9, 2019, before Tammy’s death, Chad Daybell sent a text to her, saying he was burning debris and that he had also shot and buried a large raccoon on his property.
Two weeks after her death, Daybell eloped to Hawaii with his new bride, Lori, where they had a beach wedding.Īn FBI analyst who reviewed cellphone records testified that on Sept. Previous wife deadĭaybell had five children with his previous wife of 30 years before she died mysteriously in her sleep Oct. “But there was a tectonic shift in her, and she went over the edge.”īoth Vallow’s and Daybell’s former spouses are now dead, and police are investigating at least one as a potential homicide, according to reports.
“I thought Lori was great, very loving,” says her former sister-in-law, Annie Cushing, according to an exclusive interview with PEOPLE Magazine. Initially friends said they didn’t think Vallow took Daybell’s beliefs seriously, but as their relationship developed they began to notice a change in Vallow’s behavior. ‘She went over the edge’ĭuring their first meeting, Daybell supposedly convinced Vallow that he could create spiritual portals that could transcend time and space, and that he and Vallow had already lived multiple previous lifetimes where they also knew each other.Īfter their meeting, Daybell and Vallow exchanged numbers and later purchased phones as a way to secretly communicate with each other. He had also discovered that she had tried to change the passwords to his accounts, according to reports.Īfter this, Vallow had Lori’s name removed from his $1 million life insurance policy, which ultimately went to his sister.Ĭharles Vallow also confided to family members that Lori was cheating and claiming to be a god, according to The Arizona Republic, and was in the process of filing for divorce when he was shot to death by Lori’s brother Alex Cox in July 2019.Īfter the shooting, Lori Vallow packed up the kids and moved to Rexburg, Idaho, to be closer to Daybell.īy September, the children were gone. A marriage unravelsĪround this same time, Vallow’s fourth marriage was falling apart.Ĭharles Vallow filed for a protection order against Lori after she allegedly began making threats to kill him, reports said. Vallow’s friend said the two quickly connected on some of his teachings, including reincarnation.Īccording to friends, Vallow and Daybell later began claiming they were among 144,000 people chosen to prepare for the second coming of Jesus Christ, which is cited in the Book of Revelations in the Bible. George, Utah, where Daybell was selling novels he had written about the apocalypse. Vallow met Daybell in 2018 when she was still married to her previous husband, Charles, and Daybell was still married to his previous wife, Tammy.Īt the time, Vallow and Daybell were attending a religious conference in St. The bizarre saga involves many other twists, including several suspicious deaths and Daybell and Vallow’s membership in a doomsday cult called Preparing a People that may have led them to believe the children were possessed by zombies, reports said.ĭaybell is Vallow’s fifth and current husband and the author of several esoteric novels about the apocalypse that are based loosely on principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also Vallow’s religion, according to reports. Vallow and Daybell did not attend the latest hearing. Wood denies the claims and has called for an expedited hearing into the charges. Wood’s attempt to coerce, unduly influence, coach, and or intimidate said material witness to this case,” read court documents filed by the defense. Recorded without Wood’s knowledge, the conversation raised legal questions about whether Wood potentially manipulated Shiflet by affiliating himself with her religious beliefs. The recording was played at the hearing on Wednesday to determine whether to remove Wood from the case due to accusations of ethical misconduct. “I’m going to tell you right now we are going to be filing conspiracy to murder charges for both Chad and Lori,” Wood said in a call to Vallow’s sister Summer Shiflet, the State Journal reported.
Idaho special prosecutor Rob Wood was heard on a recording this week saying he may have enough evidence to file murder charges against both defendants, according to the Idaho State Journal.
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After more than a year of hearings, procedural motions, recusals and bickering among attorneys, the joint jury trial for Vallow and Daybell is set to begin July 12.īefore then, however, the charges they face could be upgraded.
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