This is unbelievable. A legitimate official had legally authorized Lori's petition for commitment for psychological observation and despite this rookie police officer's spoken claim not to be taking sides between Charles and Lori, he is actively advocating for her, coaching her (wink, wink) about how to make herself scarce after Charles shows up with her purse/phone but before LE can verify the petition for her commitment by telling her the window of time in which she could just leave without them stopping her. And then he tells her how to avoid LE enforcing the commitment at Community Bridges by just showing up at the place without being brought in OR by refusing to answer the door if officers are sent to collect her. He has NO IDEA what the official who authorized Lori's commitment knows. He has NO IDEA what he is enabling or not enabling.
Were police officers as accommodating to Charles when Charles spoke with police, or does he lack the requisite characteristics (blond, petite, female, flirty, friend of JM)? (ETA: One wonders what that rookie police officer's supervisor said to whoever he spoke with when he verified the authorization of the petition for commitment and whether what that officer said played a role in Community Bridges allowing Lori to leave so quickly after she checked in.)
LE's behavior begs rigorous investigation.
Combine the fact that a court had in the past ordered video surveillance whenever Charles's sons from a prior marriage were in the home with Lori, the commitment petition that was legitimately authorized whatever the rookie police officer personally thought about it based on a half-hour in the presence of its subject, this police report experience that appears completely unprofessional, biased, and bizarre in so many respects, and the fact that Charles was shot in Lori's presence less than five months later and there is plenty of reason that the killing of Charles Vallow should have raised immediate and substantial suspicion among LE that a self-defense claim was complete baloney and the place was a serious crime scene that should have been properly processed and the witnesses should have been considered potential perpetrators who should have been properly and separately questioned (incl. Tylee). Add in the life insurance claim four days later and the utter lack of suspicion on LE's part begins to make them look like they abandoned the law and allowed Lori her way with Charles, whatever that might be.
Lori takes Tylee along as a witness and for moral support when making the police report about her stolen purse/phone, but she beats feet out of there with both kids in tow "for their own protection" when the father they have lived with for many years is murdered while they are at the home. "Get the hell out of here," JJ repeatedly shouted when playing with his friend in the center lawn at Rexburg. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out when JJ heard those words and they made such an impression on him. Clearly the reason he couldn't be trusted to privately FaceTime with his grandparents either. Also clearly the reason he and Tylee can't be found today.
It is also sickening watching the jovial atmosphere in this room, like this is all a big joke and Charles is the butt of it. And as I've said before, it is beyond disgusting that Tylee is in that room at all. Lori treated her like an appendage and she deserved a life valued as its own.
