Lori Vallow, at left, and Joseph Ryan.Photo: John Roark/AP/Shutterstock
Police sayLori Vallow’s third husband Joseph Ryan died of natural causes, concluding areview into his 2018 deathbegun after they obtained a recording in which the Idaho mom who is under investigation in the deaths of her two kids could be heard saying she “was going to kill him.”
Vallow and her fifth (and current) husband,Chad Daybell, otherwise face multiple criminal charges tied to Vallow’s two children, 7-year-old Joshua “J.J.” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan, whose bodies were found in June,buried on Daybell’s Idaho propertymore than six months after the kids had been reported missing.
For now, Vallow is facing charges of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children, resisting or obstructing officers, criminal solicitation to commit a crime, contempt of court and willful disobedience of court process or order.
Daybell is charged with two felony counts of conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence and two felony counts of destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence.
Both have pleaded not guilty to the allegations.
Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, at left, and Tylee Ryan.Rexburg Police Department (2)
Police in Arizona, where Vallow lived before moving to Idaho to be with Daybell following the death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, reopened an investigation into Joseph Ryan’s death after they obtained a recording in which she reportedly talked about wanting to kill Ryan and cited the Bible as justification,Fox13andAZ Family report.
Ryan was found dead in his Phoenix apartment in April 2018. His body wasn’t discovered for more than a week, after which authorities notified Vallow, who was listed as his next of kin despite the fact that their marriage had ended 14 years earlier.
His cause of death eventually was ruled as a heart attack, and his body was cremated.
But the recording, made six months after he died, raised questions.
The 40-minute recording, which was sent to Ryan’s sister who then shared it with police, is from an October 2018 gathering of people for the Second Coming of Christ.
“I just felt I couldn’t take it anymore, and I would go through the scriptures and I would find all the things like, if he comes against you once, if he comes against you twice, three times then you can kill him. It says it in the scriptures!,” Vallow said in the recording. “I was like, there it is, there’s my answer. I don’t want to do anything wrong. I do not have a murderous heart. I just want it to stop the bleeding and stop the pain.”
Vallow’s lawyer did not previously respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on the recording and the renewed investigation.
Chad Daybell, left, and Lori Vallow.Rexburg Police Department ; Madison County Sheriff’s Office/AP/Shutterstock
Vallow and Daybell bonded over Daybell’s writings on religious doomsday scenarios and were married last November. They became the objects of police inquiry that same month, after J.J.’s out-of-state grandparents reported J.J. missing. Police subsequently said the couple appeared to have fled the area; they were located two months later in Hawaii, without the children.
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Vallow and Daybell both are currently jailed in Idaho, and remain under investigation for potentialmurder, attempted murder and conspiracy chargesin the Idaho county where Daybell and Tammy were living at the time Tammy died. Confirmation of that investigation was made public inan April 9 letter from the Idaho attorney general’s office to the Fremont County Prosecutor’s Office, in which the AG’s office agreed to assist the local prosecutors in their investigation of those possible crimes.
To date no charges against either Vallow or Daybell have been filed in connection with that investigation.
source: people.com
