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Wednesday 10 June 2020
Human remains found at property of man tied to missing kids

By REBECCA BOONE a god-like figure who was
Associated Press responsible for ushering in
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hu- the biblical end times. Cox
man remains have been died in December of an
found at an Idaho man's apparent blood clot in his
home that was searched lung. Shortly after Charles
Tuesday during an investi- Vallow's death, Lori and her
gation into the disappear- children moved to Idaho.
ance of his new wife's two Tylee was last seen in Sep-
children — a case that has tember headed into Yel-
vexed investigators since lowstone National Park with
last year and attracted her mom and other family
worldwide attention. for a day trip, and JJ was
Chad Daybell, who recent- last seen by school officials
ly married the children's several days later.
mother, Lori Vallow Day- Police began investigating
bell, was taken into custo- the children's whereabouts
dy, according to police in after relatives raised con-
the small town of Rexburg. cerns. Investigators have
He has not been charged, said both Chad and Lori
and his attorney, Mark Daybell claimed the chil-
Means, did not immediate- dren were staying with
ly respond to a request for friends. Tammy Daybell
comment. died in her sleep last Oc-
Seven-year-old Joshua "JJ" This combination of undated file photos released by the National Center for Missing & Exploited tober of what her obituary
Vallow and 17-year-old Children show missing children Joshua Vallow, left, and Tylee Ryan. Associated Press said were natural causes.
Tylee Ryan haven't been Authorities grew suspicious
seen since September, and searching Chad Daybell's what's believed to be hu- Daybell in the death of his when Chad Daybell mar-
police say both Chad and home in the eastern Idaho man remains that have wife at the time, Tammy ried Lori just two weeks
Lori Daybell lied to investi- town of Salem for the sec- not been identified at this Daybell. The complicated later, and they had Tammy
gators about the children's ond time. The search war- time," Hagan said. case began last summer, Daybell's body exhumed
whereabouts. Besides the rant is sealed, and Rexburg Police wouldn't answer any when Lori Daybell's ex- in December. The results
missing children, the cou- Assistant Police Chief Gary additional questions right husband Charles Vallow of that autopsy have not
ple has been under scru- Hagan said in a statement now, he said. was shot to death by her been released.
tiny following the deaths of that he couldn't reveal de- Lori Daybell is awaiting trial brother, Alex Cox, in Phoe- Law enforcement officers
both of their former spouses tails other than to say the on charges of child aban- nix. At the time, Cox said first searched Chad Day-
and drew attention for their search was linked to the donment and obstructing the shooting was in self-de- bell's home on Jan. 3 in
doomsday beliefs. disappearance of the chil- the investigation and has fense. Charles and Lori Val- connection with Tammy's
Rexburg police, along with dren. pleaded not guilty. The Ida- low had been estranged, death, removing more
investigators from the FBI "Throughout the investiga- ho attorney general's office and in divorce documents than 40 items including sev-
and the Fremont Coun- tion detectives and inves- announced this year that Charles Vallow claimed Lori eral pieces of computer
ty Sheriff's Office, were tigators have recovered it was investigating Chad believed she had become equipment.q

IBM quits facial recognition, joins call for police reforms

American neighborhoods. is increasingly focused on reform legislation in Con-
IBM is one of several big cloud computing while an gress fueled by the mass
tech firms that had ear- array of lesser-known firms protests over Floyd's death.
lier sought to improve the have cornered the market The sweeping reform pack-
accuracy of their face- for government facial rec- age could include restric-
scanning software after ognition contracts. tions on police use of facial
research found racial and "But the symbolic nature of recognition. The practice
gender disparities. But its this is important," said Mu- of using a form of artificial
new CEO is now question- tale Nkonde, a research intelligence to identify indi-
ing whether it should be fellow at Harvard and viduals in photo databases
used by police at all. Stanford universities who or video feeds has come
"We believe now is the time directs the nonprofit AI For under heightened scrutiny
to begin a national dia- the People. Nkonde said after researchers found ra-
logue on whether and how IBM shutting down a busi- cial and gender disparities
facial recognition technol- ness "under the guise of in systems built by compa-
In this April 26, 2017, file photo, the IBM logo is displayed on the ogy should be employed advancing anti-racist busi- nies including IBM, Micro-
IBM building in Midtown Manhattan, in New York. by domestic law enforce- ness practices" shows that soft and Amazon.
Associated Press ment agencies," wrote it can be done and makes IBM had previously tested
By MATT O'BRIEN profiling. Ongoing protests CEO Arvind Krishna in a it "socially unacceptable its facial recognition soft-
AP Technology Writer responding to the death letter sent Monday to U.S. for companies who tweet ware with the New York Po-
IBM is getting out of the of George Floyd have lawmakers. Black Lives Matter to do lice Department, although
facial recognition busi- sparked a broader reckon- IBM's decision to stop build- so while contracting with the department has more
ness, saying it's concerned ing over racial injustice and ing and selling facial rec- the police." Krishna's letter recently used other ven-
about how the technol- a closer look at the use of ognition software is un- was addressed to a group dors. It's not clear if IBM has
ogy can be used for mass police technology to track likely to affect its bottom of Democrats who have existing contracts with oth-
surveillance and racial demonstrators and monitor line, since the tech giant been working on police er government agencies.q