Idaho police investigating the disappearance last year of “cult mom” Lori Vallow’s two young children executed a search warrant Tuesday at a home belonging to a man she married after his wife died, according to a report.
Fremont County Sheriff deputies, Rexburg Police officers and the FBI arrived at a house in Salem around 7 a.m. local time, according to the East Idaho News.
The house belongs to Chad Daybell, who married Vallow after her two children were reported missing and his wife died under what authorities say were suspicious circumstances.
Lori Vallow, left, glances at the camera while seated next to her defense attorney, Edwina Elcox, during a hearing in Rexburg, Idaho, on March 6, 2020. An autopsy report released May 8, 2020, has revealed that a pulmonary blood clot killed the brother of Vallow, who is being detained on charges related to the disappearance of her two children.
(John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, Pool, File)
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Reports in April quoted a letter from the Idaho Attorney General’s Office as saying that Vallow and Daybell were being investigated in connection with Tammy Daybell’s October 2019 death.
FBI spokeswoman Sandra Barker confirmed the agency’s Evidence Response Team was assisting local law enforcment with the execution of a search warrant, the news outlet reported.
It reported that the Rexburg Police Department applied for the warrant, which is sealed so it is unknown what evidence was being sought in the search.
Aerial footage from the news outlet showed officers gathered in Daybell’s backyard, where they appeared to be digging in one spot.
Tylee Ryan, 17, holds her brother JJ Vallow, 7, at Yellowstone National Park on Sept. 8. The FBI is assisting in the search for the two children. (FBI)
Vallow’s children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17, were last seen in Rexburg and were reported missing in September.
In February, Vallow was arrested on child abandonment charges in Hawaii, where she was living with Daybell. She remains locked up in Idaho on $1 million bail.
Vallow’s family has accused Vallow of being part of a cult with Daybell, the author of more than a dozen self-published doomsday novels.
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Charles Vallow, Vallow’s ex-husband, was shot and killed by her brother, Alex Cox, in Chandler, Ariz., back in July. Cox claimed self-defense.
Cox died in December, a death ruled natural causes.
