Judgment Day-obsessed mother Lori Vallow allegedly conspired with her new husband Chad Daybell to hide or destroy the bodies of her children, according to new court documents.
A probable cause affidavit linked to new felony charges against Vallow reiterates claims that she lied to police officers about the whereabouts of her children, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and details their beliefs in zombies. and the apocalypse
Authorities have yet to say exactly how the children died or who caused their death. The document suggests that JJ was buried in a pet graveyard on the Daybell property. It also states that Tylee’s remains were dismembered and burned.
Vallow, who is being held on $ 1 million bail in Idaho on charges of child abandonment, was beaten on two counts of conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence Monday night.
The 46-year-old mother will appear in Freemont County court later Tuesday on the new charges.
The affidavit released Monday hints that Vallow and Daybell’s doomsday beliefs may have affected their actions. On different occasions in 2019, Vallow allegedly told her friend Melanie Gibb that both JJ and Tylee had become zombies.
Daybell, author of End of the World related books, had taught Vallow that a zombie was a person inhabited by a “dark spirit”, and that the only way to return a person’s true spirit to their body was to kill them, according to the documents. .
But “despite the teaching that a physical body had to die, Gibb reports that Vallow or Daybell never told him they planned to carry out a physical murder themselves,” Rexburg Police Lt. Ron Ball wrote in the statement. sworn.
The document claims that Vallow asked her friend to lie to the police about JJ’s whereabouts and deceived herself during the investigation when she told them that JJ was in Arizona and Tylee was attending college.
The shattered remains of the children were found buried in Daybell’s backyard on June 9. He pleaded not guilty to charges of concealing evidence by destroying or concealing the bodies.
Investigators found the remains by tracking the movements of Vallow’s brother Alex Cox using cell phone data.
The affidavit states that Cox was also involved in the conspiracy to hide the remains of the children. He died of an apparent blood clot in his lungs at his Arizona home last December.
Police began searching for Tylee and JJ in November after family members voiced their concern.
Daybell and Vallow have been accused of lying and failing to cooperate with police in Idaho, before quietly leaving for Hawaii, where they were found earlier this year.
Additional reporting by Gabrielle Fonrouge, with Wires
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