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'It's just pure evil': Chad Daybell to 'turn on' Lori Vallow and pin the murders of her children and his first wife on the cult mom - as victim's aunt says doomsday couple are the real zombies

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 14, 2024
Chad Daybell is accused of orchestrating the murders of his ex-wife Tammy Daybell and Lori Vallow's children, JJ and Tylee. His trial has begun but a relative believes Daybell is planning to shift blame for the killings onto Vallow, who has already been convicted and sentenced. The children disappeared in late 2019, with their remains found in Daybell's backyard in 2020.  JJ's aunt expects Daybell to distance himself from Vallow during the trial, but many, including Kresha Easton, anticipate a guilty verdict and justice for the victims.

Chad Daybell's 'doomsday' triple murder that included wife Lori Vallow's two children, aged 7 and 16, and featured in a Netflix true-crime doc was fueled by 'sex, money and power', prosecutors say as trial starts

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 11, 2024
The trial of 'doomsday prophet' Chad Daybell, shown left, began in Idaho Wednesday with prosecutors alleging that he conspired to murder his ex-wife, Tammy Daybell, not pictured, as well as his partner, Lori Vallow, shown right's, children, JJ Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, shown inset. Daybell is accused of crafting an alternate reality so that he could fulfill 'his desire for sex, money and power.' 'When he had a chance at what he considered his rightful destiny, he made sure no person and no law would stand in his way,' prosecutor Rob Wood said. Daybell, 55, is facing charges of first degree murder, insurance fraud, and conspiracy to commit murder and grand theft in connection with the deaths that became internationally infamous following the release of the Netflix documentary Sins of Our Mother.

Lori Vallow smiles in heavy make-up and looks adoringly at her attorney as she appears in Arizona court over plotting to kill her ex-husband Charles Vallow

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 21, 2024
Lori Vallow, the 'Doomsday mom', is accused of scheming with her brother Alex Cox to murder her ex-husband Charles Vallow in July 2019 and planning to murder her niece's husband Brandon Boudreaux. Vallow's blond hair curled as she welcomed the judge and her counsel in her court appearance on Wednesday. In handcuffs and an orange prison jumpsuit, the mother who was found guilty of murdering her two children, Tylee, 16, and JJ, 7, told her name and date of birth during what the judge described as a "complex case scheduling" hearing. Vallow waived her right to appear on the day until she leaned over and whispered to her counsel, and the judge set the next pretrial hearing for April 24, but Vallow agreed to the date.

Tylee Ryan, the teen who was killed by 'doomsday mom' Lori Vallow, will be released to her family four years after she was killed, according to stepfather Chad Daybell, who is still facing a jury for her involvement in her disappearance

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 22, 2023
In September 2019, the 16-year-old and her younger brother JJ, seven, went missing and their bodies were discovered in June 2020 in their stepfather's backyard. Vallow's mother, Vallow, was found guilty of their murders in May, as well as the plot to murder her husband Chad Daybell's ex-wife. In April 2024, Daybell is expected to stand trial for the children's murder. On Thursday, an Idaho judge ordered that Tylee's body will be released to her family. The body of Tylee Ryan may be released to her next of kin,' district judge Steven Boyce said.' It comes after JJ's remains were given to relatives in October. Since the horrific discovery, Idaho has been holding their bodies.

Lori Vallow appears in Arizona court as she's arraigned on charges of murdering her fourth husband Charles Vallow - months after being convicted of killing her children JJ and Tylee

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 7, 2023
Lori Vallow has returned to court on two counts of conspiracy to murder her relatives as she descended into violent religious fanaticism. Amylee Cult's mother, who was found guilty in May of murdering her two children Tylee, 16, and JJ, 7, is accused of scheming with her brother Alex Cox to murder her husband Charles Vallow in July 2019 and intending to murder her niece Brandon Boudreaux. Last week, Vallow was extradited from Idaho to Arizona to face the charges. Vallow's death in June 2021 was investigated, as well as Boudreaux' planned murder in February 2022.

'Doomsday mom' Lori Vallow debuts her new look in prison mugshot as she is extradited from Idaho to Arizona to face murder charges over death of her fourth husband Charles and for plotting to shoot her niece's ex

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 30, 2023
Lori Vallow, 50, who was found guilty of murdering her two children aged seven-year-old JJ and 16-year-old Tylee in 2019, sported a smirk in her new prison mugshot, with her dyed blonde hair fading. She is accused of killing her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and trying to murder Brandon Boudreaux' niece in 2019. Vallow was transferred from the Pocatello Women's Prison to the women's-only Estrella Jail in Phoenix after an extradition that lasted for 18 hours. During a Thursday afternoon press conference, she would be placed in isolation in a high-security zone.

JJ's slain son JJ will finally have a funeral, and his parents are hoping that his sister Tylee will be able to rest soon after the 'long, arduous' double murder case

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 17, 2023
As his heartbroken grandparents say, JJ's murder will finally get a funeral, and Cult mother Lori Vallow hopes that his sister will be laid to rest after the 'long, difficult' double-murder case. After his body was discovered in June 2020, a district judge in Idaho announced today that the seven-year-old Joshua's body would be released to his next of kin. For murdering JJ and his sister Tylee, Lori was sentenced to life in prison. Since JJ's discovery and investigation, the state of Idaho had custody of his body, but his remains will now be returned to his family. Tylee Ryan's body is now being held in detention facilities throughout the state.

Dinosaurs may not have been killed by the world's longest meteor storm, according to a new map, a mega volcano eruption may have caused their extinction

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 29, 2023
To test over 300,000 likely extinction scenarios, a new simulation used 130 processors. The model found that climate-warming gases from India's 'Deccan Traps' mega-volcanoes were enough to drive the dinosaurs to extinction 300,000 years before infamous asteroid hit

Lori Vallow appealed a murder conviction for killing her two children after being in a mental hospital for ten months

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 5, 2023
Lori Vallow, a mother from Cult, has appealed her murder conviction for killing her two children, claiming she was not fit to stand trial after spending ten months in a mental hospital. Vallow was found guilty of murdering her two children, 7-year-old Joshua 'JJ' Vallow, and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as plotting to murder Tammy Daybell, her fifth husband's former spouse, Tammy Daybell. Vallow is also facing two other court problems in Arizona: one alleging that she and her brother planned to murder her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and one on plans to murder her niece's ex-husband. Charles Vallow was shot and killed in 2019, but her niece's ex was able to return later this year.

Lori Vallow sentencing: Tylee Ryan, an Idaho mother who murdered her children, was sentencing by Lori Vallow, 7, and JJ, 7. She learned she was released from jail after a court hearing

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 31, 2023
Vallow Daybell was found guilty in May of killing her two children, 7-year-old Joshua 'JJ' Vallow, and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as plotting to murder Tammy Daybell, her fifth husband's former wife. Vallow is condemned to life in jail without parole Monday in the murders of her two youngest children and a lover in a case that involved bizarre allegations that her son and daughter were zombies and that she was sent to usher in the Biblical apocalypse. Chad Daybell's husband is facing a jury trial on the same murder charges as well.

Lori Vallow, a doomsday mom, is being asked to find her destiny for her children's horrific murders, Tylee, 16, and JJ, 7

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 30, 2023
Lori Vallow Daybell, 50, was found guilty of murder in the deaths of 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old JJ Vallow, as well as plotting to murder Chad Daybell's former wife Tammy Daybell. When the children vanished in September 2019, it was a case that drew national attention. Vallow and her new husband were holidaying in Hawaii just a few months ago – the children were nowhere to be seen. On Daybell's property, the tale took a tragic turn in June 2020, when their bodies were discovered buried in shallow graves.

Lori Vallow, a doomsday mother, has been refused by a judge for a retrial

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 16, 2023
Lori Vallow's request for a retrial was refused months after she was found not guilty of murdering her two children as a result of the 'apocalypse' and believed her children were 'zombies.' Vallow was found guilty of murdering her children in May, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, but her counsel argued that jurors had been influenced by "outside sources," according to JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan. However, lawyers argued that she became fixated by the prospect of an incoming apocalypse, and that the only way to save her children's lives was to murder them. Following her guilty verdict, it was announced that she would be sent to Arizona following sentencing, and that she will be charged with conspiracy to murder her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.

After less than two weeks, Lori Vallow's lawyers, a Doomsday mother, are calling for a new trial

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 27, 2023
Just two weeks after being found guilty of murdering her children JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, the doomsday mom killer Lori Vallow (left) launched a new trial. Her counsel advised her that the jury may have been influenced by information they heard outside the courthouse, owing to the high-profile nature of her trial. One of the jurors admitted that he knew of evidence that wasn't presented to the jury in an interview.' Vallow is now incarcerated in Rexburg, Idaho, while awaiting sentencing. She is then set to be extradited to Arizona to face a separate conspiracy murder charge in connection with her ex-husband Charles Vallow's murder.

JJ, 7, and Tylee, 17, want a proper burral, according to the grandparents of Lori Vallow's murdered children

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 24, 2023
Joshua 'JJ' and Tylee Ryan, the murdered children of doomsday cult mother Lori Vallow's, said it was "the hardest part" for them to return their grandchildren home to their final resting place. Larry and Kay Woodcock said on Tuesday that they are 'hoping the court will allow them to bring the children home to have a proper burial.' Vallow was found guilty earlier this month of killing seven-year-old JJ and 16-year-old Tylee and burying their bodies in shallow graves at the home of her husband, cult leader Chad Dayebll in Rexburg, Idaho. The murders have yet to be tried by Daybell.

Lori Vallow was charged by a grand jury in Arizona with plotting to murder her nephew-in-law

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 16, 2023
Since dropping his children off at school, Brandon Boudreaux was threatening outside a house he had been living in in 2019. After the bullet penetrated the driver's side door of his Tesla, Boudreaux survived the botched assault. Lori Vallow, a cult murderer, has been charged with the attempted murder of Boudreaux, her nephew-in-law, is now in jail.

PICTURED: Lori Vallow is seen for the first time in mugshot

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 15, 2023
Lori Vallow, a 49-year-old mother from the 'Cult', is seen in her mug shot with her blonde hair in braids and a smug smile on her face. In 2019, she was found guilty of murdering her two children - seven-year-old JJ and 16-year-old Tylee. Vallow is now in prison, while the trial of her ex, Doomsday cult fan Chad Daybell, remains stalled. She has been extradited to Arizona to be charged with conspiracy to murder Charles Vallow, her fourth husband.

Lori Vallow to be extradited from Idaho to Arizona after being sentenced for murder of her children

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 12, 2023
Lori Vallow was found guilty of murdering her two children in September 2019. It now appears that she will be extradited to Arizona to face Charles Vallow, her fourth husband. Lori Vallow's brother, Alex Cox, was shot and died in July 2019 after dying five months later from natural causes. Lori Vallow should be charged with murder conspiracy in July 2021, according to a grand jury in Arizona. After sentencing, the judge said she would be released in about three months from now.

Lori Vallow's murder conviction was based on shaky evidence that led to Lori Vallow's death

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 12, 2023
Lori Vallow, a Doomsday cult mother, was brought down by a slew of shocking facts, including a strand of her own hair wrapped around her son's skeletal body and chilling text messages threatening to cause her children pain. More than 60 witnesses were called into Vallow's triple murder trial, with explosive and moving testimony that sent shivers through the courthouse for more than six weeks. A single witness was not brought to admit their allegations. A jury of seven men and five women found Vallow, 49, guilty of murdering her two children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua 'J' Vallow, seven, as part of a sick religious plot on Friday.

Lori Vallow's murder trial has resulted in a verdict

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 12, 2023
After nearly seven hours of deliberation, the jury in Lori Vallow's triple murder trial at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, has returned a verdict. In September 2019, the cult mother, 49, was accused of killing her son JJ, seven, and daughter Tylee, 16. Tammy was convicted of participating in the murder of Daybell's wife Tammy, who was suffocated in her bed a month later.

In a cult mom lawsuit, relatives of Lori Vallow's murdered children are expected to be convicted

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 11, 2023
Lori Vallow is 'the one who ties this all together,' and she claims that she was the driving factor behind the murders, according to Prosecutor Rob Wood, who testifies before closing arguments. Vallow scribbled on her notepad at the defense table and her eyes darted around the packed courtroom in Boise, Idaho, on Thursday morning as the state delivered closing arguments and ordered the jury to find Vallow guilty. 'Money, power, and sex,' Wood began.' Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell initiated a series of events in October 2018.' They invited her brother Alex Cox to participate in a conspiracy that was unencumbered and free of obstacles along the way.' Vallow, 49, and her partner Chad Daybell, 54, have been accused of murdering her son JJ and 16-year-old daughter Tylee in Rexburg, Idaho, in September, 2019. Tammy was reportedly murdered the following month by the pair. They married in Hawaii two weeks later.

Lori Vallow will not call a single witness to defend murder charges

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 9, 2023
Lori Vallow wept from the defense table in the Boise, Idaho courthouse on Tuesday as her lawyers rested their case without summoning a single witness. The trial was brought to a halt just a short time after four weeks of harrowing testimony that revealed salacious texts with her cult leader husband and insight into their suspected deranged plan to murder her children. 'We don't believe the state has ruled in its favor, so the defense will proceed,' Jim Archibald said after a private meeting with Vallow. JJ, 7, and Tylee, 16, were suspected of killing her two children JJ, 7, and Chad Daybell, 54, in September 2019, and Daybell's then-wife Tammy the same month. Just two weeks later, they married in Hawaii.

24 hours after they reportedly murdered his wife, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell exchanged loving texts

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 9, 2023
Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell exchanged a slew of sappy texts, making sure the couple's future was confirmed to the court in Boise, Idaho, just 24 hours after the suspected cult leader's wife was suffocated to death. Doug Hart, a FBI agent, testified in early October 2019 that the two were secretly planning on going on a date when Daybell texted Vallow's's greatest news' that her then-wife Tammy Daybell had'switched' and that a demonic entity had touched her body. Tammy died in her sleep just weeks later on October 19. Vallow and Daybell spent hours after her death, and as he told her, 'it's baby night, so come get me later.' Hart, who was on the standout about what was discovered in Vallow's confiscated iCloud account, said that 'their friendship is the driving factor behind the crimes charged in this situation.'

Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell's trial heard that children and spouses were 'obstacles.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 5, 2023
Vallow and Daybell's texts reveal they planned the murders of Charles, her children JJ, seven, and Tylee, 16, and Daybell's wife Tammy, FBI agent Doug Hart. Vallow, 49, and Daybell, 54, both participated in lengthy sexting sessions in which they described taking showers and lying naked in bed after a doomsday conference in late 2018. In September, 2019, the pair were charged with murdering JJ and Tylee and burying their bodies in Daybell's backyard in Rexburg, Idaho. Tammy, Daybell's wife, was suffocated in bed a month later. They married in Hawaii two weeks later. Vallow was also accused of plotting the death of her estranged husband Charles, who was shot by her brother in Arizona in July of this year. She is facing separate charges for her murder. Vallow wanted'money, strength, sex,' and that she also used 'those things to get what she wanted,' according to the state.' She denies the charges being brought against her. Daybell is being tried separately.

Lori Vallow's brother tried to kill their niece's estranged husband in drive-by shooting plot

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 4, 2023
On October 2, 2019, Brandon Boudreaux was returning home from the gym when a bullet ripped through his Tesla's driver's side door. At the time, Boudreaux was trapped in divorce talks with Melani, the mother of his four children and Vallow's niece. At the Ada County Courthouse in Boise on Thursday, Ryan Pillar, a detective with Gilbert, told Vallow that Vallow's brother Alex Cox was behind the attempted assault. Vallow is accused of murdering Boudreaux in order to obtain a life insurance payout that would have gone to her niece, according to the state. Vallow, 49, and her partner Chad Daybell, 54, are accused of murdering her two children JJ, seven, and Tylee, 16, both of Rexburg, Idaho, in September, 2019. Cox, Vallow's brother, who died of natural causes in December of this year, has been accused of participating in the murders.