MOM KILLED HER TWO CHILDREN AND BURIED THEM IN A PET CEMETERY

‘Doomsday’ mom accused of killing children may have also killed ex-husband

 

By Patrick Reilly

 

New York Post

October 12, 2021

 

 

Lori Vallow Daybell glances at the camera during her hearing, in Rexburg, Idaho. Vallow's brother has revealed she may have also killed her ex-husband 

 

“Doomsday” mom Lori Vallow’s brother told detectives that he believes his sister murdered her third husband — as well as her fourth one and two children, new court documents revealed.

Adam Cox told detectives he believes that his sister and their other sibling, Alex, murdered Vallow’s third husband, Joseph Ryan, who was listed as having died of natural causes from a heart attack in 2018, according to documents obtained by Deseret News.

Vallow had often bragged about a failed bid to murder Ryan — alleged confessions that relatives took more seriously after her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, was killed a year later, the documents show.

Suspicion also fell on her brother, Alex, who had shot dead Charles Vallow in July 2019 while claiming self-defense. 

“Alex and Lori murdered Charles,” their brother, Adam, told detectives, according to the documents.

Alex had also been convicted of assaulting Ryan with a Taser several years earlier.

Flowers, cards and pictures at the Chad Daybell property, where the bodies of Tylee Ryan and J.J. Vallow were discovered on June 9, 2020

  

“The family — cousins and uncles — they understand the history with Lori, Alex, and Lori’s ex-husbands. There is a whole pattern of things there,” he allegedly said.

“There’s got to be somewhere where they talked this through because Lori and Alex planned Joe’s death,” the suspicious brother told detectives.

“I’m telling you there is something wrong about Lori and Alex and this belief they have. Lori thinks death is nothing,” Adam Cox said of his sister’s alarming “doomsday” beliefs.

“There are just a lot of red flags for me,” he said, according to the Deseret News report.

Joseph Ryan died of an apparent heart attack in Arizona in April 2018. Before his death, the couple had been involved in a bitter custody battle over their daughter, Tylee Ryan. Things got ugly when Vallow accused Joseph of sexually abusing Tylee and her older son, and Joseph’s step-son, Colby Ryan.  

Joseph Ryan was eventually cleared of the accusations.

But back in 2007, Alex Cox physically assaulted Ryan with a Taser in Texas.

“Lori and Alex planned to kill Joe,” Adam Cox told detectives, according to the report.

“They planned out how they were going to kill Joe, and Al was going to Taser him, throw him in the trunk and take him out to a field and shoot him and then bury him. Well, Al went to Taser him and it didn’t work and Joe called the cops and Al went to jail.”

Court documents in Texas confirm the incident and Alex Cox was convicted. Ryan survived the assault, but was reportedly hospitalized for several days.

Vallow’s close friends corroborated Adam Cox’s story, according to court documents, saying that Vallow used to joke about attempting to kill her third husband.

“Lori had said before that she hired her brother to kill Joe because of stuff he did to them,” said Angeline Law, a close friend of Vallow’s.

“She said eventually Joe is going to die for what he did. She’s like ‘People don’t get away with stuff like that.’ She claimed she had gone off the wall and gone crazy because of what he did to them,” Law said in a Jan. 7, 2020 phone call with detectives.

Another friend, April Raymond of Hawaii, told investigators that Vallow visited her days later and told her that she and Tylee had found Ryan dead in his home after not hearing from him, according to court documents.

However, Vallow never reported the death or told Ryan’s family. His body was found by a neighbor who detected a foul smell days later.

“It’s odd that Joe, her ex-husband, supposedly died of a heart attack when they were desperate for money and he left her $50,000 and Tylee gets $2,000. Then Charles has $2 million … there’s a lot of red flags for me,” Adam Cox said.

Tylee received $2,000 a month after her father’s death, a friend of the teen told detectives, that was to continue until her 18th birthday.

Vallow and her current doomsday writer husband, Chad Daybell, are accused of murdering Vallow’s two children — 7-year old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan — and burying their mutilated remains in a pet cemetery in Daybell’s backyard in September 2019. 

New documents unsealed in July revealed that Vallow had avoided communicating over text message and made a number of suspiciously timed travel arrangements around the time of her children’s murders. 

Vallow, a member of the doomsday cult Preparing a People, allegedly told a friend that the children had become zombies and the only way to expel the evil spirits from their bodies was to kill them.

Adam Cox, speaking on USG Audio’s “The Followers: Madness of Two” podcast recently, said that Vallow and Daybell believe that they believe they are on a divine mission from God to be the leaders of the “Second Coming,” inspired by scripture.

“The scriptures got all twisted up the way that Chad explained things and the way she interpreted things. I think she’s using those kinds of examples to lead her life right now,” he said.

Cox, joined with his son Zach on the podcast, said that their parents have written to Vallow in prison but her beliefs have not wavered. 

However, Vallow was a great sister growing up, Cox remembered. He said she was happy and popular at school in their Mormon community in southern California before her mental health declined.

As his sister’s mental health deteriorated, Cox said her personality changed and her beliefs became increasingly obscure.

When he first heard reports that the children were missing, Cox said he knew she had murdered them.

“I knew in my heart the kids [were] dead,” he said, struggling with the frustration of friends and family members who believed the children were missing or hiding.

Vallow was declared mentally unfit for her murder trial in May and criminal proceedings have been temporarily halted while she undergoes treatment. Meanwhile, proceedings against Daybell are continuing with a trial date set for November.