1 00:00:16,416 --> 00:00:19,452 >>> TONIGHT ON "DATELINE." 2 00:00:19,452 --> 00:00:22,689 >> Reporter: HAS THERE BEEN ANY SIGN AT ALL THAT SHE MISSES HER 3 00:00:22,689 --> 00:00:25,325 CHILDREN >> IT MAKES YOU WONDER, WITH 4 00:00:25,325 --> 00:00:26,893 MOTHER'S DAY COMING UP, IF THERE'S ANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THOSE 5 00:00:26,893 --> 00:00:29,562 CHILDREN >> HAS THE JURY REACHED A 6 00:00:29,562 --> 00:00:32,198 VERDICT? >> YEAH. 7 00:00:32,198 --> 00:00:34,834 >> WILL THE DEFENDANT PLEASE RISE 8 00:00:34,834 --> 00:00:36,970 >> JUST HOURS AGO, THE VERDICT IN THE NOTORIOUS CASE OF 9 00:00:36,970 --> 00:00:39,072 DOOMSDAY MOM, LORI VALLOW DAYBELL, CHARGED IN 10 00:00:39,072 --> 00:00:43,343 THE MURDERS OF HER OWN CHILDREN, TYLEE AND JJ 11 00:00:43,343 --> 00:00:46,446 >> WHERE ARE YOUR KIDS >> NOW, NEW REVELATIONS. 12 00:00:46,446 --> 00:00:49,082 >> LORI'S SISTER WAS FURIOUS >> YOU WENT OFF TO HAWAII AND 13 00:00:49,082 --> 00:00:51,718 WERE DANCING ON THE BEACH WHILE YOUR KIDS WERE IN THE GROUND 14 00:00:51,718 --> 00:00:53,820 >> OH, A GUT PUNCH >> TRYING TO GO ON WITH LIFE, 15 00:00:53,820 --> 00:00:56,456 TRYING TO FIND SOME KIND OF HAPPINESS. 16 00:00:56,456 --> 00:00:59,626 YOU THINK I WANT TO BE ALONE >> THE PROSECUTION WAS ABLE TO 17 00:00:59,626 --> 00:01:02,796 SHOW CHAD AND LORI WERE IN A HURRY TO GET THESE KIDS OUT OF 18 00:01:02,796 --> 00:01:05,432 THEIR WAY. >> MOM, YOU'VE BEEN SHOVING BS 19 00:01:05,432 --> 00:01:08,068 DOWN MY THROAT I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT IS ACTUALLY 20 00:01:08,068 --> 00:01:10,737 MY MOM >> SHE'S DESTROYED SO MANY 21 00:01:10,737 --> 00:01:15,675 PEOPLE'S LIVES >>> HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A THING 22 00:01:15,675 --> 00:01:18,311 LIKE THIS CASE >> IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT 23 00:01:18,311 --> 00:01:21,481 OBSTACLES SHE HAD TO REMOVE TO GET WHAT SHE WANTED. 24 00:01:21,481 --> 00:01:23,583 >> THIS CASE DEFIES DESCRIPTION. >> IT'S JUDGMENT DAY AT LAST IN 25 00:01:23,583 --> 00:01:28,355 THIS UNHOLY TALE OF LOVE, POWER, AND MURDER 26 00:01:28,355 --> 00:01:38,898 I'M LESTER HOLT, AND THIS IS "DATELINE. 27 00:01:38,898 --> 00:01:41,468 HERE'S KEITH MORRISON WITH "THE TRIAL OF LORI VALLOW DAYBELL." 28 00:01:47,874 --> 00:01:51,011 >> Reporter: HERE WE ARE AT THE CLIMAX OF ONE OF THE MOST 29 00:01:51,011 --> 00:01:55,749 ASTONISHING TALES WE'VE EVER COVERED. 30 00:01:55,749 --> 00:02:00,520 >> THE DEFENDANT, LORI VALLOW DAYBELL, USED MONEY, 31 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,190 POWER, AND SEX TO GET WHAT SHE WANTED 32 00:02:04,190 --> 00:02:06,893 YES, THAT LORI VALLOW. >> THE MOTHER OF TWO IDAHO 33 00:02:06,893 --> 00:02:12,966 CHILDREN >> INVESTIGATION OF THOSE 34 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:15,101 TWO MISSING IDAHO CHILDREN >> COMING OUT IN OPENI 35 00:02:15,101 --> 00:02:17,704 STATEMENTS OF THE MURDER TRIAL OF THE SO CALLED "DOOMSDAY MOM." 36 00:02:17,704 --> 00:02:20,373 >> Reporter: THE WOMAN WHOSE STORY WE'VE BEEN UNRAVELING 37 00:02:20,373 --> 00:02:24,077 SINCE WE TRACKED HER DOWN AS SHE HOLIDAYED WITH HER LOVER, 38 00:02:24,077 --> 00:02:27,714 CHAD DAYBELL, IN HAWAII, WITH DEATHS IN THEIR WAKE 39 00:02:27,714 --> 00:02:30,350 FOUR DEATHS IN JUST THREE MONTHS 40 00:02:30,350 --> 00:02:36,122 WELCOME BACK LORI. WHERE ARE YOUR KIDS? 41 00:02:36,122 --> 00:02:39,826 AND THEN WATCHED IN MARCH 2020, AS SHE WAS RETURNED TO IDAHO IN 42 00:02:39,826 --> 00:02:42,996 HANDCUFFS, BY THEN, PERHAPS THE MOST INFAMOUS WOMAN IN THE 43 00:02:42,996 --> 00:02:47,200 COUNTRY. AND NOW? 44 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,971 IT HAS BEEN SHOCKING HERE IN THE COURTROOM IN BOISE, IDAHO. 45 00:02:51,971 --> 00:02:57,277 THREE YEARS LATER WE HAVE IT, THE FULL STORY OF 46 00:02:57,277 --> 00:03:02,048 LORI VALLOW DAYBELL'S IMAGINED ASCENT TO THE RANKS OF THE GODS, 47 00:03:02,048 --> 00:03:06,219 AND HER FALL TO EARTH, TOLD AT HER TRIAL WITH REVELATIONS, AND 48 00:03:06,219 --> 00:03:13,593 PROOFS, AND PRIVATE PHONE CALLS, AND NEVER BEFORE SEEN VIDEO OF A 49 00:03:13,593 --> 00:03:17,831 LOVE AFFAIR, CLOAKED IN RELIGION, THAT PRODUCED DEATH. 50 00:03:17,831 --> 00:03:20,467 >> THIS RELATIONSHIP THAT'S BUILT ON A BUNCH OF BIZARRE 51 00:03:20,467 --> 00:03:23,636 PRINCIPLES, BUT THEY BOTH SEEM TO BE ALL IN ON IT 52 00:03:23,636 --> 00:03:26,706 >> Reporter: THE LIES SHE SPEWED TO AUTHORITIES 53 00:03:26,706 --> 00:03:29,943 >> SO JJ WOULD BE WHERE? >> HE'S IN ARIZONA 54 00:03:29,943 --> 00:03:35,215 >> Reporter: AND HER OWN FAMILY. ALL LEADING TO THE AWFUL 55 00:03:35,215 --> 00:03:38,351 REALIZATION. >> YOU WERE IN HAWAII DANCING ON 56 00:03:38,351 --> 00:03:41,554 THE BEACH WHILE YOUR KIDS ARE IN THE GROUND 57 00:03:41,554 --> 00:03:44,758 >> Reporter: HERE, FOR A WOMAN PRE-OCCUPIED WITH CELESTIAL 58 00:03:44,758 --> 00:03:47,794 JUDGEMENT, WAS THE JUDGEMENT OF 12 VERY HUMAN JURORS 59 00:03:47,794 --> 00:03:50,764 >> HAS THE JURY REACHED A VERDICT? 60 00:03:50,764 --> 00:03:54,534 >> WE HAVE >> Reporter: BUT BEFORE WE GET 61 00:03:54,534 --> 00:03:58,972 TO THAT -- WHERE TO START? MAYBE HERE 62 00:03:58,972 --> 00:04:02,676 >> CONTESTANT NUMBER 13 IS LORI. >> Reporter: THIS IS LORI VALLOW 63 00:04:02,676 --> 00:04:08,415 AS SHE CHOSE TO BE SEEN, THE ATTRACTIVE, FIT MRS. TEXAS 64 00:04:08,415 --> 00:04:12,652 CONTESTANT, THE BRIGHT, CHARMING MOM WHO COULD HANDLE ANYTHING 65 00:04:12,652 --> 00:04:17,924 LIFE THREW HER WAY, EVEN IF THAT WASN'T EXACTLY TRUE. 66 00:04:17,924 --> 00:04:21,094 SHE'D GROWN UP IN A BIG FAMILY, ONE OF FIVE SIBLINGS, STEEPED IN 67 00:04:21,094 --> 00:04:24,364 THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS. 68 00:04:24,364 --> 00:04:28,435 THEY WERE CLOSE. BABY SISTER, SUMMER, WAS DEVOTED 69 00:04:28,435 --> 00:04:32,138 TO LORI, AS, ESPECIALLY LATER IN LIFE, WAS HER BROTHER, ALEX. 70 00:04:32,138 --> 00:04:36,910 ALEX, THE TRUCK DRIVER, AND AMATEUR STANDUP COMEDIAN 71 00:04:36,910 --> 00:04:43,783 AND, AS SOME WOULD COME TO CALL HIM, LORI'S 'ANGEL OF DEATH. 72 00:04:43,783 --> 00:04:46,419 >> Reporter: LORI WAS 22 AND ALREADY ON HER SECOND HUSBAND 73 00:04:46,419 --> 00:04:49,089 WHEN SHE HAD COLBY WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO BE WITH HER 74 00:04:49,089 --> 00:04:51,725 AS A LITTLE KID? >> SHE JUST MADE EVERYTHING FUN. 75 00:04:51,725 --> 00:04:54,861 >> Reporter: COLBY RYAN ADORED HIS MOM. 76 00:04:54,861 --> 00:04:57,597 >> THAT TYPE OF PERSON, YOU KNOW, THAT ALWAYS HAD A LOT OF 77 00:04:57,597 --> 00:05:01,234 ENERGY AND GOT EVERYBODY ELSE IN -- IN THE HOUSE EXCITED 78 00:05:01,234 --> 00:05:07,040 >> Reporter: BUT MARRIAGE NUMBER TWO DIDN'T LAST EITHER, AND SO 79 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,478 IT WAS JUST THE TWO OF THEM. THAT IS, THE TWO OF THEM AND 80 00:05:11,478 --> 00:05:13,580 LORI'S BELIEFS >> GROWING UP, SHE'S DEFINITELY 81 00:05:13,580 --> 00:05:17,784 MENTIONED THE END OF THE WORLD LIKE, "WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT 82 00:05:17,784 --> 00:05:20,453 MUCH, BECAUSE THE WORLD'S GONNA END. 83 00:05:20,453 --> 00:05:23,089 >> Reporter: CERTAINLY THEIR WORLD WAS NOT VERY STABLE. 84 00:05:23,089 --> 00:05:25,725 THEY MOVED A LOT. 85 00:05:25,725 --> 00:05:28,862 MANY APARTMENTS, SCHOOLS, BRIEF FRIENDSHIPS. 86 00:05:28,862 --> 00:05:31,498 COLBY'S ONLY CONSTANT WAS HER. >> I GREW UP BEING HER LITTLE 87 00:05:31,498 --> 00:05:33,600 BEST FRIEND. IT WAS -- SHE WAS A SINGLE MOM 88 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,837 FOR A WHILE BEFORE SHE HAD MY LITTLE SISTER. 89 00:05:37,837 --> 00:05:41,841 >> Reporter: THAT WAS TYLEE WITH HUSBAND NUMBER THREE 90 00:05:41,841 --> 00:05:48,381 SWEET TYLEE. BUT THAT MARRIAGE ENDED, TOO 91 00:05:48,381 --> 00:05:51,551 THE BREAKUP AS UGLY AS ANY BREAKUP COULD BE, WHICH MADE 92 00:05:51,551 --> 00:05:54,187 SPACE FOR THE MAN WHO HELPED HER THROUGH HER CUSTODY BATTLES, 93 00:05:54,187 --> 00:05:57,757 HUSBAND NUMBER FOUR, CHARLES VALLOW 94 00:05:57,757 --> 00:06:00,026 >> HE WAS SUPER POLITE, AND KIND OF TRIED TO TAKE INTEREST IN ME 95 00:06:00,026 --> 00:06:02,629 AND TYLEE. HE, LIKE, SEEMED LIKE HE 96 00:06:02,629 --> 00:06:05,665 GENUINELY CARED ABOUT US >> Reporter: CARED DEEPLY FOR 97 00:06:05,665 --> 00:06:09,035 LORI TOO NO ONE EVER DOUBTED THAT 98 00:06:09,035 --> 00:06:12,105 CHARLES VALLOW SWEPT THE FAMILY OFF TO A POSTCARD WORTHY HOME IN 99 00:06:12,105 --> 00:06:15,809 HAWAII, WHERE, BECAUSE LORI WANTED HIM TO, HE JOINED THE 100 00:06:15,809 --> 00:06:19,946 CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS. AND WHERE CHARLES AND LORI 101 00:06:19,946 --> 00:06:24,818 DECIDED TO ADOPT A LITTLE BOY, JJ 102 00:06:24,818 --> 00:06:27,420 >> IT WASN'T LONG AFTER WE GOT HIM OUT OF THE HOSPITAL THAT -- 103 00:06:27,420 --> 00:06:30,056 THAT CHARLES APPROACHED ME ON IT 104 00:06:30,056 --> 00:06:34,294 >> Reporter: KAY WOODCOCK IS CHARLES' SISTER. 105 00:06:34,294 --> 00:06:36,930 SHE AND HER HUSBAND, LARRY, ARE LITTLE JJ'S GRANDPARENTS, THE 106 00:06:36,930 --> 00:06:42,202 PARENTS OF JJ'S BIOLOGICAL FATHER 107 00:06:42,202 --> 00:06:45,472 JJ HAD AUTISM. AND WHEN JJ'S PARENTS COULDN'T 108 00:06:45,472 --> 00:06:50,076 CARE FOR HIM, CHARLES AND LORI JUMPED AT THE CHANCE 109 00:06:50,076 --> 00:06:52,779 >> THEY WERE SIMPLY THE BEST PARENTS THERE -- THERE WAS 110 00:06:52,779 --> 00:06:56,149 AND -- AND THEY TRULY DID LOVE JJ 111 00:06:56,149 --> 00:06:59,652 THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND. >> Reporter: THEY ALL DID. 112 00:06:59,652 --> 00:07:03,323 JJ, THE LOVE-CENTER OF THE WHOLE FAMILY 113 00:07:03,323 --> 00:07:06,026 >> HE JUST CAME INTO OUR LIVES AND WE ALL JUST FELL IN LOVE 114 00:07:06,026 --> 00:07:09,129 WITH HIM SO EASILY HE JUST WAS PART OF OUR FAMILY, 115 00:07:09,129 --> 00:07:13,366 LIKE, WITHOUT HESITATION >> Reporter: SUCH A CHARMING 116 00:07:13,366 --> 00:07:16,536 STORY, SUCH A HAPPY FAMILY ON HER FOURTH TRY, MAYBE LORI 117 00:07:16,536 --> 00:07:19,172 HAD FINALLY FOUND A HUSBAND SHE COULD SPEND THE REST OF HER LIFE 118 00:07:19,172 --> 00:07:23,376 WITH SO, WHAT HAPPENED? 119 00:07:23,376 --> 00:07:26,579 WELL - ABOUT THE TIME COLBY WAS GROWN 120 00:07:26,579 --> 00:07:31,317 AND LEAVING HOME, CHARLES AND LORI MOVED BACK TO THE MAINLAND, 121 00:07:31,317 --> 00:07:38,324 RENTED A HOME IN A CHANDLER, ARIZONA, WHERE LORI'S INTEREST 122 00:07:38,324 --> 00:07:41,828 IN THE END TIMES GREW, RAPIDLY THERE WERE CHAT GROUPS TO JOIN, 123 00:07:41,828 --> 00:07:45,532 CONFERENCES TO ATTEND. LIKE THE ONE HERE, IN 124 00:07:45,532 --> 00:07:48,668 ST. GEORGE, UTAH, A SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE FOR A CHURCH OF 125 00:07:48,668 --> 00:07:51,304 JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS GROUP CALLED PREPARING A 126 00:07:51,304 --> 00:07:57,143 PEOPLE SO, MAYBE THIS IS WHERE THE 127 00:07:57,143 --> 00:08:00,814 STORY REALLY BEGINS, WHEN LORI VALLOW LOCKED EYES FOR THE 128 00:08:00,814 --> 00:08:05,018 FIRST TIME ON A MAN NAMED CHAD DAYBELL 129 00:08:05,018 --> 00:08:08,221 >> THIS WAS, LIKE, AN INSTANT FATAL ATTRACTION 130 00:08:08,221 --> 00:08:29,542 >> Reporter: FATAL IS, IT WOULD TURN OUT, EXACTLY THE RIGHT WORD 131 00:08:29,542 --> 00:08:31,378 >>> Reporter: WHEN LORI VALLOW MET CHAD DAYBELL AT A SPIRITUAL 132 00:08:31,378 --> 00:08:36,449 CONFERENCE IN 2018, IT WAS LIKE SOME MAGNETIC FORCE SEEMED TO 133 00:08:36,449 --> 00:08:39,619 PULL THEM TOGETHER >> IT WAS AN INSTANT LUST, AN 134 00:08:39,619 --> 00:08:42,889 INSTANT ATTRACTION >> Reporter: NATE EATON IS THE 135 00:08:42,889 --> 00:08:50,130 NEWS DIRECTOR OF EAST IDAHO NEWS AND A "DATELINE" CONTRIBUTOR 136 00:08:50,130 --> 00:08:53,166 HE AND ERIC GROSSARTH, THEN ALSO WITH EAST IDAHO NEWS, FOLLOWED 137 00:08:53,166 --> 00:08:55,402 THE CASE OF LORI AND CHAD RIGHT ALONG WITH US FROM THE 138 00:08:55,402 --> 00:08:58,071 BEGINNING. >> IT WAS AN INSTANT, "I WANT 139 00:08:58,071 --> 00:09:01,741 YOU, AND I WILL DO ANYTHING TO HAVE YOU." 140 00:09:01,741 --> 00:09:15,321 >> Reporter: CHAD DAYBELL WAS A MEMBER OF THE LDS CHURCH, 141 00:09:15,321 --> 00:09:18,858 SEXTON AT A CEMETERY AND SOMETIMES GRAVEDIGGER WHO'D 142 00:09:18,858 --> 00:09:26,032 BECOME A SPEAKER AND AN AUTHOR WHOSE BOOKS OF FICTION WERE 143 00:09:26,032 --> 00:09:28,668 CENTERED ON BIBLICAL END TIMES HE WAS MARRIED TO A WOMAN NAMED 144 00:09:28,668 --> 00:09:31,871 TAMMY. THEY HAD RAISED FIVE CHILDREN 145 00:09:31,871 --> 00:09:34,507 TOGETHER AND ALONG THE WAY, HAD MOVED 146 00:09:34,507 --> 00:09:37,177 HERE TO REXBURG, IDAHO WHY REXBURG? 147 00:09:37,177 --> 00:09:39,813 THIS IS WHERE HE BELIEVED HE AND THE OTHER SAINTS WERE DESTINED 148 00:09:39,813 --> 00:09:42,449 TO RIDE OUT WAR, FAMINE, EARTHQUAKES -- THE END TIMES 149 00:09:42,449 --> 00:09:45,618 AT THAT CONFERENCE, LORI WAS SWEPT UP IN ALL OF IT, 150 00:09:45,618 --> 00:09:48,488 ESPECIALLY BY CHAD, WITH HIS BOOKS AND IDEAS ABOUT THE SECOND 151 00:09:48,488 --> 00:09:50,890 COMING, EXTREME IDEAS THAT STRAYED FAR FROM TRADITIONAL 152 00:09:50,890 --> 00:09:54,060 MORMON TEACHINGS AND HE LOOKED AT HER AND WAS 153 00:09:54,060 --> 00:09:56,129 MESMERIZED HE CALLED HER A GODDESS, AN 154 00:09:56,129 --> 00:09:59,299 ACTUAL GODDESS SAID HE COULD SEE SHE HAD 155 00:09:59,299 --> 00:10:02,602 UNEARTHLY SPIRITUAL POWERS AND WHEN SHE WENT BACK HOME TO 156 00:10:02,602 --> 00:10:05,672 ARIZONA, SHE WAS A CHANGED WOMAN, AS HER HUSBAND CHARLES 157 00:10:05,672 --> 00:10:13,546 CONFIDED TO HIS BROTHERS BOBBY AND GERRY. 158 00:10:13,546 --> 00:10:17,217 >> SHE WAS SAYING THINGS LIKE SHE WAS SUPERNATURAL AND COULD 159 00:10:17,217 --> 00:10:20,387 FLY TO DIFFERENT PLANETS >> Reporter: WHEN CHARLES 160 00:10:20,387 --> 00:10:24,624 TRAVELED FOR WORK, LORI HOSTED LITTLE GROUPS OF END-TIMERS. 161 00:10:24,624 --> 00:10:27,794 CHAD TOO, OF COURSE. AND ONE NIGHT, WHEN HER HUSBAND 162 00:10:27,794 --> 00:10:30,964 RETURNED, SHE LOCKED HIM OUT OF THE HOUSE. 163 00:10:30,964 --> 00:10:34,134 AND A WORRIED CHARLES TOLD POLICE A WILD STORY. 164 00:10:34,134 --> 00:10:37,804 SHE WAS THREATENING TO MURDER HIM AND HAVE AN ANGEL DISPOSE OF 165 00:10:37,804 --> 00:10:42,008 HIS BODY >> SAYS I'M NICK SCHNEIDER 166 00:10:42,008 --> 00:10:46,780 I'VE TAKEN OVER CHARLES' BODY, AND CHARLES HAS BEEN KILLED. 167 00:10:46,780 --> 00:10:50,050 >> Reporter: AFTER THAT, SAID HIS RELATIVES, CHARLES GOT HIS 168 00:10:50,050 --> 00:10:54,688 OWN PLACE, SCHEDULED TIMES TO BE WITH JJ, AND, SPRING AND EARLY 169 00:10:54,688 --> 00:11:00,493 SUMMER OF 2019, BEGGED LORI TO SEE REASON 170 00:11:00,493 --> 00:11:03,663 THEN, ON JULY 10th, LORI TEXTED HER BROTHER ALEX 171 00:11:03,663 --> 00:11:06,833 "I'M GOING TO NEED YOU TO STAY CLOSE TO ME FOR THE NEXT COUPLE 172 00:11:06,833 --> 00:11:09,969 DAYS THANK YOU FOR STANDING BY ME 173 00:11:09,969 --> 00:11:14,207 IT'S ALL COMING TO A HEAD THIS WEEK." 174 00:11:14,207 --> 00:11:17,911 ALEX WENT TO LORI'S PLACE, SPENT THE NIGHT THERE. 175 00:11:17,911 --> 00:11:20,547 THE NEXT MORNING CHARLES ARRIVED AS SCHEDULED, TO PICK UP JJ, FOR 176 00:11:20,547 --> 00:11:23,183 SCHOOL AND THEN - 177 00:11:23,183 --> 00:11:25,785 >> YOU NEED POLICE OR PARAMEDICS 178 00:11:25,785 --> 00:11:31,091 >> UH, BOTH. I NEED POLICE AND AN AMBULANCE 179 00:11:31,091 --> 00:11:34,260 >> UH, THERE'S A -- I GOT IN A FIGHT WITH MY BROTHER-IN-LAW AND 180 00:11:34,260 --> 00:11:40,100 I SHOT HIM IN SELF-DEFENSE >> Reporter: THE POLICE WERE 181 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:46,439 WEARING BODYCAMS WHEN THEY RESPONDED TO THE 911 CALL FROM 182 00:11:46,439 --> 00:11:50,643 LORI'S HOUSE AND ENCOUNTERED 51-YEAR-OLD ALEX COX IN THE 183 00:11:50,643 --> 00:11:55,415 FRONT YARD INSIDE, CHARLES WAS DEAD, HIS 184 00:11:55,415 --> 00:11:59,119 BODY SPRAWLED ON THE LIVING ROOM FLOOR, SHOT THROUGH THE CHEST. 185 00:11:59,119 --> 00:12:02,756 A BIT LATER, LORI ARRIVED WITH HER DAUGHTER TYLEE IN TOW. 186 00:12:02,756 --> 00:12:05,959 >> HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED HERE? >> LIKE, THREE WEEKS 187 00:12:05,959 --> 00:12:10,663 >> Reporter: SHE SEEMED RELAXED, TRIED OUT A LITTLE JOKE. 188 00:12:10,663 --> 00:12:13,833 >> THAT'S WHY THE NEIGHBORS DON'T KNOW US VERY WELL. 189 00:12:13,833 --> 00:12:17,070 >> GOTCHA. >> I'M LIKE, "HI, NEIGHBOR 190 00:12:17,070 --> 00:12:20,173 SORRY. >> Reporter: HERE'S THE STORY 191 00:12:20,173 --> 00:12:23,309 LORI TOLD DOWN AT THE STATION. CHARLES, SHE SAID, WAS ANGRY 192 00:12:23,309 --> 00:12:25,979 ANGRY AT HER >> HE DOESN'T WANT A DIVORCE, 193 00:12:25,979 --> 00:12:29,149 BUT I DON'T LIKE HIM AND DON'T WANNA DEAL WITH HIM. 194 00:12:29,149 --> 00:12:31,251 >> Reporter: SO, SHE SAID, WHEN HE ARRIVED TO PICK UP JJ FOR 195 00:12:31,251 --> 00:12:34,421 SCHOOL, HE WAS PRIMED FOR A FIGHT. 196 00:12:34,421 --> 00:12:37,090 >> AND HE'S, LIKE, BANGING ON THE DOOR 197 00:12:37,090 --> 00:12:39,125 I'M LIKE, "OH, GREAT HERE WE GO." 198 00:12:39,125 --> 00:12:42,328 YOU KNOW AND I WAS JUST GONNA BE NICE 199 00:12:42,328 --> 00:12:44,964 I WAS JUST GONNA BE AS NICE AS POSSIBLE 200 00:12:44,964 --> 00:12:48,101 >> Reporter: CELL PHONE DATA PUT CHARLES'S ARRIVAL AT 7:35. 201 00:12:48,101 --> 00:12:50,503 YOU'LL WANT TO REMEMBER THAT >> HE'S, LIKE, ACTING REALLY 202 00:12:50,503 --> 00:12:52,339 WEIRD, LIKE HE'S PLOTTING SOMETHING. 203 00:12:52,339 --> 00:12:54,441 BUT ANYWAY, HE GOES -- HE GOES NUTS 204 00:12:54,441 --> 00:12:56,543 HE'S GONE NUTS ON US A LOT OF TIMES. 205 00:12:56,543 --> 00:12:58,678 >> GOES NUTS, LIKE, YELLING AND SCREAMING? 206 00:12:58,678 --> 00:13:01,281 GOES NUTS, LIKE -- >> YEAH, YELLING AND SCREAMING 207 00:13:01,281 --> 00:13:03,917 >> Reporter: YELLING AND SCREAMING WHICH WOKE UP HER 208 00:13:03,917 --> 00:13:06,052 DAUGHTER, 16-YEAR- OLD TYLEE, SHE SAID 209 00:13:06,052 --> 00:13:08,655 >> SO TYLEE CAME OUT OF HER ROOM UPSET, AND SHE HAD A BAT, AND 210 00:13:08,655 --> 00:13:10,790 SHE TOLD HIM TO LEAVE HER MOTHER ALONE. 211 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:13,893 LIKE, RIGHT? >> UH-HUH. 212 00:13:13,893 --> 00:13:16,062 >> SO SHE WAS REALLY -- AND WHATEVER HE'S, LIKE, SCREAMING 213 00:13:16,062 --> 00:13:18,832 AT HER AND THEN MY BROTHER HEARD ALL 214 00:13:18,832 --> 00:13:21,368 THE COMMOTION. >> Reporter: THAT'S LORI'S 215 00:13:21,368 --> 00:13:24,537 BROTHER, ALEX. REMEMBER, SHE'D INVITED HIM 216 00:13:24,537 --> 00:13:32,612 OVER AND HERE HE IS TELLING POLICE HE 217 00:13:32,612 --> 00:13:35,682 >> ALL I HEARD WAS HER SAY, "DON'T TOUCH ME," AND THEN 218 00:13:35,682 --> 00:13:38,818 HIM -- >> OKAY. 219 00:13:38,818 --> 00:13:41,388 >> -- COMING RIGHT AFTER HER AND I SHOVED HIM BACK. 220 00:13:41,388 --> 00:13:44,357 >> OKAY. >> I SAID, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" 221 00:13:44,357 --> 00:13:47,193 HE'S NOT GONNA HURT MY SISTER. >> Reporter: IN ANOTHER 222 00:13:47,193 --> 00:13:49,829 INTERVIEW ROOM, TYLEE WAS SUPPORTING HER MOTHER'S STORY. 223 00:13:49,829 --> 00:13:52,499 >> CAN YOU BASICALLY TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TODAY? 224 00:13:52,499 --> 00:13:55,635 >> HE HONESTLY JUST LOOKED LIKE KIND OF A CRAZY PERSON 225 00:13:55,635 --> 00:13:58,271 >> Reporter: TYLEE TOLD POLICE SHE HAD PICKED UP A BASEBALL 226 00:13:58,271 --> 00:14:00,907 BAT. >> HE JUST GRABBED IT AND TRIED 227 00:14:00,907 --> 00:14:03,543 TO TAKE IT, SO I HELD ONTO THE END. 228 00:14:03,543 --> 00:14:05,645 AND THEN EVENTUALLY I FELL, AND HE KIND OF TOOK IT INTO HIS 229 00:14:05,645 --> 00:14:07,781 HANDS. >> Reporter: ALEX CLAIMED THERE 230 00:14:07,781 --> 00:14:10,417 WAS QUITE A SCRUM THEN IN THE HALLWAY WITH CHARLES 231 00:14:10,417 --> 00:14:13,053 >> HE HIT ME IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD 232 00:14:13,053 --> 00:14:16,189 I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS WITH THE BAT OR NOT 233 00:14:16,189 --> 00:14:19,893 I ASSUMED IT WAS >> Reporter: SURE ENOUGH, POLICE 234 00:14:19,893 --> 00:14:22,062 FOUND A LACERATION ON THE BACK OF ALEX'S HEAD, ALTHOUGH THEY 235 00:14:22,062 --> 00:14:24,130 DIDN'T THINK IT LOOKED LIKE A WOUND INFLICTED BY A BASEBALL 236 00:14:24,130 --> 00:14:26,766 BAT IN THE HANDS OF A BIG GUY LIKE CHARLES 237 00:14:26,766 --> 00:14:28,868 >> WHAT DID YOU DO DID YOU GO - 238 00:14:28,868 --> 00:14:31,738 >> I JUST WENT STRAIGHT TO THE ROOM 239 00:14:31,738 --> 00:14:33,073 >> OKAY. >> BECAUSE I SAID, "THIS NEEDS 240 00:14:33,073 --> 00:14:35,975 TO CALM DOWN." >> Reporter: BUT HE DIDN'T JUST 241 00:14:35,975 --> 00:14:37,844 SIT IN THE BEDROOM AND WAIT, HE SAID 242 00:14:37,844 --> 00:14:40,480 HE PICKED UP HIS .45 CALIBER HANDGUN INSTEAD. 243 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,582 >> WHAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU CAME OUT WITH THE GUN 244 00:14:42,582 --> 00:14:45,218 >> I SAID, "PUT THAT BAT DOWN. >> HOW MANY TIMES WOULD YOU SAY 245 00:14:45,218 --> 00:14:47,320 YOU TOLD HIM TO, LIKE, PUT THE BAT DOWN 246 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,490 >> ONCE. >> ONCE? 247 00:14:50,490 --> 00:14:52,625 OKAY AND THEN HE STARTED ADVANCING 248 00:14:52,625 --> 00:14:55,261 TOWARD YOU >> YES 249 00:14:55,261 --> 00:14:57,364 >> Reporter: CHANDER POLICE DETECTIVES CASSANDRA YNCLAN AND 250 00:14:57,364 --> 00:15:00,033 NATHAN MOFFAT CONDUCTED THE INTERVIEWS OF LORI AND ALEX. 251 00:15:00,033 --> 00:15:03,169 WHAT KIND OF IMPRESSION DID YOU GET OF THIS GUY? 252 00:15:03,169 --> 00:15:07,340 >> HE WAS MATTER-OF-FACT HE WAS UP-FRONT. 253 00:15:07,340 --> 00:15:08,942 BUT HE ALSO SAID A VERY STANDARD LINE OF, "I WAS IN FEAR FOR MY 254 00:15:08,942 --> 00:15:11,911 SAFETY, SO I SHOT HIM. >> Reporter: TWO SHOTS 255 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:14,247 LORI SAID SHE WAS IN THE KITCHEN WHEN IT HAPPENED, CAME AROUND 256 00:15:14,247 --> 00:15:16,349 THE CORNER TO SEE CHARLES ON THE FLOOR. 257 00:15:16,349 --> 00:15:19,052 >> AND I JUST WENT INTO MOM MODE 258 00:15:19,052 --> 00:15:22,555 I'M LIKE, "I'VE GOT TO GO TO GET JJ TO SCHOOL." 259 00:15:22,555 --> 00:15:25,325 AND TYLEE WAS, LIKE, LOOKING AT ME WITH, LIKE, THE CRAZY EYES, 260 00:15:25,325 --> 00:15:28,194 LIKE, "WHAT JUST HAPPENED? AND I TOLD HER TO GET IN THE 261 00:15:28,194 --> 00:15:30,063 CAR. "WE'RE GOING TO TAKE JJ TO 262 00:15:30,063 --> 00:15:33,233 SCHOOL." >> Reporter: AND THEY DID. 263 00:15:33,233 --> 00:15:36,369 CELL PHONE DATA SHOWS THEY LEFT THE HOUSE AT 7:49 A.M. 264 00:15:36,369 --> 00:15:39,539 5 MINUTES LATER, AT 7:54 A.M., SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS LORI, 265 00:15:39,539 --> 00:15:44,811 JJ AND TYLEE AT THIS BURGER KING DRIVE-THROUGH GRABBING BREAKFAST 266 00:15:44,811 --> 00:15:47,881 BEFORE SCHOOL. >> Reporter: DIFFERENCES OF 267 00:15:47,881 --> 00:15:53,253 DEGREE, BUT ALL THREE, MORE OR LESS, TOLD THE SAME STORY, 268 00:15:53,253 --> 00:15:56,956 BACKING ALEX'S CLAIM THAT HE SHOT CHARLES IN SELF-DEFENSE 269 00:15:56,956 --> 00:16:00,126 >> THERE WERE SMALL DISCREPANCIES, BUT IT WASN'T 270 00:16:00,126 --> 00:16:03,129 ANYTHING THAT WAS MAJOR, ANYTHING THAT YOU WENT, "OH, 271 00:16:03,129 --> 00:16:05,365 MAN, THIS IS -- YOU KNOW, THIS IS A BIG DEAL," OR, "THERE -- 272 00:16:05,365 --> 00:16:08,535 THERE'S A MAJOR PROBLEM HERE." >> Reporter: SO IT DIDN'T MAKE 273 00:16:08,535 --> 00:16:11,171 ITSELF OBVIOUS IN THE BEGINNING. >> IT DIDN'T 274 00:16:11,171 --> 00:16:13,840 >> Reporter: THE FIRST INKLING THAT PERHAPS THERE WAS MORE TO 275 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,476 THIS STORY CAME WHEN DETECTIVES DROVE THEM BACK TO LORI'S HOUSE 276 00:16:16,476 --> 00:16:19,646 IN A POLICE VAN. >> THE VAN RIDE WAS STRAIGHT UP 277 00:16:19,646 --> 00:16:22,282 BIZARRE FOR ME IT WAS THE WEIRDEST RIDE I'VE 278 00:16:22,282 --> 00:16:25,452 EVER HAD WITH -- WITH, YOU KNOW, THREE STRANGERS. 279 00:16:25,452 --> 00:16:28,088 >> Reporter: WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT 280 00:16:28,088 --> 00:16:31,224 >> LORI WAS JUST -- IT WAS KIND OF LIKE A HAPPY-GO-LUCKY 281 00:16:31,224 --> 00:16:34,461 SHE WAS JUST KIND OF SMILING IT WAS JUST A VERY, VERY BIZARRE 282 00:16:34,461 --> 00:16:37,564 RIDE BACK. >> Reporter: BIZARRE 283 00:16:37,564 --> 00:16:42,869 HE DIDN'T KNOW THE HALF OF IT. >> I THINK LABELING CHARLES AS A 284 00:16:42,869 --> 00:17:04,324 ZOMBIE WAS PROBABLY THE CATALYST THAT SET THIS WHOLE PLOT IN 285 00:17:04,324 --> 00:17:08,795 HUSBAND OF NEARLY 14 YEARS WAS DEAD 286 00:17:08,795 --> 00:17:13,566 CHARLES SHOT BY HER BROTHER ALEX IN WHAT HE AND LORI DESCRIBED AS 287 00:17:13,566 --> 00:17:15,669 AN ACT OF SELF DEFENSE >> HE'S SCREAMING AT HER, AND 288 00:17:15,669 --> 00:17:18,838 THEN MY BROTHER HEARD ALL THE COMMOTION. 289 00:17:18,838 --> 00:17:22,542 >> Reporter: THE POLICE WHO'D LISTENED HAD NO IDEA BACK THEN 290 00:17:22,542 --> 00:17:27,280 THE DEPTH OF WHAT WAS GOING ON COULDN'T SEE THE TURN, SPIRITUAL 291 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,450 AND OTHERWISE, THAT LORI VALLOW'S LIFE HAD TAKEN 292 00:17:30,450 --> 00:17:34,154 SINCE SHE ENCOUNTERED CHAD DAYBELL NINE MONTHS 293 00:17:34,154 --> 00:17:36,790 EARLIER. CHAD HER LOVER AND HER PROPHET 294 00:17:36,790 --> 00:17:41,528 IT HAD BEEN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT WHEN THEY MET. 295 00:17:41,528 --> 00:17:44,731 JUST ONE PROBLEM - >> CHARLES WAS IN HER WAY. 296 00:17:44,731 --> 00:17:46,833 SHE WANTED CHARLES OUT OF THE WAY BECAUSE HE WAS BLOCKING 297 00:17:46,833 --> 00:17:50,770 THESE SPIRITUAL GIFTS. SHE WAS NOT ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH 298 00:17:50,770 --> 00:17:53,673 THE MISSION THAT SHE NEEDED TO DO 299 00:17:53,673 --> 00:17:56,276 >> Reporter: OH YES, THE MISSION. 300 00:17:56,276 --> 00:17:58,945 CHAD IMAGINED HIMSELF THE LEADER OF HIS OWN LITTLE CHURCH OF 301 00:17:58,945 --> 00:18:02,615 SORTS. A GROUP HE WOULD CALL "THE 302 00:18:02,615 --> 00:18:05,385 CHURCH OF THE FIRST BORN." CHAD TOLD LORI THAT THEY HAD 303 00:18:05,385 --> 00:18:08,421 BEEN MARRIED TO EACH OTHER MANY TIMES OVER MANY LIVES, AND, IN 304 00:18:08,421 --> 00:18:11,057 THIS LIFE, THEIR GREATEST MISSION OF ALL WAS TO BRING 305 00:18:11,057 --> 00:18:13,660 TOGETHER THE 144,000 TRUE BELIEVERS FOR THE SECOND COMING 306 00:18:13,660 --> 00:18:16,296 OF JESUS AND THAT THEY HAD TO FIGHT OFF 307 00:18:16,296 --> 00:18:22,635 EVIL SPIRITS INHABITING PEOPLE IN THEIR OWN FAMILIES. 308 00:18:22,635 --> 00:18:25,805 ACCORDING TO CHAD, CHARLES MAY HAVE LOOKED HUMAN, BUT IN FACT 309 00:18:25,805 --> 00:18:28,475 HE HAD TURNED "DARK. MEANING HE WAS POSSESSED BY EVIL 310 00:18:28,475 --> 00:18:32,479 SPIRITS. THOSE EVIL SPIRITS HAD TURNED 311 00:18:32,479 --> 00:18:34,781 HIM INTO A ZOMBIE. A ZOMBIE WITH A NEW NAME, AS 312 00:18:34,781 --> 00:18:37,417 CHARLES TRIED TO TELL POLICE THAT NIGHT LORI LOCKED HIM OUT 313 00:18:37,417 --> 00:18:41,654 OF THE HOUSE >> I'VE TAKEN OVER CHARLES' 314 00:18:41,654 --> 00:18:46,459 BODY >> I THINK LABELING CHARLES AS A 315 00:18:46,459 --> 00:18:49,596 ZOMBIE WAS PROBABLY THE CATALYST THAT SET THIS WHOLE PLOT IN 316 00:18:49,596 --> 00:18:53,299 MOTION >> Reporter: DR. JOHN MATTHIAS 317 00:18:53,299 --> 00:18:57,070 IS A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST WITH MORE THAN 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE AS 318 00:18:57,070 --> 00:19:00,707 A FORENSIC INTERVIEWER AND EXPERT WITNESS FOR THE COURTS. 319 00:19:00,707 --> 00:19:03,309 HE AND HIS JOURNALIST WIFE, LAUREN, HOST "THE HIDDEN TRUE 320 00:19:03,309 --> 00:19:06,479 CRIME PODCAST." THEY'VE STUDIED THE CASE FROM 321 00:19:06,479 --> 00:19:10,183 THE START, DEVELOPED THEIR OWN STRONG SOURCES, AND FOR A TIME 322 00:19:10,183 --> 00:19:17,257 DEVOTED THEIR PODCAST EXCLUSIVELY TO THE CASE OF CHAD 323 00:19:17,257 --> 00:19:20,727 AND LORI >> I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU'RE 324 00:19:20,727 --> 00:19:23,563 GOING TO BE MURDERED TODAY OR TOMORROW 325 00:19:23,563 --> 00:19:26,566 >> I THINK HE WAS AFRAID AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE POLICE, 326 00:19:26,566 --> 00:19:29,369 YOU KNOW, THEY LOOKED AT CHARLES. 327 00:19:29,369 --> 00:19:32,439 HE'S -- HE'S A PRETTY BIG GUY, AND I DON'T THINK THEY TOOK IT 328 00:19:32,439 --> 00:19:34,641 THAT SERIOUSLY >> I'VE GOT A SIX-YEAR-OLD WITH 329 00:19:34,641 --> 00:19:38,078 SPECIAL NEEDS. >> Reporter: MAYBE THEY SHOULD 330 00:19:38,078 --> 00:19:40,447 HAVE - IN THE WEEKS BEFORE THE 331 00:19:40,447 --> 00:19:43,083 SHOOTING, LORI'S TEXTS TO HER BROTHER ALEX FOCUSED ON THE 332 00:19:43,083 --> 00:19:46,252 PROBLEM OF CHARLES OR "NED SCHNEIDER." 333 00:19:46,252 --> 00:19:49,422 TEXTS LIKE THIS ONE. HARD TO UNDERSTAND WITHOUT 334 00:19:49,422 --> 00:19:53,093 CONTEXT, BUT IT SEEMED TO MAKE PERFECT SENSE TO ALEX. 335 00:19:53,093 --> 00:19:56,262 "APPARENTLY IT IS TIED TO NED BEING GONE 336 00:19:56,262 --> 00:20:00,500 HOPEFULLY TODAY OR TOMORROW. ALEX RESPONDS -- "HAVE FUN AND 337 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:03,670 GET RID OF NED ALREADY." MEANWHILE, THAT TUMULTUOUS 338 00:20:03,670 --> 00:20:06,806 SPRING, LORI AND CHAD WERE MAKING PLANS 339 00:20:06,806 --> 00:20:11,745 >> THEY WENT TO A LATTER-DAY SAINT TEMPLE, AND THEY FELT THAT 340 00:20:11,745 --> 00:20:14,347 THEY HAD BEEN SEALED IT WASN'T SOMETHING THAT ANYBODY 341 00:20:14,347 --> 00:20:17,317 PRONOUNCED UPON THEM THAT, "HEY, YOU GUYS, CHAD AND LORI, ARE 342 00:20:17,317 --> 00:20:20,520 MARRIED. IT WAS SOME SORT OF FEELING THAT 343 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,189 THEY FELT THEY HAD >> Reporter: HOW WOULD THE LDS 344 00:20:23,189 --> 00:20:26,493 CHURCH LOOK ON AN ACT LIKE THAT? >> FOR A COUPLE TO COME OUT AND 345 00:20:26,493 --> 00:20:29,562 SAY, "WE'VE SELF-SEALED OURSELF," YOU WOULD LOOK AT THEM 346 00:20:29,562 --> 00:20:33,733 LIKE THEY WERE CRAZY >> Reporter: AND NOW CHARLES, OR 347 00:20:33,733 --> 00:20:37,437 NED, WAS DEAD. SO BACK TO THAT SELF-DEFENSE 348 00:20:37,437 --> 00:20:41,641 STORY LORI AND HER BROTHER HAD QUITE CONVINCINGLY TOLD 349 00:20:41,641 --> 00:20:45,345 POLICE -- THERE WERE CRACKS. LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, ALEX CLAIMED 350 00:20:45,345 --> 00:20:49,015 HE FIRED HIS TWO SHOTS WHILE CHARLES WAS STANDING 351 00:20:49,015 --> 00:20:52,752 CONFRONTING HIM. BUT THE BULLET POLICE FOUND IN 352 00:20:52,752 --> 00:20:55,889 THE FLOOR BENEATH CHARLES'S BODY SUGGESTED ALEX TOOK THE SECOND 353 00:20:55,889 --> 00:20:59,025 SHOT WHEN CHARLES WAS ALREADY DOWN 354 00:20:59,025 --> 00:21:01,194 AND THE STORY THAT CHARLES THREATENED TYLEE AND ALEX WITH A 355 00:21:01,194 --> 00:21:04,330 BASEBALL BAT? FORENSIC TESTS FOUND NOTHING 356 00:21:04,330 --> 00:21:11,738 CONCLUSIVE TO SHOW CHARLES EVER HELD THAT BAT. 357 00:21:11,738 --> 00:21:14,641 AND THEN THERE WAS THIS, REMEMBER, LORI HAD TEXTED ALEX 358 00:21:14,641 --> 00:21:17,277 AND ASKED HIM TO "STAY CLOSE" WITH CHARLES COMING OVER 359 00:21:17,277 --> 00:21:20,180 SO WHY DID ALEX RESPOND TO POLICE QUESTIONS THIS WAY? 360 00:21:20,180 --> 00:21:22,782 >> IS THERE A REASON YOU SPENT THE NIGHT THERE LAST NIGHT 361 00:21:22,782 --> 00:21:25,985 >> NO, NOT REALLY. >> OK. 362 00:21:25,985 --> 00:21:28,588 >> JUST HANG OUT WE WERE GONNA HANG OUT TODAY 363 00:21:28,588 --> 00:21:31,758 >> OKAY. DID YOUR SISTER EVER TELL YOU 364 00:21:31,758 --> 00:21:34,394 SHE WAS CONCERNED FOR HER SAFETY OR WELL BEING FOR CHARLES COMING 365 00:21:34,394 --> 00:21:37,097 THERE? >> NO. 366 00:21:37,097 --> 00:21:39,666 >> Reporter: NOW COMPARE THAT TO THE WAY LORI ANSWERED THE 367 00:21:39,666 --> 00:21:42,302 QUESTION >> YOUR BROTHER LIVES THERE WITH 368 00:21:42,302 --> 00:21:44,971 YOU? >> NO, HE HAD STAYED WITH ME 369 00:21:44,971 --> 00:21:47,574 LAST NIGHT BECAUSE I WAS WORRIED HE WAS GOING TO COME OVER AND 370 00:21:47,574 --> 00:21:50,744 CAUSE TROUBLE WITH ME. AND JUST WANTED SOMEONE ELSE 371 00:21:50,744 --> 00:21:53,380 THERE, LIKE MY BROTHER THERE, CAUSE I TRUST MY BROTHER 372 00:21:53,380 --> 00:21:57,617 >> Reporter: BUT IN FACT, SOMETHING RATHER AMAZING HAD 373 00:21:57,617 --> 00:22:00,220 TAKEN PLACE DURING LORI'S INTERVIEW. 374 00:22:00,220 --> 00:22:02,856 >> WE DO HAVE VICTIM SERVICES, THAT WORK WITHIN THE POLICE 375 00:22:02,856 --> 00:22:05,058 DEPARTMENT, THEY'RE RIGHT OVER HERE 376 00:22:05,058 --> 00:22:08,661 >> Reporter: A VICTIMS' ADVOCATE 377 00:22:08,661 --> 00:22:11,331 THAT'S WHAT THE DETECTIVE WAS OFFERING 378 00:22:11,331 --> 00:22:14,501 >> THERE WAS THIS INCREDIBLE TRANSFORMATION THAT OCCURS IN -- 379 00:22:14,501 --> 00:22:17,671 IN LORI'S INTERVIEW. SHE ESSENTIALLY CONVINCES THE 380 00:22:17,671 --> 00:22:20,807 DETECTIVE THAT SHE'S A VICTIM. >> Reporter: THEN THERE WAS THE 381 00:22:20,807 --> 00:22:23,443 TIMING OF THINGS PHONE RECORDS SHOWED LORI LEFT 382 00:22:23,443 --> 00:22:27,147 THE HOUSE WITH THE KIDS AT 7:49 A.M. 383 00:22:27,147 --> 00:22:30,884 CHARLES HAD BEEN SHOT BY THEN. BUT ALEX DID NOT CALL 384 00:22:30,884 --> 00:22:33,987 9-1-1 UNTIL 8:36 MORE THAN 45 MINUTES AFTER THE 385 00:22:33,987 --> 00:22:38,191 SHOOTING AND YET ON THAT CALL, ALEX TOLD 386 00:22:38,191 --> 00:22:41,895 THE OPERATOR - >> HOW LONG AGO DID THIS HAPPEN? 387 00:22:41,895 --> 00:22:45,565 >> A COUPLE OF MINUTES >> Reporter: NOW THAT WAS A LIE, 388 00:22:45,565 --> 00:22:48,735 AND ALEX KNEW IT IN FACT, BEFORE HE CALLED 9-1-1, 389 00:22:48,735 --> 00:22:52,605 HE PHONED LORI THEY HAD A CHAT. 390 00:22:52,605 --> 00:22:57,711 HE DIDN'T MENTION THAT AND NEITHER DID SHE. 391 00:22:57,711 --> 00:23:02,482 BUT THOSE REVELATIONS WOULD COME LATER -- MUCH LATER. 392 00:23:02,482 --> 00:23:21,167 TOO LATE TO STOP THE DREADFUL, >>> Reporter: WHEN KAY WOODCOCK 393 00:23:21,167 --> 00:23:24,871 AND HER HUSBAND, LARRY, HEARD ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO 394 00:23:24,871 --> 00:23:27,774 CHARLES VALLOW, RIGHT AWAY, THEIR MINDS WENT TO THIS - 395 00:23:27,774 --> 00:23:30,143 >> HE WAS AMBUSHED >> HE WAS AMBUSHED, THERE'S NO 396 00:23:30,143 --> 00:23:33,813 DOUBT ABOUT IT >> HANDS DOWN. 397 00:23:33,813 --> 00:23:37,517 >> IT WAS PREMEDITATED >> Reporter: REMEMBER KAY IS 398 00:23:37,517 --> 00:23:39,619 CHARLES' SISTER AND SHE AND LARRY ARE GRANDPARENTS TO LITTLE 399 00:23:39,619 --> 00:23:43,857 JJ WHO'D BEEN ADOPTED BY LORI AND CHARLES. 400 00:23:43,857 --> 00:23:48,595 THEY'D BEEN WORRIED FOR AWHILE, GIVEN THE THINGS CHARLES HAD 401 00:23:48,595 --> 00:23:50,730 BEEN TELLING THEM ABOUT LORI'S SPIRITUAL 180 AS WERE CHARLES' 402 00:23:50,730 --> 00:23:53,333 BROTHERS >> HE SAID SHE HAD CHOSEN A 403 00:23:53,333 --> 00:23:58,805 DIFFERENT PATH BUT MAYBE HE DIDN'T KNOW THE 404 00:23:58,805 --> 00:24:05,445 EXTENT OF THE PATH SHE CHOSE >> Reporter: WELL AS DETECTIVES 405 00:24:05,445 --> 00:24:09,683 DUG INTO THE DEATH OF CHARLES, THEY BEGAN TO UNCOVER MORE ABOUT 406 00:24:09,683 --> 00:24:12,852 LORI'S PATH AND EVIDENCE THAT HER SPIRITUAL GURU AND BOYFRIEND 407 00:24:12,852 --> 00:24:16,556 CHAD DAYBELL WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN WHATEVER WAS GOING ON 408 00:24:16,556 --> 00:24:21,294 FOR EXAMPLE. >> HOW CAN I HELP YOU TODAY? 409 00:24:21,294 --> 00:24:24,964 >> UM, WE JUST HAD A DEATH IN THE FAMILY 410 00:24:24,964 --> 00:24:31,304 >> Reporter: THAT IS CHAD CALLING A FUNERAL HOME IN 411 00:24:31,304 --> 00:24:33,907 ARIZONA JUST HOURS AFTER CHARLES'S DEATH. 412 00:24:33,907 --> 00:24:37,077 >> WE REALLY DON'T WANT ANYTHING BUT A CREMATION AND THEN TO SEND 413 00:24:37,077 --> 00:24:40,246 THE CREMAINS TO FAMILY IN LOUISIANA. 414 00:24:40,246 --> 00:24:43,717 IS THERE ANY WAY TO KNOW A BALLPARK PRICE ON THAT 415 00:24:43,717 --> 00:24:48,688 >> YES AND I'M SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS. 416 00:24:48,688 --> 00:24:51,324 >> UM, THANK YOU >> Reporter: CHAD PROBABLY 417 00:24:51,324 --> 00:24:54,494 WOULDN'T HAVE MADE IT AS A SECRET AGENT 418 00:24:54,494 --> 00:24:57,163 >> WHAT IS YOUR NAME PLEASE? >> IT IS CHAD DAYBELL. 419 00:24:57,163 --> 00:24:59,799 >> Reporter: AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CALL HE ACTUALLY USES HIS 420 00:24:59,799 --> 00:25:02,936 NAME BUT THEN WHEN THEY ASK FOR HIS NAME AGAIN, HE CHANGES IT 421 00:25:02,936 --> 00:25:06,673 MINUTES LATER, LIKE, ON THE SPOT 422 00:25:06,673 --> 00:25:09,843 LIKE, "OH NO, I BETTER COME UP WITH SOMETHING." 423 00:25:09,843 --> 00:25:13,046 >> HOW DO YOU SPELL THE LAST NAME PLEASE? 424 00:25:13,046 --> 00:25:15,648 >> D-A-B-A-L, DAY-BAL. >> HOW ARE YOU RELATED TO THE 425 00:25:15,648 --> 00:25:18,284 PERSON WHO PASSED? >> I'M HIS NEPHEW, I LIVE IN 426 00:25:18,284 --> 00:25:20,920 IOWA >> Reporter: CHAD, OF COURSE, 427 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,556 DID NOT LIVE IN IOWA, HE WAS IN IDAHO. 428 00:25:23,556 --> 00:25:27,227 AND WAS NOT RELATED TO CHARLES LORI WAS BUSY ON THE PHONE TOO 429 00:25:27,227 --> 00:25:30,930 >> ARE YOU CALLING IN REFERENCE TO A DEATH CLAIM 430 00:25:30,930 --> 00:25:33,600 >> YES >> Reporter: THIS IS LORI JUST 431 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,736 FOUR DAYS AFTER CHARLES'S DEATH INQUIRING ABOUT HIS LIFE 432 00:25:36,736 --> 00:25:39,906 INSURANCE POLICY OF A MILLION DOLLARS. 433 00:25:39,906 --> 00:25:43,209 >> AND YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE INSURED? 434 00:25:43,209 --> 00:25:45,745 >> UM, HE'S MY HUSBAND >> AND WHAT WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS 435 00:25:45,745 --> 00:25:51,518 PASSING. >> WELL HE WAS SHOT. 436 00:25:51,518 --> 00:25:54,654 >> WAS IT A HOMICIDE >> NO IT WAS AN ACCIDENT 437 00:25:54,654 --> 00:25:57,857 >> ARE YOU AWARE OF WHO THE PRIMARY BENEFICIARY OF THE 438 00:25:57,857 --> 00:26:01,027 POLICY IS? >> UM, IT'S ME 439 00:26:01,027 --> 00:26:03,663 >> Reporter: UM, NOT EXACTLY DAYS LATER LORI WAS INFORMED 440 00:26:03,663 --> 00:26:06,800 THAT THE BENEFICIARY WAS IN FACT, NOT HER AT ALL 441 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,470 CHARLES CHANGED IT TO HIS SISTER KAY. 442 00:26:10,470 --> 00:26:13,106 NEWS THAT LORI HAD TO BREAK TO CHAD 443 00:26:13,106 --> 00:26:16,276 SHE TEXTED HIM - QUOTE, SO I TALKED TO THE 444 00:26:16,276 --> 00:26:20,046 INSURANCE COMPANY. HE CHANGED IT IN MARCH 445 00:26:20,046 --> 00:26:23,683 SO IT WAS PROBABLY NED BEFORE WE GOT RID OF HIM 446 00:26:23,683 --> 00:26:26,820 IT'S A SPEAR THROUGH MY HEART. AND THERE IT WAS, "WE GOT RID OF 447 00:26:26,820 --> 00:26:32,592 HIM," MEANING CHARLES. A TEXT FOUND MONTHS LATER THAT 448 00:26:32,592 --> 00:26:35,729 LEFT NO DOUBT. LORI WAS UPSET THAT THE SHOOTING 449 00:26:35,729 --> 00:26:37,931 OF CHARLES DID NOT PRODUCE AN INSURANCE PAYOUT 450 00:26:37,931 --> 00:26:40,567 >> SHE WAS NOT HAPPY >> Reporter: THEY WERE COUNTING 451 00:26:40,567 --> 00:26:43,203 ON THAT MONEY? >> THEY WERE 452 00:26:43,203 --> 00:26:46,373 >> Reporter: MEANWHILE, SOMETHING WAS HAPPENING TO 453 00:26:46,373 --> 00:26:50,577 CHAD DAYBELL THE ONCE QUIET EX-GRAVE-DIGGER 454 00:26:50,577 --> 00:26:56,383 HAD ASSUMED A MANTLE OF GOD-LIKE CERTAINTY AND NOW, FOR THE NEWLY 455 00:26:56,383 --> 00:26:59,586 MINTED WIDOW LORI VALLOW, HE BECAME A GREAT LOVER AS HE 456 00:26:59,586 --> 00:27:03,256 WORKED THE PHONE LIKE A TEENAGER WITH FOMO. 457 00:27:03,256 --> 00:27:06,426 FEAR OF MISSING OUT. THAT FURTIVE CALL TO THE FUNERAL 458 00:27:06,426 --> 00:27:10,630 HOME AND TEXTS TO LORI. 459 00:27:10,630 --> 00:27:14,300 QUOTE, I AM HEADING TO BED SO THAT I CAN COME SNUGGLE TIGHTLY 460 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:17,470 AGAINST YOU. I ADORE YOU! 461 00:27:17,470 --> 00:27:21,174 YOU ARE TRULY MY BEST FRIEND ON EARTH AND THROUGHOUT ETERNITY. 462 00:27:21,174 --> 00:27:24,344 >> Reporter: OF COURSE THIS WAS FANTASY SNUGGLING. 463 00:27:24,344 --> 00:27:28,548 A TEXT DIRECTED TO LORI IN ARIZONA. 464 00:27:28,548 --> 00:27:32,252 BUT CHAD WAS STILL IN IDAHO STILL VERY MARRIED TO HIS WIFE 465 00:27:32,252 --> 00:27:37,390 OF NEARLY THREE DECADES, TAMMY, THE MOTHER OF HIS 5 CHILDREN 466 00:27:37,390 --> 00:27:41,728 EXCEPT, CHAD TOLD LORI, THEIR TRYSTS WERE MORE THAN FANTASY, 467 00:27:41,728 --> 00:27:44,364 THAT HE'D GO INTO HIS CLOSET AT NIGHT AND CROSS SOME 468 00:27:44,364 --> 00:27:47,534 OTHERWORLDLY THRESHOLD TO BE WITH HER 469 00:27:47,534 --> 00:27:52,939 >> THAT'S CHAD DAYBELL FLEXING HIS MUSCLES FOR LORI 470 00:27:52,939 --> 00:27:55,942 IF CHAD DAYBELL IS NOT A PROPH THEN HE'S JUST AN AVERAGE JOE! 471 00:27:55,942 --> 00:27:59,646 >> Reporter: IN FACT, RECORDS SHOW THAT IMMEDIATELY AFTER 472 00:27:59,646 --> 00:28:02,282 CHARLES WAS KILLED, CHAD POURED OUT A LOVE STORY 473 00:28:02,282 --> 00:28:05,452 ALL IN TEXTS AND E-MAILS TO LORI 474 00:28:05,452 --> 00:28:08,621 IT WAS WRITTEN AS IF FICTIONAL IT WAS THE STORY OF THEIR 475 00:28:08,621 --> 00:28:11,825 MEETING AT THAT RELIGIOUS CONFERENCE IN ST. 476 00:28:11,825 --> 00:28:15,028 GEORGE, UTAH >> HE DOESN'T USE THE NAME CHAD 477 00:28:15,028 --> 00:28:17,564 AND LORI HE USES THE NAMES JAMES AND 478 00:28:17,564 --> 00:28:20,200 ELENA. >> Reporter: JAMES AND ELENA 479 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,370 WERE INTRODUCED AT A CONFERENCE IN SAINT GEORGE. 480 00:28:23,370 --> 00:28:27,741 A CONFERENCE JUST LIKE THE ONE THEY ATTENDED OF COURSE. 481 00:28:27,741 --> 00:28:32,345 THE FEELINGS WERE VERY STRONG AS IF THEY HAD KNOWN EACH OTHER OH 482 00:28:32,345 --> 00:28:36,049 SO LONG. HE CALLED ELENA, OR LORI, AN 483 00:28:36,049 --> 00:28:39,185 EXALTED GODDESS. CHAD'S ROMANCE NOVEL OFTEN TOOK 484 00:28:39,185 --> 00:28:42,389 TURNS THAT WOULD MAKE A HARLEQUIN EDITOR BLUSH 485 00:28:42,389 --> 00:28:46,059 THEIR SPIRITS COULD NOT BE RESTRAINED ANY LONGER. 486 00:28:46,059 --> 00:28:50,263 AND A LONG AWAITED MAKE OUT SESSION TOOK PLACE IN THAT 487 00:28:50,263 --> 00:28:53,066 LOBBY. THIS WAS MANIFEST IN THE MORTAL 488 00:28:53,066 --> 00:28:55,535 WORLD TO JAMES AND ELENA THROUGH THE SCIENTIFIC PHENOMENON KNOWN 489 00:28:55,535 --> 00:28:59,572 AS LOIN FIRE >> LOIN FIRE 490 00:28:59,572 --> 00:29:01,841 >> I -- I'M NOT SURE WHAT SCIENCE THEY'RE REFERRING TO 491 00:29:01,841 --> 00:29:07,380 THERE BUT -- >> MAYBE, LIKE, BIBLICAL 492 00:29:07,380 --> 00:29:10,550 SCIENCE? >> Reporter: FAIRLY BASIC I 493 00:29:10,550 --> 00:29:13,219 THINK. WE'LL SPARE YOU MUCH OF THE REST 494 00:29:13,219 --> 00:29:15,855 OF THAT STORY BUT THIS IS THE KEY POINT. 495 00:29:15,855 --> 00:29:19,559 AS JAMES PLACED HIS HANDS ON HER HEAD, HE CONNECTED WITH ELENA'S 496 00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:23,229 TRUE ETERNAL SELF. SHE THEN GAVE HIM A TREMENDOUS 497 00:29:23,229 --> 00:29:26,566 BLESSING THAT HELPED HIM REALIZE HOW MUCH SHE TRULY LOVED HIM AND 498 00:29:26,566 --> 00:29:29,035 WANTED TO BE WITH HIM FOREVER. >> THE LOVE STORY SHOWS THAT 499 00:29:29,035 --> 00:29:33,773 CHAD'S GRANDIOSITY IS INCREASING 500 00:29:33,773 --> 00:29:37,477 >> Reporter: BUT A MONTH AFTER CHARLES'S DEATH LORI WAS GETTING 501 00:29:37,477 --> 00:29:43,283 IMPATIENT. CHAD WAS STILL MARRIED TO TAMMY. 502 00:29:43,283 --> 00:29:46,453 SO LORI OPTED TO PLAY HARD TO GET. 503 00:29:46,453 --> 00:29:50,690 THIS TEXT -- "I'M JUST A DISTRACTION. 504 00:29:50,690 --> 00:29:53,827 GO HAVE FUN WITH YOUR FAMILY I REALLY DO WANT YOU TO. 505 00:29:53,827 --> 00:29:57,530 I JUST CAN'T BE IN THE WAY ANYMORE. 506 00:29:57,530 --> 00:30:02,302 IF THINGS CHANGE WE CAN TALK BUT WE HAVE NOTHING UNTIL THINGS 507 00:30:02,302 --> 00:30:07,007 CHANGE ANYWAY. MUST HAVE WORKED BECAUSE TWO 508 00:30:07,007 --> 00:30:11,277 DAYS LATER AFTER TALKING TO GOD SHE TEXTED A FRIEND. 509 00:30:11,277 --> 00:30:14,414 >> "I GOT FATHER SAYING, THINGS ARE MOVING 510 00:30:14,414 --> 00:30:18,084 THAT I NEED TO GET TO IDAHO BY THE END OF THE MONTH." 511 00:30:18,084 --> 00:30:25,525 >> Reporter: SHE WOULD HAVE HER CHAD AND HE, HER 512 00:30:25,525 --> 00:30:43,309 AND THER LARRY WOODCOCK WERE 513 00:30:43,309 --> 00:30:45,879 GRIEF-STRICKEN BY THE DEATH OF CHARLES VALLOW 514 00:30:45,879 --> 00:30:48,581 AND FURIOUS. STRAIGHT OUT MURDER, THEY CALLED 515 00:30:48,581 --> 00:30:51,217 IT AND NOW, ON TOP OF THAT, THEY 516 00:30:51,217 --> 00:30:54,888 WERE WORRIED, VERY WORRIED, ABOUT JJ 517 00:30:54,888 --> 00:31:01,761 IT HAD BEEN MONTHS SINCE CHARLES' DEATH, AND EVER SINCE 518 00:31:01,761 --> 00:31:04,397 LORI HAD BEEN GHOSTING THEM. AND THEY HADN'T HEARD A WORD 519 00:31:04,397 --> 00:31:09,903 FROM OR ABOUT THEIR GRANDSON, JJ 520 00:31:09,903 --> 00:31:13,640 >> YOU KNOW, W -- WE CALLED LORI SO MANY TIMES 521 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,309 >> I EMAILED HER - >> EMAILED HER 522 00:31:16,309 --> 00:31:18,912 >> -- TEXT HER, LEFT VOICEMAILS - 523 00:31:18,912 --> 00:31:22,282 >> TEXT HER. PLEASE - 524 00:31:22,282 --> 00:31:24,718 >> -- EVERYTHING PLEASE - 525 00:31:24,718 --> 00:31:27,887 >> -- LET US S - >> -- IT DOESN'T -- WHATEVER 526 00:31:27,887 --> 00:31:31,458 WE WANNA SEE JJ. >> Reporter: NO RESPONSE 527 00:31:31,458 --> 00:31:33,693 NONE WHAT WAS LORI UP TO? 528 00:31:33,693 --> 00:31:37,397 THEY HAD NO CLUE, INVESTIGATORS DIDN'T EITHER. 529 00:31:37,397 --> 00:31:40,567 THEN TWO MONTHS AFTER CHARLES'S DEATH, LORI LEFT THE 530 00:31:40,567 --> 00:31:43,803 JURISDICTION OF POLICE IN ARIZONA AND MOVED INTO A RENTED 531 00:31:43,803 --> 00:31:46,906 TOWNHOUSE IN REXBURG, IDAHO. AND ALEX RENTED HIS OWN PLACE, 532 00:31:46,906 --> 00:31:51,144 IN THE SAME COMPLEX. BUT HERE, TOO, THERE WERE 533 00:31:51,144 --> 00:31:55,882 INCONVENIENT PEOPLE IN THE WAY OF LORI AND CHAD 534 00:31:55,882 --> 00:31:59,119 A LIST THAT INCLUDED CHAD'S WIFE, TAMMY. 535 00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:03,823 AND SO TERRIBLY DISTURBING, ALSO APPARENTLY ON THE LIST WERE 536 00:32:03,823 --> 00:32:06,926 LORI'S OWN YOUNG CHILDREN. 7-YEAR-OLD JJ, AND 16-YEAR-OLD 537 00:32:06,926 --> 00:32:10,630 TYLEE. HADN'T CHAD BEEN SUGGESTING FOR 538 00:32:10,630 --> 00:32:13,967 QUITE SOME TIME THAT TYLEE HAD GONE DARK? 539 00:32:13,967 --> 00:32:19,606 >> TWO DAYS AFTER THEY MET IN ST. GEORGE, UTAH, IT TOOK TWO 540 00:32:19,606 --> 00:32:23,777 DAYS FOR HIM TO SEND LORI VALLOW AN EMAIL SAYING THAT HER 541 00:32:23,777 --> 00:32:26,946 16-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER TYLEE IS DARK 542 00:32:26,946 --> 00:32:31,184 >> Reporter: "DARK," JUST THE WAY HE'D DESCRIBED LORI'S 543 00:32:31,184 --> 00:32:34,888 NOW-DEAD HUSBAND CHARLES WHEN TYLEE WAS YOUNG, LORI, WITH 544 00:32:34,888 --> 00:32:40,727 ALEX'S HELP, WAGED A FEROCIOUS CUSTODY BATTLE TO KEEP TYLEE 545 00:32:40,727 --> 00:32:44,798 AWAY FROM HER BIOLOGICAL FATHER, THAT WAS THE HUSBAND BEFORE 546 00:32:44,798 --> 00:32:47,534 CHARLES. ALEX EVEN WENT TO PRISON FOR 547 00:32:47,534 --> 00:32:51,204 ATTACKING TYLEE'S DAD. HE SAID HE WANTED TO KILL THE 548 00:32:51,204 --> 00:32:53,873 MAN TO PROTECT TYLEE TO MAKE SURE SHE STAYED WITH HER 549 00:32:53,873 --> 00:32:58,111 MOTHER BUT NOW, A DECADE LATER? 550 00:32:58,111 --> 00:33:03,883 CHAD WAS INVOLVED. CHAD, SO VERSED IN THE BIBLE, 551 00:33:03,883 --> 00:33:07,187 AND ITS STORIES OF SACRIFICE >> IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN 552 00:33:07,187 --> 00:33:09,689 MIND I THINK WITH CHAD AND LORI THAT THERE'S ALWAYS A RELIGIOUS 553 00:33:09,689 --> 00:33:12,826 COMPONENT. YOU KNOW, THE STORY OF ABRAHAM 554 00:33:12,826 --> 00:33:16,062 AND ISAAC, WHERE GOD WANTED TO SEE IF ABRAHAM WAS WILLING TO 555 00:33:16,062 --> 00:33:18,631 SACRIFICE HIS SON, AND I THINK YOU SEE SOME OF THAT HERE WITH 556 00:33:18,631 --> 00:33:21,835 CHAD I THINK CHAD IS TESTING LORI TO 557 00:33:21,835 --> 00:33:25,071 SOME DEGREE. >> Reporter: YEAH. 558 00:33:25,071 --> 00:33:27,607 >> THIS SEEMS LIKE THE ULTIMATE TEST, TO ASK TO SACRIFICE YOUR 559 00:33:27,607 --> 00:33:31,311 KIDS >> Reporter: A FEW DAYS AFTER 560 00:33:31,311 --> 00:33:33,980 LORI AND HER KIDS MOVED TO IDAHO, THEY WENT TO YELLOWSTONE 561 00:33:33,980 --> 00:33:37,150 PARK, WHERE THEY POSED FOR THESE PICTURES WITH UNCLE ALEX 562 00:33:37,150 --> 00:33:41,354 IT WAS JUST DAYS BEFORE TYLEE'S 17th BIRTHDAY. 563 00:33:41,354 --> 00:33:45,091 BY THAT EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8th, THEY WERE BACK IN THEIR NEW 564 00:33:45,091 --> 00:33:50,196 TOWNHOUSES IN REXBURG. LORI AND THE KIDS IN HERS, ALEX 565 00:33:50,196 --> 00:33:54,534 IN HIS AND THEN, MIDDLE OF THAT NIGHT 566 00:33:54,534 --> 00:33:57,737 AS GPS RECORDS WOULD LATER SHOW, ALEX WENT TO LORI'S PLACE, SPENT 567 00:33:57,737 --> 00:34:02,475 TWO HOURS THERE. WAS IT COMMON FOR ALEX TO SPEND 568 00:34:02,475 --> 00:34:06,179 THE NIGHT AT LORI'S PLACE? >> NO. 569 00:34:06,179 --> 00:34:09,349 HE WAS NOT OVER AT LORI'S HOUSE EVER AT NIGHT, EXCEPT ONE 570 00:34:09,349 --> 00:34:15,088 PARTICULAR NIGHT >> Reporter: TYLEE WAS NEVER 571 00:34:15,088 --> 00:34:20,393 SEEN ALIVE AGAIN AS FOR JJ? 572 00:34:20,393 --> 00:34:29,903 LESS THAN A WEEK LATER, ON SEPTEMBER 14th, LORI AND JJ WENT 573 00:34:29,903 --> 00:34:33,073 ON AN OUTING TO A WILDLIFE PARK. >> "WE ARE AT BEAR WORLD 574 00:34:33,073 --> 00:34:36,743 IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY. >> Reporter: BUT THE NEXT WEEK, 575 00:34:36,743 --> 00:34:39,412 AS FRIENDS LATER TOLD US, LORI SAID 7- YEAR-OLD JJ HAD BECOME A 576 00:34:39,412 --> 00:34:42,082 ZOMBIE LORI'S FRIEND MELANIE GIBB AND 577 00:34:42,082 --> 00:34:45,185 HER NOW-HUSBAND DAVID WARWICK, CAME TO REXBURG FOR A SPIRITUAL 578 00:34:45,185 --> 00:34:47,821 CONFERENCE DID YOU SEE TYLEE THERE? 579 00:34:47,821 --> 00:34:52,092 >> NO. >> Reporter: WHAT DID LORI TELL 580 00:34:52,092 --> 00:34:56,229 YOU ABOUT WHERE SHE WAS? >> SHE TOLD ME WAS AT BYU IDAHO 581 00:34:56,229 --> 00:34:59,933 GOIN' TO SCHOOL WITH SOME FRIENDS. 582 00:34:59,933 --> 00:35:03,103 THE BYU IDAHO CAMPUS IS JUST UP THE HILL FROM LORI'S TOWNHOUSE 583 00:35:03,103 --> 00:35:06,239 >> I WAS LIKE, "HUH. SHE GOT HER INTO BYU 584 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,909 I WONDER HOW SHE DID THAT? >> Reporter: TYLEE WAS STILL 585 00:35:09,909 --> 00:35:12,579 HIGH SCHOOL AGE. LORI'S ELDEST SON, COLBY, WAS 586 00:35:12,579 --> 00:35:15,749 WONDERING ABOUT HIS SISTER TYLEE TOO. 587 00:35:15,749 --> 00:35:18,885 HOW SHE WAS COPING IN THE MONTHS SINCE HER STEPDAD'S DEATH? 588 00:35:18,885 --> 00:35:21,621 >> I WAS TEXTING HER "HEY, I LOVE YOU." 589 00:35:21,621 --> 00:35:24,858 LIKE, "IF YOU WANNA TALK, LET'S TALK." 590 00:35:24,858 --> 00:35:27,327 AFTER CHARLES, I FELT LIKE I'M -- THAT I WANT HER TO KNOW, 591 00:35:27,327 --> 00:35:30,497 LIKE, THE DOOR IS COMPLETELY OPEN 592 00:35:30,497 --> 00:35:33,133 CALL ME. LET'S TALK ABOUT ANYTHING YOU 593 00:35:33,133 --> 00:35:36,803 WANT >> Reporter: WHAT WAS THE 594 00:35:36,803 --> 00:35:39,439 RESPONSE >> IT'D BE LIKE, "HEY, LOVE YOU. 595 00:35:39,439 --> 00:35:42,108 SUPER BUSY." >> Reporter: BUT WAS THAT TYLEE 596 00:35:42,108 --> 00:35:44,744 TEXTING? OR SOMEONE ELSE. 597 00:35:44,744 --> 00:35:47,380 WHEN MELANIE AND DAVID WERE VISITING IN LATE SEPTEMBER, THEY 598 00:35:47,380 --> 00:35:50,083 DID SEE JJ LORI MADE A POINT TO TELL HER 599 00:35:50,083 --> 00:35:53,186 THAT JJ WAS OUT OF CONTROL >> SHE WAS OBSESSED ABOUT 600 00:35:53,186 --> 00:35:55,822 TALKING ABOUT IT, TO THE POINT WHERE SHE WAS SAYIN', "LOOK HOW 601 00:35:55,822 --> 00:35:58,458 HE'S BEHAVING. HE'S -- 'LOOK HOW HYPER HE IS 602 00:35:58,458 --> 00:36:01,094 HERE.' SHE WAS PLANTING IDEAS TO SHOW 603 00:36:01,094 --> 00:36:04,297 ME THAT SHE BELIEVED HE WAS A ZOMBIE. 604 00:36:04,297 --> 00:36:07,467 AND TO MY MIND HE LOOKED LIKE TYPICAL JJ TO ME 605 00:36:07,467 --> 00:36:10,603 >> Reporter: ONE EVENING DAVID SAW ALEX TAKING JJ OUTSIDE AFTER 606 00:36:10,603 --> 00:36:14,307 HE WAS "ACTING UP. >> AND THEN, COUPLE HOURS LATER, 607 00:36:14,307 --> 00:36:17,477 ALEX BRINGS BACK JJ. HE WALKED IN, HE HAD JJ ON -- IT 608 00:36:17,477 --> 00:36:20,113 WAS -- HE WAS ASLEEP ON HIM AND HE CARRIED HIM UP TO BED 609 00:36:20,113 --> 00:36:24,317 >> Reporter: SEPTEMBER 22nd. A LAST PHOTO OF JJ 610 00:36:24,317 --> 00:36:29,189 READY FOR BED, IN HIS RED PAJAMAS. 611 00:36:29,189 --> 00:36:34,361 LESS THAN 48 HOURS LATER, LORI SENT A MESSAGE TO THE BABYSITTER 612 00:36:34,361 --> 00:36:37,497 SHE'D HIRED JUST DAYS EARLIER. SHE WOULD NOT BE NEEDED. 613 00:36:37,497 --> 00:36:41,167 >> JJ'S GRANDPARENTS CAME THIS WEEKEND AND THEY TOOK HIM FOR A 614 00:36:41,167 --> 00:36:44,871 FEW WEEKS TO GIVE ME A BREAK SO HE WON'T BE BACK UNTIL 615 00:36:44,871 --> 00:36:48,575 PROBABLY THE END OF OCTOBER. >> Reporter: WHERE WERE THE 616 00:36:48,575 --> 00:36:51,211 CHILDREN OFFICIALS WEREN'T LOOKING FOR 617 00:36:51,211 --> 00:36:54,381 THEM NOT YET ANYWAY 618 00:36:54,381 --> 00:36:57,083 AND THE MISSION CONTINUED. THERE WAS ANOTHER "DARK" 619 00:36:57,083 --> 00:37:19,239 INDIVIDUAL IN THEIR WAY. >> UM, SOMEONE JUST SHOT MY 620 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:20,874 >>> Reporter: LORI VALLOW'S CHILDREN, JJ AND TYLEE, HAD NOT 621 00:37:20,874 --> 00:37:23,576 BEEN SPOTTED WITH OR WITHOUT THEIR MOTHER IN MORE THAN A 622 00:37:23,576 --> 00:37:26,680 WEEK BUT LORI HERSELF DIDN'T SEEM 623 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,383 CONCERNED. SHE WAS FAR MORE INTERESTED IN 624 00:37:30,383 --> 00:37:33,553 SPENDING TIME WITH CHAD DAYBELL AND PURSUING THEIR MISSION OF 625 00:37:33,553 --> 00:37:37,223 GATHERING THOSE 144,000 SOULS TO BE SAVED AND ADDED TO THEIR 626 00:37:37,223 --> 00:37:41,961 LITTLE GROUP, THE CHURCH OF THE FIRST BORN, AS CHAD CALLED IT. 627 00:37:41,961 --> 00:37:45,632 SHE THE GODDESS, HE THE HIGHEST OF PRIESTS 628 00:37:45,632 --> 00:37:49,869 SOME MEMBERS OF LORI'S FAMILY SEEMED ALL IN TOO -- HER BROTHER 629 00:37:49,869 --> 00:37:54,641 ALEX AND THEIR NIECE MELANI. >> I LOVED LORI. 630 00:37:54,641 --> 00:37:57,811 LORI USED TO CARRY ME AROUND AS A LITTLE BABY AND PRETEND THAT I 631 00:37:57,811 --> 00:38:01,014 WAS HERS, WHEN SHE WAS 16. >> Reporter: MELANI AND HER AUNT 632 00:38:01,014 --> 00:38:05,352 LORI WERE CLOSE. AND SOON MELANI WAS SWEPT UP IN 633 00:38:05,352 --> 00:38:08,888 HER NEW BELIEFS TOO, WHICH TOOK A TOLL ON HER MARRIAGE WITH HER 634 00:38:08,888 --> 00:38:12,058 HUSBAND BACK IN ARIZONA. >> 911, WHERE IS YOUR EMERGENCY? 635 00:38:12,058 --> 00:38:15,228 >> UM, SOMEONE JUST SHOT MY WINDOW 636 00:38:15,228 --> 00:38:18,932 I WAS PULLING INTO MY HOUSE -- >> Reporter: THAT IS THE 637 00:38:18,932 --> 00:38:21,534 HUSBAND, BRANDON BOUDREAUX, IN THE PHOENIX SUBURB OF GILBERT, 638 00:38:21,534 --> 00:38:25,238 ARIZONA, MAKING A FRANTIC CALL TO 911 639 00:38:25,238 --> 00:38:30,043 >> OKAY, SOMEONE SHOT AT YOUR VEHICLE? 640 00:38:30,043 --> 00:38:32,612 >> YEAH, AND IT HIT MY WINDOW, SHATTERED MY DRIVER SIDE WINDOW, 641 00:38:32,612 --> 00:38:35,248 AS I WAS TRYING TO PULL IN MY DRIVEWAY 642 00:38:35,248 --> 00:38:38,385 SORRY. >> OKAY. 643 00:38:38,385 --> 00:38:41,554 >> I'M A LITTLE OUT OF BREATH. >> Reporter: AT THE TIME, HE AND 644 00:38:41,554 --> 00:38:44,357 MELANI WERE SEPARATED. AND NOW THEY WERE GOING THROUGH 645 00:38:44,357 --> 00:38:51,064 A NASTY CUSTODY FIGHT. BRANDON TOLD THE POLICE THAT HE 646 00:38:51,064 --> 00:38:53,733 WAS ARRIVING HOME FROM THE GYM AROUND 9:00 A.M., HE SAW A JEEP 647 00:38:53,733 --> 00:38:56,369 PARKED NEARBY. AND THEN A GUN EQUIPPED WITH A 648 00:38:56,369 --> 00:38:59,539 SILENCER APPEARED IN THE JEEP'S REAR WINDOW. 649 00:38:59,539 --> 00:39:04,811 AND SUDDENLY, HE SAID, A BULLET WHIZZED BY HIS EAR AND SHATTERED 650 00:39:04,811 --> 00:39:08,014 THE WINDOW OF HIS CAR. >> THEY JUST DROVE OFF 651 00:39:08,014 --> 00:39:10,617 I SAW THEM DRIVE OFF >> Reporter: BRANDON DESCRIBED 652 00:39:10,617 --> 00:39:13,219 THE VEHICLE AS A GRAY JEEP WITH TEXAS PLATES, THE VERY SAME JEEP 653 00:39:13,219 --> 00:39:16,456 THAT LORI'S DAUGHTER TYLEE DROVE, A GIFT FROM HER NOW-DEAD 654 00:39:16,456 --> 00:39:20,093 STEP-FATHER CHARLES. AND THE GUY DRIVING THE JEEP 655 00:39:20,093 --> 00:39:24,030 BRANDON THOUGHT IT COULD BE LORI'S BROTHER, ALEX 656 00:39:24,030 --> 00:39:26,933 REMEMBER, ALEX HAD ALREADY KILLED HIS SISTER LORI'S 657 00:39:26,933 --> 00:39:31,171 HUSBAND. SO WAS HE TRYING TO SHOOT HIS 658 00:39:31,171 --> 00:39:36,409 NIECE MELANI'S HUSBAND TOO BRANDON CERTAINLY THOUGHT SO 659 00:39:36,409 --> 00:39:40,613 IN AN INTERVIEW WITH MELANI AND HER NEW HUSBAND IN MARCH 2020, 660 00:39:40,613 --> 00:39:43,516 WE ASKED MELANI ABOUT THAT DID YOU ASK ALEX IF HE TRIED TO 661 00:39:43,516 --> 00:39:48,054 SHOOT BRANDON? >> I -- I DID. 662 00:39:48,054 --> 00:39:51,157 AND HE MADE SOME JOKES ABOUT IT. AND THEN WE BOTH TALKED ABOUT 663 00:39:51,157 --> 00:39:53,727 HOW INSANE THAT WOULD BE FOR HIM, ACROSS THE STREET WITH -- 664 00:39:53,727 --> 00:39:55,895 WITH A RIFLE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN A RECOGNIZABLE CAR. 665 00:39:55,895 --> 00:39:58,531 >> Reporter: DID HE EVER ACTUALLY DENY IT 666 00:39:58,531 --> 00:40:02,202 >> YEAH. HE -- HE DENIED IT MANY TIMES. 667 00:40:02,202 --> 00:40:04,871 >> Reporter: MELANI HERSELF HAS DENIED WANTING BRANDON DEAD. 668 00:40:04,871 --> 00:40:09,776 AFTER ALL, SHE SAID, HE WAS THE FATHER OF HER CHILDREN 669 00:40:09,776 --> 00:40:14,881 SHE EVEN SUGGESTED HE MADE UP THE SHOOTING STORY 670 00:40:14,881 --> 00:40:19,119 BUT TEXTS SHOW THAT BRANDON WAS INDEED OUT OF FAVOR WITH CHAD 671 00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:22,288 AND LORI CHAD HAD LABELED BRANDON A 672 00:40:22,288 --> 00:40:25,392 "GADIANTON," WHICH THE BOOK OF MORMON CALLS A SECRET CRIMINAL 673 00:40:25,392 --> 00:40:28,561 ORGANIZATION OF ROBBERS IN ANCIENT AMERICA. 674 00:40:28,561 --> 00:40:33,833 >> IT'S THE ANCIENT MAFIA IN THE BOOK OF MORMON 675 00:40:33,833 --> 00:40:38,538 >> Reporter: FRIENDS SAID CHAD HAD ALSO LABELED BRANDON "DARK." 676 00:40:38,538 --> 00:40:44,377 AND "DARK," IN THE LANGUAGE OF CHAD AND LORI'S GROUP, OFTEN 677 00:40:44,377 --> 00:40:48,615 MEANT MARKED FOR DEATH WHEN WE SPOKE WITH HER, MELANI 678 00:40:48,615 --> 00:40:52,385 DENIED BEING PART OF LORI AND CHAD'S GROUP, DENIED THERE EVEN 679 00:40:52,385 --> 00:40:57,057 WAS A GROUP. OR AS SOME LABELED IT, A CULT. 680 00:40:57,057 --> 00:41:02,862 YOU KNOW, THE UNSAID THING IN THIS CONVERSATION HERE IS THAT 681 00:41:02,862 --> 00:41:06,066 WERE YOU BOTH KIND OF MEMBERS OF THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO -- WHO 682 00:41:06,066 --> 00:41:11,271 GRAVITATED AROUND CHAD AND LORI AND -- 683 00:41:11,271 --> 00:41:16,076 >> NO. I'M NOT ANY ME -- I'M NOT, AND 684 00:41:16,076 --> 00:41:19,179 NEVER HAVE BEEN, A MEMBER OF ANY CULT 685 00:41:19,179 --> 00:41:21,848 I GRAVITATED TOWARDS LORI BEING MY AUNT BECAUSE SHE HAD GREAT 686 00:41:21,848 --> 00:41:24,951 FAITH AND STILL DOES SO YEAH, I LOVE HER AND TRY TO 687 00:41:24,951 --> 00:41:28,154 SPEND TIME WITH HER. BUT I'M NOT A MEMBER OF ANY 688 00:41:28,154 --> 00:41:31,291 CULT AND SHE'S NOT EITHER, AS FAR AS 689 00:41:31,291 --> 00:41:34,928 I KNOW >> Reporter: AFTER THE SHOOTING, 690 00:41:34,928 --> 00:41:39,232 MELANI MOVED TO IDAHO, RIGHT NEAR HER AUNT LORI AND UNCLE 691 00:41:39,232 --> 00:41:41,835 ALEX BRANDON WENT INTO HIDING WITH 692 00:41:41,835 --> 00:41:45,005 THEIR FOUR CHILDREN, QUITE CONVINCED, HE TOLD US LATER, 693 00:41:45,005 --> 00:41:50,844 THAT ALEX AND MELANI WERE TRYING TO HUNT THEM DOWN. 694 00:41:50,844 --> 00:41:55,115 THEN, BIG NEWS CHAD TEXTING LORI HIS WIFE TAMMY 695 00:41:55,115 --> 00:41:59,285 HAD BECOME A DEMON NAMED VIOLA SOMETHING WOULD HAVE TO BE DONE. 696 00:41:59,285 --> 00:42:01,888 >> HE SAID, "I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF SHE DIES IN HER 697 00:42:01,888 --> 00:42:04,557 SLEEP. >> Reporter: TIME FOR THE NEXT 698 00:42:04,557 --> 00:42:24,678 ACT BY THE CHURCH OF THE FIRST WEEK OF OCTOBER 2019 AS 699 00:42:24,678 --> 00:42:30,483 INVESTIGATORS IN GILBERT, ARIZONA LOOKED FOR WHOEVER FIRED 700 00:42:30,483 --> 00:42:35,755 A SHOT AT BRANDON BOURDEAUX. THE LEAVES CHANGED AND FALL CAME 701 00:42:35,755 --> 00:42:42,095 TO EASTERN IDAHO AND JULIE ROWE WHO WRITES AND 702 00:42:42,095 --> 00:42:44,197 SPEAKS ABOUT THE END TIMES AND RELATED MATTERS PICKED UP THE 703 00:42:44,197 --> 00:42:46,833 PHONE TO CALL HER PUBLISHER, CHAD DAYBELL 704 00:42:46,833 --> 00:42:49,469 CHAD HAD BEEN TELLING JULIE HE'D BEEN HAVING VISIONS ABOUT HIS 705 00:42:49,469 --> 00:42:54,741 WIFE, TAMMY. VISIONS OF TAMMY DYING 706 00:42:54,741 --> 00:42:57,377 "IT WAS UNSETTLING," SAID JULIE. >> I ASKED HIM, "DO YOU STILL 707 00:42:57,377 --> 00:43:00,714 SEE TAMMY DYING?" BECAUSE HE HAD TOLD ME HE SAW HER DYING IN A 708 00:43:00,714 --> 00:43:03,750 CAR ACCIDENT AND HE SAID, "YES, I WOULDN'T BE 709 00:43:03,750 --> 00:43:07,354 SURPRISED IF SHE DIES IN HER SLEEP THOUGH." 710 00:43:07,354 --> 00:43:10,256 >> Reporter: EVEN THOUGH JULIE HERSELF ROUTINELY DISCUSSED 711 00:43:10,256 --> 00:43:13,159 PROPHETIC VISIONS AND VISITING HEAVEN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 712 00:43:13,159 --> 00:43:16,429 VEIL SHE WAS RATTLED BY THE THINGS CHAD WAS TELLING HER. 713 00:43:16,429 --> 00:43:20,066 DID HE EVER EXPRESS FRUSTRATION TO YOU THAT TAMMY WAS STILL 714 00:43:20,066 --> 00:43:23,203 ALIVE, BECAUSE HE COULDN'T MOVE ON WHILE SHE WAS ALIVE 715 00:43:23,203 --> 00:43:26,373 >> YES AT LEAST FOUR TIMES THAT I KNOW 716 00:43:26,373 --> 00:43:29,175 OF, HE SAID TO ME, "I DON'T FEEL LIKE MY PLAN CAN MOVE ON UNTIL 717 00:43:29,175 --> 00:43:31,611 TAMMY DIES OR UNTIL TAMMY'S DEAD." 718 00:43:31,611 --> 00:43:34,781 I GOT THIS ICK FEELING BUT I COULD NEVER IMAGINE 719 00:43:34,781 --> 00:43:37,951 SOMEBODY I KNEW WOULD KILL SOMEBODY, RIGHT? 720 00:43:37,951 --> 00:43:41,121 >> Reporter: OH, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE HEARD THAT 721 00:43:41,121 --> 00:43:44,691 SOON AFTER TALKING TO JULIE, CHAD TEXTED LORI WITH A REAL 722 00:43:44,691 --> 00:43:47,994 HEADLINE CHAD TO LORI, "HELLO SWEET 723 00:43:47,994 --> 00:43:50,630 ANGEL. BIG NEWS ABOUT TAMMY 724 00:43:50,630 --> 00:43:57,504 PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE AWAKE AND CAN TALK 725 00:43:57,504 --> 00:44:00,674 I LOVE YOU!" THE SHORT VERSION IS THAT SHE 726 00:44:00,674 --> 00:44:04,144 HAS BEEN SWITCHED. TAMMY IS IN LIMBO AND A LEVEL 727 00:44:04,144 --> 00:44:07,047 3 DEMONIC ENTITY IS IN HER BODY. SOUND FAMILIAR 728 00:44:07,047 --> 00:44:09,649 >> SHE SAYS I'M NICK SCHNEIDER >> Reporter: REMEMBER, THEY SAID 729 00:44:09,649 --> 00:44:13,353 THE VERY SAME THING ABOUT CHARLES SHORTLY BEFORE ALEX SHOT 730 00:44:13,353 --> 00:44:17,057 HIM TO DEATH BUT CHAD SEEMED TO WANT TO PRESS 731 00:44:17,057 --> 00:44:22,862 THE ACCELERATOR REGARDING TAMMY. IN THIS TEXT, CHAD WROTE, "NOT 732 00:44:22,862 --> 00:44:26,066 FULLY SURE OF THE TIMING FOR REMOVAL BUT I DON'T WANT TO 733 00:44:26,066 --> 00:44:28,635 WAIT." >> Reporter: FOUR DAYS AFTER 734 00:44:28,635 --> 00:44:31,271 THAT TEXT, TAMMY POSTED ON FACEBOOK THAT SOMEONE WEARING A 735 00:44:31,271 --> 00:44:33,907 MASK HAD APPROACHED HER AS SHE ARRIVED HOME FROM A CHURCH EVENT 736 00:44:33,907 --> 00:44:37,110 AND FIRED SEVERAL ROUNDS AT HER WITH WHAT SHE THOUGHT WAS A 737 00:44:37,110 --> 00:44:39,746 PAINTBALL GUN. THIS IS TAMMY'S SISTER SAMANTHA. 738 00:44:39,746 --> 00:44:42,215 >> I THINK SHE THOUGHT IT WAS A KID. 739 00:44:42,215 --> 00:44:46,953 >> Reporter: WAS SHE SURE IT WAS A PAINTBALL GUN? 740 00:44:46,953 --> 00:44:50,757 >> I MEAN, I THINK IN HER MIND, WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE? 741 00:44:50,757 --> 00:44:53,393 >> Reporter: THAT IT MUST'VE BEEN A PRANK OF SOME KIND? 742 00:44:53,393 --> 00:44:55,995 >> YEAH. YEAH 743 00:44:55,995 --> 00:44:58,898 BUT WHO PULLS THAT KIND OF A PRANK. 744 00:44:58,898 --> 00:45:01,835 >> Reporter: A PRANK POLICE DON'T THINK SO. 745 00:45:01,835 --> 00:45:04,471 >> I THINK THAT INVESTIGATORS WILL SAY THIS WAS NOT A 746 00:45:04,471 --> 00:45:07,607 PAINTBALL GUN. THIS WAS A REAL GUN THAT EITHER 747 00:45:07,607 --> 00:45:10,243 MISFIRED OR THE SHOOTER DID NOT AIM 748 00:45:10,243 --> 00:45:12,879 CORRECTLY. IT WAS JUST 10 DAYS AFTER THAT 749 00:45:12,879 --> 00:45:15,515 "PAINTBALL" INCIDENT THAT CHAD DAYBELL CALLED TAMMY'S 750 00:45:15,515 --> 00:45:18,685 SISTER, SAMANTHA >> I GOT A PHONE CALL FROM CHAD 751 00:45:18,685 --> 00:45:22,055 TELLIN' ME THAT SHE HAD PASSED AWAY IN HER SLEEP. 752 00:45:22,055 --> 00:45:24,491 >> Reporter: HOW DO YOU PROCESS SOMETHING LIKE THAT? 753 00:45:24,491 --> 00:45:27,927 >> YOU DON'T I MEAN, LIKE, THERE'S JUST SO 754 00:45:27,927 --> 00:45:30,296 MANY THOUGHTS RUNNING THROUGH YOUR HEAD. 755 00:45:30,296 --> 00:45:32,932 AND A LOT OF IT WAS, LIKE, "NO. THAT -- THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN." 756 00:45:32,932 --> 00:45:37,671 >> Reporter: WHAT DID CHAD SAY HAPPENED 757 00:45:37,671 --> 00:45:40,807 >> THAT -- THAT SHE'D BEEN SICK AND HAD A COUGHING FIT AND 758 00:45:40,807 --> 00:45:44,477 PASSED AWAY. >> Reporter: HOW DID HE SOUND ON 759 00:45:44,477 --> 00:45:47,647 THE PHONE? >> HE SOUNDED UPSET AND 760 00:45:47,647 --> 00:45:50,817 DEVASTATED I MEAN, I WAS CRYING AND HE WAS 761 00:45:50,817 --> 00:45:55,088 CRYING, IT WAS A REALLY HARD MOMENT 762 00:45:55,088 --> 00:45:58,758 >> Reporter: TAMMY WAS BURIED DAYS LATER IN HER HOMETOWN IN 763 00:45:58,758 --> 00:46:03,029 UTAH THERE WAS NO AUTOPSY 764 00:46:03,029 --> 00:46:06,132 CHAD'S CHOICE, THE SHERIFF SAID. AND LAW ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT 765 00:46:06,132 --> 00:46:09,836 KNOWING ANY MORE OF THE STORY BACK THEN HAD NO REASON TO BE 766 00:46:09,836 --> 00:46:13,039 SUSPICIOUS AND TWO WEEKS LATER, NOVEMBER 767 00:46:13,039 --> 00:46:16,176 5th, CHAD AND LORI'S ROMANCE NOVEL REACHED WHAT FANTASY 768 00:46:16,176 --> 00:46:20,914 FICTION MIGHT CALL HAPPILY EVER AFTER. 769 00:46:20,914 --> 00:46:24,084 THEY WERE MARRIED ON THE BEACH IN KAUAI 770 00:46:24,084 --> 00:46:26,753 MUCH TO THE SURPRISE OF TAMMY'S FAMILY 771 00:46:26,753 --> 00:46:29,356 >> OBVIOUSLY, I WAS REALLY UPSET. 772 00:46:29,356 --> 00:46:32,492 >> Reporter: YOU FEEL ALMOST BETRAYED 773 00:46:32,492 --> 00:46:36,196 >> YEAH. YEAH BECAUSE I -- BECAUSE I FELT 774 00:46:36,196 --> 00:46:41,501 LIKE THAT WAS TOO SOON FOR ANYBODY TO GET OVER MY SISTER! 775 00:46:41,501 --> 00:46:45,071 >> Reporter: THE NEXT TIME THEY SPOKE, SAMANTHA GRILLED CHAD 776 00:46:45,071 --> 00:46:51,511 ABOUT THIS NEW WIFE OF HIS >> I SAID "OKAY, SO TELL ME 777 00:46:51,511 --> 00:46:54,147 ABOUT HER. AND I SAID, "DOES SHE HAVE 778 00:46:54,147 --> 00:46:57,317 CHILDREN?" AND HE TOLD ME, "NO. 779 00:46:57,317 --> 00:47:01,254 HER CHILDREN ARE GROWN WE'LL BE EMPTY NESTERS." 780 00:47:01,254 --> 00:47:04,657 >> Reporter: EMPTY NESTERS LORI'S CHILDREN JJ AND TYLEE 781 00:47:04,657 --> 00:47:08,395 WERE INDEED CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT FROM THOSE BLISSFUL WEDDING 782 00:47:08,395 --> 00:47:13,633 PHOTOS AND SO WAS HER ADULT SON COLBY WHO DIDN'T EVEN KNOW 783 00:47:13,633 --> 00:47:17,871 THEY'D GOTTEN MARRIED UNTIL -- >> I SAW THE PICTURES OF THEM 784 00:47:17,871 --> 00:47:21,541 AND JUST THE DANCING AND JUST KNOWING THAT THEY ARE THERE 785 00:47:21,541 --> 00:47:25,745 ALONE, BOTH OF THEM HAVING SO MUCH FAMILY THAT THEY JUST CUT 786 00:47:25,745 --> 00:47:30,050 THERE'S JUST NO WORDS FOR IT >> Reporter: TWO DEAD SPOUSES. 787 00:47:30,050 --> 00:47:34,754 TWO MISSING CHILDREN AND NO POLICE ANYWHERE HAD PUT 788 00:47:34,754 --> 00:47:38,425 IT TOGETHER YET. THE NIGHT THEY ENCOUNTERED 789 00:47:38,425 --> 00:47:41,628 LORI'S BROTHER ALEX OUTSIDE THE HOME OF, JUST MAYBE, THE NEXT 790 00:47:41,628 --> 00:47:43,730 VICTIM >> WHAT'S UP AL? 791 00:47:43,730 --> 00:48:04,250 ALEX >> YEAH! 792 00:48:04,250 --> 00:48:05,885 >>> Reporter: AS CHAD AND LORI WERE HONEYMOONING IN HAWAII, 793 00:48:05,885 --> 00:48:10,623 BACK ON THE MAINLAND, SOME OF THOSE IN THEIR INNER CIRCLE WERE 794 00:48:10,623 --> 00:48:15,362 UP TO SOMETHING. THIS IS POLICE VIDEO IN AMERICAN 795 00:48:15,362 --> 00:48:21,701 FORK, UTAH AND THIS IS LORI'S NIECE MELANI. 796 00:48:21,701 --> 00:48:25,372 WHAT WAS SHE DOING HERE? YOU'LL REMEMBER MELANI'S HUSBAND 797 00:48:25,372 --> 00:48:29,142 BRANDON SAID SOMEONE, HE THOUGHT LORI'S BROTHER ALEX, HAD TAKEN A 798 00:48:29,142 --> 00:48:31,644 SHOT AT HIM IN ARIZONA, AFTER WHICH BRANDON TOOK THE KIDS AND 799 00:48:31,644 --> 00:48:39,119 WENT INTO HIDING EVENTUALLY ENDING UP HERE, AT 800 00:48:39,119 --> 00:48:41,721 HIS PARENTS' PLACE, JUST SOUTH OF SALT LAKE CITY. 801 00:48:41,721 --> 00:48:44,924 AND NOW HERE WAS MELANI, RIGHT OUTSIDE, DEMANDING TO SEE HER 802 00:48:44,924 --> 00:48:48,061 CHILDREN >> OFFICERS, I HAVE A LEGAL 803 00:48:48,061 --> 00:48:50,163 MEDIATION AGREEMENT. MY KIDS HAVE BEEN HELD OUT OF 804 00:48:50,163 --> 00:48:52,766 STATE. I ASKED AN OFFICER TO COME HERE 805 00:48:52,766 --> 00:48:54,401 LAST NIGHT TO DO A CHECK-IN BECAUSE I'M WORRIED THEY'RE IN 806 00:48:54,401 --> 00:48:56,503 DANGER AND THEY - 807 00:48:56,503 --> 00:48:59,139 >> BUT YOU CAME OVER HERE AFTER BEING TOLD THAT YOU WERE 808 00:48:59,139 --> 00:49:01,775 CRIMINALLY TRESPASSED FROM - >> BUT I HAVE AN AGREEMENT 809 00:49:01,775 --> 00:49:03,843 SAYING THAT -- >> FROM THIS RESIDENCE, CORRECT? 810 00:49:03,843 --> 00:49:06,012 >> Reporter: THIS WAS NOT LONG AFTER MELANI WAS SEEN ENTERING 811 00:49:06,012 --> 00:49:08,782 THE FAMILY'S GARAGE. >> MY KIDS ARE -- I'M WORRIED 812 00:49:08,782 --> 00:49:13,053 THEY'RE IN DANGER BECAUSE I -- I'M -- MY HUSBAND'S BEEN DOING A 813 00:49:13,053 --> 00:49:15,021 LOT OF THINGS THAT CAUSE ME TO WORRY. 814 00:49:15,021 --> 00:49:17,624 HE SAYS HE WAS SHOT AT A MONTH AGO, AND THEN HE WENT INTO 815 00:49:17,624 --> 00:49:19,726 HIDING AND NO ONE IN ARIZONA HAS SEEN 816 00:49:19,726 --> 00:49:22,896 HIM FOR WEEKS, OR MY CHILDREN, AND -- 817 00:49:22,896 --> 00:49:26,099 >> Reporter: MELANI CONTINUED TO ARGUE WITH THE OFFICERS, ASKING 818 00:49:26,099 --> 00:49:29,235 THEM TO LET HER GO INSIDE AND CHECK ON THE KIDS OR REMOVE THEM 819 00:49:29,235 --> 00:49:31,338 AND PUT THEM IN HER CAR. SO POLICE WENT INSIDE AND 820 00:49:31,338 --> 00:49:33,406 CHECKED. AND? 821 00:49:33,406 --> 00:49:36,242 >> THEY ARE SAFE AND THEY'RE TAKEN CARE OF. 822 00:49:36,242 --> 00:49:38,712 SO WE'RE NOT JUST GONNA GO IN THERE AND REMOVE THEM FROM THE 823 00:49:38,712 --> 00:49:41,881 HOUSE. >> Reporter: MELANI ALSO ASKED 824 00:49:41,881 --> 00:49:44,517 THE OFFICERS SOMETHING THAT, WELL -- IT MAY SOUND FAMILIAR. 825 00:49:44,517 --> 00:49:47,153 >> DO YOU HAVE A VICTIM'S ADVOCATE I CAN SPEAK TO IN THE 826 00:49:47,153 --> 00:49:49,789 POLICE DEPARTMENT, PLEASE? >> SHE KEEPS SAYING, "GET ME A 827 00:49:49,789 --> 00:49:53,860 VICTIM'S ADVOCATE. GET ME A VICTIM'S ADVOCATE." 828 00:49:53,860 --> 00:49:55,895 AND I CAN PICTURE LORI SAYING THIS TO HER, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT 829 00:49:55,895 --> 00:49:59,833 HAPPENED TO LORI WHEN CHARLES WAS KILLED 830 00:49:59,833 --> 00:50:03,503 >> Reporter: THEN THE OFFICERS NOTICED SOMEBODY SITTING IN A 831 00:50:03,503 --> 00:50:06,673 CAR ON THE STREET NEARBY >> WHO'S IN THE CAR WITH YOU 832 00:50:06,673 --> 00:50:09,809 >> IT'S MY UNCLE, ALEX COX >> Reporter: UNCLE ALEX, THE 833 00:50:09,809 --> 00:50:15,115 VERY PERSON WHO BRANDON BELIEVED HAD TRIED TO KILL HIM. 834 00:50:15,115 --> 00:50:17,751 WHO ALREADY HAD KILLED LORI'S HUSBAND AND POSSIBLY OTHERS AS 835 00:50:17,751 --> 00:50:19,853 WELL >> WHAT'S UP, AL 836 00:50:19,853 --> 00:50:22,455 ALEX >> YEAH. 837 00:50:22,455 --> 00:50:25,091 >> DO YOU HAVE YOUR I.D. ON YOU, MAN? 838 00:50:25,091 --> 00:50:27,727 >> YEAH. >> LET ME GET THAT FROM YOU REAL 839 00:50:27,727 --> 00:50:30,397 QUICK. >> CAN I OPEN THE DOOR 840 00:50:30,397 --> 00:50:32,766 I JUST GOTTA - >> YEAH, IF YOU NEED TO. 841 00:50:32,766 --> 00:50:35,101 >> IT'S JUST IN MY BACK POCKET >> JUST KEEP YOUR HANDS OUT 842 00:50:35,101 --> 00:50:37,771 WHERE WE CAN SEE THEM, ALL RIGHT? 843 00:50:37,771 --> 00:50:40,407 >> Reporter: GIVEN ALEX'S HISTORY, IT'S REASONABLE TO 844 00:50:40,407 --> 00:50:43,410 WONDER WHAT HE AND MELANI WERE UP TO. 845 00:50:43,410 --> 00:50:45,145 AND EVENTUALLY INVESTIGATORS LEARNED THAT CHAD HAD LABELED 846 00:50:45,145 --> 00:50:48,214 TWO OF BRANDON'S KIDS "DARK. BUT THAT NIGHT THE OFFICERS HAD 847 00:50:48,214 --> 00:50:49,883 NO IDEA. >> ALL RIGHT, MELANI 848 00:50:49,883 --> 00:50:52,018 TODAY YOU'RE GONNA BE RECEIVING A CITATION FOR CRIMINAL 849 00:50:52,018 --> 00:50:54,654 TRESPASS >> Reporter: INITIALLY, POLICE 850 00:50:54,654 --> 00:51:01,161 DECIDED TO GIVE MELANI A TICKET. >> BECAUSE YOU WERE NOT ALLOWED 851 00:51:01,161 --> 00:51:03,630 ON THIS PROPERTY OVER THE PHONE. YOU SAID YOU UNDERSTOOD. 852 00:51:03,630 --> 00:51:06,800 >> RIGHT, BUT IF MY KIDS WERE IN THERE -- 853 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,902 >> IT DOESN'T MATTER WE CAN ARGUE ABOUT IT ALL DAY. 854 00:51:08,902 --> 00:51:11,571 >> Reporter: AND BEFORE LONG, OFFICERS CHANGED THEIR MINDS AND 855 00:51:11,571 --> 00:51:14,207 UPGRADED THE CHARGES >> OKAY, SO THINGS HAVE CHANGED 856 00:51:14,207 --> 00:51:16,876 A LITTLE BIT OKAY 857 00:51:16,876 --> 00:51:19,479 >> OKAY. >> UM, YOUR CRIMINAL TRESPASS IS 858 00:51:19,479 --> 00:51:21,581 ENHANCED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO AHEAD AND 859 00:51:21,581 --> 00:51:24,184 HAVE A SEAT IN THERE >> NEVER BEEN IN A COP CAR 860 00:51:24,184 --> 00:51:29,489 BEFORE >> Reporter: AND STILL NEARBY 861 00:51:29,489 --> 00:51:31,591 WAS MELANI'S UNCLE ALEX. >> MR COX? 862 00:51:31,591 --> 00:51:34,227 >> YEAH. >> I'M GONNA LEAVE THIS WITH 863 00:51:34,227 --> 00:51:37,964 YOU. MELANI IS GONNA BE GOING TO THE 864 00:51:37,964 --> 00:51:40,100 UTAH COUNTY JAIL TONIGHT >> OKAY. 865 00:51:40,100 --> 00:51:43,203 SO WHERE WOULD I BAIL HER OUT OR - 866 00:51:43,203 --> 00:51:46,339 >> YEAH, I -- YOU'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO BAIL HER OUT, AND IT 867 00:51:46,339 --> 00:51:48,975 DOESN'T TAKE VERY LONG TO PROCESS HER. 868 00:51:48,975 --> 00:51:51,611 >> ALL RIGHT, THANKS >> THANKS, GUYS. 869 00:51:51,611 --> 00:51:54,247 >> Reporter: WITHIN HOURS, ALEX COX POSTED NEARLY 870 00:51:54,247 --> 00:51:57,384 $2,000 BAIL AND MELANI WAS FREED. 871 00:51:57,384 --> 00:52:00,587 SHE EVENTUALLY PLEADED GUILTY TO A MISDEMEANOR CRIMINAL TRESPASS 872 00:52:00,587 --> 00:52:03,757 AND RECEIVED A SIX MONTH SUSPENDED SENTENCE AND A YEAR OF 873 00:52:03,757 --> 00:52:06,893 PROBATION. IF THOSE UTAH POLICE OFFICERS 874 00:52:06,893 --> 00:52:10,597 UNWITTINGLY FOILED A MURDER PLOT, WE MAY NEVER KNOW. 875 00:52:10,597 --> 00:52:13,600 >> THE KIDS ARE IN DANGER. REALLY, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE THEIR 876 00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,069 UNCLE ALEX TAKE 'EM? YOU THINK THAT'S BETTER? 877 00:52:16,069 --> 00:52:19,072 I'M -- IT'S JUST - >> YEAH, THAT'LL MAKE 'EM SAFER. 878 00:52:19,072 --> 00:52:21,641 >> Reporter: MELANI DENIED THERE WAS ANY PLOT 879 00:52:21,641 --> 00:52:26,813 IT WAS JUST A MOTHER WORRIED ABOUT HER KIDS, SHE SAID 880 00:52:26,813 --> 00:52:29,082 AND THEN A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER, BACK IN REXBURG, WHERE 881 00:52:29,082 --> 00:52:32,519 LORI'S KIDS HAD LAST BEEN SEEN - 882 00:52:32,519 --> 00:52:34,821 >> HI, YOU LORI? LORI, I'M LIEUTENANT BALL -- 883 00:52:34,821 --> 00:52:36,923 >> Reporter: THE POLICE SHOWED UP ASKING THE QUESTION EVERYONE 884 00:52:36,923 --> 00:52:41,327 WANTED ANSWERED. >> SO JJ WOULD BE WHERE? 885 00:52:59,946 --> 00:53:03,650 2019 CHAD AND LORI'S "CHURCH OF THE 886 00:53:03,650 --> 00:53:08,388 FIRSTBORN" WAS FLUSH WITH EXPECTATIONS OF ETERNAL GLORY. 887 00:53:08,388 --> 00:53:12,092 THE HAPPY COUPLE HAD JUST RETURNED FROM THEIR HONEYMOON IN 888 00:53:12,092 --> 00:53:16,329 HAWAII MELANI HAD RETURNED HOME AFTER 889 00:53:16,329 --> 00:53:18,965 HER ARREST FOR TRESPASSING IN UTAH 890 00:53:18,965 --> 00:53:22,669 SHE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY ALEX, WHO WAS ABOUT TO BE REWARDED FOR HIS 891 00:53:22,669 --> 00:53:27,407 EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF THEIR NEW CHURCH, AND HIS SISTER, LORI 892 00:53:27,407 --> 00:53:31,111 A CEREMONY BORROWED FROM MORMONISM, A PATRIARCHAL 893 00:53:31,111 --> 00:53:36,116 BLESSING >> SO A PATRIARCHAL BLESSING IS 894 00:53:36,116 --> 00:53:40,086 A BLESSING THAT BAPTIZED MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH GO AND GET FROM A 895 00:53:40,086 --> 00:53:44,257 PATRIARCH OR AN OFFICIAL WHO HAS BEEN CALLED TO GIVE THESE 896 00:53:44,257 --> 00:53:50,096 BLESSINGS. >> FOR CHAD TO CONSIDER HIMSELF 897 00:53:50,096 --> 00:53:55,301 A PATRIARCH AND THEN TO GIVE A BLESSING TO ALEX COULD BE 898 00:53:55,301 --> 00:53:59,506 BLASPHEMOUS. >> Reporter: BUT RECORDS SHOWED 899 00:53:59,506 --> 00:54:02,709 CHAD'S BLESSING STARTED LIKE THIS - 900 00:54:02,709 --> 00:54:05,879 >> ALEXANDER LAMAR COX, ON THIS SPECIAL DAY, I LAY MY HANDS UPON 901 00:54:05,879 --> 00:54:09,749 YOUR HEAD TO GIVE YOU A PATRIARCHAL BLESSING AS A MEMBER 902 00:54:09,749 --> 00:54:12,218 OF THE CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN, OF WHICH YOU HAVE EARNED THE 903 00:54:12,218 --> 00:54:15,922 PRIVILEGE TO BE A MEMBER >> Reporter: THE BLESSING WAS 904 00:54:15,922 --> 00:54:19,626 FULL OF FLATTERY AND REFERENCES TO ALEX'S SERVICE TO LORI WHO, 905 00:54:19,626 --> 00:54:23,163 REMEMBER, CHAD HAD REPEATEDLY CALLED A GODDESS 906 00:54:23,163 --> 00:54:25,398 >> POWERFUL GODDESSES NEEDED TO BE PROTECTED AND YOU WERE 907 00:54:25,398 --> 00:54:29,102 SELECTED TO HELP PROTECT YOUR SISTER 908 00:54:29,102 --> 00:54:31,738 >> Reporter: OH YES, ALEX HAD HELPED HIS SISTER. 909 00:54:31,738 --> 00:54:35,942 CHARLES WAS DEAD TAMMY WAS DEAD 910 00:54:35,942 --> 00:54:38,578 LORI'S CHILDREN WERE MISSING BY LATE NOVEMBER, FOUR MONTHS 911 00:54:38,578 --> 00:54:42,282 AFTER CHARLES WAS SHOT, THE WOODCOCKS WERE GROWING MORE AND 912 00:54:42,282 --> 00:54:45,485 MORE WORRIED KAY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE LORI 913 00:54:45,485 --> 00:54:48,588 WAS LIVING AND SHE HADN'T HEARD FROM THE KIDS SINCE THE 914 00:54:48,588 --> 00:54:52,325 SHOOTING >> IT WAS EXTREMELY UNNERVING TO 915 00:54:52,325 --> 00:54:56,529 US BECAUSE WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOIN' ON 916 00:54:56,529 --> 00:55:00,200 WE KNEW NOTHING. >> Reporter: THEN ON ONE 917 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,937 SLEEPLESS NIGHT, KAY CRAWLED OUT OF BED, TURNED ON HER COMPUTER 918 00:55:03,937 --> 00:55:07,073 AND FOUND HER WAY INTO THE GMAIL ACCOUNT OF HER NOW DECEASED 919 00:55:07,073 --> 00:55:10,744 BROTHER, CHARLES, BY GUESSING HIS PASSWORD 920 00:55:10,744 --> 00:55:14,447 >> CHARLES HAD THREE COMMON PASSWORDS. 921 00:55:14,447 --> 00:55:27,660 FIRST ONE I PUT IN WORKED. I -- I -- LOOKIN' AT HIS INBOX 922 00:55:27,660 --> 00:55:30,296 AND I SEE EMAILS FROM AMAZON SO I CLICKED ON ONE AND IT WAS 923 00:55:30,296 --> 00:55:33,466 AN ORDER BEIN' DELIVERED TO REXBURG, IDAHO 924 00:55:33,466 --> 00:55:36,069 AND I SAID WELL, DAMN, THIS IS -- THIS IS THEIR ADDRESS. 925 00:55:36,069 --> 00:55:40,340 THIS IS WHERE THEY ARE >> Reporter: A EUREKA MOMENT IF 926 00:55:40,340 --> 00:55:43,443 THERE EVER WAS ONE SO AS SOON AS THE SUN CAME UP, 927 00:55:43,443 --> 00:55:46,079 KAY CALLED IN A WELFARE CHECK ON THE KIDS USING THAT IDAHO 928 00:55:46,079 --> 00:55:50,316 ADDRESS. AND NOT LONG AFTER, THERE WAS A 929 00:55:50,316 --> 00:55:54,087 KNOCK ON LORI'S TOWNHOUSE DOOR IN RBURG 930 00:55:54,087 --> 00:55:56,656 >> HI, YOU LORI? LORI, I'M LIEUTENANT BALL WITH 931 00:55:56,656 --> 00:55:59,292 THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, HOW ARE YOU? 932 00:55:59,292 --> 00:56:02,495 DO YOU GOT A MINUTE? >> Reporter: POLICE BODYCAMS 933 00:56:02,495 --> 00:56:05,632 RECORDED THE CONVERSATION. >> SO JJ WOULD BE WHERE? 934 00:56:05,632 --> 00:56:08,268 >> HE'S IN ARIZONA >> WHO IS HE WITH IN ARIZONA 935 00:56:08,268 --> 00:56:10,904 >> HE'S WITH ONE OF MY FRIENDS IN ARIZONA 936 00:56:10,904 --> 00:56:13,540 >> Reporter: BUT OF COURSE, THAT WAS A LIE. 937 00:56:13,540 --> 00:56:17,744 AS WE NOW KNOW JJ WAS NOT IN ARIZONA. 938 00:56:17,744 --> 00:56:24,617 AND TYLEE HAD NOT ENROLLED AT BYU. 939 00:56:24,617 --> 00:56:27,821 >> IT WAS, WHERE'S JJ? WHERE'S JJ 940 00:56:27,821 --> 00:56:31,524 WHERE'S JJ AND TYLEE. 941 00:56:31,524 --> 00:56:34,227 WHERE'S THE KIDS >> Reporter: LORI'S SON COLBY 942 00:56:34,227 --> 00:56:37,864 HAD ALSO HEARD FROM POLICE BY THAT POINT, AND HE PHONED HIS 943 00:56:37,864 --> 00:56:40,500 MOM. >> I WAS FREAKING OUT AND I SAID 944 00:56:40,500 --> 00:56:42,602 THAT, "TWO DETECTIVES ARE LOOKING FOR TYLEE AND JJ. WHAT 945 00:56:42,602 --> 00:56:45,238 IS GOING ON? SHE SAID, "I GOT IT. 946 00:56:45,238 --> 00:56:48,575 I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT I LOVE YOU." 947 00:56:48,575 --> 00:56:50,477 >> Reporter: BUT WHEN COLBY CALLED BACK THE NEXT DAY 948 00:56:50,477 --> 00:56:53,646 >> PHONE'S GONE. LIKE, NOT, LIKE, OFF 949 00:56:53,646 --> 00:56:56,316 LIKE, DISCONNECTED LINE. LIKE, CALL CANCELLED 950 00:56:56,316 --> 00:56:59,085 >> Reporter: WOW >> SO I FREAK OUT. 951 00:56:59,085 --> 00:57:01,087 I CALL TYLEE'S NUMBER. IT'S OFF 952 00:57:01,087 --> 00:57:02,655 LEAVE HER A VOICEMAIL. I E-MAIL MY MOM. 953 00:57:02,655 --> 00:57:04,791 I TEXT HER I'M GOING AS MUCH AS I CAN 954 00:57:04,791 --> 00:57:08,361 POSSIBLY GET TO TRY TO TALK TO HER. 955 00:57:08,361 --> 00:57:10,063 AND THAT WAS IT. LAST WORD SHE SAID, "SHE'S GOT 956 00:57:10,063 --> 00:57:13,199 IT." >> Reporter: A FEW DAYS AFTER 957 00:57:13,199 --> 00:57:17,070 COLBY HAD FRANTICALLY TRIED TO REACH HIS MOM, POLICE WENT TO 958 00:57:17,070 --> 00:57:20,073 LORI'S CONDO AND DISCOVERED LORI WAS GONE 959 00:57:20,073 --> 00:57:23,243 >> THE SEARCH FOR THESE CHILDREN HAS NOW GONE NATIONAL. 960 00:57:23,243 --> 00:57:29,049 >> NOW TO THE LATEST TWIST IN A MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE 961 00:57:29,049 --> 00:57:31,685 DISAPPEARANCE OF TWO SIBLINGS WHO VANISHED MONTHS AGO. 962 00:57:31,685 --> 00:57:35,455 >> Reporter: POLICE SAY THEIR MOTHER AND HER HUSBAND ARE 963 00:57:35,455 --> 00:57:36,923 REFUSING TO COOPERATE WITH THE INVESTIGATION. 964 00:57:36,923 --> 00:57:39,592 A NATIONAL SEARCH FOR THE CHILDREN WAS SOON UNDERWAY 965 00:57:39,592 --> 00:57:45,098 AND WHAT ABOUT ALEX? WHATEVER HE KNEW, HE WAS NOT 966 00:57:45,098 --> 00:57:49,102 TELLING INVESTIGATORS. BUT HE WAS TALKING TO HIS NEW 967 00:57:49,102 --> 00:57:52,772 WIFE ZULEMA. CHAD HAD ARRANGED THEIR MARRIAGE 968 00:57:52,772 --> 00:57:57,077 AS A REWARD TO ALEX FOR HIS DEVOTION TO LORI AND THEIR 969 00:57:57,077 --> 00:58:01,181 CHURCH IT WAS MONTHS LATER WHEN ZULEMA 970 00:58:01,181 --> 00:58:03,883 TOLD THE POLICE WHAT ALEX TOLD HER. AFTER HE LEARNED THAT 971 00:58:03,883 --> 00:58:08,088 AUTHORITIES WERE GOING TO EXHUME THE BODY OF CHAD'S WIFE TAMMY 972 00:58:08,088 --> 00:58:14,928 WHOSE DEATH WOULD LATER BE RULED A HOMICIDE 973 00:58:14,928 --> 00:58:17,597 >> AND THAT'S WHEN HE SAID, I THINK I AM BEING THEIR, UM, FALL 974 00:58:17,597 --> 00:58:21,301 GUY. >> Reporter: ALEX, WHO HAD 975 00:58:21,301 --> 00:58:25,538 ALWAYS STOOD BY HIS SISTER, SEEMED TO DEVELOP DOUBTS ABOUT 976 00:58:25,538 --> 00:58:28,708 CHAD, AND LORI, AND THEIR MISSION. 977 00:58:28,708 --> 00:58:31,845 >> AND I WAS LIKE THE FALL GUY, FOR WHAT 978 00:58:31,845 --> 00:58:34,047 WHAT IS IT TELL ME? 979 00:58:34,047 --> 00:58:37,150 WHAT IS IT THAT THEY'RE GOING, THEY'RE TRYING TO PIN ON YOU 980 00:58:37,150 --> 00:58:39,786 WHAT, WHAT DID THEY DO AND HE JUST WOULDN'T SAY 981 00:58:39,786 --> 00:58:41,888 ANYTHING ELSE -- >> Reporter: AND THEN, SAID 982 00:58:41,888 --> 00:58:50,330 ZULEMA ALEX TOLD HER SOMETHING SHE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND. 983 00:58:50,330 --> 00:58:53,066 >> HE SAID TO ME, "ZULEMA, IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO ME. I WANT 984 00:58:53,066 --> 00:58:56,136 YOU TO KNOW THAT THERE IS MONEY IN A BAG IN THE CLOSET." 985 00:58:56,136 --> 00:59:00,874 HE SAID, "IT'S NOT MUCH BUT IT'S FOR YOU. 986 00:59:00,874 --> 00:59:05,111 >> AND HOW MUCH WAS IN THERE >> BETWEEN 5 AND 7 THOUSAND 987 00:59:05,111 --> 00:59:07,714 DOLLARS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT >> DID YOU ASK HIM LIKE WHY 988 00:59:07,714 --> 00:59:09,883 WOULD ANYTHING EVER HAPPEN TO YOU? 989 00:59:09,883 --> 00:59:12,485 >> I DID I SAID WHY. I SAID, "DON'T SAY THINGS LIKE 990 00:59:12,485 --> 00:59:17,157 THAT ALEX. I SAID WHY WOULD YOU SAY 991 00:59:17,157 --> 00:59:19,659 SOMETHING LIKE THAT? AND THEN HE'D SAID, "UM JUST IN 992 00:59:19,659 --> 00:59:22,529 CASE, JUST IN CASE." >> Reporter: MAYBE ALEX WASN'T 993 00:59:22,529 --> 00:59:29,869 THE ONLY ONE WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE. 994 00:59:29,869 --> 00:59:32,539 FOR ALL THE TALK OF VISIONS AND PROPHECY, IS THERE ANY WAY CHAD 995 00:59:32,539 --> 00:59:52,325 AND LORI SAW THIS COMING >>> Reporter: EARLY DECEMBER, 996 00:59:52,325 --> 00:59:56,563 2019, A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER CHAD DAYBELL MET 997 00:59:56,563 --> 01:00:00,367 LORI VALLOW, THEIR SPOUSES CHARLES AND TAMMY WERE DEAD. 998 01:00:00,367 --> 01:00:05,005 LORI'S CHILDREN, JJ AND TYLEE, WERE MISSING AND FEARED DEAD 999 01:00:05,005 --> 01:00:09,209 LORI'S NIECE'S HUSBAND BRANDON HAD SURVIVED AN ATTEMPT ON HIS 1000 01:00:09,209 --> 01:00:12,379 LIFE IT WAS A TALLY WORTHY OF LA COSA 1001 01:00:12,379 --> 01:00:17,117 NOSTRA OR SOME SORT OF CRIME FAMILY 1002 01:00:17,117 --> 01:00:19,219 ALL OF THAT IN LESS THAN SIX MONTHS 1003 01:00:19,219 --> 01:00:22,922 AND THERE WAS ONE MORE UNTIMELY DEATH TO COME. 1004 01:00:22,922 --> 01:00:25,525 >> OKAY, WHAT IS THE EMERGENCY >> Reporter: A FEW DAYS AFTER 1005 01:00:25,525 --> 01:00:29,763 ALEX TOLD ZULEMA ABOUT THE BAG OF MONEY - 1006 01:00:29,763 --> 01:00:32,932 >> IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO ME - >> Reporter: -- HE WAS IN THEIR 1007 01:00:32,932 --> 01:00:37,671 BATHROOM IN GILBERT, ARIZONA, AND HE COLLAPSED 1008 01:00:37,671 --> 01:00:41,908 >> AND I REMEMBER THEM TAKING US TO THE HOSPITAL. 1009 01:00:41,908 --> 01:00:46,146 THEY STARTED WORKING WITH HIM. AND I DON'T REMEMBER MUCH OF 1010 01:00:46,146 --> 01:00:50,884 WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN THAT AND UNTIL THE TIME THAT THEY BROUGHT 1011 01:00:50,884 --> 01:00:58,224 ME BACK TO THE ROOM FOR ME TO TURN OFF THE MACHINE FOR HIM 1012 01:00:58,224 --> 01:01:02,429 >> Reporter: IT WILL SURPRISE NO ONE THAT THERE WAS CONSIDERABLE 1013 01:01:02,429 --> 01:01:08,234 SUSPICION EARLY ON OF FOUL PLAY. UNTIL THE AUTOPSY CAME BACK AND 1014 01:01:08,234 --> 01:01:14,074 CONCLUDED THAT THE DEATH OF ALEX COX WAS NOT A CRIME AT ALL. 1015 01:01:14,074 --> 01:01:16,643 IT WAS BLOOD CLOTS IN HIS LUNGS THAT KILLED HIM, SAID THE M.E. 1016 01:01:16,643 --> 01:01:20,313 ZULEMA SAID HE'D BEEN COMPLAINING ABOUT CHEST PAINS 1017 01:01:20,313 --> 01:01:24,551 FOR ABOUT A WEEK KILLINGS, A PRIESTLY BLESSING, 1018 01:01:24,551 --> 01:01:29,823 AND THEN AN UNTIMELY DEATH CONNECTED SOMEHOW? 1019 01:01:29,823 --> 01:01:34,494 WHO KNOWS? ALEX WAS 51. 1020 01:01:34,494 --> 01:01:37,197 HE AND ZULEMA HAD BEEN MARRIED FOR LESS THAN TWO WEEKS. 1021 01:01:37,197 --> 01:01:39,332 IT'S AWFULLY CONVENIENT, ISN'T IT 1022 01:01:39,332 --> 01:01:44,671 >> YEAH, THAT MIGHT BE THE MOST CONVENIENT THING OUT OF THIS 1023 01:01:44,671 --> 01:01:47,240 ENTIRE STORY >> Reporter: BUT IF ZULEMA 1024 01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:50,410 MOURNED, THE FAMILY OF CHARLES VALLOW, SHOT DEAD BY 1025 01:01:50,410 --> 01:01:54,614 ALEX SIX MONTHS PRIOR, DID NOT >> ALEX IS PROBABLY LUCKY HE 1026 01:01:54,614 --> 01:01:57,250 DIED BECAUSE I'M NOT A ANGRY OR A 1027 01:01:57,250 --> 01:02:00,420 VIOLENT PERSON, BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT 1028 01:02:00,420 --> 01:02:03,056 IT PROBABLY WOULD'VE TAKEN ME A LOT TO STOP FROM GOIN' TO 1029 01:02:03,056 --> 01:02:05,125 ARIZONA AND PAYIN' HIM A LITTLE VISIT. 1030 01:02:05,125 --> 01:02:07,794 >> Reporter: ALEX WAS DEAD THE POLICE WERE INVESTIGATING 1031 01:02:07,794 --> 01:02:13,066 THE DEATHS OF CHARLES AND TAMMY. THE FBI WAS TRYING TO FIND THE 1032 01:02:13,066 --> 01:02:15,669 MISSING KIDS IT WAS ALL COMING DOWN ON CHAD 1033 01:02:15,669 --> 01:02:18,838 AND LORI >> TONIGHT, TWO ARIZONA KIDS ARE 1034 01:02:18,838 --> 01:02:20,974 MISSING AFTER VANISHING WITHOUT A TRACE. 1035 01:02:20,974 --> 01:02:24,511 THEIR MOTHER AND HER NEW HUSBAND ARE NOW CONSIDERED PERSONS OF 1036 01:02:24,511 --> 01:02:30,483 INTEREST >> Reporter: EVENTUALLY A TIP 1037 01:02:30,483 --> 01:02:34,688 LED US HERE, TO KAUAI, WHERE WE FOUND LORI AND HER NEW HUSBAND, 1038 01:02:34,688 --> 01:02:37,323 CHAD, AT A RESORT HOTEL, DRESSED FOR THE BEACH. 1039 01:02:37,323 --> 01:02:41,094 >> HEY, CHAD AND LORI, IT'S "DATELINE. 1040 01:02:41,094 --> 01:02:43,663 HOW ARE YOU? YOU GUYS HEADING OUT TODAY 1041 01:02:43,663 --> 01:02:46,299 >> PLEASE LEAVE US ALONE NO COMMENT 1042 01:02:46,299 --> 01:02:48,401 >> WHERE ARE YOUR KIDS >> ARE YOU CHAD AND LORI 1043 01:02:48,401 --> 01:02:51,571 >> Reporter: WHEN POLICE IN HAWAII FOUND CHAD AND LORI 1044 01:02:51,571 --> 01:02:55,275 LOUNGING POOLSIDE, THEY SERVED THEM WITH A COURT ORDER TO 1045 01:02:55,275 --> 01:02:57,911 PRODUCE EVIDENCE TYLEE AND JJ WERE ALIVE AND WELL. 1046 01:02:57,911 --> 01:03:00,413 >> YOU NEED SOMETHING FROM US? >> ANY QUESTIONS 1047 01:03:00,413 --> 01:03:03,183 DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THAT 1048 01:03:03,183 --> 01:03:09,055 NO OKAY 1049 01:03:09,055 --> 01:03:12,158 >> Reporter: WEEKS LATER, WHEN LORI HAD STILL NOT RESPONDED 1050 01:03:12,158 --> 01:03:15,328 SHE WAS ARRESTED AND FLOWN BACK TO IDAHO 1051 01:03:15,328 --> 01:03:17,430 >> LORI, WHERE ARE THE KIDS? >> Reporter: AND THEN 3 MONTHS 1052 01:03:17,430 --> 01:03:20,633 LATER, ON JUNE 9th, 2020, WHILE INVESTIGATORS WERE SEARCHING 1053 01:03:20,633 --> 01:03:24,337 CHAD'S HOME -- >> A CALL FROM AND PAID FOR BY 1054 01:03:24,337 --> 01:03:27,507 LORI DAYBELL, AN INMATE AT THE MADISON COUNTY JAIL. 1055 01:03:27,507 --> 01:03:30,643 >> Reporter: LORI CALLED CHAD FROM JAIL. 1056 01:03:30,643 --> 01:03:33,446 >> HI, BABE. ARE YOU OKAY 1057 01:03:33,446 --> 01:03:39,119 >> NO, THEY'RE SEARCHING THE PROPERTY 1058 01:03:39,119 --> 01:03:43,356 SO WE'LL SEE WHAT TRANSPIRES >> Reporter: AN HOUR LATER, 1059 01:03:43,356 --> 01:03:47,093 INVESTIGATORS FOUND THEM, JJ AND TYLEE, BURIED IN CHAD'S 1060 01:03:47,093 --> 01:03:50,196 BACKYARD CHAD WAS ARRESTED WHILE DRIVING 1061 01:03:50,196 --> 01:03:52,832 AWAY >> THERE HE IS 1062 01:03:52,832 --> 01:03:57,103 THERE HE IS. CHAD DAYBELL 1063 01:03:57,103 --> 01:04:00,240 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS PORED OVER LORI AND CHAD'S TEXTS AND 1064 01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:03,410 EMAILS, AND THE PICTURE THEY PAINTED WAS NOT PRETTY 1065 01:04:03,410 --> 01:04:08,148 CHAD WAS CHARGED WITH THREE COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER 1066 01:04:08,148 --> 01:04:11,518 AND CONSPIRACY IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEATHS OF JJ AND TYLEE, 1067 01:04:11,518 --> 01:04:14,487 AND HIS WIFE TAMMY LORI WAS CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS 1068 01:04:14,487 --> 01:04:17,657 OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND CONSPIRACY IN HER CHILDREN'S 1069 01:04:17,657 --> 01:04:23,463 DEATHS AND CONSPIRACY TO KILL TAMMY DAYBELL. 1070 01:04:23,463 --> 01:04:28,201 BOTH PLEADED NOT GUILTY. BUT LORI'S TRIAL WENT ON HOLD 1071 01:04:28,201 --> 01:04:31,371 AFTER A JUDGE DEEMED HER INCOMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL 1072 01:04:31,371 --> 01:04:35,608 SHE WAS TRANSFERRED TO A MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY. 1073 01:04:35,608 --> 01:04:38,244 I'M SURE YOU'VE HEARD LOTS OF PEOPLE SUGGEST THAT SHE, "OH, 1074 01:04:38,244 --> 01:04:41,314 SHE'S JUST FAKING IT." >> YEAH, IT'S -- IT'S A 1075 01:04:41,314 --> 01:04:43,550 REASONABLE ASSUMPTION. I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT LORI'S 1076 01:04:43,550 --> 01:04:46,720 HISTORY OF MANIPULATION AND DECEITFULNESS, YOU CERTAINLY 1077 01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:48,855 HAVE TO WONDER IF SHE IS FAKING IT 1078 01:04:48,855 --> 01:04:52,092 >> Reporter: WOULDN'T SURPRISE YOU TO SEE THIS GO ON AND ON FOR 1079 01:04:52,092 --> 01:04:55,362 QUITE SOME TIME? >> IT COULD. 1080 01:04:55,362 --> 01:04:59,366 >> Reporter: AND IT DID, FOR TEN MONTHS 1081 01:04:59,366 --> 01:05:05,038 UNTIL THE JUDGE SAID LORI HAD RESTORED COMPETENCY AND WAS FIT 1082 01:05:05,038 --> 01:05:08,341 TO STAND TRIAL AND SO LAST MONTH, PRESS FROM 1083 01:05:08,341 --> 01:05:09,909 AROUND THE WORLD DESCENDED ON IDAHO AGAIN. 1084 01:05:09,909 --> 01:05:12,045 >> WE WILL GO ON THE RECORD ON THIS MATTER. 1085 01:05:12,045 --> 01:05:15,281 STATE OF IDAHO VERSUS LORI NORENE VALLOW 1086 01:05:15,281 --> 01:05:35,802 >> Reporter: IT WAS JUDGMENT >>> Reporter: IT WAS NEVER GOING 1087 01:05:35,802 --> 01:05:40,540 TO BE ORDINARY, THE TRIAL OF LORI VALLOW. 1088 01:05:40,540 --> 01:05:45,311 EVEN HER PRETRIAL HEARINGS DREW HUGE THRONGS, AS SHE MANAGED FOR 1089 01:05:45,311 --> 01:05:49,516 THE CAMERAS TO DARKEN HER LIPS WITH RED CANDIES, AND SOMEHOW 1090 01:05:49,516 --> 01:05:53,219 MANAGED TO KEEP HER HAIR AT LEAST PARTLY BOTTLE-BLONDE 1091 01:05:53,219 --> 01:05:55,855 >> THIS CASE DEFIES DESCRIPTION. >> Reporter: EAST IDAHO NEWS 1092 01:05:55,855 --> 01:06:02,929 DIRECTOR NATE EATON COVERED THE TRIAL GAVEL TO GAVEL 1093 01:06:02,929 --> 01:06:05,331 >> WHEN YOU THINK IT CAN'T GET ANY CRAZIER, IT DOES 1094 01:06:05,331 --> 01:06:08,468 AND WHEN YOU THINK IT CAN'T BE ANY MORE -- UNBELIEVABLE, 1095 01:06:08,468 --> 01:06:11,638 SOMETHING NEW IS DROPPED >> Reporter: LORI AND CHAD ARE 1096 01:06:11,638 --> 01:06:15,342 BEING TRIED SEPARATELY LORI'S TRIAL BEGAN FIRST, 1097 01:06:15,342 --> 01:06:18,545 APRIL 2023 IT WAS THE JUDGE'S DECISION TO 1098 01:06:18,545 --> 01:06:21,214 EXCLUDE TELEVISION CAMERAS FROM THE COURTROOM DURING TRIAL 1099 01:06:21,214 --> 01:06:25,952 TO AVOID A CIRCUS? PERHAPS. 1100 01:06:25,952 --> 01:06:29,656 BUT IT DID NOT KEEP THE CROWDS AWAY, EAGER FOR A LOOK AT THE 1101 01:06:29,656 --> 01:06:32,292 WOMAN CHARGED WITH KILLING HER OWN CHILDREN AND ORCHESTRATING 1102 01:06:32,292 --> 01:06:34,928 THE MURDERS OF HER HUSBAND AND HER LOVER'S WIFE 1103 01:06:34,928 --> 01:06:37,130 >> THERE WERE PEOPLE FROM EVERYWHERE 1104 01:06:37,130 --> 01:06:40,233 AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AFRICA, ALL OF THE STATES 1105 01:06:40,233 --> 01:06:43,937 YOU HAD TO GET A TICKET AND THOSE TICKETS WERE GONE EVERY 1106 01:06:43,937 --> 01:06:47,073 DAY WITHIN ONE MINUTE. IT WAS LIKE A -- LIKE A 1107 01:06:47,073 --> 01:06:52,879 TAYLOR SWIFT CONCERT >> Reporter: IN COURT IT WAS 1108 01:06:52,879 --> 01:06:55,081 SOON APPARENT THAT THE PROSECUTION WOULD ALLEGE A BASE 1109 01:06:55,081 --> 01:06:58,184 AND VERY EARTHLY MOTIVE FOR MURDER 1110 01:06:58,184 --> 01:07:00,787 NOT RELIGION, NOT END-TIMES, OR ANGELS AND DEMONS OR DARK 1111 01:07:00,787 --> 01:07:06,860 SPIRITS AND ZOMBIES, BUT RATHER, THIS - 1112 01:07:06,860 --> 01:07:12,465 >> MONEY, POWER AND SEX. THAT'S WHAT THIS CASE IS ABOUT 1113 01:07:12,465 --> 01:07:14,601 >> Reporter: THE JUDGE DID ALLOW AUDIO RECORDING AND THIS IS 1114 01:07:14,601 --> 01:07:17,737 PROSECUTOR LINDSEY BLAKE >> IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT 1115 01:07:17,737 --> 01:07:24,444 OBSTACLES SHE HAD TO REMOVE TO GET WHAT SHE WANTED. 1116 01:07:24,444 --> 01:07:27,213 >> Reporter: THOSE OBSTACLES, SAID THE PROSECUTION, WERE THE 1117 01:07:27,213 --> 01:07:30,950 FOUR PEOPLE CLOSEST TO LORI AND CHAD -- TAMMY DAYBELL, 1118 01:07:30,950 --> 01:07:34,654 CHARLES VALLOW AND LORI'S CHILDREN, JJ AND TYLEE 1119 01:07:34,654 --> 01:07:37,290 PROSECUTORS WALKED JURORS STEP-BY-STEP THROUGH WHAT THEY 1120 01:07:37,290 --> 01:07:42,062 SAID WAS LORI AND CHAD'S CALCULATED PLAN. 1121 01:07:42,062 --> 01:07:44,130 FIRST, THEIR ROMANCE NOVEL LOVE AFFAIR THAT SET EVERYTHING IN 1122 01:07:44,130 --> 01:07:47,300 MOTION >> THIS RELATIONSHIP THAT'S 1123 01:07:47,300 --> 01:07:49,436 BUILT ON A BUNCH OF BIZARRE PRINCIPLES, BUT THEY BOTH SEEM 1124 01:07:49,436 --> 01:07:53,106 TO BE ALL IN ON IT >> Reporter: FROM THE VERY 1125 01:07:53,106 --> 01:07:56,876 BEGINNING. >> FROM THE VERY SECOND THEY MET 1126 01:07:56,876 --> 01:07:59,446 THAT FIRST WEEKEND FORWARD TILL TODAY. 1127 01:07:59,446 --> 01:08:02,615 >> Reporter: THEY PRESENTED PAGE AFTER PAGE OF LORI AND CHAD'S 1128 01:08:02,615 --> 01:08:07,354 TEXT MESSAGES TO EACH OTHER -- ABOUT THE CHILDREN, AND THE 1129 01:08:07,354 --> 01:08:12,092 SPOUSES, GOING DARK. THEY SHOWED THE JURY THAT TEXT, 1130 01:08:12,092 --> 01:08:15,295 LORI TO CHAD, IN WHICH SHE ADMITTED THEY "GOT RID OF" NED, 1131 01:08:15,295 --> 01:08:19,499 AKA THE EVIL SPIRIT THAT INHABITED HER HUSBAND CHARLES. 1132 01:08:19,499 --> 01:08:24,204 GOT RID OF HIM, BY USING LORI'S BROTHER ALEX, AS TRIGGERMAN. 1133 01:08:24,204 --> 01:08:29,042 USED ALEX FOR ALL THE MURDERS, SAID THE PROSECUTION 1134 01:08:29,042 --> 01:08:32,645 >> WE LEARNED THROUGH THIS TRIAL THAT ALEX WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR 1135 01:08:32,645 --> 01:08:35,815 LORI >> Reporter: THEY SHOWED THE 1136 01:08:35,815 --> 01:08:40,353 JURY HOW ALEX'S PHONE PUT HIM IN THE TIME AND PLACE WHERE THE 1137 01:08:40,353 --> 01:08:43,490 CHILDREN WERE KILLED, AND WHEN AND WHERE THEIR BODIES WERE 1138 01:08:43,490 --> 01:08:46,626 BURIED AND THE VERY NIGHT CHAD'S WIFE 1139 01:08:46,626 --> 01:08:49,562 TAMMY DIED SUPPOSEDLY OF NATURAL CAUSES 1140 01:08:49,562 --> 01:08:52,198 WHO WAS THERE? >> ALEX WAS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD 1141 01:08:52,198 --> 01:08:54,300 THAT NIGHT >> Reporter: LORI AND CHAD NOT 1142 01:08:54,300 --> 01:08:58,538 ONLY WANTED TO GET THESE INCONVENIENT PEOPLE OUT OF THE 1143 01:08:58,538 --> 01:09:02,742 WAY, THE PROSECUTOR SAID, THE PAIR ALSO NEEDED MONEY TO FUND 1144 01:09:02,742 --> 01:09:06,413 THEIR NEW LIFE TOGETHER. REMEMBER HOW LORI ATTEMPTED TO 1145 01:09:06,413 --> 01:09:12,919 CLAIM CHARLES VALLOW'S LIFE INSURANCE POLICY 1146 01:09:12,919 --> 01:09:15,922 WELL, THE JURY HEARD HOW CHAD DID THE SAME FOR TAMMY AT THE 1147 01:09:15,922 --> 01:09:19,092 SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE SHE WORKED, A MERE TWO DAYS AFTER 1148 01:09:19,092 --> 01:09:22,262 HER DEATH. >> IN ALL THE HISTORY OF THE 1149 01:09:22,262 --> 01:09:24,898 DISTRICT THEY NEVER HAD SOMEBODY COME IN SO QUICK TO FIND OUT HOW 1150 01:09:24,898 --> 01:09:28,468 TO CLAIM THE LIFE INSURANCE MONEY. 1151 01:09:28,468 --> 01:09:31,237 CHAD AND LORI ENDED UP GETTING $430,000 1152 01:09:31,237 --> 01:09:34,407 >> Reporter: LORI WAS EVEN CASHING IN ON HER DEAD CHILDREN 1153 01:09:34,407 --> 01:09:37,577 BY COLLECTING THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS, SOMETHING THE 1154 01:09:37,577 --> 01:09:42,682 PROSECUTION SUGGESTED SHE PLANNED AHEAD OF TIME. 1155 01:09:42,682 --> 01:09:46,052 >> BEFORE JJ AND TYLEE DIED, LORI CHANGED BANK ACCOUNT 1156 01:09:46,052 --> 01:09:49,689 INFORMATION. THE DEPOSITS THAT WERE GOING 1157 01:09:49,689 --> 01:09:52,859 INTO TYLEE'S ACCOUNT WERE SUDDENLY DIVERTED TO LORI'S 1158 01:09:52,859 --> 01:09:56,563 ACCOUNT. >> SO JJ WOULD BE WHERE? 1159 01:09:56,563 --> 01:09:58,665 >> HE'S IN ARIZONA >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS ALSO 1160 01:09:58,665 --> 01:10:01,868 PLAYED THAT RECORDING OF LORI TALKING TO POLICE, LYING ABOUT 1161 01:10:01,868 --> 01:10:04,504 JJ'S WHEREABOUTS >> WHO IS HE WITH IN ARIZONA 1162 01:10:04,504 --> 01:10:07,674 >> HE'S WITH ONE OF MY FRIENDS IN ARIZONA 1163 01:10:07,674 --> 01:10:10,310 >> Reporter: THAT FRIEND WAS MELANIE GIBB 1164 01:10:10,310 --> 01:10:13,480 THE ONE WHO STAYED WITH LORI RIGHT AROUND THE TIME JJ 1165 01:10:13,480 --> 01:10:16,082 DISAPPEARED. PROSECUTORS PLAYED A PHONE CALL 1166 01:10:16,082 --> 01:10:19,786 MELANIE SECRETLY RECORDED WITH LORI 1167 01:10:19,786 --> 01:10:22,422 >> IF YOU REALLY LOVED ME, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TOLD THE POLICE 1168 01:10:22,422 --> 01:10:25,058 THAT I HAD JJ WITH ME. THAT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD 1169 01:10:25,058 --> 01:10:27,694 I MEAN, YOU HAD TO THINK OF MY WELFARE IF YOU LOVE ME 1170 01:10:27,694 --> 01:10:30,296 >> I DO. AND I DID EXACTLY WHAT I FELT 1171 01:10:30,296 --> 01:10:32,432 THE LORD WAS INSTRUCTING ME TO DO 1172 01:10:32,432 --> 01:10:35,435 >> Reporter: THE LORD? NO 1173 01:10:35,435 --> 01:10:38,271 GREED AND LUST, PROSECUTORS ARGUED, MOTIVATED LORI 1174 01:10:38,271 --> 01:10:40,373 AND THEN A WOMAN NAMED AUDREY BARATTEIRO TOOK THE 1175 01:10:40,373 --> 01:10:43,843 STAND. SHE HAD ONCE BEEN PART OF LORI 1176 01:10:43,843 --> 01:10:46,713 AND CHAD'S INNER CIRCLE AND SHE TOLD THE JURY WHAT HAPPENED WHEN 1177 01:10:46,713 --> 01:10:49,315 SHE ENDED HER FRIENDSHIP WITH LORI 1178 01:10:49,315 --> 01:10:53,053 >> SHE THREATENED TO KILL ME >> THIS TESTIMONY, THIS 1179 01:10:53,053 --> 01:10:55,655 EXPERIENCE, HAS NEVER BEEN REVEALED 1180 01:10:55,655 --> 01:10:59,325 >> SHE SAID THAT SHE WOULD CUT ME UP. 1181 01:10:59,325 --> 01:11:03,563 BUT THAT SHE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO BECAUSE IT'D BE SO MESSY, AND 1182 01:11:03,563 --> 01:11:08,301 THERE'D BE SO -- SO MUCH BLOOD AND THEN -- THEN BLEACH. 1183 01:11:08,301 --> 01:11:11,438 >> LORI LEANED FORWARD ON THE TABLE AND STARED AT AUDREY 1184 01:11:11,438 --> 01:11:14,607 SHE LOOKED OVER TO HER ATTORNEY AND SAID, "I NEVER SAID THAT." 1185 01:11:14,607 --> 01:11:18,278 >> Reporter: WHAT IMPORTANCE DID THAT HAVE FOR THE PROSECUTION? 1186 01:11:18,278 --> 01:11:21,448 >> THE PROSECUTION, I THINK, WANTED THE JURORS TO HEAR THAT 1187 01:11:21,448 --> 01:11:23,583 LORI WAS NOT ABOVE KILLING ANYONE 1188 01:11:23,583 --> 01:11:26,720 >> Reporter: THAT INCLUDED BRANDON BOUDREAUX, THE 1189 01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,923 EX-HUSBAND OF LORI'S NIECE MELANI 1190 01:11:29,923 --> 01:11:33,093 HE TESTIFIED FOR THE PROSECUTION ABOUT THAT ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE, 1191 01:11:33,093 --> 01:11:41,001 WHICH HE BELIEVED WAS ORCHESTRATED BY CHAD AND LORI. 1192 01:11:41,001 --> 01:11:43,103 >> AFTER MY SHOOTING, I, UM, STARTED TO HAVE MY BELIEFS ABOUT 1193 01:11:43,103 --> 01:11:46,773 WHO I THOUGHT DID IT, AND I GOT CONCERNED ABOUT, UM, THE 1194 01:11:46,773 --> 01:11:49,409 SITUATION. >> Reporter: ONE AFTER THE OTHER 1195 01:11:49,409 --> 01:11:53,113 THEY APPEARED. PEOPLE WHO ONCE PROFESSED TO 1196 01:11:53,113 --> 01:11:55,749 LOVE LORI, NOW HAD PAINFUL STORIES TO TELL. 1197 01:11:55,749 --> 01:12:00,053 LIKE LORI'S YOUNGER SISTER SUMMER 1198 01:12:00,053 --> 01:12:02,622 >> HERE'S TWO SISTERS WHO WERE REALLY CLOSE GROWING UP AND 1199 01:12:02,622 --> 01:12:05,258 ONE'S TESTIFYING AT THE OTHER ONE'S MURDER TRIAL 1200 01:12:05,258 --> 01:12:10,063 >> I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART. IT KILLS ME. 1201 01:12:10,063 --> 01:12:13,166 >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS PLAYED THIS PHONE CALL, SUMMER TO LORI 1202 01:12:13,166 --> 01:12:16,336 IN PRISON, SHORTLY AFTER THE CHILDREN'S BODIES WERE 1203 01:12:16,336 --> 01:12:19,506 DISCOVERED >> IS THERE ANOTHER EXPLANATION? 1204 01:12:19,506 --> 01:12:23,209 I'M WILLING TO HEAR IT I DON'T WANT TO THINK IT 1205 01:12:23,209 --> 01:12:26,379 >> ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY, BUT I CAN'T TALK 1206 01:12:26,379 --> 01:12:29,115 ABOUT IT >> YOU DIDN'T -- YOU WENT OFF TO 1207 01:12:29,115 --> 01:12:32,686 HAWAII AND WERE DANCING ON THE BEACH WHILE YOUR KIDS WERE IN 1208 01:12:32,686 --> 01:12:35,321 THE GROUND >> WHEN I HEARD IT, IT WAS, OH, 1209 01:12:35,321 --> 01:12:38,525 A GUT PUNCH. >> THERE IS NOTHING IN THE 1210 01:12:38,525 --> 01:12:42,729 SCRIPTURES THAT IS GODLY ABOUT HURTING A CHILD. 1211 01:12:42,729 --> 01:12:45,365 NOTHING! >> SUMMER IS GOING THROUGH EVERY 1212 01:12:45,365 --> 01:12:49,102 STAGE OF GRIEF SHE'S FURIOUS AT LORI. 1213 01:12:49,102 --> 01:12:54,841 SHE'S HEARTBROKEN THAT THE CHILDREN ARE GONE. 1214 01:12:54,841 --> 01:12:58,545 >> NOBODY KNOWS WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH WITH MY CHILDREN THAT I 1215 01:12:58,545 --> 01:13:01,214 LOVE MORE THAN ANYTHING. >> LORI, YOU WERE DANCING ON A 1216 01:13:01,214 --> 01:13:05,051 BEACH WITH A SMILE ON YOUR FACE, TAKING WEDDING PHOTOS. 1217 01:13:05,051 --> 01:13:08,054 >> YEAH, MONTHS LATER. >> YOU DON'T THINK - 1218 01:13:08,054 --> 01:13:11,224 >> TRYING TO GO ON WITH LIFE TRYING TO BE HAPPY, TRYING TO 1219 01:13:11,224 --> 01:13:15,962 FIND SOME KIND OF HAPPINESS. YOU THINK I WANT TO BE ALONE 1220 01:13:15,962 --> 01:13:20,700 >> Reporter: AND THEN THERE WAS LORI'S ONLY LIVING CHILD, COLBY. 1221 01:13:20,700 --> 01:13:24,371 ONCE THEY WERE AS CLOSE AS TWO PEOPLE COULD BE -- NOW 1222 01:13:24,371 --> 01:13:27,073 >> HE WALKED INTO THE COURTROOM. LORI LEANED OVER TO HER 1223 01:13:27,073 --> 01:13:30,276 ATTORNEY'S AND SAID, "THAT'S MY BABY," AND HE TOOK THE STAND, 1224 01:13:30,276 --> 01:13:32,312 AND HE WOULDN'T EVEN LOOK AT HER. 1225 01:13:32,312 --> 01:13:34,948 >> MOM, YOU'VE BEEN SHOVING B.S. DOWN MY THROAT FOR A VERY 1226 01:13:34,948 --> 01:13:38,852 LONG TIME. >> Reporter: THIS IS COLBY, ALL 1227 01:13:38,852 --> 01:13:44,424 GROWN UP NOW, IN THIS JAILHOUSE CALL CONFRONTING HIS MOTHER. 1228 01:13:44,424 --> 01:13:48,128 >> PURE BLASPHEMY. [ LAUGHS ] 1229 01:13:48,128 --> 01:13:51,297 >> THIS IS FUNNY YOU'RE LAUGHING? 1230 01:13:51,297 --> 01:13:55,001 >> YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. >> WHY 1231 01:13:55,001 --> 01:13:58,171 WHY DON'T I KNOW, MOM? OH, BECAUSE I WAS KEPT IN THE 1232 01:13:58,171 --> 01:14:00,273 DARK TO PROTECT ME YOU KNOW WHO NEEDED PROTECTING 1233 01:14:00,273 --> 01:14:02,909 MY LITTLE DEAD SIBLINGS. THAT'S WHO NEEDED PROTECTING, 1234 01:14:02,909 --> 01:14:06,079 MOM. >> Reporter: IN THAT SAME CALL, 1235 01:14:06,079 --> 01:14:08,715 HERE'S WHAT LORI HAD TO SAY ABOUT TYLEE AND JJ 1236 01:14:08,715 --> 01:14:10,817 >> THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED 1237 01:14:10,817 --> 01:14:14,521 AND THEY LOVE ME AND WE'RE STILL TOGETHER 1238 01:14:14,521 --> 01:14:17,691 FOREVER. THEY LOVE ME, AND THEY ARE FINE. 1239 01:14:17,691 --> 01:14:21,895 AND THEY DO KNOW THE TRUTH AND I KNOW THE TRUTH 1240 01:14:21,895 --> 01:14:26,666 >> Reporter: THE TRUTH WHAT IS THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO 1241 01:14:26,666 --> 01:14:29,135 LORI VALLOW? AS THE TRIAL PROGRESSED, LORI 1242 01:14:29,135 --> 01:14:31,938 KEPT EVERYONE GUESSING, EVEN HER OWN LAWYERS. 1243 01:14:31,938 --> 01:14:35,442 WOULD SHE TESTIFY? WOULD SHE ANSWER TO ANY OF IT? 1244 01:14:35,442 --> 01:14:56,730 >> EVERYONE WALKS IN THE COURTROOM, "WHAT'S IT GONNA BE 1245 01:14:56,730 --> 01:14:58,098 >>> Reporter: THE TRIAL OF LORI VALLOW WAS A CATALOGUE OF 1246 01:14:58,098 --> 01:15:02,602 AWFUL MOMENTS THAT SHOCKED EVEN THE MOST HARDENED. 1247 01:15:02,602 --> 01:15:07,907 TO THE PROSECUTION, IT WAS A TALE OF GREED AND LUST -- FOR 1248 01:15:07,907 --> 01:15:12,145 EACH OTHER, FOR POWER, ALL WRAPPED UP IN INVENTED ZEALOTRY. 1249 01:15:12,145 --> 01:15:14,247 >> Reporter: YOU BEGAN TO DOUBT THE SINCERITY OF THIS RELIGIOUS, 1250 01:15:14,247 --> 01:15:17,951 FERVOR OF THEIRS >> YES 1251 01:15:17,951 --> 01:15:26,359 YES. I DON'T KNOW OF ANY RELIGI 1252 01:15:26,359 --> 01:15:31,097 THAT SAYS YOU CAN KILL PEOPLE -- AND NOT JUST KILL THEM, BUT BURY 1253 01:15:31,097 --> 01:15:34,801 THEM IN THE YARD LIKE ANIMALS. >> Reporter: WHAT THE JURY HEARD 1254 01:15:34,801 --> 01:15:39,072 ABOUT LORI AND CHAD AND ALEX WAS OFTEN REPULSIVE, BUT IT WAS ALL 1255 01:15:39,072 --> 01:15:44,310 CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE UNTIL THEY GOT TO THE FORENSICS. 1256 01:15:44,310 --> 01:15:46,680 A PHALANX OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS, INVESTIGATORS, AND PATHOLOGISTS 1257 01:15:46,680 --> 01:15:51,084 CAME TO COURT TO EXPLAIN THE TERRIBLE DETAILS 1258 01:15:51,084 --> 01:15:54,320 TAMMY'S BODY HAD BEEN EXHUMED DURING THE INVESTIGATION 1259 01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:58,591 BRUISES STILL VISIBLE. NOW MEDICAL EXAMINER 1260 01:15:58,591 --> 01:16:04,397 DR. ERIK CHRISTENSEN TESTIFIED THAT SHE HAD NOT DIED FROM SOME 1261 01:16:04,397 --> 01:16:07,567 MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS IN HER SLEEP. >> THEY ARE CERTAINLY CONSISTENT 1262 01:16:07,567 --> 01:16:12,906 WITH, UH, SOMEONE BEING RESTRAINED 1263 01:16:12,906 --> 01:16:16,042 UM, AND, UH, WOULD BE, UH, YOU KNOW, CONSISTENT WITH ASPHYXIA 1264 01:16:16,042 --> 01:16:19,646 AS A -- AS A CAUSE OF DEATH. >> SHE HAD MARKINGS ON HER UPPER 1265 01:16:19,646 --> 01:16:22,182 ARMS THAT WERE CONSISTENT WITH SOMEONE TO HOLDING HER DOWN. 1266 01:16:22,182 --> 01:16:26,619 SOME BRUISES >> Reporter: KNEELING ON EITHER 1267 01:16:26,619 --> 01:16:31,057 SIDE OF HER AND THEN CHOKING HER. 1268 01:16:31,057 --> 01:16:34,160 >> CORRECT, YEAH, OR SMOTHERING HER OR SOMETHING 1269 01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:36,796 >> Reporter: WAS IT CHAD ALEX 1270 01:16:36,796 --> 01:16:39,966 LORI WHO KILLED HER 1271 01:16:39,966 --> 01:16:45,271 THE PROSECUTOR DID NOT SAY, BUT MAYBE THEY DID NOT HAVE TO 1272 01:16:45,271 --> 01:16:47,907 LORI WAS CHARGED ONLY WITH CONSPIRACY IN TAMMY'S DEATH. 1273 01:16:47,907 --> 01:16:50,076 THEN -- THE CHILDREN LAW ENFORCEMENT DETAILED THE 1274 01:16:50,076 --> 01:16:54,214 STATE IN WHICH THEY FOUND JJ AND TYLEE. 1275 01:16:54,214 --> 01:16:56,850 TYLEE'S BODY, BURNED AND MUTILATED BEYOND RECOGNITION 1276 01:16:56,850 --> 01:17:00,553 IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE CAUSE OF DEATH. 1277 01:17:00,553 --> 01:17:05,325 JJ WAS STILL DRESSED IN HIS RED PAJAMAS. 1278 01:17:05,325 --> 01:17:08,528 HIS HEAD WRAPPED IN PLASTIC, DUCT TAPE COVERED HIS MOUTH. 1279 01:17:08,528 --> 01:17:12,165 A PATHOLOGIST EXPLAINED HOW HE DIED 1280 01:17:12,165 --> 01:17:14,834 >> HAVE YOU FORMED AN EXPERT OPINION CONCERNING THE CAUSE OF 1281 01:17:14,834 --> 01:17:21,141 DEATH OF JJ VALLOW >> I HAVE. 1282 01:17:21,141 --> 01:17:24,844 >> WHAT WAS THAT >> I DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF 1283 01:17:24,844 --> 01:17:28,548 DEATH TO BE ASPHYXIA BY PLASTIC BAG OVER THE HEAD, AND DUCT TAPE 1284 01:17:28,548 --> 01:17:32,786 COVERING THE MOUTH >> Reporter: THIS GRUESOME 1285 01:17:32,786 --> 01:17:37,557 TESTIMONY WAS ACCOMPANIED BY CRIME SCENE AND AUTOPSY PHOTOS 1286 01:17:37,557 --> 01:17:41,761 AT LEAST ONE JUROR WEPT. LORI VALLOW? 1287 01:17:41,761 --> 01:17:44,531 TRIED TO AVOID THOSE PHOTOS. EVEN ASKED TO BE EXCUSED FROM 1288 01:17:44,531 --> 01:17:47,534 THE COURTROOM THAT DAY AND THE PROSECUTION FOUGHT THAT 1289 01:17:47,534 --> 01:17:50,704 VEHEMENTLY THEY SAID, "THIS IS HER TRIAL. 1290 01:17:50,704 --> 01:17:52,839 IF THE JURY HAS TO SEE THESE PHOTOS, SHE SHOULD HAVE TO SEE 1291 01:17:52,839 --> 01:17:56,076 THESE PHOTOS." AND THE JUDGE AGREED 1292 01:17:56,076 --> 01:17:58,611 AND SO, SHE HAD TO STAY THERE, AND DURING THAT PORTION, SHE WAS 1293 01:17:58,611 --> 01:18:01,281 WIPING HER EYES. SHE APPEARED VERY UPSET. 1294 01:18:01,281 --> 01:18:04,918 AND SHE LOOKED DOWN THE ENTIRE TIME 1295 01:18:04,918 --> 01:18:08,655 ALL OF THE THIS WAS TOO MUCH FOR JJ'S GRANDFATHER, 1296 01:18:08,655 --> 01:18:11,825 LARRY WOODCOCK, WHO CAME TO COURT THROUGHOUT THE TRIAL 1297 01:18:11,825 --> 01:18:17,097 >> I DON'T THINK I'LL EVER FORGET HEARING LARRY WOODCOCK 1298 01:18:17,097 --> 01:18:22,369 SOBBING AS WE SEE A PHOTO OF JJ VALLOW ON THE SCREEN. 1299 01:18:22,369 --> 01:18:27,140 IT WAS GUT-WRENCHING >> Reporter: NONE OF THAT 1300 01:18:27,140 --> 01:18:31,344 PHYSICALLY TIED LORI VALLOW TO THE KILLING UNTIL WEEKS INTO THE 1301 01:18:31,344 --> 01:18:35,615 TRIAL. THEY CALL THIS DNA EXPERT. 1302 01:18:35,615 --> 01:18:38,251 AND THE PROSECUTION SAYS - >> SO YOU FOUND A HAIR ON THE 1303 01:18:38,251 --> 01:18:41,421 DUCT TAPE? >> WE DID. 1304 01:18:41,421 --> 01:18:44,591 >> YOU TESTED IT WHAT DID YOU FIND? 1305 01:18:44,591 --> 01:18:48,261 >> I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE ALEX COX OR JJ VALLOW'S HAIR 1306 01:18:48,261 --> 01:18:51,431 >> Reporter: THE PARTIAL DNA PROFILE MATCHED THE DNA PROFILE 1307 01:18:51,431 --> 01:18:54,067 THAT WAS PROVIDED FOR LORI VALLOW DAYBELL. 1308 01:18:54,067 --> 01:18:57,537 THAT SEEMS TO ME WAS ABOUT THE ONLY PIECE OF FORENSIC EVIDENCE 1309 01:18:57,537 --> 01:19:00,407 THAT TIED HER DIRECTLY TO KILLING PEOPLE 1310 01:19:00,407 --> 01:19:04,878 >> YEAH, IT WAS THE ONLY PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT WE HEARD IN THE 1311 01:19:04,878 --> 01:19:06,212 TRIAL THAT TIED LORI VALLOW DIRECTLY TO THE DEATHS OF HER 1312 01:19:06,212 --> 01:19:08,848 CHILDREN THERE WAS A WHOLE LOT OF 1313 01:19:08,848 --> 01:19:13,620 CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. WHOLE LOT OF TEXT MESSAGES 1314 01:19:13,620 --> 01:19:15,221 A WHOLE LOT OF BACK AND FORTH, BUT AS FAR AS THE ACTUAL DEAD 1315 01:19:15,221 --> 01:19:19,426 BODIES IN HIS BACKYARD, IT WAS THAT ONE HAIR. 1316 01:19:19,426 --> 01:19:25,231 >> Reporter: WHEN IT WAS THE DEFENSE'S TURN TO PRESENT THEIR 1317 01:19:25,231 --> 01:19:27,334 CASE, CALL A WITNESS OR TWO, SOMETHING, ANYTHING, THE 1318 01:19:27,334 --> 01:19:30,670 ATTORNEYS ASKED FOR A FEW MOMENTS TO SPEAK WITH THEIR 1319 01:19:30,670 --> 01:19:32,605 CLIENT >> THAT WAS THE MOMENT 1320 01:19:32,605 --> 01:19:35,241 "IS LORI GONNA TAKE THE STAND? THE COURTROOM IS CLEARED 1321 01:19:35,241 --> 01:19:38,945 THEY HAD A PRIVATE CONVERSATION FOR PROBABLY 20 TO 30 MINUTES. 1322 01:19:38,945 --> 01:19:42,115 EVERYONE WALKS IN THE COURTROOM. "WHAT'S IT GONNA BE? 1323 01:19:42,115 --> 01:19:45,952 WHAT'S IT GONNA BE?" THE DEFENSE STANDS UP AND DOES 1324 01:19:45,952 --> 01:19:48,955 NOT SAY, "LORI WILL NOW TAKE THE STAND." 1325 01:19:48,955 --> 01:19:52,892 INSTEAD THEY SAY, "WE DO NOT BELIEVE THE PROSECUTION HAS 1326 01:19:52,892 --> 01:19:55,295 PROVEN THIS CASE AND WE REST OUR CASE." 1327 01:19:55,295 --> 01:20:00,600 >> Reporter: WHAT WAS HER DEFENSE TEAM THINKING? 1328 01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:04,838 >> LORI PROBABLY COULD HAVE HAD A PRETTY STRONG DEFENSE, AND 1329 01:20:04,838 --> 01:20:09,576 BLAMED EVERYTHING ON CHAD. SHE COULD HAVE SAID THAT, "HE 1330 01:20:09,576 --> 01:20:13,513 TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME, AND I WAS IN A BAD PLACE MENTALLY. 1331 01:20:13,513 --> 01:20:15,348 AND HE ENCOURAGED ME TO -- TO GO DOWN THIS ROUTE. 1332 01:20:15,348 --> 01:20:18,518 >> Reporter: THE DECISION NOT TO DO THAT HAD BEEN LORI'S. 1333 01:20:18,518 --> 01:20:22,222 SHE WAS IN CHARGE. >> SHE TOLD HER ATTORNEYS WHAT 1334 01:20:22,222 --> 01:20:25,892 TO DO. SHE SAID, "I DO NOT WANT YOU 1335 01:20:25,892 --> 01:20:29,596 GOING AFTER CHAD OR ALEX." >> Reporter: BUT AT THE 11th 1336 01:20:29,596 --> 01:20:34,367 HOUR, IN CLOSING ARGUMENTS, LORI'S ATTORNEYS MADE A U-TURN 1337 01:20:34,367 --> 01:20:39,272 >> NO ONE HERE THINKS LORI ACTUALLY KILLED ANYONE 1338 01:20:39,272 --> 01:20:43,309 THEY BLAMED CHAD AFTER ALL SAID LORI WAS JUST NAIVE 1339 01:20:43,309 --> 01:20:46,479 NOT A KILLER SHE'S NOT LEADING ANYONE 1340 01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:52,285 SHE'S FOLLOWING CHAD SHE THINKS CHAD IS FOLLOWING 1341 01:20:52,285 --> 01:20:55,522 JESUS, BUT HE'S NOT. >> Reporter: INSIDE THE 1342 01:20:55,522 --> 01:20:58,591 COURTROOM, LORI GREW VISIBLY UPSET. 1343 01:20:58,591 --> 01:21:01,761 CRYING, WIPING TEARS SOURCES CONFIRMING SHE WAS 1344 01:21:01,761 --> 01:21:04,931 FURIOUS THAT HER ATTORNEY WENT AFTER CHAD 1345 01:21:04,931 --> 01:21:07,600 >> SHE IS STILL MADLY IN LOVE WITH CHAD. 1346 01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:11,838 >> Reporter: AND THEN, IT WAS THE JURY'S CASE. 1347 01:21:11,838 --> 01:21:15,508 >> WE KNOW WE'LL GET A JUST VERDICT. 1348 01:21:15,508 --> 01:21:18,678 A RIGHTEOUS VERDICT. AND THAT'S ALL WE HAVE EVER 1349 01:21:18,678 --> 01:21:23,950 ASKED FOR IN THIS. >> Reporter: FOR SEVEN HOURS 1350 01:21:23,950 --> 01:21:26,619 THEY DELIBERATED AND THEN JUST BEFORE NOON TODAY, 1351 01:21:26,619 --> 01:21:29,756 ANNOUNCED THEY WERE READY. >> ALL RISE PLEASE 1352 01:21:29,756 --> 01:21:35,095 >> Reporter: THE JUDGE LIVE-STREAMED THE MOMENT 1353 01:21:35,095 --> 01:21:39,232 LORI, APPEARING ALMOST SERENE, WAITED 1354 01:21:39,232 --> 01:21:47,707 EVEN AS HER FATE WAS READ ALOUD. GUILTY 1355 01:21:47,707 --> 01:21:49,809 GUILTY OF 1ST DEGREE MURDER OF HER CHILDREN TYLEE AND JJ. 1356 01:21:49,809 --> 01:21:52,779 >> AND GUILTY OF CONSPIRING TO MURDER CHAD'S WIFE 1357 01:21:52,779 --> 01:21:55,615 TAMMY DAYBELL. >> Reporter: FOR HER CRIMES, 1358 01:21:55,615 --> 01:21:57,751 LORI VALLOW FACES A POTENTIAL LIFE SENTENCE. 1359 01:21:57,751 --> 01:22:01,955 AND IF BODY LANGUAGE COULD SPEAK, SHE CROSSED HER ARMS AS 1360 01:22:01,955 --> 01:22:08,828 THE JURY LEFT THE ROOM AND CAST A SHARP LOOK AT HER ATTORNEYS AS 1361 01:22:08,828 --> 01:22:15,969 SHE WAS LED AWAY >> Reporter: OUTSIDE THE 1362 01:22:15,969 --> 01:22:20,407 COURTHOUSE, KAY AND LARRY, WHOSE FEARS FOR THAT LITTLE BOY HAD 1363 01:22:20,407 --> 01:22:24,744 STARTED IT ALL, THE INVESTIGATION, SEARCHES, 1364 01:22:24,744 --> 01:22:27,380 REVELATIONS, CELEBRATED. >> Reporter: A SAD, STILL 1365 01:22:27,380 --> 01:22:30,417 HEARTBROKEN, CELEBRATION >> JJ I LOVE YOU 1366 01:22:30,417 --> 01:22:34,254 TYLEE, PAPA LOVES YOU. TAMMY, I AM SORRY FOR WHAT 1367 01:22:34,254 --> 01:22:41,594 HAPPENED TO YOU. MY HEART HURTS 1368 01:22:41,594 --> 01:22:47,400 MY HEART HURTS FOR THESE THREE THIS IS WHAT THIS HAS BEEN ALL 1369 01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:53,206 ABOUT FROM THE VERY GET GO IT STARTED WITH TWO CHILDREN 1370 01:22:53,206 --> 01:22:57,444 MISSING, AND I STOOD UP AND I SAID WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN? 1371 01:22:57,444 --> 01:23:02,749 WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN 1372 01:23:02,749 --> 01:23:07,520 >> Reporter: BUT, IS IT OVER NO, IT ISN'T OVER. 1373 01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:10,657 IT'S FAR FROM OVER IT'S EXPECTED CHAD DAYBELL WILL 1374 01:23:10,657 --> 01:23:14,361 BE TRIED NEXT YEAR HE'S CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF 1375 01:23:14,361 --> 01:23:18,598 THE CHILDREN AND HIS WIFE TAMMY. HE'S PLEADED NOT GUILTY. 1376 01:23:18,598 --> 01:23:22,302 AND MORE CHARGES ARE WAITING FOR LORI 1377 01:23:22,302 --> 01:23:26,473 IN ARIZONA, FOR CONSPIRACY IN THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND 1378 01:23:26,473 --> 01:23:30,710 CHARLES. SHE HAS TOLD THOSE AROUND HER 1379 01:23:30,710 --> 01:23:36,516 SHE BELIEVES JESUS WILL COME AND RESCUE HER FROM ALL THIS 1380 01:23:36,516 --> 01:23:40,754 SHE, THE GODDESS WITH THE POWER TO CHOOSE DEATH FOR OTHERS, IS 1381 01:23:40,754 --> 01:23:47,093 GOING TO PRISON, ALMOST CERTAINLY FOR THE REST OF HER 1382 01:23:47,093 --> 01:23:50,230 VERY HUMAN DAYS. >> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION 1383 01:23:50,230 --> 01:23:53,366 OF "DATELINE." WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN SUNDAY AT 1384 01:23:53,366 --> 01:23:55,502 7:00/6:00 CENTRAL, AND OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU EACH 1385 01:23:55,502 --> 01:23:58,672 WEEKNIGHT FOR 'NBC NIGHTLY NEWS." 1386 01:23:58,672 --> 01:23:58,672 NEWS." 1387 01:23:58,672 --> 01:23:58,672 I'M LESTER HOLT.