NEW
NEW DETAILS CONTINUE TO COME IN-- ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TWO
REXBURG KIDS.JJ VALLOW
AND TYLEE RYAN.
BOTH HAVE BEEN
MISSING SINCE
SEPTEMBER.
TONIGHT, WE ARE
UNRAVELING MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT
LORI VALLOW, HER NEW
HUSBAND CHAD DAYBELL
AND OTHER EXTENDED
FAMILY MEMBERS.
IT IS A COMPLICATED
WEB....AND A NUMBER OF
CHARACTERS INVOLVED IN
AND AROUND IT.
OUR MISTY INGLET SPOKE
WITH A PRIVATE
INVESTIGATOR ON THE
CASE TODAY.
SHE JOINS US NOW WITH
WHAT SHE LEARNED.
MISTY?
FIRST, LET'S TAKE A LOOK
AT SOME OF THE PLAYERS
IN THIS STORY AND HOW
THEY RELATE TO EACH
OTHER.
WE'VE GOT OF COURSE
LORI VALLOW, THE
MOTHER OF JJ AND TYLEE
WHO IS IN HAWAII WITH
CHAD DAYBELL.
THERE'S ALSO LORI'S EX-
HUSBAND, CHARLES
VALLOW, WHO IS DEAD.
AND HER BROTHER, ALEX
COX ALSO DEAD.
SOME LESSER KNOWN
NAMES WE'RE LEARNING
MORE ABOUT ARE LORI'S
NIECE MELANI
BOUDREAUX AND HER
EX-HUSBAND BRANDON.
IT'S THEIR STORY WE
FOCUS ON TONIGHT.
- "THIS ONE IS DEFINITELY
AT THE TOP OF THE LIST
FOR
FOR BEING
FOR BEING UNUSUAL." RICH ROBERTSON IS A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR AT
R-3 INVESTIGATIONS IN
ARIZONA.
HE WAS HIRED BY
BRANDON BOUDREAUX
THE EX-HUSBAND OF LORI
VALLOW'S NIECE, MELANI
BOUDREAUX.
BRANDON HIRED HIM
AFTER BECOMING THE
TARGET OF A DRIVE-BY
SHOOTING.
- "THE PERSON HE
RECOGNIZED, THE PERSON
HE SUSPECTED WAS THE
PERSON WHO DID THE
SHOOTING WAS THE SAME
PERSON WHO KILLED
CHARLES VALLOW."
ACCORDING TO
BRANDON, THAT WAS..
- "ALEX COX.."
LORI'S BROTHER.
ACCORDING TO
ROBERTSON, ALEX HAD
ASSAULTED LORI'S FIRST
HUSBAND.
HUSBAND.
HE
HE ALSO
HE ALSO LATER KILLED CHARLES VALLOW ALLEGEDLY IN SELF-
DEFENSE.
SO HOW DO MELANI AND
BRANDON FIT IN?
- "LORI VALLOW
CERTAINLY GOT MELANI
INVOLVED IN THIS. BY ALL
ACCOUNTS, THE VALLOW
AND THE BOUDREAUX
MARRIAGES WERE ALL
IDYLLIC.."
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IDYLLIC.." < - "UNTIL THEY GOT
INVOLVED IN THIS KIND
OF CULT SITUATION."
THAT SO-CALLED CULT
BEING MELANI AND LORI'S
RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, WHICH
CENTERED AROUND
DOOMSDAY IDEALS.
DIVORCE PAPERS FROM
CHARLES-- ALLEGE LORI
BELIEVED SHE WAS A GOD.
AMONG THE GROUP'S
LEADERS-- WAS LORI'S
NEW HUSBAND.
- "CHAD DAYBELL WAS
SOMEONE WHO WAS
INVOLVED IN LORI
VALLOW'S LIFE FOR SOME
TIME A YEAR OR TWO
PRIOR."
EVENTUALLY, LORI,
MELANI AND ALEX
WOULD ALL MOVE TO
REXBURG WHERE CHAD
LIVED.
ROBERTSON LATER
TRACKED THEM THERE
AND SET UP
SURVEILLANCE.
- "WE SAW THEM
LOADING THE U-HAUL
THEY RENTED IN AZ AND
TOOK TO REXBURG AND
WE SAW WHERE THEY
WERE LIVING BUT WE
DIDN'T SEE THE KIDS."
JJ AND TYLEE HADN'T
BEEN IN CONTACT WITH
ANYONE FOR ABOUT A
MONTH AT THIS POINT.
SO THE GRANDPARENTS
KAY AND LARRY
WOODCOCK ASKED
REXBURG POLICE FOR A
WELFARE CHECK AT LORI'S
HOUSE.
- "AND SHE SAID THEY
WERE IN ARIZONA. AND
SO SOME POLICE IN
ARIZONA WERE ASKED TO
GO CHECK ON THAT
LOCATION THAT LORI
TOLD THEM AND WHEN
THEY GOT THERE, THE KIDS
WEREN'T THERE, HADN'T
BEEN THERE."
THAT'S WHEN REXBURG
POLICE WENT BACK WITH
A SEARCH WARRANT AND
CHAD AND LORI LEFT THE
STATE.
LORI'S BROTHER ALEX
WOULD LATER BE FOUND
DEAD IN ARIZONA AND
POLICE EXHUMED CHAD'S
EX-WIFE TAMMY
DAYBELL'S BODY CALLING
HER RECENT DEATH
'SUSPICIOUS.'
- "WHEN YOU LOOK AT
THEM ALTOGETHER HOW
MANY COINCIDENCES CAN
THERE BE?"
ROBERTSON'S THEORY?
- "IT'S OBVIOUSLY
CENTERED AROUND THEIR
RELIGIOUS BELIEFS."
- "SOME OF THEIR
WRITINGS SUGGESTED
THEY WERE GOING TO GET
RID OF THEIR SPOUSES
WHO WERE NON-
BELIEVERS."
- "THE STRUGGLE FOR ALL
OF US IS TRYING TO PUT A
RATIONAL EXPLANATION
ON IRRATIONAL ACTS."
I
I ALSO
I ALSO ASKED ROBERTSON ABOUT CHARLES VALLOWS' LIFE
INSURANCE POLICY.
HE SAYS IT WAS $1
MILLION POLICY.
ORIGINALLY LORI WAS
THE BENEFICIARY, THEN
LATER IT WAS KAY
WOODCOCK, CHARLES'
SISTER.
ROBERTSON SAYS AS FAR
AS HE KNOWS, WHO
ENDED UP WITH THAT
POLICY IS STILL BEING
DETERMINED.
BACK TO YOU.
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