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Court is back in session, Prior is asking about speaking with Melani Gibb. He wants to know if the conversation is recorded.
#ChadDaybell #Prelim
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The attornies and Judge Faren Eddins are going into chambers to talk as Proscsutor Rob Wood moved to submit exhibit 11 in the case.
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Rexburg Police Department Detective Ron Ball is on the stand, going through the collection of the two bodies from the property of
#ChadDaybell.
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Court is back on the record, Det. Ball has now been handed exhibit 11, from the ISP forensic services. #ChadDaybell #Prelim
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Exhibit 12 has also been handed to Det. Ball, this is a document also from the ISP forensic services.
#Daybell #Vallow #Prelim
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Exhibit 13 has just been handed to Det. Ball, a document from the ISP forensic services as well
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Prosecutor Rob Wood has no further questions for Lt. Ball. John Prior, the defense attorney is now on cross-examination.
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Evidence was taken from the bodies, swabs, fingernail clippings and other biological items to the Idaho State Police crime lab, according to Lt. Ron Ball.
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Next up is RPD Detective David Stubbs.
#ChadDaybell #Prelim
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Sgt. Stubbs has been a detective for 20 years of the 25 years as a police officer. Stubbs is trained in data collection and part of the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children taskforce.
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Stubbs met
#ChadDaybell on June 9, inside the house when serving the search warrant. He met
#LoriVallow on Nov. 26, 2019, when conducting a welfare check for
#JJVallow at a townhome on Pioneer Road in Rexburg Idaho.
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Stubbs was wearing a body camera during the meeting with
#LoriVallow at the welfare check. He said he asked on the welfare or location of
#JJVallow to make sure he was OK.
#Daybell #Vallow #Prelim
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Exhibit 14 is the body camera footage of Sgt. Stubbs on a CD. He reviewed the footage Monday morning before court. They are about the play the footage.
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The cameras cannot show the evidence about to be played on the screen.
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Rob Wood is going to play the video and pause it for Det. Stubbs to provide background as to what is happening.
#Daybell #prelim
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They are approaching apartment 175 on Nov. 26, Stubbs said. "Hi, are you Lori?" "This is a big mess," Lori responds. When asked about JJ he says "He's in Arizona."
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"What is all this?" Lori is heard saying on the footage. The detective says another investigator "got a bad vibe.": ... "One of my brothers is trying to kill me," Lori says at one point.
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Lori goes on to tell detectives the backstory, saying her sister-in-law (Kay Woodcock) is nasty and fighting over
#JJVallow after the death of her husband Charles Vallow. She talks about the $1 million life insurance.
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"She does nothing but cause me trouble,"
#LoriVallow says about Kay Woodcock.
#ChadDaybell #Prelim.
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"I just don't tell people where I am,"
#LoriVallow says. She said that Kay Woodcock wants to sue her for
#JJVallow and using the incident to build her case against
#Vallow.
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#LoriVallow said detectives ran into
#ChadDaybell a "friend" of her brother
#AlexCox. "Isn't that the Chad Daybell didn't his wife pass away recently," a detective is heard saying.
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#LoriVallow goes on to say she is going to move back to Arizona and live with her friend Melani Gibb. She says not to tell anyone because she doesn't want people to find her.
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When wanting to know how to get ahold of Melani Gibb, detectives go back to speak with
#LoriVallow moments later, according to Sgt. Stubbs.
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In the video, you can hear Lt. Ball knocking and asking for
#LoriVallow. She then tells them Melani and the kids are at Frozen 2 movie. "That's the one thing he wanted to do." They then ask Lori to have Melani call RPD detective Hope back.
#ChadDaybell #Prelim
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Det. Stubbs pointed out that investigators became interested in the cellphone data of
#AlexCox knowing of the close relationship between Alex and
#LoriVallow.
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From a search warrant, investigators got Google data from
#AlexCox, according to Stubbs. The search warrant was for multiple people close to the case.
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homerjmaximus@gmail.com is the account investigators determined to belong to
#AlexCox.
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The document from Google comprised of thousands of pages. Just the location data from the account would be over 28,000 pages, according to Det. Stubbs.
#ChadDaybell #Prelim.
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The info included would be timestamps, latitude and longitude of the device, a radius of error, the current usage status of the device, and the number that Google uses, Det. Stubbs said.
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Det. Stubbs took an aerial photograph and placed the specific dates and times of interest to show the location-based on the data. There are two summaries from the Google account of
#AlexCox.
#Daybell #Prelim.
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Det. Stubbs used an overhead photo of
#ChadDaybell's property with the overlay of
#AlexCox's GPS data points obtained through Google. Red triangles mark the spots. This is exhibit 17.
#ChadDaybell #Prelim.
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The base layer of exhibit 18 shows the townhome complex where
#LoriVallow and
#AlexCox lived at in Rexburg Idaho. It placed data points from the HomerJMaximus account of Cox.
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After the lunch break, we are
#LIVE moments before
#ChadDaybell's preliminary hearing will resume.
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Gibb says the last time she saw
#TyleeRyan in Chandler Arizona sometime last summer.
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Melani Gibb says she was in Rexburg from Sept. 19 until Sept. 23 when she left that morning.
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Gibb was in town for a conference “Firm Foundation.” She says she say
#ChadDaybell several times at that visit.
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Gibb says
#ChadDaybell and
#LoriVallow acted “affectionately” with each other. Holding hands and light kissing. Gibb says Vallow loves Daybell and wanted to be with him.
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Gibb says that
#LoriVallow told her that
#TyleeRyan was at BYU-Idaho and with friends.
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Gibb said that
#JJVallow spent most of the time in the family room of
#LoriVallow’s townhome.
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On the night of Sept. 22, Gibb said she and
#LoriVallow and her boyfriend David Warwick were in the kitchen recording a podcast.
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She did not see
#JJVallow during the recording and saw
#AlexCox bringing
#JJVallow into the house. “He was asleep,” Gibb said.
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This was between 9 p.m. and 12 a.m. while they recorded the podcast.
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Gibb says that when she woke up Sept. 23,
#LoriVallow shared that
#JJVallow was acting with a lot of energy and climbing up a fridge and knocking down a picture of Jesus.
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#Gibb says she did not see
#JJVallow that morning or know where he was.
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Over that weekend Gibb says
#LoriVallow told her she wants
#JJVallow to live with his grandmother Kay Woodcock or another family member.
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In a follow up conversation Gibb said that
#LoriVallow told her that she told Kay Woodcock she had breast cancer and
#JJVallow was OK with the 7-year-old boy living with them.
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On Nov. 26, 2019, Gibb says she was at David Warwicks home in Pleasant Grove Utah.
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Gibb said that
#ChadDaybell called her from his cell the morning of Nov. 26, 2019.
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Gibb was able to repeate the number
#ChadDaybell allegedly called her from.
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“Hi Melani this is Chad, the Rexburg police are going to call you. Don’t pick up.” Gibb said
#ChadDaybell let her know the police were looking for
#JJVallow at the home of
#LoriVallow.
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Within an hour or two of
#ChadDaybell’s phone call, Gibb said
#LoriVallow told her everything was fine on the phone and asked Gibb to tell police she had
#JJVallow at the movies. She asked Gibb to take a random photo of kids, according to Gibb’s testimony in court.
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“She said that Kay (Woodcock) was trying to kidnap JJ,” Gibb said about
#LoriVallow. She said Lori told her she wanted to protect
#JJVallow from Kay and other family.
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Gibb said
#LoriVallow acted upbeat that day while
#ChadDaybell acted nervous. Gibb said “I was not okay with it,” because of
#LoriVallow saying something not true to police.
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Gibb said she was confused and did speak with Gilbert Police officer Ryan Pillar that day after receiving a call from him. He was helping RPD asking about the location of
#JJVallow.
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Gibb said she told the officer that she was with
#JJVallow but has since gone back to his mother
#LoriVallow to turn the pressure back towards her.
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Gibb called
#LoriVallow misleading and because of her friendship she felt very perplexed and troubled over the incident.
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Around Dec. 7 or 8, Gibb said she called police in AZ about the conversations she says she had with
#ChadDaybell and
#LoriDaybell on Nov. 26.
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Gibb says she confronted and recorded a cellphone conversation with
#ChadDaybell and
#LoriVallow. She said she had not been asked to record the conversation and something she did on her own.
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This call was on Dec. 8 at the home of David Warwick in Utah. Madison County Prosecutor Rob Wood is now handing a CD of the recording to Gibb.
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The 21-minute recording is about to be played.
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Court is taking 15 to cool down the room again as technical difficulties on the CD player are worked out.
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Melani Gibb has now taken the stand in the
#ChadDaybell preliminary hearing. Gibb is a friend of Daybell and
#LoriVallow.
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“I was wondering why you would tell the police he was with me,” Gibb says.
#LoriVallow said most of her family is working against her. Lori says
#JJVallow “is safe and he’s happy.”
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She asks, what happened to
#JJVallow. Lori responds “I had to move him someplace else because of her actions.” Her is referencing Kay Woodcock.
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In the call Gibb asks about
#AlexCox allegedly telling her that she doesn’t want to know where
#JJVallow is and nobody will find him.
#LoriVallow responds it is so “he can be safe.”
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#LoriVallow says in the call police are working with Kay Woodcock in a “dark capacity.”
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“He’s perfectly fine and safe,”
#LoriVallow said in the call. She says she knew exactly where
#JJVallow is.
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In the call
#LoriVallow starts to share Latter-Day Saint teachings from the Book of Mormon to justify why she needs to hide.
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Melani Gibb starts the phone call on Dec. 8 with
#ChadDaybell and
#LoriVallow. Chad calls her “Sweet Melani” and doesn’t initially say where they are.
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Witnesses on the stand (8/3)
1. Det. Ray Hermosillo
2. Lt. Ron Ball
3. Det. David Stubbs
4. Wynn Hill
5. Melanie Gibb
Subpoenaed:
FBI Special Agent Benjamin Dean
FBI Special Agent Steven Daniels
FBI Agent Gary Lyu Idaho St. Police Forensic Services - Rylene Nowlin
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On the phone recording, Gibb introduces what she is about to do. Then dials and Daybell picks up saying “Hello sweet Melanie.”
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Vallow asks Gibb “how are you doing babe?” Gibb then asks Vallow about JJ about him going to Kay Woodcock’s house. Vallow said she had to move him elsewhere.
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Vallow: “There’s people after me.” Then she and Daybell tell Gibb they want to keep her protected. Gibb asks why Vallow told her to tell police JJ was w/ her. Vallow says family members were working w/ Kay against her. Vallow says JJ is “safe and happy” during the call.
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Vallow tells Gibb on the call about JJ’s whereabouts: “I don’t want anyone to know.” Gibb: “Are you gonna come back?” Vallow: “I will do whatever the Lord needs me to do.”
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It’s been a terribly long day for Kay and Larry Woodcock, reliving this nightmare in full detail. They are still listening to this phone call between Vallow, Gibb & Daybell.
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Vallow and Gibb are recorded on the call speaking about scriptures. Gibb wanted to read her a specific scripture.
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“I promise you I have done nothing wrong in this case.” - Vallow “The darkness of Kay.. you know she’s dark,” Vallow goes onto say. Near the end of the call, Vallow wonders if Gibb is recording her.
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“I believe you have been very deceived by Satan,” Gibb says to Vallow on phone. “Tammy dies, your husband died... in my gut it feels weird... I have always felt weird about these things.” - Gibb “You know me Mel. It sounds like you’ve been influenced by someone dark.” - Vallow
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Daybell joins in on the call. He says his own children were there when Tammy died. He said she was physically falling apart and hates doctors.
A family member of Tammy tells me she was in great health.
Daybell also says he knew his wife would die for a few years.
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Vallow: “I’m sorry I included you in those teachings,” in response to Gibb saying she has had a bad feeling for a while. The call starts to intensify w/ spiritual talk.
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Vallow starts to become angrier. The argument becomes about scriptures. Gibb accuses Vallow of opening “dark portals” on this phone call.
“I’m sorry that you don’t want to me protect my children.” - Vallow
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This turned into a catty fight over the phone. Gibb and Vallow arguing over the alleged affair she had w/ Daybell.
“We’re both standing there with Jesus Christ.” - Vallow
Gibb says phone call cut off right after. All parties agree to recess for the day and return tomorrow.
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My goodness.
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