birth. (source Justin Lum Fox 10 Phoenix )

August 1989 to August 1991 – Chad works part time as cemetery sexton in Springville, UT & starts college at Brigham Young University (BYU) (Chad’s website Archives).

Approx 1989- 1991 – Lori is a on the cheer squad at Eisenhower High School in Rialto, CA. Lori is “a flyer” - the girl the team threw into the air. Lori's parents didn't come to her cheer competitions. However, Lori’s HS friend, BFL, says, "As a cheer squad, we were always at Lori's house. Her mom and dad let us hang out there. We used to swim... Everybody was just so welcoming. They had a big family." The Cox family were "very, very devout Mormons," BFL said, and Lori attended religious classes in mornings before school (Inside Edition).

Approx 1989- 1991 – Lori got good grades in HS and talked about going to BYU for college, however she never went to college (Inside Edition).

9 March 1990 - Chad Daybell and Tamara "Tammy" Douglas marry in the Manti Temple. They met while attending BYU. They would go on to have 5 children & 3 grandchildren during their nearly 30 year marriage. (Tammy’s Obit).

1990’s – Chad & Tammy did extensive genealogy research on Tammy’s family & temple paperwork for 100’s of her ancestors (Chad’s blog).

1991 – Lori started dating boys her senior year of HS. "It's weird because it wasn't until our senior year that she even had a boyfriend. She was very much to herself and she hung around just the girls…There was hardly ever boys with us. But in senior year, that's when she started kind of like branching out a little bit." – Lori’s friend BFL (Inside Edition).

18 May 1991 – Charles Vallow marries his 2nd wife Cheryl while living in Austin, TX; They had 2 sons during their 12 year marriage (East Idaho News).

12 June 1991 – Lori Cox graduates from Eisenhower HS in Rialto, CA. (San Bernardino County Sun, Newspapers.com ) The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California on July 10, 1991 · Page 24

12 Sept 1991 – Lori rides her horse, Nellie, to visit her boyfriend in Fontana, CA. A newspaper features her photo as she rides down Valley Blvd, just east of Cherry St (San Bernardino County Sun, Newspapers.com ). The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California on September 13, 1991 · Page 31

1 Jan 1992 – Lori, 18, became a hair-stylist (source - bankruptcy docs Aug 2005 and article)

1992 – Lori marries her 1st husband Nelson Yanes (source EIN) while she is still a teenager. Her 1st husband is her boyfriend from high school and he is not Mormon. This relationship ends in divorce. (GH family interview; Post Register, Inside Edition).

About 1992 - Lori moved away from Rialto, CA soon after her divorce (Inside Edition).

1991/1992 – Chad works as Asst City Editor for BYU’s newspaper, The Daily Universe. The following semester he served as City Editor (Chad’s website archives).

April 1992 – Chad graduates from BYU with bachelor’s degree in Journalism (Chad's blog).

1992 – After graduation Chad took job as copy editor and headline writer w/Standard-Examiner in Ogden, UT. The family lived in the suburb Washington Terrace in Ogden (Chad’s website archives).

1993 – Chad has 2nd near-death experience. He is hit by a wave at La Jolla Cove, CA. He claims his spirit visited his deceased grandfather, who showed him future events. Chad claims this “caused his ‘veil’ that separates mortal life from the Spirit World to stay partially open, so he often feels as if he has a foot in both worlds” (Chad's Blog).

1993 – Chad says in a 2015 blog post that not long after his 2nd near-death experience he was driving south on I-15 in Orem, UT past Geneva Steel when he saw a vision of the steel plant changed into subdivisions. Geneva Steel would later close in 1999-2001 and in 2015 Chad claims he foresaw that happening. A similar vision in 2005 supposedly inspired Chad to write a futuristic book series (Chad’s Blog).

c. 1995 – MBP’s account of her parents splitting up when she was six: “the night my dad took me, he said we were gonna go get gas and we never came back. We left my mum there and he turned the power off, he took all of her credit cards, took her planner, and just left her there and she was really sick to the point she couldn’t really take care of herself and we hid out in a hotel for a couple of months. And then from then on started a nasty custody battle between them.” “Things weren’t just in her case, and I grew up with my dad and then later my step-mom when my dad got remarried, and I heard all manner of things about the Coxes and my dad cut off communication with them…it didn’t feel right a lot of the lies I was being told about them.” (source EIN May 2020 interview)

4 Dec 1995 - April 2000 – Chad hears about an opening in Springville for a cemetery sexton in 1995 and takes the job in order to move his family back to Springville and closer to their grandparents (Chad’s website archives). Employment records show Chad became a Cemetery Supervisor in July 1996 and resigned in 1999 (KSL TV).

22 Oct 1995 – Lori marries her 2nd husband William Lagioia in Travis County, Texas. Her 1st son Colby (CR) is born during this relationship. This marriage ends in divorce (Court records).

Apr 1996 – CR's birth. LVD was 22.

17 Dec 1996 – Lori’s files for divorce against her 2nd husband in Bexar County, Texas. (Court records).

1997 - Two years after Chad became a sexton again, he is shoveling snow at the cemetery when he hears a voice say “It’s time to write your books.” (Chad’s blog 3- A voice in the cemetery | cdaybell.com ).

25 Feb 1998 – Lori’s 2nd divorce is finalized (Bexar Co Court records).

25 May 1998 - Stacey Cox Cope, the sister of Lori and Alex Cox, dies supposedly of diabetic shock; Stacey is survived by a young daughter named Melani (family interviews on GH; Daily Mail). Stacey Lynn Cope (1966-1998) - Find A Grave...
25 May 1998 - SLC's death - LVD was 24, CR was 2, AlC was 30:-
LW has heard that AlC was the only person with SLC when she died and then he used her credit cards (source LW int. Gray Hughes 26 Dec 2019)

NE: “there have been other reports about your mother’s death - that somehow Lori may have been tied into it, or whatever is killing all these other people, your mom may have been the first victim. Can you address that?”
MBP: “Yes. She died of natural causes, it’s on her death certificate. But she had type 1 diabetes with gastroparesis with that, like she went to every type of doctor, she even went and you know went to, you know, I think she got tested for eating disorders, for everything she got tested for, and it was so clear what she had, it was so far from anorexia, it was a total manipulation of, you know, she’s tiny and can’t absorb nutrients and he took it and ran with the story of that, and it’s hurtful and it’s untrue and she’s not here to tell that truth, and reading through court documents there’s so many things he could have said because we’re real and open about our family we make mistakes he could have said you know true things but it was mostly just lies about everything and that’s similar to what’s happening in my family court case, it’s the same pattern I think we go through these things to learn and experience and seeing that same exact thing happen now in my life it’s too ironic that it’s the same exact pattern.” (source EIN May 2020 interview)

17 March 1999 – Chad Daybell is featured in an article about publishing his first book “An Errand for Emma.” The book is a fiction story set in 1868 with a teen girl main character that is based on Chad’s then 4 year old daughter’s personality. At the time of the article Chad is once again working as a cemetery sexton in Springville - a job he says he purposely took in order to spend more time with his family and have time to write books (BYU Universe).

2001 – Chad claims that Tammy’s grandmother, LC, had a visit from a deceased ancestor, RM; RM supposedly thanked Chad and Tammy thru LC for submitting temple paperwork in the ancestor’s name. Tammy’s grandmother passed away in 2005 and Chad would later claim he received a visit and message from LC in 2011 (Chad’s blog).

April 2001 – Chad is working for Access Computer Products’ in Provo, Utah (Chad’s website archives).

2001 – Lori Marries her 3rd husband, Joseph Anthony Ryan, Jr (JR). Exact date of marriage is unknown, but JR’s sister, Annie, confirmed the year. JR adopts Lori's son from her previous marriage (Post Register) JR’s sister Annie say her brother’s marriage to Lori got off to a joyful start. “They were just madly in love. I had never seen Joe that happy,” (KSLTV). According to court documents obtained by The U.S. Sun, CR was not adopted by JoR but took his last name – (source The Sun )

29 Oct 2001 – Chad does an interview about his job working as a Springville Cemetery Sexton and a book he wrote about it. "It's a physically demanding job," Chad also noted that a 4-year-old visitor once referred to him as "the sexy one." Chad says family members often talk with him about their feelings, "Taking care of the graves is rewarding, as well as helping widows and grieving family members deal with the trauma… Sad times are always when you have to bury babies. That's always a poignant moment." Chad recounts a time when he had to dig up a casket so a mortician could retrieve a wedding ring he had forgotten to remove for the family and another time when a man wanted to set up a Christmas tree and run an extension cord for lights, "I couldn't really exaggerate or fabricate any of these stories, they're just too bizarre… I always get a creepy feeling right in the middle of those,” Said Chad pointing to some juniper bushes, “I don't know what happened there and I don't know why; chills just go up your spine, like you're being watched." (Deseret News).

24 Sept 2002 - Tylee Ashlyn Ryan is born to Lori (29) and JR. CR is 6 yo. JR’s sister Annie said, “My brother had never been married and he had never had a child, so he was over the moon.” (KSLTV).

18 Mar 2003 – Chad’s books are pulled from the shelves of Deseret Book Stores, allegedly due to an irreverent scene in "Chasing Paradise," where a warrior angel drop-kicks a naughty spirit through a wall. Chad is working as managing editor of Cedar Fort publishing at the time (Deseret News).

27 Jun 2003 – Charles Vallow divorces his 2nd wife Cheryl (East Idaho News).

Abt 2004 – Lori wins $17,500 on “Wheel of Fortune” (CrimeOnline).

2004 – Lori is contestant in the Mrs. Texas pageant; she is a semi-finalist, but eliminated in the final round of competition (CrimeOnline).

c. 2004 – MBP: “Finally when I was 15 I found my uncle Adam on a radio, I think I googled him we had computers at High School and I found him and he was one of my favorite people in my life I remember growing up and then it kind of started connecting all those ties that I’d gone so long from age 9 all the way to 15 without.” (source EIN May 2020 interview)

Feb 23 2004 – Lori is listed on a General Warranty Deed for the home she shares with JR in Driftwood, TX (Hays Co Property records).

1 Mar 2004 – Chad and Tammy start their own book publisher, Spring Creek Book Company (Daily Mail, Heavy).

13 Aug 2004 - Lori’s 3rd husband JR files for divorce in Hays Co, Texas. JR fights Lori in the courts trying to gain full custody of Tylee for several years. (Court records, family interview on Grey Hughes).

Nov 2004 – age 36 – CD’s company published a book by SF about her near-death experience. CD never once mentioned to SF any near-death experiences he had. SF thinks it would have come up in their many conversations and in her experience if people had a NDE they want to share it with others who would be understanding. (source EIN videos 4 Jun 2020 and 17 Jun 2020)

2005 - Tammy's grandmother, LC, passes away (Chad’s blog).

2005 – Chad starts working on his “Standing in Holy Places” book series with the first novel called “The Great Gathering” which is set 10-15 years in the future. Chad claims on a blog post in 2015 that his futuristic books included actual visions he had of the future that came to pass, including the recession of 2008 and a steel mill that shut down in 1999. (Chad’s blog 17- Writing “The Great Gathering” | cdaybell.com ).

1 Feb 2005 – Lori sold her wedding ring to a jewellers in San Antonio TX for $4,300. (source bankruptcy docs Aug 2005)

18 May 2005 – Lori & JR’s divorce is finalized in Hays Co, Texas (Court records).

c. 2005 – [CR 9, TR 2 or 3, MBP abt 16] MBP: “Lori flew me out to nanny for them in Texas. It was a lot of fun. Tylee was just little. I loved taking Tylee to do everything. And Colby too. We’d go out on the boat on the lake and Lori was just a fun mom.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

30 Aug 2005 – Lori filed for individual bankruptcy (Chapter 7) in Texas.

Her residential address: 2501 Watercrest Drive, Austin, TX 78738.

Previous addresses:

2001 – 2004 – 526 Island Oaks Lane, Driftwood, TX 78619 (bankruptcy property)

Aug 2004 – Jun 2005 – 502 Roble Vista, San Antonio, TX 78258


She was listed as a self-employed hair stylist, trading as Lori Ryan, past 8 mos. out of 3300 Bee Caves Rd, Austin, TX. Trading since 1 Jan 1992.

2003 – unemployed

2004 - income from employment as hair-stylist $17.5K

2005 – income (as above) $24K year to date.

Divorced with 2 children ages 9 and 2

Receiving regular income of $3.7K pm, plus alimony/maintenance $1.5K pm

Total expenses of $6.2K pm including charitable contributions of $400 pm.

She estimated that after any exempt property was excluded there would be no funds for unsecured creditors. No. of creditors was between 1 and 15.

Estimated assets half to one million $, estimated debts same.

Attorney’s name Gray Byron Jolink, Bar No. 10856500. 4131 Spicewood Springs Rd, Austin TX 78759, paid $1k for services.

Bankruptcy asset – property - LOT 212 Phase 2 Sec 2 La Ventana Driftwood Hays County TX, 526 Island Oaks lane, Driftwood, TX 78619, worth $710,000 secured claim $580,000.

2003 Chevy Tahoe worth $15,415 on which she owed $16K,

plus personal items, total assets $17,715.

Taxes owed (priority claim) – as a co-debtor $19,563 and on own acc - Philadelphia (2000/2001 1040 taxes) $79,440.89.

Unsecured loans, credit cards, ER Physicians and bank debt totaling $28,811.56. (nonpriority claims)

Other party to house lease ending Jun 2007 $1.9K pm was Elizabeth Steer. (sources docs and article)

6 Sept 2005 – Lori is listed on a Trustee Deed for the home she shared with JR in Driftwood, TX (Hays Co Property records).

2006 – Lori’s brother Alex is doing stand-up comedy shows in Phoenix where he meets a friend (MT). (Fox10 Phoenix).

24 Feb 2006 - Lori marries her 4th husband, Leland "Charles" Anthony Vallow (CV) in Las Vegas, NV; Lori is CV’s 3rd wife (Clark Co marriage records, East Idaho News).

Timeline Part II of XXI (Update 9) - Beginning TO 24 Feb 2006 (wedding day of Charles Vallow and Lori Ryan)

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part III of XXI (Update 9)

25 Feb 2006 (post CV & LV wedding day) TO end of 2017

FOUND DECEASED: Joshua Jaxson “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell and Chad Guy Daybell​

6 Mar 2006 – Springville Herald writes an article about Chad’s new book, "The LDS Top 5 Charts" all about celebrities who are also LDS.

11 Mar 2006 – Chad signs copies of his new book at Provo East Bay Seagull Book, 1326 S. University Avenue in Provo, UT (Springville Herald).

08 Aug 2006 – Lori’s ex-husband, JR, files in the 22nd District Court of TX for custody enforcement/modification in the interest of Tylee (Court records).

8 Aug 2006 – LV was ordered to appear and respond to a motion for enforcement in the District Court of Hays County, Texas on 16th Aug 2006. (source docs and The Sun )

22 Sep 2006 – [TR about 4] - JoR filed a motion for enforcement of possession or access in Hays County Texas, stating he had been denied all visitation with TR for the month of August. Process was to be served on LV and CV at 1810 Intervail, Austin, Texas. In May 2005 the court-approved agreement was that TR would be with JoR 3 weekends a month and until TR entered kindergarten 2 weekdays a month, and 2 weeks during the summer. JoR’s court filing stated that LV did not bring TR for her summer stay from Aug 9 through Aug 15, to her weekend visit on Aug 4 and her weekday visit on Aug 27. Court filing indicates that JoR was paying TR’s health insurance premium of $385.43 per month, he was self-employed and the coverage was not provided through a parent’s employment. JoR requested ‘the psychological evaluation of “Lori Ryan” and [TR]’, the parties attend a parent/family course, and the court appoint a guardian ad litem to represent TR. JoR requested a temporary injunction to stop LV from making disparaging remarks regarding JoR in the presence or within hearing of TR, and after trial to make it a permanent injunction. The custody battle lasted until JoR’s death in 2018. (Source The Sun )

2007 – CV’s 2nd ex-wife begins to have concerns about Lori’s mental health. “She just seemed off. There were a lot of strange goings-on at their home to the point that a judge ordered cameras to be put in their home to protect the children,” Cheryl says (East Idaho News).

11 July 2007 – Chad’s book “The Great Gathering” is first published by Brigham Distributing for Nook. In Aug 2007 Chad’s Spring Creek Book Company also released the book in Amazon Kindle and Paperback versions. In the book, “one of his characters dies for a noble purpose. The death “was unfortunate, but let me assure you that it wasn’t an accident.” (Adam Herbets, Fox13 SLC).

Aug 2007 – Lori’s brother AC tells his Phoenix friend, MT, that he has to go to Austin, TX to deal with some “family affairs”.

5 Aug 2007 – Lori’s brother, AC, attacks & threatens her 3rd ex-husband, JR in Travis Co, TX. JR was leaving after a custody visit with Tylee when AC approached him in the parking lot, pulled a stun gun & shocked JR with it twice. JR got up to flee and AC chased him. JR fled past a witness who saw AC with the stun gun and AC walked away after that (Court Docs, FOX 10 Phoenix).

6 Aug 2007 – JR goes to the hospital with chest pains the day after the stun gun attack and is admitted for observation. He is also diagnosed with a fractured wrist from the fall to the ground during the attack (Court Docs, FOX 10 Phoenix).

15-16 Aug 2007 – An “affidavit for arrest and detention” of Alex is made & filed in Travis Co, TX for the stun gun attack on JR (Court Docs, FOX 10 Phoenix).

2008 – Abt a year after the stun-gun attack on JR, AC pleads guilty to aggravated assault in the second degree and serves 3 months in jail (Court Docs, FOX 10 Phoenix).

2008 – While serving 90 days for his attack on JR, AC writes 4 letters to his friend MT; MT says AC “usually found a way to mention his ex-brother in law”. One letter reads "Do me a favor. Call Janis. Ask her to put Joe's address on a post card and his license plate number. I think it will be popular here." The "Janis" mentioned is Lori and AC's mother. In another letter, AC writes "P.S., can you get a picture from Lori of one of her ex-husbands and send it to me? Some of the guys would like to hang out with him." (FOX 10 Phoenix).

2008 – The “Great Recession” hits the US; In a 2015 blog post Chad claims that the 2008 recession was just like he predicted it happening in his books but he knew that the end was “still several years away” because one of the key parts of the book involves the government encouraging human microchip implants (Chad’s Blog).

2008 – Chad and Tammy file for Bankruptcy. The bankruptcy records show they have over $100,000 in debt related Spring Creek Book Company. They have assets totaling $149,657.21 but debts in the amount of $353,853.21. Assets include a home in Springville worth $135,900, less than $100 in their bank accounts, various household items and their book company worth an estimated $0. Also listed as asset - 'Copyrights to twenty (20) books written by debtor/website. (annual income of about $2,000, however this decreases every year)' They own a 1997 Mazda Protege (worth $2k) and 2005 Chrysler Town & County van (worth $10k), a turtle, two rabbits and a parakeet. They owe $95,352 to Gmac Mortgage for their home, $7,024 on a 2nd mortgage and $36,699.11 to Central Bank for a 'Statutory lien.' They list five kids ranging from 8 years to 16 years. Both list their jobs as book publishers - Chad's average income was $3,385 and Tammy pulled in $1,579. The docs listed monthly expenses in the amount of $3,927. At the time, Chad was working part-time at Springville City Corp and Tammy was working part-time as an Overload Tech. (Radar Online, Daily Mail).

Sep 2008 – An article in the Daily Herald, a Utah publication, dated 9/17/2008, announces that “Air Force Reserve Airman Melani L Cope has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. During the six weeks of training, the airman […] received physical training, rifle marksmanship, field training exercises, and special training in human relations. […] Cope is the daughter of Steve Cope of Edgewood, Washington, and granddaughter of Kathleen Cope of Orem.” (source Mil - Cope )

2008 – Lori’s niece, Melani, daughter of late Stacey Cox Cope, marries Brandon Boudreaux (BB) (Daily Mail).

Mar 2008 - Lori and CV sign a "lien release form" together in Travis Co, TX (Court records).

Aug 2008 to 2009 - Chad works as a Part-Time Cemetery Maintenance Worker in Springville, UT (KSL TV).

19 Dec 2008 – JR requests dismissal of an appeal against Lori Vallow in the 3rd court of Appeals, 345 District Court of Travis Co, Texas; the court grants his request. Joseph Anthony Ryan, Jr. v. Lori N. Vallow--Appeal from 345th District Court of Travis County

26 Jan 2009 – Lori and CV sign forms for authorization for someone to pay property tax on their behalf in Travis Co, Texas (Court records).

1 Feb 2009 – Chad takes a cemetery sexton job in Spanish Fork City. He says he took the job due to the recession’s impact on the book publishing industry (Spanish Fork Press/Daily Herald).

17 July 2009 - Lori’s Ex-husband, JR, again files a custody suit against Lori in the State of TX. This suit is carried over to the AZ courts and a note about it in Maricopa County, AZ records that reads: “FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS INTERLOCUTORY/OF 7/17/09 IN SUIT TO MODIFY PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP” (Court Records).

2009 – A civil court finds Lori in contempt and charges her with judicial interference for disobeying a child custody agreement with Joseph Ryan in regards to Tylee (Feb 2020 bond reduction hearing).

2009 – Lori is found guilty of 7 different civil contempt charges (Per Prosecutor Wood in Lori’s Initial Appearance 6 Mar 2020).

2010 – Chad and Tammy’s Bankruptcy case is officially closed, with about $203,000 of their debt forgiven (Daily Mail).

2011 – Lori’s brother Alex is ordered by a Travis Co, TX Court to pay Lori’s ex-husband/Tylee’s father, Joseph Ryan, $5000 in restitution for the 2007 taser assault; Alex is placed on probation (Fox10 Phoenix).

27 July 2011 – Lori calls and cancels a July 30th court ordered psych eval appointment, saying that her sister in another state gave birth to a baby with medical complications and Lori was leaving town to be with her sister. Lori requested to change her appointment to Oct 4th (KSLTV).

30 July 2011 – Lori was originally scheduled for a court ordered pysch eval in relation to a custody case concerning CV’s 2 sons. She canceled this saying she was going out of town (KSLTV).

31 July 2011 – A psychologist decides to call Lori to schedule an appointment earlier after a concern that Lori is a “flight risk” was brought up in court (KSLTV).

1 Aug 2011 - Lori showed up early for her psych eval appointment (KSLTV).

5 Aug 2011 – Lori’s Ex-husband, JR, files “Petition to modify child custody, parenting time and child support” in Maricopa County, AZ Family Court. JR claims Lori will not let him see his daughter, Tylee, despite their custody agreement. (Court records, AZ Family News).

13 Aug 2011 – A process server serves Lori with the Aug 5th petition through serving her husband CV. The document ordered Lori to undergo a psychological evaluation after she told social workers “death would be an option before giving Tylee to her father, Mr. Joseph Ryan, even for a visit.” The document goes on to say “These are real and serious concerns,” (KSLTV).

2011 - A civil court again finds Lori in contempt and charges her with judicial interference for disobeying a child custody agreement with Joseph Ryan in regards to Tylee (Feb 2020 bond reduction hearing).

23 Sept 2011 – Chad claims that Tammy’s deceased grandmother, LC, visited him and told him Tammy needed to stop playing the computer game “Frontierville” and get back to working on genealogy and temple work; Chad typed up the message and gave it to Tammy and her parents to read that day; Sept 23 was LC’s birthday so they took this as a sign she had spoken to him; Chad says in a 2015 blog post that every Sept 23rd he waits for another visit, but so far LC’s been quiet (Chad’s Blog).

c. May 2012 - CD had started publishing not-Mormon doctrine stories, which SF (author published by CD) didn’t want her name to be associated with, he wanted to take out the LDS stuff from her books, then in May (she thinks about 8 years ago) CD told her he was not going to publish any more books because the call-out was going to happen. The call-out meant (according to online groups not the Church) a call-out by the prophets to those LDS with food storage and a temple recommend to go to the Church’s girls camps before any tribulations and invasions. After that when the call-out didn’t happen he did publish more books. (source EIN video 4 Jun 2020)

25 May 2012 - Joshua Jaxson “JJ” Vallow is born in Louisiana. He weighs 2lb 14 oz at birth. JJ would later be diagnosed with special needs- Autism and ADHD, and prescribed medication. JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW cared for him for 9 or 10 months prior to allowing KW’s brother, CV and his wife, Lori, to adopt him (Rexburg Standard Journal, East Idaho News).

5 June 2012 - Lori’s Ex-husband, JR, files more petitions against Lori to modify child custody and child support arrangements for Tylee in Maricopa County, AZ. The court battle goes on until 2014 when it appears that JR won his case as the document reads: “Stipulation To Credit (Offset) Petitioner/Father's Child Support Obligations for Seven (7) Months Commencing June 1, 2014” (Court records).

Feb 2013 – CV (56) and LV (39), living in Phoenix, AZ, took possession of 9 mos. old baby JJ Vallow from KW and LW who had cared for him full-time since birth, and started the adoption process which would take 17 mos. to complete. (source KW int. with Gray Hughes 26 Dec 2019) (TR was 10 and CR was 16, CV and LV had been married 7 years)

May 2013 to Oct 2014 - Chad works as Springville Cemetery Sexton (KSL TV).

11 Apr 2013 – Baby JJ takes his first steps at 13 months old (East Idaho News).

Approx 2013 – CV and Lori begin the legal process to adopt JJ.

Feb 2014 – Chad first meets Julie Rowe on an online forum called AVOW; Chad helped publish her book about a near-death experience she had in 2004. She became close friends with the Daybells and there was a 3 year period of time where Julie would visit Chad & Tammy in their Rexburg home at least once a month (Fox10 Phoenix, Fox13 SLC).
(source Inside Edition)

April 15, 2014 – Tylee answers questions on Askfm. https://******/tyleearyan

May 2014 – Tylee Joins Twitter. Tylee Ryan (@tyleearyan) | Twitter

May 2014 – CD published JuR’s first book. (source Inside Edition)

1 June 2014 – JR wins a custody petition against Lori involving adjustment of child support and parenting time with Tylee. Docs read: “Stipulation To Credit (Offset) Petitioner/Father's Child Support Obligations for Seven (7) Months Commencing June 1, 2014” (Court records).

25 July 2014: CV and Lori finalize the adoption of JJ (KW; Post Register); The final decree of adoption from the 14th Judicial District Court Parish of Calcasieu, Louisiana establishes Lori and Charles as JJ’s legal parents (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc). CR is 18 and TR is 11.

Jul 2014 – JuR first met CD and TD in person. She went on to become friends with CD, TD and their children. (source Inside Edition )

August 2014 – Chad’s mom rents a large cabin in Island Park, Idaho for an extended family vacation trip. On this Idaho trip Chad hears a voice say “You’ll live here soon.” (Chad's Blog 14- Following the path to . . .Idaho? | cdaybell.com ).

End of 2014/Beginning of 2015 -Lori and Charles Vallow move to Hawaii with JJ and Tylee to start a juice bar called "Juice Island". This business was reportedly a failure and they would eventually move back to AZ (Note: Date based on business filing dates and social media posts; story about the juice bar was from insider posts on WS and confirmed by business filings).

8 Dec 2014 – Lori and Charles Vallow register a business called “Juice Island Hawaii LLC” in Princeville, HI.

2014 – Move to Hawaii:-

KM: “In 2014 after Colby graduated from High School Lori and Charles and the kids moved to Kauai. Lori was working through the church near her home, where she became a youth leader, where she met April Raymond.”
AR: “We became fast friends. I was a fitness instructor and she was a fitness instructor. She’d been divorced and so here’s another Mormon woman that’s been divorced and been through what I’ve been through. We connected on that level. I felt understood by her.”
KM: What was she like?
AR: “Really fun. Fun to be around, really positive. Full of energy. Full of life. Really nice to me, my boys. Just enveloped us really quickly into her life. It was like oh my goodness this must have been meant to be, that’s how I felt. I felt it was divine design.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

2014 or 2015 – ‘TR turned into a zombie when she was 12 or 13’, which was when she became “difficult” to deal with, according to what LV told MG on an unknown date in 2019. (sources 06/30/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball and 06/29/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball) On Dateline Ep.3 (6/22) MG says CD told LV this.

2015 - Colby's move back to AZ:-

KM: “Colby had grown up. Felt the urge to get his own life going. By then 19, CR moved back to the mainland.”
CR: “I felt especially for Tylee. I wouldn’t say fatherhood role but a positive influence of someone who gives her enough love.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

Approx 2015: Lori becomes “obsessed with Chad’s books,” especially his “Standing in Holy Places” series. A friend of Lori's says: “Those books she got really obsessed with and started buying me those books too. She must have gotten close to him from his book.” (Fox 5; Post Register). In one of those books a character named Tad is upset at his wife Emma for following prophesies signaling the end of the world. Tad says, “I’m not the one tearing our family apart. You’re the one who is selfishly taking my children away!’” Also in the series the fictional Tad “is running from law enforcement and describes how difficult it is to sleep.” (Adam Herbets, Fox13 SLC).

12 Jan 2015 - Lori and Charles Vallow register a business called “JUICE ISLAND - PRINCEVILLE LLC” in Princeville, HI.

Feb 2015 - Chad has a vision of walking a path and hearing a voice say, “Moving to Rexburg will be a tremendous blessing to your children and your grandchildren.” A few weeks after that Chad was eating dinner with his family and said “When we move to Rexburg . . .” He had not brought it up before and “Tammy wasn’t thrilled” but soon Tammy agreed and was looking at real estate in Rexburg (Chad's blog 14- Following the path to . . .Idaho? | cdaybell.com ).

2015 – age 47 – CD wrote on his website about the message his grandpa told him as a teenager in the 1980s.

June 2015 – Chad and Tammy Daybell buy a house and move to Rexburg, Idaho. Tammy worked as assistant librarian at Madison Middle School. She later became the librarian at Central Elementary School in Sugar City, Idaho (Chad's blog).

25 June 2015 – Tylee Tweets a photo with a friend captioned: “4 more days until Hawaii with this chick”.

11 July 2015 – Tylee Tweets a photo with a friend doing Charlie’s Angel poses, captioned: “Partner’s in Crime”.

27 July 2015 – Tylee Tweets a photo with a friend captioned “gonna miss this girl”.

4 Aug 2015 – Lori and Charles Vallow register a business entity called “JUICE ISLAND - LIHUE LLC” in Princeville, HI.

27 Sep 2015 - Total Supermoon Lunar Eclipse, AKA “Blood Moon”.

Oct 2015 – Chad takes over the day to day operations as Editor of a newsletter called Global Research Initiative (GRI), in conjunction with a forum called LDS-AVOW. The original founder of GRI, Roger K. Young will act as guest commentator (GRI Website).

2016 – Chad works as “sales executive at Falls Printing” (according to his LinkedIn & Daily Mail).

c. 2016– According to AR (paraphrased):- LV always had a lot of help with JJ. When they lived on Kauai she always had a nanny, usually a live-in nanny, and once he went to school CV was always there to help her manage JJ. It wasn’t something she could do on her own. AR would describe LV as more of a martyr with regards to JJ. CV would help JJ reach certain developmental milestones and LV would discount them and act as if CV was reading too much into JJ’s progress, things like learning the alphabet and recognizing words. She didn’t seem to celebrate those accomplishments the same way that CV did. (source Nancy Grace podcast interview April Raymond 6 Jul 2020)

Approx 2016 or 2017 – Lori and Chad may have met for the first time as early as 2016 or 2017. Lori’s friend says in a Dec 2019 interview that Lori first became “obsessed” with Chad’s books about 4 years ago. JJ’s grandmother, KW says in a 30 Jan 2020 presser that she believes Lori & Chad may have met in 2016 or 2017. (Friend interview, Fox7 Austin, & KW’s Presser video).

2 January 2016 – Tylee joins Poshmark in Jan 2016 but there is no visible activity after Jan 2.
Tylee Ryan's Closet (@tyleearyan) | Poshmark

1 Feb 2016 – Lori posts a photo to Instagram from Anini Beach, Kalihiwai, HI.
@lolo4kauai on Instagram: “Just a morning stroll in paradise”

2 Mar 2016 – Tylee creates a project on Prezi about Abraham Lincoln: Baltimore Sun

12 Mar 2016 – Tylee retweets a post that says “someone help me i cant stop being hungry”. This is her last activity on Twitter. Tylee Ryan (@tyleearyan) | Twitter

2 Jun 2016 – Alex is featured on a youtube video doing Looney Tunes impressions for a radio show producer, KD (Fox 10 Phoenix).

18 June 2016 – Tylee posts a beach photo taken in Kakaha, Hawaii to her photography Instagram. @tylee.photography on Instagram: “Black sand beaches”

8 July 2016 – Tylee posts a photo to her photography Instagram with the caption “Hanalei dayss”. @tylee.photography on Instagram: “Hanalei dayss”

19 July 2016 – Tylee creates an account on fanfiction.net with the username “typicaltylee” typicaltylee | FanFiction

20 July 2016 - Lori gets a traffic ticket for using her phone while driving in Kauai, HI. (Court records).

24 Sept 2016 – Tylee’s 14th birthday. Lori wishes Tylee happy birthday on her Instagram. @lolo4kauai on Instagram: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my little girl who is all grown up!! your mommy loves u so much ”

28 September 2016 – Lori dissolves one of the 3 Hawaii business entities (Juice Island - Lihue LLC). The other Juice Island LLC’s are listed as “delinquent” for 2016, 2017 and 2018 due to no filings and the state administratively dissolved the entities in 2018.

Dec 2016 – Tylee is listed on the Honor Role as a Freshman at Kapaa High School in Hawaii. http://kapaahighschool.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/PCNC-Connection-Dec-2016.pdf

Late 2016/Early 2017 - Lori and the children move from HI to AZ (Date based on business filings and Tylee's school enrollment in HI).

c. early 2017 – LV and CV move back to AZ (CR 20, TR 14, JJ 4 1/2) :-

KM: “Something had been broken. Charles had become an issue for Lori too. Charles had been a catholic when he married Lori, converted to Mormonism for her, embraced the faith, attended their local LDS church enthusiastically. Lori, said April, seemed to have decided she was growing spiritually, becoming superior -”
AR: “He wasn’t that strong, dynamic, spiritual leader that I think she wanted him to be. She didn’t feel like they were on the same spiritual level. And how she had this tremendous longing to be with a partner that was at her same level of spiritual understanding.”
KM: “Soon after that Lori broke the news to April the family was moving back to AZ.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

2016/7 – from KW and LW interview (8 Apr 2020) - <snip> LW: “I had told Kay a couple of years, two and a half years prior to all of this, maybe even three years, I said there’s something not right with their relationship. And Kay who loved Lori said ‘oh no, they’re fine, JJ is a full time job, oh my god that boy never quits’, and I said ‘okay maybe that’s it’, but my intuition was telling me that there’s an issue, there’s something going on, but I’ll be the first to say I really didn’t think it was an affair, because she loved Charles. Either she’s the greatest actor in the world over 12, 13, 14 years or that’s just a personality trait that she has that she can do these things, and that’s the reason now that I really believe that there’s a mental problem with her.” <snip>

8 Feb 2017 to 23 Mar 2017 - Tylee is enrolled at Desert Ridge High School in Gilbert, AZ (AZ Family News).

7 Mar 2017 – Chad writes on his blog that he is close to finished writing a book called “Reclaiming Liberty,” but he will not be releasing it until there is “a major earthquake in the western United States”. He also announces that he will release a short autobiography about his two near-death experiences. Update on Reclaiming Liberty | cdaybell.com

Spring or fall 2017 – CD came to JuR and said that he had had a vision that TD had died in a car accident. (source Court TV video ‘He sold his soul…’ 25 Jun 2020)

16 Mar 2017 – Tylee creates a project on Prezi about Linear Functions: #1:

28 March 2017 – Tylee is enrolled in Perry High School in Chandler, AZ and finishes the school year there (AZ Family News).

29 Mar 2017 – Tylee creates a Roblox account under username “Typicaltylee”. Profile - Roblox

19 May 2017 – age 49 - Chad announces on his blog the release of his autobiography “Living on the Edge of Heaven” discussing his two near-death experiences and his interactions with deceased relatives. At the beginning of the book is a dedication to his wife Tammy: “My one and only.” Chad writes in the book he has had visions of himself as an older man “helping build New Jerusalem,” and “I appear to be in better shape in the future than I am now, probably due to the lack of fast food in Zion.” (Chad’s blog, Fox13 SLC Special Report w/Adam Herbets)

June 2017 – Family members say Lori and Chad first met sometime around June 2017 (Daily Mail).

2017 – According to SF (author published by CD) – SF tried to get the rights to her books back. SF owed him money so she paid him but he still didn’t give her rights back. SF went to an attorney who read through the contract and said he’d never seen a publisher’s contract so one-sided. She didn’t have the money to fight it. CD sent her $400 but she worked out he made six times that amount. SF thought it was dishonest. After her first interview on 4 Jun 2020, SF discovered an email she sent CD in 2017 when she was trying to get her rights back, saying wtte ‘if you continue to publish this material (about the call-out and predictions) there will be death and sorrow’. (source EIN videos 4 Jun 2020 and 17 Jun 2020)

Summer of 2017 – Chad meets author and podcaster, Melanie Gibb (MG), for the first time after he speaks at a campout in Northern Utah. MG invites him to speak in her hometown of Mesa, Arizona (Chad's Forward for MG's book).

2017? - MG met CD for the first time “at an event speaking about his last-days dreams and visions”, a camp in Ogden, northern Utah. She “thought his dreams were interesting.” (source EIN interview)

c. 2017 – MBP allegedly found out her dad had allegedly been lying : -

MBP: “Up until 3 years ago I didn’t know that my dad had been telling everybody this other side, of, ‘hey your mom died of anorexia, and she was mentally ill’ and basically made himself look like ‘here, I took you away from her’ and I knew that didn’t feel right and I was kind of in shock that everybody in the whole world thinks that she died of anorexia and she’s not here to tell her story and I have all of her medical records and all the court documents and I just, it’s hard seeing the same patterns of what happened to my mom now happened in my life where my kids are taken away from me wrongfully, and things are said about me that aren’t true…” (source EIN May 2020 interview)

24 Sept 2017 – Tylee’s 15th birthday. Lori posts a “happy birthday” message to her on Instagram that mentions Perry High School in Gilbert, AZ. @lolo4kauai on Instagram: “My Beautiful daughter turned 15 today ! Happy birthday Ty Ty !! I love you so much!!! JJ says "hi Tylee Ryan Perry High School " ”

Dec 2017 – Lori and Chad made their first appearance together on a podcast (Daily Mail)

Timeline Part III of XXI (Update 9) - 25 Feb 2006 (post CV & LV wedding day) TO end of 2017

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part IV of XXI (Update 9)

2018

FOUND DECEASED: Joshua Jaxson “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell and Chad Guy Daybell​

Dec 2017 to early 2018 – Charles Vallow talks to dog trainer, NM, about getting JJ a service dog. NM recommends a Goldendoodle breed commonly trained for children on the autism spectrum and NM trains the dog for JJ. JJ named his dog Bailey after NM’s own dog with the same name. Bailey helps JJ sleep through the night. "Sometimes kids with autism will wander off, they will get distracted. Bailey was there to keep him on task and alert the parents if he was wandering off…He would get up in the middle of the night and they had to have all the doors locked and everything secured so he wouldn’t wander off into the neighborhood," said NM. "When we got to that point in the lesson, the Vallows said that was one of the first nights JJ stayed in his bed and slept through the night, because he had Bailey in bed there with him," said NM. (Fox10 Phoenix, ABC15).

Jan 2018 – Lori’s son Colby gets married in the backyard of Lori & Charles’ home at 3688 E Runaway Bay Pl, Queens Creek, AZ. Tylee arrives late for the wedding after the photos are already taken. CR says life at this time was “totally normal” and everyone was happy. CR lived with Lori and CV until he was married and then he moved out to start his own family with his wife. CR says while Lori & CV had arguments like any married couple it was a normal, good relationship at this time (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

KM: “You got married, did that affect your relationship with your mom?”
CR: “Oh absolutely. I think that what happened was it just became a competition.”
KM: “Your mom was treating you like a boyfriend not like a son.”
CR: “Mm, oh, 100%.”
KM: “Got angry when you went anyway.”
CR: “Yeah.”
(source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

2018 – Tylee and her brother Colby begin a “mentoring” type relationship through texting each other. The siblings don’t talk on the phone much other than an occasional facetime but CR says he makes an effort to text Tylee frequently and ask her how she is doing (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

Late March 2018 - Joseph Anthony Ryan, Jr. -- 3rd ex-husband of Lori, and father of Tylee dies in his apartment in Maricopa County, AZ. His body is not found until a neighbor’s dog detects a strange smell and the neighbor calls police (KTVB7, KSL-TV). He was 58 - source The Sun.

TR, age 15, was left money by JoR - source The Sun.

JoR had moved to Phoenix AZ from Austin TX just to be near TR. LV told KW that JoR was dead for 3 weeks before he was found. (source KW int. Gray Hughes 26 Dec 2019).

MG: “I know Tylee received money from her father’s death.” (source EIN interview)

3 Apr 2018 - Joseph Anthony Ryan, Jr. -- 3rd ex-husband of Lori, and father of Tylee, is found deceased in his AZ home. The ME’s report reveals that a neighbor asked for a welfare check on JR when he hadn’t seen JR for approx 1 week. Police used a key from the landlord to enter JR’s locked apartment and found him dead in bed. The coroner’s report says that samples of the liver and thigh muscles were taken to be “held” for toxicology, but the death was not considered suspicious; it is unclear if toxicology was ever run. The death was ruled a heart attack and JR was cremated, meaning no 2nd autopsy can be done (Maricopa Co ME Report, Fox13 Phoenix). After JR’s death Lori applies for and receives SS survivor benefits for Tylee, or so she told her sister-in-law, KW (KW’s 30 Jan 2020 Presser).

Early Apr 2018 – Lori is notified of the death of her ex-husband, JR, but she doesn’t tell JR’s family about it (KSLTV).

After 3 Apr 2018 - After JR's death, Lori reportedly tells a family member she received JR’s life insurance policy and plans to share it with Tylee. Lori also allegedly said to the family member that JR was "evil" and "God took care of him." (AZ Family News).

May 2018 – About 5 weeks after JR’s body was found, JR’s sister, Annie, finds out about JR’s death from her other brother. No one had claimed JR’s body, so officials found ran a background check and called her brother. “That really took me back, I thought ‘you knew and didn’t tell me?” Annie said. (KSLTV)

May 2018 – Lori asks JR’s sister Annie (Tylee’s aunt) to visit AZ to support Tylee. “I decided to put my personal feelings aside about not being told about Joe’s death and I flew out there, hoping to connect with Tylee,” Annie said. When Annie arrived in AZ, Lori discouraged Tylee from mourning her father’s death. “When I got there, it was as if, nothing had happened,” Annie said. “People were hardly talking about Joe and when Lori did, the tenor was — she would actually say, ‘the world is a better place without Joe Ryan.’” Annie also noticed, “There was also a lot of tension between Tylee and Lori” (KSLTV).

24 May 2018 –After visiting Lori and Tylee, JR’s sister Annie texts her daughter: “It was absolutely exhausting. I dealt with so many lies, even with little things. I think [Lori’s] unhinged and untethered from truth” and “Lolo was crazy. I saw a dark side of her when I was there that makes me question some of her claims” and “I regret going down there. She may be a sociopath.” And “Way More. That’s what makes me feel Lori was a sociopath. To her, this was all a game. She had no empathy for the suffering anyone else was experiencing, including Tylee” (KSLTV).

After May 2018 – Tylee’s aunt Annie was so shaken that she decided to cut ties with Lori. “I just left exhausted from the constant campaigning [against Joseph Ryan] and Lolo’s out-of-control ego. But I feel trapped. I connected with Tylee but don’t want anything to do with Lolo ever again.” Annie said in a text message to her daughter. That visit was the last time Annie ever saw Tylee (KSLTV).

June 2018 – Note: According to the Feb 14th 2020 Dateline episode June 2018 is when Lori and Charles moved back to AZ from HI, however, this date does not make sense with the events listed above, notably CR’s January 2018 Wedding at Lori and CV’s house in AZ, JJ getting his dog Bailey from an AZ trainer and Tylee’s Aunt visiting them in AZ the month after Joe Ryan died. Unsure if it is the correct month/year listed.

June 2018 – Chad finishes writing his “Times of Turmoil” book series and "felt prompted" to speak about the book in AZ in July. He contacts author Melanie Gibb and MG arranges a joint speaking event with Chad and another speaker (Chad’s blog).

3 June 2018 – Tylee creates a 2nd Roblox account under username “Tyleearyan”. Profile - Roblox

7 June 2018 – Tylee joins Wattpad; Her location is shown as Chandler, AZ. Tylee Ryan (@TyleeRyan) - Wattpad

27 June 2018 – Chad announces a book signing on his blog for his book “Reclaiming Liberty”, the last book in his “Times of Turmoil” series.

30 June 2018 – Chad holds a book signing in Sugar City, ID (Chad’s blog It’s finally here! | cdaybell.com ).

13 July 2018 – Chad speaks at an event in Mesa, AZ with another author and he has a book signing after; This event was arranged by Chad’s author friend, Melanie Gibb (Websleuths Verified Insider).

25 July 2018 – Tylee adds song “watch” by Billie Eilish to her Youtube channel. This appears to be her last activity on Youtube. tylee ryan

24 Sept 2018 – Tylee’s 16th birthday.

Sept 2018 - Chad starts speaking on a podcast called "Glimpses Through the Veil" (Podcast website & Event Flyers).

15 Sept 2018 - Chad speaks at a prepper event in Brigham City, Utah (Event Flyers).

October 2018 – MG was teaching an evening class at church and LV introduced herself to MG in the hallway. LV told MG about a lot of personal spiritual experiences that she had. They hit it off. As the friendship grew “we talked a lot about the second coming as well and how excited we are for the things that we’d been studying and learning.” “We talked about JJ being a handful, being autistic and what that was like.” (source EIN interview)

MG tells Dateline’s KM in an extra: “she had this personality that kind of feels like Velcro, she just takes you in and she just doesn’t let you go, and at first it’s kind of cute because she just like dotes on you, and she buys things, but it’s so manipulating and deceiving but I had never had that experience being deceived by or manipulated by a person, but she would take care of you, ‘oh I need to get this for you’, ‘oh you should do this’ always telling you what to do but kind of in a fun way, and so she just had this way of making you feel like what she was saying was true, because she’d give you amazing experiences that she had, and they sounded really believable, because she was really good at telling you what she would hear from the other side of the veil or what her experiences were in sacred places.” (source Video)

26-27 Oct 2018 - Chad speaks at a prepper event in St George, Utah (Event Flyers). :-

According to MG, she and LV drove to an event in St George, Utah. CD was selling his books and speaking and “that’s when they [LV and CD] got to meet” and MG started to get to know CD more. MG can’t recall if she introduced them. “We were there for 2 or 3 days, and I think he was there for 2 days, and she talked to him a lot about his books and asked a lot of questions.” “They just started talking about these different beliefs that generally are not something you would learn in church. They developed that connection right there.” “It was a step further [than if you found somebody at church and discussed similar beliefs].” CD shared with LV that they had been married before multiple times in previous lives. LV “seemed to understand that teaching already”, through podcasts. MG and LV knew CD had a wife and 5 children. “From there we went back to AZ and he came down to AZ when it was the next event, in November.” (source EIN interview)

Fall 2018 – MBP: “I met Chad initially in the fall of 2018. He was selling his books and I met him and he was very quiet, humble guy. Seemed kind, kind of kept to himself. I had no reason to think he was anything other than trying to sell his books and be a good person. Lori and Chad had a friendship. I don’t know when they initially met.” (source 12News’ Erica Stapleton’s May 2020 interview)

KM: “In fall of 2018 Lori and niece Melani attended a prepper event, hosted by a group called Preparing a People. They met Chad.”
MBP: “There was a ‘prepare a people’ conference. He got up, talked about his books.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

Oct 2018 – Lori’s husband, CV, finds multiple emails between Lori and Chad (Fox10 Phoenix).

16-17 Nov 2018 - Chad speaks at a prepper event in Mesa, AZ (Event Flyers). A forged email written in Charles’ name, and sent to Chad in June 2019, claims Chad stayed at Lori and Charles’ AZ home during this event. It’s unclear if Chad actually stayed there during this event (Fox10 Phoenix, KSL).

The weekend before Thanksgiving 2018 – PaP Conference - Mesa, AZ – an attendee tells Inside Edition that she travelled from Utah and LV offered to let her, CD, MG and others stay overnight at her AZ home (identified as Queen Creek house by photos) while CV and the children were out of town. (source Inside Edition 19 Jun 2020)

MG: “Many people, some of my friends, some of LV’s friends and CD all got to stay in her house. He spent some time talking to us as well.” CV was not there. LV and CD “went on a jog in the morning together…he was teaching us about some of his understandings about multiple lives [probations]…”There wasn’t any group, it was just him talking to people individually…he was private, he would talk with her and she would share it with us. He was doing this with others as well, men and women…Did I ever believe any of it 100%? No…It does not represent our church’s teachings at all..

“He goes back home and they’re communicating on the phone every single day…I knew [she might be falling in love with him]…I said ‘why don’t you go ahead and get a divorce?’ and they were told that they weren’t allowed to…something they received from the other side of the veil is how they would speak about it..

“a lot of us don’t understand what those words mean [CULT] I would say it’s teachings…and then you have doctrine which is not affiliated with Christianity and it comes from the adversary…it’s enticing because how many people do you hear of even in the world that want to know about their future?..or their fortune?..so you keep going more and more into it…I didn’t see him forming any groups per se, PaP is not a cult, they did not know about CD and LV’s relationship.”

MG went over [later date] when CV was “cooking a BBQ…and there was swimming in the pool with the kids. He seemed like a nice guy, happy to meet us. He was talking about his conversion to the church and he seemed to be pretty excited about it. There seemed to be some arguing often when I would see them together, he was trying to do things to help her and please her and she seemed like she was struggling to be happy by that…There seemed to be a lot of contention between the two of them.” MG never saw CV become angry or lose his temper with LV or the kids. (source MG’s EIN interview)

KM: “One weekend when Charles was out of town on business Lori decided to hold a spiritual conference at her house and Chad drove all the way from Rexburg, 13 hours, to be there.”
MG: “Chad was there and he spent the night in the large house. He was telling us some of the deeper mysteries of God. He seemed to have a great respect for women. I think that was pleasing to Lori. He seemed to be convinced that she was a very powerful woman.” (source Dateline episode 3 “What Happened to JJ and Tylee” aired 22 Jun 2020)

Late 2018 – Lori and Chad met at a “prepper event” in AZ where Chad gave a talk. (Dateline).

Nov 2018 – Brenda Dye is elected to her position as Fremont Co Coroner. She has a high school education and works as an advanced EMT at Fremont Co EMS (Post Register).

End of 2018 – from KW/LW interview (8 Apr 2020) - <snip> “the end of 2018 we saw him (CV) a LOT, he and JJ they would come visit, or we met in different places a little vacation and it was unusual for that many visits in that close of a timeframe, but we knew something was going on” <snip>

Dec 2018 – JuR claims CD made unwanted sexual advances towards her at that time. (source Court TV video ‘He sold his soul…’ 25 Jun 2020, also Inside Edition 19 Jun 2020)

4 Dec 2018 – Lori does her first podcast with Melanie Gibb (MG) & Jason Mow (JM) titled “Time to Warrior Up”. JM says he first met Lori at Temple, they had an “instant connection” and he knew she was a “gatherer”. JM then connected Lori with MG. JM tells a story about working for the Phoenix PD and how he had a fight with a suspect; JM was seriously injured during the fight – detached hamstrings from the pelvis. JM says he retired from Phoenix PD in 2017. During the podcast, “Lori mentions how suffering leads to salvation and that even though she doesn’t want her kids to suffer, she understands they have to in order to see the light.” (Fox 10 Phoenix).

5 Dec 2018 – Lori & Chad, along with Melanie Gibb & Jason Mow, do a 2nd “Time to Warrior Up” podcast with the topic mostly being about the end of the world (East Idaho News, HLN True Crime).

c. end of 2018 – Re. the end of the world in ‘Jul 2020’ –
MG: ”the belief system was she believed that there was going to be an earthquake that was going to hit so large in Utah by the end of 2019 that they wouldn’t notice anything in her personal life going on. So if she were to marry Chad for example she said that like probably a year before that, when Chad and I get married someday nobody will notice we’re married because of the earthquake and the different destruction going on. I never heard that date [July], I always heard August. That comes from a few different ideas – it didn’t come from her, I’ll just say that, it came from researching she did on her own about the year 2020 would be like a half an hour silence in heaven, it matched up to that year.” (source EIN interview)


Timeline Part IV of XXI (Update 9) - 2018

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part V OF XXI (Update 9)

1 January 2019 TO 28 February 2019

FOUND DECEASED : Joshua Jaxson “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell and Chad Guy Daybell​

Early 2019 – MG was present when CD first taught LV about zombies over the phone, in reference to CV. At some point CD and LV told MG that they believed they were part of the “Church of the Firstborn” and their mission was to lead the “144,000” mentioned in the Book of Revelation, and to rid the world of “zombies”. sources - 06/29/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball and 06/30/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball

Jan 1st/2nd 2019 – MG was present with LV during a phone call between CD and LV. The call was in response to a vision LV had that CV and JJ were going to die in a car accident by Jan 1st or 2nd 2019. LV told MG that CD told her that CV had not died in an accident his spirit had left his body and been replaced by another spirit which was a dark spirit, named Ned Schneider. Weeks after this (MG has informed law enforcement) the word “zombie” was introduced for individuals whose body was inhabited by dark spirits. When LV initially spoke to MG about getting rid of zombies (corroborated by electronic communications made by LV and CD) she spoke about saying prayers to remove dark spirits inhabiting human bodies. source - 06/29/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball

Jan 2019 – “Kay Woodcock says her brother Charles knew about his wife’s relationship with doomsday author Chad Daybell since last January (2019)”
KW: “Charles showed me several things from his emails that indicated that they were having an affair.” (Source JLum, Fox10 interview of Woodcocks 11 Apr 2020)

Jan 2019 – Chad is a guest interview on “Time To Warrior Up” podcast with Lori co-hosting the podcast along with hosts JM & MG (podcast website).

Jan 2019 – A prescription for JJ’s autism medication, Risperidone, is filled (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc, East Idaho News).

Jan 2019 (Approx) - Lori emails Chad a video of herself dancing; Charles found the video because Lori was not technologically savvy and did not delete the email from the “sent” folder. This lead CV to believe Lori was having an affair with Chad (According to CV’s sister KW, in Jan 30, 2020 Presser).

Jan 2019 – Chad sends an email to Lori on the subject "Seven missions to accomplish together." The email includes translating ancient records, writing a book about it, identifying locations in AZ for "white camps," the presidency of the Church of Firstborn, establishing food distribution as tribulations start, ordaining individuals to translation and providing supplies to righteous family members (Fox10 Phoenix).

22 Jan 2019 – KM: “Jan 22nd 2019 according to KW, Lori got an email from her new religious guru Chad Daybell. Subject a demon with a name Nick Schneider.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

Jan 2019 - MG: “The first person [to be considered a zombie] was Charles. That was brought to LV’s attention by CD on the phone. I was in her house when that phone call came in. he described to her that Charles was no longer Charles, this unclean spirit that was friends with Charles on Earth has attached himself to Charles, entered his body and taken over it. He is Ned Snyder. She seemed blown out by it, [the first day]. Chad had this influence on people because he had visionary experience. I have come to understand that that gift has been manipulated by the adversary...I’m not sure if they used that word [zombie] in the beginning. ”
MG went with LV to her mental health evaluation. “She said she passed with flying colors. I waited on the outside for her. Tylee was the one that picked us up from there. They went in the back room and they talked to her about all kinds of stuff. She didn’t tell me in detail all the things, I probably didn’t want to know.”
NE: Do you think she was honest with them in her religious beliefs or did she lie and give them the answers they wanted to hear?
MG: “I should have asked her that but I didn’t.”
MG: [CV’s] “truck was moved from the airport. When he came back from his flight there was no truck…It was a lot of drama and I would ask her ‘why do these things keep happening to you?’ Because I have never been around so much drama in my life. It just seemed like one drama after another drama and it never ended. I used to say ‘why does everyone in your life turn into zombies?’ and she would say ‘it’s because Satan really hates me’.”
MG: “It was their commission to get rid of all the zombies before tribulations came upon us...through some kind of prayer that they would do. They would go back in the portal to check how many died, 10,000 died or whatever.”
MG: “I asked her [LV] ‘you were told he [CV] was supposed to die, why didn’t he die?’ I think she went to Chad and asked and he let her know that the accident that was supposed to happen didn’t because of people’s choices, agency.”
NE: It sounds to me that Chad was calling the shots”
MG: “She would say ‘he’s so much better at getting revelation than me, so I used to get a lot but I rely upon him a lot more now’. So she trusted his, because she was not considered a visionary. So he would tell her…’these people are dark or zombie’ or whatever. He was the one she would call and ask those questions.” (source EIN interview).

Late January 2019 – Abt 2 weeks before CV files for divorce, Lori takes JJ and moves out of the Chandler, AZ home she was sharing with CV. JJ’s grandmother, KW, says Lori told CV she no longer cared about him or JJ. Then Lori abandons Charles and JJ for 58 days; her whereabouts during this time are unknown and her communication with CV is limited; KW says she believes Tylee was staying with other relatives during this time. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix, KSLTV News).

28 Jan 2019 - Enterprise Rent-A-Car emails CV to say that 2,000 points were transferred out of his rewards account; CV later realizes that Lori transferred the points. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

28 & 29 Jan 2019 - Lori makes multiple transfers of money totaling $35,000 from CV’s business accounts to their personal joint account and then moves the money again from the personal account into an unknown bank account. CV asks Lori to return it all, but she ignores him; CV tries to stop the transfers, but the bank says Lori is a signatory and the payment can't be stopped (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

29 Jan 2019 - CV says Lori called that day and told him she is a god and a "translated being who cannot taste death sent by god to lead the 144,000 into the Millennium". The conversation between Lori and CV would later be documented in both an order of protection and divorce filings: “[Lori] believes that she is receiving spiritual revelations and visions to help her gather and prepare those chosen to live in the New Jerusalem after the Great War as prophesied in the Book of Revelations." Lori also allegedly threatened to murder CV if he stood in her way (Protection Order & Divorce docs, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Jan 2019 – CV is on a business trip in Houston when Lori calls him. Lori kept calling CV by the name “Nick Schneider” on the phone. When CV asked who Nick was, Lori said that CV was Nick because Nick had killed CV and taken his identity. Divorce docs say that Lori again threatens to murder CV when he returned to AZ; she allegedly said she had an angel to help her dispose of CV’s body. She also said she would ruin him financially (Protection Order & Divorce documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

Late Jan 2019 - CV files a petition with Community Bridges Healthcare for a 72-hour hold and evaluation, according to the documents; the staff called Gilbert Police to bring Lori in for treatment if they make contact with her; However Lori is never taken in for the hold and the petition expires (Divorce documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Jan 2019 - Lori allegedly cancels CV’s plane ticket from TX back to AZ using his computer to log in and cancel online without CV’s knowledge. CV is forced to buy a last minute $600 ticket when he arrives at the airport and finds out Lori canceled his ticket. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Jan 2019 – When CV finally arrives back at the Phoenix Airport, he finds that his truck, which he had parked at the airport before leaving AZ, is gone. Lori had a spare key and removed the truck before CV came back. CV attempts to contact Lori but ends up taking a taxi to Mesa and then has a friend pick him up to take him home from there. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Jan 2019 – When CV arrives back at his AZ home he finds Lori has changed the locks and removed “the majority of CV’s possessions”, including CV’s business computer and CV’s shoes, clothing and underwear; Lori also took JJ’s service dog’s collar, JJ’s medicine, clothing and i-pad. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Jan 2019 – Lori calls CV after he returns to AZ and says she is staying in a hotel with JJ. She says she doesn’t want anything to do with the children anymore; she says she will drop off JJ at school in the morning and CV can pick him up in the afternoon. Lori refuses to return CV’s truck for 3 days, so he has to pay for a rental car to go to work and JJ’s school (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Jan 2019, Morning – Gilbert PD is notified of an involuntary hold order to pick up Lori and take her to Community Bridges for 72 hours of observation. GPD goes to CV’s house looking for Lori and talks to CV there; CV tells them Lori changed the locks and moved out (Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Jan 2019, Morning – Lori takes JJ to school. While she is walking JJ inside CV arrives and takes Lori’s purse, phone and car keys out of her car to try to prevent her from leaving before police could get there to pick her up on the involuntary hold order. CV calls GPD to notify them of Lori’s location and request they pick her up, but Lori had a spare car key and left before police arrive (Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Jan 2019 – CV finds a hotel key card for Hyatt in Lori’s purse and goes to the hotel to try to figure out where Lori is staying. GPD made contact with CV at the hotel. The LEO asked CV if he was concerned about JJ’s welfare since CV says Lori was acting unstable; CV suggested that GPD could wait at the school in case Lori came to get JJ and then they could pick her up for the involuntary hold order. GPD told CV they would not do a “sting operation” to pick Lori up. CV then told GPD he needed to go to the bank (Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Jan 2019, 12:36 PM – Lori along with Tylee and Lori’s friend go to Gilbert PD with a harassment complaint. Lori says that her husband, CV, stole her purse from her car while she walked JJ into school. Lori also accuses CV of cheating on her while on his business trips. GPD calls CV with Lori’s permission; CV says that he went to JJ’s school to help GPD serve Lori with an involuntary hold petition. CV says that he saw Lori’s purse outside the school and picked it up to keep it safe; The LEO on the phone informs CV he could be charged with theft but that Lori only wants her property back; CV replies that he wants his share of the money Lori had removed from their business account. CV asks GPD if they are going to serve Lori with the petition for involuntary hold since she is there at GPD. The GPD officer on the phone tells CV he is not aware of the petition but if CV agrees to bring the petition and Lori’s purse to GPD he will have it verified by his sergeant. CV agrees to bring the items to GPD. The GPD LEO talking to Lori finds her to be “in a normal state of mind” and ends up allowing Lori to go to the facility on her own to talk to staff, rather than have GPD escort her (Fox10 Phoenix).

31 Jan 2019 – GB is interviewed over the phone by Gilbert PD sergeant Scott Gallas in connection with CV’s petition for an involuntary committal of LV. CV - had GB listen in on a call where; LV was “lucid” but “irrational”; told CV he could have the children; told him she would destroy him; told him he wasn’t who he said he was; and accused him of something but wouldn’t say what. (source - Police bodycam footage of this phone interview and LV’s in-person interview is released by Fox10 in Apr 2020.)

The interview room bodycam footage (part 1 and part 2) shows that TR (16) is calm. LV says that TR is going to apply to the police academy. LV speaks about her friend JM (ex-police officer) several times and MG (also present) mentions that she bumped into JM outside CV’s house earlier that morning. LV states that she has just bought a “little throwaway phone” because CV took her phone. Later in the interview LV says that it is her mom’s old broken phone. MG tells police she had no way of contacting LV, who had gone to stay in a hotel the night before. [In May 2020 MG says she knew LV had three phones to communicate secretly with CD.] Police tell LV that they can’t hold her there if she wants to leave before they check out CV’s petition for a mental evaluation.

31 Jan 2019 – Re. what was said at the police station about TR having her GED - AR explains TR’s GED – she says that TR had missed schooling in AZ due to her health issues (digestive issues, stomach aches), and they had decided it was getting too complicated to work things out with teachers to make up work, so they decided for her to take her GED. (source Nancy Grace podcast interview April Raymond 6 Jul 2020)

31 Jan 2019 – CV’s calls to police –

1:12pm – 1:14pm

D: Gilbert PD, this is Dee.
CV: My name is CV. I’ve got an order to hold my wife, if you can look it up, Lori Vallow.
D: Yep we spoke to you earlier about her.
CV: Right, she is at the Gilbert PD saying I stole her purse. I’m gonna go over there and the officer said he won’t hold her cos he doesn’t have an active order, could you get that to him like immediately? I’m going there right now.
D: Okay just one moment sir.
CV: Thank you.
D: Is she in the lobby right now?
CV: That’s correct. Blonde hair.
D: Okay. And how far away are you?
CV: I’m about 10 minutes away, er 20 minutes
D: Do you want officers with her?
CV: You on civic center drive?
D: Yes. 75 E civic center drive. And do you want officers to go down there with her?
CV: She’s supposed to be detained for bridges. I got an order last night. She’s lost her marbles.
D: Okay, we’ll get in contact with our front office, or our lobby.
CV: Okay but I don’t want to go there if she’s gonna not be detained.
D: Yeah I’m gonna call them right now.
CV: Can you call me back, and let me know?
D: I can have an officer contact you. What’s your number? [redacted]
CV: Thank you.
D: Okay thank you.
CV: Thank you. [Ends 1:14pm.]

1:20pm – 1:22 pm.

M: Gilbert police this is Mandy can I help you?
CV: This is CV, I just called a moment ago, my wife’s in the Gilbert PD saying I stole her purse but she’s been called for, being held at Bridges, she’s supposed to when they can find her. And she is there. Said somebody would call me back in a minute and I just want to make sure that’s gonna happen. Cos I’ve just, I’ve been trying to find her all day, she needs serious help.
M: What’s your name?
CV: My name is CV.
M: And your wife’s name?
CV: LV. She’s the one making the complaint against me at the PD right there. You’re on civic center drive, right?
M: Yep.
[discussion about driving directions]
CV: okay did you know if they were going to give her, do the hold on her for Bridges?
M: Did you just call in Charles?
CV: I did yeah.
M: Okay so it looks like we’ve all the notes in here, yeah they haven’t called you, it’s only been a couple of minutes, it’s been less than 10 minutes.
CV: They said they will call me back.
M: Yes, they will be calling you back.
CV: Okay thank you.
M: Alright? And is your wife Lori is she still here that you know of?
CV: Yes she’s there, she’s waiting for me to bring her purse.
M: Okay, I gotcha yeah they’ll get an officer assigned here just as soon as they can an officer will be contacting you. Okay?
CV: Thank you.
M: Alright thank you sir. [Ends 1:22pm.]

Approx. Jan 2019? – Lori is staying with her brother Alex. Lori and AC are seen arguing loudly in the street outside of AC’s San Tan Valley, AZ home. A neighbor says he thought Lori and AC were married the way they were arguing. “She was screaming at him accusing him of bringing disgrace on their family”. After the fight Lori left AC’s house and was not seen there again by the neighbor (Exact date unknown, Jan 10, 2020 Daily Mail says “about a year ago”).

Late Jan/Early Feb 2019 (Approx) – Lori’s son, Colby, finds out from his cousin that something happened between Lori and Charles and that Lori had moved out of CV’s home. Lori begins to decrease her communication with her married son at this time and CR was not aware of everything that was happening nor does he know exactly where Lori and Tylee were living for the days she left CV (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

1 Feb 2019, 6:45 AM – Gilbert PD follows up with Community Bridges and is told that Lori checked herself in there but she was discharged only a few hours later (Fox10 Phoenix).

1 Feb 2019 – CV went to the offices of divorce lawyer Taylor Larson. Their process server was never able to find LV to serve CV’s protection order or divorce papers. They tried finding LV at AlC’s house, LV’s parents’ house, friends’ houses, and a conference in Boise where she had booked a hotel in CV’s name. CV told TL that “this all started years prior when LV had a near-death experience [NDE] when they were living in Hawaii, and she became fascinated…she became infatuated and at times obsessive over some of these NDEs and was listening to podcasts about other members of the church who had NDEs and had allegedly had visions of the spirit world and can communicate with those on the other side of the veil. CV told me that she would read books over and over about it, she would listen to podcasts non-stop and she just was gravitating towards these type of people and these groups and that’s how she found Chad Daybell because most of his books are about that.” CV asked to dismiss the [divorce] case “because he couldn’t get over the fact that she had abandoned him and JJ and he still loved her and he held hope that someday she would wake up from this and come back to him.” Also “because she had disappeared and he thought ‘why am I doing this if she’s leaving me alone?’ and he wanted to hold out hope for the future of their family”. (source Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Jul 8th 2020)

Feb 2019 – Chad writes the forward for author MG’s new book “Feel the Fire.” (MG's book website).

Feb 2019 – Chad allegedly tells author/friend Julie Rowe that he and Tammy are “tight on money and he was doing his best to keep his marriage together” (KTVB7, Fox10Phoenix).

Feb 2019 – and general time-span after LV left CV –
MG “spent every day with LV for a period of time, especially when she left CV that first time, at least for a few months and then it kind of spread out a little bit...So I talked to her, he [CD] talked to her but I didn’t talk to him often, just occasionally…
“I met AlC for the first time at LV’s house, he often came over to visit, and MB too, and ZP I met at church. AlC was fun and he was a comedian kind of guy and we talked about all kinds of stuff, sometimes spiritual stuff, in the beginning it was more casual because he didn’t know anything about that until later on...
“ultimately yes [CD and LV were leaders of a group]…they did believe they were the head of the 144,000…they were trying to find people that fit that group, individually…
“LV stopped going to church after CV was chasing her with the divorce papers, she kept running…”
MG has not heard of 60 burner/prepaid phones -
“I know that she had about 3 phones, but they seemed to be the same phones...it was hard to track her at times, you didn’t know which phone she was going to pick up...one special phone that her and CD would communicate with, he had one [too]…”
Their beliefs were “inconsistent” with church and temple doctrine, so they were secretive. “Temple was LV’s favorite place to go”.
NE: “Were their beliefs written down?”
MG: “There was paperwork that showed all the 12 apostles to prophets, people/friends they knew currently, to movie stars, they had maybe 4 pages, and that was created by CD, it was a whole plan, to get to this level you need to go to this many…, I know that CV was aware of it because he sent it out to a lot of people.”
NE: “can you tell me about CD and LV sealing themselves to each other in the temple?”
MG: “CD didn’t tell me, LV did. They felt they were sealed by those on the other side of the veil that had the authority to do that.” [They were both still married, to CV and TD.]
MG: “She said it was okay they did this because they had been married so many times before, their spouses would understand some day.”
CD made a portal in LV’s closet so she can visit him – “it does sound crazy”. “a spot where he said a prayer” – “it was a way for them to interact spiritually. If you were to talk to LV she would probably say I [MG] believed it, but there’s always a bit of doubt because I also know she had doubt. She, 2 or 3 times, said to me “if Chad is a Satan he sure is a good one”.
NE: What was MB like?
MG: “She was fun. I really love Melani. We did have a special relationship, she loved me and I loved her, she seemed that she had a lot of strife going on in her life and she was really worried about her family and so we had conversations about what was going on, I wasn’t as involved with conversations as LV and MB were, we were a support to each other I think.”
Re. divorce –
MG: “she says that he wants to get it but she does not want to, she doesn’t want to go through another divorce again.” (source EIN interview)

Feb 2019 – Lori’s first grandchild is born to Colby (CR) & his wife. Lori came to the hospital to see the baby. CV did not come to see the baby. CR says as a new parent he was just trying to figure out things for himself at this time in his life while all this drama was going on with Lori and CV. Lori lead CR to believe that CV had cheated on her and that was the reason she left him; that made CR angry at CV; Prior to this CV had been excited for the arrival of CR’s new baby, referring to the child as his granddaughter; CV attempted to text Lori’s family members to tell them he was innocent of cheating but CR wasn’t ready to talk to him; CR cut off communication with CV and Feb 2019 is the last time he and CV talked (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

Early Feb 2019 – Lori calls her friend from Kauai, April R (AR), and says she has just landed in Kauai with Tylee; Lori says she was leaving CV and asked if she could stay with AR. At first AR thought this was a fight that would blowover but she noticed Lori was very different, she was disorganized and “manic” (Dateline).

Approx Feb 2019 – While in Kauai, Lori tell her friend AR that CV has been having an affair and he had turned mean and violent; AR says that does not sound like the CV she knew; it seemed like Lori was villainizing CV. Lori told AR how she had sabotaged CV by canceling his flight home to AZ and taking his truck from the airport, etc. (Dateline)

Approx Feb 2019 - Lori also tells AR about Chad Daybell’s books and the podcasts she had been doing with a new religious group; Lori tells AR about a friend from the group named Zulema (ZP). Lori says ZP has “the power to control the elements”. AR says that Lori seemed “really enamored” with ZP but the things Lori told AR about ZP’s “powers”, AR called “laughable”. Lori says she believes AR is one of the 144,000 chosen ones and Lori is there in Kauai to “gather” her. AR said she did not believe herself to be one of those people (Dateline).

Approx Feb 2019 - Tylee spends most of her time in Kauai sleeping and seems depressed, while Lori talks constantly about death; Lori told AR that CV was already dead and had a demon living inside of him but later Lori changed her story to say she expected to get a call any day saying CV was dead (Dateline).

Feb 2019 – LV’s trip to Hawaii - (exact date unknown but also referred to elsewhere in the interview as being spring.) :-

LV visited AR in Hawaii with TR. During this time she talked about being translated and her past lives in front of TR and it didn’t appear to be new information to TR. LV told AR that TR was dark like her father but not in front of TR. LV had lists of people rated dark and light; AR was handwritten on the list and another name she didn’t recognize had been crossed out. AR thought LV was having a nervous breakdown, a midlife crisis. LV told AR that CV had a demon living inside of him called Ned Snyder and LV knew this because NS was shorter than CV. LV told AR that CV had been having an affair but her evidence “didn’t make any sense” – AR asked LV where CV met the woman. LV couldn’t give her a name for the woman. AR thinks the first thing she would have done would be to look up the other woman. LV's evidence for an affair was that CV had met her on LinkedIn and his grocery bills were very high when he went out of town. LV told AR that she was there to gather her, she had been appointed as a gatherer by Angel Moroni and Jesus Christ, and AR would need to separate from her children, that AR’s children had a different mission, and AR understood she would have to leave now to “prepare” and travel all over the world to help gather the rest of the people. AR declined and thinks LV was a “little frustrated” but made a comment like “maybe you’re just not ready to hear the truth, or something to that effect.” As regards the divorce (if it went through), AR asked LV who would take care of JJ, and LV said CV would have to. (source Nancy Grace podcast interview 6 Jul 2020.)

KM: “Early Feb 2019, AR got a strange phone call from Lori.”
AR: “She said that she had just landed on Kauai, she was leaving Charles and she asked if she could stay with me. I thought they’re having a fight, it’s going to blow over.”
KM: “but Lori, Tylee in tow, no JJ, seemed transformed.”
AR: “She was very different. She seemed very disorganized. A little manic. Saying that Charles had had an affair, she was leaving him, it didn’t sit very well with me. Charles was a friend of mine too. I felt like he was being portrayed as a villain and IMO he wasn’t.”
KM: “Lori gleefully recounted how she’d sabotaged one of CV’s business trips.”
AR: “while he was gone she canceled his return flight, she and another friend went to the airport and took his truck.”
AR: “She was bringing up names of all these people that I had never heard of, or heard her talk about before. She brought up Chad Daybell. All these people that were part of this podcast group that she also was a part of. When she’s describing some of their doctrine and beliefs it was just too much to even get my mind around. It was very divergent [to LDS] it was not even close. The basis seemed to be preparing for the end of times. They believed that they were part of the 144,000 that are ordained, they were here to gather the other members, to join them. The Lori that I knew compared to the Lori that I saw and observed after she connected with Chad and this group is night and day.”
AR: “She told me that she was there because I was one of the 144,000 and she was there to gather me. I said I think I’m not, I know that I’m not one of those people.”
KM: “Having failed in her mission to recruit AR, Lori abruptly left Kauai” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

AR: “She had several phones with her and was kind of fumbling with them all and one would ring and she would kind of go through all of them and Tylee even made the comment ‘Mom, you look like a drug dealer with all of your phones’. She had pages and pages of doctrine and lists of categories that people belonged in. she was talking about different celebrities and their lightness and their darkness. She was anxious to tell me who the darkest spirit on the planet was – she said it was Oprah Winfrey.” (source Dateline episode 3 “What Happened to JJ and Tylee” aired 22 Jun 2020)

Mid Feb 2019 – JJ has a live-in nanny - CV states in divorce petition that he had had to hire a live-in caretaker for JJ when LV disappeared.

Mid Feb 2019 – CV vehemently denied LV’s allegations that he was cheating and wanted to take a polygraph to prove it to LV, and offered to put up cash to give her if he failed the polygraph. CV had suspicions that LV was cheating and he sent TL some communications between CD and LV that he had found. (source CV’s lawyer Taylor Larson on NG, Fox Nation Special 30 Jun 2020)

Feb 2019 – CV is taking care of JJ but Lori refuses to return JJ’s medicine, clothing, i-pad and the service dog’s special collar. Lori also never contacts CV to ask about JJ’s wellbeing nor does she request parenting time. CV says this causes JJ emotional stress as his autism makes it difficult for him to understand the situation. JJ needs his medicine, his usual clothing, his i-pad with special apps on it that calm him down, and the dog’s collar so the dog can go wherever JJ goes (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

4 Feb 2019 – Fearing for his life, CV files an Order of Protection against Lori and told his attorneys, “I want to make sure that everyone knows that if something happens to me, Lori & Alex did it.” The order also requests protection for JJ and says Lori is a danger to him. The order says Lori is not to possess firearms and must participate in counseling. The order further says Lori is to stay away from CV’s Gilbert home, CV’s Gilbert workplace & JJ’s school, Lauren’s Institute for Education in Gilbert, AZ even if CV is not present at any of those locations (Protection Order, Fox 10 Phoenix).

5 Feb 2019 – JJ is absent from LIFE Academy (KTVB7).

5 Feb 2019 – CV receives an email from an employee about commission money owed to the employee; The employee threatens legal action if he doesn’t get paid soon. Because Lori refused to return the money, CV was short on payroll and could not pay some CA contractors what they were owed (Divorce documents, Fox10 Phoenix, Post Register).

6 Feb 2019 - “On or about Feb. 6, 2019, Charles realized that Lori had transferred 2,000 Rent-A-Car points out of their joint account,” That same day CV found out Lori had called JJ’s school to ask if he was in class. “(Charles) is worried that (Lori) may be planning to use the rental car points to leave the state and potentially take J.J. with her” (Divorce Documents, Post Register).

8 Feb 2019 – CV begins initial process of filing for divorce against Lori. However, in March CV drops the divorce and they remained legally married (Maricopa Court records).

11 Feb 2019 – The Sheriff of Orange County, CA contacts CV and discusses filing theft charges against Lori for taking the business money. (Divorce Documents, Fox10 Phoenix).

11 Feb 2019 – JJ’s father, CV, visits LIFE Academy and claims Lori had "gone crazy" and was hearing religious voices. CV told the school Lori had disappeared and no one knew where she was and he had a protection order against Lori. CV says he is pulling JJ out of school and taking him out of state until he was safe (KTVB7).

14 Feb 2019 – Valentine's Day - CV signs divorce paperwork that outlines in detail all that Lori has done and said the last few months; CV says he wants sole custody of his adopted son, JJ and he also wants the property and money Lori took returned. The documents make disturbing allegations concerning Lori's mental stability (Fox10 Phoenix).

15 Feb 2019 – CV, thru an attorney, electronically files divorce documents the day after he signed them. The docs say that Lori threatened CV, telling him she was a god preparing for Christ's second coming, which she believes will happen in July 2020; (Fox10 Phoenix).

15 Feb 2019 - CV’ lawyers file a second document asking for temporary custody of JJ, exclusive use of the house and vehicle, return of the stolen money and return of his and JJ’s personal items. However, no one could find Lori to serve her with divorce papers (Post Register).

Feb 2019 - CV learned Lori was going to Boise with a friend for a talk or conference; CV and his lawyers made attempts to serve Lori divorce papers and order of protection papers at the airport, a hotel, and a public event. All attempts to find Lori were unsuccessful (Fox 10 Phoenix; Post Register).

15-16 Feb 2019 – Chad attends a 2-day event in Boise and Middleton, ID. Chad Speaks at the event on Feb 16. The organizers of the event say this is the last time Chad spoke at one of their events (Event Flyer, PAP Media Statement).

Feb 2019 – CV hears that Lori is living with her brother Alex in San Tan Valley, AZ. CV then attempts to serve Lori with papers at AC’s house but that too was unsuccessful, despite the fact that both Lori & AC’s cars were in the driveway at AC’s home (Post Register).

Feb 2019 - Lori and Tylee checked into a Kauai resort after CV filed for divorce. They stayed for around a month, according to resort workers, and then returned to the mainland (EastIdahoNews).

End of Feb 2019 – CV brings JJ back to LIFE Academy but Lori is still MIA (KTVB7).

20 Feb 2019 – A new password was placed on CV’s $1 million life insurance account. CV accuses LV of this and asks for a call recording of the change in password. Source Fox10. Justin Lum Fox 10 Phoenix

21 Feb 2019 – Officials at JJ’s school, Lauren’s Institute for Education (LIFE Academy), make a report to CPS because Lori had still not been located. (Fox10 Phoenix).

24 Feb 2019 – CV and LV’s 13th wedding anniversary.

26 Feb 2019 – CV asked Banner Life to investigate LV for changing his PIN password to his $1 million policy account. He wrote he wants nothing to go to Lori or any member of her family. KW says on 19 Apr 2020 “It just made it more real to him that she was done with him, with their relationship, and that she was done with being a mom" (source JLum)

Late Feb 2019 – In the midst of filing for divorce from Lori, CV talks to his sister, KW, about his life insurance. “Charles and I had a conversation. He had a $1 million dollar policy with Lori as the beneficiary and he told me he wanted me to be the sole recipient…I told him to leave it ttodo his boys but he was worried about what Lori was going to do,” KW says (East Idaho News, Fox10 Phoenix)

End Feb 2019 - KM: “Charles was so worried he’d be murdered he even made plans for his death by changing the beneficiary of his life insurance policy”
KW: “He said because y’all are going to end up with JJ and I don’t know that he’ll ever be independent, y’all will need the money to help.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)





Timeline Part V of XXI (Update 9) - 1 January 2019 TO 28 February 2019

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part VI OF XXI (Update 9)

1 March 2019 TO 10 July 2019

FOUND DECEASED: Joshua Jaxson “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell and Chad Guy Daybell​

1 Mar 2019 - CV files to dismiss divorce proceedings against Lori (Post register).

Mar 2019 – IP says on his 9th wedding anniversary NP asked for a divorce. (source May 2020 interview with EIN)

6 Mar 2019 – The court approves dismissal of CV’s divorce proceedings against Lori and they remain legally married but separated (Maricopa Co Court records, Post register).

7 Mar 2019 – Charles formally withdraws JJ from school at LIFE Academy in Gilbert and moves to Houston. CV's older son helped CV and JJ move from Arizona to Texas, after Lori had changed. "Lori had basically just disappeared, and he had no idea where she went for I think two-ish months, and so eventually he was like ‘alright, I have to move away for JJ’s sake, for JJ’s safety’ and so he decided to move to Houston,” said the son. Eventually, JJ would reunite with Lori and Tylee in Chandler, AZ (Fox10 Phoenix).

9 Mar 2019 – CD and TD’s 29th wedding anniversary.

Mar 2019 – JuR says she cut ties with CD. “he was not going to apologize to me or admit that he was having an affair with Lori or anybody else” (source Court TV video 25 Jun 2020)

26 Mar 2019 - Charles Vallow's texts to a friend:-

KM: “A month after that conversation with Kay, on 26th March 2019 Charles sent a series of texts to a friend. The friend recently shared the texts with Dateline freelance producer Luis Soltren.”:-

LS: “It was like Charles came back from the dead.”
KM: “Through these text messages”
LS: “yeah. It was chilling to read them.”

4:43 pm CV: “58 days. Believe it. The beautiful sweet Lori you and I knew is gone. She actually believes I’m not Charles. She says an evil spirit named Nick Schneider murdered me and is using me to “violate” her and her family. Not kidding. Gotta get out of here.”

4:45 pm Friend: “Holy camoli I can’t even relate. Who the fake is Nick Schneider. The last time I saw Lori she couldn’t say enough wonderful things about … “

5:22 pm CV: “I truly feel there is no good ending for her. Emotionally JJ is about 4. He will remember bits and pieces. But thankfully not the pain she’s put a lot of people thru for her “mission from GOD” “

5:23 pm Friend: “Charles I appreciate you and trusting me with your hearts issue you are safe here. I will continue to pray for you and your family. You have a friend here that you can truly trust. I have to go for now and will keep you updated. Sleep well my friend. Go with God.”

Texts shown with no timestamp:

CV: “Things have changed so dramatically in the past 6 months.”
CV: “Something snapped. It is so unbelievable and scary.”
CV: “I’m thankful she doesn’t see JJ… She wants him and for me to disappear. Seriously.”
CV: “It’s the freakiest thing I’ve ever experienced.”
CV: “She’s with a group of people called “Woke” and “preparing a people”.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

c. 25 – 29 Mar 2019 – JJ spent a week in Louisiana with his grandfather and Kay went to AZ to help Charles pack up the house: -

LW: “I am so thankful I had that week to be with him. It was just he and I, so we could basically do what he wanted to in whatever time he wanted to do it. I thank God for that.”

This was while KW went to AZ to help CV pack up the house for his move to Houston. LV showed up at the house:
KW: “She just walked in and just started fussing at him and… I was like what the heck is wrong with her…he was sitting down and …she had her hands on her hips, “what are you doing, why are you moving, I can’t believe this, why are you keeping JJ from me?”, it was just on and on, he said “JJ and I are moving because your family has totally gone away, just like you did, they won’t talk to us, they won’t nothing. And so I’m moving to be close to my family”. She said “what family?” He said “my family in Louisiana”. It was like we didn’t even exist, it was crazy. They talked for a while, it was mostly her fussing loudly,…by the time she left I was sitting at the kitchen table on the computer and she walked over to me…I said “Lori I’m sorry this has happened with y’all, we can talk” and she said “I just miss you” and she started tears flowing, and I thought ‘she never even cried when Charles was talking to her’, the whole thing was weird that day.”

KW saw LV for the last time face-to-face the next day - “we had put all of her and Tylee’s stuff in Tylee’s little casita in the front of the house so they could get it and move it.” (source EIN video )

KM: “Lori abruptly left Kauai and reappeared without explanation back in AZ at the house she’d once shared with Charles, just as he was in the process of moving out. Lori had been gone nearly 2 months and Charles hadn’t a clue where she had been.”
KW: “Lori comes in with her phone on like she’s videoing like she was expecting for Charles to get up and beat the hell out of her. Like there’s going to be some big drama scene. He sees her and he starts crying.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

Approx. Late March? About 2 months after Lori went to Kauai in early Feb 2019, she returns to the mainland US; Lori’s friend AR heard that Lori was back with Charles and assumed whatever crisis Lori had been having had passed (Dateline).

31 Mar 2019 Sunday – CV told LV that he would fly her to Houston to see JJ, because JJ was in Lake Charles with LW. LV told CV that she had a commitment with a friend that she needed to fulfil but she would be back in about 2 weeks and then she’d come and see JJ. (source KW/LW int. Gray Hughes 26 Dec 2019)

Apr 2019 (Approx) – By this time Lori has stopped communicating on a regular basis with her son Colby. Prior to her moving out of CV’s home in Jan 2019 Lori and CR would text or call every couple days but communication gradually decreased until about Apr when CR says their communication had become more of a “check in” once a month or every few weeks rather than a constant back-and-forth relationship. (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

Apr 2019 – One of CV’s sons sees JJ for last time (East Idaho News).

c. Apr 2019 – According to KW - CV was supporting LV’s whole family. KW was helping CV with his finances after he and LV split. He wasn’t paying for AlC’s cell phone but he was paying for 22 lines every month, i.e. phones and iPads for LV’s family, parents, son etc. Once LV and CV got together she never worked. (source KW and LW int. Gray Hughes 26 Dec 2019)

c. Apr 2019 – LV and TR moved to Houston Texas temporarily:-

NE: “So Charles and Lori worked things out after [end Mar 2019] that argument?”
KW: “No, when she finally came to Houston she was still blaming him for everything, they were not getting back together, she was like “I’m not getting a divorce” cos she had already had so many divorces, she was like ‘we’re not getting back together but we’re not getting divorced’. He was in limbo, she broke him down. He happened to be doing a huge insurance commission check, and within less than a week when she got in Houston – I had access to one account and that’s where the commission went into – that money flew out of that account so quickly. Charles was asking me for passwords for everything cos I had changed all of that since he gave me management of the company money and so I had changed everything where she couldn’t access it but then he ended up giving her all the passwords back, he gave her the keys to the kingdom once again. That money was gone in no time.” (Source EIN video )

MG: “When she first went to Texas I’m like ‘why are you going to Texas, you’re trying to run from him?’ She goes ‘I was told by the Lord I need to get his finances in order’.”
KM: “Lori was worried Charles might leave his $1mill life insurance to his sister Kay.”
MG: “She started wondering ‘is Kay going to get the money?’ Because she now was told by Chad that Kay was a zombie, so she was like ‘I bet he’s going to change it around. He’s going to give her the money’.”
KM: “Charles, unaware, texted a friend”:–

Charles Vallow's texts with a friend:-
Friend: “do you trust what she saying. Do [you?] trust Lori?”
CV: “Yes. With out any doubt. Like I said. A lot of. Misunderstanding. We have our Lori back”
CV: “And JJ is over the moon.”

KM: “Apparently reassured she was still Charles’ beneficiary, Lori left him again. Moved with Tylee and JJ back to suburban Phoenix where MG lived.” (source Dateline episode 3 “What Happened to JJ and Tylee” aired 22 Jun 2020)

9 Apr 2019 – Chad’s author friend Julie Rowe is excommunicated from the LDS church “partly because of her willingness to discuss her belief in multiple mortal probations.” (Fox13 SLC).

15 Apr 2019 - Natalie Marie Pawlowski files for divorce from Ian Robert Pawlowski, final decree issued on July 25, 2019 (Court Docs).

May 2019 – Chad travels to West Jordan, UT to meet actress Valentina and filmmaker Devin K Hansen about making his book "Chasing Paradise" into a movie (Fox13 Salt Lake City).

4 May 2019 – Tammy Daybell’s 49th birthday.

Spring 2019 – (20 Mar to 21 Jun) MG was on the phone with LV when LV told MG that she had called TR a zombie and that TR had responded saying “not me, Mom.” This arose out of LV requiring TR to babysit JJ and TR not wanting to. Sources - 06/29/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball and 06/30/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball

25 May 2019 – JJ celebrates his 7th birthday. Video shows him blowing out a candle shaped like a 7 on a chocolate birthday cake. (HLN Video)

31 May 2019 – Chad is scheduled to speak at a conference, but he canceled his appearance in advance of the event due to a “Family Emergency” (Event adverts note the change).

June 2019 – Lori’s niece, Melani, tells BB, her husband of 11 years, she wants a divorce. BB says he believes it was due to Melani's new religious beliefs after following her aunt and Chad into what he calls a “cult.” (Post Register).

4 Jun 2019 - BB refers in his child custody documents (father’s list of witnesses and exhibits) filed in June 2020 (no.19 on list), to Domestic Violence Assessment dated June 4, 2019 for mother’s new husband [IP].

13 June 2019 – Lori uses Venmo to send her oldest son CR money with the note “Medicine” and a heart. This is the last time Lori used Venmo to send money. Lori Vallow

22 June 2019 – Lori is on a podcast with MG, JM and Thor titled: 23 Time to Warrior Up ~ What Most Women Really Want!

Late June 2019 – Charles returns to AZ to try to make his relationship with Lori work; They re-enroll JJ in LIFE Academy in Gilbert, AZ; Lori enrolls JJ in LIFE’s summer program (Fox10 Phoenix, KTVB7).

Abt 20 June 2019 – CV and Lori rent a new rental house together from a landlord/friend, JP, in Chandler, AZ. This is the house where CV would later be fatally shot (East Idaho News, Fox10 Phoenix).

25 Jun 2019 - BB refers in his child custody documents (father’s list of witnesses and exhibits) filed in June 2020 (no. 39 on list), to a text message from MBP’s family to BB’s family on Jun 25, 2019.

26 Jun 2019 – LV’s 46th birthday.

27 Jun 2019 – Last contact AR had with LV. (source Nancy Grace podcast interview April Raymond 6 Jul 2020)

28 June 2019 – Someone set up a fake email address in Charles Vallow’s name and uses it to send a letter to Chad Daybell. Lori’s husband, CV, finds the email on his computer at his house; CV believes the email address and fake email were created by Lori. The forged letter to Chad reads in part: “We really enjoyed having you stay with us back in November... I appreciated you taking time to talk to me about the book I've been working on…I'm willing to pay you well to help me get this book into shape as my ghostwriter. I really liked your autobiography…Is there any way you could come here for a couple of days and help me get the book underway? … I'm out of town until Saturday, but I would gladly fly you down here early next week before the holiday and cover your expense. You could stay in our guest room like before, or in a hotel if you prefer. I hate to take you away from your family, but I know this book is vital to my speaking success. I understand if you don't want to take part in the project, but I would definitely make it worth your time. With admiration, Charles” (Fox10 Phoenix, KSL)

29 June 2019, 10:39 am – Lori’s husband, Charles, sends an email to Lori’s brother, Adam, claiming Lori created an email alias for CV in order to communicate with Chad. CV attaches the fake letter sent the day before on the fake email address. CV’s email reads in part: “I'm not sure if [sic] the relationship with her and Chad Daybell but they are up to something. She created this email alias for me as I've never set this one up. She sent this yesterday and I guess she forgot all her emails are on the computer at my house. I asked her to explain it and she started blaming you, Brandon and me for perpetuating a scheme against her... She will not explain it. I am going to send it to Chad Daybell's wife. Her name is Tammy and I found her email address on their website. I've got her cell number too. Sounds very suspicious to me…Whenever she gets caught doing this kind of stuff she starts blaming everybody else. Mostly me, you and Brandon…I was the only one brave enough to try to get her help in January and look what happened to me. The whole family put a scarlet letter on me…” (Fox10 Phoenix).

2 July 2019 – Lori does a podcast with MG and another woman titled: 24 Time to Warrior Up~Redeeming Our Entrance into His Presence.

4 July 2019 – Independence Day.

8 July 2019 – BB files a divorce/child custody case against Melani (Lori’s niece) in Maricopa Co, AZ; doc reads: “Affidavit Regarding Minor Children” (Court records).

10 July 2019 - CV texts Lori to say he would be there at 7:30 am to pick up JJ on Wed and take him to school and he also wants to take JJ to school Thurs & Fri. Lori tells CV he can take JJ to school but he cannot stay in house; She says she will book him a hotel room nearby (Chandler PD interview docs, Fox10 Phoenix).

10 July 2019, 7:49 PM - CV texts his landlord, JP saying he wants to find a new place to live because things are not working out with Lori. They plan to meet to talk about it the next morning (East Idaho News).

10 Jul 2019 – SS, LV’s sister says in an interview in May 2020 that she asked AlC to go and stay with LV because she “had a sick feeling” and she “didn’t feel safe with Charles coming into town” after all the things she had read [alleged threatening text messages from CV].

10 Jul 2019 – AlC never went back to work after this date. (source KW/LW int. Gray Hughes 26 Dec 2019)



Timeline Part VI of XXI (Update 9) - 1 March 2019 TO 10 July 2019

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part VII of XXI (Update 9)

A Timeline of July 11th 2019, the day Charles Vallow was Shot to Death

FOUND DECEASED: Joshua Jaxson “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell and Chad Guy Daybell​

Summary: On the morning of 11 July 2019, Charles Vallow was fatally shot twice in the chest at his rental home in 5500 block of S. Four Peaks Place, Chandler, AZ, allegedly by Lori's brother Alex Cox during a family argument. Lori was living in the house with Tylee and JJ but separated from CV at the time. CV came to the house to pick up JJ. Lori, Tylee and JJ were all at the house when the shooting occurred. AC claims he was hit in the head with a baseball bat during the incident. AC called 911 and performed CPR on CV until Chandler PD & emergency crews arrived. Police initially ruled the death self-defense and no charges were filed; However, Chandler PD have since said the investigation remains open due to the missing children case (Fox10 Phoenix, Daily Mail).

Abt 6:30/7:00 am – Lori’s brother, Alex, says he wakes up after spending the night in Lori’s Chandler, AZ rental home (curbside bodycam interview w/Alex).

Morning – Lori’s husband, CV, wakes up at a hotel where he has been staying for a few weeks while Lori and the kids live in the rental house. At some point he tells a hotel employee to expect him and his son JJ back for breakfast that morning. It is unclear what time CV left the hotel to go pick up JJ (Fox10 Phoenix).

7:30 am - Lori says she had JJ’s backpack ready for school and she looked at the clock to note the time (Lori’s CPD interview).

Abt 7:35-7:40 am – Lori claims CV arrives at about 7:35ish to 7:40 and is running late, which was unusual for him; he is usually punctual. She tells him to “go now” and get breakfast for JJ from Burger King. Lori claims CV takes JJ to the car but had left his phone on the kitchen counter and comes back in for it. Lori picks up CV’s phone and refuses to give it back to him. Lori says she was trying to see texts he had on his phone and asking him about his texts to her other brother Adam. Lori says she wouldn’t give CV back his phone and he was screaming at her to give him back his phone. Lori said she was “just holding it there” and he was screaming at her. Lori said she was “kind of walking around the house so he couldn’t get it” and “he was kind of reaching for it”. (Lori’s CPD interview).

11 July 2019, 7:50 am -Tylee says she wakes up hearing yelling in the hallway outside her bedroom door and grabs a bat she keeps next to her bed. Tylee comes out of her room and sticks out the bat. CV grabs the bat to pull it out of Tylee’s hands, Tylee lets go of the bat and falls to the floor. AC grabs CV from behind, they both fall to the floor and somehow CV hits AC on the back of the head with the bat. Tylee is sent out to the car to stay with JJ at some point after her fall to the floor. Lori says she doesn’t know when AC went to get his gun or if he already had it on him during the fight. (Lori & Tylee CPD interviews).

11 July 2019, Approx 7:5X? - 8:XX? am - Lori says she heard a gunshot and walked from the kitchen to the living room to find Charles' body. Then she checks on the kids in the car. She almost went back inside before ultimately driving off. This conflicts with Alex’s account given in his curbside interview that Lori and the kids left before he shot Charles (Fox10 Phoenix).

11 July 2019, Approx 7:5X? - 8:XX? am - Tylee says she is outside in the car making sure JJ does not go back inside when she hears a loud noise; Tylee did not know what the noise was at first-- at the time she heard it she thought it was the sound of someone hitting the metal bat on the floor really hard. By the time of her police interview, however, Tylee says she found out what the sound actually was. After the gunshot Lori immediately comes outside. After coming out Lori sent Tylee back inside through the garage to get Lori’s purse out of the master bedroom closet. Tylee says she didn’t see anything when she went back inside. While no timeframe is given for how long the fight lasted, Lori says several times in her interview that this whole thing happened quickly (Lori & Tylee CPD interviews).

11 July 2019, Approx. 8:XX? - Lori Drives away in CV’s rental car with JJ and Tylee to take JJ to school. It takes about 15 minutes to drive to JJ’s school. No time frame is given for when Lori drove away but Lori says the fight happened quickly and that she was only in the car for “a minute” wondering what to do before deciding to drive JJ to school and get him and Taway from the scene (Tylee & Lori’s CPD Interview).

Abt 8:20 am – The time JJ’s school gates open (Lori’s CPD Interview).

Abt 8:32 or 8:35 am – The time that AC says he shot CV according to his “er, couple of minutes” statement at the beginning of the 911 call. He says later that the shooting happened about 5 minutes before he called 911.

8:37 am - Alex makes a 6 min call to 911: "I got in a fight with my brother-in-law. and I shot him in self-defense," AC says. An EMT instructs AC over the phone on how to perform CPR on CV; AC answers questions about what happened and says his is doing the chest compressions while talking. AC says his gun, a .45 caliber pistol, is in a bedroom and no one else is in the house. AC at first says the shooting happened “a couple minutes ago” then later in the call he says it happened “5 minutes before I called”. AC says CV “came at me with a bat” and “I’ve never seen him that enraged before”; AC says CV lives in Houston; AC is not sure where Lori went but he thinks she has taken JJ to school. 911 operator asks Alex to walk outside with his hands up; AC complies with the cellphone cradled in his shoulder (911 call, Fox10 Phoenix, NBC12 News).

Abt 8:43 am – Body cam video shows police entering the house after Charles was shot and after Alex exits. We see CV’s blurred body on the living room floor laying parallel to a large wall mirror. CV is face up with his arms spaced out evenly at his sides and his feet towards the kitchen; his head is in the direction of the front door. The bat is on the floor near the wall, it is located to the right and above CV’s body, not in his hand. Police clear the rest of the home and note that the gun is on the floor in a bedroom. The bedroom is pink with black and white stripes. Alex claims in his curbside interview this was the bedroom he was staying in the night before; AC says he took the gun back there after shooting CV and cleaned up his head before calling 911. Police cannot find any identification on CV’s body and they look around the house trying to find his wallet (bodycam video, Fox10 Phoenix, AZ Republic).

Abt 8:43 am – Body cam videos show curbside interview with Alex at the scene of the house where CV was shot to death. "What happened today? How did it get to this?" the LEO asks AC. "I don't know. He was enraged," AC replies. AC says “He was accusing me…” but he doesn’t finish that thought as a loud Fire Engine pulls up. LEO tells AC to move away from the loud truck then asks AC “What was he accusing you of?” AC replies “I don’t know. He was just yelling at me.” AC says that Lori, JJ & Tylee left the house shortly before the shooting occurred. Then AC says, "It was over my sister. He was getting physical with her, so my niece came out with her bat and he took the bat away…" but the LEO interrupts and asks "Wait a minute. I thought you said your niece left?" AC replies "She did. this was before," AC says he grabbed Charles from behind, and they fell to the ground. When AC gets back up, he explains how he gets hit in the back of his head. "I turned around and he hit me in the back of the head with the bat, so I went to my room and got my gun, 'cause I always carry it," AC says. AC claims he warned Charles to drop the bat before shooting him twice in the chest. We also learn that AC doesn’t live at the house, he is just visiting Lori and stayed the night before; AC drives a truck as a long haul trucker but he is on vacation; AC says he was planning to “do something fun” that day (body cam video, Fox10 Phoenix, AZ Republic).

Abt 8:48 am – Body cam video shows Lori & Tylee returning to the house where CV was shot; they park across the street from the house and approach the LEO talking to Alex; LEO tells Lori and Tylee to wait by the car across the street. After a while LEO talks to them curbside to get their names, phone numbers and ID; Lori says CV lives in Houston, they are separated and that she moved into the house about 3 weeks before; Tylee says she is 16, her driver’s license is inside the house; Tylee says she once drove to Arizona from Texas all by herself (Fox10 Phoenix).

Morning – Alex, Lori & Tylee are all taken to the Chandler PD station for more interviews. Alex is taken in a separate vehicle and all 3 are interviewed in separate rooms.

Approx 9:16 am – Alex is placed in the back of a police car to be transported to the station. Bodycam video records some of the conversation on the way there. LEO pats AC down, takes all the items out of his pockets and puts in a clear plastic bag, then gives him a bottle of water to drink. AC is placed in the back of the car without any handcuffs. LEO turns on the air-conditioning and tells AC how to adjust his own vent in the back. They make small talk about the weather and how hot it is in AZ as LEO drives. AC asks LEO about his vest and how hot it is to wear. AC asks if Chandler is more dangerous or Fallujah and LEO replies he wouldn’t know, he has never been to Fallujah. LEO asks AC why he has a rental car & AC says it’s not his rental, AC says he drives the F-150 truck in the driveway. LEO says he didn’t realize that and radios back to the other LEOs still at the house to make sure they know the rental car Lori drove away in belongs to CV and the truck belongs to AC. LEO asks AC about the truck he drives for work; It’s a 10 speed automatic, it struggles to go up hills; AC picks up hazardous waste in Arizona and takes it to Arkansas for his job (CPD bodycam, Gray Hughes video).

Approx 9:34 am – Alex and LEO driving him arrive at the station parking garage. LEO escorts AC into the office, still no handcuffs and asks him to stand by a desk for a minute while LEO looks around for an empty room. LEO asks if AC needs to use the bathroom. LEO asks AC to put his things down on a conference table in a room with several chairs and directs AC which chair to sit in. LEO examines the back of AC’s head with a flashlight and asks him how his head feels. AC says “a little sore, but not bad.” LEO asks AC if he is having any headaches and AC says “a little bit.” LEO asks AC if he feels nausea and AC says “a little but not bad.” LEO asks if he wants to have a dr look at his head and AC says, “no, it’s more adrenaline than anything.” LEO asks for medical history; AC says he is slightly overweight and his blood pressure was a little high his last physical, but he’s not on any medication and doesn’t have any medical conditions (CPD bodycam, Gray Hughes video).

Approx 9:43 am – Lori is interviewed at CPD, after she uses the restroom. The LEO interviewing her asks Lori to confirm she lives at the house where the shooting occurred and for some background. Lori repeats that she moved in about 3 weeks ago; they were previously in Houston. CV and her are separated but he rented the house for her in AZ so she could be near her family. CV was always “all about” JJ but never about Tylee. Lori explains that JJ is CV’s great-nephew and JJ had been “a drug baby”. They adopted JJ. CV travels all the time for work.

Lori says CV visited once since they moved from Houston and brought her some things but he hadn’t been back and had sent her “all these threats”. Lori mentions “It was on her phone all the time”. LEO asks about the threats and Lori says the LEO would have to see them, CV was always mad at her; CV didn’t want a divorce, but she didn’t like him and didn’t want to deal with him. They have been married 14 years. Lori says CV has always been “horrible to her” while pointing to the room where Tylee was waiting; Lori says CV was always getting into huge fights with Tylee “and it was a lot of things.”

Lori said CV told her “all of a sudden” that he was coming Wed night and he wanted to see JJ. Lori says she told CV she would never keep JJ from him and he could come take him to school anytime he wanted. LEO asks for clarification on when they moved, when they separated and why CV was buying Lori a house in the area. Lori corrected LEO and says CV promised to rent her a house. Lori says that they lived in AZ for a long time, all her family was there, but CV “ripped their son out of school and said they were moving to Houston”; Lori advised she didn’t want to go to Houston and she didn’t go with them at first; She let CV take JJ to Houston and she didn’t file anything. CV filed something and told her she was only going to get supervised visits with JJ because she was crazy. Lori says she “just didn’t talk to him for like 30 days and let him take care of their son, to let her husband see what she has been doing for the last 7 years.” Lori says she has other kids and grandkids too. Lori says “she knew he would be begging her to pick him up, which she stated he did.”

Lori says that eventually CV asked her to come back and that she did move to Houston “for the family”. She and Tylee “left everything to go to Houston.” Lori then talked about problems getting services for JJ and how CV “didn’t do anything”.

Lori indicated CV hadn’t been here in a couple weeks and he had been “nasty” when he was here. CV contacted her and said he was coming Wednesday night and he was going to pick JJ up and take him to school Thursday and then pick him up Thursday and take him Friday. Lori seemed fine with that but told CV he couldn’t stay at the house because he couldn’t get along with Tylee. Lori says CV gets into huge fights with Tylee and Tylee hates CV.

Lori told CV he couldn’t stay at the house and she would get him a hotel; he stays in hotels all the time when he travels, his business pays for it. Lori say CV’s job gives him freedom so he doesn’t have to stay home every day and take care of a special needs child. Lori indicated she does that. Lori says she was a single mom before she married CV; "she has 2 kids and he had 2 kids and they got married and tried to make a family”.

Lori stated that JJ goes to school all day and she talked about how she is just getting his services back. Lori talked about how JJ has been a nightmare because CV ripped JJ out of his routine. Lori described how JJ freaks out when he finds out dad is coming because he associates when dad took him to Houston so Lori didn’t tell JJ that he was coming. CV didn’t bother her last night which she was kind of surprised about because she was expecting “kind of an ambush” that he would just come over and be “just mean”. Lori was expecting CV to say it was his house and he was on the lease so he could stay there; “Lori said that is his macho kind of attitude.”

Lori says CV came over this morning and she was getting JJ ready; LEO asks if CV came [into town] last night and Lori says yes but she didn’t hear from him except that he texted her to say he would be there at 7:30 to pick up JJ.

Lori says CV came over in the morning and he was banging on the door. Lori said “here we go” so she was just trying to be nice and had JJ’s stuff ready for school. Lori stated he had said he would be there at 7:30 but it was more like 7:40, 7:35ish but she wasn’t sure. Lori remembers looking at the clock at 7:30 and indicated he is usually very punctual. Lori says JJ acknowledged his dad and then ran to Lori and said CV wasn’t taking him to school; Lori says she was trying to make things calm and told JJ it was ok that daddy drive him to school. Lori says CV was being real “Smirky” and “Jerky” to her but she was ignoring.

LEO asked if her brother AC lived there with them. Lori said her brother had stayed there last night because Lori was worried CV would come over and “cause trouble with” her. Lori said she just wanted someone else there, wanted her brother there. Lori trusts her brother. Lori lived with AC when CV took JJ to Houston. Lori said she was getting JJ’s stuff ready and CV was saying he was leaving in 20 minutes, mentioning it was 15 minutes to the school. Lori mentioned that you can’t get there early because they don’t open the gates until about 8:20 or something. Lori suggested to him that they go now, because she didn’t want him in the house, so they could go to Burger King and get breakfast. JJ is very particular about food and wants chicken fries and Sprite for breakfast.

Lori told CV to go and he agreed so Lori gave him the backpack and they got in the car. Lori stated CV “always leaves something in the house, that he always comes back and he never leaves the first time” and she is always expecting CV to come back in the house. Lori advised CV had left his phone on the counter. The LEO asked where JJ was and Lori confirmed CV took JJ and his backpack to the car in the driveway but came back in for his phone.

Lori said his phone was on the counter and then Lori had his phone. He told Lori to give him his phone and she told him “why don’t you show me your text that you’ve been texting.” Lori says CV has been acting really “weird” like he he’s been “plotting something”. Lori asks CV why he was there, why he came into town and then she brings up that her other brother Adam came into town at the same time. Lori says she hasn’t talked to Adam in a long time and “she was questioning as to why they talk and if they talk”. Lori Say CV has been sending texts like “you’re going down” and he is “blaming her for their marriage breaking up and other marriages around them and calling her a destroyer of families.”

Lori stated CV “goes nuts” and then indicated that he’s gone nuts before and that she and Tylee have had to leave with JJ before, 5 times over the years. They’ve stayed in a hotel for 2 days before “because he goes nuts”; Lori said “you don’t know what’s going to set him off.” Lori mentioned that they have JJ and he is special needs and it’s really hard. LEO asks what Lori means by “go nuts” and Lori says yelling and screaming. LEO asked about physical violence and Lori says “grabbing and pushing them but never punching them.” Lori says CV has gotten physical with Tylee and with her grown son; LEO asked “physical how?” and Lori says CV got into a fight with her older son, Colby, when he was 16. Lori says CV “went after Tylee two times in Hawaii and he went like he was going to hit Tylee” but Lori got between them. Tylee was 13 & 14 at the time.

LEO returns the conversation to what happened this morning. Lori said CV came back in and she wouldn’t give him back his phone and he was screaming at her to give him back his phone. Lori said she was “just holding it there” and he was screaming at her. Lori said she was “kind of walking around the house so he couldn’t get it” and “he was kind of reaching for it”. Lori said Tylee came out of her room upset and she had a bat. Tylee told CV to “leave her mother alone” and Lori says CV screamed at Tylee “Don’t you hit me with that bat.” Lori said her brother Alex heard the commotion and he came out into the main room.

Lori said CV is screaming and is super upset. Lori doesn’t know if Tylee swung at him or what but CV grabbed the bat from Tylee and went to hit Tylee with the bat and her brother grabbed him from behind to stop him from hitting Tylee. Lori said then they [AC & CV] get into “the thing and he’s hitting her brother with the bat” and “they’re on the ground like grappling around or whatever.” Lori said it happened quickly. LEO asks if CV hit AC with the bat while they were grappling and Lori says yes and is swinging with her right arm downward; Lori says CV is swinging the bat back and forth and they are on the ground. Lori said she is freaking out and is trying to go around and knows JJ is in the car.

Lori says CV gets up and moves the bat towards her; Lori motions with her right hand “as if a person would be swinging backhanded.” Lori says she is going around the other side and trying to get out of his range so he can’t hit her. Lori starts to say she told Tylee and then she stops and explains to the LEO Tylee is on the ground because when CV took the bat Tylee “fell back”. Lori told Tylee to go get in the car with JJ because she didn’t want JJ coming in and she wanted Tylee out and didn’t want the kids in the house for whatever “this fight was going to be”.

LEO asks what CV and AC were yelling during this fight and Lori says things like “get off me” and “ow” but she “didn’t really remember specifics”. Lori says there were not many words “during the heat of it that she remembered,” LEO confirmed Tylee went outside and then asks what happened. Lori says AC and CV got up and CV was coming at her with the bat, yelling at her to give him his phone. “She still had the phone in her hand and all this happened really quickly.” Lori went around kind of the circle and AC was there. LEO asked how CV was holding the bat and Lori motioned with her right hand as if in a backhand and then said he was holding it backwards with one arm. Lori said he was holding it in a way that if he swung it he would have swung it backwards. Lori said “she was kind of turned around and they all (all three the kids were outside) heard the gunshot. LEO asked that she heard the shot and she said yes. LEO asked if Lori actually saw the shot or if she only heard it. Lori said she had gone around to the kitchen to get away from him and then come back around. “Lori said that she didn’t see the shot, that she heard it, and she came back around and she saw [CV] on the ground.”

Several lines of the interview are redacted. Lori got in the car and they left.

LEO asked again about when Lori came around and saw CV on the ground where was AC. Lori says AC was right in front of CV and it all happened very quickly. LEO asked if Lori and AC said anything to each other after CV was shot and Lori said no that they were in shock. Lori went to check on the kids and was going to go back in maybe but she didn’t. Some more lines are redacted. Lori was in the car for a minute wondering what to do and she didn’t know what to do; JJ was in the car and Tylee was freaking out. Lori decided to take JJ to school and away from the scene.

LEO asked Lori if she knew at what point AC had the gun—did he have it on him during the fight or did he have to go get it. Lori stated she didn’t know. She didn’t see him leave the room but it was all so fast. LEO asked if AC normally carried a gun. Lori says AC is a gun person and has guns. LEO asks if Lori knew AC had a gun when he came over to her house. She says no but “she wouldn’t be surprised if he did because he’s professional with guns.” LEO again asked if Lori heard AC or CV say anything while she was trying to get away, prior to when she heard the shot. Lori thought about it & said no.

LEO asks Lori if there was anything else that they didn’t cover. Lori thought for several moments. She said CV was just “so angry, super scary”, and she described how a 16 year old acts when you take away their phone. She says there was something on the phone that CV didn’t want her to see and he was freaking out. Lori says CV was “freaking out to the point that she thought he would hit her in the head with the bat to get the phone.” LEO asks if Lori thought it was possible CV would hurt her and she says “absolutely” and also Tylee. Lori says he would never hurt JJ. Then she adds that CV did hurt her brother AC, he was going “ballistic” and it was “bad.”

Approx 10:14 am – Tylee is interviewed at CPD. Tylee says she woke up around 7:50 because she heard yelling right outside her door. She says she immediately jumped up; She explains she has a baseball bat from when she lived with her uncle; when she was at home alone it made her feel safer, she is not old enough for pepper spray; LEO says he has never been in the house and asks her where her bedroom door opens to. She explains the layout of the house. There is a hallway with 3 bedrooms-- hers, the guest room where AC stayed and JJ’s room- then the kitchen and then the room “where everything kind of happened” was a big empty room with mirrors on the walls. She opened the door and it was her stepdad CV outside the doorway and her uncle AC kind of in the doorway and she could hear her mom behind him.

Tylee says that CV was screaming at AC and Lori but Tylee doesn’t remember what he was saying. Tylee says she told CV he was too close and asked him to take a step back. Tylee says that CV replied “don’t tell me what to do”. Tylee says she stood there and AC kind of moved out of the way and Lori went past him into “the big room where everything happened” and Tylee walked with them. LEO asked if they were more in the hallway and she clarified that they were at the end of the hallway. Tylee says she didn’t really do anything with the baseball bat, “she just kind of held it there”. Tylee says they were both yelling; LEO asks who she means was yelling when she says “they” and Tylee says only CV was really yelling and Lori was “responding”. Tylee couldn’t say what they were saying.

Tylee said she kind of stuck the baseball bat out there and CV grabbed it and tried to take it but she held onto the end. Tylee says she eventually fell and CV took the bat and held onto it. She saw CV take a step back; she thinks AC grabbed him and took him back. Tylee says her mom told her to go with JJ and she ran out the door. Tylee says JJ was in the front seat so she opened the door and stood there. Eventually Lori came out and they left from there.

LEO asked if Tylee knew what happened or if Lori explained anything to her. Tylee says she heard a noise and she knows what it was now, but at the time she thought it was the sound of the bat hitting the floor. There are several lines of text redacted next

LEO asks Tylee again to describe where she was and why she put the bat up. Tylee describes standing more next to Lori, not between Lori and CV and she says she put the bat up because CV was getting too close. The LEO asks what Tylee thought CV was going to do and Tylee says, “hit her.” Tylee says for the most part it has been very mundane but there have been “violent times” when she was scared CV would hit Lori. Tylee says CV and her “have always kind of never got along, since she was little.” Tylee says there have been a few times that they have gotten into fights and she has been scared.

The LEO asks Tylee to describe again what happened when CV grabbed the bat. Tylee says she stuck it out and motions with a 2-hand hold. Tylee says CV told her she would go to jail if she hit him with it and Tylee didn’t say anything. She says she held it out and CV took it, she sort of lunged forward and lost her footing. Tylee says Lori said “Just Let go” and Tylee slipped and fell on her side. After that her mom told her to go so she ran out the door. LEO asks if when she fell could she see what CV did with the bat. Tylee says no she wasn’t really looking in that direction. The LEO asked again about when CV took a step back if Tylee saw AC pull him back. Tylee says she didn’t really see AC pull him back but it seems like that’s what happened. She says she didn’t think CV would have stepped back on his own. LEO then asks if Tylee saw what happened with AC and CV when her mom told her to go. Tylee says no.

LEO asks if after Tylee went out and Lori came outside to the car did she never go back inside. After Lori came outside to the car, Tylee says she went back into the house through the garage door to get Lori’s purse from her closet so they would have her wallet. Tylee says she didn’t see or hear anything when she went back inside. LEO asks her if she went back in after Lori came out and after hearing the loud noise and Tylee confirms. LEO asks where Lori was when Tylee heard the loud noise. Tylee thinks for a moment and says she believes Lori was inside but the door opened almost immediately after.

LEO asks Tylee to describe how everyone (AC, Lori & CV) were acting emotionally while it was happening. Tylee says CV “looked honestly like a crazy person, screaming, and his face was beat red.” Tylee says “she saw [CV’s] face for a split second when he took the bat from her and it didn’t look like him, that he looked like pure rage and he was seeing rage.” Tylee says that was the craziest she has ever seen him. Tylee says AC was being calm, not super calm because it was stressful. AC was just standing there and not saying much and he was being protective of her mom. Tylee says again that CV was yelling and Lori was just kind of talking. LEO asks if she could remember what they were saying or why CV was mad. Tylee says she didn’t and she was sorry. She doesn’t remember what they were saying and she just heard yelling.

11 July 2019 – After the police interview Alex, Lori & Tylee, all 3 are transported together in a police van back to the house where CV was shot to go over the scene LE. A detective who was in the van says the ride back to the house was “bizarre” and “it was the weirdest ride I’ve ever had with 3 strangers”; Lori was “happy-go-lucky”, smiling and talking about how Tylee was going to go to BYU-Hawaii; she was very nonchalant on the ride back (Dateline).

Police detectives - Nathan Moffat and Cassandra Ynclan - on the drive back to the house:-
NM: “Lori was happy go lucky. She was just kind of smiling. It was just a very very bizarre ride back.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

11 July 2019, Morning – An employee at the hotel where CV was staying expects CV and JJ to return to the hotel for breakfast, but instead police detectives come to the hotel and inform the employee that CV is dead (Fox10 Phoenix).

11 July 2019, Morning – Property manager, JP, finds out that there is crime scene tape around the house Charles and Lori are renting from him. JP texts both Lori and CV “Are you OK?” Lori replies around 11 AM to say “we are ok, ill explain later” (East Idaho News).

11 July 2019 – Without knowing what had happened, one of CV’s adult sons texts and calls him and receives no reply, “I was texting him and I remember calling him a couple times the morning he had gotten shot, and he didn’t respond. It was really weird. He usually returns calls and texts relatively fast, so something was off.” (East Idaho News)

11 July 2019, Midday – Lori calls her son Colby and says that Charles died from a heart attack at the house. CR was shocked and went to the house later to see if he could comfort his family. Soon after he came in and hugged Tylee he found out that CV had actually been shot to death. CR “froze up” at this news and didn’t know what to say. CR admits he freaked out and started cussing at Lori and asking her what was going on because “this was a million times worse” than what she had first told him happened. Lori offered no explanation for initially lying to CR. Lori told CR the story of the fight they had that lead to CV getting shot. CR says that he has never seen CV “in a rage” the way that Lori described (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

11 July 2019, Afternoon - Neighbors report seeing a loud pool party with music and many people swimming in the backyard of the Chandler AZ house where CV was shot to death that morning. Alex stayed at the house for several days even though he lived elsewhere in the area (Post Register).

11 July 2019 – Charles Vallow’s family members learn of CV's death on the news. CV’s son says Lori has stayed mum on the details. "She couldn’t tell you that there was a shooting?" asked FOX 10's Justin Lum. "No," the son replied, "She refused to tell us." (Fox10 Phoenix).

Dateline's Keith Morrison interview of Colby re. the day of the shooting:-

KM: “Later that day Lori called her son, CR.”
CR: “I’m at work, normal day, middle of the day, my mom calls me, and she says that Charles had a heart attack.”
KM: “and was dead”
CR: “yeah. I’m thinking that he just passed away in front of them. So I’m just freaking out.”

KM: “CR went to the house that evening to console his mom.”
CR: “I come over, Tylee answers the door, hugs me, just starts balling her eyes out. I’m like ‘where’s mom?’, so she’s outside. So I walk outside, go by the pool, she’s on the phone, she hangs up. I’m like ‘are you okay?’ ‘are the kids okay?’ and she kind of hesitated and then just tells me about this fight. She starts telling me about a fight. Tells me that he was shot. And that feeling like, I’ve never felt that before. I’ve never felt such a rush of anger, sad, I mean everything you can feel in a moment happened right there. They got in a huge fight, then it just escalated, Al got into it, a bat was brought into it, Al got hit and then he came out and shot him.”
KM: “How long did you stay?”
CR: “45 minutes, an hour. I wanted out.”

KM: “CR said he didn’t see any pool party. But he still felt something was very wrong.”
CR: “If I’m being honest I wish I never went over there. From that point until now I’ve had this feeling in the back, like just unease. That was the first major step into all this stuff when you look back at it. That happened and then just downhill from there.”

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Dateline's Keith Morrison's interview of Mary Tracy re. the shooting :-

KM: “…according to this old friend Mary Tracy, Alex was a sweet and very funny guy.”
MT: “He was a good friend to me, he was a good friend to my sister Bex, we thought of Alex as our little brother. We loved him.”
KM: “Mary met Alex on the stage, the Phoenix stand-up comedy circuit.”
MT: “He was great at impressions, he was genuinely a funny goofy guy.”
KM: “What kind of impressions?”
MT: “Hannibal Lecter.”
KM: “But then Mary heard the 911 call from the day Charles was shot, and saw the police bodycam footage. And was dumbfounded. Not just because of what happened - Mary was very attuned to Alex’s mannerisms, his way of speaking.”
MT: “When I heard him say on the 911 call ‘I shot my brother-in-law in self defense’ I just want to say ********, that, I can tell, I mean that was so scripted and it just was not Alex. It was just too planned.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

11 Jul 2019 – TR was allegedly left money by CV. (source The Sun)

11 Jul 2019 – According to LW:- CV had been a college pro baseball player and extremely athletic, but he was cautious of AlC. LW thinks somewhere in AlC’s past there must have been a history of violence or problems. (source KW and LW int. Gray Hughes 26 Dec 2019)


Timeline Part VII of XXI (Update 9) -

A Timeline of July 11th 2019, the day Charles Vallow was Shot to Death​

 

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Detailed Case Timeline Part VIII of XXI (Update 9)

12 July 2019 TO 31 August 2019

FOUND DECEASED: Joshua Jaxson “JJ” Vallow & Tylee Ashlyn Ryan
Arrested: Lori Norene (Cox) Vallow/Daybell and Chad Guy Daybell​

12 July 2019, 4:36 pm – Lori sends a group text to Charles' 2 adult sons:
“Hi boys. I have very sad news. Your dad passed away yesterday. I’m working on making arrangements and I’ll keep you informed with what’s going on. Im still not sure how to handle things. Just want you to know that I love you and so did your dad!! *Heart Emoji*”
One son replies “Lori what happened”
Lori texts: “We are still waiting for the ME report. I’ll let you know more when I can.”
Another reply from one of CV’s sons: “Where is he? And what happened?”
Lori texts: “I’ll call you when I can bub. He is here in Arizona.”
For several hours and days after that CV’s son texts questions & Lori refuses to give details on how CV died. She keeps saying she is waiting to hear from the ME (Fox10 Phoenix).

12 Jul 2019 – evening - LV’s sister SS says she found out about CV’s death. (interview May 2020)

After 11 Jul 2019 – KW: “I don’t even know if I’ve told the police this, but after his death I think there was $9,000 in the business checking account and $6,000 was moved out a day or two after, and a couple of days after that $3,000 was withdrawn and Lori text me or emailed me and said ‘hey KayKay did you take the $3,000?’ I said ‘no I did not’. I know she got the money, she was trying not to look bad I guess. She moved it to another account, they had accounts I had no access to.”

14 July 2019 – Lori leaves a voicemail for CV’s adult son. She starts by saying “It’s Lolo, I just wanted to talk to you and see how you’re doing.” She still had not provided any details about what happened to CV. He calls back but Lori doesn’t answer. This is the last time CV’s son received a call from Lori (Fox10 Phoenix).

15 July 2020 - Lori called CV’s life insurance company. Lori was denied access to information on the account because she was no longer CV’s beneficiary and the agent told her she would not be receiving any money. (East Idaho News).

Mid July 2019 – Garth Daybell (Chad’s son) told their neighbors, Matt and Reegan Price, that Chad had shot a raccoon out of a tree on their property during the day. Matt Price had heard a gunshot. (source 06/10/2020 Probable Cause Affidavit of Detective Ron Ball )


c. 15 Jul 2019 – MG finds out about Charles Vallow's death :-
LV called her and said ‘did you see the news?’ MG visited her for a while and she gave MG “the rendition that she gave the police”. MG’s question was ‘why is he coming from Texas to get you and kill you?’
NE: You knew he was a zombie, so did you think there’s more here?
MG: “right, ‘cos the public wouldn’t perceive him as a zombie, so what kind of reason could he give anybody for coming down to kill her?” And she just said ‘they’re after me’ and I said ‘why?’ She said ‘for insurance, I have $3 million of insurance on my head’. She said that he had about a million. She thought she would get the money but she thought it had possibly been switched to Kay, so she wasn’t sure.” [When she found out it had been switched to KW] “she wasn’t overjoyed about it…But she also believed that Kay was a zombie as well…As time passed she’s like ‘I’ll get something from Medicare, so she knew that she could get something still”.
NE: Do you think that when he shot Charles that [Charles being a zombie] was in his mind?”
MG: “Yes, because he really felt, to protect his sister, it was his duty.” (source EIN interview)

KM: “MG got a call from Lori.”
MG: “She said ‘hey did you watch the news?’ She said ‘Charles was shot’. I’m thinking they would have a prayer maybe the spirit will leave and his body will just die, you know? If it was really true that he was a zombie, yeah. I didn’t see that coming.”
KM: “Melanie says she feels bad now about watching it all unfold without warning anyone, Charles, the kids and especially about missing what she now believes was the real motive.”
MG: “I thought it was all spiritual. But if they wanted to do their spiritual dreams they would need some money to do that. And so she knew that there was a $million he had on him.” (source Dateline episode 3 “What Happened to JJ and Tylee” aired 22 Jun 2020)

Mid July - KW: “She’d found the beneficiary form naming me and she took a picture of it and she said ‘5 kids and no insurance money, and his sister gets everything.’ That was it.”(source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

Approx 18 July 2019 – About a week after CV’s death, Lori tells LIFE Academy that CV had committed suicide. LIFE looked into it and learned CV was killed as part of a family dispute; LIFE subsequently filed a report with Arizona's Department of Child Safety (KTVB7).

18 July 2019 – The funeral home where CV’s body was taken posts a notice about his death which only says “L Charles Anthony Vallow was born on August 17, 1956 in Lake Charles, LA and passed away July 11, 2019 in Chandler, AZ.” Family members find the memorial and post comments and photos to remember CV.

20 July 2019 – One of CV’s adult sons texts Lori, “If you won’t answer those questions, can we please have his watches and other stuff he always talked about and had around?” Lori responds within an hour saying she will send some items to his house. This is the last communication the son has with Lori. When the box arrives the son is disappointed in what Lori sent saying, “My dad had a collection of watches, very fancy watches. He wore nice watches for years and years so I thought she was going to send me some of them…The package arrived and inside were two cheap Timex watches you’d find at CVS. Anything that was worth money, we didn’t get. I’m assuming she sold everything else.” (East Idaho News).

22 July 2019 – Lori sends an email to Dog Training Elite asking about finding a new family for JJ’s service dog Bailey; Lori say it’s due to a “change in life circumstances” (Affidavit of Probable Cause Doc).

25 July 2019 – Ian Robert Pawlowski and Natalie Marie Pawlowski divorce is finalized in Madison County, Idaho (Court Docs, Rexburg Standard Journal).

c. 26 Jul 2019 - KW had 3 conversations with LV within 2 weeks of CV’s death. KW asked LV to let JJ come to CV’s celebration of life in Lake Charles and she wouldn’t let him. KW emailed, text, voice-mailed etc 4+ times a week, but there was not one response from her. LV was being “vindictive” and she was using JJ to hurt KW. (Source KW/LW Gray Hughes int. 26 Dec 2019)

Approx Late July - Lori refuses to tell CV’s sons where CV’s body is or if a funeral is planned. CV’s sons eventually figure out the mortuary where their dad was taken and go there to talk to the funeral director. “He was very shaky and nervous. We asked him for information and he said something like, ‘I can’t tell you that. It was requested that I tell you nothing,'” CV’s son said. (East Idaho News).

29 July 2019 – CV’s obituary is published in American Press. It is written by CV’s siblings and Lori is not mentioned.

Approx 29 July 2020 - about 2 weeks after Lori called the life insurance company she sends a text to JJ’s grandmother, KW. “It was a photo of the ‘change of beneficiary’ form that she must have gone digging for…It named me as the sole beneficiary and she wrote, ‘Five kids and no money and his sister gets everything.'” The text was the last time KW heard from Lori. (East Idaho News).

Approx July/Aug 2019? – Lori apparently told JJ’s grandparents KW & LW, and other people, that Tylee was attending BYU in Rexburg, ID. This was a lie; Tylee never attended BYU (Note: Date they were told this is unclear, but this detail comes from Dateline; JJ’s grandparent last had contact from Lori in July 2019 and last had contact from JJ Aug 10, 2019).

3 Aug 2019, 4 pm- 9 pm - A memorial service is held for CV at the Lake Charles Civic Center in LA, but Lori never shows up. Neither does JJ. KW & LW had begged Lori to allow JJ to attend, but she ignored their requests (East Idaho News)

5 Aug 2019 - JJ starts the new school year at LIFE (KTVB7).

6 Aug 2019, 5:33 pm (AZ timezone) - Venmo in Tylee’s name sent money to her older brother CR with a heart and two exclamation points. Tylee Ryan

9 Aug 2019 – Lori lists JJ’s service dog, Bailey, for sale for $2500 using the contact name Lolo Ryan. The listing says it cost $7000 to train the dog and he is trained for people with autism. The listing also says the owner of the dog (Charles Vallow) is deceased. https://animal.direct/pdf-export.html?listingID=20875

10 Aug 2019 – JJ has a Facetime conversation with his paternal grandparents, KW & LW for the last time. This was a "35 second" Facetime. It appeared someone was monitoring what JJ said and he didn’t call back afterward, like he usually would. (KSL TV, ABC World News).

10 Aug 2019 - KW and LW's last facetime call with JJ:-
KM: “No call, nothing. It was the same for JJ’s grandparents KW and LW. They hadn’t heard from JJ for nearly 3 months, since their last facetime visit in August, and that was just weird. It looked to them like the boy was being coached.”
KW: “It’s like somebody was holding something written up here for him to read and as soon as he’s ‘hey moma! hey papa!’ and then he looks up and you can see his eyes move and he goes ‘hah! ‘I gotta go, gotta go! bye’ and that was it.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

11 Aug 2019 – CD’s 51st birthday.

Aug 2019 – LV's decision to move to ID according to MG:-

MG: “LV didn’t decide until August” [she was going to move to ID]. “At first she thought Chad would come to be with her in AZ, and then she said ‘I changed my plans, I’m supposed to be up there, he says I’m supposed to be up there but I need to get my own answer’…she really didn’t want to go there at first and then she said ‘I was told yes I need to go’ and she needed to be there by a certain time and so she decided to go. I’m like ‘isn’t that going to be awkward?’ She was uncomfortable with it. She believed that Tammy was going to pass away though, before she got up there. And that didn’t happen. I said ‘maybe she’ll see you guys together’.
NE: How was Tammy going to die?
MG: “I heard a few times maybe through a car accident, something like that.” (source EIN interview)

MG: “She gave other people a story that she was going to get a job there. But her and I both knew it wasn’t about a job. It was about her connecting with Chad and living up there and being part of their mission. They didn’t want anybody to stop them from being together.” (source Dateline episode 3 “What Happened to JJ and Tylee” aired 22 Jun 2020)

Approx mid-to-late Aug 2019 – JJ’s grandparents, KW & LW, call LIFE Academy to ask about JJ's welfare, because they haven't seen him in a while (KTVB7).

Aug 2019 - Chad attends a conference in St. George where he sets up a table to sell his books. Chad told an event attendee that Tammy was not at the conference because she was working (Rexburg Standard Journal).

22 Aug 2019 – Lori makes a podcast with MG titled: 1 Feel the Fire ~ Seeking & Finding Sweet Jesus

30 Aug 2019 - JJ’s last day attending LIFE Academy in AZ (Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Aug 2019 – Lori calls NM, the man who trained JJ’s service dog Bailey, saying she was moving and needed NM to come get Bailey “right now” and find him a new home. Lori tells NM that CV died and she, JJ & Tylee are moving to Idaho to be near her daughter who is in school there (But Lori has no other daughter that we know of besides Tylee). NM asks if everything is ok and Lori says “It’s just too hard to talk about”.

30 Aug 2019 - NM goes to pick up the dog from Lori. "They were in the middle of moving…She had the SUV in the middle of the driveway. They were throwing bags in there. JJ was in the backseat on his tablet," says NM, but he never saw Tylee that day. "When Lori brought Bailey out, she asked if I’d found a home for him yet…She said, 'Well, if Tylee asks, just tell her you have because she’s really upset about all of this.'" NM didn’t find out CV was shot to death until later (Fox10 Phoenix).

30 Aug 2019 – Lori, Tylee & JJ drive up to Colby’s workplace in Tylee’s Jeep. He comes out to talk to them briefly and they tell him they are moving the next day. CR says when he hugged them goodbye he did not know they were leaving AZ nor where they were moving to, but he thought it was good that Lori was getting the kids out of the house where CV died. Lori also told CR she got a new job but did not mention where the job was or what she was doing. Tylee seemed sad to be moving away and didn’t say much. (CR interview w/Justin Lum, Fox10 Phoenix).

End of Aug 2019 – MBP says the last time she saw JJ and TR was packing up their home in Chandler. (source EIN May 2020 interview)

Aug 2019 – LV’s sister SS says this is the last time she saw TR. (source interview)

Aug 2019 – AlC left his job (according to WS verified friend @Jankee . 25 Jun 2020). That is the last time she spoke directly with him. The friend thinks AlC was trying to cope with taking CV’s life and AlC said he was seeing a therapist.

30 Aug 2019 – JJ’s last day at LIFE Academy in Gilbert AZ – JJ’s teacher Julia Allen has confirmed that JJ was aware of his father’s death on his last day in the classroom. “He came in very angry” and “the whole day he kept saying ‘My dad’s not dead. My dad’s not in heaven. My dad’s just traveling he’s not in heaven’.”

30 Aug 2019: JJ and TR's last visit to CR:-

KM: “30 Aug 2019 – Lori dropped by CR’s house to tell him she Tylee and JJ were moving.”
CR: “I’m thinking okay they’ll just move houses because why would you want to stay in the house, that’s a horrible memory for you…”
KM: “CR thought his mother was moving the family to another neighborhood perhaps.”
CR: “Somewhere near us, right? She’s like ‘I’m moving somewhere cold and I can’t really tell you where I’m going right now.’ I just kind of wanted out.”
KM: “So in a way he was glad to see his mom drive off.” (source Dateline episode 2 “What Happened to the Children” aired 1 May 2020)

30 Aug 2019 – Colby facetimes with JJ and Tylee for the last time. “They were normal, and that was the thing, it didn’t seem like anything crazy, they were just trying to, you know, live their normal lives and we just were talking like normal…Having a normal conversation.”(Dr. Phil Show)

31 Aug 2019 – Lori moved out of the AZ home where CV was shot to death, at the request of the property manager. She took JJ and Tylee to Idaho after moving out (Idaho Post Register).

Timeline Part VIII of XXI (Update 9) - 12 July 2019 TO 31 August 2019