Cult Mom Lori Vallow Tries to Flee Courtroom, Shock Photos of Her Burned Children
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Cult Mom Lori Vallow asks the judge to be allowed to leave the courtroom as photos of the decomposing bodies of her two children are shown to the jury.
The judge denied the request. Vallow then turned away from the scene, keeping her eyes shut during the display. Rexburg Police Detective Ray Hermosillo testified that 16-year-old Tylee’s body had been burned and destroyed, with the tissue remains placed in a partially melted plastic green bucket. JJ was wrapped in plastic, sealed by tape.
The search was reportedly so intense that officers got down on their "hands and knees" while digging. The smell, Hermosillo said, was so overpowering that officers had to rotate, and even then, one could only dig for just a few minutes.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- David Leroy-Attorney at Law (Boise, ID), Former Idaho Attorney General, Former Idaho Lieutenant Governor & Former Prosecutor (Ada County); Facebook: BoiseCriminalDefense
- Dr. Dana Anderson- Forensic Psychologist, Forensic Expert, California Superior Court appointed Witness; Twitter: @psychologydrcom, TikTok: @psychologydr
- Rich Robertson-Arizona based Private Investigator for Brandon Boudreaux and Larry & Kay Woodcock; Owner of R3 Investigations
- Dr. Priya Banerjee- Board Certified Forensic Pathologist, Anchor Forensic Pathology Consulting; Twitter: @Autopsy_MD
- Leah Sottile- Journalist; Author: "When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times;" Podcasts: "Two Minutes Past Nine" & "Bundyville;" Twitter: @Leah_Sottile, Instagram: @leah.sottile
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:15.0 | Damning evidence, pouring from the witness stand in the trial of Coltmum Laurie Valow. |
| 0:23.0 | The jury has just heard a very disturbing phone call |
| 0:28.0 | where husband number what is it Jackie number four or five? |
| 0:33.0 | I'm just going to go with four. |
| 0:35.0 | Husband number four, the prophet Chad Daybell is speaking to Laurie Valow as authorities |
| 0:43.0 | frantically search his farm and are honing in on a so-called pet cemetery looking |
| 0:51.0 | desperately for the remains a little seven-year-old J.J. and teen sister Tiley. |
| 0:56.0 | And you hear him in a tapped phone call talking to Coltmum saying, |
| 1:03.0 | I'm feeling pretty calm. Well, I bet they're not calm right now. |
| 1:09.0 | I mean, Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation |
| 1:14.0 | and Series XM111. Jackie, I'd like to start off with those calls. |
| 1:20.0 | Now listen, they're very grainy. So listen to Chad Daybell speaking to Laurie Valow. |
| 1:27.0 | So there's search rules, three, happily. |
| 1:32.0 | How's it going? Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to have nice. |
| 1:37.0 | So mark names on the talking to you. |
| 1:44.0 | Where they now? No, they're out in poverty. |
| 1:51.0 | Are they eating stuff? Again? |
| 1:55.0 | They're searching. |
| 2:02.0 | They're searching. |
| 2:09.0 | They're searching for more than the same things. |
| 2:22.0 | Okay, I've got to bring in our experts. And first, I'm going to just go to them individually. |
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