Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead serious. As for tonight's episode,

I am really glad that you are here because there's a case out of California that has really

gotten under my skin and I am dying to know if you guys feel the same way that I do about it,

it's about a missing girl and a mom who doesn't seem to care

that the rest of us are really upset about it,

especially the fact that her family and the police are looking for this little girl

and mom ain't helping.

It's giving serious vibes of another story that I began covering over a half decade ago.

And here's how that story started.

With two children, nobody could find and a mother with no explanation.

There was a deadline to produce those children,

but it came and went with no answers and still no child. When we jumped on this story years ago,

the uncooperative mom was named Lori Vallow. There was a boy whom Idaho police were desperate to

find. His name was J.J. Valo, age seven, whose grandparents

hadn't seen him in months. But investigators quickly discovered that JJ's big sister, Tiley Ryan, was

also missing. A court gave Lori Valo five days to prove that her kids were alive and well,

and I do not have to tell you that she didn't and couldn't because they weren't.

Vallow had taken off to Hawaii with husband number five, Chad Daybell, whom she married two

months after the kids were last seen and two weeks after Davell's first wife mysteriously died in her bed beside Chad.

Lori was out sunning herself by the pool with Chad when police came to Hawaii and approached her with a subpoena, and it was all deliciously captured on body cam.

You have any questions regarding that?

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