Haunting red flags ‘Lori Vallow exhibited’ before ‘she brutally murdered her kids JJ and Tylee’ revealed by his aunt

LORI Vallow eerily told her niece she was “special” before allegedly brutally murdering her own two children having apparently become convinced they’d been possessed by demons, a relative has revealed.

Kresha Easton told The U.S. Sun that her teenage daughter was incredibly close with her aunt Lori and Lori’s kids, Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, and would often go and stay with them for weeks at a time.

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This is the latest in a series of stories from The U.S. Sun with JJ Vallow’s aunt Kresha Easton

At the time, Lori was married to Kresha’s uncle, Charles Vallow, and the couple were living in Chandler, Arizona.

To outsiders, Lori and Charles appeared to be enjoying a picture-perfect marriage, but the cracks started to show in 2018, around the time she met Chad Daybell, who would soon become her fifth husband.

Within months, Charles Vallow would be shot dead inside his home by Lori’s brother, Alex Cox, in July 2019.

While Cox – who has since died – initially claimed self-defense, investigators now believe Charles was murdered at the direction of Lori.

Charles’ shooting death would come as the first in a string of strange happenings and sudden deaths in the following months.

JJ and Tylee would vanish without a trace days apart in September of the same year. Their bodies would eventually be found buried in Chad Daybell’s backyard in June 2020.

Chad Daybell’s wife of 30 years, Tammy Daybell, also passed away suddenly in her sleep in Oct. 2019. While first deemed to have died from natural causes, it’s now believed she was strangled to death.

Lori Vallow, 49, is on trial for first-degree murder, conspiracy, and grand theft in connection with the deaths of Tylee, JJ, and Tammy.

Believed to be members of a radical cult, Lori and Chad apparently believed in a “rating system of light and dark” to judge the purity of the spirits of the people around them, according to prosecutors.

Over time, the pair apparently became convinced that JJ, Tylee, and Tammy had all been possessed by dark spirits, and the only way to rid them of their “demons” was to kill them.

Meanwhile, Lori and Chad believed they were two leaders of a God-chosen 144,000 pure souls who would welcome the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Kresha said she was unaware of Lori’s allegedly increasingly radical beliefs prior to the death of her uncle Charles.

But in hindsight, one interaction her daughter shared with Lori not long before now chills her to the bone.

Now, looking back, the thing that stands out to me was that she told my daughter she was ‘special’.

Kresha Eastonon Lori Vallow

“Now, looking back, the thing that stands out to me was that she told my daughter she was ‘special,’” revealed Kresha.

“And I want to whip [Lori’s] a** for that.

“I don’t prod my daughter too much about it, but out of all of us, she was closest to them and would go and stay with them for a couple of weeks.

“I don’t know exactly what Lori meant by that, I know it’ll come out in time, but it bothers [my daughter] and it bothers me too.”

Kresha, hesitant to unpack Lori’s purported remarks too much, said she believes Lori may have been measuring her daughter’s “lightness” and her life could’ve been in danger.

She said she now holds her daughter and her other children a little tighter because of the tragic events involving Tylee and JJ.

“I feel like we’re still in danger,” she added. “But what Lori said to my daughter, I don’t know where she was going with it. I don’t know what she meant by it for certain.

“But I’ve been teaching my daughter it’s okay to mourn Lori and the person she once knew because they were close.”

‘MISSED OPPORTUNITY’

Charles Vallow had been among the first people to sound the alarm to the police about Lori, warning them in January 2019 that he thought something terrible was about to happen.

In bodycam footage and 911 calls made to the Gilbert Police Department, Charles was heard telling officers he wants his wife “to get help.”

“I want her to get help. She’s my wife. I love her to death. Something’s gone wrong,” Charles told police in one clip.

“And if she wants me gone, fine, I can do all that stuff. I just don’t want her to hurt [JJ]. I just don’t want her to hurt anybody else.”

He added to another officer: “I’ve got a six-year-old with special needs.”

In another interaction with police, he stressed his concerns for Lori’s ailing mental health, telling a dispatcher she’s “lost her marbles.”

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The following month, Charles met with his sister, Kay Woodcock, and told her he wanted her to be the sole recipient of the sum in the event anything should happen to him.

Kay previously revealed to The U.S. Sun that Charles was concerned by Lori’s increasingly strange behavior of late, which included transferring $35,000 from his business account into her own and referring to him as “Nick Schneider” – the name of an evil spirit she believed had possessed him.

“Lori doesn’t want me anymore,” Kay recalled Charles saying. “She doesn’t want JJ and you’ll end up raising JJ so I want you to have the money.”

Kay accepted her brother’s proposal, though insisted she would give the money to Charles’ two sons from a previous marriage and JJ.

At the time of the siblings’ tet-a-tet, Lori had completely vanished without a word of where she was going and didn’t return home for 58 days.

While she was AWOL, Charles filed for divorce, seeking sole custody of JJ and making a series of disturbing allegations about Lori’s mental stability.

Charles said during a phone call in late January that Lori told him she is a “translated being who cannot taste death sent by god to lead the 144,000 into the Millennium”, court documents show.

“[Lori] believes that she is receiving spiritual revelations and visions to help her gather and prepare those chosen to live in the New Jerusalem after the Great War as prophesied in the Book of Revelations,” an excerpt from the document reads.

Charles further claimed that Lori threatened his life, telling him she was a God preparing for Christ’s second coming in July 2020 and warned that if he got in her way, she would murder him.

‘HIS LOVE KILLED HIM’

Charles later withdrew the divorce petition, apparently determined to make their marriage work, but texts shared during Lori’s trial last month suggest he was aware of her affair with Chad and remained in fear of his life.

In a message to his wife on June 30, 2019, two weeks before his death, Charles wrote: “You accuse me of Infidelity [sic] but it’s you who has been having an affair. It just keeps killing me. Maybe that’s your goal.”

In other messages, he threatened to tell Tammy Daybell about her and Chad’s affair, warning her he had “definitive proof” of their adulterous tryst.

Then, on the morning of his death, Charles received a message from Adam Cox – another of Vallow’s siblings, who is not involved in the case – warning him that Vallow and Daybell are “planning something.”

Charles responded “Absolutely” and within minutes was shot dead.

Kresha says she wishes her uncle Charles’ various warnings had been better heeded by law enforcement.

Had they been, she believes that he, JJ, Tylee, and Tammy would all still be alive today.

“We wouldn’t be sat here having this conversation – I’m angry,” she said.

“Just as angry as I am with the Chandler Police Department, I feel so bad for my uncle, because he was just dismissed time and time and time again.

“My Uncle Charles was such a good man and an amazing dad to JJ, Tylee, and his other kids.

“And he loved Lori.

“He was besotted. He loved her and it killed him.”

FRIEND THREATS

Separate from her ongoing trial in connection with the deaths of JJ, Tylee, and Tammy, Lori has also been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Charles Vallow.

She has not yet entered a plea for that charge and will face trial in Arizona at a later date.

On Wednesday, jurors in Idaho heard how Alex Cox researched guns online and practiced his aim at a shooting range before Tammy Daybell was the victim of a failed drive-by attempt, days before her eventual death.

One of Lori’s former friends, Audrey Barattiero, also testified that Lori once allegedly threatened to kill her during a visit to her apartment after Barattiero packed her bags and said she was ending their friendship.

“She said she would cut me up and wasn’t in the mental place to do it but would get herself in a place to do it,” Barattiero alleged in court, reports East Idaho News.

“There would be blood and bleach and something about trash bags. She would bury me in a place nobody would ever find me.”

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In her testimony, Barattiero stated that she had felt very uncomfortable with the things that were being said during Lori’s “casting sessions”, which she held to purportedly to cast out evil spirits.

Lori’s defense attorneys accused Barattiero of lying under oath, saying she never previously shared this information during grand jury proceedings.

However, Barattiero said she was telling the truth but had been too scared to reveal the information during prior proceedings because she was scared Lori would come for her “in the dark of night.”

DAMNING TEXTS

Friday marked the culmination of the trial’s fifth week out of an anticipated eight.

A special agent with the FBI testified that he reviewed thousands of pages of cell phone data that indicated Lori and Chad discussed the deaths of her children and described Tammy and Charles as “obstacles”.

“There were several communications regarding Tylee and JJ that were relevant to their deaths. They discussed their deaths,” testified FBI special agent Doug Hart.

Hart testified that it is clear from the text conversations that Chad Daybell was a quasi-religious leader for Alex Cox and others who contacted Lori Daybell to get religious information from Chad.

He also said Lori Daybell was in an elevated position.

Hart’s testimony will continue on Monday morning.