JUSTICE FOR CULT MOM LORI VALLOW VICTIMS - JJ , TYLEE & TAMMY
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Convicted killer Lori Vallow faced a judge today for sentencing in the deaths of her children, JJ and Tylee, as well as conspiracy in the death of Tammy Daybell.
The court heard victim impact statements from two of Tammy Daybell family members and two from Vallow's relations.
Lori Vallow addressed the court herself, beginning with a biblical quote from Christ: "He that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her."
Vallow said Jesus understands her and knows the truth of what happened. Vallow's statement intimated deaths from suicide or complications from medications. She also told the court that the spirits of all three victims have visited her in prison.
Vallow said Tylee is no longer in physical pain from her medical condition and that JJ is happy.
She said quote, "My beautiful children Tylee Ashlyn and Joshua Jackson rest safely this day in the arms of Jesus. My wonderful friend Tammy Daybell rests safely this day in the arms of Jesus, and I look forward to the day we are all reunited and I, too, will rest with them in the arms of my Jesus."
Judge Steven Boyce told Vallow that the crimes for which she was convicted were heinous before sentencing her to consecutive life sentences.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Mark Tate -Trial Lawyer at TateLawGroup
- Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA; Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women
- Chris McDonough - Director At the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective, & Host of YouTube channel- ‘The Interview Room’
- Lauren Matthias - Journalist and Host of ‘Hidden True Crime’ Podcast and YouTube Channel; @HiddenTrueCrime on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | The time is now. The clock has finally ticked down on so-called Coltmum Lori Vallow. It all |
| 0:23.4 | started. It's amazing. I was looking at my notes. I want to show you way back when I was writing |
| 0:31.0 | about, as I called her then, Doomsday Coltmum, now Coltmum Lori Vallow and brand new husband Chad |
| 0:37.2 | Debel. And the very first thing I read was, have till Thursday to produce their children. That's how |
| 0:45.8 | it all started. When these two children seemingly vanish into thin air, they go missing. Then we found |
| 0:55.6 | out about this twisted Colt that Lori Vallow had become enmeshed in and her prophet lover turned |
| 1:06.2 | husband Chad Debel. That's how it all started. When we couldn't find those children and the search |
| 1:11.6 | was on and we speculated, are they being hidden away with some of the Colt followers? Are they in |
| 1:17.2 | some cave somewhere or some obscure home with the windows boarded up? And why? And actually, |
| 1:24.8 | that's what we hoped. We hoped that as bizarre as it was, these children were somehow spirited away |
| 1:32.0 | and were being kept by Coltmummers as horrible as that would have been. And then as the days, |
| 1:38.0 | the weeks, the months passed, we realized they weren't being hidden that somewhere, somehow, |
| 1:46.2 | they were dead. All this happened while Coltmum Lori Vallow and her new, I believe fourth, fifth, |
| 1:53.2 | confusing husband, the prophet, as he calls himself Chad Debel, had gone to Hawaii and had literally |
| 2:02.2 | danced on the beach after their wedding ceremony, taking wedding photos. You know how when you get |
| 2:09.1 | married, a lot of people go stage photos on the beach, they actually did that. Now, it probably |
| 2:14.6 | was normal to the people standing around them and watching them. But what those people didn't know |
| 2:21.6 | is that back home, JJ entirely had been brutally murdered and buried on the prophet Chad Debel's |
| 2:32.8 | property, actually at his pet cemetery. That's where the children were. Then we began to speculate and |
| 2:41.0 | wonder and investigate, well, what about Tammy Debel? She conveniently died right before their |
| 2:46.8 | Hawaii wedding. Then the evidence began to unfold, including Coltmum Lori Vallow going on Amazon |
| 2:55.6 | and buying a beach, B-E-A-C-H wedding dress and rings before Tammy Debel died. I mean, I'm sure when |
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