State of Idaho Plaintiff versus Lori Norene Vallow,
AKA Lori Norene Daybell, Defendant, count one,
conspiracy to commit first-degree murder
and grand theft by deception; count two, first-degree murder;
count three, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder
and grand theft by deception; count
four, first-degree murder; count five, conspiracy
to commit first-degree murder.
The crimes are unimaginable.
Lori Vallow Daybell stood trial for the murder
of her own children, 16-year-old Tylee and seven-year-old JJ.
She was also accused of killing Tammy Daybell, the wife
of her current husband, Chad.
The judge in the case did not allow cameras in the Idaho
courtroom during testimony, but we have audio and transcripts
of the proceedings.
Here was prosecutor Lindsey Blake.
"Money, power, and sex.
That's what this case is about."
"It didn't matter what obstacle she
had to remove to get what she wanted,"
"and if it was a person, it didn't matter who."
Lori was a beauty contestant.
Anybody you spoke to who knew Lori back
then said that she was like the mother of the year.
The problem really seems to have started when Lori
started following Chad Daybell.
Chad was a podcaster and author of doomsday novels.
Then, in late 2019, Lori's two children
mysteriously disappeared.
Meantime, Lori and Chad are on the beach in Hawaii
having the time of their lives.
They get married, and they wouldn't talk to police at all,
and they wouldn't tell anybody where the kids were.
Even after Lori was arrested, she still
refused to say anything about where the kids were.
How come you're not telling anybody where your kids are?
People looked all over the country for these kids.
Months after vanishing into thin air, the remains of JJ Vallow
and Tylee Ryan were found buried here,
in Chad Daybell's backyard.
What we have gathered was that Chad had this belief
that some people who were on this Earth
weren't really the people they were supposed to be.
They were zombies, and the only way to release their spirits
was to kill the bodies.
And if that's not disturbing enough,
Lori started referring to her children as zombies.
She had this grading system where
she could read people's auras, and they
were either dark or light.
And she had described Tylee as having a dark spirit.
I feel like she's kind of a monster.
But Defense Attorney Jim Archibald
claimed there was no way for Lori
to have committed the crimes.
"Lori Vallow was in her own apartment in Rexburg, Idaho
when JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan died."
"And Lori was in Hawaii when Tammy Daybell died."
I've thought a lot about why this story hits such a chord
with a wide variety of people, and I
think it's because these kids.
And then when you throw in the cult aspect of this--
we've certainly seen movies with all of this,
but I'm not sure we've ever seen anything like this
in real life, in true crime.
In regards to count one of the amended indictment
answer, guilty, count two, guilty, count three, guilty,
count four, guilty, count five, guilty, count seven, guilty.
Can you tell me where your kids are?
Did you do something to your children?
Where are your children?
Welcome back, Lori.
Where are your kids?
Anything you want to say, Lori?
Lori?
Beginning in 2019, Lori Vallow Daybell
spent months denying her missing children were in danger.
Many, including her sister, Summer Shiflet,
believed her at the time.
Something's not adding up here.
Where are they?
Where is JJ and Tylee?
That's a great question.
We would love to know the answer to that.
We don't know, but we are very confident that Lori would never
harm her children, ever.
But during four weeks of testimony, the prosecution
chipped away at the facade of the former beauty contestant
until it exposed Lori Vallow Daybell for the person
it claimed she really was.
Prosecutors have painted a picture of somebody
who was ruthless--
Morgan Loew is an Investigative Reporter and CBS News
Consultant.
--somebody who would do anything to get what she wants.
According to the prosecution, Lori was a master puppeteer,
pulling the strings in a heinous murder
plot that left three innocent people dead,
her 16-year-old daughter, Tylee Ryan, her seven-year-old son,
JJ Vallow, and Tammy Daybell, Chad Daybell's wife of almost
30 years.
It didn't matter what obstacles she had to remove
to get what she wanted.
48 Hours has been following the twisted saga
of the so-called Cult Mom and her paramour,
Chad Daybell, since the story broke in 2019,
months before the remains of her two children
were discovered in shallow graves
in Chad Daybell's backyard.
When we started, it was almost inconceivable to friends
like April Raymond that she would harm her children.
She did everything for JJ, everything for Tylee.
They were the center of her world,
and so I'm not sure what hijacked that priority.
April met Lori in 2015 in Hawaii.
At the time, Lori was married to Businessman Charles Vallow.
The couple were raising two children, Tylee,
Lori's teenage daughter from a former marriage,
and their adopted son, JJ, who was diagnosed with autism.
JJ was very difficult to take care of.
Ooh, look at--
So I really admired how patient she was with him
and how much care she took of him.
His big sister was just as devoted to him,
says Tylee's best friend, Vaisia Itaaehau.
I loved being around JJ and Tylee.
Tylee was really protective over JJ,
and she was kind of like another mama to him.
Are you taking a video of my child?
Your child?
My child.
I just kind of loved how she would just play with him
and just always have a really good time with him,
and I really loved JJ.
He's the sweetest soul I've ever met.
But around 2017, friends say Lori's relationships
with her kids began to shift, about the time
she started reading the books of Chad Daybell.
I've recently released my autobiography.
Daybell was a former gravedigger-turned-doomsday
novelist and podcaster from Rexburg, Idaho.
He tapped into this prepper element
out there, people who wanted to prepare for Armageddon.
Lori met Chad for the first time in 2018
at a conference in St. George, Utah.
The first time Chad met Lori, he told her
that they had been married in a past life.
He said he was James and she was Elena
and that they had lived this biblical life in the past.
And instead of scaring her off, that
seems to have attracted her.
Even though Lori was still married to Charles Vallow
and Chad was married to the mother of his five children,
Tammy Daybell, Lori's friend, Melanie Gibb,
testified the two soon began an affair.
Did Lori ever tell you directly that she and Chad
would meet at hotels or motels?
Yes.
Did Lori ever indicate to you whether or not
she and Chad were engaged in an affair?
She would just share that they were intimate.
Witnesses testified that Lori took
on Chad's extreme religious beliefs, says Morgan Loew.
Lori believed that she was chosen
to lead the 144,000 after the apocalypse,
to lead the survivors of the human race to an eternal life
while the rest of society burned.
She also believed she had been appointed another more ominous.
role, says April.
Part of her mission on Earth was to eliminate the darkness,
the demonic, the evil.
April says one of those evil spirits according to Lori
was her then-husband, Charles Vallow.
The way she had explained it to me about Charles
was that Charles was already dead
and that there was a demon living inside of him.
For the first time, we heard at trial
that Lori held what she called casting ceremonies.
It involved getting into a circle
with other like-minded followers and casting out
dark spirits from people, getting rid of demons.
Lori's friend, Zulema Pastenes, attended
several of these castings.
There are certain spirits that can only be cast out
by prayer and fasting.
Here she is on the stand talking about one of the demons
Lori claimed was living inside Charles.
And what is that spirit or demon's name?
I believe they called him Ned.
Ned Schneider, to be precise.
Why don't you come over here?
In January of 2019, Charles was so spooked by Lori's ramblings
about the demon named Ned he called police.
What did she say yesterday?
She said, you're not Charles.
I don't know who you are, what you did with Charles.
Their conversation was recorded on the officer's body cam.
OK.
So what makes her a danger to herself and to others?
She threatened me, murder me, kill me.
She threatened to murder you?
Yes.
In the winter of 2019, Charles changed the beneficiary of his
$1-million life insurance policy from Lori to his sister,
Kay Woodcock, JJ's biological grandmother.
After almost 13 years of marriage,
Charles filed for divorce.
It scared the crap out of me.
Charles Vallow had good reason to be scared.
On the morning of July 11, 2019, Charles Vallow
went to the Chandler, Arizona home
of his estranged wife, Lori Vallow,
to pick up JJ and take him to school.
He goes into the house.
Lori and Tylee and JJ are there, and so is Alex Cox.
Alex Cox, Lori's brother.
At trial, Lori's friend, Zulema Pastenes,
who would later marry Alex, testified
that Chad had assigned him a mission ordained by God.
Chad had told him that he was going
to be a warrior, a defender, and the sole purpose
for him coming to this Earth was so that he could be
Lori's protector and defender.
Did Alex believe this?
Absolutely.
Shortly after Charles entered Lori's home that summer
morning in 2019, Alex Cox, the defender, shot him dead.
911, where is your emergency?
At 8:36 AM, Alex calmly called 911.
Is he breathing?
I can't tell.
He said, I need to report a shooting.
I shot my brother-in-law in self defense.
And is he heard or is he alive or--
Yeah, there's blood.
He's not moving.
The police arrived and shot this video of Alex
on the curb outside the home.
Alex told them Charles and Lori got into a fight.
So you both-- so you get in an argument?
What is it over?
Well, it was over my sister.
He was he was getting physical with her,
so my niece came out--
Alex told them he got between Charles and Lori
and shot Charles in the chest when Charles charged at him.
At some point, Lori, Tylee, and JJ got into the car and left.
Lori takes JJ to school, and she comes back later with Tylee.
Police body cam caught the moment.
Tylee's face was blurred because she was a minor.
How long have you lived here?
Like three weeks.
Oh, geez, yeah, OK.
That's why the neighbors don't know us very well.
Gotcha.
Like, hi, neighbor, sorry.
What was striking about the footage
that we saw was that there's no remorse,
there's no, oh my gosh, my husband's dead.
Lori, Alex, and Tylee were questioned
at the police headquarters.
All told similar stories of self-defense
and were sent home.
Three days later, Chad and Lori were exchanging steamy texts.
Here's FBI Agent Doug Hart reading one on the stand.
"I need so badly to just gently kiss you for hours."
"It would likely lead to other activities."
"Likely or luckily?"
"It would luckily lead to nakedness."
But prosecutors say the lovers were in for a big surprise.
They were about to find out that Charles had changed
the beneficiary of that $1-million life insurance
policy.
Here's detective Nathan Duncan reading Lori's text
to Chad after she found out.
"I just got the letter from the insurance company
saying that I am not the beneficiary.
It's a spear through my heart."
This is one of the strongest points
that prosecutors have made is that Lori
was motivated by money.
She wanted Charles's money.
According to prosecutors, Lori started
drawing the Social Security death benefits
JJ received from his father, Charles Vallow.
She moved with her two kids to Rexburg, Idaho,
not far from where Chad Daybell lived with his wife, Tammy.
Lori's brother, Alex Cox, her designated defender,
moved into the same complex.
He was there to take care of the problems.
Prosecutors alleged Lori's first problem
was her 16-year-old daughter, Tylee Ryan.
According to Zulema, Lori told her
that a demon named Hillary had taken over Tylee's body.
Now, if somebody is possessed by a demon,
are those people dangerous?
They're considered to be dark and to bring
only bad things to happen, yeah, so yes, would be dangerous.
These are the last known pictures of Tylee Ryan.
On September 8, 2019, she was with Lori, JJ, and Alex
at Yellowstone National Park.
The 16-year-old was never seen again.
Tylee was JJ's protector.
Once she was gone, JJ had nobody.
He had nobody to protect him or watch out for him.
Just two weeks later, JJ Vallow went missing.
This photo of JJ wearing red pajamas
was taken on September 22, 2019.
It is the last known photo of him.
Melanie Gibb, who was staying at Lori's House that evening,
says she saw Alex take JJ upstairs, she believes,
to Lori's room.
But the little boy was nowhere to be seen the next morning.
Is that when she told you JJ was a zombie?
Yes.
Melanie Gibb told prosecutors Alex Cox believed
JJ was a zombie as well.
He said he 100% believed it.
According to their religious teachings,
a zombie had to be killed.
The body had to die.
And the body count was climbing.
According to prosecutors, Lori and Chad
had identified another evil spirit in the way.
What we learned from witness after witness
is that Chad told some people that his wife was not
going to be around much longer and that he
was going to have a life before Tammy and a life after Tammy.
The week after JJ was last seen and two months before
the world would learn that the children were missing,
Lori was planning her fifth wedding.
At trial, prosecutors called an FBI specialist to the stand.
Did you learn whether or not there was ever
a successful purchase of wedding rings?
There were, on October 2, 2019.
There was just one problem--
Chad was still married to Tammy Daybell.
But that was about to change.
Garth Daybell is one of five Daybell children.
I was asleep, and I heard a thump
and heard my dad yell, Garth, Garth, come quick.
Garth found his mother, 49-year-old Tammy Daybell,
lying half on the bed, half on the floor.
I just ran over and picked her up and put her back on the bed.
I said to my dad--
I said, I think she's dead.
The coroner initially determined Tammy died of natural causes,
and the family declined an autopsy.
Chad's neighbor, Alice Gilbert, testified that a week later he
had already moved on.
We asked him how he was doing, and he said, actually,
I'm doing really good, and that he'd
met the woman he was going to marry.
Did you find-- did it surprise you
that he seemed to be doing so well?
Yes, we were shocked.
Alice and her husband, Todd Gilbert,
met Lori shortly after.
They came to the house, and his arm was around her.
And she was giggling and laughing,
and they looked like teenagers.
Alice says the conversation turned to children.
Then Chad said, "and she recently just lost a daughter."
So I told her, "oh, I'm sorry."
And she said, "thank you."
This is significant because at that time,
Lori is still telling her sister and everybody else
that the kids were OK.
This is like a slip-up, an early slip-up, an admission
against interest here.
It did not seem to worry Chad and Lori on their big day.
17 days after Tammy Daybell's death,
there was Lori dancing on the beach in Hawaii
as her new husband strummed his ukulele,
exchanging those rings.
According to investigators, the cost of the wedding trip
was courtesy of the groom's dead wife's life insurance.
Little do they know that the clock is now ticking.
Soon after the newlyweds returned to Idaho,
the Rexburg police came knocking on Lori's door, looking for JJ.
His grandmother, Kay Woodcock, had asked authorities
to do a welfare check.
The conversation was recorded on the officer's body cam.
Here's Lori talking about JJ.
He's was one of my friends in Arizona.
Who's the friend he's with?
My friend Melanie.
Chad called that friend, Melanie Gibb,
who testified he asked her not to pick up the phone when
the police called.
Later, she says Lori asked her to lie and tell
the police that JJ was staying with her in Arizona.
And I felt in a very weird and uncomfortable position,
and I really did not know what to do.
At first, Melanie Gibb wasn't forthcoming to the police,
but 12 days later, she made a call to Lori and Chad
and secretly recorded it.
Is JJ safe?
He is safe and happy.
Chad said they couldn't tell her where
JJ was for her own security.
If you knew, that puts you in danger.
Melanie handed that secret recording to authorities,
and investigators launched a nationwide search, but not just
for JJ.
They would soon learn that his big sister, Tylee, was also
missing.
A search for two children from Idaho--
Listen up.
You may know something.
The children mysteriously disappeared.
It was huge news, especially to Lori's new stepchildren.
When did you know that she had two kids?
I first heard of her children when
a detective came to my work and asked me about them.
I had never heard of them before that point.
So even after your father weds Lori,
you didn't know that there were two kids
in the picture at that point?
I did not.
As the hunt for the children intensified,
Lori and Chad again headed to Hawaii,
but the honeymoon was over.
Mrs. Vallow, you've been served.
Kauai authorities caught up with Lori by the pool.
She would be arrested on child abandonment charges
and extradited to Idaho--
Please be seated.
--Chad, the loyal husband, by her side.
But now Chad himself was under suspicion.
With the children missing, that's
when the police took a closer look at the death of Tammy.
Her body had been exhumed on December 11, 2019.
The Utah state medical examiner immediately
saw bruising on her body, and he determined that Tammy
died of asphyxiation.
The medical examiner testified that that bruising
was consistent with somebody being restrained,
meaning she was held down and suffocated.
Alex's wife, Zulema Pastenes, says
that when she heard about Tammy, she started
pressing Alex for answers.
By then, she says Lori and Chad had cut Alex off.
Here she is on the stand talking about when she
asked Alex what was happening.
What did he say?
He was very quiet and unresponsive, and then he said,
I think I'm being their fall guy.
I said, a fall guy for what?
What is it that you have done?
What have you done that you would be the fall guy for?
And then he said, either I am a man of God or I am not.
Here's the prosecutor addressing that mysterious statement.
What exactly Alex meant by this or what he knew
we may never know because Alex Cox died the next day
on December 12 of 2019.
In a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction
plot twist, the man Lori and Chad designated her defender,
her brother, Alex Cox, suddenly dropped dead,
an autopsy determined, of natural causes.
That was a jaw-dropping moment.
Right before his death, it does look
like Alex was second guessing what he had done
and why Chad and Lori had asked him to do what he did.
They say dead men don't talk, but this one did.
Alex Cox's cell phone harbored a tale
of horrors waiting to be discovered in Chad Daybell's
backyard, and it would give prosecutors the evidence
they had been waiting for.
On June 9, 2020, law enforcement descended
on Chad Daybell's backyard.
According to the prosecution, Alex Cox's cell phone data
placed him here for two hours the day
after Tylee Ryan was last seen.
Authorities later discovered her remains in this same spot.
It was an area the Daybell family once
used as a pet cemetery.
It now contained Tylee's badly burned remains.
She had been dismembered.
Detective Ray Hermosillo took the stand
and described finding what was left of Tylee.
There was a partial human skull underneath the melted bucket.
Alex's cell phone led them to another section of the yard
about 50 yards, away under a shade tree.
Investigators started digging.
They removed a layer of rocks.
Beneath the rocks, they found wooden planks,
below that, a layer of black plastic.
One of the crime scene investigators
cut a hole in the top of this plastic,
and beneath the black plastic was some white plastic,
like plastic bag.
And they cut through that.
And that's when we were able to see
what appeared to be brown human hair sticking out
from the white plastic.
It was JJ.
He was still dressed in his red pajamas and covered head to toe
in duct tape.
--several layers of duct tape from his chin
to his forehead area.
His arms were duct-taped with several layers of duct tape.
His feet were also duct taped and bound.
Forensic Pathologist Garth Warren
testified how JJ had died.
I determined the cause of death to be
asphyxia by a plastic bag over the head and duct
tape covering the mouth.
It's unimaginable what his last minutes of life were like.
Experts couldn't determine Tylee's cause of death because
of the condition of her remains, but prosecutors
alleged the way in which both children were killed
aligned with Chad and Lori's teachings about demons
and zombies.
Zulema testifies that if they're trying
to cast a demon or a zombie out of somebody,
there's two minutes after the casting where another demon can
enter that person, and the only way
to prevent that is to burn the person or bind them.
Tylee was burned.
JJ was bound.
Despite all the talk of zombies and demons,
prosecutors argued that Lori's true motive to murder her kids
was much more mundane.
Tylee had already lost her father,
and she received Social Security benefits because of that.
Tylee had money.
Lori wanted it.
Tylee's gone.
JJ also was entitled to Social Security benefits.
The defendant didn't want to have to take care of JJ
anymore.
She wanted the money.
JJ is gone.
While the prosecution's case was mostly circumstantial,
DNA matching Tylee's profile was found
on a shovel and pickaxe in a garage on the Daybell property.
A forensic specialist testified they also
found a finger and palm print belonging
to Alex Cox on one of the black plastic bags that covered JJ.
Investigators also found one strand of hair
that was stuck in the tape that was around the bag.
DNA showed that that hair belonged to Lori Vallow.
That's significant because that's really
the only physical evidence they have that ties Lori
to JJ at the time of his death.
Some of the most powerful testimony
in the prosecution's case came from Lori's own family.
They played an emotional jailhouse phone
call between Lori and her only surviving child, son Colby
Ryan.
You ripped my heart out, and you ripped out everyone
in this family's heart out.
Then Lori's sister, Summer Shiflet, took the stand.
She told prosecutors that she believed Lori when she told her
the children were safe.
Did that change?
Yes.
Why?
I felt lied to, and my trust in my sister was broken.
Prosecutors played a jailhouse phone call
between Summer and Lori after the children's bodies
were found.
You went off to Hawaii and were dancing on the beach
while you're going through the ground?
This phone call is painful to listen to.
Summer is screaming at Lori.
They were just little kids.
I don't understand.
You know, Summer.
That's what I thought!
Lori, if you let that happen to them
and didn't tell us and let them be
in the ground like a piece of trash, then I don't know you!
Toward the end of its case, the prosecution
put on Lori's former friend, Audrey Barattiero.
She delivered some of the most damning testimony of the trial.
She threatened to kill me.
OK.
Did she say how?
Yes.
She said that she would cut me up and something about--
that she wasn't in the mental place to do that
but that she would get herself in that place
to be able to do it but that she didn't want
to have to because it'd be so messy
and there'd be so much blood and bleach and something
about trash bags and that she would bury me where
no one would ever find me.
Audrey Barattiero's testimony is critical
because this is a firsthand description
of Lori being ruthless with the threat to kill her.
This is the first time anyone in Lori's group
of friends really described her as being capable of killing.
On cross, the defense aggressively
tried to discredit Barattiero's testimony.
So you now want the jury to believe
that even though you previously testified
under oath and nothing of this sort was talked about,
that you come here today and say you
are so scared that's why you didn't previously
testify about it.
Objection, your Honor.
Argumentative.
That's overruled.
What was your question?
You want the jury to believe that you just
didn't make this last crap up?
I did not make it up.
After 60 witnesses and four weeks of testimony,
the prosecution rested its case.
The defense declined to call any witnesses.
Your Honor, after consultation with my client,
we don't believe the state has proven
its case, so the defense rests.
Each side would get a last chance
to persuade the jury in closing arguments.
On May 11, 2023, Defense Attorney Jim Archibald
stood before the jury and argued for his client's innocence.
Who is Lori Vallow?
What happened?
Where did it happen?
When did it happen?
Why did it happen?
That's what you've been asked to figure out.
Archibald painted a picture of Lori as a devoted mother,
someone not capable of murder.
He pointed to this early testimony
from Lori's sister, Summer Shiflet.
I think Lori was a loving mother and Tylee adored her mother.
Were you ever concerned about the safety
of Tylee around Lori?
No.
Would you ever imagine your sister
wanting to kill her kids?
No.
He also directed the jury to this testimony
from Lori's son, Colby Ryan.
You said, "My mom has spent her whole life protecting us kids."
Yes.
"After she met Chad Daybell, she changed."
I don't remember, but yes.
You never once thought your mom would hurt someone.
Is that fair to say?
Yes.
Archibald argued that there is no evidence tying Lori
to the murders of Tylee or JJ, and he
said that hair stuck on the duct tape used to wrap JJ's body
means nothing.
Lori was raising JJ.
JJ was living at Lori's house.
The defense can easily argue that that hair could
have gotten on JJ for a hundred reasons, none of them having
anything to do with murder.
Instead, Archibald shifted the blame
towards Lori's husband, Chad Daybell,
and her brother, Alex Cox.
Remember all the GPS data?
Lori's not in the backyard when Chad and Alex are.
She's not there.
There's not one smoking gun that ties Lori
to any of these murders.
And in order to explain Lori's lies to the police
while the children were missing, Archibald
suggested that Lori was manipulated by Chad.
How can someone have that much control over you?
Reason and common sense just go out the window
sometimes when religious principles are involved.
Lori sees Chad as if Chad is Jesus.
Chad sold his spiel to Lori, and she bought it.
And about Tammy Daybell's death, the defense
questioned whether that was even a crime.
Was she even murdered?
Is it a natural death?
All they need to do is raise a couple of questions
in a couple of the jurors.
But Prosecutor Rob Wood would get the last word.
Lori's lies tell us she's guilty.
The innocent don't need to lie.
The guilty lie.
Don't let Lori pin this all on one other person.
She was 100% involved in this, and you must convict her.
When the case went to the jury, they
deliberated for seven hours over the course of two days
before returning with a verdict.
The court shared video of Lori Vallow Daybell
as she learned her fate.
--Defendant would please rise.
In regards to count two of the amended indictment,
is Lori Norene Vallow not guilty or guilty of first-degree
murder of Tylee Ryan--
answer, guilty.
In regards to count four of the amended indictment,
is Lori Norene Vallow not guilty or guilty of first-degree
murder of Joshua Jackson Vallow--
answer, guilty.
In regards to count five of the amended indictment,
is Lori Norene Vallow not guilty or guilty of conspiracy
to commit first-degree murder of Tamara "Tammy" Daybell--
answer, guilty.
Guilty on all counts.
Lori appeared emotionless.
She will be sentenced at a later date.
As JJ's grandparents, Larry and Kay Woodcock,
exited the courthouse, the crowd outside
greeted them by singing JJ's favorite song,
"We Will Rock You."
We will, we will rock you.
Larry Woodcock had been playing the song
while awaiting the verdict.
Love always wins.
JJ, I love you.
Pawpaw wishes you were here.
Tylee, Papa loves you.
Tammy, you are a part of our life.
My heart hurts for these three.
This is what this has been all about.
Why, Lori?
Why?
Power, sex, and greed--
for what?
For what?
It's been nearly four years since the world
lost Tylee, a freckled-faced teenager, her baby brother, JJ,
and Tammy, a mother of five.
We'll never know the lives they would have gone on to live,
but we do know what they left behind--
--a happy family.
--their smiles, their laughter, their grace.
A loving mother of two fatally shot in her home-- but how?
I knew something was wrong with this case from the start.
There were so many things that were not done.
The father's relentless pursuit of the truth--
He just led us for nine years.
He's still leading us.
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