Daybell was a former gravedigger-turned-novelist and podcaster from Rexburg, Idaho, who some say was something of a local cult leader, says Morgan. He's the sweetest soul I've ever met.īut around 2017, friends say Lori's relationships with her kids began to shift - about the time she started reading the books of Chad Daybell. I just kind of loved how - she would - just play with him and just always have, like, a really good time with him. … and she was kind of like another mama to him. Vaisia Itaaehau: I loved being around JJ and Tylee. JJ had autism and Lori seemed the ideal mother for him, says Raymond.Īpril Raymond JJ was very difficult to take care of … So … I really admired how patient she was with him and how much care she took of him.īut it was Tylee's bond with JJ that Vaisia will always remember. The couple was raising two children – Tylee, Lori's teenage daughter from a former marriage, and their adopted son JJ, the grandson of Charles's sister Kay Woodcock. At the time, Lori was married to businessman Charles Vallow. Charles and Lori VallowĪpril Raymond met Lori in 2015 in Hawaii. And so, I'm not sure what hijacked that priority. The discovery of the children in Chad Daybell's backyard was the result of a complicated six-month investigation that unraveled a sordid tale of murder, greed and religious fanaticism - a story that began with their mother, Lori Vallow, who, to her friend April Raymond, was a woman who once seemed incapable of harming her own children.Īpril Raymond: She did everything for JJ, everything for Tylee. … I never even considered that they weren't. Vaisia Itaaehau: I just always had that hope that they were alive. Best friends Vaisia Itaaehau and Tylee Ryan. Neither is Echo Itaaehau's daughter Vaisia, one of Tylee's best friends. Jonathan Vigliott | CBS News correspondent: How did you hold it together?Įcho Itaaehau: I didn't. The thought of Tylee ending up that way was almost too much for Echo Itaaehau to bear. The only thing we - we can know for sure is that … At one point, whoever did this, dismembered her body and burned it. Morgan Loew: Because of the condition of - of Tylee's remains, it's hard to tell what happened to her. What turned out to be the remains of Tylee Ryan. RAY HERMOSILLO: Under the bucket was a partial human skull. … But as they dug further, they found some things that were strange. … This is an area the Daybell family called the pet cemetery.
Morgan Loew: A second team of investigators were searching - a different part of the yard. RAY HERMOSILLO: It was what appeared to be a small body tightly wrapped in black plastic, covered in duct tape. Morgan Loew: … the same color hair as JJ Vallow.ĭET. RAY HERMOSILLO: I observed what looked to be brown human hair. ROB WOOD | Madison County/City of Rexburg Deputy Prosecuting Attorney: And what did you observe when they did that?ĭET. Morgan Loew: One of the crime scene investigators … cut a hole in the top of this plastic, and beneath the black plastic was some white plastic, like, plastic bag. RAY HERMOSILLO : They began pulling up the sod and topsoil … which revealed three large white rocks, flat rocks.īeneath the rocks, they found thin pieces of wood paneling.
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They started by removing a top layer of earth on a 4 foot-by-2 foot patch of grass that was shorter than the rest.ĭET. An aerial view of Todd Daybell's backyard, where the remains of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan were found in June.Ī warning: what you are about to read may be disturbing. JJ's grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock, could barely contain their grief as they listened. Investigators at Chad Daybell's preliminary hearing In August 2020 described - in chilling detail - finding the remains of the two children in Daybell's backyard. Morgan Loew: In 30 years, I've never covered a story quite like this. Morgan Loew: What happened to those kids is … is horrendous. Investigative reporter and CBS News consultant Morgan Loew has covered this story since the beginning. … I'll always remember them like that," said Tylee's best friend Vaisia Itaaehau. … They both had unconditional love for each other. "When I think of Tylee and JJ, I just think of fun and love.
Everyone wanted to know what happened to them. "48 Hours" and correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti detail the investigation into the heartbreaking national search for two missing children, the life of their mother Lori Vallow, and what is ahead in the case against Vallow and her new husband Chad Daybell, who have each been indicted on murder charges for the deaths of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow.īy the time the remains of 7-year-old JJ Vallow and his 16-year-old sister Tylee Ryan were found buried in shallow graves on Chad Daybell's property in June 2020, they had become two of the most famous missing children in America. This story previously aired on October 3, 2020.
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