On Thursday, a lead investigator testified that Charles Vallow changed the beneficiary of his $1 million life insurance policy from Lori Vallow Daybell, his wife, to his sister shortly before he was fatally shot by Vallow Daybell’s brother. Alex Cox reportedly shot and killed Charles in Arizona in July 2019. Six days after his death, …
On Thursday, a college official testified that Tylee Ryan never applied to the college or attended the school — despite Lori Vallow Daybell, her mother, claiming she was there at the time of her 2019 disappearance. Wynn Hill, the Dean of Students at Brigham Young University-Idaho, stated that police had him search the student management …
An FBI forensic accountant testified in court Wednesday that Chad Daybell wired three of his biological children $8,000 as Idaho police dug for J.J. Vallow and Tylee Ryan’s remains on his property in 2020. Mike Douglass claimed Chad Daybell made the money transfer hours after Rexburg police knocked on his door in Salem and presented …
On Wednesday, a forensic accountant testified that Social Security payments intended for J.J. Vallow and Tylee Ryan were deposited into Lori Vallow Daybell’s bank account around the time they vanished in September 2019. During Mike Douglass’ testimony, the court was shown how various payouts for J.J. and Tylee Ryan were made to Vallow Daybell’s bank …
On Saturday, Illinois police arrested a couple in connection with Saturday’s shooting death of a liquor store security guard. WDIV reported that Daryll Straughter, 48, was working at Athens Liquor store in Detroit when an argument transpired between customers because someone cut in line. Suspect Travis Irving, 33, allegedly brandished a handgun and shot Straughter …
A Texas mother charged with killing a toddler who was found dead in a dumpster she reported he’d gone missing during a trip to a park has reached a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. Laura Villalon, 38 — also known as Laura Sanchez — has agreed to plead guilty to injury to a …
Lori Vallow Daybell’s surviving son cried while on the stand Tuesday upon being shown pictures of his late sister. According to People, Colby Ryan said, “That’s my sister Tylee [Ryan],” as prosecutors presented pictures of the 16-year-old and J.J. Vallow, 7. Colby went on to say that he had a good relationship with J.J., who …
On Tuesday, Idaho prosecutors played a recorded phone call in which Lori Daybell Vallow’s surviving son confronted her after J.J. Vallow and Tylee Ryan’s bodies were reportedly found on her husband’s property in 2020. In a phone call from August 2020, Colby Ryan reportedly told his jailed mother that her two children were murdered, buried, …
On Tuesday, Lori Vallow Daybell’s surviving son testified that, prior to her disappearance, Tylee Ryan told him that their mother controlled her money. According to East Idaho News, Colby Ryan said that Tylee, 16, told him about the money issue on September 8, 2019, after he asked her for money. Colby claimed he spoke on …
A New York man was sentenced to life without parole in a Brooklyn federal court Friday after his conviction on charges of hiring a hit man to kill his mobster father. Anthony Zottola, 45, wasn’t motivated by any kind of altruism, however. His hired guns’ six attempts on his father’s life also included attempts on …
Tylee was found burned, while J.J.’s arms were wrapped in duct tape
A judge ruled Friday that the man accused in the Delphi murders of two teen girls can be moved out of a maximum security prison in northern Indiana. Judge Fran Gull’s order authorizes the Department of Corrections to move Richard Allen to “accommodate his medical and physical needs pursuant to medical directives by the Department …
