Lori Vallow was arrested Thursday and charged with child abandonment, Hawaiian police said in a statement.
The disappearance of his two children, a 17-year-old girl from a previous marriage and a 7-year-old autistic boy, last seen on September 23, 2019, was reported by the boy’s grandparents in November.
The investigation took a gruesome ride when police discovered that many people around the mother and her new husband Chad Daybell, author of esoteric books in which he recounts his “near-death” experiences and contact with the afterlife, were dead recently.
Police found Lori’s third husband, Joseph Ryan, father of her daughter, died in 2018, apparently from a heart attack . In addition, she was in the process of divorcing her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, when he was shot and killed on July 11. Lori’s brother, Alex Cox, said he fired, in self-defense.
The mission to prepare the Apocalypse
In his divorce petition, Charles Vallow indicated that his wife, with whom he was then living in Arizona, said he was invested by God with the mission of preparing the Apocalypse scheduled for July 2020.
On October 19, Chad’s wife, Tammy Daybell, died at age 49 of so-called “natural” causes. On December 2, Lori’s brother also dies.
At the beginning of November, Lori and Chad Daybell, widowed for two weeks, leave Idaho for Hawaii where they get married. No children are seen with them.
The police, who opened investigations into all these deaths, then asked the justice of Hawaii to question Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell and to order them to present the children on January 30.
It is because this order was not followed by effect that the couple was arrested. The new husband was released but the mother was jailed on $5 million bail. She faces 30 years in prison.