Lori Vallow Daybell made a number of disturbing searches prior to her children’s disappearances and on the day of her husband’s ex-wife’s funeral.
Vallow Daybell is currently on trial for the murder of her daughter Tylee, her adopted son J.J., and her husband Chad Daybell’s ex-wife Tammy. Chad reported on October 19, 2019, that Tammy, 49, had died after going to bed with a cough. Initially, her death was ruled as “natural causes,” but authorities later ruled it “suspicious.”
On the day Tammy was being laid to rest, Rexburg Police Det. David Stubbs testified on Monday, Vallow Daybell was searching for wedding dresses in Hawaii, East Idaho News reported.
“What also caught my attention was this was being looked at on the same day as Tammy’s funeral,” Stubbs testified, according to the outlet.
Two weeks after Tammy died, Chad married Vallow Daybell in Hawaii. Chad faces trial later this year for the murders of Vallow Daybell’s children and Tammy.
Even before Tammy’s death – while she and Chad were still married – Vallow Daybell searched for wedding rings and ordered two, Stubbs testified.
“We were thinking it was odd for her to be looking at wedding rings at that time,” Stubbs said.
Vallow Daybell’s children disappeared in September 2019, weeks before Tammy died. Months before their disappearance, on July 21, 2019, a search history from an email account associated with Vallow Daybell showed the user searched for “gerber life policy” and “Live insurance for children – the Grow-Up Plan,” East Idaho reported. The Grow-Up Plan is a life insurance policy “for a child that builds cash value,” according to GerberLife.com.
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Vallow Daybell also did searches related to selling a service dog, which her son J.J. had due to his autism.
Last week, jurors heard a jailhouse phone call between Vallow Daybell and her surviving son, Colby Ryan.
The call, which was recorded in 2020 between Vallow Daybell and her oldest son from her first marriage, involved accusations from Colby that his mother killed his siblings.
“You murdered my siblings!” Colby said, according to Insider. “I thought I could trust you, I thought that you were a completely different person.”
“I’m sorry you feel that way,” Vallow Daybell replied.
Colby also told Vallow Daybell that he wished he could bash her husband, Chad Daybell, “in the face with a shovel.”
Colby took the stand last week to testify against his mother, telling the jury about Vallow Daybell’s insurance policies on her ex-husbands Joseph Ryan (Colby and Tylee’s father) and Charles Vallow, who was reportedly shot to death by Vallow Daybell’s deceased brother, who claimed self-defense. Colby also testified that he received messages from his younger sister after she disappeared. The messages, he said, didn’t sound like they were from Tylee.
On the jailhouse phone call, Colby mentioned those messages and expressed his feelings to his mother.
“I was deceived and I was broken by my own mother,” he said, according to Insider. “I can’t tell you the amount of pain I have felt.”
“I feel like I could die,” Colby added. “You ripped my heart out.”