Lori Vallow

The cause of death for Lori Vallow Daybell’s 16-year-old daughter, Tylee Ryan, remains undetermined, Dr. Garth Warren told a Boise jury.

"You got wedding pictures while your kids are in the ground?" Summer Cox Shiflet asked her sister, Lori Vallow Daybell, in a June 2020 phone call.

"Would the owners be interested in leasing this property to a clean couple with no pets or children?" Chad Daybell questioned in the email.

"I don’t know a murderous mother,” Lori Vallow Daybell’s son, Colby Ryan, told his mother during a jailhouse telephone call played in court this week.

"He said, 'I think I am being their fall guy,'" Alex Cox's wife, Zulema Pastenes, said at Lori Vallow's murder trial Friday. "I said, 'Fall guy for what? What have you done that you would be the fall guy?'"

"I’m not telling anybody where he is, so I can keep him as safe as possible," Lori Vallow Daybell told key prosecution witness Melanie Gibb in a 2019 telephone call regarding Joshua "JJ" Vallow's whereabouts.

Kay Woodcock, the biological grandmother of slain 7-year-old J.J. Vallow, said that Lori Vallow was once a "doting mom." But even before divorcing, then allegedly killing ex-husband Charles Vallow, Woodcock testified, the mother shifted focus to her "Doomsday cult" and new husband Chad Daybell.

Lori Vallow Daybell, the mother accused in the triple murder of her two youngest children as well as her new husband’s previous wife, was willing to “remove any obstacle in her way to get what she wants,” a prosecutor told jurors Monday.

As the trial of a woman charged in three killings in what prosecutors say was a doomsday-focused plot began Monday, attorneys asked potential jurors if they would have trouble being impartial after viewing autopsy photos of children. 

Lori Vallow Daybell is accused of murdering her children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, as well as her now-husband's wife Tammy Daybell. Her trial is slated to begin in April.