Real Crime Stories/Paranormal Hauntings/Conspiracy Theories Book II

Found: Remains of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow

Tylee Ashlyn Ryan (September 24,2002 – September 9, 2019) and Joshua Jaxon "J.J." Vallow (May 25, 2012 – September 23, 2019)were two American children from Rexburg, Idaho, who were missingsince September 2019 and subsequently found deceased in June 2020.Tylee Ryan was last seen alive at Yellowstone National Park onSeptember 8, 2019. J.J. was last seen alive on September 23, 2019, atRexburg's Kennedy Elementary School. Prompted by relatives concernednot only about the children they hadn't heard from in weeks, but alsoabout other suspicious incidents, in November 2019 police questionedtheir mother, Lori Vallow Daybell, about the children's whereaboutsand welfare.

Vallow and her new husband, Chad GuyDaybell, falsely told the police that J.J. was staying with familyfriend Melanie Gibb in Arizona, where they had lived before moving toIdaho in early September 2019. When police reached Gibb by phone, shetold police that Joshua was not with her and had not been there forseveral months. More than a week later, Gibb called police sayingthat both Lori and her husband, Chad Daybell, had asked her to lie topolice about J.J.'s whereabouts but she refused. Police efforts tolocate J.J. led them to discover that his older sister, Tylee Ryan,was also missing.

Further complicating the children'sdisappearances and lack of cooperation from the mother was a stringof suspicious deaths and a shooting. In July 2019, Vallow's estrangedhusband, Charles Vallow, was shot and killed in Phoenix, Arizona byLori's brother, Alex Cox, who claimed self-defense, which wasaccepted by the police. Alex Pastenes died of a blood clot inDecember 2019. In early-October 2019, Brandon Boudreaux, thethen-estranged husband of Lori Vallow's niece, Melani Boudreaux, wasshot at in the driveway of his Gilbert, Arizona home from a vehiclestill registered to the deceased Charles Vallow. This shootingprompted Boudreaux to hire a private detective to investigate thesuspicious incidents. Other private investigators hired by Boudreauxin Idaho noticed the children missing. Also in October 2019, ChadDaybell's wife, Tammy Daybell, was attacked in her driveway by whatshe believed was someone shooting a defective paintball gun. A fewweeks later, on October 19, she died in her sleep from what wasinitially recorded as "natural causes". Nopost-mortem or autopsy was performed. After Chad and Lori marriedjust two weeks after Tammy's death, law enforcement became suspiciousand began investigating Tammy's cause of death.

On February 20, 2020, Lori Daybell wasarrested in Kauai and charged with desertion and nonsupport of herdependent children. She was extradited to Idaho and traveled there onThursday, March 5, 2020. She appeared in court on Friday, March 6where the judge reduced the bail from $5 million to $1 million; as ofJuly 2020, she remains in jail.

On June 9, 2020, police executed asearch warrant at Chad Daybell's home and discovered the humanremains of J.J. and Tylee. Chad Daybell was arrested later that dayon charges of destruction or concealment of evidence.

Background

Chad Guy Daybell was born August 11,1968, in Provo, Utah. He married Tamara "Tammy"Douglas (May 4, 1970 – October 19, 2019) in Manti, Utah on March 9,1990. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1992 with a B.A.in journalism, and worked, among others jobs, as a cemetery sexton(also referred to as a "gravedigger" by detractors).In 2004, Daybell founded Spring Creek Book Company, devoted to hisend times fiction and other religious books, with a man identified inmedia only by the name Douglas, a graphic artist and manager. Chadand Tammy had five children: Garth, Emma, Seth, Leah, and Mark.