End of the world Part 2!

 Happy True Crime Thursday! 

Get ready to hop aboard the crazy train as we venture into part 2 of the case against Lori Vallow Daybell. If you haven't read part 1 I highly suggest you go back and do so, otherwise this is going to be quite confusing for you. 

Ok, in part 1 I left off at Lori being arrested and placed on 5 million dollars bail after she failed to present her missing children. What I'm going to do is present a bit of a timeline of the events that occurred, some of them will be a bit of a refresher while others are new and just as crazy as the rest. 

• July 11, 2019- Charles Vallow is shot and killed by Lori's older brother Alex, who claims that it was self defense. The police close the case. Now let's talk a little bit more about Alex. This wasn't his first run in with one of Lori's husbands that was violent. He had an altercation in 2007 with Lori's 3rd husband Joseph Ryan, Alex attacked him with a taser and threatened his life. Alex was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 5 years of probation. While he was behind bars he was asking friends on the outside to send him pictures of Joseph, his license plate number, his address saying that he would be passing it along to those in jail with him. (Little side bar here, not much has been released, but in 2018 Joseph died of an apparent heart attack and as of right now a report states the FBI is looking into the death of Lori's ex-husband. Lori told a family member that she planned to received his life insurance money and would be splitting it with Tylee) So back to Alex, it has been said by many that he took protecting Lori as a job. So how far would he be willing to go for her? 
• August 10, 2019- is the last time that Kay and Larry (J.J's Grandparents, Charles's sister and brother in law) spoke with J.J
• August 30, 2019- This right here breaks my heart. You see J.J was on the Autism spectrum and had some special needs. When Charles was still alive and married to Lori they got him a dog named Bailey as a service animal. J.J loved Bailey and Bailey helped him with a lot of his needs. Well, on this day she returns Bailey to the original trainer after she originally tried to sell her for $2,500. She told the trainer that a tragedy had happened and they were moving to Idaho. That poor little boy was heartbroken that his mom got rid of his best friend. When Charles was still alive Lori had told him that she was done with J.J and that she couldn't deal with the additional care that he required. 
• September 2019- Lori and the kids up and move to Rexburg, Idaho...why? Well it's where Doomsday prepper Chad Daybell lived....with his wife Tammy. 
• September 8, 2019- Is the last time Tylee is seen, she was at Yellowstone National Park with her mom Lori, her brother J.J and her uncle Alex.
• September 23, 2019- Is the last time J.J was seen, at his new school Kennedy Elementary. The next day Lori tells the school that after only a month of attending she decided to pull him from school and that he was going to be homeschooled instead.
• October 1, 2019- Lori rents a storage locker in Rexburg, she is seen unloading belongings out of her car. On October 2nd she is caught on surveillance cameras loading more into the locker, she is with a man. This time it shows them taking out a tire and a removable car seat. Originally it was thought to be her brother Alex in the video, but it's believed that it might have been Chad Daybell that was helping her unload.  
• Also on October 2nd something else suspicious happens. Now to go back just a little Lori had convinced her niece Melani to join the doomsday preppers group. When Melani did she told her husband Brandon Boudreaux that she wanted a divorce. Well, on October 2nd in Gilbert, Arizona Brandon became the target of luckily a failed drive by shooting. This is the important part, it was attempted by someone driving a green Jeep Cherokee. This jeep was still registered to Charles Vallow (who had been dead for 3 months at this time) the person who had regularly drove that jeep was Tylee, but at this point she had been missing for over a month. So if you are familiar with Jeeps you know that there is a spare tire located in the back, if the tire is in place your are not able to open up that back window. In that shooting the tire could have been removed from the Jeep. Was it the singular tire that was placed in the storage unit along with the Jeeps backseat? And guess who still lived in Arizona at the time...Alex, and that is who Brandon believes was driving. Guess who also had a very large insurance policy...Brandon. Seems to be a trend here. Luckily for Brandon he was able to walk away. 
• October 3, 2019- Surveillance cameras yet again show Lori coming back to the unit, this time with who we believe to be her brother Alex, he takes the tire and seat out of the unit and puts it into Lori's car. Through the month of October Alex is seen coming to the storage unit multiple times unloading more items, by himself and also with Chad Daybell. Later on bikes, clothing, toys, blankets, photo albums and other belongings of the children were found in this unit.
• October 9, 2019- Tammy Daybell calls the police because while in her garage a masked assailant attempted to shoot her with what she believes was a paintball gun. She had yelled out for Chad and when she did the man ran away. It was ruled a prank.
• October 19, 2019- Just 10 days after the shooting incident Tammy Daybell is found dead in her home. Her death was ruled "Natural Causes." Chad turned down an autopsy and her funeral and burial were completed within 5 days. 
• October 31/November 1,  2019- According to a private investigator hired by Brandon Boudreaux Alex and Melani are seen packing up their stuff in Chandler, Arizona before they made the drive to Rexburg, Idaho. They arrive November 4th and along the way they are seen discarding children's items on the curb. 
• November 5, 2019- Lori and Chad get married in Hawaii 
• November 26- The welfare check on the children is conducted by Rexburg Police Department, they discover that Tylee and J.J are gone. Lori gave police details as to where the children were, in which they proved to be false. By the next day Lori and Chad had packed up what they could  and end up in Kauai. 
• November 29, 2019- Alex himself is caught up in a whirlwind romance and on this day gets married to a fellow doomsday prepper by the name of Zulema Pastenes. Lori loved Zulema and stated that Zulema had the ability to control the elements with her mystic powers.
• November 30, 2019- Just one day after Alex, freshly single Melani gets married in Las Vegas to a man named Ian Pawlowski. I mean I guess if the world is going to end for these people then why wait to get married.
• December 11, 2019- The police have Tammy Daybell's body exhumed to investigate her death further. To this day no details have been released. 
• December 12, 2019- A 911 call comes in. The caller is Zulema's son saying that he found Alex collapsed and unresponsive on the bathroom floor. They attempted to revive him, but were unsuccessful. His death was also ruled as natural causes. Here we go again with another death in this story. 
• December 2019 to January 2020- Rexburg police hold a press conference announcing the investigation into Tylee and J.J's disappearances. Hawaii Police locate Lori and Chad and present Lori with a court order to produce her children within 5 days. She doesn't. 
• February 10, 2020- According to CBS News reports, Tylee's cell phone is found amongst Lori's belongings in Hawaii. Confirming Colby's suspicions that it wasn't Tylee who had been texting him. 
• February 20, 2020- Lori is arrested in Kauai and charged with 2 felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children. 
• February 24, 2020- In child custody court documents Brandon said that Ian told law enforcement that Melani had conspired with Alex to kill Brandon. Brandon also states in these papers that police are investigating her role in the disappearance of the children. 
• By March she is extradited from Hawaii to Idaho where her bail is lowered from 5 million to 1 million dollars, but still no bail bond company will assist her. 

During all of this some other things were brought up. Tylee's aunt said one day she was speaking with Lori before the kids went missing. And Lori told her that things were going to get scary and that she had thought about loading the kids into the car and having it go off the side of a cliff. She then tried to back peddle after seeing the horror on her face saying you know I'm kidding, I would never hurt my kids. Who jokes about something like that? One sick individual if you ask me. Well even more bizarre was that Lori had also told some other friends that J.J had died, 2 years ago. Lori and Tylee were known to butt heads often. Tylee was a very strong willed independent girl who was very protective over her little brother J.J. 

Emails were discovered that showed an email sent from Charles' account when he was still alive. Charles had discovered that someone sent an email to Chad Daybell posing as him, in this email it was an invitation to stay at their home to write a book. Lori refused to explain why she sent it. 

It seems that Lori is a pathological liar that has zero empathy if you ask me. That she wanted a new life and would take out anyone that stood in her way of that or that she saw as a threat. In a March 24th report, official court documents noted that Lori and Chad had reportedly became convinced that Tylee and J.J had been possessed and had become zombies...that's right, zombies. 

Now you guys I wish that I could tell you that this story has a happy ending for the children. Following this case I hoped for nothing more. Hoped that Tylee had just taken J.J away from all this craziness and they ran away. Sadly on June 9th, 2020 human remains were found on Chad Daybell's property in Idaho and within a couple days it was confirmed that the remains were of the children. Chad is arrested and charged on 2 felony counts "Destruction, Alternation or Concealment of Evidence." J.J had been wrapped in plastic and bound with duct tape. Tylee was dismembered and burned. It seriously hurts my heart to write those words, these poor children. They were buried in what was known to the Daybell family as the pet cemetery, where they had buried animals before. 

So here's what we know about the approximate time of death for Tylee. Alex actually had a townhouse in the same complex as his sister and records show on September 9th there was suspicious activity. It shows his phone was located at his apartment, however at 2:45 a.m. he is over at Lori's and then back to his apartment at 4:37 a.m. By 9:21 a.m. it shows he was located at Chad Daybell's property until about 11:30 a.m. And then he was at a Dell Taco in Rexburg until 12:02 p.m. then back to his apartment. 

This next part made me sick to my stomach, below is a text between Chad and his wife Tammy that morning. 

Chad to Tammy at 11:53 a.m.- 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 raccoon 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! 

Chad to Tammy at 11:56 a.m.- Gonna shower now and then go write for awhile at BYU. Love you! 

The fact that it was most likely Tylee he was burning is so beyond disturbing. 

Now what about J.J? 

Lori had a friend by the name of Melanie Gibb, she stated that she saw J.J was the night of September 22nd. Lori told her that J.J had become a zombie, she claimed he loved Satan and because he had an increase in his vocabulary and was sitting still while watching tv it had become obvious that he was one. Lori also told her that Chad taught her that once a person becomes a zombie that death of the physical body is the way in which the original spirit can be released. 

On the night of 22nd, Melanie and her boyfriend David Warwick were over at Loris, they were going to do a podcast together. J.J started acting up and that was when Alex took J.J over to his apartment, when he returned later that night Alex was seen carrying J.J who appeared to be sleeping with his head on Alex's shoulder. Warwick specifically remembers this because he thought it was a tender moment. Fast forward to the next morning between 8-9 in the morning, Warwick asked Lori where J.J was. Her reply was that J.J had been acting like a zombie, crawling on and on top of the cabinets and when he was doing this he knocked over a picture of Jesus so Alex came and took J.J. 

The FBI analyzed Alex's phone yet again and found that on the morning of September 23, Alex was at Chad's property between 9:55 a.m. and 10:12 a.m., near the pond. 

Chad was there when law enforcement executed their search warrant, he was continuously watching from his vehicle in the driveway or while sitting in his daughters driveway across the street. When J.Js remains were found he was seen leaving the daughters home, but he was arrested about a mile away. 

Both Lori and Chad are currently sitting in prison awaiting there trials and you better believe I will be following that closely and will post an update here! There are so many bits and pieces and to me they are all obviously connected in someway so I will be curious with what they present during the trials. Stay tuned for an update!

Resources- 

Dr. Phil's Podcast- A Mothers Secret 

Morbid Podcast