13 things about San Bernardino, California native Lori Daybell

Lori Vallow Daybell lived in Idaho, United States and Arizona, USA. Born Lori Norene Cox in San Bernardino, California, USA to Barry Lynn Cox and Janice Lee Cox Cox, Daybell has two older brothers namely Alexander Lamar “Alex” Cox and Adam L. Cox, an older sister named Stacey Cox and a younger sister named Summer Novelle Cox Shiflet.

BIOGRAPHY

Daybell and her fifth husband Chad Daybell share doomsday beliefs. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. Between 1992 and 2019, she got married five times.
2. In 1992, she married her high school sweetheart Nelson Yanes but they divorced shortly after.
3. In 1995, she married William Lagioia.
4. In 1996, she gave birth to Colby Lagioia.
5. In 2001, she married Joseph Anthony Ryan Jr., who legally adopted Colby and changed the child’s name to Colby Ryan.
6. In 2005, she and Joseph divorced.
7. In 2006, she married Leland Anthony “Charles” Vallow, who is Todd Trahan‘s uncle.
8. In July 2014, she and Charles legally adopted Trahan and Mandy Leger‘s son Canaan Todd Trahan and changed the child’s name to Joshua Jaxon “J.J.” Vallow.
9. In 2015, she obsessively read Chad’s book “The Celestial City (Standing in Holy Places),” which was published on June 30, 2008.
10. In 2017, she moved to Arizona with Charles, J.J. and Tylee Ryan.
11. In 2019, she married Chad after her husband Charles was killed by her brother Alex, who also died later that year.
12. Her children Tylee and J.J. went missing in 2019 and were found dead in 2020.
13. On June 26, 2025, she turned 52.

TIMELINE

Lori is incarcerated in Estrella Jail in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. It is a women-only jail constructed in 1991.

1990s

• On October 22, 1995, she married William in Travis County, Texas, USA.
• On February 25, 1998, she and William divorced.

2000s

• On September 24, 2002, she gave birth to Tylee.
• On August 13, 2004, Joseph filed for divorce against her, which was finalized on May 18, 2005.
• On February 24, 2006, she and Charles got married.
• On August 5, 2007, her brother Alex attacked Joseph in Travis County with a taser and threatened to murder him. Alex pleaded guilty and served a 90-day sentence in jail in Austin, Texas.

2010s

• In July 2014, she and Charles legally adopted J.J.
• In December 2014, she moved to Kauai, Hawaii, USA with Charles, Tylee and J.J.
• On April 3, 2018, her former husband Joseph died from a myocardial infraction.
• On December 5, 2018, she joined Chad in an episode of “Preparing a People” podcast titled “Time to Warrior Up.” 
• On January 28, 2019, she transferred $10,000 out of Charles’ business account into an unknown account and 2,000 Enterprise points to her personal account while he was on a business trip.
• On January 29, 2019, she transferred $25,000 out of Charles’ business account to an unknown account.
• From February 10, 2019 to April 9, 2019, she vanished after telling Charles that she no longer cared about him and J.J. and that she was the reincarnated wife of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith.
• Charles filed for divorce against her on February 8, 2019 but withdrew it on March 6, 2019.
• On July 11, 2019, her brother Alex fatally shot Charles in her house in Chandler, Arizona.
• On October 2, 2019, she bought a wedding ring for $35.99 on Amazon from Charles’ account. On the same day, her nephew-in-law Brandon Boudreaux was the target of a failed drive-by shooting in Gilbert by someone driving a green Jeep Cherokee still registered to Charles.
• On November 5, 2019, she and Chad got married in Hawaii.
• On November 26, 2019, the Rexburg Police Department learned that her children Tylee and J.J. were missing.
• On November 27, 2019, she and Chad vanished.
• Her brother Alex married Zulema Pastenes on November 29, 2019 and legally changed his named to Alex Pastenes on November 30, 2019.
• On December 20, 2019, the Rexburg Police Department officially announced an investigation into the disappearances of her children Tylee and J.J.
• On December 12, 2019, her brother Alex died of blood clots and high blood pressure at his home in Gilbert, Arizona.

2020s

• On January 25, 2020, she and Chad were found in Kauai where authorities served her with court order requiring her to produce Tylee and J.J. within five days. She missed the deadline on January 30, 2020.
• On February 20, 2020, the Kauai Police Department arrested her in Princeville, Hawaii and prosecutors in Madison County, Idaho charged her with two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children as well as three misdemeanors namely resisting or obstructing officers, criminal solicitation to commit a crime and contempt of court. She agreed to be extradited back to Idaho to fight the charges.
• On March 6, 2020, she arrived in Rexburg and was taken to Madison County Jail. 
• She spoke to Chad via telephone on June 9, 2020, the same day Tylee and J.J.’s were found on his property in Salem, and a jailhouse recording of the conversation was played during a court proceeding on August 4, 2020 to determine whether or not he would stand trial on charges related to the hiding of the two children’s remains.
• On July 2, 2020, prosecutors dropped two felony counts filed against her and charged her instead with obstruction or concealment of evidence.
• On April 19, 2022, she and Chad appeared in court in Idaho. She pleaded not guilty to murder and conspiracy, among other charges. She was initially held on $5 million bail, which was later lowered to $1 million.
• On July 17, 2020, Magistrate Judge Michelle Mallard in Madison County decreased her bail to $150,000 but noted she would still need to post $1 million in Fremont County, Idaho to get out of jail.
• On May 12, 2023, she was found guilty in Boise, Idaho of murdering her two children and conspiring to kill her husband’s former wife.
• On July 31, 2023, Judge Steven Boyce sentenced her in Idaho to multiple fixed life terms in prison with no possibility of parole for murdering Tylee and J.J. and conspiring to murder Chad’s then-wife Tammy Daybell.
• On July 25, 2025, Judge Justin Beresky sentenced her in Arizona to two more life sentences in prison conspiring to murder Charles and Boudreaux.