‘Cult mom’ Lori Vallow made chilling Internet searches about insurance payouts before murdering children JJ and Tylee
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BOISE, IDAHO: Police revealed the doomsday cult mom Lori Vallow's chilling Google searches during the trial for the 2019 murder of her two children, Joshua "JJ" Vallow, 7, and daughter Tylee Ryan 16. The disturbing searches made by the “lollytime4ever” Gmail account, which has been linked to Vallow, consisted of life insurance policies and wedding rings stemming from the period her child mysteriously vanished.
The high-profile case accuses Vallow and her fifth husband Chad Daybell of a sick plot, fueled by their religious beliefs, to "mercy kill" JJ and Tylee. Daybell's first wife, Tammy, was believed to have died in her sleep from natural causes but prosecutors claim she too was murdered by the pair. Vallow has pleaded not guilty to all murder, conspiracy, and grand theft charges.
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Chilling Google searches
On the fourteenth day of Vallow's trial, the Ada County jurors heard about the alarming searches made by the mother of two. In July 2019, the 49-year-old searched "gerber life policy, life insurance for children – the Grow-Up Plan," court records indicated, as per The Sun. In September, the same month her children disappeared, she also searched for "possessed" and "how to remove the rear seat of my Jeep Wrangler" on YouTube. Meanwhile, the pair faced public scrutiny after it was revealed that they enjoyed a honeymoon in Hawaii shortly after their children vanished and Tammy Daybell was found dead.
Lori tried to pin Tammy's death on demon
In October, Lori Vallow searched for wedding dresses in Kauai, which Rexburg Police Officer David Stubbs deemed suspicious. “What also caught my attention was this was being looked at on the same day as Tammy’s funeral,” he noted. Prosecutors argued that Vallow and Daybell conspired to kill Tammy in order to collect her life insurance policy and social security payments.
Stubbs noted one of Vallow's searches for malachite wedding rings on August 25, 2019, and said, “We were thinking it was odd for her to be looking at wedding rings at that time," referring to the fact that Daybell was still married to Tammy. Vallow's ex-sister-in-law Zulema Pastenes previously revealed that she made eerie claims about Tammy's death and said she had been possessed by a demon named Viola. She allegedly said, "That was the reason why Tammy had passed away because they were finally able to do a casting of a demon." Tylee and JJ were last seen alive in September 2019 before their bodies were found buried on Daybell’s property in June 2020.