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U.S. NEWS Saturday 22 February 2020

Mom of Idaho kids missing since September arrested in Hawaii

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLE- last seen alive there, shortly
HER and REBECCA BOONE before Vallow told school
Associated Press workers that she was going
HONOLULU (AP) — The dis- to start homeschooling the
appearance of an Idaho boy.
boy and his teenage sister "We have not been able
last year has led to the ar- to find any witnesses who
rest of their mother in Ha- have seen J.V. since Sep-
waii, a major development tember 24, 2019," Ball wrote
in a bizarre case that spans in a probable cause affida-
multiple states, includes vit.
three mysterious deaths Police also have said Val-
and touches on the moth- low and her husband,
er's doomsday beliefs. Chad Daybell, have lied
Lori Vallow, 46, also known about the children's where-
as Lori Daybell, was arrest- abouts and even their exis- This booking photo provided by Kauai police shows Lori Vallow, left; and in this Tuesday, Jan. 7,
ed Thursday on an Idaho tence. Daybell told some- 2020 file photo Kay and Larry Woodcock, right, speak to members of the media at the Rexburg
warrant and was being one that Vallow had no Standard Journal Newspaper in Rexburg, Idaho.
held on $5 million bail, ac- kids, and she told another Associated Press
cording to police on the person that her daughter
island of Kauai. Vallow has had died more than a year that required her to bring coming in July 2020," ac- police served a search
been charged with two fel- earlier, authorities said. her children to Idaho au- cording to divorce docu- warrant on a rented vehi-
ony counts of child aban- Vallow must be extradited thorities last month. ments Charles Vallow filed cle and condo the couple
donment. before she can face charg- The tangled case includes before his death. were renting in the resort
Seven-year-old Joshua "JJ" es in Idaho, a process that investigations into three Chad Daybell has written town of Princeville.
Vallow and 17-year-old Ty- often takes weeks. Kauai deaths. Vallow's estranged several apocalyptic nov- Law enforcement plans to
lee Ryan have not been police said in a statement husband, Charles Vallow, els based loosely on theol- hold a news conference
seen since September. Po- that she was expected to was shot and killed in Phoe- ogy of The Church of Jesus Friday about Vallow's arrest
lice in the city of Rexburg, appear in court Friday but nix last July by her broth- Christ of Latter-day Saints. and court appearance,
Idaho, have said they provided no other details. er, Alex Cox. Cox, who Both were involved in a police spokeswoman Coco
"strongly believe that Josh- "Vallow abandoned her claimed the shooting was group that promotes pre- Zickos said.
ua and Tylee's lives are in two minor children, de- in self-defense, died of un- paring for the biblical end Idaho prosecutors said Val-
danger." layed law enforcement's known causes in Decem- times. low is charged with two
Newly released court doc- attempts to locate her ber. Police questioned Day- felony counts of desertion
uments in eastern Idaho children, and encouraged Lori Vallow moved her fam- bell and Vallow about the and nonsupport of depen-
paint a bleak picture, with another individual to de- ily to Idaho in late August. missing children in late No- dent children and misde-
police saying Vallow lied lay law enforcement's at- In October, Chad Daybell's vember, and the couple meanor charges of resist-
several times about her tempts to locate her chil- wife, Tammy Daybell, died left town before police re- ing or obstructing officers,
children's whereabouts dren," referring to a friend of what her obituary said turned the next day. criminal solicitation to com-
and that JJ's winter clothes of Vallow's in Arizona, ac- was natural causes. When In December, Idaho au- mit a crime and contempt
and other belongings have cording to a statement Chad Daybell married Val- thorities asked police on of court. The felony charg-
been found in an aban- from Madison County, Ida- low roughly two weeks af- the Hawaiian island of es carry maximum prison
doned storage unit. Rex- ho, prosecutor Rob Wood's ter Tammy's death, law en- Kauai for help finding the sentences of 14 years in
burg police Lt. Ron Ball office. forcement became suspi- couple. On Jan. 26, Kauai prison.q
wrote in a court document Vallow's attorney, Sean Bar- cious and had her remains
filed this week that Vallow's tholick of Rexburg, Idaho, exhumed.
bank account shows no did not respond to phone Test results on Tammy Day-
sign that she is providing and social media messag- bell's remains and toxicolo-
money to anyone to care es seeking comment. An gy results for Cox have not
for the kids. email message to Daybell yet been released.
Tylee hasn't been seen seeking comment was not Vallow reportedly believes
since Sept. 8, Ball wrote. JJ immediately answered. she is "a god assigned to
was enrolled at a school Vallow also is accused of carry out the work of the
for three weeks and was disobeying a court order 144,000 at Christ's second