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Date: July 30, 2021 03:01PM
https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/new-records-detail-woman-accused-of-killing-2-kids-2-adults-over-doomsday-mormon-beliefs?
“New records detail woman accused of killing 2 kids, 2 adults over doomsday Mormon beliefs
PHOENIX (AP) — In the months after her husband's death, Lori Vallow Daybell aroused suspicions among relatives who told investigators that she believed a demon had overcome her estranged spouse.
They also worried about the whereabouts of the couple's 7-year-old son, and even the boy's school in Arizona relayed a lie Daybell told that raised red flags: that his father had died from suicide. In reality, he had been shot and killed by her brother, according to newly released police documents.
The 2019 shooting death of Charles Vallow is one of four killings that Daybell is charged with conspiring to commit in a bizarre and complicated case spanning several states and tied to her and a new husband's doomsday beliefs. A friend has previously told police that Daybell remarked that her children had become "zombies" because dark spirits had taken over their bodies and that she believed the only way to rid a person of a dark spirit was by killing them.
Daybell and her new husband, Chad Daybell, have been charged in Idaho with conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of those children, 7-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan. They were missing for several months — when police say the couple lied about the children's whereabouts and then slipped away to Hawaii — before their bodies were found buried on Chad Daybell's property in rural Idaho.
Both Chad and Lori Daybell are members of Utah-based The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but Chad's bizarre beliefs, which Lori subscribed to, are not taught in any official capacity by the Mormon Church.
The couple faces the same charge in the death of his previous wife, Tammy Daybell, having raised suspicions after he and Lori married two weeks later. Prosecutors have declined to charge Chad Daybell in Vallow's death, saying there was no likelihood of winning a conviction.
Police provided The Associated Press with more than 2,500 pages of documents from the investigation into Vallow's death in response to a public records request, and they offer new details about the case.“