


Prosecutors say he met Vallow Daybell at a conference in Utah in 2018.


He married Tammy Daybell in 1990, and they had five kids. Their bodies were found the following year buried in Chad Daybell’s yard.ĭaybell, 54, was also a member of the LDS church and a self-published author who wrote doomsday-focused fiction loosely based on church teachings. They were last seen in September, and they were declared missing in November after extended family urged police to investigate. Shortly after Charles’ death, Vallow Daybell moved to eastern Idaho with JJ, Tylee and her brother Cox.Ĭhad Daybell became her fifth husband on Novemroughly two weeks after his previous wife Tammy Daybell died under suspicious circumstances. The two were estranged but still married when Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, shot and killed Charles Vallow outside his Phoenix suburban home.Ĭox told police the shooting was in self defense, and was never charged in the case. Charles Vallow filed for divorce, contending in court papers that Vallow Daybell also believed herself to be a deity tasked with helping to usher in the Biblical apocalypse. They later adopted Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow.īut by 2019, that marriage had also soured. Vallow Daybell joined the LDS church and the pair married in 2006. Ryan later died in his home of a suspected heart attack.Ĭharles Vallow, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, entered the picture several months later. The couple had a baby girl named Tylee in 2002, but divorced just a few years later. In 2001, Vallow Daybell married again, this time to a man named Joseph Ryan. She married again in her early 20s, and had a son named Colby before divorcing. Vallow Daybell’s first marriage, to a high school sweetheart when she was just 19, ended quickly. She’s pleaded not guilty to murder, conspiracy and grand theft charges in the deaths of her two youngest kids and her new husband’s previous wife. Lori Vallow Daybell, 49, is a beautician by trade, a mother of three, and a wife - five times over. Here, a look at the defendants and some of the witnesses in the trial of Lori Vallow Daybell: BOISE, Idaho > Prosecutors say the mother charged in a triple murder case took part in a complex conspiracy that included unusual spiritual beliefs and efforts to kill those who stood in the way of her goals.
