That “welfare check” in November of 2019 revealed that both kids were missing. Woodcock is JJ’s grandmother, and she convinced Idaho police to check up on JJ after her normally regular phone calls and visits with the boy dried up. Vallow Daybell claimed the only way to get rid of a “zombie” was to destroy the person’s body, prosecutors say, and one friend told police she heard Vallow Daybell call the children zombies before they disappeared. Friends told police that in some cases they determined a person had become a “zombie,” fully controlled by the evil spirit. Friends of the couple told investigators that the pair shared the same unusual beliefs, including that they could tell if someone had been taken over by an evil spirit.Ĭhad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell led a group of friends in trying to cast out the supposed evil spirits by praying and doing “energy work,” prosecutors said. The two purportedly felt an “instant connection” and claimed they had been married to each other in a past life, according to police records. Prosecutors say he met Vallow Daybell at a conference in Utah in 2018. He married Tammy Daybell in 1990, and they had five kids. Their bodies were found the following year buried in Chad Daybell’s yard.ĭaybell, 54, was also a member of the LDS church and a self-published author who wrote doomsday-focused fiction loosely based on church teachings. They were last seen in September, and they were declared missing in November after extended family urged police to investigate.
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