Timeline of Events Around the Disappearance of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow

Table of Contents

Below are the more notable sections to the post.

Cast of Characters
Timeline
Additions to Timeline

Lori Vallow Arrested!

Lori Vallow was arrested Feb 20, 2020, at 2:30 pm HST by Kaua’i Police Department on four charges:

• two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children
• resisting or obstructing officers
• criminal solicitation to commit a crime
• contempt of court

She is being held on $5 million bond.

Background

I don’t normally post personal stuff on my site, but I’ve had a difficult time finding a place I can post a curated timeline around the disappearance of Tylee Ryan and Joshua “JJ” Vallow, so I decided to keep it on my site. You may be wondering why I am following this case so closely. It’s because Tylee Ryan is my niece. Her father, Joe Ryan, was my brother. He was found dead in his home April 3, 2018.

TL;DR

Tylee Ryan and her younger half brother, JJ Vallow, have been missing since Sep 23rd, 2019. A welfare check for JJ Vallow was requested by JJ’s grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock Nov 25th to Chandler Police Department (CPD) in Arizona because they knew the detectives there from when Kay’s brother, Charles Vallow, was shot Jul 11, 2019. A detective called the Rexburg Police Department (RPD) in Idaho to request the welfare check but failed to include Tylee in the check, stating he called it in “more specifically for JJ than Tylee because Tylee’s 16, 17 years old” (source, 48:07 minute mark). (You can read more on my issues with CPD’s consistent bungling of this case here.)

RPD performed the welfare check the next day, Nov 26, 2019. First, Alex Cox allegedly lied to the officer and said JJ was with his grandparents, Kay and Larry, but the detectives let him know they were the ones who ordered the welfare check. Then Lori Vallow told police that JJ was with a family friend, Melanie Gibb, in Gilbert, Arizona. (More on her in the Cast of Characters section.) This, too, turned out to be a lie. The next day law enforcement returned to the home to find Lori Vallow and her new husband, Chad Daybell, gone.

At the time of writing, Chad is camped out in a hotel room in Kaua’i, Hawaii, and Lori Vallow Daybell is being held at the Kauai Community Correctional Center on $5 million bond, awaiting extradition to Idaho.

After the investigation was initiated, other deaths and alleged attempted murders, associated with the couple have come under scrutiny, including:

• Charles Vallow, who was shot July 11, 2019, by Lori Vallow’s brother, Alex Cox.
• Tammy Daybell, who was the wife of Chad Daybell and died in her sleep Oct 19, 2019. It was initially determined to be from natural causes and later ruled suspicious when Chad married Lori Vallow less than two weeks later in Hawaii.
• Brandon Boudreaux, who was the husband of Lori Vallow’s niece, Melani Boudreaux, and was shot at Oct 2, 2019, less than four months after Melani asked for a divorce. The shooter missed. Brandon later identified the shooter publicly through a private investigator he hired as his wife’s uncle, Alex Cox.
• Alex Cox, who was Lori Vallow’s brother, and died of suspicious causes Dec 12, 2019, less than two weeks after marrying Zulema Pastenes in Las Vegas.

Updates

I will be updating this timeline as new details in this twisted horror story emerge. You can also follow live updates on Twitter using this custom query link. I think I’ve included all the main names and hashtags to scoop up the majority of tweets on the topic.

Pro Tip: On Twitter go to More > Settings and Privacy > Safety > Display media that may contain sensitive content. Given the nature of this case, before I selected that option, I was missing a lot of tweets.

Citing This Timeline

When I had a much simpler version of this timeline in a private Facebook group, I asked that reporters not cite me as the source. Some of you did anyway. 🤨 But it’s fine now since I’ve foregone my privacy for the greater good. Feel free to cite it and link to it if you think your audience will find it useful.

Also, please feel free to contact me via my contact form or email me at annie@annielytics.com if you have:

• Verifiable tips (e.g., first-person account on social media, reputable news source, etc)
• Links to social media posts of Lori and Chad out in the wild
• Notable events to add to the timeline

Why?

Good question. I am a former reporter, and I’m really tired of watching Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell walk free while the rest of us agonize over where Tylee and JJ are. One of the toughest aspects to this case is the many moving pieces and twisted storylines. So I thought maybe if I could detangle it a bit, some brilliant reporter, real crime blogger, private investigator, or detective will find a clue that helps to crack this case.

I’ve also seen a number of inaccuracies, and I hope that this timeline will help people grasp the order of events. That said, when I cite a source, it’s not necessarily the original source. It’s just where I found that particular puzzle piece. And when I started curating this timeline, I wasn’t keeping track of any citations, so some elements are missing citations. Use at your own risk. I’ve done my best to track everything down. If you see an error or can pass on a missing citation, feel free to email me at annie@annielytics.com.

Gallery

Enjoy this carousel of pics of Tylee, JJ, my brother Joe, and even Lori from when she was a sister I loved and shared so many great memories together. Lori, if you see this post and these pics, it’s not too late to let that tender-hearted, fun-loving beautiful woman who defined joie-de-vivre peek out and do the right thing. We all need the closure desperately.

Without further adieu…

Cast of Characters

Tylee Ryan

• Who is she: Biological daughter of Lori Vallow and Joseph Ryan
• Current location: Unknown
• Age: 17
• Last seen: 9/8/19

JJ Vallow

• Who is he: Adopted son of Charles and Lori Vallow
• Current location: Unknown
• Age: 7
• Last seen: 9/23/19
• Last seen: Kennedy Elementary School

Lori Vallow (AKA Lori Daybell)

• Who is she: Biological mother of Colby Ryan and Tylee Ryan, adopted mother of JJ Vallow, and person of interest in the disappearance of Tylee and JJ
• Current location: Hawaii
• Married to: Chad Daybell (husband #5)
• Notable: Married Chad Daybell less than two weeks after his wife, Tammy, died of suspicious causes

Chad Daybell

• Who is he: Influencer with the doomsday prepper group Preparing a People
• Current location: Hawaii
• Married to: Lori Vallow
• Notable: Chad was a cemetery sexton (grave digger) and wrote a book, One Foot in the Grave, about his experiences and interactions with departed spirits.

Charles Vallow

• Who is he: Lori Vallow’s fourth husband and father to a biological son and two adopted sons, one of which is JJ
• Date of marriage: 2/24/06
• Date of death. 7/11/19
• COD: Shot and killed by Lori Vallow’s brother, Alex Cox
• Notable: Lori Vallow, Tylee Ryan, and JJ Vallow were home at the time of the shooting.

Tammy Daybell

• Who is she: Wife of Chad Daybell who died in her sleep of suspicious causes
• Date of death: 10/19/19
• COD: Unknown, awaiting autopsy
• Date of marriage: 3/9/90
• Notable: Tammy was approached by a masked man carrying what she thought was a paintball gun 10 days before her death.

Alex Cox (AKA Alex Pastenes)

• Who is he: Lori Vallow’s brother
• Date of death: 12/12/19
• COD: Unknown (but suspicious)
• Married to: Zulema Pastenes
• Date of marriage: 11/29/19
• Notable: Alex took Zulema’s last name.

Melani Pawlowski (AKA Melani Boudreaux)

• Who is she: Lori Vallow’s niece who followed her into the cult Lori joined
• Married to: Ian Pawlowski
• Date of marriage: 11/30/19
• Former spouses: Brandon Boudreaux
• Notable: Melani married Ian Pawlowski 4.5 months after Ian Pawlowski was divorced and less than two weeks after she and Brandon Boudreaux were divorced.

Brandon Boudreaux

• Who is he: Former husband of Melani Boudreaux and father of four children who was shot at
• Married to: N/A
• Former spouse: Melani Boudreaux
• Notable: Brandon is shot at 10/2/19

Zulema Pastenes

• Who is she: An LDS member and self-professed emotion code practitioner (she listed cuddling services in one of her profiles)
• Married to: Alex Cox
• Date of marriage: 11/29/19
• Notables: Zulema married Alex Cox less than two weeks before his death; Cox took Zulema’s last name; and her 25-year-old son, Joseph Lopez, found Cox unresponsive in the bathroom, didn’t know his last name, and referred to Cox as his mom’s boyfriend, not husband.

Colby Ryan

• Who is he: Lori Vallow’s adult biological son, Tylee and JJ’s half brother
• Married to: Kelsee Ryan
• Notable: Colby never knew where his mom and siblings moved to after they left Chandler, AZ.

Larry and Kay Woodcock

• Who are they: JJ’s biological grandparents, Kay is Charles Vallow’s sister**
• Notable: Larry and Kay have offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the discovery of JJ and Tylee (source).

Note: Because Charles Vallow is JJ Vallow’s adopted father, Kay Woodcock is technically both JJ’s aunt and grandmother, but she identifies as JJ’s grandmother.

Joseph Ryan

• Who is he: Lori Vallow’s third husband and biological father of Tylee Ryan and adopted father of Colby Ryan
• Date of death: 4/3/18
• Notable: Alex Cox went to jail for assaulting Ryan with a stun gun and allegedly threatened to kill Ryan (source). Also, Lori Vallow was the only next of kin the ME’s office had at the time of Ryan’s death. She never returned any of their calls or notified me of my brother’s passing, even though we had been friends since 2002 and she had my contact info. There was also no funeral for him. Another family member was contacted by a funeral home more than a month after he had died.

Melanie Gibb

• Who is she: friend of Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell and the one Lori said Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow were with
• Notable:
  • She and Lori introduce their new podcast, Time to Warrior Up, 12/5/18.
  • Early on someone said Chad was a guest in this kickoff episode, but I can’t confirm since the recordings have been taken down.
  • In Feb 2019 Chad wrote the forward of her book, Feel the Fire.
  • She is unresponsive to Rexburg Police Department’s attempt(s) to get ahold of her Nov 26th (the day they question Lori and Chad about the whereabouts of JJ Vallow), forcing RPD to reach out to the Gilbert Police Department. She doesn’t speak to them until the next day, giving Chad and Lori significant lead time to flee the state.
  • She waits 10 days to inform LE in Rexburg that both Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell had contacted her separately on Nov 26th and asked her to lie to detectives and tell them JJ was with her.
  • A source close to Gibb says she has retained an attorney is cooperating with authorities.

 

Timeline

8/5/07: Alex Cox is arrested in Austin, TX for aggravated assault – second degree against Lori Vallow’s third husband, Joseph Ryan. Cox had used a stun gun against Ryan and threatened to kill him. Ryan had just finished a supervised visit with his four-year-old daughter, Tylee Ryan. Ryan injured his back and sprained his wrist in the fall. Cox spent 90 days in jail (source 1 / source 2).

Aug – Oct 2008: Alex Cox sends a friend a letter asking her to send him Joseph Ryan’s picture, address, and license plate number in jail, stating once that “it would be popular in here” and “some of the guys would like to hangout with him” (source 1 / source 2).

4/3/18: Lori Vallow’s third husband, Joseph Ryan, is found dead in his apartment in Gilbert, AZ. Autopsy lists heart attack as COD (source: me).

May 2018: Lori Vallow expressed fear about the end times during my visit to their home, saying that sometimes she thinks it would be better to put her kids in the car and go over the side of a cliff.

Oct 2018: Chad Daybell started emailing Lori Vallow (source, 00:34 minute mark)

11/16/18 – 11/17/18: Chad Daybell speaks at Preparing a People event in Mesa, AZ, and stays with Charles and Lori Vallow (source 1 / full transcript / source 2, 00:59 minute mark).

Note: You can see a good portion of the letter that references this stay at the 1:11 minute mark in source 2.

12/5/18: Melanie Gibb and Lori Vallow introduce their new podcast, Time to Warrior Up. This is reportedly the first podcast Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow do together (source 1 / source 2). Description of the podcast:

Jason Mow of the very popular www.TheWarChapters.com has been speaking to Youth and their Parents from all over the U.S. about what it means to be a True Modern-Day Warrior for good. “Time to Warrior Up” is a nationwide movement to become all that we were destined to become in a shifting world that needs great leaders. Of course, what would Warriors be without great WOMEN of FAITH and COURAGE? That is why Melanie Gibb and Lori Vallow had the idea to do this podcast, featuring powerful women, mothers, youth and mentors to encourage others along the pathway toward a hopeful future! They will include many unique guests who will inspire all of us to Aspire to the HIGHER within! EACH OF US were born for greatness. NOW, we have the “HOW’s” of implementing the Creeds, Tools, Steps, and Processes of The Warrior Ethos! We are marching toward victory…together! To buy Jason’s Books “A Hero Rises,” and “Teancum: The Ghost Soldier 1 & 2” go to his website: www.TheWarChapters.com These Books are also available at Deseret Book & Amazon. For more free Educational & Inspiring Videos, visit us at: www.PreparingAPeople.com

Jan 2019: JJ Vallow’s autism medication, Risperidone (source), is filled for the last time, according to court documents obtained by East Idaho News in Feb 2020. The affidavit of probable cause also states that the bottle still had 17 pills in it and that his prescription had not been filled in Idaho:

During the search of Lori’s apartment, police found an autism medication prescribed to JJ. It was filled in January 2019 and still had 17 pills in the bottle, according to documents. Police verified that the prescription has not been filled in Idaho (source).

Also, Garna Mejia from KSL TV, interviewed Vallow’s former neighbors in Rexburg, and they reported that JJ was easily angered, out of control, and playing outside unsupervised. You can hear him in a neighbor’s Ring camera video telling another boy to “get the hell out of here” (source, 1:14 minute mark).

According to neighbors, Lori never told them JJ was autistic. And when confronted about JJ’s behavior and lack of supervision, she told two different neighbors that JJ was her niece’s “drug baby” (source).

Notable: If accurate, this means Lori Vallow stopped giving her autistic son his required medication up to eight months before he went missing. You’ll also see in the second of three entries for 1/30/19 Lori allegedly also took JJ’s medication when she disappeared. It’s possible that she kept that bottle that she took, Charles had JJ’s script refilled when he got him back, and they found this partially used bottle she had been holding onto and not giving JJ since January.

1/28/19: Lori Vallow allegedly transfers $10,000 from Charles Vallow’s business account into their personal account before moving the money into an unknown account (source / ledger). Lori also transferred 2,000 of Charles Vallow’s Enterprise points to a personal account (source), although Charles wouldn’t discover the transfer until approximately Feb 6, 2019 (source).

1/29/19: Lori Vallow allegedly transfers an additional $25,000 from the business account to the joint account, and then from the joint account to the same unknown account at Compass Bank, leaving the account at less than $1,000 (source / ledger).

1/29/19: According to a petition for an Order of Protection filed by Charles Vallow against Lori Vallow, Lori made several disturbing statements and threats to him (source). These include:

• She was a god.
• She was assigned to “carry out the work of the 144,000 at Christ’s second coming in July 2020.”
• She would have to murder him if he got in her way and tried to stop him.

1/30/19: According to a petition for an Order of Protection filed by Charles Vallow against Lori Vallow, Lori made several disturbing statements and threats in a phone call:

• She didn’t trust him.
• She would need to kill him when he got home.
• She would have an “angel” there to help dispose of his body.
• She knew his real name was Nick Schneider. Allegedly, when Charles asked Lori who Nick Schneider was, she replied, “Nick is your real name,” Lori said, according to the documents, “Nick killed Charles and has taken his identity” (source).
• He’d “have to go and painfully.”
• She also threatened to destroy him financially, according to court documents filed by Charles (source).

Note: Lori Vallow’s friend, April Raymond—who Vallow stayed with during part of the 58 days she went missing—also claimed in an interview on Dateline‘s “Where Are the Children?” that Lori said Charles was dead and had a demon living inside of him. According to Raymond, she later changed her story and said he was alive but that any day she (Vallow) was going to get a call that he was dead (source, 15:57 & 21:38 minute marks).

Question: Are there any theories about who Nick Schneider is? I found this from an LDS genealogy resource of some kind? Seems like a shot in the dark.

1/30/19: Lori Vallow allegedly cancels Charles Vallow’s flight home, which he found out when he arrived at the airport in Houston, TX. Charles was forced to buy a $600 last-minute ticket to Phoenix. After his plane landed, Charles walked out to the airport parking lot where he had left his truck. Yet he couldn’t find it anywhere. Lori had used her spare key to remove the truck. He came home to a house that had been emptied. Charles also claimed that it took Lori three days to disclose where she’d left the truck. Charles was forced to rent a vehicle during that time (source / divorce document, p 3, para ).

Let’s first take a look at some of the OTHER acts of cruelty Charles reportedly came home to:

• She wiped out his business account, withdrawing $35,000. That’s been reported on quite a bit. But one thing I haven’t seen reported on at all is the smaller withdrawals made after the $25,000 the day before. According to the ledger, after the $35,000 in withdrawals, the account had $911.53 remaining. But then there are two more withdrawals made on the 30th: one for $500 and then another for $250, leaving the account with $161.53. And THEN $100 was put toward a credit card payment, leaving the account with $61.53. I don’t know if these were made by Lori. If they were, it demonstrates a chilling level of cruelty.
• She hid his truck, and it took him three days to find it.
• She hid his clothes and computer in what appears to be an attempt to cripple him in his business. Even his underwear? Really?
• She did this right before payroll was due, leaving him vulnerable to lawsuits. She victimized every employee in Charles’ company with this theft.
• She took her disabled son’s meds, his iPad, and his service dog’s collar.
• She changed the locks to the house.
• And then she went MIA and didn’t tell Charles where she was.

1/30/19: Lori Vallow disappears to an unknown location, according to then-husband, Charles Vallow (source 1 / source 2, 1:02 minute mark / source 3, para 3). She was allegedly gone for 58 days.

Notable: At least part of that time was spent in Hawaii with daughter Tylee Ryan, as well as with her brother, Alex Cox who lived nearby in Gilbert, AZ (source).

1/31/19: Lori Vallow is compelled to report to the Gilbert Police Department in regard to a harassment call for service submitted by Charles Vallow (source). Police are also informed about a petition for an involuntary hold at Community Bridges. Police say Lori would be allowed to go to the facility willingly to talk to staff. If she did not, she would be taken involuntarily. Complicating matters, Charles had taken Lori’s purse out of her car when she went into JJ’s school and refused to return it . Only after police inform him that he needed to bring the purse and petition to the station or face theft charges did he say that he found it in the parking lot. The document states, “Charles had many excuses as to why he did not give it back to her.”

Rant Against the Chandler Police Department

Caveat: I have no training in law enforcement. The observations I make below are that of a concerned family member. If you’re in LE, please try not to get hung up in the minutia and hear me out. It’s raw. I’m a worried family member, not CPD’s judge and jury. I still try to be fair, but I’m about as biased in this as a person can get. All that aside, I do believe there’s merit in this possible explanation for the cursory investigation into the shooting death of Charles Vallow that will follow less than six months from this date.

I’ve tried to remain dispassionate and fair in my reporting, despite my obvious emotional attachments to this story. I’ve oftentimes had to scrub raw emotion out of sentences—and titrate ‘allegedly’ in ad infinitum. But I’m going to depart from proper journalistic protocol a bit here because I personally believe this encounter with GPD may hold the key into why their investigation into the shooting of Charles Vallow less in July overlooked what I believe were compelling signs of spousal abuse.

All through the report the officer seems to document bias against Charles and sympathy toward Lori. Below are a just few quotes from the report (emphasis added):

• “It should be noted that Lori provided a lot of background information regarding her and Charles’ relationship. Lori indicated she had information that Charles had cheated on her while on business trips and she had left their home with their kids prior to his arrival last night.” The officer seems to almost lead with this, which is odd to me, given the fact that Charles obtained a petition to have Lori held for evaluation because of the ruthless barrage of abusive actions against him.
• “During my contact with Lori I found her to be in a normal state of mind but only slightly upset she did not have her property. Lori showed no signs of mental distress as she described what was occurring and appeared to be in a good mood.” She was sitting on $35,000+ and probably saw she had a police officer eating out of the palm of her hand. That kind of thing tends to lift the spirits of sociopaths. To me, it sounds like this officer is even be dismissive of the petition Charles secured through proper, legal channels..
• “While speaking to Charles, he expressed concern over some money that Lori had moved from his business account.” It wasn’t some money. It was $35,000. Possibly more. He was left with less than $100 on payday. And she didn’t move the money; she stole it. Charles alleges the account she moved it into was in her name alone.
• “In fact, as we spoke, he expressed a desire to leave quickly and handle financial matters at the bank. I pointed out to Charles that perhaps his priorities should be to check the welfare of his child. I reminded Charles that he said Lori was unstable.” Did Charles really need that reminder? It was payday. This guy’s world had been been turned upside down, and he had to endure life advice from an officer who seemed to treat Lori with kid gloves.
• “During my conversation with Charles, I found his demeanor to be strange for a person in his circumstances. He seemed more concerned with asking questions about the legality of financial withdrawals Lori had made than her alleged incoherence.” It sure appears that this officer either spent more time getting Lori’s side of the story or just didn’t care to hear Charles’—because we’re dealing with an easily resolvable lapse of judgment concerning Lori’s purse vis-a-vis a stack of cruel and even criminal behavior against Charles as well as JJ.
• “I talked with Lori and explained to her about the [redacted]. Lori was confused as to how someone could make up information to get someone involuntarily committed.” You mean allegedly make up information? Spouses need to trust first responders to remain unbiased in crisis situations like the one the Vallow family was embroiled in, and I just don’t see evidence of that in this report.

Have you ever experienced having your accounts wiped out by someone? I have. That’s what caused me to cringe almost the entire time I read through this document.

I will never forget the moment I found out. This one act of cruelty was financially and emotionally devastating. I, too, was left with under $100, and thief went back for a second pass to grab that last bit. That is probably why those smaller withdrawals stuck out to me so much. Again, they might not have been Lori’s, but there’s a chance they were.

In my case, even though the thief paid it back, it took almost a year. I experienced financial chaos for months as I tried to recover. Recovering from the feeling of violation took much longer.

Why am I sharing this? Because Charles shouldn’t have taken Lori’s purse. And his explanation that he found the purse in the parking lot was suspect. Laughable even. BUT it’s easy to judge from a morally superior position if you haven’t experienced this kind of cruelty—and felt this variety of raw helplessness. I have. It’s hell. And I was only robbed. I didn’t also experience the other both cruel AND allegedly criminal acts he did. I also didn’t have a staff I had to tell they wouldn’t be paid. Many people live paycheck to paycheck. Lori’s actions most likely resulted in significant spikes in anxiety as families scrambled to figure out how to pay their rent/mortgage that month. And Charles reported a lawsuit threat, which I’ve included in this timeline.

Also, this purse incident happened within 24 hours of the cyclone Charles came home to. So what exactly was the officer referring to when s/he wrote, “I found his demeanor to be strange for a person in his circumstances”? Do we really think a man can’t be the victim of domestic violence, even if the woman is white, gorgeous, fit, and charming? I found this statement infuriatingly smug.

I don’t know police procedure. I almost hope Charles didn’t see this report. If he did, I would imagine he felt like the cards were stacked against him.

I also question if being left almost penniless—possibly unable to pay for care for JJ—made Charles feel he had no choice but to choose between being able to care for his special needs son and risk harm at Lori’s hand. I remember even reading somewhere that she disappeared for 58 days to show him what it was like caring for JJ.

I was hoping in putting the facts out there someone would see what I think I see here. But it hasn’t happened. So I’m going to put myself out there with my personal theory. Obviously we all have 20/20 hindsight. We can all see that there are CLEARLY chilling reasons Lori can remain calm and cheerful while others stagger at her cruel indifference. Hint: Wikipedia’ definition of psychopathy:

“Psychopathy is traditionally a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.”

So now I can’t help but wonder what seems to be bias against Charles in this cursory investigation and rush to judgment carried over to the investigation into his death in July.

I’m not out for blood here. I can’t imagine how difficult LE’s jobs must be navigating the choppy waters of a family in crisis. And I truly appreciate the sacrifices the men and women in LE make to try to keep us all safe.

BUT in this case, these officers had a responsibility to investigate the allegations of spousal abuse against Charles. I personally believe they failed in that responsibility. Alex and Lori had been released the day of, freeing them up to invite family and friends over to enjoy a SICK pool party. They basically FLAUNTED getting away with murder…with no consequence.

Maybe if LE had taken Charles’ allegations more seriously…Maybe if they had recognized he was a victim of domestic violence… everyone could have gotten the help they needed—including Lori—and a lot of heartache could have been spared.

Okay, I’ll go back to just reporting facts.

2/4/19: Charles Vallow files petition for an Order of Protection against Lori Vallow, citing incidences listed in the entries for 1/29 and 1/30 (source).

Note: Lori was never served the document because process servers were unsuccessful in locating her, as detailed in the entries below.

2/5/19: JJ Vallow is absent from school at L.I.F.E. Academy in Gilbert, AZ (source).

2/5/19: Charles Vallow is threatened with legal action because of not being able to meet payroll due to the $35,000 Lori Vallow withdrew from the business account (source). According to the divorce petition, Charles owes $22,500 in commission to a few contracted representatives (source).

2/6/19: Approximate date Charles Vallow realizes Lori Vallow transferred 2,000 Rent-A-Car points out of their joint account. Charles also finds out Lori had called J.J.’s school to ask if he was in class. He was worried she may have been planning to use the rental car points to potentially leave the state and take J.J. with her (source).

2/8/19: Charles Vallow files for divorce from Lori Vallow (source / documents).

Pro Tip: To read the document, right-click on each image and choose Open Image in New Tab. I open each of them and then read them in order. In Chrome, to zoom in on the image click the zoom icon (it should have a + sign) or press Ctrl-+ (Mac: Command-+).

2/8/19: Approximate date Charles Vallow removes Lori Vallow as sole beneficiary from his life insurance policy upon the advice of Charles’ attorney, Taylor Lawson (source, 00:54 minute mark).

Note: I approximate this date because Charles’ attorney allegedly advised him to remove Lori when he filed for divorce. From an Fox 10 article published Feb 13, 2020 (source):

Charles’ former attorney, Taylor Larson, told Lum that it is rare to make changes to life insurance beneficiaries way ahead of a divorce being finalized, but Charles did tell the lawyer that he feared for his life, and did not want Lori to know he planned remove her from the policy.

“Because of the circumstances surrounding it, with him fearing for his life and really stressing to us there’s some credibility here, and so we went ahead and advised him to change it right away,” said Larson.

2/10/19: Lori Vallow flew with Tylee Ryan to Kaua’i, HI, according to then-husband, Charles Vallow (source, 1:02 minute mark). She was allegedly gone for 58 days.

Notable: At least part of that time was spent in Hawaii with daughter Tylee Ryan, as well as with her brother, Alex Cox who lived nearby in Gilbert, AZ. (source).

Note: The date was confirmed by April Raymond, the friend Lori visited in Kaua’i.

2/11/19: Charles Vallow visits L.I.F.E. Academy (source). Charles met with school officials and made a handful of claims:

• Lori had “gone crazy.”
• Lori was “hearing religious voices.”
• Lori had “disappeared to an unknown location.”
• He had secured a protection order against Lori.
• He was pulling JJ out of school and taking him out of state until he’s safe.

2/15/19: Charles Vallow files a document asking for temporary custody of J.J., exclusive use of the house and vehicle, return of the stolen money and return of his and J.J.’s personal items. Several attempts were made to serve Lori, but process servers were unsuccessful, even though Lori’s car was seen in Alex Cox’s driveway when a server tried to serve her there. She was reportedly living with her brother, Alex Cox, at that time (source).

2/16/19: Preparing a People holds a one-day conference in Boise, Idaho. Chad Daybell is one of the speakers (conference flyer / PAP statement that includes location of Chad’s last speaking engagement).

Note: It appears Charles believed Lori Vallow was planning to attend this event, which led to an attempt by process servers to serve Lori with papers at the airport.

When Charles learned Lori was going to Boise with a friend, he “made attempts to serve (her) at the airport, a hotel, and a public event.” All attempts were unsuccessful, and Charles came to believe that Lori had changed her travel plans at the last minute (source).

Feb 2019: Lori Vallow, upon landing in Kaua’i with Tylee Ryan, called her friend, April Raymond, to tell her she was leaving Charles and asked if they could stay with her (source, 16:52 minute mark).

Feb 2019: Chad Daybell writes forward for colleague and friend Melanie Gibb’s book Feel the Fire (source / screenshot).

Mid Feb 2019: The Daily Mail reported in January 2020 that Lori Vallow and Alex Cox had a “knock-down, drag-out fight” in the middle of the street fight while she was living with him “around a year ago.” The fight between Vallow and Cox was reportedly so bad that neighbors were close to calling the police on the “warring siblings.” Neighbor Donny Self told the Daily Mail, “She was screaming at him accusing him of bringing disgrace on their family.” After it was over, Vallow left the house she had been sharing with her brother and never came back, Self said.

Note: Until I get further clarification on the timing of this fight, I’m going to drop it here in the timeline because over the overlap in neighbors reporting that the fight had happened about a year prior to January 2020 and the process servers note that both Lori and Alex’s cars were in the driveway. I know that process servers also tried to meet her at the airport because Charles believed she was traveling to Boise, ID, with a friend, and we know from a flyer that Chad Daybell (the man Lori would marry before the year was over) was speaking at a Preparing a People conference in Boise Feb 16. (See entry for 2/16/19.)

2/21/19: Charles Vallow and JJ Vallow return to L.I.F.E. Academy in Gilbert, AZ. Lori is reported to still be MIA (source).

2/21/19: Approximate date staff at L.I.F.E. Academy in Gilbert, AZ, make a report to CPS regarding JJ because Lori Vallow had still not been located (source).

3/1/19: Charles Vallow files to dismiss divorce proceedings (source).

3/6/19: Court approves Charles Vallow’s dismissal of divorce proceedings (source).

3/7/19: Charles Vallow withdraws son, JJ Vallow, from school in AZ and moves to Houston, TX (source).

Note: I removed “Approximate date” and changed the source to one that verifies the date.

3/29/19: Lori Vallow returns home (source). (She had abandoned her husband Charles and 7 year old son JJ Vallow for 58 days.)

Note: I derived this date by adding 58 to Jan 30. (Did you know you can run mathematical functions against dates in Excel. But I digress….)

4/9/19: Chad Daybell’s friend and doomsday podcaster, Julie Rowe, is told she would be excommunicated from the Church of Latter Day Saints “based on the charges of (1) apostasy, (2) teaching false doctrine, (3) priestcraft, and (4) defaming the good name of the Church.” She and her husband have appealed the decision but expect it to be denied (source).

5/31/19: Chad Daybell cancels speaking gig at a Preparing a People conference due to a family emergency (source). The announcement reads:

David Warwick and Shawn Littlebear will be filling in for Chad Daybell, who had a Family Emergency. We regret he won’t be able to attend this PAP Event.

June 2019: Melani Boudreaux asks husband Brandon Boudreaux for a divorce. Brandon said, “I thought I had a happy marriage, so it was pretty overwhelming” (source).

6/20/19: Lori Vallow moves into her rental home in Chandler, AZ (source: Facebook post by landlord that was subsequently deleted).

6/29/19: Charles Vallow sends email to Lori Vallow’s brother, Adam Cox, claiming Lori created an email alias for him and sent a letter the previous (source, 00:39 minute mark).

Excerpt of forged letter from Charles to Chad:

I would gladly fly you down here early next week…you could stay in our guest room like before. I hate to take you away from your family, but I would definitely make it worth your time. With Admiration, Charles.

Excerpt of email from Charles to Adam:

I’m not sure of the relationship with her and Chad Daybell but they are up to something…She will not explain it…I am going to send it to Chad Daybell’s wife. Her name is Tammy and I found her email address on their website too…I’ve got her cell number too.

Late Jun 2019: Lori contacts L.I.F.E. Academy to let them know the family was back in Gilbert, and she enrolled JJ in the school summer program (source).

7/11/19: Charles Vallow is shot by Alex Cox (source / source). According to Fox reporter Justin Lum, the shooting occurred around 8:30am (source). Cox claims self-defense (source) and calls 911 (recording). Alex Cox was questioned by LE outside the home, which was recorded on bodycam and can be viewed here and here. An officer goes into the home to look around and sees the body of deceased Charles Vallow. Bodycam video can be viewed here. (Warning: graphic footage.) Lori Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan were interviewed outside the home, which was recorded on bodycam and can be viewed here (starting at the 1:15-minute mark). Lori Vallow (source), Alex Cox and Tylee Ryan (source) are all questioned at the police station, and transcripts of their Lori’s interview can be viewed here and Tylee’s here. Cox’s has not been released as of Feb 9, 2020. There are reportedly contradictions in their stories (source), but no arrests are made.

Notable: 

• Alex was staying at the house where Charles Vallow was shot, despite living 23 miles away (source, 25:16 minute mark).
• Colby Ryan, Lori Vallow’s adult son, later claims that his mother called him the day Charles died and said he died of a heart attack. When he got to the house he discovers his stepdad had actually been shot by his uncle (source, 9:32 minute mark).
• Charles was scheduled to look at apartments with the landlord after dropping JJ off at school (source: landlord in a Facebook post that was subsequently deleted).
• Alex said Charles attacked him with a baseball but only had trace amounts of blood on a napkin he dabs the back of his head with (source, 25:10 & 28:05 minute marks).
• Alex said Lori, Tylee, and JJ left before the shooting (source, 25:23 minute mark); Lori told police she had been at home when Charles was shot but needed to leave to take JJ to school (source, 25:45 minute mark).
• Lori was glib and playful when talking to the officer at the scene (source, 26:00 minute marker).
• Dateline’s Keith Morrison described Tylee’s demeanor as “somehow apologetic but overly composed.” Chandler detective Nathan Moffat described Tylee as “very well spoken.” He said Tylee told Detective Cassandra Ynclan, “In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have gotten the bat.” Moffat noted that as weird but then walked it back (source, 28:32 minute mark). Author’s note: Moffat’s tone seemed to suggest Tylee had possibly been coached in what to say.
• Moffat described the ride in the police with Lori, Alex, and Tylee as “straight-up bizarre.” He added, “It was the weirdest ride I’ve ever had with three strangers.” He described Lori as “happy go lucky,” and said she was smiling and nonchalant. “You would have thought we just recovered their stolen vehicle” (source, 28:48 minute mark).
• No one has come forward saying that Charles was given to rages or abusive behavior. Not his ex-wife (source, 31:31 minute mark), not Lori’s adult son Colby (source, 11:26 minute mark), and not Lori and Charles’ mutual friend April Raymond (source, 33:23 minute mark). I also never saw Charles exhibit abusive behavior or rage, but I had far less exposure to Charles than the others referenced here.

7/11/19: Neighbors report that the family hosts a pool party at the house where Charles Vallow was shot the day of the shooting. They report there are lots of people and loud music (source: comment on Facebook made by Charles’ real estate agent/landlord, which was subsequently deleted).

7/12/19: Lori Vallow texts her stepsons a little after 4:30pm—approximately 20 hours after Charles Vallow was shot—to tell them their father had died. She doesn’t tell them how he had died, and when one of the sons asked, she answered, “We are still waiting for the ME report.” The son asks a series of questions, trying to find out what happens. No response. 6:54pm he asks again, with building frustration/anger. 8:20pm he texts again. Lori replies again that she is still waiting for the ME. She does not tell them he was shot  (source).

7/12/19: Cheryl Wheeler, Charles Vallow’s ex-wife and mother of his two grown sons, finds out from the ME’s website that Charles’ death had been classified a homicide. She then searches Google for more information and discovers from news reports out of Chandler, AZ, that Alex Cox had shot him (source).

7/12/19: Approximate date Lori Vallow attempts to file a claim on Charles Vallow’s life insurance policy and discovers she had been removed as sole beneficiary. Charles had made his sister Kay Woodcock beneficiary. (See 2/8/19 entry.)

7/13/19: Lori sends another text to Charles’ son after a couple promptings in the late afternoon. It just says, “I’m still waiting working on arrangements and sorting things out the best I can.” Charles’ son asks why she won’t just tell them what happened (source).

7/14/19: Lori Vallow leaves a voice message for one of Charles’ grown sons inviting him to talk (source).

7/15/19: One of Charles’ adult sons texts Lori Vallow again, saying that it had been three days with still no answers about how their dad died (source). He wrote, “The only information we have is that one text from you saying he passed away. You disappeared after that. We need any information you have. What happened, when did it happen, how did it happen. Where is he now. Are there any funeral plans and can [redacted] and I be a part of it.” He later asks why Colby and Tylee haven’t contacted them at all and why Colby didn’t answer his call. He ends the text with, “This isn’t a nonchalant topic you can just throw a text at and be done with it.”

7/16/19: Ian Pawlowski (future husband to Melani Boudreaux) divorces his wife, according to the date of divorce listed on his Facebook profile page (source).

7/22/19: Approximate date Lori Vallow tells an official at L.I.F.E. Academy that Charles Vallow committed suicide (source).

Late Jul 2019: Lori Vallow allegedly texts Charles Vallow’s sister, Kay Woodcock, having just discovered she had been removed as sole beneficiary from Charles Vallow’s $1 million life insurance policy. Kay alleges she wrote”something to the effect of”: “Five kids and no money and his sister gets everything” (source, 00:55 minute mark).

Notable: At this time Lori Vallow had two children living in the home, one adult son, and two adult stepsons.

Jul – Aug 2019: After learning Charles was shot—and not the victim of suicide as Lori had told them—L.I.F.E. Academy files a report with Arizona’s Department of Child Safety (source).

8/5/19: JJ Vallow starts the new school year at L.I.F.E. Academy (source).

8/9/19: Lori Vallow puts JJ Vallow’s service dog Bailey up for sale (source). City: Chandler, AZ. Ad number: 20875. Description:

“Bailey has such a sweet spirit- he has brought so much love to his home, but his owner recently died and he needs a new home. He is fully trained with certification as a service dog. Up to date on vaccinations. Has been trained with children in the home, non-smoking home. Bailey is sweet and friendly around other dogs. Looking for new owners who will appreciate and love him the way he has been loved! Spent 7,000 on service training, he is a full bred golden doodle, has experience on airplanes, has experience with people with autism.”

Notable: Vallow was later told by the organization they got the dog from that she couldn’t sell the dog; she would need to return him. Bailey has since been placed with a new family of a boy with autism. (This was shared in a private Facebook post.)

8/10/19: The last time Kay Vallow Woodcock hears from JJ Vallow via FaceTime. Call was reportedly 35 seconds long (source). They will be edged out of JJ Vallow’s life for a little more three months, with multiple attempts to get ahold of them (source, 46:38 minute mark).

8/27/19: Date Lori Vallow’s apartment was taken off the market (source).

Note: Melani Boudreaux’s apartment was taken off the market three days before she actually signed the lease. So Lori may have signed the lease a few days later when she rolled into town.

Notable: As of 4/5/20, the apartment still isn’t on the market, according to Zillow’s records. Alex’s was listed for rent the week after Lori, Chad, and Alex fled Rexburg, but Lori’s is still open.

8/28/19: Date Alex Cox’s apartment was taken off the market (source).

Notable: Alex’s apartment was listed for rent 12/2/19; the rent was reduced 1/3/20 (shortly after this case went public); and it was sold 2/10/20.

8/30/19: Lori Vallow stops by the workplace of her oldest son, Colby Ryan, to tell him in the parking lot that she, Tylee, and JJ were moving the next day (source, 22:35 minute mark). Colby says he didn’t ask where they were moving and didn’t find out they had moved to Rexburg, ID, until detectives came to his door Nov 27, 2019, to inquire about the whereabouts of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow (24:57 minute mark).

8/30/19: Colby Ryan told Gilbert Police he last spoke with Tylee Ryan over FaceTime. According to court records, Ryan said after that his mother gave him excuses as to why Tylee couldn’t talk to him (source).

Notable: So does this mean Colby had a FaceTime call with Tylee after saying goodbye to her in the parking lot of his workplace? And why FaceTime when they still lived near each other?

8/30/19: Lori Vallow has JJ Vallow’s service dog, Bailey, picked up by Dog Training Elite in Arizona. Vallow had asked the organization to find the Goldendoodle to find another family because she could no longer care for the pet due to a “change in life circumstances” (source).

Author note: Bailey was an adorable and sweet-natured dog that stayed close by JJ’s side and ran more like a bear cub than a dog when I was there in 2018. 😭

8/31/19: Lori Vallow moves with Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow to Rexburg, ID.

Late August: JJ Vallow’s grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock, call L.I.F.E. Academy to “asking if JJ was okay” (source).

9/3/19: Lori Vallow enrolls JJ Vallow at Kennedy Elementary School in Rexburg, ID (source).

9/4/19: JJ Vallow’s first day at Kennedy Elementary School in Rexburg, ID (source).

9/5/19: Lori Vallow emails L.I.F.E Academy, JJ’s school in Chandler, AZ, to say she needed to withdraw him. She allegedly told staff over the phone that she accepted a position in California—which was not true—and that his father committed suicide—which was also not true (source).

9/6/19: Neighbors take a pic of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow with an unidentified child through their blinds. When asked why they said it was because they thought it was strange that the children were using stuffed animals to play in a large puddle of water (source 1 / source 2, 00:55 minute mark).

Note: This is the second-to-last time Tylee is seen alive. The last time is two days later in Sep 8, two days later.

9/7/19: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

9/8/19: Last day Tylee Ryan is seen alive. In a picture obtained from Lori Vallow’s iCloud account, Ryan is seen at the entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Ryan was at the park with Lori Vallow, Alex Cox, and JJ Vallow. “This is the last time we can find any record of  [Ryan] being with Lori Vallow,” the affidavit of probable cause says. “We have found no witnesses who can verify they have seen [Ryan] since Sept. 8, 2019” (source).

Author’s note: This detail, in concert with the nanny interview (see 9/18/19 entry below), indicates Tylee may have met her fate at the hands of Alex and Lori at Yellowstone. I’m of the persuasion that Lori may have gone one way with JJ and Alex another with Tylee…. I hope to God I’m wrong. But if I’m right, the fact that Lori would take a pic of Tylee at the entrance—just to be led off like a lamb to the slaughter later that day—is suggestive of getting a keepsake of the moment.

When I went in to be interviewed for the Dateline episode someone kindly offered to take a picture of me. I declined, telling him I didn’t want to remember this day. I’m not trying to set myself up as some kind of model to be emulated, and I’m not seeking the highest moral ground I can find. There would have been nothing wrong with agreeing to the pic. I just knew I’d never flip back through my photos and want to see any reminder of this nightmare. So, in my mind, the fact that Lori would take a pic of Tylee at the entrance as a keepsake is potentially bone chilling. I am no longer willing to give her any benefit of the doubt. The fact that she could [allegedly] refer to JJ as her niece’s “drug baby,” lie repeatedly, try to hinder the investigation, and do everything else she’s done before and after Tylee and JJ went missing disqualifies her from receiving any more benefits from me. The Lori I knew and loved appears to be gone.

She has the right to a fair trial by law; I’m not beholden to extend her those same rights.

9/17/19: Lori Vallow’s neighbor in Rexburg, ID, captures last-known footage of JJ Vallow playing outside (source, 00:57 minute mark).

9/18/19: A nanny Lori Vallow hires through care.com for what she thinks is long-term care comes to the house for the first time to babysit JJ. She tells the nanny her husband died of a heart attack in Arizona and that her daughter was going to school in Rexburg. (She wasn’t.) The nanny describes Tylee’s presence in the home as intermittent visits:

“Occasionally her daughter would come visit for dinner or to do laundry, but she never said that she lived there with them. It appeared that only Lori and JJ lived there, from the look of things and from what she told me” (source).

Read the entire Twitter thread for 9/18 here.

Notable: It would appear Tylee Ryan went missing sometime between Sep 8th and Sep 18th. 💔

9/19/19: The nanny Lori Vallow hires returns for a second day of caring for JJ. She notes several things from that day:

• Vallow joked that sometimes she gives JJ his meds early so he’ll go to sleep earlier to give her a break.
• Vallow told her that her brother, Alex Cox, is going to come over and they’re going to the Idaho Falls Airport.
• Cox came over, just said “hello,” and left with Lori.
• JJ went to play at a neighbor’s house and came home for dinner.
• After dinner he wanted to go back to the friend’s house, but the nanny said no.
• JJ had a meltdown and threw furniture and told the nanny he he hated her and didn’t want to be her friend.
• Nanny went upstairs to find JJ and found him under Lori’s bed.
• JJ’s room only had toys, no bed.
• JJ slept on a small mattress in the corner in Lori’s room.
• Lori, Alex, and Lori’s friend came home.
• Lori “babied” JJ to comfort him.
• Lori told the nanny the woman did podcasts with her.
• Lori gave her $40 cash and then never had her back.

Read the entire Twitter thread for 9/19 here.

Notable: This out-of-town friend was in Lori’s home day just four days before JJ was last seen. So who’s the mystery woman? I’m only aware of two female blogging buddies, and one has denied ever meeting Lori and her kids and the other told LE less than a week later she hadn’t seen JJ in months.

9/19/19: Rexburg woman claims to have been on flight with Chad Daybell on a flight from Idaho Falls to Mesa, AZ. The woman said Daybell planned to help a relative in the Valley who needed to remodel her home. “He said I hope we can get this work done in the time that I have before I have to be back,” said the woman who wished to remain anonymous (source).

9/23/19: JJ Vallow is last seen at Kennedy Elementary (source). No requests are made for JJ’s transcripts (source).

9/24/19: Lori Vallow disenrolls JJ Vallow from school, indicating she would homeschool him. JJ is not seen with her (source).

9/24/19: Lori Vallow tells babysitter JJ had gone to stay with his grandma for several weeks, and she was in Hawaii and that the babysitter’s services were no longer needed. According to the affidavit of probable cause obtained by East Idaho News, Police Detective Ron Ball reported, “We contacted this babysitter and she informed us that she watched (JJ) on the 19th of September…The babysitter understood that her employment was to be ongoing” (source 1 / source 2).

9/24/19: Tylee Ryan’s 17th birthday passes with no social media posts.

9/24/19: Colby Ryan has a text exchange with Tylee Ryan on her birthday and tells Dr. Phil that it didn’t sound like her. He asked her to call him that night, and she didn’t (source).

Late September: Chad Daybell and friend and fellow doomsday author Julie Rowe speak by phone about Tammy’s imminent death. From a Fox 13 post (source):

Three weeks before Tammy’s death, Rowe and Daybell called each other.

“And I asked him, do you still see Tammy dying? And he said yes I do,” said Rowe.

Tammy was in charge of the finances and covers for Daybell’s books. Rowe said Daybell wanted to get out of the business, but Tammy wanted to keep going.

“He said I’m ready to get out now and Tammy doesn’t want to get out. When she passes, I’m done, I can’t keep doing this,” said Rowe.

10/1/19: Lori Vallow opens a 10×10’ storage unit at Self Storage Plus in Rexburg, ID (source).

10/2/19: Lori Vallow orders the ring later shown in her wedding photos from Amazon using Charles Vallow’s account (source).

Notable: This is 17 days before Chad Daybell’s wife, Tammy Daybell, died.

10/2/19: Lori Vallow and a man who appears to be Chad Daybell are seen on surveillance at the storage unit (source).

Lori Vallow and a man “who appears to be her brother, Alex Cox,” are seen on surveillance at the storage unit (source).

From the East Idaho News site:

Timestamps on the video show a blue Rogue arriving at 1:25 p.m. but the owner of the storage facility says clocks were off by one hour, so Lori actually pulled in at 2:25 p.m. She made her way to the door of the building where her unit was, and two minutes later, at 2:27 p.m., got out of the vehicle with the man we believe is Chad.

At 2:29 p.m., he pulled a tire out of the back of the Rogue and rolled it into the storage unit. One minute later, he and Lori carried in what appears to be a removable rear car seat together. They put it in the locker, shut the door and left the facility at 2:32 p.m. The entire visit was seven minutes.

Note: Reporter Nate Eaton offers a plausible explanation for why Lori and [allegedly] Chad would have been moving a tire and removable back seat into the storage unit: Brandon Boudreaux said someone shot at him out of the back window of the Jeep. The back window of that model Jeep doesn’t open if the tire is attached. Ergo, it’s possible they removed the back seat and tire of the Jeep. Then Lori and Chad moved it into the storage unit (source, 2:31 minute mark).

Bonus: Chad Daybell—still married to Tammy Daybell at the time—acts in a manner you might find a bit salacious for a married man whose wife will conveniently die in one week to the day at the 1:41 minute mark.

10/2/19: Brandon Boudreaux is shot at outside his home in Gilbert, AZ around 9:30am (source, 1:44 minute mark). The shooter was driving Tylee Ryan’s 2018 Jeep Wrangler, which is registered in Charles Vallow’s name (source 1 / source 2, 41:25 minute mark). Boudreaux later identifies Alex Cox as the shooter (source 1 / source 2, 42:07 minute mark).

10/3/19: The browser history on the computer from which Lori Vallow’s wedding ring was ordered the day before shows someone searching for wedding dresses (source).

10/3/19: Lori Vallow and a man “who appears to be her brother, Alex Cox,”are seen on surveillance at the storage unit (source). Vallow and Cox retrieve the tire and backseat and put them into Vallow’s car (source, 3:08 minute mark).

10/4/19: Tammy Daybell visits parents in Springville, UT, allegedly at Chad’s urging. Chad Daybell claims divine urging from ancestors (private Facebook post).

10/6/19: Alex Cox visits the storage unit by himself (source, 3:49 minute mark).

10/9/19: Tammy Daybell files a report with the Rexburg Police Department, claiming to be shot at by a masked man carrying a paintball gun (source 1 / source 2, 43:24 minute mark)

10/10/19: Tylee Ryan’s Venmo account shows a payment to her older half brother, Colby Ryan, with “we love you” in the description field (source).

10/12/19: Allegedly, Chad bought rope and a ski mask at Cabela’s in Idaho Falls (source).

Note: I almost didn’t include this because it’s as unverified as a claim can get. But I decided to just add it with a disclaimer.

10/14/19: Approximate date Melani Boudreaux allegedly texts her estranged husband, Brandon, to let him know she planned to move to Boise (source). Text read: “The kids could remain with you in Arizona, you would have to arrange for daycare, and I could have the kids for school holidays and summers. Or I could take the kids to Idaho and enroll them in school there and you could have the kids for school holidays and summers. Please let me know what you’d like to do.”

10/16/19: Tylee Ryan’s Venmo account shows a payment to her older half brother, Colby Ryan, with a heart emoji in the description field (source).

10/16/19: A man allegedly accesses Lori Vallow’s storage unit and spends what appears to be 6 minutes on premises (source, 1:18:00 minute mark).

10/19/19: Tammy Daybell dies in her sleep, according to husband Chad Daybell. He claims she went to bed with a cough and just didn’t wake up. Her death is believed to be natural and no autopsy is performed (source). An investigator told East Idaho News reporter Nate Eaton that Chad “didn’t seem all that curious about how she died” (source, 42:56 minute mark).

10/19/19: One of Chad Daybell’s daughters allegedly says to Chad Daybell friend and colleague Julie Rowe that she was most afraid of her dad getting remarried (source, 1:25 minute mark).

10/22/19: Tammy Daybell is interred in Spring Creek, ID (source).

10/22/19: A man allegedly accesses Lori Vallow’s storage unit and spends 9 minutes on premises (source, 1:18:00 minute mark).

10/23/19: A memorial service is held for Tammy Daybell in Rexburg, ID. Chad’s younger brother, Matt Daybell, later tells East Idaho News that he and Chad had not “directly spoken to each other” since the service in Rexburg on Oct. 23 (source). “Since that time, I have texted Chad twice. Once, when I heard from a neighbor of his quick marriage to Lori Vallow, expressing to him my shock and dismay at this news,” Matt Daybell says. “Second, just recently, pleading with Chad to cooperate with authorities and reveal the whereabouts of his new stepchildren.”

10/25/19: A friend of Tylee receives a text from Tylee but says it didn’t sound like her (source).

10/25/19: A man allegedly accesses Lori Vallow’s storage unit and spends 10 minutes on premises (source, 1:18:00 minute mark).

10/25/19: Date Melani Boudreaux’s Rexburg apartment was taken off the market (source).

10/26/19: A man allegedly accesses Lori Vallow’s storage unit and spends 11 minutes on premises (source, 1:18:00 minute mark).

10/28/19: Two men who appear to be Alex Cox and Chad Daybell are seen moving bikes and other items into the storage unit Lori Vallow rented Oct 1 in Rexburg, ID (source 1 / source 2, 3:58 minute mark). They allegedly spend 6 minutes on premises (source, 1:18:00 minute mark).

10/28/19: Melani Boudreaux signs a lease on her apartment in the same complex as Lori Vallow and Alex Cox (source).

10/29/19: Unidentified woman seen playfully running through the snow and then approaching Lori Vallow’s apartment (source).

10/31/19: Melani Boudreaux and Alex Cox fly from Idaho Falls to Phoenix and then pack up Melani to move to Rexburg, ID (source).

10/31/19: Approximate date nanny texts Lori one last time about working for her. Lori never responds (source).

Late Oct 2019: Colby Ryan says communication with Tylee Ryan started to change. He started calling and FaceTiming her, but she wouldn’t answer and always had a reason for why she couldn’t talk. And they didn’t sound like her, he told Fox reporter Justin Lum.

Lum: “But did it sound like how she would text and how she would talk?”

Ryan: “It [sic] was bouncing back and they just didn’t seem normal…And all these things started piecing together (source, 27:50).

Update: Colby told Dr. Phil that his text exchange with Tylee on 9/24/19 didn’t sound like her (e.g., she would have used an emoji over saying that she loved him) and that he was worried (source).

Late Oct/Early Nov 2019: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell lie about the death and even existence of Lori’s children. Rexburg Police Department publish witness testimony is a press release alleging that Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell both lied about the children’s existence:

“We are aware that in the weeks after Tammy Daybell’s death, Lori Vallow/Daybell and Chad Daybell told witnesses that Lori’s daughter had died a year before the death of her father, which is untrue. Around that same time Chad told another witness that Lori had no minor children” (source 1, source 2, 42:56 minute mark)

According to an affidavit obtained by East Idaho News in February 2020, LE also interview Chad Daybell’s parents and Tammy Daybell’s sister. There was no date in the article Daybell’s parents tell detectives Chad and Lori had told them in November that Lori was an “empty nester.” Tammy’s sister reports that Chad told them Lori had no juvenile children (source).

Note: There was no date for the interview of Chad Daybell’s parents and Tammy Daybell’s sister, so I approximated. I have reached out to the reporter to find out if the affidavit listed a date. I also created an account to start requesting court documents myself and am in the verification process…which requires waiting for a letter to be mailed to me with a verification code…because government. 🙄

Late Oct/Early Nov 2019: Estimated time Chad Daybell received $430,000 in life insurance proceeds following Tammy Daybell’s death (source).

Note: I will update this entry to a more exact date if it becomes available.

Fall 2019: Chad Daybell is allegedly excommunicated from the LDS church after he declared he was a prophet (source).

Nov 2019: Tylee’s gray Jeep Wrangler—which was seen in CCTV the day Brandon Beaudreux was reportedly shot at in front of his home in Gilbert, AZ—is seized and impounded in accordance with a search warrant in November 2019 in Rexburg, ID. The Jeep is registered to Charles Vallow (source).

10/31/19: Rich Robertson, a private investigator hired by Brandon Boudreaux, sees Melani Boudreaux and Alex Cox outside her home taking her children’s clothes, toys, and beds to the curb (source 1, 42:56 minute mark / source 2).

11/1/19: Rich Robertson follows Alex Cox and Melani Boudreaux to Rexburg, ID (source 1, 42:56 minute mark).

11/1/19: Detective Ray Hermosillo starts “intermittent surveillance” on Lori Vallow at the request of the Gilbert Police Department. Hermosillo reports that he never saw JJ Vallow when he was performing surveillance during the month of November, 2019.

11/5/19: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell marry in Kaua’i, Hawaii (source, wedding pics start at the 1:08 minute mark).

Note: This is 17 days after his former wife, Tammy Daybell, died unexpectedly.

11/7/19: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell meet with Jeani Martin about renting a room from her home in Kaua’i, HI. According to Martin, after claiming to receive a “sign from God” about moving in to her home, she asks about former wife, Tammy Daybell’s recent death. He answers via text, claiming, “She helped me reconnect with Lori so quickly and it helped my children move forward” (source).

11/8/19: Chad Daybell sent an email to a Kauai realtor. Three days after he & Lori Vallow got married. Outside of authorities, this is second source to tell us that Daybell said he had no kids on the island (source).

11/12/19: Melani Boudreaux trespasses onto Brandon’s parents’ property in America Fork, Utah. American Fork Police say Melani’s uncle, Alex Cox drove her to where her children were in a 2020 Kia Telluride (source).

11/14/19: Melani Boudreaux trespasses onto Brandon’s parents’ property a second time, around 10:30pm, claiming to have a court order stating she could take the children. Police cite Melani for criminal trespassing and tell her to leave the property but then decide to take her into custody for criminal trespassing enhanced by domestic violence. Melani turns herself in to AFPD and is booked into Utah County Jail. Melani’s uncle, Alex Cox, posts her bail of $1,950. The day after the arrest, Cox bailed Melani out (source / source).

Mid November: Lori and Chad return to Rexburg from their honeymoon in Kaua’i, HI (source, 46:28 minute mark)

11/19/19: Melani and Brandon Boudreaux’s divorce is finalized. She doesn’t show up, and he is awarded full custody of their children.

 

11/21/19: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

11/24/19: Lori Vallow and an unidentified man visit her storage unit in Rexburg, ID, for the last time. They leave a box of memorabilia for Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, as well as a tote of clothing. They stay for 4 minutes (source 1 / source 2, 4:07 minute mark).

11/25/19: Kay Woodcock discovers by hacking into Charles Vallow’s email—after trying one of three passwords Woodcock says her brother always used—that an Amazon purchase had been sent to Lori Vallow’s address in Rexburg, ID. Woodcock said now that she had an address for them she could order the welfare check (source, 47:25 minute mark).

11/25/19: Investigation begins when Rexburg Police Department is contacted by the Gilbert, Arizona, Police Department in response to a welfare check for JJ requested by JJ’s grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock. (source 1 / source 2, 45:40 minute mark).

Note: Tylee Ryan wasn’t included in the welfare check because Detective Nathan Moffat—one of the detectives who was on scene the day Charles Vallow was shot and described his ride with Lori Vallow, Alex Cox, and Tylee as “straight-up bizarre”—thought he didn’t need to include Tylee Ryan in the welfare check:

I got on the phone with Rexburg PD, and I requested they do a welfare check at the residence for JJ. More specifically JJ than Tylee because Tylee’s 16, 17 years old (source, 47:52 minute mark).

Another Rant Against the Chandler Police Department

You can read my rant about how the Chandler Police Department bungled the investigation into Lori’s threats against Charles in January, 2019 and then Charles’ death in July, 2019 here. But even after the family moved out of the area, in what I believe to be a lapse in judgement by CPD Detective Nathan Moffat, the investigation into the disappearance of JJ and Tylee almost didn’t include Tylee. Moffat made a judgment call that then-16-year-old Tylee wasn’t quite minor enough to be considered a minor who needed to be checked on. Why? Because, well, she was ALMOST 17, which…hell, makes her damn near 18 so practically not a minor at all.

I mean, sure, he seemed to almost kinda hint at his concern that Tylee may have been coached by her mother following the shooting death of her stepfather (source, 28:32 minute mark). And there was that odd van ride with Tylee, Lori, and Alex that he described as “straight-up bizarre” and “the weirdest ride [he’s] ever had with three strangers” (source, 28:48 minute mark). But how could he have possibly known the same woman who allegedly made heinous threats against her late husband earlier that year, wiped out more than $35,000 from his business account, abandoned her husband and son for almost two months, and acted suspiciously during the investigation into her husband’s death at her brother’s hand could have been a danger to her other minor child as well?

Thankfully, in the course of investigating the disappearance of JJ, RPD detectives came to discover there was another minor living in the home who was also unaccounted for. But this is three strikes against CPD in my book.

I’m not even going to sheepishly apologize for breaking from a dispassionate tone with this rant. The reality is my primary job isn’t maintaining journalistic standards. My job is advocating for two amazing, beautiful, and adored kids who have mysteriously disappeared amidst a shit storm that has caught the attention of people all over the world who are helplessly watching on as this mystery continues to deepen with no signs of letting up anytime soon.

So there’s not a lot of room for error. I’m just grateful RPD has now taken the lead on this case. I have stayed out of their way and will continue to do so. But I’m no longer going to operate under this contrived pressure I’ve put on myself to try to pretend I’m a reporter who’s not emotionally involved in this case. I can’t even hold my shit together in interviews. So if you find yourself cringing at the emotional rants of a frustrated family member, just scroll and roll. 🙋‍♀️

11/26/19: LE performs welfare check on JJ Vallow at 565 Pioneer Rd, Rexburg, ID. Lori Vallow tells police JJ is staying with a family friend in AZ. Investigators learn later that day had not been staying with the friend (source).

Other suspicious activity later released in a 14-page affidavit of probable cause document obtained by East Idaho News (source):

• “Chad acted as if he didn’t know Lori very well and stated he didn’t know her phone number.” They had married three weeks prior. (See the 11/5/19 entry.)
• “Alex [Cox] told the detectives that [Joshua Vallow] was with his grandma, Kay Woodcock, in Louisiana, which was not likely to be true due to the fact that Kay was the individual who first called in a missing child report to the Gilbert Police Department.”
• Cox told officers Lori “might be” in apartment 107.
• Apartment 107 was vacant.
• Police found Lori “later that day” in apartment 175 (source).
• Chad Daybell tried to drive away while detectives were at the apartment complex, but a detective stopped him.
• Chad told an investigator that the last time he had seen JJ was in apartment 107 in October. He also admitted that he knew his wife’s phone number. Notable: This proves that Chad was aware that Lori had at least one minor child.
• Vallow told detectives JJ was with Melanie Gibb—a friend of Lori and Chad who had participated as a co-host with Chad and Lori on a Preparing a People podcast, co-hosted the Time to Warrior Up podcast with Lori, spoke at the Preparing a People conference, and wrote the book Feel the Fire (Chad wrote the forward). Detective Ron Ball stated that this lie “delayed the investigation into the whereabouts and safety of [JJ] by requiring us to take time to investigate a lead that was verified as false.”
• Detectives called Gibb but were unable to reach her. Lori claimed that her friend and JJ were at Frozen 2. Officers told Lori to tell her friend to call them.
• After not hearing back from Gibb that night (‼️), LE in Rexburg called the Gilbert Police Department. Officers from GPD went to Gibb’s home. She was not there, but they reached her by phone. Gibb told them JJ had not been there for several months (source). Notable: Not getting back to LE in a timely manner gave Lori and Chad significant lead time to flee the jurisdiction.
• Gibb waited 10 days before telling RPD that both Lori and Chad asked her to tell them she had JJ.
• Gibb has reportedly retained a lawyer and is cooperating with authorities (source, 1:57 minute mark).

Author’s note: This is the scene that played out in my head as I recorded the ill-fated antics of this ragtag bunch of misfits. 🤦‍♀️

11/27/19: LE executes a search warrant for the townhouse Lori Vallow’s was renting and discovers that Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell vacated the home. Witnesses say kids weren’t with them. LE also search the townhouses belonging to Vallow’s brother, Alex Cox, and niece, Melani Boudreaux, who reportedly lived within a few doors of Vallow (source).

11/27/19: LE search Lori Vallow’s Self-Storage Plus storage unit, where they find kids’ bikes, toys, photo albums, winter clothes, a backpack with JJ’s initials, a jersey with Colby Ryan’s name on it, photo blankets made from pictures of Tylee and JJ from infancy on (source). Related: Lori Vallow or men associated with her visit the storage unit a total of 10 times between Oct 1 and Nov 24.

11/27/19: Approximate date Alex Cox moves back to Arizona (source, 1:01:39 minute mark).

11/27/19: Detectives come to the house of Lori Vallow’s son, Colby Ryan, to inquire about the whereabouts of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow (source, 24:57 minute mark). Colby told Fox reporter Justin Lum that he called his mom after they left and said, “Two detectives just came to my door. What is going on?’ She allegedly answered, “‘I got it, I’ll take care of it. Love you.” Colby added, when pressed by Lum, that she also asked what the detectives asked him but that was it (25:47 minute mark).

11/27/19: Approximate date Rexburg Police Department requests the assistance of the FBI in finding Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow (source).

11/29/19: Alex Cox marries Zulema Pastenes in Las Vegas (source). According to the owner of A Chapel of Love in Las Vegas—where the two were married—the minister reflected on the service, commenting that the thing that stuck out to him the most was their “lack of emotional response.” He continued, “They were very cold. It was business. They wanted to get in and get out.” The owner said their service only lasted 8 mins, and their only witness was the chapel security guard (source, 1:21 minute mark).

11/30/19: Melani Boudreaux marries Ian Pawlowski in Las Vegas (source).

Note: Alex Cox (AKA Alex Pastenes) is their witness.

Early Dec: Ian Pawlowski texts his ex-wife concerns about the attempted shooting of Brandon Boudreaux: “She didn’t know beforehand what was gonna happen. They made the attempt, failed and told her about it after the fact (transcript).”

12/1/19: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell fly from LA to Kaua’i on American Airlines. RPD cannot find any information that confirms they’ve returned to the mainland since this date (source).

Notable: Alex Cox took Zulema’s last name (source).

12/3/19: According to an email from Natalie Pawlowski (ex-wife of IanPawlowski) to an associate of Brandon Boudreaux, Melani Pawlowski (current wife of Ian Pawlowski and former wife of Brandon Boudreaux) is interviewed by LE for five hours (source).

12/4/19: FBI agents from Phoenix, AZ, look into Lori Vallow, Melanie Gibb, and Richard “Jason” Mow (source 1). Agent digs into Lori Vallow’s podcasts. FBI agent notes Jason Mow joined them in the podcast. Mow said they had a “special connection” and described her as a “gatherer.” Mow connected Vallow with Gibb (source 2). Vallow mentions how “suffering leads to salvation and that even thought she doesn’t want her kids to suffer she understands they have to so they can see the light.” Agent also describes podcasts as “not soothing by any means” (source 3).

12/4/19: FBI agent digs into Richard “Jason” Mow’s professional background. Agent notes that the Phoenix Police Department’s Homicide Sergeant recalls a time he was “sleeping in the front seat of his car while he was supposed to be doing security for them as they were executing a search warrant.” Agent asks another agent to look into him more (source).

12/4/19: Natalie Pawlowski contacts an associate of Brandon Boudreaux, trying to find him. It’s a pretty desperate cry for help and reveals how scared she and Ian both were (transcript).

Author’s Note: This email reads much more authentically than the document Ian left on his laptop for Natalie to find when he turned over his laptop to her (see 2/16/20 entry).

12/5/19: Natalie and Ian Pawlowski are interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source).

Notable: One of the items Lori Vallow’s defense attorney requested from Rexburg Police Department was recordings from Ian Pawlowski (source). I wonder what he recorded. 🤔 It’s worth noting Idaho is a one-party consent state, meaning he wouldn’t have needed to get permission from someone he was recording.

12/6/19: Lori Vallow’s friend and one-time Preparing a People podcast co-host, Melanie Gibb, informs RPD that both Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell had contacted her separately on November 26th and asked her to lie to detectives and tell them JJ was with her (source). Notable: This was 10 days after she spoke to GPD detectives and let them know JJ was not with her.

12/6/19: Chandler PD in AZ serve a search warrant for all JJ’s records at L.I.F.E. Academy, where he attended before Lori Vallow moved him to Rexburg, ID, following JJ’s father’s death (source).

12/9/19: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

12/10/19: Approximate date Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell move into a condo at the Villas on the Prince community in Princeville, HI (source).

Notable: The complex was across the street from the townhouse complex Charles and Lori used to live in.

12/11/19: Tammy Daybell’s remains are exhumed by the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner, and an autopsy is conducted (source). The warrant states, “There is probable cause to believe that the hereinafter described property or persons, presently located within the hereinafter described location, is connected with the commission of public offense(s), to wit: conspiracy to commit homicide first degree… which occurred on or about July 11, 2019.”

12/12/19: Alex Cox dies of suspicious causes in Gilbert, AZ. Zulema Pastenes’ 25-year-old son, Joseph Lopez, found him unresponsive in the bathroom and reports being unable to turn him over to administer CPR because he had lost control of his bowels. He refers to Cox as his mom’s boyfriend, revealing he seemed to be unaware she had married Cox 12 days prior. He also didn’t know Cox’s last name when the operator asks (source). As part of the autopsy, investigators request an expanded toxicology panel from the medical examiner’s office (source, 1:02:29 minute mark).

Notable: Keith Morrison said detectives wanted to question Cox about the shooting of Charles Vallow (7/11/19), as well as the mysterious shooting attempts at Brandon Boudreax (10/2/19) and Tammy Daybell (10/9/19). But before they could question him, he too died. But more than two months passed. If he wasn’t questioned during those two months, why?

12/18/19: Chad Daybell’s parents, Jack and Sheila Daybell, are interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source 1 / source 2).

12/20/19: Rexburg PD announces investigation into the disappearance of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow (source), as well as their partnership with the FBI in the investigation into the disappearance (source).

12/20/19: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

Notable: The announcement of the investigation may have been the trigger for this login. But why?

12/21/19: Rexburg PD calls Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell “persons of interest” in the disappearance of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow (source).

12/23/19: Sean Bartholick, of Rigby, Andrus & Rigby, issues statement on behalf of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell (source).

12/27/19: A friend of Lori Vallow who spoke under the condition of anonymity said Vallow would say, “It’s gonna be the end of the world and we should all just drive off a cliff and kill us and our kids and die all at the same time” (source, 2:37 minute mark).

12/27/19: Chad Daybell’s friend, Julie Rowe, claims both she and Chad had a vision where angels told them Daybell’s wife, Tammy would die (source). Rowe also claims she knows the kids are safe from her visions: “I do know the kids are safe. I can see them. I can see their energy and that they’re in a bright house. I can see they’re in the living room where they are. I can see they’re comfortable [in their] bed at night.”

12/30/19: Rexburg PD issues press release stating that they know the children are not with Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell and that they have information indicating that Lori “knows either the location of the children or what has happened to them” (source).

1/3/20: Rexburg PD and the FBI search Chad and Tammy Daybell’s former home in Salem, ID. LE collects 43 items (source).

1/3/20: In an act of defiance, Chad Daybell’s adult daughter, Emma Daybell Murray, makes faces at reporters, which was captured by a KIDK3 reporter (source, 1:50 minute mark)

1/4/20: Kay Woodcock reveals in an interview with Fox 13 that Charles Vallow made recordings of Lori. “Charles told me he had recordings of her,” Woodcock said. “He said, ‘Nobody will believe me,’ and he recorded her one night. Even though it’s deleted, nothing is ever deleted electronically or whatever” (source).

Note: From the context, it sounds like he may have made recordings of her bizarre statements and/or threats.

1/6/20: Kay and Larry Woodcock are interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source).

1/7/20: Melani Boudreaux’s court date for the trespassing charge.

1/7/20: Larry and Kay Woodcock, JJ Vallow’s grandparents, announce a $20,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of him and Tylee Ryan (source).

1/8/20: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

1/10/20: Chad Daybell’s younger brother, Matt Daybell releases a statement expressing dismay at Chad’s sudden marriage to Lori Vallow and urging him to cooperate with authorities regarding Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow’s disappearance (source).

Notable: Matt adds that his statement represents the views of him, his wife and children, not his extended family or parents.

1/13/20: Bodycam footage, 911 call, and police report from the day Charles Vallow was shot is obtained by Fox10 (source).

1/14/20: Melani Boudreaux is interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source).

1/14/20: Surveillance video from Yellowstone National Park is received by Rexburg Police Department (source).

1/25/20: LE in Kaua’i, HI, serves Lori Vallow with a child protection order from Madison County’s prosecutor’s office in Rexburg, ID, requiring her to produce Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow to Idaho Department of Health and Welfare or Rexburg Police Department in Rexburg by Jan 30 (source).

1/26/20: LE in Kaua’i, HI, “serve search warrants on the persons of Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow and on a black Ford Explorer they had rented” in the parking lot of the Kaua’i Beach Resort (source). LE found the following items in their possession:

•  birth certificates for both Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow
• Tylee’s financial transaction card by BBVA
• JJ’s iPad
• another iPad logged into JJ’s Apple account
• JJ’s school registration receipts from Kennedy Elementary in Rexburg, ID

Notable: 

• Tylee’s card was still active at that time and had been used since she was last seen.
• It would be very difficult to prove plausible deniability re: the theory that Chad didn’t know Lori had minor children, when she had their birth certificates and an iPad with JJ’s name on it in her possession.
• Between having JJ’s iPad she had in the car, another iPad that was still logged in to JJ’s Apple account,  and her login activity with JJ’s previous school’s app, it’s possible she missed JJ. She had logged in five times since withdrawing him from L.I.F.E. Academy.

1/26/20:  LE in Kaua’i, HI, serve a search warrant for the condo Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell rent. Officers observe there are no signs children Evidence they cited:

• There were two beach/lawn chairs in the garage.
• There were two exercise mats in the garage.
• There were only two beach towels in the garage.
• There were no items in the garage or condo that appeared to belong to a minor child.
• There was no evidence of a 7 year old boy—e.g., clothing, toys, books, medication, etc.
• There was a second room in the condo that had no signs of being lived in.

Note: Nate Easton from East Idaho News pursues the couple to question them about the whereabouts of the children who have been missing four months at this point (source).

1/29/20: Kay and Larry Woodcock file for emergency guardianship of JJ Vallow in Rexburg, ID (source).

1/29/20: Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow reportedly clear out of the condo they were renting in the Villas on the Prince community (source). They allegedly move to the Kaua’i Beach Resort (source).

1/30/20: Sidney Woodbury Shenk is interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source).

1/30/20: Lori Vallow defies the court order and does not produce the kids to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare or Rexburg Police Department, risking potential civil and criminal consequences (source).

1/30/20: Lori Vallow retains Daniel Hempey, an attorney in Kuau’i, HI (source).

1/31/20: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

Early Feb: Lori Vallow has her church records transferred to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kaua’i, HI. Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow’s names were not included in the record. Chad Daybell hadn’t transferred his records to the new ward yet (source, 00:05 minute mark).

2/1/20: Colby Ryan’s mother-in-law, Carrie O’Neal Benson, launches a GoFundMe to raise $15,000 for Colby and his wife, citing financial burdens resulting from the family crisis (source).

Note: The goal has since been reduced to $7,500.

2/2/20: Lori Vallow and new husband Chad Daybell start attending church at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kaua’i (source).

Related: As of Jan 2, 2020, a spokesperson for the church has not confirmed or denied whether Chad Daybell has been excommunicated or is still a member (source).

2/4/20: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

2/4/20: Approximate date officials at L.I.F.E. Academy—JJ’s former school school in Chandler, AZ, that Lori Vallow withdrew JJ from 9/5/19—removes Lori’s access to the app after discovering she had continued to access the app to get updates. Dates accessed: 9/7, 11/21, 12/9, 12/20, 1/8, 1/31, 2/4 (source, 00:21 minute mark). 

Notable: 12/20 coincides with the date Rexburg PD announced the investigation into the disappearance of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow.

2/4/20: East Idaho News publishes surveillance footage of the Self Storage Plus storage unit Lori Vallow rented in Rexburg, ID (source).

2/5/20: Rich Robertson, a private investigator hired by Brandon Boudreau comes forward to say Boudreaux identifies Alex Cox was the shooter (source). “The vehicle that was involved in the shooting belonged to Charles Vallow,” Robertson said. “It was a green Jeep Cherokee** with Texas license plates. He recognized that as his former in-law and he suspected Charles Vallow’s killer, Alex Cox, was the one driving that jeep.”

Note: Alex Cox was actually driving a gray 2008 Jeep Wrangler with Texas license plate LWD0997 (source, pg 3 / para 8). This Jeep is also sometimes described as green in court documents because of its hue.

2/10/20: Law enforcement report that they found Tylee Ryan’s cell phone with Lori Vallow in Hawaii (source).

2/11/20: Fremont County’s Office of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office denies Fox 10’s public records request for the “911 call and report taken in the death of Tammy Daybell” and “any 911 calls from the Daybell home…on 10/9/19” (source). The letter cites two justifications for its denial:

1. Idaho Code 124(1)(a): (1) Notwithstanding any statute or rule of court to the contrary, nothing in this chapter nor chapter 10, title 59, Idaho Code, shall be construed to require disclosure of investigatory records compiled for law enforcement purposes by a law enforcement agency, but such exemption from disclosure applies only to the extent that the production of such records would: (a)  Interfere with enforcement proceedings;
2. Wade v Taylor 156 Idaho 91, 98, 320 P.3d 1250, 1257 (2014): The legislative intent underlying the section is to prevent the premature disclosure of information that may compromise an investigation, the state’s case in court, or the defendant’s right to a fair trial.

Note: 10/9/19 was the date Tammy Daybell filed a report with the Rexburg Police Department, claiming to be shot at by a masked man carrying a paintball gun.

2/12/20: Keith Morrison of Dateline is tipped off that Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell had packed their bags and were heading to Mexico (source, 00:22 minute mark).

2/14/20: Dateline airs a two-hour special on the case, “Where Are the Children?” (source).

2/16/20: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell check out of the Kaua’i Marriot Resort where they had been staying (source).

2/16/20: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell are seen in Kaua’i boarding a plane to Maui (source).

2/16/20: Ian Pawlowski brings his ex-wife his laptop where she found a bizarre note about Melani and the group she was involved with (transcript).

Author’s Note: I’m not buying Ian just happened to journal about his entry into this group…which he left in an unprotected file on his laptop…that he turned over to his ex-wife to ((oops)) find. To me, the note has a very contrived feel to it and puts both him and Melani in a very favorable light. I think the email sent an associate of Brandon Boudreaux 12/4/19 has a more authentic timbre to it. Melani moved to Rexburg away from her four children. Whatever the reason, it must have been compelling enough to motivate her to move away from her kids. I’m not buying that casual interest in this group would be compelling enough. Ymmv.

2/18/20: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell return to Kaua’i (source).

2/18/20: A search warrant was served at Self-Storage Plus where Lori Vallow rented a storage unit. Police removed all of the items in the unit (source, 1:05 minute mark).

2/18/20: The Madison County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office submits a criminal complaint against Lori Vallow (source). The complaint alleges five crimes:

• two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children
• resisting or obstructing officers (misdemeanor)
• criminal solicitation to commit a crime (misdemeanor)
• contempt of court (misdemeanor)

Note: I will start referring to Lori as Lori Vallow Daybell from this point onward since the arrest warrant and court documents affirm she took Chad’s last name. If I refer to Lori by last name only, I’ll include Vallow just to be clear which Daybell I’m referring to.

2/20/20: Lori Vallow Daybell is arrested at and taken into custody at 2:30 pm HST by Kaua’i Police Department. She is held on $5 million bond pending extradition to Idaho.

2/21/20: Lori Vallow Daybell’s first court hearing in Kaua’i, HI (recording of hearing). Highlights:

• Vallow Daybell’s defense attorney, Daniel Hempey, requested her bail be reduced from $5 million to $10,000. Justification for the reduction by Hempey was, “We are sitting here with a couple felonies and misdemeanors and a half a million dollar bail” (source).
• Judge Kathleen Watanabe kept Vallow Daybell’s bail at $5 million.
• Vallow Daybell asserts her right to an extradition hearing to fight extradition to Idaho. That hearing is scheduled for March 2.
• Prosecuting attorney Justin Kollar requested Vallow Daybell be remanded without bail.
• Kollar requested an identification hearing be set for March 5, 2020.
• Vallow Daybell exercised her right to demand a governor’s warrant.
• Hempey alleged that the police officers from Idaho questioned Vallow Daybell with Kuau’i police while she was in custody even though “they knew she was represented by counsel” (source). Note: Kelly Vaughan from 2KUTV reported on February 21st that the police chief and assistant chief were not in Hawaii (source, 2:09 minute mark). It’s unclear—at least at time of writing—who was there from RPD.
• Kollar requested that, if Vallow Daybell posts bail and has a passport, she surrender it to the Kuau’i Police Department.
• Vallow Daybell focused her transformation efforts on new husband Chad Daybell’s hair and overlooked training him how to pick a tie (source). I gotchu, Chad. You have a week to shop and practice. We’ll check back on your progress. 👔

2/21/20: Lori Vallow is booked into Kauai Community Correctional Center (source).

2/23/20: Child custody papers reveal Ian Pawlowski provided statements to LE that Melani Pawlowski—Brandon Boudreaux’s ex-wife—told him shortly after they married that she conspired with her uncle, Alex Cox, to kill Brandon. Brandon alleges that Melani was motivated by a $1 million life insurance policy. Melani’s new husband, Ian Pawlowski, told LE Melani once said “something to the effect of ‘sometimes children are full of light and then just like that they go dark.'”

Note: I modified this entry after Melani Boudreaux’s attorney issued a statement refuting that Melanie accepted any responsibility (source). And it appears all news stories covering this release have been taken down.

2/24/20: Chad Daybell cancels lease on condo in Kaua’i, HI (source).

2/25/20: Madison County Prosecutor’s Office subpoenas Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell’s Princeville landlord, the Kauai Beach Resort, and JJ Vallow’s school in Rexburg, ID, Kennedy Elementary School.

For all parties, they have until 3/9/20 and have to produce all documents from 8/1/19 to the present.

2/26/20: Judge denies Lori Vallow Daybell’s second request to lower bond. Vallow Daybell waives right to an extradition hearing. She will return to Idaho to face charges (source).

2/26/20: The attorney for Melani Pawlowski issues press release denying Pawlowski admitted to any wrongdoing with the kids and denies knowing where they are. He also denies she had anything to do with the alleged shooting of former husband Brandon Boudreaux (source).

Author’s note: It does give me pause that a court petition to modify child support released by Brandon Boudreaux’s attorney seemed to be treated with the same credibility in the press as a court document released by law enforcement. Pawlowski has a right to a fair trial, if it comes to that. Also, after reviewing the recording of Boudreaux’s 911 call, he did say at the time he didn’t see who shot at him (source, 00:11 minute mark) but later identified the shooter as Alex Cox through his attorney. There’s also some question as to the identity of a man entering Lori Vallow’s storage unit in Rexburg, ID, on Oct 2nd (the same day as the shooting in Gilbert, AZ) and 3rd. (UPDATE: East Idaho News had the surveillance video from the storage unit enhanced, which revealed the visitor with Lori Vallow on 10/2/19 was more likely Chad Daybell, not Alex Cox.) So there’s quite a bit for LE to sift through here. I’m not in any way defending Melani. She is knee deep in all of this and has acted erratically with regard to the children (notifying Boudreaux in a text she’s moving to Boise, moving to Rexburg where two children went missing, moving into the same apartment complex as Lori Vallow and Alex Cox, trespassing at the home of Boudreaux’s parents two days in a row, etc.). I hope she did cooperate fully with LE, as she asserted in this press release. And I hope that this family can get to the bottom of these alarming events that threaten the safety and welfare of their children on so many levels.

2/29/20: Chad Daybell returns to Rexburg, ID (source).

3/4/20: Lori Vallow Daybell has a status hearing in Kaua’i, HI, before being extradited to Idaho (source).

3/5/20: Lori Vallow Daybell arrives in Rexburg, ID (source).

3/5/20: Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorneys request a number of documents from the prosecuting attorney’s office (source):

• Warrants and related documents
• Communications between LE and media
• Court orders
• Un-redacted police records
• Handwritten notes
• Dispatch tapes (and a full paragraph of someone riding the caps lock)

3/6/20: Lori Vallow Daybell is scheduled for an arraignment hearing in Rexburg, ID (source / watch live).

3/6/20: Lori Vallow Daybell’s bond is reduced from $5 million to $1 million by Magistrate Judge Faren Eddins (source).

3/6/20: Madison County Prosecutor Rob Wood reveals in Lori Vallow Daybell’s first court hearing in Idaho that Daybell continued to receive social security benefits for both kids after she left Idaho without them (source).

3/9/20: Deadline Madison County Prosecutor’s Office assigns for all parties to comply with subpoenas served Feb 25 (source).

3/11/20: The FBI, Rexburg Police Department and numerous law enforcement agencies investigating cases related to Lori Vallow and her missing children meet in Salt Lake City, UT, to “coordinate, review, and share information” (source).

3/11/20: Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood and Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorneys request to move preliminary hearing from Mar 18–19 to May 7–8 to allow for more time to exchange and review discovery (source).

3/11/20: Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorney, Mark Means, files a motion to disqualify Magistrate Judge Eddins (the judge who dropped Daybell’s bail from $5 million to $1 million) without cause, pursuant to Idaho Criminal Rule 25 (source).

3/12/20: Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood objects to Lori Vallow Daybell’s motion to disqualify Magistrate Judge Eddins from the case (source).

3/12/20: Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorney, Mark Means, responds to Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood’s objection, stating that a child protection action he’s presiding over could potentially prejudice him against Vallow Daybell (source).

3/13/20: Lori Vallow Daybell has telephonic hearing where three decisions are made (source 1 / source 2):

1. Magistrate Judge Farren Eddins agrees to reschedule Vallow Daybell’s preliminary hearing for May 7 and May 8.
2. Eddins disqualifies himself without cause from the case.
3. Vallow Daybell’s attorney, Brian Webb, announces he plans to file a motion to withdraw from the case. Edwina Elcox, who works with Webb’s law firm, will also withdraw from the case.

3/13/20: Michelle Radford Mallard is made judge over preliminary hearing for May 7–8, 2020 (source).

3/16/20: Two of Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorneys, Brian Webb and Edwina Elcox, withdraw from her case (source).

3/24/20: Detective Nathan Moffatt with Chandler PD writes in an email to Fox 10 reporter Justin Lum that he is confident CPD is getting closer to indicting Lori Vallow for her involvement in the shooting death of Charles Vallow (source).

Author’s Note: I don’t care how premature this is…HELL YEAH!!!

3/30/20: Lori Vallow Daybell’s apartment went back on the market for rent (source / screenshot 1 / screenshot 2).

Note: On 4/5/20 the property was listed as pending.

Notable: As of 4/5/20, the Zillow page for this property wasn’t updated to show it as available. It appears from the date of the Facebook post, it went back on the market 3/30/20. This is interesting to me because Alex’s went back on the market the week after Lori, Chad, and Alex fled Rexburg, while Lori’s apartment was in limbo for four months following their sudden move out.

7/22/20: The anticipated end of the world in Lori Vallow’s mind (source). Vallow Daybell believed she was a god and allegedly warned her late husband, Charles Vallow, not to get in the way:

As a god, her mission was to carry out the work of the 144,000 at Christ’s second coming. That second coming was imminent. According to Lori, Jesus was headed to Earth in July 2020. And if Charles got in the way of that mission, Lori would murder him.

 

Additions to Timeline

As I add new items/details to the timeline, I’ll document them here. I won’t add minor modifications, like typo corrections, to keep this as clean as possible. I’ll group them by the date of the add, which might also be the date of the event.

2/10/20

7/12/19: Cheryl Wheeler, Charles Vallow’s ex-wife and mother of his two grown sons, finds out from the ME’s website that Charles’ death had been classified a homicide. She then searches Google for more information and discovers from news reports out of Chandler, AZ, that Alex Cox had shot him (source).

2/10/20: Law enforcement report that they found Tylee Ryan’s cell phone with Lori Vallow in Hawaii (source).

2/13/20

2/4/20: Approximate date officials at L.I.F.E. Academy—JJ’s former school school in Chandler, AZ, that Lori Vallow withdrew JJ from 9/5/19—removes Lori’s access to the app after discovering she had continued to access the app to get updates. Dates accessed: 9/7, 11/21, 12/9, 12/20, 1/8, 1/31, 2/4 (source, 00:21 minute mark). 

Notable: 12/20 coincides with the date Rexburg PD announced the investigation into the disappearance of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow.

Late July: Lori Vallow allegedly texts Charles Vallow’s sister, Kay Woodcock, having just discovered she had been removed from Charles Vallow’s life insurance policy. Kay alleges she wrote “something to the effect of”: “Five kids and no money and his sister gets everything.”

Notable: At this time Lori Vallow had two children living in the home, one adult son, and two adult stepsons.

2/8/19: Approximate date Charles Vallow removes Lori Vallow as sole beneficiary from his life insurance policy (source, 1:02 minute mark).

2/14/20

4/9/19: Chad Daybell’s friend and doomsday podcaster, Julie Rowe, is told she would be excommunicated from the Church of Latter Day Saints “based on the charges of (1) apostasy, (2) teaching false doctrine, (3) priestcraft, and (4) defaming the good name of the Church.” She and her husband have appealed the decision but expect it to be denied (source).

Late September: Chad Daybell and friend and fellow doomsday author Julie Rowe speak by phone about Tammy’s imminent death. From a Fox 13 post (source):

Three weeks before Tammy’s death, Rowe and Daybell called each other.

“And I asked him, do you still see Tammy dying? And he said yes I do,” said Rowe.

Tammy was in charge of the finances and covers for Daybell’s books. Rowe said Daybell wanted to get out of the business, but Tammy wanted to keep going.

“He said I’m ready to get out now and Tammy doesn’t want to get out. When she passes, I’m done, I can’t keep doing this,” said Rowe.

11/5/19: Corrected date of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell’s wedding. I had it recorded as 11/4/19.

2/1/20: Added: Note: The goal has since been reduced to $7,500.

2/2/20: Lori Vallow and new husband Chad Daybell start attending church at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kaua’i (source).

Related: As of Jan 2, 2020, a spokesperson for the church has not confirmed or denied whether Chad Daybell has been excommunicated or is still a member (source).

2/12/20: Keith Morrison of Dateline is tipped off that Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell had packed their bags and were heading to Mexico (source, 00:22 minute mark).

2/15/20

TL;DR: I edited the first two paragraphs to include details from the Dateline “Where Are the Children?” episode:

Tylee Ryan and her younger half brother, JJ Vallow, have been missing since Sep 23rd, 2019. A welfare check was requested by JJ’s grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock. According to Keith Morrison’s reporting on on the Dateline episode, “Where Are the Children?,” “it took Rexburg Police Department a couple of weeks to get around to knocking on Tylee and JJ’s door” (source coming when episode is published online). <– This was disproved with the release of court documents Feb 21.

According to Dateline, law enforcement performed the welfare check Nov 26, 2019. First Alex allegedly lied to the officer and said JJ was with his grandparents, but he let him know they were the ones who ordered the welfare check. Then Lori Vallow came to the door and told police that JJ was with family friends in Gilbert, Arizona. This, too, turned out to be a lie. The next day law enforcement returned to the home to find Lori Vallow and her newest husband, Chad Daybell, gone.

7/12/19: Approximate date Lori Vallow attempts to file a claim on Charles Vallow’s life insurance policy and found out she had been removed as sole beneficiary. Charles had made his sister Kay Woodcock beneficiary. (See 2/8/19 entry.)

Late Oct/Early Nov: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell lie about the death and even existence of Lori’s children.

“We are aware that in the weeks after Tammy Daybell’s death, Lori Vallow/Daybell and Chad Daybell told witnesses that Lori’s daughter had died a year before the death of her father, which is untrue. Around that same time Chad told another witness that Lori had no minor children” (source).

Fall 2019: Chad Daybell is excommunicated from the LDS church after declaring he was a prophet (source).

10/16/19: A man allegedly accesses Lori Vallow’s storage unit and spends what appears to be 6 minutes on premises (source, 1:18:00 minute mark).

10/22/19: A man allegedly accesses Lori Vallow’s storage unit and spends 9 minutes on premises (source, 1:18:00 minute mark).

10/25/19: A man allegedly accesses Lori Vallow’s storage unit and spends 10 minutes on premises (source, 1:18:00 minute mark).

10/26/19: A man allegedly accesses Lori Vallow’s storage unit and spends 11 minutes on premises (source, 1:18:00 minute mark).

10/29/19: Unidentified woman seen playfully running through the snow and then approaching Lori Vallow’s apartment (source).

11/29/19: Added: According to the owner of A Chapel of Love in Las Vegas—where the two were married—the minister reflected on the service, commenting that the thing that stuck out to him the most was their “lack of emotional response.” He continued, “They were very cold. It was business. They wanted to get in and get out.” The owner said their service only lasted 8 mins, and their only witness was the chapel security guard (source).

12/12/19: Notable: The complex was across the street from the townhouse complex Charles and Lori used to live in.

1/10/20: Notable: Matt adds that his statement represents the views of him, his wife and children, not his extended family or parents.

2/14/20: Dateline airs a two-hour special on the case, “Where Are the Children?” (source).

2/16/20

2/4/19: Charles Vallow filed petition for an Order of Protection against Lori Vallow, citing incidences listed in the entries for 1/29 and 1/30 (source).

Note: Lori was never served the document because process servers were unsuccessful in locating her, as detailed in the entries below.

2/5/19: JJ Vallow is absent from school at L.I.F.E. Academy in Gilbert, AZ (source).

2/11/19: Charles Vallow visits L.I.F.E. Academy (source). Charles met with school officials and made a handful of claims:

• Lori had “gone crazy.”
• Lori was “hearing religious voices.”
• Lori had “disappeared to an unknown location.”
• He had secured a protection order against Lori.
• He was pulling JJ out of school and taking him out of state until he’s safe.

2/16/19: Preparing a People holds a one-day conference in Boise, Idaho. Chad Daybell is one of the speakers (conference flyer / PAP statement that includes location of Chad’s last speaking engagement).

Note: It appears Charles believed Lori Vallow was planning to attend this event, which led to an attempt by process servers to serve Lori with papers at the airport.

When Charles learned Lori was going to Boise with a friend, he “made attempts to serve (her) at the airport, a hotel, and a public event.” All attempts were unsuccessful, and Charles came to believe that Lori had changed her travel plans at the last minute (source).

2/18/19 Added: Note: I approximate this date because Charles’ attorney allegedly advised him to remove Lori when he filed for divorce.

2/21/19: Approximate date staff at L.I.F.E. Academy in Gilbert, AZ, make a report to CPS regarding JJ because Lori Vallow had still not been located (source).

1/24/19: Approximate date Lori Vallow moves out of the family residence, taking daughter Tylee Ryan with her (source, line 15).

Note: This is actually a deletion from the timeline. I updated the approximate date Lori Vallow moved out of the home, and the the document has apparently been removed from Facebook.

Feb – March 2019: Lori Vallow allegedly abandons Charles and JJ Vallow for 58 days. At least part of that time was spent in Hawaii with daughter Tylee Ryan, as well as living with her brother as mentioned above (source).

Note: This is actually a deletion from the timeline. I added some of the pieces to the 2/11/19 entry that specifically talks about Lori going MIA. I was able to secure an approximate date Lori went missing from KTVB TV out of Boise, ID (source).

Mid-February: The Daily Mail reported in January 2020 that Lori Vallow and Alex Cox had a “knock-down, drag-out fight” in the middle of the street fight while she was living with him “around a year ago.” The fight between Vallow and Cox was reportedly so bad that neighbors were close to calling the police on the “warring siblings.” Neighbor Donny Self told the Daily Mail, “She was screaming at him accusing him of bringing disgrace on their family.” After it was over, Vallow left the house she had been sharing with her brother and never came back, Self said.

Note: Until I get further clarification on the timing of this fight, I’m going to drop it here in the timeline because over the overlap in neighbors reporting that the fight had happened about a year prior to January 2020 and the process servers note that both Lori and Alex’s cars were in the driveway.

7/22/19: Approximate date Lori Vallow tells an official at L.I.F.E. Academy that Charles Vallow committed suicide (source).

2/11/20: Fremont County’s Office of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office denies Fox 10’s public records request for the “911 call and report taken in the death of Tammy Daybell” and “any 911 calls from the Daybell home…on 10/9/19**” (source). The letter cites two justifications for its denial:

1. Idaho Code 124(1)(a): (1) Notwithstanding any statute or rule of court to the contrary, nothing in this chapter nor chapter 10, title 59, Idaho Code, shall be construed to require disclosure of investigatory records compiled for law enforcement purposes by a law enforcement agency, but such exemption from disclosure applies only to the extent that the production of such records would: (a)  Interfere with enforcement proceedings;
2. Wade v Taylor 156 Idaho 91, 98, 320 P.3d 1250, 1257 (2014): The legislative intent underlying the section is to prevent the premature disclosure of information that may compromise an investigation, the state’s case in court, or the defendant’s right to a fair trial.

Note: 10/9/19 was the date Tammy Daybell filed a report with the Rexburg Police Department, claiming to be shot at by a masked man carrying a paintball gun.

3/7/19: Charles Vallow withdraws son, JJ Vallow, from school in AZ and moves to Houston, TX (source).

Note: I removed “Approximate date” and changed the source to one that verifies the date.

Late June 2019: Lori contacts L.I.F.E. Academy to let them know the family was back in Gilbert, and she enrolled JJ in the school summer program (source).

Late August: JJ Vallow’s grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock, call L.I.F.E. Academy to “asking if JJ was okay” (source).

10/3/19: Added: Note: If the man who appears in the surveillance footage at the storage unit in Rexburg, ID, on Oct 2nd and Oct 3rd is Alex Cox, then it seems infeasible for him to have been the shooter Brandon Boudreaux. <– This note was deleted on 3/12/20!

2/4/20: East Idaho News publishes surveillance footage of the Self Storage Plus storage unit Lori Vallow rented in Rexburg, ID (source).

2/16/20: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell are seen in Kaua’i boarding a plane to Maui (source).

2/17/20

11/12/19: Approximate date Kay Woodcock discovers by hacking into Charles Vallow’s email—after trying one of three passwords Woodcock says her brother always used—that an Amazon purchase had been sent to Lori Vallow’s address in Rexburg, ID. Woodcock reports that once she had an address for them, she felt like she could order the welfare check (source, 47:25 minute mark).

2/19/20

1/30/19: Removed “Approximate date” and changed the date from 2/10 to 1/30. Lori Vallow disappears to an unknown location, according to then-husband, Charles Vallow (source, 1:02 minute mark / source, ). She was allegedly be gone for 58 days.

Note: I originally had this date approximated as Feb 10, but Kay Woodcock indicated she left Jan 30.

1/30/19: Approximate date Lori Vallow allegedly cancels Charles Vallow’s flight home, which he found out when he arrived at the airport in Houston, TX. Charles was forced to buy a $600 last-minute ticket to Phoenix. After his plane landed, Charles walked out to the airport parking lot where he had left his truck. Yet he couldn’t find it anywhere. Lori had used her spare key to remove the truck. He came home to a house that had been emptied. Charles also claimed that it took Lori three days to disclose where she’d left the truck. Charles was forced to rent a vehicle during that time (source).

Note: I don’t have the date of the canceled flight, but it seems safe to assume if Lori was gone when he arrived home—and she left Jan 30—this was also the date of the canceled flight. If someone can confirm or knows otherwise, please email me at annie@annielytics.com.

2/18/20: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell return to Kaua’i (source).

2/20/20

1/31/19: I broke from journalistic protocol and added the mother of all rants against Chandler Police Department in their handling of Charles Vallow’s shooting.

2/21/20

8/30/19: Lori Vallow has JJ Vallow’s service dog, Bailey, picked up by Dog Training Elite in Arizona. Vallow had asked the organization to find the Goldendoodle to find another family because she could no longer care for the pet due to a “change in life circumstances” (source).

Author note: Bailey was an adorable and sweet-natured dog that stayed close by JJ’s side and ran more like a bear cub than a dog when I was there in 2018.

9/7/19: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

9/8/19: Last day Tylee Ryan is seen alive. In a picture obtained from phone records, Ryan is seen at the entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Ryan was at the park with Lori Vallow, Alex Cox, and JJ Vallow. “This is the last time we can find any record of  [Ryan] being with Lori Vallow,” the affidavit of probable cause says. “We have found no witnesses who can verify they have seen [Ryan] since Sept. 8, 2019” (source).

11/21/19: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

11/25/19: Investigation begins when Rexburg Police Department is contacted by the Gilbert Police Department in Arizona in response to a welfare check requested by JJ’s grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock (source).

Late Nov: Approximate time (by author’s estimation) period LE interview Chad Daybell’s parents and Tammy Daybell’s sister. Daybell’s parents tell detectives Chad and Lori had told them in November that Lori was an “empty nester.” And Tammy’s sister reports that Chad told them Lori had no juvenile children.

12/9/19: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

12/20/19: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

1/8/20: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

1/26/20: LE in Kaua’i, HI, “serve search warrants on the persons of Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow and on a black Ford Explorer they had rented” in the parking lot of the Kaua’i Beach Resort (source). LE found the following items in their possession:

•  birth certificates for both Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow
• Tylee’s financial transaction card by BBVA
• JJ’s iPad
• another iPad logged into JJ’s Apple account
• JJ’s school registration receipts from Kennedy Elementary in Rexburg, ID

Notable: 

• Tylee’s card was still active at that time and had been used since she was last seen.
• It would be very difficult to prove plausible deniability re: the theory that Chad didn’t know Lori had minor children, when she had their birth certificates and an iPad with JJ’s name on it in her possession.
• Between having JJ’s iPad she had in the car, another iPad that was still logged in to JJ’s Apple account,  and her login activity with JJ’s previous school’s app, it’s possible she missed JJ. She had logged in five times since withdrawing him from L.I.F.E. Academy.
• Vallow told detectives JJ was with Melanie Gibb—a friend of Lori and Chad who had participated as a co-host with Chad and Lori on a Preparing a People podcast, co-hosted the Time to Warrior Up podcast with Lori, spoke at the Preparing a People conference, and wrote the book Feel the Fire (Chad wrote the forward). Detective Ron Ball stated that this lie “delayed the investigation into the whereabouts and safety of [JJ] by requiring us to take time to investigate a lead that was verified as false.”
• Detectives called Gibb but were unable to reach her. Lori claimed that her friend and JJ were at Frozen 2. Officers told Lori to tell her friend to call them.
• After not hearing back from Gibb that night (‼️), LE in Rexburg called the Gilbert Police Department. Officers from GPD went to Gibb’s home. She was not there, but they reached her by phone. Gibb told them JJ had not been there for several months (source). Notable: Not getting back to LE in a timely manner gave Lori and Chad significant lead time to flee the jurisdiction.
• Gibb waited 10 days before telling RPD that both Lori and Chad asked her to tell them she had JJ.
• Gibb has reportedly retained a lawyer and is cooperating with authorities (source, 1:57 minute mark).

1/26/20:  LE in Kaua’i, HI, serve a search warrant for the condo Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell rent. Officers observe there are no signs children Evidence they cited:

• There were two beach/lawn chairs in the garage.
• There were two exercise mats in the garage.
• There were only two beach towels in the garage.
• There were no items in the garage or condo that appeared to belong to a minor child.
• There was no evidence of a 7 year old boy—e.g., clothing, toys, books, medication, etc.
• There was a second room in the condo that had no signs of being lived in.

Note: Nate Easton from East Idaho News pursues the couple to question them about the whereabouts of the children who have been missing four months at this point (source).

1/31/20: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

2/4/20: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from his old school. (Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19.)

2/22/20

12/5/18: Melanie Gibb and Lori Vallow introduce their new podcast, Time to Warrior Up. This is reportedly the first podcast Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow do together (source). Description of the podcast:

Jason Mow of the very popular www.TheWarChapters.com has been speaking to Youth and their Parents from all over the U.S. about what it means to be a True Modern-Day Warrior for good. “Time to Warrior Up” is a nationwide movement to become all that we were destined to become in a shifting world that needs great leaders. Of course, what would Warriors be without great WOMEN of FAITH and COURAGE? That is why Melanie Gibb and Lori Vallow had the idea to do this podcast, featuring powerful women, mothers, youth and mentors to encourage others along the pathway toward a hopeful future! They will include many unique guests who will inspire all of us to Aspire to the HIGHER within! EACH OF US were born for greatness. NOW, we have the “HOW’s” of implementing the Creeds, Tools, Steps, and Processes of The Warrior Ethos! We are marching toward victory…together! To buy Jason’s Books “A Hero Rises,” and “Teancum: The Ghost Soldier 1 & 2” go to his website: www.TheWarChapters.com These Books are also available at Deseret Book & Amazon. For more free Educational & Inspiring Videos, visit us at: www.PreparingAPeople.com

Jan 2019: The last known record of JJ Vallow’s autism medication being filled (at the time of writing), according to court documents obtained by East Idaho News in Feb 2020 . The affidavit of probable cause also states that the bottle still had 17 pills in it and that his prescription had not been filled in Idaho (source).

Notable: If accurate, this means Lori Vallow stopped giving her autistic son his required medication up to eight months before he went missing.

Feb 2019: Chad Daybell writes forward for colleague and friend Melanie Gibb (source / screenshot).

7/11/19: Added: Alex Cox said Charles Vallow attacked him with a baseball bat but only had trace amounts of blood on a napkin he dabs the back of his head with (source, 25:10 minute mark).

9/6/19: Neighbors take pic of what appears to be Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow through their blinds. When asked why they said it was because they thought it was strange that the children were using stuffed animals to play in a large puddle of water (source).

9/17/19: Lori Vallow’s neighbor in Rexburg, ID, captures last-known footage of JJ Vallow playing outside (source, 00:57 minute mark).

9/23/19: Added: No requests are made for JJ’s transcripts (source).

9/24/19: Lori Vallow tells babysitter JJ had gone to stay with his grandma for several weeks, and she was in Hawaii and that the babysitter’s services were no longer needed. According to the affidavit of probable cause obtained by East Idaho News, Police Detective Ron Ball reported, “We contacted this babysitter and she informed us that she watched (JJ) on the 19th of September…The babysitter understood that her employment was to be ongoing” (source 1 / source 2).

Late Oct / Early Nov 2019: Added: According to an affidavit obtained by East Idaho News in February 2020, LE also interview Chad Daybell’s parents and Tammy Daybell’s sister. There was no date in the article Daybell’s parents tell detectives Chad and Lori had told them in November that Lori was an “empty nester.” Tammy’s sister reports that Chad told them Lori had no juvenile children (source).

Late Oct/Early Nov 2019: Estimated time Chad Daybell received $430,000 in life insurance proceeds following Tammy Daybell’s death (source).

Note: I will update this entry to a more exact date if it becomes available.

Note: There was no date for the interview of Chad Daybell’s parents and Tammy Daybell’s sister, so I approximated. I have reached out to the reporter to find out if the affidavit listed a date. I also created an account to start requesting court documents myself and am in the verification process…which requires waiting for a letter to be mailed to me with a verification code…because government. 🙄

Nov 2019: Tylee’s gray Jeep Wrangler—which was seen in CCTV the day Brandon Boudreaux was reportedly shot at in front of his home in Gilbert, AZ—is seized and impounded in accordance with a search warrant in November 2019 in Rexburg, ID. The Jeep is registered to Charles Vallow (source).

11/1/19: Detective Ray Hermosillo starts “intermittent surveillance” on Lori Vallow at the request of the Gilbert Police Department. Hermosillo reports that he never saw JJ Vallow when he was performing surveillance during the month of November, 2019.

11/27/19: LE search Lori Vallow’s Self-Storage Plus storage unit, where they find kids’ bikes, toys, photo albums, winter clothes, a backpack with JJ’s initials, a jersey with Colby Ryan’s name on it, photo blankets made from pictures of Tylee and JJ from infancy on (source). Related: Lori Vallow or men associated with her visit the storage unit a total of 10 times between Oct 1 and Nov 24.

12/1/19: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell fly from LA to Kaua’i on American Airlines. RPD cannot find any information that confirms they’ve returned to the mainland since this date (source).2/18/20: The Madison County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office submits a criminal complaint against Lori Vallow (source). The complaint alleges five crimes:

• two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children
• resisting or obstructing officers (misdemeanor)
• criminal solicitation to commit a crime (misdemeanor)
• contempt of court (misdemeanor)

12/6/19: Lori Vallow’s friend and one-time Preparing a People podcast co-host, Melanie Gibb, informs RPD that both Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell had contacted her separately on November 26th and asked her to lie to detectives and tell them JJ was with her (source). Notable: This was 10 days after she spoke to GPD detectives and let them know JJ was not with her.

12/27/19: A friend of Lori Vallow who spoke under the condition of anonymity said Vallow would say, “It’s gonna be the end of the world and we should all just drive off a cliff and kill us and our kids and die all at the same time” (source, 2:37 minute mark).

2/20/20: Lori Vallow is arrested at and taken into custody at 2:30 pm HST by Kaua’i Police Department. She is held on $5 million bond.

2/21/20: Lori Vallow Daybell’s first court hearing in Kaua’i, HI (recording of hearing). Highlights:

• Vallow Daybell’s defense attorney, Daniel Hempey, requested her bail be reduced from $5 million to $10,000. Justification for the reduction by Hempey was, “We are sitting here with a couple felonies and misdemeanors and a half a million dollar bail” (source).
• Judge Kathleen Watanabe kept Vallow Daybell’s bail at $5 million.
• Vallow Daybell asserts her right to an extradition hearing to fight extradition to Idaho. That hearing is scheduled for March 2.
• Prosecuting attorney Justin Kollar requested Vallow Daybell be remanded without bail.
• Kollar requested an identification hearing be set for March 5, 2020.
• Vallow Daybell exercised her right to demand a governor’s warrant.
• Hempey alleged that the police officers from Idaho questioned Vallow Daybell with Kuau’i police while she was in custody even though “they knew she was represented by counsel” (source). Note: Kelly Vaughan from 2KUTV reported on February 21st that the police chief and assistant chief were not in Hawaii (source, 2:09 minute mark). It’s unclear—at least at time of writing—who was there from RPD.
• Kollar requested that, if Vallow Daybell posts bail and has a passport, she surrender it to the Kuau’i Police Department.
• Vallow Daybell focused her transformation efforts on new husband Chad Daybell’s hair and overlooked training him how to pick a tie (source). I gotchu, Chad. You have a week to shop and practice. We’ll check back on your progress. 👔

2/21/20: Lori Vallow is booked into Kauai Community Correctional Center (source).

Jul 2020: The anticipated end of the world in Lori Vallow’s mind. Vallow Daybell believed she was a god and allegedly warned her late husband, Charles Vallow, not to get in the way:

As a god, her mission was to carry out the work of the 144,000 at Christ’s second coming. That second coming was imminent. According to Lori, Jesus was headed to Earth in July 2020. And if Charles got in the way of that mission, Lori would murder him.

2/23/20

Added Melanie Gibb to the Cast of Characters section.

• Who is she: friend of Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell and the one Lori said Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow were with
• Notable:
  • She and Lori introduce their new podcast, Time to Warrior Up, 12/5/18.
  • Early on someone said Chad was a guest in this kickoff episode, but I can’t confirm since the recordings have been taken down.
  • In Feb 2019 Chad wrote the forward of her book, Feel the Fire.
  • She is unresponsive to RPD’s attempt(s) to get ahold of her Nov 26th (the day they question Lori and Chad about the whereabouts of JJ Vallow), forcing RPD to reach out to the Gilbert Police Department. She doesn’t speak to them until the next day, giving Chad and Lori significant lead time to flee the state.
  • She waits 10 days to inform LE in Rexburg that both Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell had contacted her separately on Nov 26th and asked her to lie to detectives and tell them JJ was with her.
  • A source close to Gibb says she has retained an attorney is cooperating with authorities.

DELETION DUE TO ERROR 👇

11/12/20: Based on the Keith Morrison’s claim that it took LE two weeks to perform the welfare check requested by Kay and Larry Woodcock, this is the approximate date the welfare check is requested.

Note: This entry was deleted because it’s inaccurate. Court documents published by East Idaho News on Feb 21, 2020, prove that the Rexburg Police Department was notified by the Gilbert Police Department Nov 25th, 2019, that JJ Vallow wasn’t with Melanie Gibb. Detectives went out to the residence the next day.

Jan 2019: JJ Vallow’s autism medication, Risperidone (source), is filled for the last time, according to court documents obtained by East Idaho News in Feb 2020. The affidavit of probable cause also states that the bottle still had 17 pills in it and that his prescription had not been filled in Idaho:

During the search of Lori’s apartment, police found an autism medication prescribed to JJ. It was filled in January 2019 and still had 17 pills in the bottle, according to documents. Police verified that the prescription has not been filled in Idaho (source).

Also, Garna Mejia from KSL TV, interviewed Vallow’s former neighbors in Rexburg, and they reported that JJ was easily angered, out of control, and playing outside unsupervised. You can hear him in a neighbor’s Ring camera video telling another boy to “get the hell out of here” (source, 1:14 minute mark).

According to neighbors, Lori never told them JJ was autistic. And when confronted about JJ’s behavior and lack of supervision, she told two different neighbors that JJ was her niece’s “drug baby” (source).

Notable: If accurate, this means Lori Vallow stopped giving her autistic son his required medication up to eight months before he went missing. You’ll also see in the second of three entries for 1/30/19 Lori allegedly also took JJ’s medication when she disappeared. It’s possible that she kept that bottle that she took, Charles had JJ’s script refilled when he got him back, and they found this partially used bottle she had been holding onto and not giving JJ since January.

8/10/19: They will be edged out of JJ Vallow’s life for a little more three months, with multiple attempts to get ahold of them (source, 46:38 minute mark).

11/27/19: Approximate date Alex Cox moves back to Arizona (source, 1:01:39 minute mark).

2/23/20: Child custody papers reveal Melani Pawlowski—Brandon Boudreaux’s ex-wife and Lori Vallow Daybell’s niece—claimed responsibility for the attempted murder of her husband by Alex Cox (source). Melani’s new husband, Ian Pawlowski, provided statements to LE that Melani told him shortly after they married that she conspired with her uncle, Alex Cox, to kill Brandon. Brandon alleges that Melani was motivated by a $1 million life insurance policy. Melani’s new husband, Ian Pawlowski, told LE Melani once said “something to the effect of ‘sometimes children are full of light and then just like that they go dark.'”

2/24/20

9/18/19: A nanny Lori Vallow hires through care.com for what she thinks is long-term care comes to the house for the first time to babysit JJ. She tells the nanny her husband died of a heart attack in Arizona and that her daughter was going to school in Rexburg. (She wasn’t.) The nanny describes Tylee’s presence in the home as intermittent visits:

“Occasionally her daughter would come visit for dinner or to do laundry, but she never said that she lived there with them. It appeared that only Lori and JJ lived there, from the look of things and from what she told me” (source).

Read the entire Twitter thread for 9/18 here.

9/19/19: The nanny Lori Vallow hires returns for a second day of caring for JJ. She notes several things from that day:

• Vallow joked that sometimes she gives JJ his meds early so he’ll go to sleep earlier to give her a break.
• Vallow told her that her brother, Alex Cox, is going to come over and they’re going to the Idaho Falls Airport.
• Cox came over, just said “hello,” and left with Lori.
• JJ went to play at a neighbor’s house and came home for dinner.
• After dinner he wanted to go back to the friend’s house, but the nanny said no.
• JJ had a meltdown and threw furniture and told the nanny he he hated her and didn’t want to be her friend.
• Nanny went upstairs to find JJ and found him under Lori’s bed.
• JJ’s room only had toys, no bed.
• JJ slept on a small mattress in the corner in Lori’s room.
• Lori, Alex, and Lori’s friend came home.
• Lori “babied” JJ to comfort him.
• Lori told the nanny the woman did podcasts with her.
• Lori gave her $40 cash and then never had her back.

Read the entire Twitter thread for 9/19 here.

Notable: This out-of-town friend was in Lori’s home day just four days before JJ was last seen. Julie Rowe said

8/30/19: Colby Ryan told Gilbert Police he last spoke with Tylee Ryan over FaceTime. According to court records, Ryan said after that his mother gave him excuses as to why Tylee couldn’t talk to him (source).

Notable: So does this mean Colby had a FaceTime call with Tylee after saying goodbye to her in the parking lot of his workplace? And why FaceTime when they still lived near each other?

9/24/19: Nanny texts Lori about babysitting, and Lori tells her that JJ Vallow went to stay with his grandparents for a month and she was in Hawaii (source).

9/25/19: Added:

Note: Tylee Ryan wasn’t included in the welfare check because Detective Nathan Moffat—one of the detectives who was on scene the day Charles Vallow was shot and described his ride with Lori Vallow, Alex Cox, and Tylee as “straight-up bizarre”—thought he didn’t need to include Tylee Ryan in the welfare check:

I got on the phone with Rexburg PD, and I requested they do a welfare check at the residence for JJ. More specifically JJ than Tylee because Tylee’s 16, 17 years old (source, 47:52 minute mark).

Another Rant Against the Chandler Police Department

You can read my rant about how the Chandler Police Department bungled the investigation into Lori’s threats against Charles in January, 2019 and then Charles’ death in July, 2019 here. But even after the family moved out of the area, in what I believe to be a lapse in judgement by CPD Detective Nathan Moffat, the investigation into the disappearance of JJ and Tylee almost didn’t include Tylee. Moffat made a judgment call that then-16-year-old Tylee wasn’t quite minor enough to be considered a minor who needed to be checked on. Why? Because, well, she was ALMOST 17, which…hell, makes her damn near 18 so practically not a minor at all.

I mean, sure, he seemed to almost kinda hint at his concern that Tylee may have been coached by her mother following the shooting death of her stepfather (source, 28:32 minute mark). And there was that odd van ride with Tylee, Lori, and Alex that he described as “straight-up bizarre” and “the weirdest ride [he’s] ever had with three strangers” (source, 28:48 minute mark). But how could he have possibly known the same woman who allegedly made heinous threats against her late husband earlier that year, wiped out more than $35,000 from his business account, abandoned her husband and son for almost two months, and acted suspiciously during the investigation into her husband’s death at her brother’s hand could have been a danger to her other minor child as well?

Thankfully, in the course of investigating the disappearance of JJ, RPD detectives came to discover there was another minor living in the home who was also unaccounted for. But this is three strikes against CPD in my book.

I’m not even going to sheepishly apologize for breaking from a dispassionate tone with this rant. The reality is my primary job isn’t maintaining journalistic standards. My job is advocating for two amazing, beautiful, and adored kids who have mysteriously disappeared amidst a shit storm that has caught the attention of people all over the world who are helplessly watching on as this mystery continues to deepen with no signs of letting up anytime soon.

So there’s not a lot of room for error. I’m just grateful RPD has now taken the lead on this case. I have stayed out of their way and will continue to do so. But I’m no longer going to operate under this contrived pressure I’ve put on myself to try to pretend I’m a reporter who’s not emotionally involved in this case. I can’t even hold my shit together in interviews. So if you find yourself cringing at the emotional rants of a frustrated family member, just scroll and roll. 🙋‍♀️

10/31/19: Approximate date nanny texts Lori one last time about working for her. Lori never responds (source).

12/12/19: Added:

Notable: Keith Morrison said detectives wanted to question Cox about the shooting of Charles Vallow (7/11/19), as well as the mysterious shooting attempts at Brandon Boudreax (10/2/19) and Tammy Daybell (10/9/19). But before they could question him, he too died. But more than two months passed since the last two shootings. If he wasn’t questioned during those two months, why?

2/25/20

2/20/20: Added:

Note: Alex Cox was actually driving a gray 2008 Jeep Wrangler with Texas license plate LWD0997 (source, pg 3 / para 8). This Jeep is also sometimes described as green in court documents because of its hue.

2/26/20

5/31/19: Chad Daybell cancels speaking gig at a Preparing a People conference due to a family emergency (source). The announcement reads:

David Warwick and Shawn Littlebear will be filling in for Chad Daybell, who had a Family Emergency. We regret he won’t be able to attend this PAP Event.

Added iCloud account detail and author’s note:

9/8/19: Last day Tylee Ryan is seen alive. In a picture obtained from Lori Vallow’s iCloud account, Ryan is seen at the entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Ryan was at the park with Lori Vallow, Alex Cox, and JJ Vallow. “This is the last time we can find any record of  [Ryan] being with Lori Vallow,” the affidavit of probable cause says. “We have found no witnesses who can verify they have seen [Ryan] since Sept. 8, 2019” (source).

Author’s note: This detail, in concert with the nanny interview (see 9/18/19 entry below), indicates Tylee may have met her fate at the hands of Alex and Lori at Yellowstone. I’m of the persuasion that Lori may have gone one way with JJ and Alex another with Tylee…. I hope to God I’m wrong. But if I’m right, the fact that Lori would take a pic of Tylee at the entrance—just to be led off like a lamb to the slaughter later that day—is suggestive of getting a keepsake of the moment.

When I went in to be interviewed for the Dateline episode someone kindly offered to take a picture of me. I declined, telling him I didn’t want to remember this day. I’m not trying to set myself up as some kind of model to be emulated, and I’m not seeking the highest moral ground I can find. There would have been nothing wrong with agreeing to the pic. I just knew I’d never flip back through my photos and want to see any reminder of this nightmare. So, in my mind, the fact that Lori would take a pic of Tylee at the entrance as a keepsake is potentially bone chilling. I am no longer willing to give her any benefit of the doubt. The fact that she could [allegedly] refer to JJ as her niece’s “drug baby,” lie repeatedly, try to hinder the investigation, and do everything else she’s done before and after Tylee and JJ went missing disqualifies her from receiving any more benefits from me. The Lori I knew and loved appears to be gone.

She has the right to a fair trial by law; I’m not beholden to extend her that same right.

2/23/20: Child custody papers reveal Ian Pawlowski provided statements to LE that Melani Pawlowski—Brandon Boudreaux’s ex-wife—told him shortly after they married that she conspired with her uncle, Alex Cox, to kill Brandon. Brandon alleges that Melani was motivated by a $1 million life insurance policy. Melani’s new husband, Ian Pawlowski, told LE Melani once said “something to the effect of ‘sometimes children are full of light and then just like that they go dark.'”

Note: I modified this entry after Melani Boudreaux’s attorney issued a statement refuting that Melanie accepted any responsibility (source).

2/26/20: Judge denies Lori Vallow Daybell’s second request to lower bond. Vallow Daybell waives right to an extradition hearing. She will return to Idaho to face charges (source).

3/9/20: Deadline Madison County Prosecutor’s Office assigns for all parties to comply with subpoenas served Feb 25 (source).

2/27/20

9/24/19: Colby Ryan has a text exchange with Tylee Ryan on her birthday and tells Dr. Phil that it didn’t sound like her. He asked her to call him that night, and she didn’t (source).

Late Oct 2019: Added:

Update: Colby told Dr. Phil that his text exchange with Tylee on 9/24/19 didn’t sound like her (e.g., she would have used an emoji over saying that she loved him) and that he was worried (source).

3/1/20

Added alias to Melani Pawlowski’s and Alex Cox’s entries in Cast of Characters section as well as a notable under Alex’s.

Notable: Alex took Zulema’s last name.

10/19/19: One of Chad Daybell’s daughters allegedly says to Chad Daybell friend and colleague Julie Rowe that she was most afraid of her dad getting remarried (source, 1:25 minute mark).

11/16/18 – 11/17/18: Chad Daybell speaks at Preparing a People event in Mesa, AZ, and stays with Charles and Lori Vallow (source 1 / source 2, 00:59 minute mark /full transcript).

Note: You can see a good portion of the letter that references this stay at the 1:11 minute mark in source 2.

6/29/19: Charles Vallow sends email to Lori Vallow’s brother, Adam Cox, claiming Lori created an email alias for him and sent a letter the previous (source, 00:39 minute mark).

Excerpt of forged letter from Charles to Chad:

I would gladly fly you down here early next week…you could stay in our guest room like before. I hate to take you away from your family, but I would definitely make it worth your time. With Admiration, Charles.

Excerpt of email from Charles to Adam:

I’m not sure of the relationship with her and Chad Daybell but they are up to something…She will not explain it…I am going to send it to Chad Daybell’s wife. Her name is Tammy and I found her email address on their website too…I’ve got her cell number too.

2/26/20: The attorney for Melani Pawlowski issues press release denying Pawlowski admitted to any wrongdoing with the kids and denies knowing where they are. He also denies she had anything to do with the alleged shooting of former husband Brandon Boudreaux (source).

Author’s note: It does give me pause that a court petition to modify child support released by Brandon Boudreaux’s attorney seemed to be treated with the same credibility in the press as a court document released by law enforcement. Pawlowski has a right to a fair trial, if it comes to that. Also, after reviewing the recording of Boudreaux’s 911 call, he did say at the time he didn’t see who shot at him (source, 00:11 minute mark) but later identified the shooter as Alex Cox through his attorney. There’s also some question as to the identity of a man entering Lori Vallow’s storage unit in Rexburg, ID, on Oct 2nd (the same day as the shooting in Gilbert, AZ) and 3rd. So there’s quite a bit for LE to sift through here. I’m not in any way defending Melani. She is knee deep in all of this and has acted erratically with regard to the children (notifying Boudreaux in a text she’s moving to Boise, moving to Rexburg where two children went missing, moving into the same apartment complex as Lori Vallow and Alex Cox, trespassing at the home of Boudreaux’s parents two days in a row, etc.). I hope she did cooperate fully with LE, as she asserted in this press release. And I hope that this family can get to the bottom of these alarming events that threaten the safety and welfare of their children on so many levels.

2/29/20: Chad Daybell returns to Rexburg, ID (source). Also added YouTube link of citizen sleuths tracking his every move to  the Out in the Wild section below.

3/4/20

11/24/19: Updated the date from 11/12/19.

Approximate date Kay Woodcock discovers by hacking into Charles Vallow’s email—after trying one of three passwords Woodcock says her brother always used—that an Amazon purchase had been sent to Lori Vallow’s address in Rexburg, ID. Woodcock said now that she had an address for them she could order the welfare check (source, 47:25 minute mark).

3/6/20

9/19/19: Rexburg woman claims to have been on flight with Chad Daybell on a flight from Idaho Falls to Mesa, AZ. The woman said Daybell planned to help a relative in the Valley who needed to remodel her home. “He said I hope we can get this work done in the time that I have before I have to be back,” said the woman who wished to remain anonymous (source).

3/5/20: Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorneys request a number of documents from the prosecuting attorney’s office (source):

• Warrants and related documents
• Communications between LE and media
• Court orders
• Un-redacted police records
• Handwritten notes
• Dispatch tapes (and a full paragraph of someone riding the caps lock)

3/6/20: Lori Vallow Daybell’s bond is reduced from $5 million to $1 million by Magistrate Judge Faren Eddins (source).

3/6/20: Madison County Prosecutor Rob Wood reveals in Lori Vallow Daybell’s first court hearing in Idaho that Daybell continued to receive social security benefits for both kids after she left Idaho without them (source).

3/10/20

Aug – Oct 2008: Alex Cox sends a friend a letter asking her to send him Joseph Ryan’s picture, address, and license plate number in jail, stating once that “it would be popular in here” and “some of the guys would like to hangout with him” (source 1 / source 2).

3/12/20

10/2/19: Deleted and added text.

Deleted:

Lori Vallow and a man “who appears to be her brother, Alex Cox,” are seen on surveillance at the storage unit (source).

Added:

Lori Vallow and a man who appears to be Chad Daybell are seen on surveillance at the storage unit (source).

From the East Idaho News site:

Timestamps on the video show a blue Rogue arriving at 1:25 p.m. but the owner of the storage facility says clocks were off by one hour, so Lori actually pulled in at 2:25 p.m. She made her way to the door of the building where her unit was, and two minutes later, at 2:27 p.m., got out of the vehicle with the man we believe is Chad.

At 2:29 p.m., he pulled a tire out of the back of the Rogue and rolled it into the storage unit. One minute later, he and Lori carried in what appears to be a removable rear car seat together. They put it in the locker, shut the door and left the facility at 2:32 p.m. The entire visit was seven minutes.

Note: Reporter Nate Eaton offers a plausible explanation for why Lori and [allegedly] Chad would have been moving a tire and removable back seat into the storage unit: Brandon Boudreaux said someone shot at him out of the back window of the Jeep. The back window of that model Jeep doesn’t open if the tire is attached. Ergo, it’s possible they removed the back seat and tire of the Jeep. Then Lori and Chad moved it into the storage unit (source, 2:31 minute mark).

Notable: At the 1:41 minute mark, Chad Daybell—still married to Tammy Daybell at the time—acts in a manner you might find a bit salacious for a married man whose wife will conveniently die in one week to the day.

10/2/19: Deleted note. I left the note in for now with the note in red font because of the gravity of the revelations reporter Nate Eaton re: who was at the storage unit on Oct 2nd.

Marked for Deletion: If the man who appears in the surveillance footage at the storage unit in Rexburg, ID, on Oct 2nd and 3rd is Alex Cox, then it seems infeasible for him to have been the shooter Brandon Boudreaux identified.

Note re: deletion: On 3/12/20 East Idaho News released enhanced video footage of the surveillance video from the storage unit revealing that the visitor to the storage unit was most likely Chad Daybell, not Alex Cox as originally believed. Without this alibi, it is possible for Alex to have been in Gilbert, AZ, on Oct 2nd.

10/3/19: Added: Vallow and Cox retrieve the tire and backseat and put them into Vallow’s car (source, 3:08 minute mark).

10/28/19: Added Cox and Daybell’s names, details about bikes and other items, and source 2 citation:

Two men who appear to be Alex Cox and Chad Daybell are seen moving bikes and totes into the storage unit Lori Vallow rented Oct 1 in Rexburg, ID (source 1 / source 2, 3:58 minute mark). They allegedly spend 6 minutes on premises (source, 1:18:00 minute mark).

11/24/19: Added detail about box and tote, as well as source 2 citation:

Lori Vallow and an unidentified man visit her storage unit in Rexburg, ID, for the last time. They leave a box of memorabilia for Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, as well as a tote of clothing. They stay for 4 minutes (source 1 / source 2, 4:07 minute mark).

11/27/19: Approximate date Rexburg Police Department requests the assistance of the FBI in finding Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow (source).

12/4/19: FBI agents from Phoenix, AZ, look into Lori Vallow, Melanie Gibb, and Richard “Jason” Mow (source 1). Agent digs into Lori Vallow’s podcasts. FBI agent notes Jason Mow joined them in the podcast. Mow said they had a “special connection” and described her as a “gatherer.” Mow connected Vallow with Gibb (source 2). Vallow mentions how “suffering leads to salvation and that even thought she doesn’t want her kids to suffer she understands they have to so they can see the light.” Agent also describes podcasts as “not soothing by any means” (source 3).

12/4/19: FBI agent digs into Richard “Jason” Mow’s professional background. Agent notes that the Phoenix Police Department’s Homicide Sergeant recalls a time he was “sleeping in the front seat of his car while he was supposed to be doing security for them as they were executing a search warrant.” Agent asks another agent to look into him more (source).

12/20/19: Removed the part about Rexburg Police Department asking the FBI to assist in the search of Tylee and JJ. It’s clear from the 12/4/19 entry that the FBI was brought in sooner. I found a reference elsewhere that said RPD requested assistance from the FBI when they discovered Lori Vallow, Alex Cox, and Chad Daybell had fled the state following the welfare check.

2/26/20: Added to Author’s Note:

(UPDATE: East Idaho News had the surveillance video from the storage unit enhanced, which revealed the visitor with Lori Vallow on 10/2/19 was more likely Chad Daybell, not Alex Cox.)

3/11/20: The FBI, Rexburg Police Department and numerous law enforcement agencies investigating cases related to Lori Vallow and her missing children meet in Salt Lake City, UT, to “coordinate, review, and share information” (source).

3/11/20: Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood and Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorneys request to move preliminary hearing from Mar 18–19 to May 7–8 to allow for more time to exchange and review discovery (source).

3/11/20: Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorney, Mark Means, files a motion to disqualify Magistrate Judge Eddins (the judge who dropped Daybell’s bail from $5 million to $1 million) without cause, pursuant to Idaho Criminal Rule 25 (source).

3/12/20: Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood objects to Lori Vallow Daybell’s motion to disqualify Magistrate Judge Eddins from the case (source).

3/12/20: Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorney, Mark Means, responds to Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood’s objection, stating that a child protection action he’s presiding over could potentially prejudice him against Vallow Daybell (source).

3/13/20: Lori Vallow Daybell has telephonic hearing where three decisions are made (source 1 / source 2):

1. Magistrate Judge Farren Eddins agrees to reschedule Vallow Daybell’s preliminary hearing for May 7 and May 8.
2. Eddins disqualifies himself without cause from the case.
3. Vallow Daybell’s attorney, Brian Webb, announces he plans to file a motion to withdraw from the case. Edwina Elcox, who works with Webb’s law firm, will also withdraw from the case.

3/18/20

9/4/19: JJ Vallow’s first day atKennedy Elementary School in Rexburg, ID (source).

3/19/20

10/28/19: Melani Boudreaux signs a lease on her apartment in the same complex as Lori Vallow and Alex Cox (source).

10/31/19: Melani Boudreaux and Alex Cox fly from Idaho Falls to Phoenix and then pack up Melani to move to Rexburg, ID (source).

12/5/19: Natalie and Ian Pawlowski are interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source).

Notable: One of the items Lori Vallow’s defense attorney requested from Rexburg Police Department was recordings from Ian Pawlowski (source). It’s worth noting Idaho is a one-party consent state, meaning he wouldn’t have needed to get permission from someone he was recording. And this was a separate line item from his interview. Soo I wonder what he recorded. 🤔

12/18/19: Chad Daybell’s parents, Jack and Sheila Daybell, are interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source 1 / source 2).

1/6/20: Kay and Larry Woodcock are interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source).

1/14/20: Melani Boudreaux is interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source).

1/14/20: Surveillance video from Yellowstone National Park is received by Rexburg Police Department (source).

1/30/20: Sidney Woodbury Shenk is interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source).

3/13/20: Michelle Radford Mallard is made judge over preliminary hearing for May 7–8, 2020 (source).

3/16/20: Two of Lori Vallow Daybell’s attorneys, Brian Webb and Edwina Elcox, withdraw from her case (source).

3/23/20

12/3/19: According to an email from Natalie Pawlowski (ex-wife of IanPawlowski) to an associate of Brandon Boudreaux, Melani Pawlowski (current wife of Ian Pawlowski and former wife of Brandon Boudreaux) is interviewed by LE for five hours (source).

3/24/20

Early Dec: Ian Pawlowski texts his ex-wife concerns about the attempted shooting of Brandon Boudreaux: “She didn’t know beforehand what was gonna happen. They made the attempt, failed and told her about it after the fact (transcript).”

12/4/19: Natalie Pawlowski contacts an associate of Brandon Boudreaux, trying to find him. It’s a pretty desperate cry for help and reveals how scared she and Ian both were (transcript).

Author’s Note: This email reads much more authentically than the document Ian left on his laptop for Natalie to find when he turned over his laptop to her (see 2/16/20 entry).

2/16/20: Ian Pawlowski brings his ex-wife his laptop where she found a bizarre note about Melani and the group she was involved with (transcript).

Author’s Note: I’m not buying Ian just happened to journal about his entry into this group…which he left in an unprotected file on his laptop…that he turned over to his ex-wife to ((oops)) find. To me, the note has a very contrived feel to it and puts both him and Melani in a very favorable light. I think the email sent an associate of Brandon Boudreaux 12/4/19 has a more authentic timbre to it. Melani moved to Rexburg away from her four children. Whatever the reason, it must have been compelling enough to motivate her to move away from her kids. I’m not buying that casual interest in this group would be compelling enough. Ymmv.

3/26/20

10/2/19: Lori Vallow orders her wedding ring from Amazon using Charles Vallow’s account (source).

Notable: This is 17 days before Chad Daybell’s wife, Tammy Daybell, died.

10/3/19: The browser history on the computer from which Lori Vallow’s wedding ring was ordered the day before shows someone searching for wedding dresses (source).

3/24/20: Detective Nathan Moffatt with Chandler PD writes in an email to Fox 10 reporter Justin Lum that he is confident CPD is getting closer to indicting Lori Vallow for her involvement in the shooting death of Charles Vallow (source).

Author’s Note: I don’t care how premature this is…HELL YEAH!!!

3/31/20

Note: I had the date for the event below mislabeled as September. You just can’t find good free help these days.

10/31/19: A private investigator hired by Brandon Boudreaux sees Melani Boudreaux and Alex Cox outside her home taking her children’s clothes, toys, and beds to the curb (source 1, 42:56 minute mark / source 2).

11/1/19: Rich Robertson follows Alex Cox and Melani Boudreaux to Rexburg, ID (source 1, 42:56 minute mark).

4/5/20

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Early Sep 2019: Alex Cox and Melani Boudreaux drive together to Rexburg (source 1 / source, 41:11 & 43:08 minute mark). They end up all living in the same complex within a few doors of each other (source).

8/27/19: Date Lori Vallow’s apartment was taken off the market (source).

Note: Melani Boudreaux’s apartment was taken off the market three days before she actually signed the lease. So Lori may have signed the lease a few days later when she rolled into town.

Notable: As of 4/5/20, the apartment still isn’t on the market, according to Zillow’s records. Alex’s was listed for rent the week after Lori, Chad, and Alex fled Rexburg, but Lori’s is still open.

UPDATE: The apartment appears to have gone on the market 3/30/20. It looks like it’s listed with a smaller realty agency that doesn’t use a feed that’s published to Zillow.

8/28/19: Date Alex Cox’s apartment was taken off the market (source).

Notable: Alex’s apartment was listed for rent 12/2/19; the rent was reduced 1/3/20 (shortly after this case went public); and it was sold 2/10/20.

10/25/19: Date Melani Boudreaux’s Rexburg apartment was taken off the market (source).

12/2/19: Alex Cox’s apartment went back on the market (source).

3/30/20:Lori Vallow Daybell’s apartment went back on the market for rent (source / screenshot 1 / screenshot 2).

Note: On 4/5/20 the property was listed as pending.

Notable: As of 4/5/20, the Zillow page for this property wasn’t updated to show it as available. It appears from the date of the Facebook post, it went back on the market 3/30/20. This is interesting to me because Alex’s went back on the market the week after Lori, Chad, and Alex fled Rexburg, while Lori’s apartment was in limbo for four months following their sudden move out.

Lori and Chad Out in the Wild

Lori and Chad shouldn’t be free to just enjoy life as normal without Tylee and JJ, and the residents of Kaua’i are seeing to it that they don’t. I will record these sightings as I catch them here.

1/26/20

I had lots of questions. https://t.co/dwt3gqKpJQ

— Nate Eaton (@NateNewsNow) January 27, 2020

Note: You see Lori and Chad heading to the beach in 00 to 00:16 of this clip.

2/9/20

#LoriVallow spotted in Hawaii church seemingly unperturbed by missing kids case https://t.co/ZBBzcOUspH via @azfamily

— kingcat (@jetper345) February 19, 2020

2/12/20

Been on the phone with @DatelineNBC Dateline producers in NYC. They're putting the finishing touches on tonight's 2-hour special. This will be the first in-depth explanation of what's happened thus far in the case. Here's a preview. @dateline_keith pic.twitter.com/bTPIJ30WLY

— Nate Eaton (@NateNewsNow) February 14, 2020

Note: The tweet above was published 2/14/20, but the video was captured 2/12/20.

Just shopping at our local Longs on Kaua’i like their kids aren’t missing and they aren’t on the national news every night? #LoriVallow pic.twitter.com/icWUGu2a7e

— Jobe Allen (@Kauaipapi) February 12, 2020

2/13/20

This was taken at Costco Kaua’i yesterday by a cashier. #LoriVallow pic.twitter.com/x0ZkFE1jdy

— Jobe Allen (@Kauaipapi) February 13, 2020

 

Witnesses have reported that Lori Vallow-Daybell and Chad Daybell have left Kauai and flown to Maui.https://t.co/8oVRtymNV1

— FOX 13 News Utah (@fox13) February 18, 2020

Okay, this one isn’t a pic of Lori and Chad, but it is evidence that the residents of Kaua’i are fed up…and kinda badass.

On the move? Multiple sources tell me Chad & Lori Daybell left Kauai today around 2 p.m. Hawaii time. Many passengers/airport workers recognized them. They were apparently headed to Maui. Folks in Kauai are tired of having them on the island – this sign hangs near Walmart. pic.twitter.com/nWfyiTPhnD

— Nate Eaton (@NateNewsNow) February 17, 2020

2/18/20

This video shows Lori and Chad Daybell leaving a resort in Ka’anapali, Maui after 2-day stay in ~$500/night ocean front room. Person who took video said she called out, “Hope they find your children!” to no response. JJ and Tylee are still missing. @fox13 pic.twitter.com/OZ50utPhrR

— Lauren Steinbrecher (@LaurenSnews) February 19, 2020

 

After 48 hours in Maui, the Daybells are back in Kauai. pic.twitter.com/VoL2THuHpr

— Nate Eaton (@NateNewsNow) February 19, 2020

 

2/20/20

🚓🎉🙋‍♀️

PICTURED: The moment 'cult' mom Lori Vallow was arrested in Hawaii over the disappearance of her two children https://t.co/ERiC2QjprM pic.twitter.com/QTkibFSnv0

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) February 21, 2020

2/21/20

Lori Vallow has refused to waive extradition to Idaho. She will be back in court in Hawaii March 2nd.

Bail remains at $5 million.

Chad Daybell watched today’s hearing the from the gallery #Dateline pic.twitter.com/2RD1LOk5g6

— Shane Bishop (@shanebishop) February 21, 2020

JUDGE DENIES attorney's request that Lori Vallow's bail be reduced. https://t.co/vnGq6kvDJS pic.twitter.com/IoooAHTxVp

— KUTV2news (@KUTV2News) February 21, 2020

Okay, so technically this pic wasn’t taken “out” in the wild, but that OJ is pretty wildin’ tho!

2/27/20

Wait. Was it something we said?

‘Cult mom’ Lori Vallow’s husband spotted with moving truck https://t.co/C0AGfpZbK5 pic.twitter.com/ffrEgWtUAD

— Gossipieh (@gossipieh) February 27, 2020

2/28/20

Husband of ‘Cult mom’ Lori Vallow says she ‘can’t just say where missing kids are’ as he leaves her behind in Hawaii https://t.co/wRecyhvZZ7 pic.twitter.com/RJHbCv3ld6

— Popular Crime (@popular_crime) February 29, 2020

2/29/20

3/5/20

Rexburg or BUST, baby!

And overnight here is Lori Vallow being taken out of a room where she was held before being put on a plane to leave Kauai. She sat in the back row before arriving in LA. @fox10PhotoChief #fox10phoenix

Courtesy: Kevin Lunt pic.twitter.com/Isgdc2BWrl

— Justin Lum Fox 10 (@jlumfox10) March 5, 2020

#LoriVallow on her way home (jail). pic.twitter.com/O5TbZEnyAa

— Xo V I C T O R I A oX 😈 (@MissDukeCity) March 5, 2020

 

We waited several hours for Lori Vallow to be booked and then escorted to the Women's Detention Center just a few steps away from the Madison County Jail. Instead, she was driven to the back of the center. We saw her for a split second. @dannybavaro @abc15 @LilianaSotoAZ pic.twitter.com/szX7TUZ2QO

— Claudia Rupcich (@ClaudiaRupcich) March 6, 2020

#LoriVallow– officially an inmate of the #MadisonCountySheriff's Office where she will spend her first night back in #Rexburg. Here is the 'glimpse' we got of her transfer into the Women's Detention Center. Not sure if this is the routine protocol for all inmates. @KSL5TV pic.twitter.com/D1zCe5Fy3Q

— Garna Mejia KSL (@GarnaMejiaKSL) March 6, 2020

 

What About Data?

Great question! I took 2018 and 2019 off to write my Making Data Sexy books and planned to hit 2020 hard with new content for the blog. And then tragedy struck and followed me into 2020. As you can see from the timeline, the pace of the investigation has been dizzying because of the sheer number of deaths, sudden divorces, shotgun weddings, attempted murders, and disappearances. Hopefully Tylee and JJ will be found super soon (🙏🙏🙏) and I can get some semblance of normalcy back again. Or, at minimum, this timeline will slow down. I’ve been watching real crime TV for enough years to know that sometimes the wheels of justice move very slowly. 😔

Whichever the case may be, I have a list of topics and guides I plan to start hitting as soon as I can come up for air. Thank you for your patience and understanding!