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Today, witnesses revealed more
disturbing details about the
murders of JJ Valo and Ty Lee R.
We're almost finished with
week three of their mom,
Laurie Valo De Belles murder tr.
Laurie's charged with murder,
conspiracy to commit murder and Grand
Theft in the deaths of JJ and Ty Lee.
She's also charged with conspiry
and theft in the death of her
husband's late wife, Tammy de B.
Our Abby Davis joins us now.
And Abby, some of the witnesses
also talked about DNA today.
We haven't heard much about
that throughout this trial.
That's exactly right and actual.
Only eight people testified,
so there were many people on the
stand today and most of those
were various law from various
law enforcement agencies.
So one person with the Idaho
State Police shared some pretty
important information about one
of Laurie's brothers, Alex Cox.
Nearly three years ago, law enforcement
found seven-year old JJ Valo and
16 year old Ty Lee Ryan's remai.
But many of the details about hw
they died and what the remains looked
like were unknown until this we.
The state is continuing with
presenting evidence in its case.
During day seventeen of their
mom Lori Valo's murder trial,
experts shared more brutal
details about the kids murders.
Many of those details involved .
Idaho State Police forensic
scientist Tara Martinez analyzed
latent fingerprints found on the
plastic bag around Jj's body
evaluation of item 11 in the la.
The black plastic with the duct tape yielded.
Two latent prints, Yes, yes.
And both of those latent prints matched the
known prints of who Alexander Lamar Cox.
That's Laurie's older brother,
who died in December 2019.
A family friend who testified
earlier in the trial said he saw
Alex carrying JJ that September,
one of the last times JJ was se.
ISP forensic biologist Catherine
Dace also took the stand.
She looked at hand tools from
Chad De Bell's property,
where law enforcement found the kids.
It was a variety of shovels,
A pickaxe, pair of shears, a pot
hole digger, and several hand s.
They said she was looking for
blood and possible human remain.
Did you find anything to be thau
considered to be of evidentiary value?
Yes. I found several presumptive
positive blood stains on the to,
and on several the tools.
I thought I found what could be chart flesh.
They said some of that
blood was on the pickaxe.
Were you able to obtain a DNA
profile from those samples? I w.
Were you able to reach a conclun
the DNA profile from item 36,
point 1.3 matched that obtainedm
the reference sample of Ty Lee n
at the end of the day.
Samantha William testified.
She's the sister of Tammy Daybe.
Chad's late wife.
Chad called me the morning thate
passed away. Do you recall what he told
you? He told me that she had
been really sick and that.
She'd been coughing all night.
Did that make any sense to you?
No, because I had just seen
her two weeks previous to
that and she hadn't been.
That's she wasn't that sick at .
She was very healthy.
A few months before Tammy's dea,
William said, she started noticg
changes in her sister's marriag.
Something seemed off.
They were very awkward.
At our house, and I and Chad
wouldn't converse with my
husband like they normally do.
It just seemed really strange
and we weren't sure what was going on.
William also said Tammy never
told her about a possible affai.
Her testimony lasted about 15 minutes.
Experts also shared graphic information
in court about Ty Lee's remains.
But for the sake of this broadc,
we will not go into detail.
You can read about it if you wih
on ktvb.com. Morgan and Brian,
the judge also shortened court tomorrow,
so the day will look likely
be a lot shorter as well.
And that's really just because
they're going so fast, right?
They've even cancelled trial a
few of the days throughout this,
the past couple months.
But you know,
this is the first time we're rey
hearing from anybody on Tammy'se
and we are expecting her to cone
testimony for who knows how long tomorrow,
but it is.
Powerful to hear from people close to Tammy,
right? That's something we
haven't really heard a lot abou,
even in all the investigations d
the documentaries up to this po.
That's been kind of. Exactly. Y.
And likely emotional, too. Yeah.
All right. Abby Davis, thank you so much.
We've got even more indepth
coverage on the Valo trial for .
You can check out our newest
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