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Police in the US city of Phoenix are re-examining the death of Lori Vallow’s third husband, Joseph Ryan, after a new recording came to light during which Vallow, who faces charges in connection with the disappearance and death of her two children, she said “was going to murder” Ryan.
The recordings were published by the East Idaho News and the Post Register in Idaho and come from Anne Cushing, Ryan’s sister.
The Phoenix Police Department confirmed they were aware of the recording and as a result reviewed Ryan’s death investigation in 2018. It was originally ruled that Ryan’s death was due to a heart attack.
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Lori Vallow appears in court in Lihue, Hawaii.
“The Phoenix Police Department has learned of the information and is reviewing the investigation into the death of Joseph Ryan in 2018. No person of interest has been identified,” Police Department spokeswoman Mercedes Fortune confirmed to USA Today. of Phoenix.
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Vallow’s attorney did not immediately respond to USA Today’s request for comment.
The Ryan death review is just the latest twist in a bizarre case that spans multiple states, death investigations, and “cult” religious beliefs.
Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, face felony charges alleging they concealed the remains of Vallow’s children, Joshua “JJ ‘Vallow and Tylee Ryan, who were found buried around Daybell’s property in June.
The children had been missing from their home in Idaho for months and the search for them attracted international attention when details of the couple’s radical beliefs came to light and Vallow and Daybell were seen jumping from island to island in Hawaii with the children. children nowhere.
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Vallow could also face charges in connection with the death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.
Weeks before the children disappeared, Daybell’s wife, Tammy Daybell, was found dead. Police initially believed her death was due to natural causes, as Daybell said she died in her sleep. But police exhumed his remains in December, saying the circumstances “may be suspicious.”
Vallow could also face charges in connection with the death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow. Chandler, Arizona, police said in August that charges could be filed before the end of the year. Lori Vallow was allegedly in a dispute with Charles Vallow in July 2019 when Alex Cox, Lori Vallow’s late brother, shot and killed Charles Vallow.
Cox, who later died of a pulmonary blood clot in December, according to a medical report, claimed self-defense but the case was being investigated as a homicide.
In Lori Vallow’s recording released earlier this month, Vallow described a custody battle and the alleged abuse that she and her children faced by Ryan.
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American police have spoken to Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, as Vallow’s two sons have been missing for months.
“I was going to kill him. I was going to kill him. As the Scriptures say. How Nephi killed. Just to stop the pain and so that he doesn’t come after me and so that he doesn’t come after my children. And I just thought I couldn’t take it. more, “Vallow said.
Nephi is a prophet in the Book of Mormon, yet friends and family have described Vallow as holding extreme beliefs that diverge from conventional Mormon faith.
Cushing, who shared the audio with the media, said it was recorded after his brother’s death. She told the Post Register that the audio was shared with her and that it came from a meeting connected to a group called Preparing a People, which had featured Vallow and Daybell on podcasts together.
Cushing told the East Idaho News that he was sharing the audio in hopes of reopening his brother’s case. “You think Lori Vallow Daybell can’t surprise you anymore and then you get a recording like this,” Cushing told the news outlet.
In the recording, Vallow said that Ryan raped his children. She described the emotional distress in dealing with him and how he allegedly tried to portray her as the “crazy lying Mormon.”
“He didn’t have a killer heart,” Vallow said. “I just wanted to stop the bleeding and stop the pain.”
In the audio, Vallow also described how his faith gave him strength during the troubled moment. She spoke of her then husband, Charles Vallow, and also of her late children.
At one point in the audio, Vallow also referenced “the 144,000” and said, “The time is now. It is coming. It is preparing us.”
In the divorce papers before his death, Charles Vallow said that he believed Lori Vallow would kill him and that she believed she was “a god assigned to carry out the work of the 144,000 at the second coming of Christ in July 2020. “.
Vallow also said in the audio that she had been “sweet” and “innocent” all her life, but had visions of her as a “warrior” fighting a religious war.
“I just thought she was sweet and innocent,” Vallow said, then joked, “I’m sweet. I’m a sweet person. Don’t ask my husband.”
Vallow and Daybell are expected to face trial together next year.
-USA. Today
