Today witnesses shared horrific details
about the murders of 16 year old
Ty Lee Ryan and her little brot,
7 year old JJ Valo. Their mom,
Lori Valo, is charged with murd,
conspiracy to commit murder,
and Grand Theft in their deaths.
She's also charged with conspiry
and theft and the death of her w
husband Chad Daybell's late wif,
Tammy Daybell. We
want to warn you this story shas
some graphic details and may be
hard for some of you to watch,
but Abby Davis joins us now wite
breakdown of what happened in c.
And Abby, the question is?
This was really hard for a
lot of jurors to hear, right?
This was a tough day.
It really was.
And some people were crying.
Others were actually throwing
up for the first time.
Experts revealed JJ and Ty
Lee's autopsy reports and
they spared no details.
On Wednesday, the court heard
graphic new details about how
JJ Valo and Ty Lee Ryan died.
Two kids, just 7 and 16 years old, Dr.
Garth Warren with the ADA
County Coroner's Office,
spent most of the day reviewing
JJ and Ty Lee's autopsy
reports. Dr. Warren, what is your occupation
or profession? I am a
forensic pathologist. Warren
conducted the autopsies on June
11th, 2020, just two days after
investigators found the kids remains on
their mother's fifth and current husband,
Chad Day Bells property.
Was this the first time you
had ever seen JJ Bellow?
Yes. And approximately how
long did that autopsy last?
It took approximately 4
hours. Warren revealed
JJ suffocated to death.
During cross examination,
defense attorney John Thomas asd
Warren how he came to that conclusion.
JJ was found with the plastic bag over
his head that was duct tape, tightly.
He was bound, there was evidence
of a struggle and there's no otr
explanation of why he was dead,
Thomas continued, asking Warren how he knew
this without swabbing inside Jj's nose.
I've never heard anybody doing
that in this type of situation.
What type of situation are you talking about?
Bag over the head. OK, so when someone
has a bag over their head and Im
just going off of things I've sn
in movies and whatnot, that's s.
That's scary to you?
Yeah, That you're going off mov.
Well, you're going off of
my knowledge knowledge. OK.
When Warren described how Ty Lee died,
he said it was homicide by quot,
unspecified means.
So the examiner knows Ty Lee was
murdered but cannot pinpoint exy
where or how it happened because
of what her remains looked like.
The vast majority of the times
when I perform an autopsy,
I get an entire body. There's a process
that we went through.
Ty Lee's case was different.
Ty Lee's remains were received
in three separate sealed bags.
FBI Special Agent Steve
Daniels also took the stand,
finishing his testimony from Tuesday.
Daniels talked about law enforct
search of Chad De Bell's proper.
When we left off yesterday,
I believe we had.
Spoken about in this exhibit,
the house, fire pit, Ty Lee's bl
site and the garage and shed.
Is that correct?
That is correct. Daniels
described the area around JJ's grave.
What's interesting now is
just the precise way that
these rocks are are laid out.
You can start to see the
cut roots around this grave,
especially the bigger roots.
So somebody's taking time and
effort to cut through these rou,
Daniel said. After they found J,
they knew Ty Lee's remains were
somewhere on the property, too.
Throughout the day,
witnesses referred to different photos.
Some of those photos were so grc
that only jurors looked at them.
Of course, we have a more detaid
recap of the day on our website,
ktvb.com. But Brian and Morgan, again,
these testimonies were just so graphic.
It was a really tough day
for some people in court.
But you know, prosecutors saying yesterday,
at least when I was in court,
that they have to show some of e
things because it's evidence and they
need jurors to be able to take it all.
New account.
And going back to a story we did last week,
we asked Ada County if they were going to
be offering counseling services for jurors.
They said that they were looking into
that and it would be a possibil.
And they have done that in cases
and definitely a needed resource
for these jurors.
All right, Abby,
thank you for more indepth
coverage from court today.
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