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

6/28/19: In an argument with Charles Vallow, Lori Vallow refers to caring for their son, JJ Vallow, as babysitting (source).

Note: I believe this is an indicator that whatever bond she may have at one time had with JJ had been severed, most likely when she met Chad Daybell.

6/29/19: Charles Vallow discovers the email Lori Vallow sent to Chad Daybell using a fake email address with Charles’ name. At 8:39 am Charles Vallow emails Lori Vallow’s brother, Adam Cox, upon making this discovery (source):

Adam

Open this letter and see what she did. I’m not sure if [sic] the relationship with her and Chad Daybell but they are up to something. She created an email alias for me as I’ve never set this one up. She sent this yesterday and I guess she forgot all her emails are on the computer at my house. I asked her to explain it and she started blaming you, Brandon and me for perpetuating a scheme against her. Just more of her paranoia. She will not explain it. I am going to send it to Chad Daybells wife. Her name is Tammy and I found her email address on their website. I’ve got her cell number too. Sounds very suspicious to me. What do you think ? Whenever she gets caught doing this kind of stuff she starts blaming everybody else. Mostly me, you and Brandon. Brandon and I are the victims of her craziness. I wish you luck trying to help her. I was the only one brave enough to try to get her help in January and look what happened to me. The whole family put a scarlet letter on me. Maybe now they can see what they’re up against.

Thanks 

Note: We know Charles emailed Tammy Daybell at her work email address (source), so was her work email address on Chad Daybell’s site? I looked at the historical snapshot of his contact page from 6/6/17 and didn’t see it (source).

6/29/19: Charles Vallow tells Lori in a text that he knows about the videos she sent Chad Daybell of her dancing and the songs she sent him (source).

6/29/19: Charles Vallow references an email he sent to Adam Cox with the family history documents and three videos of Lori Vallow dancing for Chad Daybell (source).

Note: I hope LE has these videos. Charles talked about these videos with even a woman he went on one date with, the night before he was murdered (source), so I strongly suspect he sent them to other family members, including his primary confidant, Kay Woodcock. But there is no record in the FOIA docs of these videos having been admitted into evidence.

6/29/19: Charles tells Adam he plans to reach out to Tammy about his concerns (source) and arranges to fly Adam out to Arizona using his Southwest frequent flyer miles (source).

6/29/19: Charles Vallow gives Lori Vallow an ultimatum: Come clean about her relationship with Chad Daybell by the end of the day or he would contact Tammy Daybell and inform her of their relationship (source 1 // source 2).

6/29/19: At 9:16 am, Charles Vallow emails Tammy Daybell to inform her of Lori and Chad’s affair (source). There’s no confirmation that Tammy saw the email from Charles. The email read:

Tammy

My name is Charles Vallow. I have some vital and disturbing information regarding your husband and my wife, Lori This is your work email so I’ll wait to send you the “evidence” that is very disturbing. You may call or email me from the address where you can receive the information. I apologize to be the one sending this but something has to be done. I feel it’s best if I shed some light on the “issue”. 

Regards,
Charles Vallow 

Note: Chandler Police suspect Lori may have also reached out to Tammy after Charles’ death (source). The report doesn’t offer why they thought that.

6/29/19: At 9:32 Charles Vallow emails Chad Daybell to confront him about his affair with his wife. The subject line was “Emails from Lori Vallow” (source). The email read:

Chad

I’m Lori’s husband but I gathered you already knew this. She sent an email yesterday supposedly written by me to KK inviting you to AZ next week and to ghost write a book I’m supposedly working on. It’s preposterous [sic] I happened to run across it as she left her computer at our Houston home. I am NOT paying anybody for anything and I’m not writing a book. Either you or Lori need to tell me what’s going on or this will be exposed for all to see. 

Regards,
Charles Vallow 

At 9:36 am, Charles sends Chad a followup email:

And does your wife know you have several of Lori’s dance videos ? Explain how that is in any way appropriate. She sent them to you at your request in January. 

Charles

6/30/19: At 10:16 am, Charles Vallow sends Tammy Daybell a followup email with a subject line that read “Your husband and my wife” (source 1 // source 2):

Are having an affair. Her name is Lori Vallow. I’ve got definitive proof if you care to see it. Contact me and I’ll share it with you. It’s devastating I know but the truth needs to be shown.

Charles Vallow

6/30/19: Charles Vallow communicates with Zac [Cox] via text messages. They talk about Brandon and Melani Boudreaux’s (now Pawlowski’s) relationship and how Lori had ruined their marriage (source).

6/30/19: Charles Vallow sends Lori a series of text messages, including some vague threats (source):

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

Note: Lori was living in Chandler, not Gilbert.

Jul 2019: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) files for divorce from Brandon Boudreaux (source).

7/1/19: Lori Vallow creates a new iCloud account, which she named ‘Lollytime’** (source 1 // source 2 // source 3). 🕵️‍♀️

**I found the name of Lori’s alternative iCloud account unredacted elsewhere in the FOIA docs, and the search warrant ID matched an unredacted reference to the Lollytime account (see source 3 above).

7/1/19: The contact Lori Vallow’s phone saved as “Bubby” is created using the fictitious name “Boyd Dial” with a PO Box in Mesa, AZ. This phone is confirmed to belong to Chad Daybell (source).

Note: There was a Hal Boyd Dial who was a bishop and stake president, and he lived in Taylorsville, UT, at the time of his death (source). Taylorsville isn’t very far from Provo, where Chad grew up, or Springville, where he and his family lived before moving to Idaho (map). He also has a thing for masquerading as church leaders in these fake accounts (example).

7/1/19: In an elaborate catfish scheme, Charles begins confiding in what he thought were women he met online but were bilking him for thousands of dollars (source). In this particular communication the scammer asked for more money, but he said he had just spent $4.5 million on a business:

7/1/19: The day Charles Vallow plans to speak to Tammy Daybell about the affair between Lori and Chad (source). 

7/1/19: Lori Vallow calls Charles Vallow “joe Ryan” in a heated text exchange (source). This was just 10 days before Charles was murdered.

Note: It makes you wonder about Charles’ claim to a Gilbert Police officer that Lori told him, “I’ll murder you too” (source).

7/1/19 – 7/9/19: According to a text message from Lori Vallow to Charles Vallow and a note about Charles checking in on JJ each day, JJ Vallow was sick and vomiting (source).

Note: I wonder if Lori was poisoning JJ.

7/2/19: Lori Vallow also saves “Bubby” number to her burner phone that used the Lollytime iCloud account (source 1 // source 2).

7/2/19: Charles Vallow tells Adam Cox he believes Chad and Tammy Daybell are ring leaders of the cult (source).

Note: According to a search warrant drafted by Chandler Police Det Nathan Duncan, they believed that Lori found out about the intervention from Chad (source). They surmised he found out from Tammy. Tammy deleted the emails from her account so they weren’t able to confirm she received the emails. I disagree with that conclusion and addressed who I thought was the mole in this YouTube live. (Spoiler alert: I believe it’s far more feasible that Chad monitored Tammy’s emails because Charles told Lori ahead of time that he had Tammy’s email and was going to reach out to her. It was summer break, so Tammy may not have been monitoring email as closely. Also, this might explain why the day after Charles was supposed to speak to Tammy, he told Adam she was a ring leader of the cult. I believe Chad may have replied harshly from Tammy’s email and then deleted everything.)

7/2/19: Zulema Pastenes tells Lori Vallow in a text that she was given instructions to “rip, tear or burn the aura of Hiplos” (source).

7/2/19: According to a text from Charles Vallow to Adam Cox, Lori Vallow purchased a new health insurance policy that included Charles, JJ, and Tylee but not herself because, as a translated being, she didn’t need it (source).

7/2/19: Charles Vallow warns Adam Cox to not talk to his family about their concerns about Lori and to instead include their stake president, Holmes (source).

Note: Adam disregarded Charles’ request, accepted the plane ticket Charles paid for with his frequent flyer miles, and met with his family alone. He told Det Moffat that he wasn’t able to record his conversation with Lori or meet with Holmes (source), so he basically did nothing he agreed to and instead took off the day Charles was shot with his son, Zac, and didn’t so much as reach out to Chandler Police when he couldn’t get ahold of Charles. He also told his then-wife, Nicole, “I think Lori and Alex did something to Charles” (source).

7/2/19: Lori Vallow and Zulema Pastenes meet at the temple (source).

7/4/19: Charles Vallow texts Lori Vallow to tell her that she could stay in a hotel if she didn’t want to be in the house with him (source).

7/6/19: April Raymond claims this was the date of her last communication with Lori Vallow (source).

7/8/19: Charles Vallow emails Adam Cox the forged email Lori Vallow [allegedly] sent Chad Daybell as Charles, as well as a heated text exchange between Lori and Charles where he said she was ruining families and she called him “Joe Ryan” (source).

Note: If Lori had a role in Joe’s death and Charles knew about it, I believe he would have interpreted this as a threat that he could suffer the same fate.

7/8/19: Charles Vallow asks Lori Vallow to book a hotel room for him, which she does using hotels.com (source). The reservation was made for the Tru by Hilton in Gilbert for 7/10 to 7/13 (source).

7/8/19: Lori Vallow texts Zulema Pastenes and asks her to call up an earthquake in Valencia, California. Lori tells her that “Hiplos” was traveling in Valencia at this time. Lori also said that sadly, Hiplos is okay but they were going to continue to work on him (source 1 // source 2).

Note: In source 1 above, their emphasis on spiritual fire is interesting: “In order to protect his mortal body from being possessed by another evil spirit, this spiritual fire had to be placed around him.” This could explain why this group was so obsessed with fire. Melanie Gibb’s book was titled Feel the Fire, as was her and Lori’s podcast. And the podcast episode they published the day before Tylee Ryan was last seen was titled “What is a Baptism of Fire”? And her corpse would be repeatedly burned in fires starting just hours after they published.

7/8/19: Zulema Pastenes sends Lori Vallow a bizarre text that suggests after Charles (i.e., “Hiplos”) is dead, there would be a domino effect and asks what they need to do to get ready for that (source):

7/8/19: Melani and Brandon Boudreaux begin divorce proceedings. Melani continues to pay for the life insurance on Brandon despite seeking a divorce (source).

7/9/19: There is a lot that transpires on this day, so I’ll break down a timeline of events for all the events with timestamps (source):

1:49 pm
Lori invites Alex over to her house and sends him the address of 5531 South Four Peaks Place, Chandler. 

6:18 pm
Melanie Gibb texts Lori and asks, “Are you home? I want to come over.”

6:20 pm
Lori responds, “All my family and the kids are here so it’s chaos right now.”

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm
Chad calls Lori (source).

3:58 pm
Lori texts her sister, Summer Shiflet that she was on her way to Alex Cox’s house.

7:18 pm
Lori Vallow and Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) exchange text messages where Lori implores her to not go out of town for the wedding she was planning to attend (source): Lori sends Melani an SMS message informing her that Alex was there and that Charles said he would be coming over in the morning.

Note: Brandon Boudreaux’s friend, Jes, said in an interview that Melani was out of the town that Saturday, so I wonder if she did eventually go to her friend’s wedding (source).

7/10/19: According to Melanie Gibb, Lori tells her to leave in the morning because Charles is going to kill her (source).

Notes: 

• According to Melanie, Adam Cox, Brandon Boudreaux, Zac Cox, and Barry Cox all wanted to kill Lori for her supposed $3 million life insurance policy.
• According to Colby Ryan, Adam, Brandon, and Summer’s lover, Edgar, wanted to kill her (source).
• Melanie claimed that she didn’t find out that Charles was shot for four days, but if Lori told her that Charles was going to kill her, wouldn’t she have checked in on her friend? Rhetorical question. Of course she would have—and most likely did.

7/10/19 – 7/14/19: Adam Cox is in Phoenix (source).

Note: A confidential source told me Adam flew out 7/14. This is not confirmed in the police report.

7/10/19: Adam Cox reportedly calls Alex Cox about staying with him, but Alex doesn’t answer any of his calls or call him back. So he and Zac stay with his parents, Barry and Janis Cox, instead (source).

Note: Adam told Det Moffat that Summer was in New York, Zac was watching her dog, and they were in charge of her house (source). So then why would he have stayed with Barry and Janis?

7/10/19: According to Summer Shiflet, Adam and Zac Cox come to her house, and she and Adam play cards but she doesn’t share her concern for Lori’s safety (source).

7/10/19: Lori Vallow, Alex Cox, and Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) have lunch together, and then Lori and Alex go to Summer’s house (source):

7/10/19: According to Kay Woodcock, Alex Cox’s last day of work as a long-haul trucker (source).

7/10/19: Charles arranges to come to Arizona and also arranges travel for Adam using his frequent flyer miles (source). Lori Vallow reserved him a room at the Tru by Hilton in Gilbert he stayed in (source 1 // source 2).

Note: The detail about using his frequent flyer miles came from a confidential source last year.

7/10/19: Charles flies from Houston into Phoenix to pick up JJ Vallow the next day and look at apartments in Chandler (source: Charles Vallow’s landlord and Lori’s statement from 7/11/19).

7/10/19: In an elaborate catfish scheme, Charles begins confiding in what he thought were women he met online but were bilking him for thousands of dollars (source). In this particular communication Charles told the scammer he was moving on and would go back to the LDS Planet dating site:

7/10/19: Charles Vallow goes on a date with Nancy Jo shortly after arriving in AZ (source).

7/10/19: Charles Vallow visits the National Life Group website at 6:49 pm. This would be the last browsing artifacts on his phone prior to his death (source).

7/11/19: Charles Vallow is shot and killed by Alex Cox.There is a lot that transpires on this day, so I’ll break down a timeline of events for all the events with timestamps (source 1 // source 2 // source 3):

6:06 am
Chad Daybell sends Lori Vallow a text message that is deleted.

6:12 am
Lori sends Chad a text message that is later deleted.

7:01 am
Lori sends Chad a text message that is later deleted.

7:33 am
Lori sends Chad a text message that is later deleted.

7:35 am
Charles arrives at Lori’s home and texts Lori’s brother, Adam Cox, to tell him Alex was there. Adam tells Charles Lori and Alex were planning something and Charles replies, “Absolutely.” Adam also tells Charles he was supposed to spend the night with Alex but Lori probably blocked that plan (source).

7:49 am
Charles’ cell phone left the home. Chandler PD uses this timestamp as a proxy for the approximate time Charles was shot (source). From the indictment:

Based on this timeline, Charles would have laid [sic] dead or dying for approximately 43 minutes before Alex called 911.

7:49 am
Adam sends Charles a text message, but it was not read until 12:13 pm when Charles was dead and Lori was in control of his phone:

7:49 am
Lori sends Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) a text message that was later deleted.

7:52 am
Alex calls Lori, and they speak on the phone for 49 seconds.

Note: Alex told Chandler PD Det Moffat that he didn’t call Lori (source).

7:52 am – 8:06 am
Lori and Melani exchange four text messages, which were later deleted.

7:55 am
Lori arrives at the Burger King with Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow at Gilbert Road and Ocotillo Road. She is captured on the drive-thru video (more details).

8:06 am
Alex calls Lori again, and they speak on the phone for 56 seconds.

Note: Alex told Chandler PD Det Moffat that he didn’t call Lori (source).

8:17 am
Lori arrives at Walgreens located at 785 South Cooper Road in Gilbert where she purchases two pairs of sandals with cash (more details). Tylee and JJ are not in the surveillance video.

Note: Lori must’ve been pretty desperate for new flip-flops since she prioritized this over returning to the scene, and the ones she purchased are noticeably too small (source).

8:17 am
Lori sends an SMS message to her friend Audrey, which is later deleted.

8:24 am
Lori drops JJ off at school.

8:32 am
Alex calls 911.

8:43 am
Alex is questioned by Chandler Police outside the home (source).

8:46 am
A Chandler PD detective dismisses a neighbor who came forward as a witness (source).

Note: There’s no record in the Chandler Police report that I could find of detectives interviewing any neighbors after the shooting.

8:48 am
Lori and Tylee arrive back to the home after stopping at Burger King, dropping JJ off at school, and stopping at Walgreens for new flip-flops (source).

8:58 am
A Chandler Police detective interviews Lori and Tylee at the scene (source).

7:34 pm
Chad Daybell calls Valley of the Sun Mortuary—where Charles Vallow’s body was being held—at 7:34 pm AZ time to get an estimate for a cremation (source 1 // source 2 // transcript).

Notes: 

• This call was made from his “Boyd Dial” burner phone.
• Chad’s call was originally recorded as occurring on 7/12 because one of the detectives didn’t realize the timestamp was reported in UTC time. It translated to 8:34 pm on 7/11 AZ time (source).
• Chad told the rep his name was “Chad Dabal.”
• Chad told the rep that he lived in Iowa. That’s because the area code for his burner phone was 515, which is an Iowa area code.
• Chad was told the cremation of his “uncle John Myron Dabal” would cost $1,880.
• Chad said his uncle died in a hospital in Chandler.
• Chad didn’t know his phone number and had to look it up.

10:19 pm
Summer texts Alex to ask if anything has happened yet (source).

Note: She told investigators she also texted Alex before leaving for New York: “On the plane, anything yet?” She said Alex responded by telling her to have fun and no worries.

11:31 pm
Zulema Pastenes texts Lori Vallow a bizarre message at 11:31 pm about Charles Vallow (source):

Notes:

• Alex was staying at the house where Charles Vallow was shot, despite living 23 miles away (source).
• 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 says Charles 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). Also, Charles’ fingerprints were not found on the bat (source).
• Alex says Lori, Tylee, and JJ left before the shooting; Lori told police she had been at home when Charles was shot but needed to leave to take JJ to school (source).
• Lori was glib and playful when talking to the officer at the scene (source).
• 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). 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).
• Melanie Gibb said Alex told her that “Hiplos” had the power of 1,000 men (source). So then how did he end up with such a superficial scrape on his head? If Charles had hit him in the back of the head with the strength of one man (especially one as strong as Charles), Alex would have been killed, not nursing a scrape with a napkin. Also, Alex told Det Moffat he did not know if Charles had hit him with the bat or something, that he assumed it was the bat (source).
• Zulema’s reference to Charles being “taken as he is” indicates she knew the plan to murder him, imo. Also, she and Chad both express relief that Charles is dead.
• Chandler Police Det Ynclan and Moffat expressed surprise that Lori and Alex never called them to check in on the investigation (source). Criminals nowadays…so inconsiderate. 🙄
• I derived local AZ time from timestamps in bodycam videos by subtracting 7 hours from UTC time to convert it to MST. (Arizona doesn’t participate in Daylight Savings.)
• I addressed some of the more egregious contradictions in Lori, Alex, and Tylee’s interviews in a live I did on my Annielytics channel in Sep 2020 (source).

Citations:

• Alex’s 911 call (source)
• Bodycam videos at the scene (source 1 // source 2 // source 3)
• Lori’s interview at CPD station (source 1 // source 2)
• Tylee’s interview at CPD station (source 1 // source 2)
• Alex’s interview at CPD station (source 1 // source 2)

7/11/19: Adam Cox and Charles Vallow plan to meet up after Charles drops JJ Vallow off at school, according to Charles’ date from the night before, Nancy Jo (source).

7/11/19: Summer Shiflet flies to New York and texts Alex twice during the day asking for updates (source):

Morning:
On the plane, anything yet?

10:19 pm
Police report: She asked Alex if anything had happened yet as she was concerned that Adam and Charles were going to do something.

Note: The fact that Summer told Lori in a text two days before Charles was murdered, “If that’s the case I will kill him myself!!!!” makes it highly unlikely that Summer was unaware of the plan to murder Charles, imo (source)

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 1 // source 2).

7/11/19: According to a woman Charles Vallow had gone on a date with the night before, Nancy Jo, Charles planned to meet up with Adam Cox after dropping JJ Vallow off at school to come up with their intervention plan for Lori (source).

7/11/19 – 7/13/19: Because of the number of contradictions between Nicole Cox, Adam Cox’s then wife, and Zac Cox, Adam and Nicole’s son re: their activities and travels between 7/11 and 7/13, I dropped the details into a table, instead of dispersing them in the timeline. I highlight the most glaring inconsistencies with italics (source 1 // source 2).

Notes: 

• Some inconsistencies are expected. Memories aren’t exact. However, the discrepancies between their stories indicate deception on one or both of their parts, in my opinion.
• One thing I don’t understand is, if Adam told Nicole the day Charles was murdered that he thought Lori and Al did something to him, why wouldn’t he have been concerned when he couldn’t get ahold of Charles? Charles’ date from the night before, Nancy Jo, told investigators that Charles was supposed to meet up with Adam after dropping JJ off at school (source). Instead of them meeting up, Adam just carries on with his previous plans with his family and doesn’t even think to Google Charles’ name? His friend has to do it on Saturday? It makes no sense.

7/12/19: Summer Shiflet calls Alex Cox, and she claims he tells her Charles Vallow had been killed (source). The police report notes:

Summer stated that she felt that Alex and Lori were trying to protect her so she didn’t worry while she was on her trip.

7/12/19: Chad Daybell performs searches Google for “Charles vallow death chandler” starting at 3:55 am MDT (source). Then he visits  multiple news articles about the death:

• https://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Chandler- police-Man-fatally-shot-during-family-14088676.php
• https://chandlerazpd.gov/2019/07/man-shot-killed-by-family-member/
• https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/chandler-breaking/2019/07/11/police-chandler-man-called-911-say-he-shot-family-member-fight/1704107001/

7/12/19: Zulema Pastenes texts Julie Clement and describes Charles’ murder as a “Nephi and Laban ending” and expresses relief that Charles is dead (source 1 // source 2):

Oh ok
Hiplos is gone
It was a Nephi and Laban ending.
I will tell you more when I see you in person or when you see Lori in person. I’m leaving for Chile on Monday for 2 weeks

7/12/19 – 7/20/19: Lori Vallow has a bizarre text exchange with one of her stepsons (source). She doesn’t even reach out to them until 4:36 pm CDT to tell them their father had died. Charles had been dead for more than 30 hours at that point.

7/12:

Lori: Hi boys. I have very sad news. Your dad passed away yesterday. I’m working on making arrangements and I’ll keep you informed with what’s going on. Im [sic] still not sure how to handle things. Just want you to know that I love you and did your dad !! ❤️

Note: Lori added “Lori” to the conversation and removed “Lolo” from the conversation after sending the initial text.

Stepson: Lori what happened

Lori: We are still waiting for the ME report. I’ll let you know more when I can.

Stepson: Where is he and what happened?

Lori: I’ll call you when I can bub. He is here in Arizona.

Stepson: Where in Arizona?

Stepson: When did all this happen?

Stepson: How’s JJ doing?

Stepson: What funeral home is he at?

Stepson: Lori what the [redacted] happened. You can’t just tell us our dad died and disappear. You’re not too busy to just let us know and disappear.

Stepson: Lori it’s been 3 hours. You’re not that busy. I don’t care what you’re doing

Lori: I’m sorry you are so upset. I’m so upset too. I’m trying to get jj ready for bed. I’m waiting to hear back from the Medical examiner to make sense out of all of this myself. Please be patient with me. It’s a crushing situation all around. I’m still trying to process it too and what it means for JJ.

Stepson: When and where is the funeral? How did all this happen?

Stepson: I want an explanation.

Note: Charles’ ex-wife, Cheryl Wheeler, found out sometime on the 12th that Charles’ had been shot by Alex Cox (source). She told EastIdahoNews.com:

I checked the medical examiner’s webpage and found Charles had been killed the day before, and they had it classified as a homicide. We further Googled and saw all of the news reports out of Chandler. We found out that Alex had shot him.

Charles’ autopsy wasn’t performed until the 13th, but several websites had reported Charles’ death as a homicide on 7/11, including the Chandler PD website, FOX 10, and AZCentral. Interestingly, Alex Cox wasn’t named as the shooter by Chandler Police; he was only referred to as Charles’ brother-in-law.

7/13:

Stepson: ?

Stepson: ?

Lori: I’m still working on arrangements and sorting things out the best I can. I’ll let you know when I know.

Stepson: Why aren’t you telling me what happened? I’ve asked numerous times. Just tell me.

Stepson: ?

Note: Charles’ autopsy was performed this day.

7/14:

Stepson: ?

Note: Sometime on the 14th Lori left a voicemail for one of her stepsons inviting him to talk (source).

It’s Lolo, I just wanted to talk to you and see how you’re doing. I just wanna talk to ya and see how you’re doing. And JJ wants to say “Hi” so just give me a call back and maybe we could talk for a few minutes. I love you. Bye.

The stepson said he called her back but she didn’t answer and noted this was the last time he received a call from Lori.

7/15:

Stepson: Okay Lori. It’s been 3 days. You let us know our father passed away over a text message. 3 days and we haven’t heard from anyone. 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. We talked to him all the time and now he’s gone. He was our dad and we loved him very much. We deserve answers. Also why have you been the only one to contact us? We haven’t heard from Colby or Tylee. I called Colby recently too and he didn’t answer. Is JJ safe and what does he know?

I need to be kept in the loop about this all. This isn’t a nonchalant topic you can just throw a text at and be done with it.

Lori: [Redacted] These are your dads wishes. He and I discussed this a lot over the years we have been together. My plan is to have him cremated as he wished and then take all 5 of you kids to Hawaii to spread his ashes. He did not want a funeral. He wants a celebration of his life. I’ve been overwhelmed but I Am [sic] going to try to start these arrangements today. Jj is doing good but he does not know his daddy is gone. It’s so tough because he really doesn’t understand. He says daddy is in California working. I know how much he loves you boys and always has. I have a lot of things to do with the business and contacting people and it’s still all so difficult. Today I’m trying to put up a memorial page on the funeral home website. I’ll send the link to you when I have it. I love you and so does your dad !

Note: This is the same day Lori and Colby flew to Houston and collected a bunch of Charles’ belongings (see 7/15 – 7/16 entry below).

7/16:

Stepson: I appreciate this information but I will ask these question [sic] again because I still haven’t been given an answer. What happened. When did it happen. How did it happen. Where is he now. Is there a funeral? When is it? Who have you told about his death? Give me all the information you have. Please. My brother and I deserve to know.

7/20:

Stepson: Well if you won’t answer those questions can we please have his watches and other stuff he always talked about and had around?

Lori: Of course [redacted]. Send me the address you want me to send you [sic] stuff to. Kay is supposed to clean out the Houston house. I told her to let you and [redacted] have whatever you want first, then she can give the have [sic] or give away the rest. I know that he wanted you to have all that you want.

Note: This last text was disingenuous since she and Colby had already pillaged Charles’ house. Also, one of the stepsons told EastIdahoNews.com that the only watches Lori sent them were cheap ones (source):

7/12/19: According to Zulema Pastenes, Lori Vallow and Alex Cox invite her over and tell her about how Charles died. Alex tells her that he was not affected by his death as he killed a zombie and not Charles (source).

7/12/19: A welfare check is performed on Charles Vallow in Houston (source).

7/12/19: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell’s friend, Jason Mow, publishes a bizarre Facebook post about wanting to buy a used Jeep that could be interpreted as a hat tip to Charles Vallow’s murder since he owned a 4-door Jeep Wrangler (source):

Looking to buy a used jeep 4door wrangler…anyone know a guy?

7/13/19: An autopsy is performed on Charles Vallow (source).

7/13/19: Chad Daybell first uses the burner phone he activated 10/31/18 under the pseudonym Boyd Dial (source).

7/13/19: SMS messages between Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell first appear on her Lollytime iCloud account (source).

7/13/19: Chad Daybell sends Lori Vallow a series of text messages where he says Brandon can’t get a restraining order against her because she and Al didn’t have charges filed. He also says he’d clear Melani’s home of bad spirits and told Lori where to find three “listening devices” in Melani’s home. Finally, he says he was heading to bed so he could snuggle with her and excitedly tells her he’ll see her in a minute (source).

7/13/19: Chad Daybell tells Zulema Pastenes Charles’ death was “such a relief” and she agrees (source 1 // source 2 // source 3):

7/13/19: Kay and Larry Woodcock travel to Phoenix and talk to Det Moffat with Chandler Police over the phone (source). 

Notes: 

• I believe this audio has been edited. The call started with Kay calling Det Moffat. She said that they didn’t find out Charles had died until 7/13 and it was through a Google search. Then there was a muffled sound and the call disconnected. Then Larry called back. That’s where the current recording picks up. I remember this because I always questioned why Cheryl Wheeler wouldn’t have let Kay and Larry know Charles had been murdered when she found out on the 12th. But I can’t find the unedited copy anywhere now. There was snippet in the Netflix documentary that included the beginning of their call, and you can see Det Moffat was returning Kay’s call (source).
• Det Moffat told them that Alex wasn’t a prohibited possessor and implied he didn’t really care about his actions from 2007 (source). He was wrong. An FBI analyst actually researched this issue and found out Alex’s carry rights had not been restored because in Travis County gun rights are only restored if the person’s record is expunged, and Alex’s wasn’t (source).

7/13/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) moves into her rental home in Chandler. Also, Adam Cox and Brandon Boudreaux confront Melani about her beliefs given Charles Vallow’s death, and Melani asks Lori if Tylee has a way to contact Brandon or Adam (source 1 // source 2).

10:25am
Melani: “Adam just called Brandon and told him Al murdered chalrels [sic] he put it on speaker for me to here”. 

Melani: “Can u talk please?” 

Melani: “I think Brandon found out earlier. He seemed in shock a few hrs ago. And then Adam and Brandon tried to use this situation to their advantage. He cornered me and Adam put it on speaker to tell me. Then Brandon said, do you still believe everything you believe?” 

Melani: “Brandon is with the moving truck at my new address moving things I’m at the house with the kids”

Lori: “Call me” 

5:19pm:
Melani: “Does Tylee have a phone or a way to contact Brandon or Adam” 

Lori: “Nope, I still have it”

Notes: 

• Brandon Boudreaux’s friend, Jes, said in an interview that Melani was out of the town at this time, so I wonder if she took off. It’s hard to say (source).
• It appears Lori took Tylee’s phone away for a couple of days, according to friends who went to visit her (source).

7/14/19: Kay and Larry Woodcock meet with Det Moffat at Chandler Police Department (source).

7/14/19: Chad Daybell sends Lori Vallow a puerile love story about a fictional couple, James and Elena, split up into many text messages (source). A few items of interest:

• Chad says, in the beginning of the story that “MG” introduced them, but Melanie Gibb couldn’t recall if she introduced them when she talked to Nate Eaton (source). I personally believe this was one of her many attempts to distance herself from Lori and Chad. And the Arizona police departments have been all too willing to help her toward that end. One Chandler PD detective said his impression was that she was on the “outskirts somewhere, teetering, ready to run” (source).  They’ve gone as far as actually falsifying police reports. In the Gilbert police report it says that Melanie called the detective the evening of the welfare check and said she didn’t have JJ (source). That wasn’t true. We found out at Chad’s preliminary hearing in August 2020 that she lied to Gilbert PD Det Ryan Pillar and didn’t correct her line until 8 days later (source). (It was most likely 10 days later, the day she recorded Lori and Chad.) And the Chandler report didn’t include her in the list of group members who were pertinent to the investigation (source). She insisted on coming over to Lori’s house two days before Charles was murdered, when Lori was allegedly, making her big plans…and then spent the night. She also called Lori Mom.
• The character representing Chad in the story is James, but at one point, he seems to forget, and refers to himself as Raphael. Investigators identify Chad as Raphael in the police report. Zulema also hints at this in a text she sent Lori.
• Chad won Lori by feeding her extreme narcissism. He ended the story with a confirmation of her status is not just a “holy goddess” but also a “majestic archangel.”
• He accidentally burned himself: “He was completely smitten by her and even was nervous of what she would think of his talk as he spoke.But when he would glance at her, she was always attentive and watching him, unlike the rest of the crowd.” 😂

7/14/19 – 7/19/19: Alex Cox flies from Arizona to Colombia, South America (source). Cole Vallow tells Chandler Det Nathan Moffat there’s a picture of Alex in Colombia on social media from 2016, most likely to establish he has a history of visiting Colombia (source).

7/15/19: Lori Vallow calls Banner Life about Charles’ life insurance policy (source).

Note: She didn’t find out in this call that she wasn’t the beneficiary. It appears she found out on 7/18 (see entry below).

7/15/19: Charles Vallow’s son Cole Vallow and his former wife Cheryl Wheeler fly to Phoenix to meet with Chandler Police (source).

Note: I think Charles’ other son, Zach, may have also been on this trip because one of Charles’ sons told EastIdahoNews.com that he and his brother went to talk to the funeral director at Valley of the Sun Mortuary (source):

He was very shaky and nervous. We asked him for information and he said something like, “I can’t tell you that. It was requested that I tell you nothing.”

Cole also told Det Moffat that the director seemed nervous talking to them and that the director didn’t want to talk to his mom (source).

7/15/19: Melanie Gibb claims this is the date she found out Charles Vallow had been shot (source).

Note: Lori told Melanie Gibb the day before Charles was shot that she needed to leave her house (Melanie had spent the night) because Charles was going to shoot her (source). So it’s just not believable that Melanie wouldn’t have checked in on her friend for four days.

7/15/19 – 7/16/19: Lori Vallow and Colby Ryan fly from Phoenix to Houston and return the next day (source 1 // source 2). They gathered many of Charles’ possessions, including his F-150 truck, clothes, computers, and sundry electronics, and left them at the airport for Alex Cox to retrieve. And then Alex flew out to Houston and drove Charles’ truck back (source).

Chandler Police also find various browsing and search artifacts during their stay at his house:

7/15/19 – 7/16/19: JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan stay with Lori’s friend and confidant, Angela (source).

Note: This is significant. I believe Angela was tasked with watching Tylee to make sure she didn’t betray Lori while she was in Houston with Colby because Lori had abandoned Tylee for months, leaving to her to stay by herself at Alex’s home. (He was reportedly a long-distance trucker and was on the road a lot.) Yet now she needs a babysitter?

7/15/19 – 8/1/19: Zulema Pastenes travels to Santiago, Chile (source).

7/16/19: Lori Vallow texts Chad Daybell asking him to clear her dog Bailey of evil spirits (source):

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).

7/16/19: Cole Vallow and Cheryl Wheeler meet with Chandler Police Det Nathan Moffat (source).

7/16/19 – 7/19/19: Approximate dates Colby Ryan kept JJ Vallow’s service dog Bailey before giving him back to Lori, not because he belonged to JJ but because he was too big for their apartment (source).

Note: Colby participated in JJ’s torment by keeping Bailey away from him. He knew how essential Bailey was to JJ’s physical and emotional wellbeing. This also should’ve been a serious 🚩 for Colby.

7/17/19: Charles Vallow’s iPhone XR Max is downloaded by the Chandler Police Department’s Computer Forensics unit and its contents examined by CPD Det Duncan (source). 

Note: Chandler police didn’t get a search warrant for Charles’ iCloud data until 3/30/20 (source).

7/17/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) texts Lori and asks, “Did they pick up Bailey?” It’s not clear who “they” are in this text (source).

7/18/19: Cole Vallow tells Chandler Det Nathan Moffat that Kay warned him and his family that Lori’s brother, Adam Cox, had contacted her to tell her that the family had disowned him a year ago, but she found pics of him with his family on social media since then (source).

Note: Why would Adam reach out to Kay to curry her favor and not reach out to Chandler Police?

7/18/19: Lori Vallow finds out she had been removed from Charles Vallow’s life insurance policy (source). She and Chad Daybell had a much longer text exchange about it on her Lori4style account (source):

Notes: 

• According to the Book of Mormon, the Gadianton robbers were a secret criminal organization in ancient America.
• “Ned” is the demon they claimed took over Charles’ body.

7/18/19: Kay Woodcock reportedly records a 25-minute phone call with Lori Vallow (source 1 // source 2).

Note: According to Cole Vallow, Lori called Kay, and this was the same day she found out Charles had removed her as beneficiary. I imagine that call was incendiary, but it’s curious it would have lasted 25 minutes. What would they have had to talk about for 25 minutes? Also, there’s no reference to any recordings ever being passed on to LE. (See related entries for 7/19/19 and 7/29/19 for more information.)

7/18/19: Melanie Gibb sends an email out to her followers with an invitation to meet in Lori Vallow’s home where Charles had just been shot and killed a week earlier to hear her then-boyfriend (now husband) David Warwick speak (source). It was disclosed at Chad Daybell’s hearing in August 2020 that Chad was also there for this event in Chandler, AZ (source).

7/19/19: Chad sends Lori a message providing trust levels of those she needed to be aware of (source): 

• Mel G 97
• Zulema 96
• Al 94
• Thor 94
• Nicole 86
• Mel B 85
• Summer 40
• Jason 31
• Sarena 18
• Janie 15
• Christina 8
• Barry 8
• April 7
• Adam 0
• Stacie, Talia, Audrey, Raphael 100

7/19/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) texts Lori Vallow to tell her about her new burner phone to use for emergencies and to encourage Lori to take out a life insurance policy on JJ and Tylee (source).

7/19/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat that she has recordings and needs to learn to use Dropbox (source).

Note: See related 7/18/19 entry for more information about the 25-minute call with Lori Vallow Cole Vallow said Kay captured.

7/20/19: Lori Vallow buys Chad Daybell a flight from Provo, UT, to AZ for $259.50 (source).

7/20/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat that some Cox family members were anxious to talk to him and left messages for him (source).

Note: This is most likely Adam and Nicole Cox she’s referring to because Det Moffat told Bobby Vallow that Adam kept telling Kay that he was trying to get ahold of him and left messages but Det Moffat never received any messages (source).

7/20/19 – 7/21/19: Approximate dates Alex Cox flew to Houston to pick up Charles Vallow’s truck and returned with what Lori Vallow and Colby Ryan packed up (source).

Note: I estimate these dates because Alex returned from Colombia on 7/19, and Lori told Chad on 7/18 that she would check to see when Charles changed his life insurance policy when she got his computer on Sunday. Sunday was 7/21.

7/21/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) tells Lori Vallow she should take out life insurance policies on JJ, Tylee, and herself because “anything can happen [if] it’s in the Lord’s will” (source).

Note: This was only 10 days after Charles Vallow was shot and killed.

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

Note: Lori told a rep with Banner Life that his death was an accident (source), and then she told the nanny in Rexburg in September that he died of a heart attack (source).

7/22/19: Lori Vallow emails the dog trainer for JJ’s service dog, Bailey, and tells him to pick Bailey up (source).

Note: According to Zulema Pastenes, Lori and Chad didn’t start talking about her moving to Idaho until the weekend Chad and David Warwick here in town, which was the weekend of 8/2/19 (source). So she didn’t start trying to get rid of him because she was moving. I personally believe she was depriving JJ of all sources of comfort in an effort to get Chad to rate him a dark spirit, to justify murdering him.

7/22/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat that Adam Cox was supposed to call him that morning (source).

7/22/19 – 7/23/19: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell discuss via text two different evil spirits trying to attack JJ, Elroy and Blake. Chad also tells her about other evil spirits they needed to rid the world of (source).

Note: I wonder if Lori’s text to Chad asking about JJ claiming “weird stuff happened in the middle of the night” was her way of nudging him to justify his murder. Chad rated Tammy a 3 and JJ a 2, but he doesn’t explicitly state if that’s L (for light) or D (for dark). I suspect D since they had been [allegedly] planning Tammy’s death since October 2018, and it wouldn’t have made sense for him to rate his wife such a light spirit after Lori’s husband was murdered.

7/23/19: Lori Vallow tells Kay Woodcock JJ won’t be coming to Louisiana for his father’s funeral (source 1 // source 2). Det Moffat replies and tells Kay the only downside is Lori won’t be readily available to interview (source).

Notes: 

• Lori had just found out five days prior she wasn’t the beneficiary of Charles Vallow’s life insurance policy, so I’m quite confident this was retaliatory.
• Lori was “readily available” to be interviewed by Chandler Police for 1.5 months before moving to Idaho; they didn’t take advantage of that availabilkity.

7/23/19: Kay Woodcock says they expect Lori will find her “next” in Hawaii (source).

Note: It’s mystifying why Kay would say this when she knew that Lori was having an affair with Chad Daybell. The earliest evidence we have is of Kay forwarding Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat one of at least five emails Lori sent Chad 3/9/19 (source 1 // source 2). But we know Charles found emails between Lori and Chad as early as 1/23/19 (source), and Kay was one of Charles’ primary confidants.

7/23/19: Chandler PD Det Moffat tells Charles Vallow’s son, Cole, that Alex Cox was legally carrying a gun (source).

Note: An FBI intelligence analyst proved Det Moffat wrong on this claim. Alex Cox was a prohibited possessor, meaning that his rights to own firearms had not been restored (source).

7/25/19: Chandler PD Det Moffat requests Alex Cox’s criminal file from Travis County, TX, for the assault on Joseph Ryan (source).

7/25/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat she hoped Adam Cox contacted him and was helpful (source). Det Moffat replies the same day and tells her that he hasn’t heard from Adam or Nicole and will be cautious, if they did reach out, because he was confused by Adam hadn’t called yet (source). Kay also says Charles found videos of Lori dancing that she sent to “the cult leader” who Charles suspected she was having an affair with but claims to not know the cult leader’s name (source).

Notes: 

• On 8/2, Det Moffat asked Kay to call him to talk about Adam (source). I believe this call was most likely the impetus for Cheryl Cox (Adam’s then wife) reaching out.
• There’s no reference to these videos ever being passed on to Det Moffat or admitted into evidence. I searched all the FOIA docs released to date for references to ‘record’ (to capture variants like ‘recording’ and ‘recorded’), ‘dropbox’, ‘audio’, and ‘mp3’.
• Kay didn’t pass on Chad’s name, which would have been critical. In fact, she said she didn’t know his name, but she absolutely did. She told Dr. Phil that she first heard Chad Daybell’s name about a year ago (source), and that episode was recorded in Feb 2020. And she had at least five of his documents that she passed on to LE.
• Charles didn’t merely suspect Lori was having an affair. He had evidence she was having an affair. There’s a big difference. Evidence included:
  • Lori traveled to Idaho Falls 3/3/19  (source).
  • Chad revealed he stayed at Lori and Charles’ home. But all Charles knew about at the time was “a bunch of really weird ladies” (source 1 // source 2). 🎯
  • Lori created a fictitious email account (kkwalker75@yahoo.com) to communicate with Chad and invite him to visit her in AZ under the guise of ghostwriting a book for Charles (source 1 // source 2 // source 3).
  • He confronted Chad about the affair he KNEW they were having, not suspected them of having (source).
  • He exposed their affair to Tammy (source).
  • Who knows what else since Charles had access to ALL of Lori’s emails and anything she saved in her Google Drive account: “She sent this yesterday and I guess she forgot all her emails are on the computer at my house” (source).

7/25/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat that she didn’t know the cult leader’s name (source).

Notes: 

• This wasn’t true. Not only did Kay know Chad’s name, Charles had passed on an email exchange between Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow as early as 3/9/19 (source 1 // source 2).
• Charles found the documents Chad sent to Lori, with ratings of her family members, on 1/23/19 (source).
• She also says that Charles found one of the videos Lori sent Chad, but we know from his text to Adam that he found three—plus songs she sang for him (source).

7/25/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat that she’s hiring a private investigator to see if Lori has her “NEXT” husband lined up, and he asks her to keep him updated on the PI’s findings (source).

Notes: 

• According to a Facebook post Kay published in May 2020, she didn’t hire a private investigator until October 2019 (source).
• His name was Rich Robertson, and he made it clear in an interview, when asked about the kids, that he was hired to look for adults–to wit, Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) and Alex Cox—not kids (source 1 // source 2). He was asked if he had seen JJ after he got back from Rexburg.
• Kay already knew about Chad and Lori’s affair—and that Charles even had evidence of videos Lori had been sending Chad as well as dalliances—so it’s baffling that she didn’t disclose this information to Det Moffat as it provided potential motive for murder.

7/26/19: Chad Daybell texts Lori Vallow and complains that he feels like a grownup version of Harry Potter (source):

7/29/19: Tammy Daybell’s phone data starts (source). 

Note: This may indicate Tammy bought a new phone or her data was wiped.

7/29/19: Kay Woodcock makes another reference to Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat about needing to learn how to use Dropbox to send him recordings (source).

Notes: 

• Kay’s first reference to Dropbox was on 7/19 (source). There are no further references to using Dropbox and no evidence in the FOIA docs that she ever sent any of the recordings of Lori Vallow she claimed to have. I searched all the FOIA docs released to date for references to ‘record’ (to capture variants like ‘recording’ and ‘recorded’), ‘dropbox’, ‘audio’, and ‘mp3’. It appears that she never downloaded the app or sent these recordings to Det Moffat. If there’s an update, I’ll note it the timeline.
• The references to recordings I’ve seen to date have been the following:
  • 7/18/19: A 25-minute call between Kay and Lori
  • Videos of Lori dancing Charles found from Jan 2019  (source 1 // source 2).
  • Voice recording(s) Kay made of Charles’ and Lori’s interaction on 3/28/19 (source).
  • Charles’ recordings of Lori’s outrageous claims (source). Kay claimed early on that some of Charles’ recordings had been deleted:

Charles told me he had recordings of her. He said, “Nobody will believe me,” and he recorded her one night. Even though it’s deleted, nothing is ever deleted electronically or whatever. However that is.

7/29/19 – 7/31/19: Lori Vallow travels to Oceanside, CA, with Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski), and Alex Cox (source).

7/30/19: Chad Daybell texts Lori Vallow and rates JJ Vallow as a 2 and Tammy Daybell as a 3, adding that they are both “heavily shielded to stop intruders” (source).

7/30/19: Chad Daybell texts Lori Vallow about Tammy Daybell’s “death percentages” (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).

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 Vallow was shot—and not the victim of suicide as Lori Vallow had told them—L.I.F.E. Academy files a report with Arizona’s Department of Child Safety (DCS) (source).

Notes: 

• This was the second time L.I.F.E. Academy made report with DCS. They also filed a report 2/21/19, after Charles told them Lori was MIA (source). Also, according to records that have been released so far, they were the only ones who filed a report with DCS/CPS before the kids were confirmed to be missing.
• Kay Woodcock filed a report with AZ DCS and ID CPS 12/9/19, two weeks after the welfare check, but it was for the purpose of getting custody of JJ Vallow if he was found (source).
• Although Larry Woodcock told Dr. Phil in Feb 2020 that they made multiple calls to CPS after finding out about Tammy Daybell’s death in October (source), this is the first reference I’ve found in the FOIA docs that mentions them actually reaching out to AZ DCS or ID CPS.
• Kay told Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat that she planned to reach out to one of JJ’s old social workers in Louisiana in hopes that she would open the door to DCS in AZ on 9/25 (source), but there’s no confirmation she ever reached out to DCS in AZ or CPS in Idaho when she found out that Lori had moved there (which I believe was the next day, 9/26).

Aug 2019: Lori Vallow has a welcome lunch for Sarena sometime after she moved to Queen Creek, AZ. According to Sarena, other participants include Zulema Pastenes, Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski), Alex Cox, and Nicole (source).

8/1/19: Chandler PD receives a copy of the police report from Alex Cox’s assault on Lori Vallow’s third husband, Joseph Ryan (source).

8/1/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

8/1/19: Zulema Pastenes arrives in Dallas, TX, from Santiago, Chile via American Airlines 940 (source).

Note: The screenshot of the travel record is redacted so there’s no name. But the indictment for Lori Vallow in the death of her third husband Charles Vallow included a conversation between Zulema and Julie Clement on 7/12 where she said she would be leaving for Chile that Monday (July 15th), which lines up with the departure date in the screenshot (source // p11).

8/2/19: Lori’s friend, Sarena, flies into Phoenix to look at houses in Queen Creek (source).

8/2/19: Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat talks to Charles Vallow’s brother, Bobby Vallow (source).

Notes: 

• Bobby and Kay Woodcock’s emails indicates they spoke 9/24/19 (source 1 // source 2).
• Det Moffat told Bobby that Alex’s gun rights had been restored. An FBI intelligence analyst proved Det Moffat wrong on this claim. Alex Cox was a prohibited possessor, meaning that his rights to own firearms had not been restored (source).

8/2/19: Melanie Gibb has David Warwick speak at one of her meetings and share his testimony (source). Chad Daybell comes into town for it, and Zulema reports this was the first time she saw Lori Vallow and Chad be romantic with each other (source).

8/2/19: Lori Vallow stores a number LE believes belonged to Alex Cox on her main Lori4style account** (source).

**If my unredaction is correct.

8/2/19: Chandler PD Det Moffat asks Kay Woodcock to call him to talk about Adam Cox (source).

8/3/19: Charles Vallow is laid to rest in Louisiana (source).

8/3/19: Melanie Gibb speaks at conference in Northern AZ (source).

8/3/19 – 8/4/19: Jason Mow is in Rexburg, ID (source).

8/4/19: This is most likely the date of the infamous August “prayer circle” (aka “casting”). Those who were reported to be at this meeting include Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, Melanie Gibb, David Warwick, Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski), Alex Cox, Zulema Pastenes, and Julie Clement (source 1 // source 2 // source 3). Melanie couldn’t remember who they did castings for when she talked to Chandler Police in August 2020 and thought they may have just prayed for the earth in general (source), but then she told Rexburg Police the following year they did castings on Tammy Daybell and Brandon Boudreaux but was again vague on details (source).

Notes: 

• I deduced this was the date because on 8/2 Lori told Zulema in a text message, “I need us all to get together on Sunday night.” Sunday was Aug 4th. The next day they have an exchange about getting ahold of Julie, and we know Julie Clement was at this casting by her interview with investigators (source).
• I’m suspicious of Melanie’s claim that they didn’t do castings on the children because Sarena specifically (though very cautiously) included Tylee Ryan as being one of the people who was “dark or possessed” (source).
• Melanie Gibb didn’t include Zulema in her list but Julie did.8/4/19: Tylee Ryan’s last post on Snapchat that a friend saved (source).

Note: There’s no record of Chandler police getting a search warrant for Tylee’s Snapchat or Instagram accounts, only Facebook, which she wasn’t very active on.

8/5/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan with a description of “🧡!!” (source 1 // source 2).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

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

8/6/19: The rest of Sarena’s family fly to Phoenix to move there (source).

8/7/19: Kelsee Ryan starts a GoFundMe for medical bills (source).

Note: This is notable because there were two Venmo payments to Colby this week (8/1 and 8/5). The FOIA docs obscure who made which payments; all we know is it was Tylee or Lori. We also don’t know if this was the original amount of the GFM. To wit, the GFM for Colby in Jan 2020 went from $15k to $10k to $7.5k (the last two on the same day) and then ended at $20k after the kids’ remains were found.

8/7/19: Zulema Pastenes asks Lori Vallow if she had said she was supposed to marry Alex Cox, thus proving their marriage was arranged by Lori and Chad (source).

8/7/19: Melanie Gibb’s divorce is finalized from her husband Brendan (source 1 // source 2).

8/8/19: Lori Vallow trades in her Infiniti for her Nissan Rogue (source).

8/8/19: A photo of JJ Vallow and his service dog Bailey is stored in Lori’s Lollytime iCloud account (source 1 // photo).

Note: “Lori4style” didn’t fit in the redaction, and Lollytime fit well, but unredacting documents isn’t an exact science. Also, the photo I include is the only photo I found in the FOIA docs of JJ and Bailey.

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: Lori 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.)

8/9/19: Kay Woodcock expresses grave concern about JJ Vallow’s safety and wellbeing and asks Det Moffat to check on him at school (source).

Note: 

• Kay says Lori stopped replying to texts and calls after her text about five kids and no money.
• It’s notable that she says they’re “extremely worried” and “can’t lose [JJ] too” and “now that she doesn’t have $1mm, she really won’t want him now” because some say she just couldn’t have ever imagined that Lori would actually hurt JJ, but this is precisely the concern she expressed to Det Moffat (at reiterated this concern on 8/11 and 9/26).
• Kay mentions that Lori’s “screwed unless she has a new boyfriend with deep pockets. Who knows???” But she knew because she knew Lori’s boyfriend was Chad Daybell. Charles had forwarded her interactions between Chad and Lori, such as Lori’s five family history documents (see related entries for 1/22/19). He also discovered videos of her singing and dancing for Chad, which he sent to Adam Cox (see related entry for 6/29/19). I imagine he also sent these to Kay as she has mentioned them in interviews (source).

8/8/19: Adam Cox’s then-wife, Nicole Cox, emails Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat where she makes claims that contradict Adam and Zac’s stories of where they were on 7/11/19 – 7/13/19 and criticizes Tylee Ryan as a “terrible human being that kid,” claiming she “hated Charles [Vallow] for no reason (source).

8/9/19: Lori Vallow’s brother, Adam Cox, is interviewed by Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat (source).

Note: There are many concerns with Adam’s testimony, which caused even Det Moffat to lose faith in him before they spoke (source). I addressed some of these concerns in my first A Murderous Heart live (source). You can use the jump links in the description to hop around.

8/10/19: The last time Kay Vallow Woodcock hears from JJ Vallow via FaceTime. Call was reportedly 36 seconds long (source 1 // source 2). According to Kay, this was the last of three FaceTime calls they had with JJ since Charles had been murdered (source). They will be edged out of JJ Vallow’s life for a little more three months, with multiple attempts to get ahold of him (source).

Note: Kay and Larry apparently told Keith that in November they didn’t know that Lori had moved to Idaho, but Kay said in their 20/20 interview that they found out in September that Lori had moved to Idaho but just didn’t have an apartment number (source).

8/10/19: Kay Vallow Woodcock texts Lori Vallow to ask to see JJ. She says, “We’re not up to anything except to see our little boy.” Kay says she never received a response from Lori (source 1 // source 2).

8/10/19: Lori Vallow texts Chad Daybell to check on JJ Vallow (source):

8/11/19: Lori Vallow sends Chad Daybell a text telling him to go back to his family (source):

U should give all of you [sic] love and your attention to your wife and family. I’m just a distraction. Go have fun with your family. I really do want you to. I just can’t be in the way anymore. If things change we can talk. But we have nothing until things change anyway. 

Notes: 

• This was Chad’s birthday, so I imagine Lori was green with jealousy that she wasn’t celebrating with him. And being the malignant narcissist that she is, she found a way to put the focus of the day solidly on herself.
• I believe this was most likely when Chad told Lori she was supposed to move to Idaho because she would take a screenshot of a rental home just three days later, and two weeks after that she would move to Rexburg.
• Two days later she sent a screenshot of malachite wedding rings to Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski), so her threat was effective.

8/11/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler Police Det Nathan Moffat that she wishes Lori Vallow would ask her to exchange JJ Vallow for money (source):

I wish she would call and ask for money if she gives us JJ. I KNOW that’s on her mind…it would be stupid on her part (emphasis not mine).

8/12/19: Lori Vallow has an appointment with someone at Social Security in Apache Junction, AZ. She’s told the benefit amount she’s entitled to, which the indictment notes was close to the $4,000 she had reported to Chad Daybell in July (source). 

Note: See entry for 7/18/19 to learn more about Lori’s text message to Chad Daybell about Charles’ life insurance policy.

8/13/19: Kay Vallow Woodcock tells Chandler Det Nathan Moffat that Lori Vallow told her Tylee was emancipated (source).

Note: This has since been proved false. Lori wouldn’t have been charged with desertion if Tylee had been an adult in the eyes of the state since she would have had all the rights and responsibilities of an adult. Kay thought Moffat would be able to be tougher with her because of her adult status.

8/13/19: Kay Woodcock asks Chandler Det Nathan Moffat for help finding Charles Vallow’s truck (source) and passed on a pic of his license plate (source). Moffat replied letting her know the license plate and VIN on the truck (source 1 // source 2).

8/13/19: Zulema Pastenes shares a dream she had about Sarena with Lori Vallow where she put her hands on her and “started sobbing and blessing her with humbleness” (source).

8/14/19: Lori Vallow takes a screenshot of SereniTi rings on Etsy that was similar to the rings in her wedding photos (source). She even sends a screenshot of them to her niece Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) (source).

Note: This strongly suggests Melani was aware that Tammy was predicted to die so Lori and Chad could marry. Lori also told Colby Ryan a month earlier that she planned to remarry (source), so Lori wasn’t hiding her plans from family.

8/14/19: A photo of 295 Ella Ln, Rexburg is created and stored in Lori Vallow’s iCloud account (source).

8/15/19: Lori Vallow purchases wedding rings for herself (size 4) and Chad (size 11.5) on Etsy for $129.99 (source 1 // source 2).

Notes: 

• The artist later canceled the order and refunded her money because he didn’t have time to make the ring.
• They were glow in the dark. 😂

8/15/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat that she can’t remember the cult leader’s name (source).

8/15/19: According to Colby Ryan’s 11/26/19 interview with Gilbert PD investigators, this is the approximate Lori Vallow stops by his work, alone, to tell him she was moving (source).

Note: See note below for issues with this claim.

8/16/19: Approximate date Colby Ryan says Lori Vallow stopped back by his work—this time with Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow—to say goodbye. He says they were traveling in her blue Nissan Rogue and that Lori wouldn’t tell him where they were moving for his own protection (source).

8/16/19: Lori Vallow moves Tylee Ryan’s Social Security benefit deposit from Tylee’s Chase account to her own (source).

Note: This occurred three weeks before Tylee was murdered and two weeks before they moved to Rexburg.

8/17/19: Lori Vallow reserves a moving van with Budget in preparation for her move (source).

8/18/19: Melanie Gibb (aka “Phebe” who was Lori’s daughter in a previous life) and other undisclosed women meet at Lori Vallow’s home (source).

Note: According to the call log between Zulema Pastenes and Lori Vallow, this was an inclusive list that included Sarena, who had just moved to Arizona (source). Sarena also confirmed she went to Lori’s home at this time (source). It probably wouldn’t have been July since she moved to Arizona in August.

8/20/19 – 8/25/19: Lori Vallow travels from Phoenix to Idaho and back under the name Lori Ryan. She takes pics of Kennedy Elementary School, JJ’s future elementary school, and BYU. It appears she stayed at Hampton Inn in Rexburg and planned to also check out homes at 44 2nd South and 295 Ella Lane (source 1 // source 2).

Note: Just nine days earlier Lori had told Chad to go back to his family (see related entry for 8/11). 🙄

8/21/19: Zulema Pastenes tells Lori Vallow she got her answer that she would move to Rexburg eventually but not at this time (source).

8/22/19: Lori Vallow and Melanie Gibb begin a new podcast called Feel the Fire. They kick it off with an episode titled ‘Feel the Fire ~ Seeking & Finding Sweet Jesus’ (source 1 // source 2). Description:

Melanie Gibb & Lori Vallow team up sharing how some of the most extreme types of challenges helped them find miracles in the reality of our Best Friend and lover of our souls: Jesus Christ. How did they experience from one extreme to another? How did they surrender their old beliefs, stuck hearts and hurt? Matthew 18:20 ‘For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.’ Come experience hope from hurt, and healing from help of spiritual rebirth.

Note: In just two weeks’ time, Tylee Ryan’s remains would [allegedly] be burned in a fire on Chad Daybell’s property.

8/22/19: Kay Woodcock forwards an email exchange between Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell that contained attachments of Lori’s writings to Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat (source 1 // source 2).

Notes:

• Charles had forwarded it to Kay on 3/9/19, but he found it on or before 1/24/19 (source). And the “Family history documents” email on or before 1/23/19 (source).
• I included the email Kay forwarded to the FBI on 1/4/20 (see “source 1” above) because it shows the attachments.
• Kay mentions Chad’s name in passing without any context of who he was. On 7/25 she said she didn’t know Chad’s name (source), and on 8/15 she said she couldn’t remember his name (source). She told Dr. Phil that she first heard Chad Daybell’s name about a year ago (source), and that episode was recorded in Feb 2020, so this would align with Charles finding this email from Chad to Lori—which had both his name and email address—and passing it on to Kay. Now she drops his name without circling back and identifying him as the cult leader. The first time she identifies Chad as the cult leader is 10/28 (source). By then Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow, and Tammy Daybell had all been murdered [allegedly] and Brandon Boudreaux had been shot at.
• Tylee Ryan received the darkest rating of any living person on the list—eclipsed only by her father, Joseph Ryan, who had been designated as “sealed away.” And they knew that Charles had been murdered for being a dark spirit. So I’ve always been mystified why family members didn’t advocate for Tylee—not even after Brandon Boudreaux was shot at, who had also been rated a dark spirit. I found an email Charles had sent this same week to a number of members of the Cox family. They included Colby Ryan, Adam Cox, Summer Shiflet, and Barry Cox (source). I redacted the email addresses and only included identifying information from the email address if Charles didn’t have the email address saved in his contacts. Colby even said Charles was sending out emails and tagging everyone in the family (source). We don’t know [yet] how many of these friends and family members knew Chad had identified Tylee as a dark spirit, but there’s no evidence in the FOIA docs that anyone advocated for her. If they had when they found out Charles had been murdered for being a dark spirit, it would have communicated to Chandler Police that Charles’ murder was premeditated and there were more people who were at risk.
• We know from the Netflix “Sins of our Mother” documentary (and I use that word very loosely) that Charles even appealed to Colby and Kelsee to help Tylee because she had been identified as a dark spirit (source).
• Even when Kay finds out that Tylee is missing too, it appears she still doesn’t pass on the documents where she was identified as a dark spirit, only the more esoteric email with Lori’s documents and comments that Lori and Chad “wouldn’t want this info for public viewing.” Her focus seemed to be more on Lori and Chad’s humiliation than advocating for potential victims.

8/24/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

8/25/19: Kay Vallow Woodcock sends Lori Vallow another email begging to FaceTime and visit JJ (source).

8/27/19: Lori sets up residency at 565 Pioneer Road, including internet and utilities (source). This is confirmed by her apartment being taken off the market (source)

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: According to Colby Ryan, in his interview with FOX 10 reporter Justin Lum, Lori Vallow stops by his workplace to tell him in the parking lot that she, Tylee Ryan, and JJ Vallow were moving the next day (source). She also told him they’d be back every couple weeks (source).

Note: There are a contradictions between Colby’s testimony to Gilbert Police and his interview with Justin:

1. The Rogue would’ve most likely stood out in his mind because she had just bought it the prior week (see relevant entry for 8/8/19).
2. Since Lori didn’t move until 8/31, it wouldn’t have made sense for Lori to have said goodbye two weeks beforehand. Even if she had, they lived minutes apart. He could have stopped by the house to hang with them in those two weeks. According to this story, Tylee and JJ wouldn’t have even had the opportunity to see their infant niece one last time.
3. Colby told FOX 10 reporter Justin Lum in Feb 2020 that Lori and the kids came by his work on 8/30 to tell him they were moving (source). In that interview, there was only one visit, and they were in Tylee’s Jeep, not the Rogue (source).
4. There are also contradictions on where Tylee and JJ were for the 8/30 FaceTime. He told GPD investigators they were in Rexburg for it (source), but he told Justin that they hadn’t moved yet (source).
5. Colby told Dr. Phil that their 8/30 FaceTime was normal. He said, “It didn’t seem like anything crazy. They were just trying to, you know, live their normal lives, and we were just talking like normal” (source). But this would have been the day before they moved, so there would have been nothing normal about that.
6. Colby told Justin Tylee didn’t get out of the car but then said he hugged her goodbye in his Netflix documentary (source). It’s a small detail but it’s not the only account he changed to sound more favorable in a later interview.

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

Note: See the previous entry for a breakdown of contradictions between his interview with Justin Lum and Gilbert Police.

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 another family because she could no longer care for the pet due to a “change in life circumstances” (source).

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. I can’t imagine how distraught JJ was when Bailey was ripped away from him again, just to pick up and move to Rexburg the next day.

8/31/19: Lori Vallow moves with Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow to Rexburg, ID—what she refers to as “Zion” (source).

Notes: 

• Colby Ryan said he was worried about the kids but couldn’t focus on them because Kelsee had gotten pregnant with Ryley, and it was a difficult pregnancy (source). But Ryley was six months old when Lori and the kids moved (source). He also admits here that Tylee believed she was in danger, which makes his lack of intervention when he couldn’t get ahold of her in September that much more baffling. I believe the Venmo paper trail explains his and Kelsee’s silence best (source). #jmo
• Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) said in an interview with EIN reporter Nate Eaton that Alex’s name was on the lease of Lori’s apartment (source).

8/31/19: According to a friend of Tylee Ryan, Tylee called her as she was driving to Rexburg because she was driving by herself and didn’t want to drive alone (source).

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

Late August: JJ Vallow says to his teacher, “My dad is not in heaven; he is traveling” (source).

👉 Sep 2019: Kay and Larry Woodcock find out that Lori and the kids moved to Idaho. Kay says in their 20/20 interview that they just didn’t have an apartment number (video snippet // episode).

Sep 2019: Lori Vallow’s neighbor, Leah, says Lori asked if she could hear her and Alex Cox singing karaoke late the night before. Leah says she told Lori no but thought the inquiry was weird in looking back (source).

Note: I strongly suspect this happened the night Tylee Ryan was murdered, and they turned up music to drown out her protests.

9/2/19: Alex Cox and Zulema Pastenes have a disturbing text exchange about Tylee Ryan (source):

Z: How was the trip?

A: Pretty good considering the dark portal we brought with us

Z: ?

A: Tylee

A: can you call a tornado for a single person?

Z: Tornado? Hummmm Maybe an inner tornado

A: Inner is good

Z: I think you guys will be led to deal with the dark one when it`s time

A: Agreed

A: Es cierto. Spanish tranbslation “It`s true”.

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

9/3/19: Lori Vallow and Alex Cox exchange a series of texts where she first tells him she’s “working on Z’s. He replies, “No more Z’s.” Then Lori identifies Adam and Zac Cox as zombies and calls for their destruction (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 tells staff over the phone that she accepted a position out of state (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).

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.

9/6/19: Alex Cox’s phone pings at Chad Daybell’s house. He’s there from 12:41 to 12:53 and stays in and around the house. His phone does not ping in the backyard where Tylee and JJ were later buried (source).

9/7/19: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from L.I.F.E. Academy, his old school (source).

Note: Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19, five days after moving to Rexburg, ID.

9/7/19: Less than 48 hours before Tylee Ryan was murdered and her remains incinerated, Lori Vallow and Melanie Gibb publish a podcast titled “What Is a Baptism of Fire?” (source).

Description reads: Following up on their first Feel the Fire Podcast, Melanie and Lori share what their “Baptism of Fire” was like with insightful references that an ancient wiseman Nephi spoke about. How did it help Melanie in her own life with a Special Needs son, with feeling like she didn’t know how to naviagate her challenges, and what it took for her to experience that clean feeling in her heart. Lori is so descriptive with ways that “fire” can feel to all of us, and how that has manifest in her life. She speaks from great conviction and experience that we all can learn from.

9/7/19: Tylee Ryan’s last post on Instagram (source).

9/8/19: Tylee Ryan’s phone pings in Yellowstone National Park at 1:09pm. Also the FBI says there is footage of JJ at the park walking/running along the walkway in front of Old Faithful geyser (source).

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 [Tyle] being with Lori Vallow,” the affidavit of probable cause says. “We have found no witnesses who can verify they have seen [Tylee] since Sept. 8, 2019” (source).

9/8/19: The last date Tylee Ryan is mentioned in text messages (source).

Note: It’s unclear if the report means between Alex Cox and Zulema Pastenes since it follows on the heels of a text exchange between them or if it means among these group memb.

9/8/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

9/9/19: Approximate date Tylee Ryan is allegedly buried on Chad Daybell’s property (source).

9/9/19: Alex Cox’s phone pings for the day (source):

02:42am: His phone pings at Lori’s apartment.**
03:37am: He leaves Lori’s apartment.
04:37am: He arrives home. It hasn’t been disclosed where he was during this hour.
08:59am: He leaves his apartment.
09:21am: He arrives at Chad’s. (Note: There’s no mention of him stopping by Lori’s so it’s possible he already had Tylee’s corpse. It’s also possible that in the hour that’s unaccounted for, he was delivering Tylee’s corpse to Chad.)
10:47am: His phone pings in St. Anthony, a neighboring town. It’s unknown if it just pinged off a different tower or if he left Chad’s property and later returned.
10:57am: His phone pings at the Daybell property again.
11:39am: Final time his phone pings at the Daybell property.
11:52am: His phone pings at the Del Taco in Rexburg.
12:02pm: He leaves the Del Taco and spends most of the rest of the day in his apartment.

Note: The affidavit of probable cause for Chad Daybell noted that this was the only time in September Alex appears to go to Lori’s apartment between the hours of 12 am and 6 am.

9/9/19: Chad Daybell sends his then-wife Tammy Daybell a text about shooting a “large raccoon” and “burning limbs” on the property Tylee Ryan’s charred remains would later be found on (source).

CD (11:53): Well, I’ve had an interesting morning! I felt I should burn all of the limb debris by the fire pit before it got too soaked by the coming storms. While I did so, I spotted a big racoon [sic] along the fence. I hurried and got my gun, and he was still walking along. I got close enough that one shot did the trick. He is now in our pet cemetery. Fun times!

CD (11:56): Gonna shower now and then go write for a while at BYU. Love you!

TD (2:47): Good for you!

CD (2:48): I’m back home now

Note: Chad sent this text only 14 minutes after Alex Cox had left his property.

9/9/19: Reegen Price hears a gunshot coming from Chad Daybell’s property (source).

Note: It’s unknown at this time if Price is a neighbor or just happened to be in the area that day.

9/10/19: Tylee Ryan’s Venmo account shows a payment to her older half brother, Colby Ryan, with “❤️” in the description field (source).

Note: With the exception of the first payment in her Venmo, Tylee always used orange hearts with two exclamation marks, so having two transactions with a single red heart and no exclamation marks were most likely an indicator to Colby that these payments weren’t being sent by Tylee, especially since he told Dr. Phil that her texts didn’t sound like her as early as 9/28 (source).

9/10/19: Zulema Pastenes and Alex Cox start to refer to Chad as “James the Lesser” (Jesus’ younger brother) or JTL in text messages (source).

9/11/19: No more conversations between Chad Daybell’s “Bubby” burner phone and Lori Vallow (source).

9/11/19: Alex Cox visits Pawn 1 in Ammon, Idaho (source).

9/12/19: Lori Vallow searches for Charles Vallow’s tax return (source).

9/12/19: Lori Vallow emails Alex Cox’s landlord in Arizona to tell him/her that Alex had been in a car accident and wouldn’t be able to return (source).

9/13/19 – 9/16/19: There are emails between Lori Vallow and “AZDES” (source).

Note: This may stand for the Arizona Dept of Economic Security. This department handles child support services, among others (source). I wonder why Lori would’ve been emailing with them since she had moved from Arizona just two weeks earlier.

9/14/19: Lori Vallow texts Alex Cox to tell him she was going to Walgreeen’s to pick up JJ’s medicine. The Chandler Police Report notes no medicine was picked up for JJ that day (source).

Note: Alex wasn’t exactly a caring individual, and Lori wasn’t maternal at this point in their [alleged] murder spree, so I do wonder if this was code for something that would serve as a sedative.

9/14/19: Alex Cox tells Zulema Pastenes Lori Vallow fell asleep with him (source).

Note: It’s unclear what the relevance of this text was, if any, but it was included in one of the timelines in the Gilber Police report.

9/14/19: A photo of JJ Vallow sitting on a ride at Yellowstone Bear World, just south of Rexburg, is stored in Lori Vallow’s iCloud account (source).

9/15/19: Chandler PD interview Alex Cox’s first wife, Debbie, who tells them about Alex’s and Lori Vallow’s inappropriate behavior, such as Alex touching her breasts, and Alex and Lori simulating sex (source).

9/15/19 – 9/17/19: Zulema Pastenes visits Lori Vallow in Rexburg (source).

9/16/19: Chad Daybell is a guest on Lori Vallow and Melanie Gibb’s third podcast, titled “Feel the Fire ~ Chad Daybell Sharing Jesus’ Love” (source 1 // source 2 // recording). Description:

Emerging from a Spring and Summer break, Chad Daybell joins Lori and Melanie to share things he has been shown about the Savior of the World with insights from 2 Near-Death Experiences and a visionary gift that was opened up to him because of his visits “Beyond the Veil.” You can see a 10 Episode Series with Chad called ‘Beyond the Veil’ here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/glimpses Chad is the publisher and Owner of Springcreek Books and has written 25 books of his own. https://www.springcreekbooks.com.

9/17/19: The Gilbert Police report notes this was the last time Lori Vallow mentions either Tylee Ryan or JJ Vallow in text messages with Zulema Pastenes. She said she was dropping off JJ at school and would then meet her at the temple (source).

Note: This was the last day of Zulema’s Rexburg visit.

9/17/19: Lori Vallow’s neighbor in Rexburg, ID, captures footage of JJ Vallow playing outside (source 1, 00:57 minute mark // source 2).

9/17/19: Brandon Boudreaux sees JJ Vallow and lets Kay Vallow Woodcock know he’s okay (source).

Notes: 

• This is a new piece of information that came out in the Chandler FOIA document dump. This was only five days before JJ was last seen.
• I suspect Brandon was monitoring Melani via a tablet registered to him, according to a legend found in the FOIA docs (source).
• Zulema had just left this same day and both she and Melani appear to have been clued in that JJ wouldn’t be around long (source 1 // source 2 // source 3 // source 4), so I wonder if Melani was possibly FaceTiming with Lori and captured a screenshot with JJ in it and Brandon saw it when it synched to her iCloud account. I took a deep dive into this theory in this YouTube Live (24:50 min mark).
• Kay also notes that she found Charles’ truck at Colby Ryan’s apartment and passes on his address.

9/17/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) asks Brandon Boudreaux for his new address (source).

9/17/19: Melanie Gibb publishes a book titled Feel the Fire (source).

Product details:
Publisher: Gibb Publishing (September 17, 2019)
Language: English
Paperback: 100 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0578492629

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 (source). 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.

Read the entire Twitter thread for 9/18 here.

9/18/19: Kay Vallow Woodcock sends Lori Vallow another email begging to be able to call, FaceTime, and visit with JJ (source).

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

• Lori joked that sometimes she gives JJ his meds early so he’ll go to sleep earlier to give her a break.
• Lori told her that her brother, Alex Cox, is going to come over and they’re going to the Idaho Falls Airport.
• Alex 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 (who we now know was Melanie Gibb) 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.

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, 35:05).

Note: This claim has never been verified, and one confidential source said this claim was false.

9/19/19 – 9/23/19: Melanie Gibb visits Lori Vallow in Rexburg (source 1 // source 2).

Notes:

• Tylee was already missing, and Melanie said Lori never so much as mentioned her, except to say she was at BYU.
• If Lori told Melanie that Tylee was at BYU, why would she need to additionally mention she was with friends? It seems like this may have been an attempt at coordination with Melani Boudreaux’s (now Pawlowski’s) claims that Tylee was with friends (source).
• She said in this question that it could have been possible, but “it didn’t feel like it” and that there were “question marks” and “didn’t feel like the truth.”
• Melanie Gibb told a friend that when she asked Lori about Tylee being at BYU, Lori looked at her like, “Yeah, she’s dead” (source).

9/20/19 – 9/23/19: David Warwick joins Melanie Gibb in Rexburg and also stays in Lori Vallow’s home (source 1 // source 2). He claims that Lori told him Alex Cox came and took JJ away because he was acting like a zombie and climbing on top of the kitchen cabinets. He testified that he didn’t believe Lori’s story but left with Melanie Gibb afterwards and didn’t call in a welfare check.

Notes:

• David was still married at the time of this visit (source).
• Melanie told Rexburg Police Det Ray Hermosillo that they slept in the same room when he arrived (source). This is what Lori was probably referring to when she called out Melanie’s hypocrisy in their recorded call (source). Melanie: “Oh honey……………..I think that’s not what we’re talking about here.” 👀

9/21/19: Preparing a People host an event called “Book of Mormon Evidence and a Universal Model of Science” in Rexburg, ID (source).

Note: It’s not clear who from this group of followers attended this event or who stayed with JJ Vallow. All we know is it wasn’t the nanny Lori had hired a couple days before.

9/21/19: Lori Vallow and Zulema Pastenes have a bizarre text exchange where Lori tells her about people who are seeking her instruction and Zulema seems to indicate she knew something sinister was about to go down (source). Highlights include:

Lori: If anybody asks about me or where I moved. You can just say that I moved in with my brother in queen creek. Especially those who seek my destruction.

Zulema: I don’t talk to anyone about you at all…Wait… who’s seeking your destruction?

Lori: Lots of people. Sarena and Christina in particular. My family and such

Zulema: That makes sense…I think that’s best that you stay hidden. I’m staying quiet as if nothing is happening…

9/22/19: A picture is taken of JJ Vallow sitting on a couch. It was found by law enforcement in Lori Vallow’s iCloud account (source). It was taken at 10:46 am MT, and he’s wearing red pajamas (source 1 // source 2).

Note: JJ was wearing red pajamas when he was found in a shallow grave on Chad Daybell’s property 6/9/20.

9/22/19: Lori Vallow and Alex Cox have a cryptic text exchange, which was deleted from Lori Vallow’s account but retrieved through the extraction process (source):

8:55 am
Lori: “Hey bub. Go to lds.org and watch the new Book of Mormon video. So good. Looks like you will appear in episode 2 ????”

8:56 am
Lori: “Ps do you have eggs ??”

9:48 am
Alex: “I’m open. How about you?”

9:49 am
Lori: “Me too. They are still on the bedroom so not sure what their plan is but they should be up soon ??”

10:21 am
Alex: “Ok. Let me know. Do you want me to get eggs and bring them to u?”

12:11 pm
Lori: “Come on over ”

12:14 pm
Lori: “Let’s meet chad at terrestrial temple in 20 min”

12:14 pm
Alex: “Ok”

12:18 pm
Lori: “R u ready to go ?”

12:31 pm
Lori: “Going now. Can u meet us there?”

12:31 pm
Lori: “How do I get there?”

1:47 pm
Lori: “Should we take th to bear world today ??”

Note: Curious what “th” is short for. I suspect it’s code for JJ. Maybe a moniker.

1:47 pm
Lori: “R u still there? ”

2:17 pm
Lori: “R y coming home?”

3:07 pm
Lori: “???”

6:28 pm
Lori: “R u ever coming back ?”

6:28 pm
Alex: “Yes just waiting on charisa for a fresh sealing.”

Below I’ll add details to this timeline from Det Ray Hermosillo’s interview of Melanie Gibb (source).

Dinnertime
Det: “Do you guys go to dinner or do you make dinner on Sunday night?”

Melanie: “Oh, we would make it because we don’t go to eat on dinner, so we would make it at home.”

Det: “So everybody’s at home.”

Melanie: “Mmhmm.”

Det: “Does Lori leave anywhere with JJ?”

Melanie: “I don’t have any memory of her leaving.”

Det: “Lori sent a text to you around 8:30 that evening saying something to the effect of, ‘Hey, I’ll be there shortly. JJ woke up’ and she’s getting him back to bed.”

Melanie: “Hmm.” *panicked expression*

Det: “You know where she was at or where you were at when she sent that text?”

Melanie: “Gosh.” *pregnant pause* “That doesn’t sound familiar.” *pregnant pause* “Maybe at Alex’s house. I mean that’s the only—” *shrug* “That’s the only other place that she could be.”

Lt Ball: “Do you have that conversation with her on your phone right now?”

Melanie: “Noo. I think I deleted everything. I was freaked out when it happened. Sorry.” *nervous laugh* “I wish I would have kept it. Sorry.”

Lt Ball: “That’s alright.”

Det: “So— And I can get that—”

Melanie: “Say it again! So who’s speaking? Say it again!” *closes eyes*

Det: “So Lori—”

Melanie: “She texts me and says—”

Det: “And says something to the effect of, “I’ll be there shortly—”

Melanie: “I’ll be there shortly—” *taps finger across table dramatically* 👇👇👇👇

Det: “JJ woke up and I’m trying to get him back to sleep.”

Melanie: “And that was at night—”

Det: “It was about 8:30 at night.”

Melanie: “Well— Okay cuz we didn’t do the podcast yet.”

Det: “Yeah.”

Melanie: “We started the podcast late cuz I remember thinking, ‘Man, I can’t stay up this late! I’m an early bird. Like c’monn. We started late— And she’s an early bird too. So, it must’ve been— My guess, my GUESS is that it must’ve been at Alex’s house, getting him to sleep over there. I’m guessing. So I’m just gonna make some guesses that— cuz she would’ve never gone to Chad’s house because Tammy was there, right? So where else in the world would she go?”

Det: “Right but—”

Melanie: “I have no idea.”

Det: “And that’s why I’m asking if you— Do you remember her— Do you remember being alone in her apartment and her not there? Cuz if she’s at Alex’s you’re alone in her apartment.”

Melanie: “I could’ve been upstairs or something. Maybe I was talking to David. Who knows?”

Det: “And that’s why I’m asking you, ‘Do you remember her leaving and JJ not being there around that time?”

Melanie: *shrugs* “Probably because he was no longer there when we did the podcast and so somehow— I think that was upstairs. That’s how I feel.” *pregnant pause* “But I just don’t remember that detail cuz I didn’t have any reason not to remember  that, you know? I didn’t know anything was going on, so I didn’t have a way of associating it with anything. I just knew I was gonna do a podcast and that was it. And I didn’t prepare for it cuz I never prepare for podcasts. I just—” *makes vomiting motion* “Bluhhh. You know?”

Note: Fwiw, I believe this is when JJ was murdered. The combination of Melanie’s panic and inability to answer straightforward questions about Lori and JJ’s movement that day indicates significant guilt, shame, and deception. Also, if JJ had woken up at 8:30 pm, that would mean he had taken a very late nap or was drugged in Alex’s apartment most of the day. (According to David, all the adults were at the property Chad wanted them to see for their tent city, and JJ wasn’t listed as being with them. So who would have been with JJ at that time? Melanie Gibb claimed Lori wasn’t with them on the outing, but it’s outside the realm of possibility for Lori to sit out such an important outing. And it was obvious from her texts with Alex that he would be meeting them out there.) #imo

9/22/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

9/23/19: JJ Vallow is allegedly buried on Chad Daybell’s property (source).

9/23/19: Alex Cox’s phone pinged at Chad Daybell’s property at 9:55 am near the pond, where JJ Vallow’s remains were discovered nine months later. He was there until 10:12 am.

9/23/19: According to Melanie Gibb’s interview with Rexburg Police, which was passed on to Gilbert Police, this is the day she last sees JJ Vallow (source). She reiterated this claim to Gilbert Police on 12/17/19 (source). She also claimed in an interview with Gilbert Police on 2/11/20 she didn’t remember anything abnormal (source).

Notes: 

• After Melanie claimed in multiple interviews that she last saw JJ on Mon, Sep 23rd, she said under oath at Chad Daybell’s preliminary hearing in August 2020 that she didn’t see JJ the morning of Sep 23rd and that Lori Vallow claimed he climbed up on her kitchen cabinet in a zombie moment (source).
• David Warwick also talked about this zombie moment in his interview with Dateline‘s Keith Morrison (source).
• Gilbert’s claim that Melanie refused to lie for Lori and Chad is patently false. She later admitted under oat that she did, in fact, lie—and didn’t correct that lie for 8-10 days (source 1 // source 2).

9/23/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

9/23/19: A child from the neighborhood is seen playing with JJ Vallow’s toys, but JJ wasn’t seen (source). The boy’s mother says she saw her son playing with unfamiliar toys and asked where he got them. He says he got them from JJ’s room. Lori was inside eating a salad and let him take JJ’s toys (source).

9/23/19: JJ Vallow was originally reported as having attended Kennedy Elementary (source). It was later determined to be a mistake. No requests are made for JJ’s transcripts (source).

9/23/19: Two photos of ammunition at The Gun Shop, an Idaho gun store, are saved to Lori Vallow’s iCloud account (source // pics of ammunition).

9/23/19: Approximate date Alex Cox went shopping for a coat for his sister, Lori Vallow. Chandler Det Nathan Duncan notes this in reference to how weird Lori and Alex’s relationship was (source).

9/23/19: Brandon Boudreaux’s lease begins (source).

9/24/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

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

9/24/19: Colby Ryan texts Tylee Ryan to wish her a happy birthday (source):

Colby: Hey ty!! Happy birthday I’m so proud of you! I know you have been through most people ever go through in their life. But you’re amazing and I know you can have an amazing life. You keep pushing. Trust god, it’s all gonna be not just okay but amazing. I love you and happy birthday 🎁

Tylee: thanks colbs. i love you ❤️

Note: Colby said the response didn’t sound like Tylee.

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 her babysitter, Sidney, who she secured through care.com, JJ Vallow had gone to stay with his grandma for several weeks. Lori added that she was in Hawaii. 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).

According to FOX 13 reporter Lauren Steinbrecher, Lori also told Sidney:

• Her husband died of a heart attack.
• Tylee was at BYU Idaho.
• She would be able to work again in about a month (but when Sidney texted Lori around Halloween, Lori didn’t reply).
• JJ “gets emotional easily, frustrated, distracted, has difficulty communicating with others, but can follow orders if you look at him right in the eyes.”
• She and her husband adopted JJ who was their nephew at the time.
• Although Tylee lives in Rexburg, she doesn’t like to babysit without getting paid.
• Tylee would visit for dinner or to do laundry, but Lori never said that she lived there with them. It appeared that only Lori and JJ lived there, from the look of things.
• On the 19th, Lori was waiting for her brother (who also lived in Rexburg) to come and leave with her to the airport. She said she was going to the Idaho Falls airport.
• Some days when JJ was extra tough for her to handle, she would give him his meds and have him go to bed early.

9/24/19: Charles Vallow’s brother, Bobby Vallow, is interviewed by Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat (source 1 // source 2 // source 3).

9/25/19: Alex Cox takes the Jeep Wrangler to get the windows tinted [allegedly] in preparation for the attempted murder of Brandon Boudreaux (source 1 // source 2).

9/25/19: Alex Cox’s phone pings at Chad Daybell’s house. He’s only there for 17 minutes and stays in and around the house. His phone does not ping in the backyard where Tylee and JJ were buried (source 1 // source 2).

9/25/19: Brandon Boudreaux moves into his rental home in Gilbert, AZ (source).

9/25/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler PD Det Moffat that Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) lives next door to Lori Vallow (source).

Note: This wasn’t true, but it would appear Kay was privy to information that Melani may have planned to move to Rexburg. She visited the next day. I suspect Kay was getting this information from Brandon who was monitoring Melani’s activity.

9/25/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler PD Det Moffat that her attorney was sending notice to Banner Life protesting them naming Lori Vallow was beneficiary after the life insurance company dispositioned her change of beneficiary as invalid (source).

Note: This is an interesting development that’s never been talked about in any interviews.

👉 9/26/19 – 9/29/19: Melanie Boudreaux visits Rexburg (source). She flew Allegiant flight 608. She departed at 12:31 pm MST and arrived 3:25 pm MDT (source).

Note: The Gilbert Police report noted that “Between 09/25/2019 and 09/30/2019, ALEX, LORI and CHAD prepared for BRANDON`s murder.” It seems unusual they wouldn’t include Melani in this since her visit overlapped with these preparations. #jmo

👉 9/26/19: Brandon Boudreaux tells Kay Vallow Woodcock Lori moved out of state. He found out from his son (source).

Note: I suspect Brandon found this out by monitoring a tablet that was registered to his name (see note in next entry below). This would also possibly explain why Kay Woodcock had said in an interview with 20/20 that they found out Lori and the kids had moved to Idaho but just didn’t have an apartment number (source). This was in contrast to her claim on Dateline that she didn’t find out Lori had moved Idaho until November, when she found her Amazon purchase (source). I took a deep dive into this theory in this YouTube Live (18:31 min mark).

9/26/19: FBI captures phone data from a Walmart in Rexburg, just minutes from Chad Daybell’s Salem home (source).

Note: I believe this was a device that used wifi only that was registered to Brandon Boudreaux because a legend found in the police report indicated blue was “BB” (source) and Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) had just arrived in Rexburg. I strongly suspect she was using a tablet like an iPad that didn’t have a data plan. This device also shows back up in October in a “cluster of red and blue pins” on top of Alex Cox, Lori Vallow, and Melani’s apartments at this same time (source). Melani was in Rexburg at this time as well and had just signed a lease for apartment 107 the day before (see 10/28/19). I took a deep dive into this theory in this YouTube Live (18:31 min mark).

9/26/19: Alex Cox activates a burner phone [allegedly] in preparation for the attempted murder of Brandon Boudreaux (source).

9/28/19: Alex Cox visits the Unified Sportsmen’s Gun Range in Rexburg [allegedly] in preparation for the attempted murder of Brandon Boudreaux (source).

9/28/19: Colby Ryan has a text exchange with Tylee Ryan four days after 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 (video from Dr. Phil // video from Netflix // screenshot from Dr. Phil).

Transcript:

Note: There are discrepancies between the transcript from the Dr. Phil Show and the Netflix documentary, so I color coded them.

Notes:

• Colby said in his interview with Justin Lum that he didn’t feel like her texts started getting weird until “later in October” (source, 27:50), but in his interview with Dr. Phil and Netflix, he said Tylee’s texts didn’t sound like her.
• There are also discrepancies between reported exchanges:
  • In the Netflix texts, Colby starts off with a leading question on 9/28 asking Tylee if she’s too busy to call him. When he was interviewed by Dr. Phil he expressed frustration that Tylee said she was just busy, like that wasn’t an excuse.
  • In the Netflix texts, where you actually see their exchange, Colby doesn’t ask Tylee if she was okay.
  • In the Dr. Phil texts, Colby doesn’t include that he hadn’t talked to her in so long or his confusion over why he hadn’t been able to get ahold of her all week.
  • In the Dr. Phil texts, Colby doesn’t include Tylee’s comment about the Brad Pitt movie being kind of boring. I think Lori was referencing ‘Ad Astra’, which was released in the US on 9/20, after Tylee had been murdered (source).
  • In the Netflix texts, Tylee’s texts were all lowercase and there was a gap between ‘what’ and the ‘?’. This is a signature Lori oddity. You see this all through the FOIA docs (examples from just one exchange).
  • Although Colby doesn’t show this exchange, he said in the Netflix documentary that he confronted Tylee saying, “Tylee, this does not sound like you. You don’t speak this way. You don’t use punctuation here. So why don’t you just call me and talk to me?” Then he said, “That’s when she stopped.” I assume he meant stopped replying. But he told Justin Lum that Tylee’s texts sounded normal in September and didn’t start to not sound like her until later in October (source).

9/30/19: Preparations are made for the Brandon Boudreaux shooting (source):

11:31 am – 1:16 pm
Alex Cox’s cellphone is at Lori’s apartment.

12:34 pm
Alex’s phone receives a call from Chad Daybell’s burner phone.

1:17 pm – 4:32 pm
Alex’s cellphone is at his apartment.

5:14 pm
Lori Vallow searched for something while logged in to her Gmail account. There are large redactions, but since this whole section of the report is about preparations leading to Brandon’s shooting, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess she searched for Brandon’s address.

6:01 pm
Alex’s cellphone returns to Lori’s apartment and remains there or with Lori’s cellphone until 10/3/19.

Note: I believe that Alex left his cellphone with Lori and took a burner phone to Arizona so that she could try to provide an alibi for him during the time of the murder. But at one point it appears she took it to the temple with her because the police report notes that Alex didn’t have a temple recommend. Intelligent criminals they were not. 🤦‍♀️ He would also keep his phone at or near his apartment for the attempted shooting of Tammy Daybell as well (source).

8:10 pm
Charles Vallow`s Jeep Wrangler (TX Plate LWD-0997) is seen driving southbound on Interstate-15 near Blackfoot, ID.

Note: The date of Alex’s departure seems unusual because Brandon Boudreaux wasn’t shot at until 10/2/19.

9/30/19: According to Kay Woodcock, in an email to Chandler PD Det Moffat, Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) stopped their divorce proceeding because she believed she wouldn’t be able to collect his life insurance if a divorce was pending (source).

Late Sep 2019: 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.

Oct 2019: Kay Woodcock says in their Jan 2019 press conference that they found out JJ Vallow was missing “sometime in October” (source).

Notes: 

• What’s mystifying about this claim is that Kay said she, Larry, and Brandon Boudreaux hired a private investigator in October (source), but Rich Robertson said that Brandon hired him (source).
• Brandon’s business partner’s wife, Jes, also said they knew the kids were missing in October (source).
• Yet Rich said he was hired to find adults and the Jeep, not kids (source 1 // source 2) and followed Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) and Alex Cox up to Rexburg (source 1 // source 2). So, if Kay, Larry, Jes, Brandon et al knew JJ was missing at this time, why wouldn’t they have asked him to look for JJ as well?
• Rich also said that Kay and Larry asked if they saw the kids after they got back (source). Since he followed Alex and Melani up to Rexburg on 10/31, they certainly would have already known that JJ was missing and in danger. Again, it’s highly unlikely Kay and Larry would’ve been asking about Tylee since they themselves said they didn’t know Tylee was missing until after the welfare check on 11/26 (source).

Oct 2019: Chandler PD notices long calls from out of state to a number assumed to belong to Chad Daybell (source).

Oct 2019: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) asks friends from the cult, such as Alex Cox and Melanie Gibb, to talk to Brandon Boudreaux’s former neighbors to find out where he was after he went into hiding, according to Brandon Boudreaux’s business partner’s wife, Jes (source).

Note: On 12/17/19, Melanie Gibb denies knowledge of Brandon’s shooting (source). This is a glaring inconsistency, which I’ve come to expect with all things Melanie Gibb.

10/1/19: Preparations continue for the Brandon Boudreaux shooting (source)**:

6:52 am (MST)
The Jeep Wrangler (TX Plate LWD-0997) was [redacted] westbound on I-40 near Holbrook, AZ (source).

7:30 pm (MST)
Alex Cox arrives in Gilbert, AZ.

9:19 am (MST)
Alex’s burner phone calls Chad Daybell’s burner phone near Holbrook, AZ.

11:55 am (MST)
Alex’s burner phone receives a call from Chad’s burner phone near Phoenix.

2:08 pm (MDT)
Lori Vallow opens a 10×10′ storage unit at Self Storage Plus in Rexburg, ID (source). Surveillance footage shows Lori is alone.

Note: There s a redacted block of text that suggests Lori was carrying Alex’s verified cell phone that he left behind with her throughout the day because it notes that Alex doesn’t have a temple recommend. I personally believe she brought Alex’s phone to the temple with her.

7:31 pm – 7:48 pm (MST)
Alex’s burner phone communicated with Chad’s burner phone. It also appears that Gilbert Police track Melani Boudreaux’s (now Pawlowski’s) movements at the same time as Chad and Alex’s phone activity, which begins 1 minute after Alex Cox arrived in Gilbert (source).

Note: It said elsewhere in the Gilbert Police report that Melani’s cell activity is indicated in pink (source). So, if I understand this report correctly and have identified the redacted phone activity by matching it with another reference elsewhere in the FOIA docs with the exact same date and times, Gilbert Police suspected that Alex and Chad’s phone activity and Melani’s movement that night are somehow connected.

7:52 (MST)
Alex searches for Brandon Boudreaux’s new rental address.

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: Alex Cox calls a Hispanic female, as well as Lori Vallow, during the timeframe of the shooting attempt on Brandon Boudreaux (source 1 // source 2).

Note: The following month Alex married Zulema Pastenes, a Hispanic female. This doesn’t mean she was the female he was on the phone with; just noting what may be a coincidence. (I personally strongly suspect Zulema was the Hispanic female since there aren’t any other Hispanic females who were involved with this group that we know of at time of writing.)

10/2/19: Alex Cox makes financial transfers to the Hispanic female he was on the phone with around the time of the Brandon Boudreaux shooting attempt (source).

10/3/19: Events with timestamps that transpire the day after the Brandon Boudreaux shooting (source):

4:28 am (MDT)
The Jeep Wrangler is seen driving northbound on US Highway 20 near Rexburg.

10:30 am (MST) // 9:30 am (MDT)
**Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) is interviewed by Gilbert Police (source 1 // source 2) and denies knowledge of the shooting and is unable to explain the details of her day on 10/02/2019. She confirms her relationship with Lori and Alex but denies they are close. She also does not want to share their phone numbers because she believes their phones could be tracked and listened to (source).

2:11 pm – 2:14 pm (MDT)
Alex Cox and Lori Vallow are captured by surveillance cameras at the Self-Storage Plus in Rexburg. They remove a single vehicle wheel, with tire, and what appeared to be a back seat from Lori’s storage unit.

• When a GPD detective called her the day of the shooting, she didn’t ask what this was in reference to.
• She is allowed to bring her youngest daughter to the interview, who was two at the time. How are you going to effectively interview a woman about an attempted murder with a toddler in the room?
• Melani says she cannot remember what she did the day before, after Brandon dropped off one of their kids (most likely their youngest daughter). The police report states: “MELANI told me sometimes they went to the park, sometimes the gym and other times the mall. MELANI could not remember for certain what they did yesterday.”
• When asked if she communicated with anyone she referenced calls from Brandon that she didn’t answer but couldn’t remember if she spoke to anyone else that day.
• She said Brandon sent her a message merely saying he had a bad day. She said she told him she hoped he had a better day.
• When the detective told her someone tried to shoot her husband, she didn’t have a change of expression and stayed quiet.

10/3/19: Chandler PD learn about the attempted shooting of Brandon Boudreaux (redacted affidavit // unredacted affidavit).

10/3/19: The buyers of Melani and Brandon Boudreaux’s home close (source).

10/4/19: Chad Daybell texts Lori Vallow an ominous message that implies he was doing something to expedite Tammy Daybell’s death (source):

Thank you for sending me that paragraph, beautiful Lili. I’m eager to see you soon. Trying to hasten her departure. I love you endlessly! 💋💓🔥

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). Her father, Ron Douglas, said she was healthy and was doing Zumba with her daughter, Emma Murray, clogging, and dancing in the living room class (source).

Note: I strongly suspect Chad may have tampered with Tammy’s car to “hasten her departure” for several reasons:

• It was reported that Chad normally wouldn’t allow Tammy to drive long distances so this urging was unusual.
• Both Chad’s former friend Angela (source) and Melanie Gibb (source) claimed that Tammy was supposed to die in a car accident.
• Tammy’s LifeMap policy through work most likely had a seat belt rider, which stipulated that the beneficiary/ies would receive an additional $10,000 if the insured died in a car accident and was wearing a seat belt (screenshot // PDF of 2021 policy for the 2021 Sugar City School District).**

**The assumption being this rider wasn’t added to the district’s benefits after Tammy died.

10/4/19: Someone sent Lori Vallow a strange message about needing to go to Independence, MO, to become a “feminine sacrifice” (source):

10/5/19: Chad Daybell texts Lori Vallow more about his wife Tammy (source):

3:25 am
Hello, sweet angel. Big news about Tammy. Please let me know if you are awake and can talk. I love you! 💓💋

3:36 am
The short version is that she has been switched. Tammy is in Limbo, and a level 3 demonic entity named Viola is in her body. It happened at about 10 p.m. and was done by Tammy’s sister [redacted], who I always knew was 3D, but it turns out she is multiple creation. 

3:44 am:
Viola has been attached for about a year to my niece [redacted], who is 12 year old daughter. I have connected with Tammy in Limbo, and she is very frustrated and upset. She wants Viola removed as soon as possible. Viola seems to be similar to Penelope. The personality differences from Tammy should be evident quickly. Please seek a confirmation on this, but I have now checked three times since I got home and get more affirmative answers each time”. 

3:54 am
“Not fully sure of the timing for removal, but once her actions verify the differences, I don’t want to wait”. 

10/6/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

10/6/19: Alex Cox visits the storage unit by himself (source 1 // source 2 // source 3).

Note: The owner of the storage unit noted that the pickup was taking stuff out of the unit (source).

10/6/19: Someone takes a pic of Alex Cox at Mesa Falls in Idaho (source 1 // source 2 // picture).

10/7/19: Lori Vallow is a busy busy beaver (source):

Time unknown
Lori Googled maps of the United States as well as how long it would take to drive from Rexburg to Independence, Missouri. She then started to look at flights.

10:21 am
Alex Cox texts her to find out where she is and she says JJ’s school. This is suspicious because JJ had been dead at least two weeks by then. She also never formally withdrew him from L.I.F.E. Academy. (Lori deleted this message but it was retrieved.)

10:55 am
Lori performs an online search, but Chandler PD redacted the query.

11:59 am
Lori sends a text to an unknown person that was deleted and recovered.

12:03 pm
Lori sends a text to an unknown person that was deleted and recovered.

2:23 pm
Lori sends a text to an unknown person that was deleted and recovered.

2:31 pm
Lori sends a text to an unknown person that was deleted and recovered.

10/7/19: Lori Vallow’s wedding ring arrives at her Rexburg apartment (source 1 // source 2).

10/8/19: Lori Vallow flies to from Idaho to Arizona under the name Lori Ryan (Allegiant Confirmation code 9DQQ47) [allegedly] to meet up with niece Melani Boudreaux the day before Tammy Daybell is approached by a masked gunman (allegedly Alex Cox):

Lori Vallow flies from Idaho to Phoenix-Mesa as Lori Ryan (source 1 // source 2 // source 3).

8:55 am
Lori sends a text to an unknown person that was deleted and recovered.

8:57 am:
Lori texts Audrey (presumably). [content of text redacted]

11:15 am
Lori texts Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski). [content of text redacted]

10/8/19: The browser history on the computer from which Lori Vallow’s wedding ring was ordered on 10/2 shows someone searching for wedding dresses (source 1 // source 2).

10/9/19: Photos and videos of Melani Boudreaux’s (now Pawlowski’s) children recovered from Lori Vallow’s iCloud reveal Lori was at Melani’s home in AZ, including a photo of a young child at a splash pad (source). There was an additional note from LE:

10/9/19: Zulema also meets up with Lori and Melani at Melani’s home in Chandler (source).

10/9/19: Lori Vallow saves a contact as “Bishop Miller” and had numerous calls with this number and what was most likely her personal, “Lori4style” account between 10/9 and 10/16, which is when Lori and Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) were together in Chandler, AZ (along with Zulema Pastenes) and Independence, Missouri (source). (“Lollytime”—her main burner phone account—didn’t fit in the redaction.)

Note: Zulema told Gilbert Police the day Alex Cox died that she hadn’t seen Lori since she moved to Rexburg. This was one of three times she saw her.

10/9/19: There are a handful of events with timestamps for this day:

1:20 pm
Chad Daybell’s 401 burner phone is at Alex Cox and Lori Vallow’s apartment complex and stays about an hour (source).

Note: I believe this could be the contact Lori Vallow saved as “Bishop Miller” because she first stored the Bishop Miller contact in her Lori4style account on 10/9 (source). Also, this burner phone traveled with Chad to Tammy’s funeral in Utah (source), and there were “numerous calls” between this phone and Lori’s verified phone between 10/16 and 10/23 (source).

9:16 pm
Alex texts Lori from his verified phone (source).

11:28 pm
Alex’s verified phone “shows up again” and texts [redacted name] (source).

Note: Alex Cox’s phone stays at or near his apartment at the time of the shooting (source). So I suspect the attempted shooting occurred between 9:26 pm and 11:18 pm (since LE said it was about a 10-minute drive from Alex’s apartment to Chad’s house). Also, Alex left his verified phone with Lori Vallow when he drove to Gilbert, AZ, on 9/30, for the attempted shooting of Brandon Boudreaux as well (source). I believe he left it behind both times in the vain hope of establishing an alibi.

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).

Note: According to the Gilbert Police Report, there is evidence that Chad Daybell was the “facilitator” and Alex Cox the “shooter” (source).

10/9/19: Last time Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) had seen her kids (source).

10/9/19: Gilbert Police note that the whereabouts of Alex Cox, Lori Vallow, and [what I believe to be] Tylee Ryan are unknown (source 1 // source 2).

Notes: 

• Over the next two days they draft search warrants for their phone data (see the 10/10/19 – 10/11/19 entry).
• In source 2 Tylee’s name was left unredacted, thus confirming my unredaction in source 1.

10/9/19: The FBI reports that Tylee Ryan’s phone had no data for this day (source).

Note: This means the FBI and Gilbert Police would’ve seen this when they pulled Tylee’s cellphone data—and when the FBI analyzed it on 10/17/19 (source). Yet none of them found this suspicious or investigated further. Furthermore, when Gilbert Police asked Rexburg Police to impound Tylee’s Jeep, they didn’t request a welfare check, though they initially said they wanted to know the whereabouts of Tylee and the Jeep. Everyone suffered from a deplorable lack of curiosity about a teen who had gone radio silent and didn’t protest when her car was impounded.

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).

10/10/19 – 10/11/19: Gilbert Police draft search warrants for the known phone numbers for Alex Cox, Lori Vallow, Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski), and [what appears to be] Tylee Ryan (source).

Note: If they pulled Tylee’s phone records, why weren’t they suspicious when her phone showed little/no data? We know that her phone had no data for 10/9 because the Special Agent Carey Cooper from the FBI asked an analyst to check the phone data of the “players” and included Tylee in that list (source). This is yet one more way Tylee was abandoned by police. A modicum of curiosity on their part could have saved Tammy Daybell’s life and led to the discovery of the kids’ remains before a pandemic slowed the investigation to a sludge.

10/10/19 – 10/12/19: Lori Vallow and Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) fly to Missouri and return to Phoenix (source 1: confidential // source 2 // source 3). LE imply Lori is in Missouri because they say it would be interesting to know if JJ’s iPad connected out there since she brought it on her trip to AZ. Also, Lori Vallow deletes a text message that references flights between MO and AZ for these dates (source). Although there’s no screenshot of this flight, LE recover a deleted text message where Lori wrote to Melani about flights (source):

American has a nonstop flight PHX to Kansas City Thursday at 1pm. Then fly back on sat at 6:30pm. [Redacted] said we could stay with her but I told her we could get a hotel and she could stay with us. She will take us to all the amazing sights [sic]!

The purpose of this trip is suggested by a message that was sent to Lori from an unknown sender on 10/4/19 (source):

Police report interpretation:

Note: Although the name of her travel companion is redacted in these documents, a confidential source told me last year that Lori and Melani were in Independence, Missouri visiting the place LDS members believe Jesus will return. It also makes sense it would be Melani since Lori first traveled to Phoenix and was in Melani’s home the day before the flight.

10/11/19 – 10/12/19: Lori Vallow upload ‘numerous’ pics of herself with friends at the Adam-ondi-Ahman site in Missouri. It’s noted that there are no pics of JJ Vallow or Tylee Ryan (source 1 // source 2 // source 3 // reason for going).

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

Note: This has not been verified in any FOIA docs to date.

10/13/19: Lori Vallow travels from Phoenix to Idaho under the name Lori Ryan (source).

10/13/19: Last time JJ Vallow’s name is mentioned in emails between Lori Vallow and Kay Woodcock (source).

Note: I think this might have been a typo because Kay sent Lori a final email on 10/14.

10/14/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) texts Brandon Boudreaux to say she’s moving to Boise, ID, with or without their four children (source). Brandon, in turn, passes that information on to Gilbert Police (source).

Text reads:

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.

10/14/19: Alex Cox sends Lori Vallow two pics of Mesa Falls from his Yahoo email account. LE questions if these are significant (source).

Note: It’s a matter of public record that Alex Cox had two email addresses: homerjmaximus@yahoo.com and henri_hawk@hotmail.com.

10/14/19: Kay Woodcock sends a final email to Lori begging to see JJ. Her email went unanswered (source).

10/14/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

10/15/19: Brandon Boudreaux tells an investigator at Gilbert Police that he was surprised to find out he was still married and that he wasn’t going to return the kids to Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) the next day as scheduled (source).

10/15/19: Gilbert Police search for [what is believed to be] Tylee Ryan and the Jeep Wrangler. This search included going to her previous school, as well as following other leads (source).

Notes:

• They wanted to know Tylee’s whereabouts until they had the Jeep. Then they no longer cared about her whereabouts, even when they pulled Tylee’s cell phone records this very week and would’ve seen there was little data on her phone (source).
• Why weren’t they then suspicious when Rexburg Police took the Jeep on 11/4/19 and no teenager complained?
• They could’ve possibly thought she changed her number, but the phone still had some data on it because it was used in October, November, and December (source), but there would’ve most likely been a steep decline in her usage data after 9/8/19.
• No persons were contacted nor did anyone follow up about the Jeep’s status during or after the tow/impound (source). A welfare check at this time could have resulted in the kids being found before Rexburg went into its winter-long freeze—and before the pandemic.
• Again and again Tylee was treated as a perp and even named a suspect in order to get a search warrant, never a potential victim. I believe this was the result of months of campaigning against her by family members with an ax to grind. These comments are sprinkled all through this timeline (ex 1, ex 2. ex 3, ex 4)

10/16/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) tries to pick their four children up from school early and finds out Brandon Boudreaux didn’t take them to school. She reports this to Gilbert Police, and a detective asks about her plans to move to Idaho (source 1 // source 2).

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

Notes:

• This transaction was removed from Tylee’s feed sometime after March 1. You can see a screenshot of it here.
• Tylee used orange hearts in her Venmo transfers (see ss above), so a red heart was probably one of the indicators Colby talked about that he wasn’t interacting with Tylee.

10/16/19: Chandler Police request the FBI’s assistance with the cellular data received from the Chandler and Gilbert investigations (source).

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

Note: This was most likely Alex Cox because the owner noted that a male brought stuff into the unit in a pickup (source).

10/16/19 – 10/23/19: Numerous calls are placed between a number stored in Lori Vallow’s cell phone as ‘Bishop Miller’ and what appears to be her Lori4style account—as ‘Lollytime’ doesn’t fit the redaction and the police report notes that there was only one incoming call to Lori Vallow’s Lollytime account (source).

Note: The police report notes that the investigator couldn’t discern who this account belonged to. However, I believe three facts point to Chad Daybell as the most likely owner:

1. All the calls placed and received by this burner phone were overlapped with Lori Vallow and Melani Boudreaux’s (now Pawlowski’s) trip to Hawaii and Tammy’s death and funeral services.
2. Furthermore, Bishop Miller was the second bishop in the LDS church, appointed by Joseph Smith himself (source), which further suggests (at least to me) this was Chad’s phone as Lori didn’t view anyone else in the group as a leader of this importance (e.g., her heretic brother).
3. One of Chad’s other burner phones was stored in Lori’s Lori4style account as “Bishop Shumway,” which follows a theme (source).
4. Lori first stored this number in her phone on 10/9, the day of the attempted shooting of Tammy Daybell (source).

10/17/19: The cell phone records pulled tipped Gilbert Police off that Lori Vallow might be living in Idaho. In the previous paragraph of the police report there is a mention of the FBI confirming receipt of phone records (source).

Note: Chandler Police had requested their help with cellular data the day before.

10/17 – 10/24: Lori Vallow and Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) travel to Hawaii (source 1: confidential // source 2 // source 3 // source 4).

10/18/19: Lori Vallow texts her friend Audrey at 11:43 am (UTC -7) from Hawaii and says, “Not sure how long we will be here. Until our work is done” (source).

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).

10/19/19: Chad Daybell posts on Facebook and the AVOW forum hours after his wife Tammy’s death. He was reportedly responding to people about her death the entire day (source 1 // source 2).

10/19/19: Lori Vallow and her friend Nicole have a text exchange about Tammy Daybell’s death (source 1 // source 2):

9:18 am
Nicole: I’m not sure if you heard but Chad’s wife died last night. 😭🥴

9:33 am
Lori: Oh my gosh. I did not hear that. I’m in Hawaii and it’s 6 am. 😭😭

9:34 am
Lori: Do you know what happened?

9:37 am
Nicole: Yes, she woke up in the night coughing, threw up, collapsed and passed away. 

10/19/19: Melanie Gibb also informs Lori Vallow that Tammy Daybell has died, and Lori acts surprised to hear the news from her as well. Melanie then calls Lori and they talk for 20 minutes (source).

Note: Lori also acted surprised when Nicole texted her about Tammy’s death. Obviously, Lori knew what had happened, but she was careless to act surprised with two different people. Also, Melanie’s call suggests she knows far more about Tammy’s murder than she’s suggested in interviews.

10/19/19: Zulema Pastenes excitedly asks Lori Vallow, “Did you know that was going to happen?” Lori doesn’t answer, but it’s quite clear that Zulema is referring to Tammy Daybell’s death because she also says, “Maybe it was you that I saw at the temple getting ready to get marries just yesterday!!” (source). She also texts Chad about her vision of helping a bride get ready and can hardly contain her delight in the news that Tammy was dead (source).

10/19/19: Approximate date Kay and Larry Woodcock find out JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan are missing, according to Brandon Boudreaux’s business partner’s wife, Jes (source).

Notes: 

• Kay Woodcock also said they discovered JJ was missing in October at the press conference they did 1/7/20 (source).
• Kay and Larry Woodcock claimed in an interview with KSL TV reporter Garna Meija that they didn’t know Tylee was missing until after the welfare check on 11/26/19 (source). These are just more mystifying contradictions friends and family members have made regarding Tylee.

10/19/19: Approximate date Kay Woodcock feels heightened concern for JJ Vallow’s welfare (source). Larry Woodcock says that they made multiple calls to Child Protective Services (source).

Notes: 

• To date, there’s no mention of these calls in the FOIA docs. The only calls to CPS I’ve seen have been from JJ’s school, L.I.F.E. Academy, and they made two: one in February and one in August.
• Kay told Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat that she planned to reach out to one of JJ’s old social workers in Louisiana in hopes that she would open the door to DCS in AZ (source). There’s no confirmation she ever reached out to DCS in AZ or Idaho when Kay found out sometime in September that Lori had moved there.
• CPS is actually called Department of Child Safety in Arizona. So a search of this page for ‘DCS’ will bring up those entries.
• He said they were asking where JJ and Tylee were at this time, but I haven’t seen so much as a single reference to concern for Tylee Ryan in any of their communication with LE to date.

10/20/19: Approximate date Brandon Boudreaux calls Kay Woodcock to let her know Tammy Daybell died. Kay remarked in despair that they were “killing everybody” along the way. Kay expressed suspicion that Tammy was poisoned because she said that Lori had spoken of poisoning people over the years (source). She credits Brandon with connecting all the cases with LE in a draft of a Facebook post she sent Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat on 12/20/19, the day the case went public (source).

10/20/19: Lori Vallow books a flight from Phoenix to Idaho for travel on the 24th. Confirmation #: 9FBTBX (source 1 // source 2).

10/21/19: Chad Daybell has viewing for Tammy Daybell in Springville, UT, just two days after her death (source).

10/21/19: Colby and Kelsee Ryan post pics from Disneyland (source).

Note: I include this in the timeline because at this point Colby is receiving a steady stream of Venmo transfers from both his mom and Tylee Ryan (in fact, two in this week). Yet they’re enjoying an expensive vacation the week Tammy was [allegedly] murdered. This doesn’t mean they knew what was going down that week, but I do suspect this trip was an attempt by Lori Vallow to ensure Colby’s continued silence.

10/21/19: Zulema Pastenes texts Lori Vallow to tell her that she booked a flight to see her and Chad Daybell for Nov 7th (source).

Note: Either she was planning to fly to Hawaii or she didn’t know that Chad and Lori would be away at that time and booked it to Idaho. I suspect it was the latter because Lori had told Zulema on 10/10 that they would fly her out to Idaho (source).

10/22/19: Brandon and Melani Boudreaux’s (now Pawlowski’s) divorce is finalized (source).

10/22/19: Brandon Boudreaux notifies Gilbert Police of Tammy Daybell’s death (source).

10/22/19: Tammy Daybell is interred in Spring Creek, ID, just three days after her death (source 1 // source 2).

10/22/19: A man accesses Lori Vallow’s storage unit and spends 9 minutes on premises (source).

Note: This was most likely Alex Cox because the owner noted that a male brought stuff out of the unit in a pickup (source).

10/23/19: A memorial service is held for Tammy Daybell in Rexburg, ID (source 1 // source 2). 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.”

Note: Chad Daybell’s friend, Eric Smith, noted Chad’s unusual behavior at Tammy’s funeral (source), as did East Idaho News’ Nate Sunderland (source).

10/23/19: Lori Vallow saves photos taken in Hawaii to her iCloud account (source).

10/24/19: Lori Vallow returns to Idaho from Hawaii (source). 

10/24/19: Zulema Pastenes, Melanie Gibb, Lori Vallow, and [most likely] Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) meet up to do a podcast (source).

Note: Clearly these ladies weren’t too broken up about Tammy Daybell’s death.

10/24/19: Lori Vallow travels from Phoenix to Idaho (source).

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

hi. missing you guys too… luv ya.

10/25/19: A man accesses Lori Vallow’s storage unit and spends 10 minutes on premises (source).

Note: This was most likely Alex Cox because the owner noted that a male brought stuff out of the unit in a pickup (source).

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

10/25/19: There are two Venmo transfers from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

10/26/19: A man accesses Lori Vallow’s storage unit and spends 11 minutes on premises (source).

Note: This was most likely Alex Cox because the owner noted that a male brought stuff into the unit in a pickup (source).

10/27/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

10/28/19: Kay Woodcock emails Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat to tell him about Tammy Daybell’s death (source).

Note: This is the first time she tells him Chad Daybell’s name, even though she knew it since at least 3/9 (source) and even forwarded the email from Chad on 8/22.

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 // source 3 // source 4 // source 5). They allegedly spend 6 minutes on premises.

Note: The owner noted that two males brought stuff into and out of the unit (source).

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

10/28/19: Brandon Boudreaux contacts Gilbert Police to let them know he would be moving in with his parents in Utah for the foreseeable future (source).

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

Note: I suspect this woman may have been Lori Vallow’s sister, Summer Shiflet, for multiple reasons:

• The woman in the video was slim and appears to be brunette.
• Both women appear to have very similar laughs, and Summer and Lori have very similar voices (Summer’s interview).
•  A legend found in the police report indicated yellow was “SS” (source).
• There was a “yellow dot” discussed among investigators in reference to Ring doorbell camera footage (source).
• There was also a “cluster of red and blue pins” noted on top of Alex Cox, Lori Vallow, and Melani Boudreaux’s (now Pawlowski’s) apartments at this same time (source). Melani was in Rexburg at this time and had just signed a lease for apartment 107 the day before (see 10/28/19).

If Summer was indeed in Rexburg at this time, she would have known both Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow were missing, which would call into question the sincerity of many of her statements in her interview with AZ Family (source). It would also cast a shadow on Janis Cox’s “horrible, awful, terrible realization” about Lori hurting her children (source).

I took a deep dive into this theory in this YouTube live (32:56 min mark).

10/29/19: Gilbert Police reach out to Fremont County Sheriff’s Office and the coroner, Brenda Dye, to learn more about Tammy Daybell’s death (source).

10/29/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

10/30/19: Melanie Gibb texts Lori Vallow to tell her to call her and follows up with, “It’s important” (source).

Note: Brandon Boudreaux’s friend, Jes, said in an interview that Melanie Gibb, Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski), and Alex were running surveillance on Brandon’s friends and neighbors in October—and even knocked on their doors (source). She said one neighbor was so scared she almost packed up and left. She also said that Melani asked Melanie Gibb to knock on a neighbor’s door to ask where Brandon had gone, which she did (source). So she may have been calling in reference to that mission. Just a possibility since we don’t have visibility into what else was going on in that group at this time.

10/31/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

10/31/19: Law enforcement tracks down the Jeep Alex Cox allegedly drove when he shot at Brandon Boudreaux (source). 

Note: In the same police Gilbert Police report, there was a note on 10/15/19 that they were also searching for Tylee along with the Jeep (if my redaction is accurate). But they clearly were no longer interested in Tylee’s whereabouts once they found the Jeep. If they had been, the kids could have been found before Rexburg fell into a deep freeze, which was followed by delays from Covid lockdowns, which were put in place in the spring of 2020 (source). They were looking for Brandon.

10/31/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) and Alex Cox fly from Idaho Falls to Phoenix and then pack up Melani to move to Rexburg, ID (source). They stay with Zulema Pastenes for the night. Even though Alex and Zulema would be married in less than a month, according to Zulema, she said she would sleep in her daughter’s room, leaving her room for Alex and Melani (source). Lori also told her in that exchange that she forgot it was Halloween. This should have been a red flag to Zulema that she was disconnected as a mother as it wouldn’t make sense that the mother of a 7-year-old child would forget that it was Halloween. Given Zulema’s promise to personally guide JJ to heaven in May (source), I’m quite confident that Zulema knew JJ was dead.

Notes: 

• It was confirmed through Zulema’s cell phone records that the marriage between her and Alex was arranged by Lori in August 2019 (source).
• According to Zulema, Lori originally told her, Sarena, and Melanie Gibb that Alex was on his first probation—aka a “first creation”—and cautioned them to be careful what they said around him, explaining that it would be like “giving doctorate information to a kindergartener” (source), but by August Lori was trying to convince Zulema to marry Alex (source). At some point he was upgraded to a multiple creation (source). Chad confirmed just days before Alex’s death, Chad said he was a fifth creation (source).
• Just a few months earlier, in March, it appears Lori was trying to convince Zulema that David Warwick was the one she was supposed to marry (source 1 // source 2). The backstory on the second source is Zulema had asked Lori weeks earlier who she was in a previous probation. Then out of the blue Lori responded with these names. Of course, this only accounted for one of her probations (which conveniently pushed Lori’s agenda for Zulema to marry David); it didn’t account for other other three or four probations (source). 🙄

10/31/19: Location of the Jeep Wrangler is confirmed to be in Idaho (source 1 // source 2).

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

👉 10/31/19: Rich Robertson, a private investigator hired by Brandon Boudreaux, sees Melani Boudreaux  (now Pawlowski) and Alex Cox outside her home taking her children’s clothes, toys, and beds to the curb (source 1 // source 2). Brandon Boudreaux alerts Gilbert Police of this development (source).

Notes: 

• Brandon Boudreaux hired Rich in October, but Rich clarified he was hired to find Alex, Melani, and the Jeep; he wasn’t looking for missing kids (source 1 // source 2).
• This is despite the fact that Kay and Larry Woodcock knew Lori had moved to Rexburg in September but just didn’t have their apartment number (source), and Brandon’s business partner’s wife said their little cadre (which consisted of Brandon, Kay, Larry, and other family members) knew the kids were missing in October (source)—a fact Kay also confirmed in a press conference they held on 1/7/20 (source).

Mid Oct 2019:  We don’t know exactly when Brandon Boudreaux hired private investigator Rich Robertson, but Rich told Chris Cuomo in his 3/27/23 interview that when he got involved, Charles Vallow had been shot and Brandon had been shot at. He commented that at that time, “the kids were missing, but no one was really that concerned at that point” (source).

Note: In what alternate universe is it acceptable to know kids are missing but not report it to police or be concerned? There are so many bizarre elements to this case that truly disturbing details like this get lost in the mix. I’m also continually disappointed that reporters don’t ask the tough questions.

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 10 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 9/28/19 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)

Late Oct/Early Nov 2019: Estimated time Chad Daybell receives $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).

First week of Nov 2019: Rexburg PD is contacted by Gilbert and Chandler PDs after the attempted shooting of Brandon Boudreaux for help in obtaining search warrants for the 2018 Jeep Wrangler Tylee Ryan drove but was registered to Charles Vallow and in Lori Vallow’s possession. It was believed to be “related to a possible attempted murder” of Brandon Boudreaux (source 1 // source 2). Police note:

It is significant that the vehicle (Tylee) regularly drove was still in Rexburg nearly two months after the last known sighting of (Tylee).

11/1/19: Approximate day Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell are seen holding hands by Lt Powell from the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office (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 (source).

11/1/19: Fremont County Sheriff’s Office Lt Powell locates Lori Vallow and reports her address in Rexburg and observes Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow holding hands in a romantic manner (source).

11/1/19: Melani Boudreaux  (now Pawlowski) and [allegedly] Alex Cox show up at Claudia and Brandon Ewell’s address sometime between 5:30 and 6pm to ask if they had her children. After they deny having her children, Melani tells her that the Holy Spirit told her they were there and that she was going to be reunited with her kids that night (Ewell interview // video snippet // screenshot 1 // screenshot 2).

Highlights from their interview:

• This interview took place four days after the incident with Melani. They didn’t call the police because they were afraid that Melani wouldn’t be arrested, which would put them in harm’s way if she found out they reported her to the police. Brandon told Gilbert Police about the incident, and they reached out to the Ewells.
• They let her in their house and she looked around for her kids, which sounds eerily like what she did when she visited her father, Steve Cope (source 1 // source 2).
• She said Brandon B “was involved in some really dark things.”
• She asked Brandon E to call Brandon B while she was there.
• Melani told them, “If you guys know what’s good for you and your family, just tell me where [Brandon B] is.”
• A man who matches the description of Alex Cox was sitting in Melani’s SUV while Melani was in the house.
• Alex and Melani stayed in front of their house for 15-20 minutes.
• Brandon E and Claudia were so freaked out, they were whispering inside their own home for fear they were surveilling them.
• Brandon and Claudia invited a neighbor to bring their kids outside to create an awkward situation in hopes Melani and [presumably] Alex would leave. They didn’t.
• They stayed for a total of 45 minutes before Claudia went up to the car and confronted them, telling Melani she was freaking them out.
• Melani had suitcases and a carseat in her car. This was the day of her move to Idaho, so it appears to me she may have been planning to take off with her kids in an act of custodial interference, a page she would’ve pulled from Lori Vallow’s book (source 1 // source 2 // source 3).
• Claudia asked Melani who the man was, and Alex wouldn’t even look at her. He just kept looking at his phone.
• There was no license plate on the car. They said there was just a white paper where the plate would’ve been. Claudia and Brandon said they were driving Kia Sorrento, but Melani drove a Kia Telluride (source). So this point is a curious one for me. Did she buy a new car in between Brandon’s attempted murder and her move to Rexburg like Lori? Did she borrow someone’s car and remove the license plate? Did Claudia and Brandon misidentify the car since they are similar?
• Melani and Alex left and then came back 20 minutes later and parked across the street. Then they left and came back again.
• Afterwards, Claudia went on Facebook, and Melani wrote, “I am very sorry for your family,” which scared them even more.
• Brandon E stayed up all night guarding his house. 🥺
• Melani said the man in the driver’s seat was her friend, not her uncle.
• When Brandon B described Alex, Brandon E and Claudia said the driver matched his description.
• When Claudia asked why they didn’t go somewhere else to find Brandon, she said, “I have people all over right now.” This aligns with what Brandon’s friend Jes said in her interview (source).
• When Claudia asked how Melani got their address, she said she got their address off Google, but Claudia said it didn’t come up when she searched. Then Melani said Claudia had posted it on social media. 🤦‍♀️
• They had a Ring doorbell camera, but the battery was dead that night.
• They estimated Melani and Alex spent about two hours surveilling their home.
• Brandon E said Brandon’s B’s only weakness is that he’s too generous in his business dealings.
• Melani wrote a Facebook post accusing Brandon of kidnapping the kids and offered a $10k reward for information leading to their retrieval (see related entry for 11/2/19). There were approximately 180 comments on the post.
• Melani showed no emotion over her kids being missing, not even when Claudia told her how much her oldest son said he loved her.
• The Ewells and Boudreauxs had gone on trips together, and they said she was very different from the Melani they knew, who they described as sweet.
• Melani accused the Ewells of hiding her kids on Facebook.

👉 11/1/19: Brandon Boudreaux’s private investigator, Rich Robertson, use GPS to follow Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) and Alex Cox to Rexburg (source).

11/2/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) publishes a bizarre Facebook post accusing Brandon Boudreaux of kidnapping their children, persecuting her for her faith, and accusing her of “false things,” and offering a $10k for their location (source).

Note: Brandon’s cousin, Cierra Boudreaux, also accused Brandon of being “armed, mentally unstable, and dangerous.” She also said that he was “claiming someone is trying to kill him.”

11/2/19: Approximate date two detectives knock on Melani Boudreaux’s  (now Pawlowski’s) door asking about Lori Vallow. Her account: “I’m foggy on this date but (Rexburg Police) Detective Hermosillo and another gentleman had come to my door while I was moving my stuff in so it had to have been early in November – I’d guess the second week in November” (source).

When I moved up that first week in November, Alex helped me move on Halloween night. We drove up that first week in November with a moving truck. I was very involved in setting up my home and getting everything for my kids. I did bring all the things they do need with them besides a mattress that had stains on it, broken toys and outgrown clothes that I left out front. It was not all of their belongings – I just took everything that was important to us to consolidate into a smaller apartment.

I was getting my home ready and was going to figure out what’s going on with my kids and get them back here. We were going to have a fresh start. And Lori is very independent, doing her own thing. She was next door, but I spent most of my time with Alex. Alex would come over and hang out with me. Those days were hard and teary missing my kids, and he would come over and lift me up.

So if I saw Lori, she was still moving in and getting situated, so I didn’t spend a lot of time over there. I did see some of their things, and she had a room set up perfectly for Tylee and JJ, and it didn’t seem strange to me. I knew the threats she was getting from Kay Woodcock and from others, and I guess I didn’t ask questions because I knew that history. I knew what was going on, and in my own head, I’m trying to find out where my own kids are.

Note: Since they came to Melani’s door while she was moving her stuff in, that would be Nov 1, not the second week in November.

👉 11/3/19: Kay Vallow Woodcock sends an email to Chandler Det Nathan Moffat letting him know Lori Vallow, Alex Cox, Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) , and Tylee Ryan moved to Rexburg (source).

Notes: 

• This is a conundrum because Kay told Keith Morrison from Dateline in 2020 that she found out Lori moved to Rexburg from her Amazon purchase, which Kay found on Nov 10th. Kay told Amy Robach from 20/20 that they found out Lori moved to Idaho in September but just didn’t have an apartment number, suggesting she knew Lori moved to Rexburg as early as September (source). (I suspect she found out 9/26/19. See the related entry for more information as to why/how.) So why wait until 11/3 to pass this info on? And why didn’t she pass it on when she first found out in September?
• If Kay didn’t have an apartment number because she was working with GPS data (which is what I suspect), the GPS data for what appears to have been Summer Shiflet’s device (signified by a yellow dot) was only one “unit” (or apartment) off from Alex Cox’s apartment (source). Why not pass on what she had and disclose how she came across this information?

11/3/19: Lori Vallow flies from from Salt Lake City to Kauai (source 1 // source 2). They return to Idaho 11/14/19 (see related entry below).

Note: It’s safe to assume Chad Daybell was also on this flight since they were going to Hawaii to get married. Also, it’s interesting that they drove a rental car from Idaho Falls to Salt Lake City (source). So it appears Chad drove his car from Rexburg to Idaho Falls, rented a car to Salt Lake City, UT, when he had just come into more than $300,000 in life insurance proceeds.

11/3/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

11/3/19: Lori Vallow has a call with a number that’s saved in her main Lori4style account as “Spencer’s Wife” (source 1 // source 2).

11/3/19 – 11/6/19: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell stay at Kauai Beach Resort (source).

Note: I believe that Lori and Chad may have been in Hawaii through Nov 14th because there’s a text exchange between Lori and Zulema Pastenes about them arriving into Mesa on that day and meeting up during their brief, six-hour layover (source).

11/4/19: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell have a marriage license appointment (source).

11/4/19: Tylee Ryan’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 1 // source 2 // source 3).

Note: Originally LE stated they wanted to know the whereabouts of Tylee Ryan and the Jeep, but when Rexburg Police found the Jeep and impounded it, no further inquiry was made into Tylee’s whereabouts. It’s also bizarre that these criminals wouldn’t have fled then. They’re down a car and don’t even follow up.

11/4/19: Lori Vallow has a second call with a number that’s saved in her main Lori4style account as “Spencer’s Wife” (source 1 // source 2).

11/4/19: Kay Woodcock asks Chandler Police Det Nathan Moffat for a copy of the coroner’s report for her brother, Charles Vallow, as well as a copy of the 911 call (source).

11/4/19: Kay Woodcock asks Chandler Police Det Nathan Moffat if they’ve looked at Lori’s “recording devices” like Amazon, Alexa, etc. She also asks if someone has life insurance, but none of the usual names fit in the redaction. The only thing I could fit is “Lori’s brother,” but take it with a grain of salt since there are nearly endless options once you rule out actual names (source).

Note: Her point 2 is completely redacted.

👉 11/5/19: Brandon Boudreaux informs Gilbert PD that he had recently learned Lori Vallow had moved to Rexburg (source).

Notes: 

• Since Brandon and Kay Woodcock were in regular contact during this time (source), it doesn’t make sense that she would say she learned Lori had moved to Rexburg 11/10, after finding her Amazon purchase (see related entry).
• Kay also told Det Moffat that Lori moved to Rexburg on 11/3, one week before she now says she discovered the Amazon purchase (source).
• As has been noted elsewhere in this timeline, Kay only told Det Moffat that Lori searched for wedding attire, not that she bought anything. She didn’t even mention that Lori had searched for (or bought) wedding rings (source).

11/5/19: Gilbert Police interview Claudia and Brandon Ewell about Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) and Alex’s visit/surveillance and Melani’s bizarre claim that the Holy Spirit told her that her children were at their house (Ewell interview // source 1 // source 2).

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

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

11/5/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

11/6/19: According to Brandon Boudreaux’s friends, Claudia and Brandon Ewell, Melani and Brandon Boudreaux have a court date scheduled for this date (source).

Notes: 

• I deduced the date from the fact that Claudia said it was the next day, and their interview was 11/5/19.
• It’s unclear if Melani attended this hearing because she had just moved to Rexburg five days earlier. But judging by the fact that Ian said he was having a hard time convincing Melani to go to her custody hearing on 12/11/19 (source)—in part because Chad Daybell shared a prophecy that her children would return to her (source)—I suspect she did not attend this hearing.

11/7/19: Lori Vallow and Zulema Pastenes’ friend, Sarena, was at the temple with Zulema. Zulema said “Porsius” went with her to the temple and showed himself to Sarena, and Sarena confirmed she saw him. Lori wanted to know if she asked about her and Chad or heard about his wife dying, and Zulema said she didn’t (source).

Note: Although it’s apparent Lori didn’t trust Sarena, if she had been kicked out of the group, as she claimed happened in March, Zulema most likely wouldn’t have been hanging out with her. Also, “Porsius” was the name of Zulema’s former husband in a previous probation (source).

11/7/19: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell meet with Jeani Martin about renting a room from her home in Kauai, 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).

11/7/19: Approximate date Brandon Boudreaux’s business partner’s wife, Jes, talks with Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) about JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan. She, Brandon, and the Woodcocks knew they were missing at this point a couple weeks. Melani tells Jes she trusted Lori (source).

11/7/19 – 11/8/19: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell inquire about rental homes saying they have no children (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).

11/9/19: Lori Vallow sends a text message to and Alex Cox and Zulema Pastenes urging them to come to Hawaii (source).

👉 11/10/19: Kay Woodcock logs in to Charles’ Amazon account and finds Lori’s purchases for wedding attire (source 1 // source 2 // source 3).

A few clarifications:

• Kay said she tried one of Charles’ passwords and it worked, but Rich Robertson said in a podcast he did in March 2023 that Charles gave Kay a list of his logins in case something happened to him (source). And in one interview she said she accessed his Amazon account by plugging her computer into his printer (source).
• Kay emailed Chandler Police Det Moffat; there’s no indication she called him, as was reported by Dateline (source).
• Kay also didn’t tell Det Moffat that Lori actually purchased wedding accoutrement, e.g., two wedding rings, a wedding dress, an all-white men’s outfit, size XL, etc. She only told him that Lori searched for wedding clothes and didn’t mention rings.
• Kay didn’t tell Det Moffat that she had Lori’s address from this find. In fact, when she requested the welfare check on Nov 25th, it appears she still hadn’t ever passed on Lori’s physical address because an analyst with the Phoenix FBI office had to run a skip trace to track down Lori’s address (source).

11/11/19: Lori Vallow uses Tylee Ryan’s AirPods (source).

11/12/19: Brandon Boudreaux told a Gilbert Police detective that Melani was still paying for a life insurance policy on him despite him asking her to remove herself from the policy (source).

11/12/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) 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 1 // source 2).

11/12/19: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell are spotted in an LDS temple in Hawaii (source).

11/13/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler Det Nathan Moffat she and Larry met with the social worker who handled JJ’s adoption (in Louisiana) and asks for a contact at Rexburg Police to ask for a welfare check (source). She follows up again the next day with a reminder (source).

Note: It appears Moffat never sent the contact because the welfare check wouldn’t be requested from Rexburg Police for another 12 days.

11/14/19: Kay Woodcock follows up with Chandler Det Nathan Moffat about contact at Rexburg Police for a welfare check for JJ Vallow (source).

11/14/19: Zulema Pastenes meets up with Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell during their six-hour layover in Mesa. Lori and Chad got a room at her go-to hotel, the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Mesa, next to the airport (source). This return date lines up with the mid-November timeframe mentioned in the first Dateline episode (source)**.

Note: I wonder if this was when the plan was hatched to murder Alex Cox. His death was ruled natural, but I personally do not believe it was natural. Also, Zulema made a bizarre reference to a bag of cash in her house. This may have been when she actually came into that bag of cash as this is the last cited reference to them meeting up. Also, if Lori and Chad were so tired they needed to get a room for a few hours, why would they prioritize meeting up with their needy and clingy friend? Sus. 🧐

**Just noting that Keith Morrison says in this clip that “Kay and Larry Woodcock knew nothing of  Lori’s new marriage.” He continued, “In fact, they didn’t even know she moved the kids to Idaho.” We now know that neither of those statements were true.

Kay Knew About Chad in March 2019

Kay knew about Chad Daybell as early as March 9, 2019 because Charles found and forwarded an email exchange between Chad and Lori with five of her documents (see related entry from 1/22/19).

Kay Knew About Chad and Lori’s Affair from Charles

Chad’s name and email address were in forwarded email. She also sent an email to Det Moffat on 10/28/19 letting him know about Lori and Chad’s suspected affair, even adding that Lori would send Chad long videos of her dancing—2-3 hours each (source). Charles found these on 6/29/19 and sent an email to Tammy, Chad, and Adam Cox about these videos (see related 6/29/19 entries), so it’s reasonable to assume he would have told his closest confidant, Kay, about them at that time as well.

Kay Knew Lori Moved to Rexburg in September 

And then she says she discovered Lori’s Amazon purchases of wedding supplies on Nov 10, 2019. Finally, Kay said in a 20/20 interview that was recorded just weeks after we were all interviewed for this Dateline interview that she found out that Lori and the kids had moved to Idaho “sometime in September” and even had her address but were just missing their apartment number (source). (Because of delays caused by the pandemic, this episode didn’t air until Feb 2021, but our interviews were done the year prior.) However, she didn’t mention to Det Moffat that they had moved to Rexburg, ID, until Nov 3. Even then, she didn’t share the street address with him (source). So she knew sometime in September and told Det Moffat Nov 3rd, but it appears from the information publicly available at the time of writing (11/21/22) that she never passed on the address sans the apartment number.

11/14/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) 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 1 // source 2).

11/18/19: Arizona Dept of Public Safety detective, a crime scene tech, and a Gilbert Police Department detective fly to Rexburg to process the Jeep Wrangler (source).

11/18/19: Gilbert PD traveled to Rexburg to recover the Jeep that was involved in the attempted murder of Brandon Boudreaux and told detectives about JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan and that no one had heard from them in a while (source). They said they were going to look for them in Arizona.

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 L.I.F.E. Academy, his old school (source).

Note: Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19, five days after moving to Rexburg, ID.

11/21/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

11/21/19: Lori Vallow saves numerous pics of Hawaii to her iCloud (source).

11/22/19: Lori Vallow texts Colby Ryan to tell him Tylee sent him a Venmo (source):

I text Ty to send it but I haven’t heard back yet. She will probably just do it before she tells me

Hope you got the Venmo. Ty said she sent it late. I’ll call you when I get a break. Hope you are having a great day. I love you so much !!!

Note: Colby’s name fits into the redaction. I included the font I used over another sentence to demonstrate how well it fits.

11/23/19: Tammy Daybell’s family finds out Chad had remarried (source).

11/23/19 – 11/30/19: Ian Pawlowski travels to Mesa, AZ, with his two kids to visit his sister, Hannah, for Thanksgiving (source).

Note: Hannah noted to investigators that this visit had been planned months in advance. What wasn’t planned was the addition of his then-girlfriend, Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski), joining them. She and Alex Cox arrived in Arizona on 11/27, after fleeing Idaho following the welfare check.

11/24/19: Lori Vallow and a man who appears to be Chad Daybell 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 // source 3 // source 4 // source 5).

Note: The owner noted that Lori and a male brought stuff out of the unit and put stuff into the unit (source).

11/24/19: Chad Daybell gives Alex Cox a patriarchal blessing (source 1 // source 2). According to Melanie Gibb, Alex said he cried like a baby (source).

11/25/19: Lori Vallow uses Tylee Ryan’s AirPods (source).

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).

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).

11/26/19: Rexburg PD and Fremont County Sheriff’s Office meet re: the welfare check for JJ Vallow (source).

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 foreword). 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 (source).
• Gibb has reportedly retained a lawyer and is cooperating with authorities (source, 1:57 minute mark).

11/26/19: Gilbert Police interview Melanie and Brendan Gibb’s oldest son after Melanie wouldn’t return their calls. He says that his mom is with her boyfriend in Utah and that he didn’t believe JJ Vallow was with her (source).

11/26/19: After Rexburg Police are unable to get ahold of Melanie Gibb because she refused to return their calls (source // p 4), they reach out to Gilbert Police and ask them to go to Melanie’s home. Gilbert PD Det Ryan Pillar calls Melanie, and she doesn’t pick up. But then she returns his call later and tells him that she had JJ Vallow. For some reason GPD falsely reported that she said she didn’t have JJ (source). But then we found out at Chad Daybell’s preliminary hearing in August 2020 that she lied to Det Pillar and didn’t correct her line until eight days later (source).

Note: Melanie most likely didn’t correct her lie to Det Pillar for 12 days, when she talked to him by phone on 12/8, the same day she recorded her call with Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell.

11/26/19: Kay and Larry Woodcock reportedly tell KSL TV reporter Garna Meija that they didn’t know Tylee Ryan was missing until Rexburg Police did the welfare check (source).

Notes: 

• This contradicts what Kay said in their 1/7/20 press conference they held (source).
• This also contradicts the claim of Brandon Boudreaux’s business partner’s wife, Jes, who also said their group, which included the Woodcocks, knew the kids were missing around the time of Tammy Daybell’s death (source).
• Kay told me in 2020 in a Facebook group we were in together that they “of course” included Tylee in the welfare check. That turned out to not be a truthful statement.

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 (now Pawlowski), who reportedly lived within a few doors of Vallow (source). They also find two backpacks with kids’ stuff in them and a prescription bottle for JJ Vallow dated Jan 2019 from Arizona Fry’s Pharmacy (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).

Notes: 

• Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and/or Alex Cox visit the storage unit a total of 10 times between Oct 1 and Nov 24.
• The owner of the storage facility noted that Rexburg Police came to the storage facility 1:58 pm and stayed 2 minutes and then came back at 5:08 pm with a search warrant and stayed 13 minutes (source).

11/27/19: Approximate date Alex Cox moves back to Arizona, according to Ian Pawlowski’s sister, Hannah (source).

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 10 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). Colby also agrees to contact police if his mom reached out (source).

Notes: 

• Lori had already offered him her Nissan Rogue, which had multiple blood stains (one of which was described as large), in mid-November (source). But Colby didn’t disclose this to investigators when they came to his home on 11/27 and didn’t tell them when he came into possession of it on 11/30, even though he told detectives he would let them know if he had any contact with his mom (source). He didn’t come clean about the car until the day after the case went public (12/21). By that time he had already gotten the car detailed (source).
• Colby told Justin that he found out about his mom and siblings moving to Idaho from the detectives who came to his door, but then he said in his Netflix interview that his then-wife, Kelsee, found out Lori had moved to Rexburg and married Chad Daybell (source).

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

11/27/19: Police serve search warrants at Lori’s townhome and Alex’s apartment where they find large number of firearms (source).

11/27/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) joins Ian Pawlowski at his sister Hannah’s house. She arrives in Lori’s Nissan Rogue around 6:30 pm but then left and spent the night elsewhere around midnight (source).

11/27/19: Rexburg Police call Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) and Alex Cox to ask them to return to Rexburg on 12/3/19 to be interviewed by Rexburg Police detectives, and they agree. Alex was never interviewed by RPD, and Melani wasn’t interviewed until 12/23/19 and that was with the FBI (source).

11/28/19: Colby Ryan emails Lori Vallow after she shut her phone off to see what was going on and to ask for her to help them out through Venmo (source): 

Mom, you changed your number? What is going on?

11/28/19: Colby and Kelsee Ryan post on social media for Thanksgiving with no mention of his missing siblings (source).

11/28/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) returns to Ian’s sister’s house for Thanksgiving dinner but then leaves again around midnight (source).

11/28 – 12/1/19: Chad Daybell spends Thanksgiving weekend on vacation with his family in Southern California, traveling there via the Salt Lake City airport. Photos posted to social media show Chad at the airport and later Knott’s Berry Farm, an amusement park in Buena Park, CA. Lori wasn’t in any of the photos (source). It’s later discovered they stay at the Residence Inn in La Miranda Buena Park (source).

11/29/19: Lori Vallow cancels her internet service in Rexburg (source).

11/29/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) returns to Ian’s sister’s house and this time spend the night (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).

Note: Ian Pawlowski told investigators that “Al and Zulema had stayed in Las Vegas and were ‘preparing earthquakes’ at the time I spoke with the police. Since he spoke to police 12/5 and 12/6, this puts them in Vegas through at least 12/5/19. Also, Alex Cox took Zulema’s last name (source).

11/29/19: Lori’s friend, Melanie Gibb, receives email from Lori full of pictures of their wedding on the beach. Gibb claims she didn’t know they had gotten married (source).

11/29/19 – 12/1/19: Chad rented Nissan Altima from a location in Fullerton, CA (source).

11/30/19: Ian Pawlowski, Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski), and Ian’s two kids leave his sister Hannah’s home in his car (source).

Note: I believe Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) was using the Nissan Rogue to travel to and from Ian’s sister house, and they left it on the street for Colby to pick up when they left and no longer needed it.

11/30/19: Colby Ryan comes into possession of the Nissan Rogue registered to Lori Vallow and Alex Cox and he detailed it even though it had visible blood stains (source).

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).

11/30/19: Colby Ryan comes into possession of Lori Vallow’s Nissan Rogue (source).

11/30/19: Melani Boudreaux (now Pawlowski) 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).”

Dec 2019: Lori Vallow’s next-door neighbor in Rexburg is interviewed by Rexburg PD. He says he and his wife, Leah, had previously been interviewed by Rexburg PD Det David Stubbs (source).

Dec 2019: Melanie Gibb allegedly says kids are most likely dead and that all were probably killed by Alex. Gibb also says (again, allegedly) that Lori and Chad were frustrated that Tammy had not died yet, and Chad allegedly told Lori, “It’s not that easy to get someone’s spirit out of their body” (source).

Note: I’m assuming “all” means everyone who died in this story: Charles, Tylee, JJ, and Tammy.

Dec 2019: Melanie Gibb is interviewed by the FBI (source).

1st Week of Dec: Chad Daybell, Lori Vallow, Alex Cox, Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux), Ian Pawlowski, and Zulema Pastenes have multiple conference calls (source).

Note: I imagine Det Hermosillo mentioned that Ian was on the phone to let Zulema know they know the content of these calls because Ian started wearing a wire for the FBI on 12/5.

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

12/2/19: Ian Pawlowski’s mother calls him after talking to his ex-wife Natalie. She told him that Melani was in a cult, Chad is a cult leader, and her uncle had shot a man (source).

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

12/2/19: Lori Vallow and Colby Ryan exchange emails in response to the email Colby sent on 11/28 (source):

“Hi Colby! 

I need you to know that we are safe and happy. I know this sounds confusing to you but I need you to trust me….that although there are wicked people trying to cause harm that Jesus is on our side and taking care of us. Although we may be out of touch for a while, I will continue to help you. I love you all so much! The car and the car insurance will be paid for so u can drive it with no worries. The phones will also be good. You are precious to your momma !!! I love you so much !! Kisses to and you Ryley, and Kelsee. I hope to talk soon :). I will continue to pray blessings on your family constantly.

Colby: Okay mom. I love you. Please be smart and take care of the kids and yourself. I don’t know what’s going on but I’m praying for all of you. I’m mad, and sad. But I know I can’t control anything going on. Please be safe. All of you. We love you and if you can help us at all through Venmo too that would help. I’m gonna be getting a second job but until then we could use a little help. You have helped us so much with the car and phones so thank you for that. I love you all. 

12/2/19: FBI Special Agent Carey Cooper tells Chandler and Gilbert Police detectives that the FBI and Rexburg Police are willing to look into “state or federal felon in possession charges” to arrest and hold Alex Cox on weapons charges (source).

Note: Although we don’t see a response from these detectives, an FBI intelligence analyst researched if Alex was legally permitted to own/carry a firearm and found out he was a prohibited possessor just two days later (see entry for 12/4). And Gilbert Police started surveillance on Zulema Pastenes’ home on 12/5/19 and had eyes on Alex that night (see entry for 12/5), yet he was never arrested. He died just one week later, ostensibly while still under surveillance. So what were they waiting for?

12/3/19: According to an email from Natalie Pawlowski (ex-wife of Ian Pawlowski) 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). This is corroborated by an email FBI agent Carey Cooper (source).

12/3/19: Ian Pawlowski calls into Rexburg Police to check on Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux). He claims he’s only known her one month and that he does not know JJ or Lori Vallow (source). This claim contradicts the notes he wrote for his attorney after telling Melani that he had been cooperating with the investigation (source).

12/3/19: Tylee Ryan’s phone is used in Kauai, HI, almost three months after she was murdered (source).

12/3/19: Alex Cox activates a new burner phone (source).

12/3/19: According to an email exchange between Chandler PD Det Moffat and Kay Woodcock, Moffat, Gilbert PD Det Pillar, FBI agents, and detectives from Idaho have a conference call about the missing kids (source).

12/4/19: Zulema Pastenes tells Alex Cox that “Raphael” got a new phone number. Investigators discover that Chad Daybell was the registered owner phone (source).

12/4/19: An intelligence analyst with the FBI alerts detectives with Chandler and Gilbert Police Departments that, contrary to what Det Moffat told Cole Vallow in his email on 7/23/19 (source), Alex Cox was a prohibited possessor, meaning that his rights to own firearms had not been restored (source).

Note: The analyst was told that Alex’s rights would have only been restored if his record had been expunged, and the fact that they could see the assault on his record indicated it had not been been expunged.

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).

12/4/19: Someone publishes part 1 of Lori and Melanie’s podcast they recorded with David Warwick on 9/22/19 (the last day JJ Vallow was seen alive): Part 1 Guest David Warwick ‘From Gangs to the Gospel’ (source 1 // source 2).

Note: I believe this someone was Lori and that she did this to implicate David Warwick in the murder of JJ Vallow.

12/5/19: Alex Cox texts Chad Daybell’s burner phone from a new burner phone, “Hey it’s Reh [sic] Romano” (source). Chad doesn’t respond.

12/5/19: Natalie and Ian Pawlowski are interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source 1 // source 2).

Note: One of the items Lori Vallow’s defense attorney requested from Rexburg Police Department was recordings from Ian Pawlowski (source). Also, we found out from Rexburg Police’s interview with Zulema Pastenes that Ian informed LE that Lori, Chad, Alex, Zulema, and Melani had multiple conference calls.

12/5/19: Surveillance begins on Zulema Pastenes’ residence as a result of Ian and Natalie Pawlowski’s interview (source). A woman and man appearing to be Zulema Pastenes and Alex Cox are seen together by leaving his Silver Ford F-150 (source 1 // source 2).

12/6/19: Someone publishes part 2 of Lori and Melanie’s podcast they recorded with David Warwick the last day JJ Vallow was seen alive, Part 2 Guest David Warwick ‘Game Changer’ (source 1 // source 2).

12/6/19: Lori Vallow’s friend and one-time Preparing a People podcast co-host, Melanie Gibb reaches out to Rexburg Police to tell them she had lied about having JJ Vallow. She tells them that both Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell had contacted her separately on 11/26, and asked her to lie to detectives and tell them JJ was with her, which she did (source 1 // source 2 // source 3):

Note: This was 10 days after the welfare check, when she told Det Pillar that JJ was with her. It had been reported that Gibb refused to lie for Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell (source // 2:15 min mark), but this, too, was a lie. See note from the 12/8 entry that starts with “Melanie Gibb meets with Gilbert PD Detective Ryan Pillar” to view the recording of Gibb admitting under oath to lying to Det Pillar about having JJ.

12/6/19: Zulema Pastenes reported that Alex Cox started having shortness of breath (source).

12/6/19: Ian Pawlowski meets with LE again alone and restates what he knows for a few other detectives, Lieutenant Ball, and another FBI agent named Travis (source).

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).

12/6/19: Zulema Pastenes is seen driving to the Gilbert Temple, according to Gilbert PD (source).

12/6/19: Rexburg PD Det Dave Hope interviews Garth Daybell at Madison Jr. High, Rexburg (source).

12/6/19: Zulema Pastenes tells Melanie Gibb she received her “witness” regarding Lori, meaning her confirmation that she was the religious leader she claimed to be (source).

12/7/19: Rexburg PD Det Ray Hermosillo interviews Melanie Gibb (source 1 // source 2).

12/7/19: Rexburg PD Det Dave Hope interviews Principal Williams at JJ Vallow’s school, Kennedy Elementary (source).

12/7/19: According to Zulema Pastenes, Alex Cox drove to Algodones, Mexico, to buy prescriptions because they were cheaper (source 1 // source 2). The Gilbert Police Report confirms he crossed the border into Mexico that morning and returned that afternoon (source).

12/8/19: Someone publishes part 3 of Lori and Melanie’s podcast they recorded with David Warwick the last day JJ Vallow was seen alive, “Part 3 – Confronting Persecutors, Refinement in Feeling the Fire” (source 1 // source 2).

12/8/19: At 3:43 pm MST Melanie Gibb records a call with Chad and Lori Vallow and asks for information about JJ’s whereabouts (source).

12/8/19: Melanie Gibb meets with Gilbert PD Detective Ryan Pillar, shares the recorded call, admits that she lied about having had JJ with her the previous week, and says she broke ties with Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell (source 1 // source 2).

Note: This was 12 days after Rexburg PD conducted the welfare check to check on JJ Vallow and found out he was missing.

12/8/19: Approximate date Ian Pawlowski texts his ex-wife Natalie with grave concerns about Melani’s court hearing, her uncles’ advice for her to move to Ammon, ID, his insistence on staying in Rexburg, and concern for Natalie’s safety (source):

Don’t respond.

I need you to encourage Brandon to keep info he gets on the down low until I can get this sorted out.

I want to help, but it will be tough if every[one] starts figuring out what I’m learning.

She didn’t know beforehand what was gonna happen (Note: He’s talking about the attempted murder of Melani’s first husband, Brandon Boudreaux.)

They made the attempt, failed and told her about it after the fact. I understand that he doesn’t want the kids around her because of all of this, but I believe if she can see them, it will put a huge dent in her trust with her uncles. She’s scared and had been told her middle children are dead. She has a family court date on 12/11. I’m trying to get her to go…

I don’t know if I can convince her to go to the family court hearing on Wednesday. I’m trying but she “got an answer” last night from God himself. Her uncles have her so wrapped up. They’re telling her she needs to move to Ammon. That’s not gonna happen because I’m not going to leave Rexburg. They think is [sic] has something to do with jurisdiction. Dumbest thing ever. Don’t respond. Just wanted to update you earlier because I had a quick second to call. Stay safe.

Note: Screenshot is from Brandon Boudreaux’s phone; thus the misspelling of “Pawlowski” and question as to the date the text was actually sent to Natalie.

12/9/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler Det Nathan Moffat that call Child Protection Services (CPS) in Idaho and Arizona’s Department of Child Safety (DCS) to get custody of JJ Vallow if he’s found (source).

Note: Although Larry Woodcock told Dr. Phil in Feb 2020 that they made multiple calls to CPS after finding out about Tammy Daybell’s death in October (source), this is the first reference I’ve found in the FOIA docs that mentions them actually reaching out to AZ DCS or ID CPS. Kay told Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat that she planned to reach out to one of JJ’s old social workers in Louisiana in hopes that she would open the door to DCS in AZ on 9/25 (source), but there’s no confirmation she ever reached out to DCS in AZ or CPS in Idaho when she found out that Lori had moved there (which I believe was the next day, 9/26). If I find any other references, I’ll update the timeline.

12/9/19: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from L.I.F.E. Academy, his old school (source).

Note: Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19, five days after moving to Rexburg, ID.

12/9/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

12/9/19: Gilbert Police collect mail addressed to Zulema Pastenes, Lori Vallow, Alex Cox, and [what appears to be] Chad Daybell (source).

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.

12/10/19: Kay Woodcock passes on her IP address to Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat per his request (source).

12/11/19: Alex Cox and Chad Daybell have a text exchange about Alex not feeling well and having a resting heart rate of 100 bpm. Alex expressed concern that “the poison from the spear in the heart has done some residual damage (source).

12/11/19: Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) has a family court hearing scheduled. Ian Pawlowski had told his ex-wife Natalie Pawlowski he was trying to get her to go. He said she “got an answer” last night from God himself (source). In another report, Ian Pawlowski tells investigators that Chad Daybell told Melani not to fight for custody of her kids because he had a prophecy that the children would return to her (source).

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.”

12/11/19: Approximate date Alex Cox tells Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) that he won’t be returning to Rexburg (source).

12/12/19: Tammy Daybell’s remains were reburied (source).

12/12/19: Alex Cox dies of suspicious causes at 4:19 pm in Gilbert, AZ (source). 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).

Note:

• 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?
• I find it interesting that, even with the death of Lori’s estranged yet healthy husband, the suspicious disappearance of two kids who had both been identified as zombies, and then Tammy’s death, it was Alex’s death that really surprised Melanie Gibb (source).

12/12/19: Zulema told Gilbert PD several lies when they questioned her about Alex’s death (source):

• He had six siblings but does not have much communication with them.
• She had only met Lori a few times when she lived in AZ.
• She had not seen Lori since she moved a few months ago (so since she moved to Idaho in September),
• She did not think Lori was married.

12/12/19: Zulema Pastenes tells investigators that Alex Cox left her a bag of cash in the event something happened to him. She estimated the amount of cash to be between $5,000 and $7,000 (source).

Note: I personally suspect this cash was actually given to her by Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow, when she met them in Mesa during their layover as they were returning to Idaho following their honeymoon. (See 11/14/19 entry above.) And I suspect the payment was for helping Alex to the other side. #jmo

12/13/19: The day after Alex Cox died and two weeks after the welfare check for JJ, Chandler Police start tracking down the kids’ dental records (source).

Note: I believe they were doing their due diligence in the event the kids’ remains were found.

12/13/19: Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow call Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) to say Rexburg PD contacted two of Chad’s kids and threatened to exhume Tammy Daybell’s body. Per Ian, Chad and Lori seemed not to know the exhumation had already taken place already and thought the FBI’s involvement was a rumor and scare tactic (source).

12/13/19: Gilbert PD interview one of Tylee Ryan’s childhood friends who said she hadn’t communicated with Tylee since April or May of 2018 and had deleted all of her text messages with Tylee (source).

Note: The ending of their friendship correlates with when Tylee’s father, Joseph Ryan, was found. This isn’t necessarily of probative value, just sad that Tylee lost her best friend around the same time her father died suspiciously. Also, when I asked Tylee when she had last seen her father during my May 2018 visit, she said it was about a year before his death, but Lori told a detective from Phoenix PD that she hadn’t heard from Joe for about two years. Also, when I asked Tylee when she had last seen her dad, she looked at Lori in what appeared to be a nervous glance before answering.

12/13/19: Rexburg PD Det Dave Hope interviews Joseph and Emma Murray at Central Elementary, Sugar City (source).

12/14/19: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler Police Det Nathan Moffat that she emailed Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and one other person who’s unidentified to tell them they want JJ (source).

12/16/19: Someone accepts two Facebook friends for Tylee Ryan’s account (source).

12/17/19: Rexburg PD Lt Ron Ball and Officer Rick Schmitt meet with Tammy Daybell’s brother-in-law, Jason Gwilliam, at Springville Police Department (source). If this is also when Samantha, Tammy Daybell’s sister, was interviewed, she noted that Chad told them Lori had no juvenile children (source).

12/17/19: Gilbert PD Det Ryan Pillar and Chandler PD Det Nathan Moffat interview Melanie Gibb (source 1 // source 2 // source 3). She claims she saw JJ on 9/23/19, the day she and David Warwick left** (source). She also claims to have no knowledge of the Brandon Boudreaux shooting. However, according to Brandon’s business partner’s wife, Jes, Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) asked Melanie Gibb to talk to Brandon’s former neighbors to find out where he was after he went into hiding (source). Kay Vallow offers to monitor it, but Det Moffat declines (source).

**Melanie would go on to reiterate to GPD detectives that she last saw JJ on 9/23 in an interview on 2/11/20. However, she then said under oath at Chad Daybell’s preliminary hearing in August 2020 that she didn’t see JJ the morning of Sep 23rd and that Lori Vallow claimed he climbed up on her kitchen cabinet in a zombie moment (source).

12/17/19: Summer Shiflet and Janis Cox are interviewed separately by Gilbert Police. Summer tells them she hadn’t seen the kids in months. And she and Janis tell them that they believed the kids were in Lori’s care (source).

12/17/19: Someone tries to log in to Tylee Ryan’s Facebook account from an IP address in California and Kansas (source).

12/18/19: Chad Daybell’s parents, Jack and Sheila Daybell, are interviewed by Rexburg Police Department (source 1 // source 2). They tell investigators Chad and Lori Vallow told them that Lori was an “empty-nester” (source).

12/19/19: Rexburg Police enter Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow into NCIC as missing/endangered juveniles (source).

12/19/19: Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow are told to provide proof Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow are alive and instead retain legal counsel (source).

12/19/19: RPD executes a second search warrant on Alex Cox’s apartment. They went in with a forensics team and looked for any evidence of JJ having been there (source).

12/19/19: Ian Pawlowski tells Melani he had spoken with LE (source).

12/19/19: Approximate date Ian Pawlowski records his notes of everything he told the FBI (source).

12/19/19: There is a Venmo transfer from Lori Vallow or Tylee Ryan to Colby Ryan’s account (source).

Note: The FOIA doc redacted the donor and amount. It only states that the 49 transactions listed are from Lori or Tylee.

12/19/19: Kay Woodcock asks Chandler Police Det Nathan Moffat in two emails if she and Larry could travel to Idaho and be part of the media release to announce the missing kids (source).

12/19/19: Colby Ryan announces his new YouTube channel, CJ’s Place in S1E1. It has since been set to private. Description:

Welcome to CJs place, I’m super exited to be launching a channel that I can finally talk about more things in depth. I wanna be honest, real, and talk about things I’m interested In. You guys can come with your boy and see how everything shapes out but welcome all

12/19/19: Alex Cox’s autopsy is performed. Chandler Police Det Nathan Moffat tells Kay Woodcock that Alex Cox died of natural causes, from blood clots and a pulmonary embolism (source).

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 L.I.F.E. Academy, his old school (source).

Note: Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19, five days after moving to Rexburg, ID.

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

12/21/19: Colby Ryan calls Gilbert Police and tells them he talked to his mom on 11/27, and she gave him her car (source).

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

12/21/19: Gilbert Police seize Alex Cox’s F-150 truck from Zulema Pastenes’ home (source).

12/21/19: The Kauai Police Department become involved with the investigation into the missing children and confirm Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell are living on the island (source). They did that by contacting the property manager where they were staying (source). Some surveillance images are included in the FOIA docs (source).

12/22/19: Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) tells FBI agent Ricky Wright that she’s willing to make a written statement in an effort to “clear her name” because she was getting hateful texts from people. She asked also that some of her property be returned from Rexburg Police, such as a laptop, and that they help her get Christmas presents to her kids (source).

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

12/23/19: Melani and Ian Pawlowski are interviewed by the FBI in Idaho. It’s noted that Melani was being dishonest but wasn’t challenged on her lies because Ian was still cooperating with the FBI (source). That, however, is not true. He had stopped cooperating 12/19/19.

Note: On 11/27/19, Melani and Alex Cox had agreed to come back to Rexburg to be interviewed by Rexburg Police detectives, but Alex was never interviewed and Melani wasn’t interviewed until 12/23/19 (source). Also, the screenshot says she was interviewed again on the 23rd, but she had said through Ian the previous day that she wasn’t ready to interview (source), so I believe the 23rd was her first interview.

12/23/19: Alex Cox’s Ford F-150 is processed for evidence (source).

12/23/19: Colby Ryan is interviewed by Gilbert Police about how he came into possession of Lori Vallow’s Nissan Rogue (source 1 // source 2).

12/24/19: Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) shows up at her father’s house unannounced and asks if she can visit while sitting in her car outside his house. He believed she was looking for her children, who her ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux, had in hiding (source).

12/26/19: Kay Woodcock searches for JJ Vallow’s DNA (source).

12/27/19: Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow are caught on surveillance by Kauai Police outside the home they were staying in when they fled (source).

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.”

12/27/19: Gilbert Police perform a welfare check at Colby and Kelsee Ryan’s Mesa apartment to try to located Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, Lori Vallow’s son, is interviewed by Gilbert Police (source). Brandon Boudreaux had tipped police off that Tylee and JJ could be with him (source).

12/27/19: Gilbert Police interview Neal Mestas, who was the dog trainer for JJ Vallow’s service dog, Bailey (source).

12/30/19: Kay and Larry Woodcock send the FBI a text about how Lori Vallow and Alex Cox were shipping meth and money laundering through Chad Daybell’s business to raise money for their legal battle. It came to light because a reporter said s/he was sent the message from a family member, and it was passed around in a number of Facebook groups. Initially, family denied this was ever sent to the FBI, but later a family member confirmed sending this communication and said it was an attempt to get LE to take the case seriously, even though they knew it wasn’t true (source).

Notes: 

• It is, again, mystifying why family members would [allegedly] make up this story and pass it on to the FBI to get them to take the case seriously while apparently withholding the document Chad Daybell sent Lori Vallow with the ratings of her family members (see relevant entry for 10/30/18, 1/23/19, 2/6/19, and 8/22/19)—even when they knew one person had been murdered for being a dark spirit (Charles Vallow), one was missing who had been identified as a dark spirit (Tylee Ryan), and one had been shot at (Brandon Boudreaux).
• In the true crime social media groups, this misstep became known as ‘#methgate’.

12/30/19: Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow’s friend, Julie Clement, claims to have spoken on the phone with Chad and Lori this day (source). 

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).

12/31/19: Gilbert PD interview Lori and Chad Daybell’s friend, Julie Clement. She refuses to give them their phone numbers (source).

Early 2020: Melanie Gibb talks to FBI agents “two to three times” (source 1 // source 2).

1/3/20: Rexburg PD and the FBI search Chad Daybell’s 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. I don’t know why he would have possibly deleted these recordings.

1/4/20: Fremont County and RPD publish press release about issuing search warrant on Chad Daybell’s house. The elease mentions 43 items were removed, including electronic devices, journals, documents and medications (source).

1/4/20: Kay Woodcock passes on the email Charles Vallow sent her of Lori’s writings to the FBI victim’s advocate (source). They include:

• Lili connections.doc
• Modern LDS Apostles.doc
• Seven missions.doc
• The Seven eras of influence.doc
• Dispensation presidencies.doc

Notes: 

• Even though Tylee Ryan was missing at this time and Brandon Boudreaux had been shot at for being a dark spirit, there’s no record of Kay passing on the Oct 30, 2018 documents from Chad Daybell, which rated Lori’s family members. The documents Lori wrote were more esoteric in nature (source).
• There’s also no record in the police report (that I can find) that she passed Chad’s documents on to Chandler PD Det Moffat on 8/22/19 or to the FBI. You can even see Kay’s reference to the “Lili connections.doc” document in her email to Det Moffat:

Plz review: lili connections.doc.

• This means there is no record (again that I can find) of anyone flagging the fact that Chad rated Tylee a dark spirit—again, that I can find. I’ll update the timeline if one ever emerges, but I would think, if she passed on the rating documents, it would have been around the same time as these two emails.

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

1/7/20: Chandler PD interview April Raymond (source).

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

1/7/20: According to FBI agent Ricky Wright, Melani is a no show for a scheduled interview (source).

1/7/20: Larry and Kay Woodcock, JJ Vallow’s grandparents, travel to Idaho, meet with LE, and announce a $20,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of JJ and Tylee Ryan (press conference // screenshot // award site).

1/8/20: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from L.I.F.E. Academy, his old school (source).

Note: Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19, five days after moving to Rexburg, ID.

1/8/20: Rexburg PD Det Randy Reese interviews April Raymond (source).

1/8/20: Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) was scheduled to meet with the FBI in Idaho with her attorney but was a no show (source).

1/8/20: Gilbert Police request a cold case detective from Phoenix Police review Joe Ryan’s death (source).

Note: I seriously doubt this happened, at least not with any kind of rigor. The pictures from the day of his welfare check are teeming with contradictions.

1/9/20: Rexburg PD Det Randy Reese interviews yours truly 🙋‍♀️ (source).

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 FOX 10 (source).

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

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

1/16/20: DNA results from the blood samples collected from the Nissan Rogue and Ford F150 were received and it was confirmed the blood came from two unidentified females (source).

1/24/20: Kay Woodcock tells Chandler Police Det Moffat that she found JJ’s service dog, Bailey. He was re-homed with a special needs boy (source).

1/25/20: LE in Kauai, 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 Kauai, 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 Kauai 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 Kauai, 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).

1/26/20: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell are detained and questioned in separate police cars in Kauai, Hawaii (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 Kauai 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).

1/30/20: Chandler Police turn over Lori Vallow’s iCloud records to the FBI (source).

1/30/19: Gilbert Police receive DNA samples from Brandon Boudreaux and his children, as well as a bag of clothing suspected to belong to Tylee, if my redaction is correct (source).

1/31/20: Lori Vallow accesses JJ Vallow’s app from L.I.F.E. Academyy, his old school (source).

Note: Lori withdrew JJ 9/5/19, five days after moving to Rexburg, ID.

Early Feb: Lori Vallow has her church records transferred to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kauai, 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: This GFM went from $15k to $10k to $7.5k (the last two on the same day) and then ended at $20k after the kids’ remains were found.

2/2/20: Lori Vallow and new husband Chad Daybell start attending church at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kauai (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 L.I.F.E. Academy, 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.

2/5/20: Rexburg PD Lt Ron Ball and Det Ray Hermosillo interview Chad’s brother and sister-in-law, Matt and Heather Daybell, at Rexburg Police Station (source).

2/5/20: Rich Robertson, a private investigator hired by Brandon Boudreaux, 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.

2/6/20: James Waterman sends what would become known as the infamous Reddit email to the Chandler Police Facebook page (source).

Note: It was only through this email in the FOIA docs that we found out Melanie Gibb is the source of this information.

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.

2/11/20: Gilbert Police interview Melanie Gibb. She claims that she saw JJ on 9/23/19 and that she didn’t remember anything abnormal (source).

Note: Melanie made the same claim when she was interviewed by Gilbert Police on 12/17/19 (source). But then she said under oath at Chad Daybell’s preliminary hearing in August 2020 that she didn’t see JJ the morning of Sep 23rd and that Lori Vallow claimed he climbed up on her kitchen cabinet in a zombie moment (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).

2/12/20: Brandon Boudreaux reaches out to Gilbert Police Det Pillar to tell him Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) wouldn’t sign the papers to cancel the life insurance policy they had on him. Because they were both owners of the policy (something the broker noted as ‘unusual’), both of them had to sign the paper to remove her as a beneficiary of the policy. She also paid for the policy out of her personal account, so he couldn’t even stop payment on the policy (source).

2/13/20: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell are spotted at a Costco in Lihue, HI (source).

2/13/20: Rexburg Police Det Chuck Kunsaitis requests that Chandler Police run a Prescription Monitoring Program Inquiry for Lori Vallow, Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow, and Melanl Boudreaux (source).

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

2/15/20: LE comes to the door of Tammy Daybell’s family members’ house around this date looking for Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow after someone called in an anonymous tip that s/he saw them in their yard (source):

Local LE showed up to my house recently after a (anonymous? I don’t know) tip was called in saying JJ and Tylee were seen on my yard and might be living in my house. The household was cooperative with them and showed them the tip was false. I’m a little nervous of the implications this event might have, but there’s no reason to suspect anyone is at risk right now.

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

2/16/20: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell are seen in Kauai  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).

2/17/20: The FBI receive tips from reporters that Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow move from Kauai to Maui, HI (source).

2/18/20: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell return to Kauai (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).

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)

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

2/20/20: Rexburg PD Lt Ron Ball and Special Prosecutor Rob Wood confront Chad Daybell after Lori Vallow’s arrest (source).

2/21/20: Lori Vallow’s first court hearing in Kauai, 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 Pawlowski’s attorney issued a statement refuting that Melani 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 Kauai, 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.

2/25/20: Rexburg PD Det Kunsaitis and Schmitt interview Christopher Parrett (source).

2/26/20: Judge denies Lori Vallow’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 (formerly Boudreaux) issues a press release denying Melani 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).

2/27/20: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell’s friend, Jason Mow, published a Facebook post that could be interpreted as a hat tip to Lori Vallow’s second request for a reduction in her bond (source):

And the angel said unto him: “the petition didn’t work, you’re going to have to shoot them.” – 1 Americas 17:76

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

3/3/20: Rexburg PD Officer Rick Schmitt interviews Matt Daybell about storage unit footage (source).

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

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

3/5/20: Lori Vallow’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 is scheduled for an arraignment hearing in Rexburg, ID (source // watch live).

3/6/20: Lori Vallow’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’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: Rexburg PD Lt Foster interviews Jay Johnson (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: Chandler PD Det Jason McClimans tells FOX10 reporter Justin Lum that Alex Cox was not a prohibited possessor, despite an FBI intelligence alerting detectives from both Chandler and Gilbert Police Departments on 12/4/19 that Alex Cox was a prohibited possessor, meaning that his rights to own firearms had not been restored (source).

Note: The analyst was told that Alex’s rights would have only been restored if his record had been expunged, and the fact that they could see the assault on his record indicated it had not been been expunged. I personally suspect (but can’t prove) that Det McClimans passed on what Det Moffat told Cole Vallow on 7/23/19 (source) to avoid additional scrutiny as to why CPD didn’t do their due diligence re: Alex Cox’s possessor rights—or why he wasn’t arrested in the [alleged] murder of Charles Vallow.

3/11/20: Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood and Lori Vallow’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: Approximate date Colby Ryan talked with his mother, Lori Vallow, while she was in jail (source).

3/11/20: Attorney for Lori Vallow Mark Means files a motion to disqualify Magistrate Judge Faren Eddins without cause (source 1 // source 2).

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

3/12/20: Lori Vallow’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 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 approves Mark Means’ request to disqualify himself and withdraws from the case against Lori Vallow (source).
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’s attorneys, Brian Webb and Edwina Elcox, withdraw from her case (source).

3/16/20: Prosecution turned over approximately 1,600 pages of documents and 14.6gb of videos, photos, and other electronic media to the defense (source, line item 3).

3/24/20: Detective Nathan Moffat 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!!!

3/27/20: Chad applied for a permit to put a trailer on his property (source).

3/28/20: Melani Pawlowski’s (formerly Boudreaux’s) father, Steven Cope, is interviewed by Gilbert PD (source 1 // source 2).

3/30/20: Lori Vallow’s attorney, Mark Means, visits with Lori and is forced to sit in a public area, speak on a recorded phone line, and pass confidential paperwork through employees due to Corona Virus constraints (source).

3/30/20: Lori Vallow’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.

3/30/20: Chandler PD drafts a search warrant for Charles Vallow’s iCloud account, an extension of Lori Vallow’s Lori4style iCloud account, and the kkwalker75@yahoo.com account** (source 1 // source 2 // source 3).

Note: Why did it take Chandler PD a staggering eight months to request Charles’ iCloud data?

**If my unredaction is correct.

4/2/20: Lori Vallow’s attorney, Mark Means, requests all evidence pertaining to the deaths of Charles Vallow, Joe Ryan, Tammy Daybell, and Alex Cox (source).

4/2/20: Lori Vallow’s attorney, Mark Means, requests all records pertaining to the following witnesses (source):

• Adam Cox
• Charles Vallow
• Alex Cox
• Ethel “Kay” Vallow
• Larry Woodcock
• Brandon Boudreaux
• Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux)
• Melanie Gibb
• Christina Atwood
• Jack Daybell (Chad Daybell’s father)
• Sheila Daybell (Chad Daybell’s mother)
• Jason Gwilliam (Tammy Daybell’s brother-in-law)
• Samantha Gwilliam (Tammy Daybell’s sister)
• Summer Shiflet (Lori’s sister)
• Ruth Mortensen
• Detective Hope (RPD)
• Matt Daybell (Chad’s brother)
• Heather Daybell (Chad’s sister-in-law)

4/4/20: FOX 10 reporter Justin Lum tries to set up a meeting with Lori Vallow in jail via the Telmate app. She accepts him as a contact but denies his call (source).

Note: Truth be told, I just included this “event” to point out homegirl is looking rough.

4/6/20: Melani Pawlowski’s (formerly Boudreaux) father, Steven Cope, is interviewed by Gilbert PD a second time (source 1 // source 2).

4/7/20: Madison Co. Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood argues Lori Vallow shouldn’t be permitted a bond reduction because she hasn’t complied with the standing court order to produce her children (source).

4/10/20: Idaho Attorney General’s Office assumes full responsibility and authority in the investigation of Chad and Lori Vallow’s roles in the death of Chad’s late wife, Tammy Daybell. The pair is being investigated for conspiracy, attempted murder, and murder (source).

4/15/20: Chandler PD interview Lori Vallow’s friend Christina (source).

4/15/20: Chandler PD interview Lori Vallow’s friend Nicole (source).

4/15/20: Chandler PD interview Lori Vallow’s friend Sarena (source).

4/16/20: The FBI and Gilbert PD interview Thor Furuseth. He denies having a close relationship with Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell “despite evidence showing otherwise” (source).

4/16/20: The FBI and Gilbert PD interview Julie Clement a second time. She denies having being a part of the “Church of the First Born” and walks back her comment about seeing “Hiplos” like a dragon. I’ve attached Lori’s reference to her comment in the screenshot for comparison (source). Also, Julie explains that “Hiplos” was just a term for dark energy in general and wasn’t aware of anyone being called by that name (source). This is, of course, a lie. Zulema Pastenes referred to Charles Vallow as “Hiplos” when she texted Julie to let her know he was dead (source**).

**The redactions were all confirmed in the Chandler Police Report, which was released after the affidavit of probable cause.

4/17/20: Tentative date Lori Vallow’s fourth hearing to request a reduction in her bond is scheduled for, provided COVID-19’s restrictions are lifted Apr 15, as scheduled (source).

Note: This was postponed a third time to May 1.

4/17/20: Gilbert PD interview Melanie Gibb’s ex-husband, Brendan Gibb. He says Melanie told him in January 2019 that he had [redacted] in him and soon after she wanted a divorce (source). This was the same month Chad Daybell [allegedly] told Lori Vallow her husband, Charles, had a dark spirit in him, and she told him she wanted a divorce (source).

Note: I strongly suspect this redaction has something to do with a dark/evil spirit.

4/22/20: Chandler PD interviews Charles’ date, Nancy Jo (source).

4/23/20: Chandler PD interviews Lori Vallow’s friend Christina again (source).

4/24/20: Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) publishes a Facebook post for her 31st birthday where she talks about the case and how she’s suffering because she can’t see her children (source). She claims:

• She wrongly spent time in jail in Utah (after trespassing on her in-laws’ property twice).
• She hasn’t seen her children since Oct 9, 2019.
• She was unjustly taken from her mother and “told all manner of lies.”
• Her mother died when she was 9.
• She has nothing but love and gratitude toward her father and others who betrayed her.

Note: At some point Melani had offered a $10,000 reward for the location of her children (source).

4/29/20: Attorney Sean Bartholick tells Fox reporter Justin Lum that he no longer represents Chad Daybell. Daybell is now represented by his wife, Lori Vallow’s attorney, Mark Means (source).

4/30/20: A motion is filed to move the preliminary hearing from 5/7/20 – 5/8/20 to 7/9/20 – 7/10/20 (source).

5/1/20: Tentative date Lori Vallow’s fourth hearing to request a reduction in her bond is scheduled for (source).

5/2/20: Tammy Daybell’s manner of death is changed from “Natural” to “Undetermined” (source).

Note: Dr. Wallis with the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner told a Gilbert Police detective that no additional tests were viable for Tammy Daybell or Alex Cox without knowing which poison to test for (source).

5/7/20: Larry and Kay Vallow Woodcock appeal to members of the Cox family to have a meeting to try to work together to find Tylee and JJ (source).

5/8/20: Results of Alex Cox’s autopsy indicate he died of natural causes (source).

Note: Dr. Wallis with the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner told a Gilbert Police detective that no additional tests were viable for Tammy Daybell or Alex Cox without knowing which poison to test for (source). Also, the autopsy was performed on 12/19/19, and Chandler Police Det Nathan Moffat passed on the results to Kay Woodcock that day (source), so LE just waited to announce the results publicly.

5/25/20: JJ Vallow turns eight years old.

5/26/20: Rexburg PD Det Reese interviews April Raymond (source).

5/29/20: Rexburg PD Det Ray Hermosillo follows up on a tip about a crawl space (source).

6/3/20: Someone from LE or the prosecutor’s office interviews Melanie Gibb (source).

Note: There is a note in a later filing that Rexburg PD Det Ray Hermosillo interviewed her (source).

6/9/20: The Rexburg Police Department, assisted by the Fremont County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI, executes a search warrant on the property of Chad Daybell and discover two sets of human remains. Chad Daybell is arrested, charged with the destruction or concealment of evidence, and booked into the Fremont County Jail (source).

6/9/20: Rexburg PD Det Dave Hope reportedly captures bodycam video of Chad Daybell and his daughter, Emma Murray, as they talked while Chad was handcuffed in a police car following his arrest (source).

6/9/20: Rexburg PD interview Reegen Price, who claimed she heard a gunshot come from Chad Daybell’s property on the day Tylee Ryan was buried on his property (source).

Note: By way of reminder, Chad texted his wife, Tammy, the morning of Sep 9th to tell her he had shot a large raccoon.

6/10/20: An affidavit of probable cause is filed for Chad Daybell following the discovery of human remains on his property, which were later identified to be those of missing children Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow (source).

6/10/20: Chad Daybell appears in court for his initial hearing. Judge Faren Eddins agreed with Prosecutor Rob Wood’s recommendation for a $1 million bond. In arguing for the bond amount, Wood confirms that the remains found on Daybell’s property belong to children and that the “concealment of one of the bodies is particularly egregious” (source).

6/10/20: Rexburg PD interview Deputy Colter Cannon with the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office regarding the attempted shooting of Tammy Daybell on 10/9/19. He was a reporting officer on the scene that day (source).

6/10/20: Rexburg PD interview Kathy Brown regarding “ERT” and “paintball” activity in the area the day of the attempted shooting of Tammy Daybell on 10/9/19 (source).

6/10/20: Rexburg PD Det Dave Hope flies a drone and captures images of Daybell property (source).

Note: There are AI and machine learning algorithms farmers use to perform soil analysis using drones. The FBI may have armed RPD with one of those smart drones.

6/11/20: Rexburg PD interview Chad Daybell’s brother and sister-in-law, Matt and Heather Daybell  by Rexburg Detective Hope. Emails between Matt and Chad are also provided by Matt to LE (source).

6/11/20: Rexburg PD interview “Ryan Bradshaw, Jodie, Whitney, Aspen” (source).

6/13/20: The remains found on Chad Daybell’s property are positively identified as belonging to Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow by the Ada County Medical Examiner. Rexburg Police Department issues press release (source).

6/16/20: Rexburg PD interview Chad Daybell’s parents, Jack and Sheila Daybell (source).

6/19/20: Judge Faren Eddins unseals the probable cause affidavit for Chad Daybell (source).

6/29/20: Rexburg Police Department returned to Chad Daybell’s property with a search warrant to conduct a search of the shed and red barn close to where Tylee Ryan’s remains were found (source).

Note: Tylee’s remains were found charred, and she had been dismembered post-mortem. It’s feasible that RPD investigators were searching the barn and shed(s) for evidence that Chad Daybell and/or Alex Cox had used these structures to dismember Tylee and then carry her remains over the fire pit to be burned. Also, remember: Alex Cox has one hour where his whereabouts were not accounted for the murder Tylee was murdered (3:37 am to 4:37 am). And Alex didn’t return to Lori’s apartment before heading over to Chad’s house, so they could have met up in the early morning hours to work under the cloak of night.

7/1/20: Chad Daybell is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing (source).

7/10/20: Fremont County District Court orders some of the records in the Lori Vallow case to be sealed temporarily or permanently to “preserve a right to a fair trial” (source).

7/21/20: Rexburg PD Det Kunsaitis and Schmitt interview Christopher Parrett for a second time (source).

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.

7/28/20: Someone from LE interviews Matt and Reagen Price about fires on Chad Daybell’s property (source).

7/29/20: Someone from LE interviews a number of people while investigating Tammy Daybell’s death (source):

• Margaret Brown regarding “a spiritual visitation” from Tammy Daybell
• John Ochts regarding an email exchange between him and Tammy Daybell the night before she was found dead
• Melanie Gordon regarding four “odd” gentleman attending Tammy Daybell’s memorial
• Fay Harris
• Stephanie Peralta
• Angela Johansen
• Shanna Miller at Central Elementary

8/1/20: Special Prosecutor Rob Wood and RPD detectives meet with Melanie Gibb prior to Chad Daybell’s preliminary trial (source).

8/3/20 – 8/4/20: Preliminary hearing for Chad Daybell. After two days of testimony, Magistrate Judge Faren Eddins announces Chad Daybell’s case will be bound over to District Court (source).

8/13/20: Rexburg PD Det David Stubbs interviews Heather Daybell and Maggy Daybell Hope (source).

8/19/20: Chandler PD interviews Lori Vallow’s friend, Melanie Gibb (source 1 // source 2 // recording).

9/9/20: Rexburg PD Lt Ron Ball and Special Prosecutor Rob Wood interview Craig Huff (source).

9/9/20: Rexburg PD Det Ray Hermosillo interviews April Raymond (source).

9/15/20: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell’s friend, Angeline Law, is interviewed (source).

9/15/20: Alex Cox’s ex-wife, Debbie, is interviewed by Chandler Police (source). Some highlights include:

• The marriage only lasted about a year (1992-1993), but they only lived together for 4-5 months.
• Sometime before Alex and Debbie married, Lori married someone quickly in Las Vegas.
• Debbie last talked to him after he got out of jail for assaulting Joseph Ryan.
• Alex told her then that he wanted to bait Joseph into a fight so that he could kill him in self-defense.
• It had been about a year since they had contact before that conversation.
• She was afraid of the Cox family.
• Alex and Lori simulated sex acts where she’d wrap her legs around his waist and he’d bounce her on himself, causing both of them to moan.
• Alex also touched Lori’s breasts.
• These simulated sex acts took place in her parents’ home in front of other family members who didn’t express any concern about it.
• Janis and Barry Cox “constantly” talked openly about their sex life in front of the rest of the family.
• Alex talked about Lori as “hot” and “sexualized her” quite a bit.
• Alex and Debbie lived in the same apartment complex as Lori for a while, and it seemed like Alex “chased after her” a lot.
• While they were married, Alex had been ex-communicated from the LDS Church.
• Sometime after their divorce he was baptized into the LDS Church but was then ex-communicated again.
• Debbie wanted to move to Utah after they were married, but Alex wanted to stay in Texas. But then one day he came home from work and told her they were moving. The move happened very quickly.
• When they arrived in Utah, Debbie learned Alex had slept with a 15-year-old girl. The father had started to look for Alex to fix the problem.
• Debbie said the incident with the teenager and his sexualization with Lori were the causes of their divorce.
• Debbie didn’t see Alex simulate sex acts with his other sisters, Stacey and Summer.
• Debbie said she came forward because she struggled with the knowledge that Alex had indicated he wanted to get into a fight with Joseph and kill him in self-defense. To her, it sounded too much like what had happened to Charles, and she couldn’t remain silent.

Note: Kudos to Debbie for coming forward. If only more people with information had demonstrated this kind of courage, there most likely would have been an investigation into Joe’s death, and everyone after him could have been saved.

9/28/20: Rexburg PD Det Chuck Kunsaitis interviews Craig Huff (source).

Note: I initially reported this date as 9/28/19 but corrected the date 1/6/22.

9/30/20: Gilbert PD take possession of Brandon Boudreaux’s Samsung Note 8 to view correspondence between him and Charles Vallow (source // GPD’s analysis).

9/30/20: Rexburg PD Det Ray Hermosillo interviews Gillian Kennedy (source).

10/1/20: Rexburg PD interview Summer Shiflet (source).

10/2/20: Rexburg PD interview Zulema Pastenes (source).

10/20/20: Rexburg PD interview Melanie Gibb (source).

10/21/20: Rexburg PD interview Colby Ryan (source).

10/22/20: Fremont County interview Zulema Pastenes (source).

Note: I believe the year in this screenshot is a typo as no one was investigating Tammy Daybell’s death in October 2019.

10/23/20: Fremont County interview Zulema Pastenes (source).

11/20/20: Rexburg PD Det Chuck Kunsaitis interviews Craig Huff (source).

12/7/20: Rexburg PD Det Chuck Kunsaitis interviews Mike and Nancy Jones, founders of “Preparing A People” (source).

12/12/20: Group members Melanie Gibb and David Warwick marry (source).

Note: Melanie pointed out to investigators that someone told them the date was significant because 12×12=144 (a reference to the 144,000).

2/3/21: Rexburg PD Det Ray Hermosillo interviews Melanie Gibb and she talks about “casting out spirits” (source 1 // source 2).

2/4/21: The investigation into Tammy Daybell’s death is transferred from the Idaho Attorney General’s Office to the Fremont County Prosecutor’s Office (source).

2/18/21: Garth Daybell is questioned for 30 minutes in his classroom at Madison Junior High by Fremont County Patrol Sergeant Vince Kaaiakamanu and FBI agent Ricky Wright (source).

3/8/21: Fremont County District Court enters an Order for Competency Evaluation for Lori Vallow (source).

3/16/21: Madison County Special Prosecutor Rob Wood informs the Madison County Board of Commissioners that Missouri homicide prosecutor Rachel Smith has joined his team to aid in the case against Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell (source).

Note: There’s a typo in the date. The year should read ‘2021’ not ‘2012’. It was 5:00 somewhere. 🍺

3/17/21: A detective with Chandler Police follows up with Zulema Pastenes to ask her if Lori Vallow was present when Alex Cox told her he had no issue with killing Charles Vallow because he was a zombie and if she offered any objection (source).

3/17/21: The general manager of the Tru Hilton in Gilbert where Charles Vallow stayed when he was shot, is interviewed by Chandler Police (source).

4/28/21: Rexburg PD Lt Ron Ball interviews Jason Mow (source).

4/29/21: Zulema Pastenes is interviewed by Rexburg Police and Fremont County (source).

4/30/21: Melanie Gibb is interviewed by Lt Ball and Detective Hermosillo from the Rexburg Police Department at the Chandler Police Department (source 1 // source 2).

5/1/21: Colby and Kelsee Ryan announce Kelsee was pregnant with their second child (source).

5/17/21: Chad Daybell’s son, Garth Daybell, and his wife, Kaira, are detained and questioned by investigators from the Rexburg PD and Fremont Sheriff’s Office for six hours (source).

5/17/21 – 5/24/21: Fremont County convenes a grand jury to investigate the deaths of Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow, and Tammy Daybell (source).

5/24/21: Prosecutors for Fremont County and Rexburg, ID, announce indictments against Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow for first-degree murder for the deaths of Tammy Daybell, Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, as well as other charges, including conspiracy, theft, and insurance fraud (source).

5/25/21: Prosecutors for Fremont County and Rexburg, ID, file an amended witness list (source).

5/27/21: Fremont County District Court orders a stay on Lori Vallow’s case from further proceedings until Lori’s competency is restored (source).

6/2/21: Fremont County District Court orders protocols to govern courtroom conduct (source).

6/8/21: Lori Vallow is found incompetent to stand trial, and her case is stayed (source).

6/9/21: Chad Daybell is arraigned on charges of first-degree murder for the deaths of  Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow, and Tammy Daybell, as well as other charges, including conspiracy, theft, and insurance fraud. He pleads not guilty (source).

6/24/21: A grand jury in Maricopa County, AZ, indicts Lori Vallow on the charge of conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Charles Vallow (source 1 // source 2 // source 3**).

**The redactions from the affidavit of probable cause that was released to the public were left unredacted in the police report that was later released, so I filled them in.

7/21/21: Attorney for Chad Daybell John Prior files a motion requesting a change of venue (source).

7/27/21: Prosecutors for Fremont County and Rexburg, ID, file a petition for Missouri homicide prosecutor Rachel Smith to be admitted as pro hac vice in the case against Chad Daybell (CR22-20-0755), as well as the Grand Jury proceedings (source).

8/5/21: The State of Idaho, by and through the Fremont County Prosecutor’s Office announces its intent to see the death penalty against Chad Daybell because the murders of Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow, and Tammy Daybell were for financial benefit, were especially heinous,  exhibited utter disregard for human life, and pose a continued threat to society (source).

Note: Although Lori Vallow was not named—because her case is on hold until her competency is restored—her name and case number (CR22-21-1624) were included in the filing.

8/6/21: Fremont County appoints James Archibald as court-appointed co-counsel for Lori Vallow in case number CR22-21-1624 (source).

8/11/21: Attorney for Lori Vallow Mark Means files a motion to dismiss the findings of the Fremont County Grand Jury on the basis that the case against her was stayed pending the results of a psychiatric evaluation (source).

10/22/21: The transcript from the second grand jury in Fremont County was provided to Chad Daybell’s attorney, John Prior (source).

12/28/21: Mark Means is disqualified as Lori Vallow’s attorney because he previously represented Chad Daybell, which presented a conflict of interest (source).

4/11/22: Lori Vallow’s competency is restored—along with her highlights 🙆‍♀️ (source).

4/14/22: John Thomas joins Lori Vallow’s defense team as co-counsel with Jim Archibald (source).

4/19/22: Lori Vallow is arraigned on charges of first-degree murder for the deaths of  Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow, and Tammy Daybell, as well as other charges, including conspiracy, theft, and insurance fraud. Lori was silent during an arraignment Tuesday, and her attorney asked a judge to enter a not guilty plea on her behalf to murder and other charges (source).

5/2/22: The State of Idaho, by and through the Fremont County Prosecutor’s Office announces its intent to see the death penalty against Lori Vallow because the murders of Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow, and Tammy Daybell were for financial benefit, were especially heinous,  exhibited utter disregard for human life, and pose a continued threat to society (source).

10/6/22: Motion is filed to stay Lori Vallow’s case until her competency could be assessed (source 1 // source 2).

10/18/22: The trial for Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell is vacated (source).

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.

**Update: I flew out of the gate with a monster guide to regular expressions for marketers, analysts, and anyone else who’s not a code monkey already rocking them.