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On the episode of Dateline: NBC airing Friday, Might 1 and titled “What Occurred to the Kids?”, Colby Ryan speaks with NBC Information anchor Keith Morrison about his siblings’ disappearance. Right here’s what it’s essential learn about Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell because the disappearance of Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17, again in September 2019.
Lori Vallow is in Jail
In November, she and Daybell, her fifth husband, fled from Idaho to Hawaii after authorities got here to their dwelling in search of the youngsters. They later issued a press release by way of their lawyer that stated, “Chad Daybell was a loving husband and has the assist of his youngsters on this matter. Lori Daybell is a loyal mom and resents assertions on the contrary. We stay up for addressing the allegations as soon as they’ve moved past hypothesis and rumor.”
In January, Vallow was ordered by the court docket to bodily produce her youngsters inside 5 days and he or she ignored it, which opened her as much as civil or felony contempt of court docket in Madison County, Idaho.
In February 2020, Tylee’s cellphone was present in Vallow’s possession in Hawaii and Vallow was subsequently arrested and charged with two counts of felony desertion and nonsupport of dependent youngsters within the disappearance of her two youngsters, along with expenses of resisting or obstructing cops, solicitation to commit against the law and contempt of court docket.
In March 2020, Vallow was extradited again to Idaho and put in jail, along with her bail lowered from the $5 million that it was set at in Hawaii to $1 million. Vallow’s preliminary listening to is scheduled for Might 7 and eight, however a movement has been submitted to postpone it.
Within the new Dateline: NBC episode, Tylee and JJ’s older brother Colby Ryan tells Morrison that it hurts a lot not understanding what occurred to his brother and sister.
“It hurts a lot. And on prime of that, we’ve got one million questions. So you may’t name your personal mother. You’ll be able to’t go to your home or her home and see your siblings. You’re simply out within the chilly,” he says, including, “Like, how do you not produce the children? That’s the entire cause you’re in jail within the first place proper now.”
And Morrison tells Entry Hollywood forward of the episode, “It’s actually one of many weirder ones, that’s for positive.”
A number of Associated Deaths Are Nonetheless Beneath Investigation
In July 2019, Vallow’s fourth husband Charles was fatally shot by Vallow’s brother, Alex Cox, in Arizona. Then in December, Cox died unexpectedly in his dwelling of unknown causes. Each of these deaths are nonetheless underneath investigation.
Then in April 2020, the Idaho Lawyer Normal confirmed that each Vallow and Daybell are underneath investigation for “conspiracy, tried homicide and/or homicide” of Daybell’s first spouse, Tammy. Tammy was discovered lifeless in her dwelling in October 2019. Her demise was initially believed to be from pure causes, however a later investigation decided that her demise could also be suspicious.
Vallow and Daybell received married simply weeks after Tammy’s demise. Daybell is the creator of a number of books concerning the finish instances and Vallow’s niece Melani Pawlowski has stated that Vallow had been spending time with “a brand new non secular group that [they] discuss with as a cult.”
Within the Dateline: NBC particular, one witness says that Melani claimed Vallow and Daybell instructed her, “JJ and Tylee have turn out to be possessed” and “wanted to die.”
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