Lori Vallow, mother of missing Idaho children, asked a friend to lie to police about son's whereabouts, affidavit says
22 Feb 2020
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When detectives in Rexburg, Idaho, asked Vallow about her son's whereabouts in November, she told them her son was staying with a friend in Arizona, a probable cause affidavit states.
After not being able to reach the friend by phone, detectives asked Vallow to call her friend herself. Vallow responded that they were at a movie theater watching "Frozen 2" and it was unlikely that her friend would answer her cell phone, the affidavit said.
When police reached the friend by phone later that day, she told police that Joshua was not with her and had not been there for several months, the document says.
More than a week later, the friend called police saying that both Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, had asked her to lie to police about the child's whereabouts but she refused, the affidavit said.
Nobody has seen or heard from Joshua and Tylee, who are referred to as J.V. and T.R. in court documents, since September and there's no indication that Vallow has been caring for them in the past months, the affidavit said.
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Her brother and husband lied to detectives, affidavit says
After Joshua's grandmother told police she hadn't heard from him, detectives went to Vallow's apartment on November 26 and spoke with her brother and Daybell outside the building, according to the affidavit.
"Chad acted as if he didn't know Lori very well and stated he didn't know her phone number," the affidavit states.
Vallow's brother told them the boy was with his grandmother in Louisiana, the affidavit says, but detectives knew she was in Arizona and the child was not with her.
After the brother directed them to an apartment that appeared vacant, Daybell drove away but one of the detectives stopped him, the document states.
When asked about Joshua, Daybell said he had last seen him in Vallow's apartment in October and gave the detective his wife's number, the affidavit says.
Daybell is not facing any charges linked to the missing children, police said. The Madison County Prosecutor declined to comment on whether Daybell would receive any charges in the future.
His attorney is also Sean Bartholick, who could not be reached for comment.
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