Lori Vallow Daybell.Photo: Tony Blakeslee/East Idaho News
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A former friend ofLori Vallow Daybellwho took the stand Wednesday during Lori’s ongoing murder trial alleged that the Idaho mom once threatened to kill her.
“She said she would cut me up and wasn’t in the mental place to do it but would get herself in a place to do it,” Barattiero alleged in court, reportsEast Idaho News. “There would be blood and bleach and something about trash bags. She would bury me in a place nobody would ever find me.”
In her testimony, Barattiero stated that she had felt very uncomfortable with the things that were being said during her “casting sessions” — purportedly to cast out evil spirits — with Lori, according to CBS2’s Kerndl.
Lori is currently on trialin Boise, Idaho, on charges she murdered her two children,Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, 7, andTylee Ryan, 16, and conspired to murder her fifth husband’s first wife Tammy Daybell.
J.J. and Tylee disappeared in September 2019 — the month before Barattiero’s visit. Tammy Daybell, the first wife of Lori’s husbandChad Daybell, died in the home she shared with Chad on October 19 of that same year. Two weeks later on November 5,Lori and Chad— an author who wrote about religious doomsday scenarios — married in Hawaii.
Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell in Hawaii.Eric Grossarth/ EastIdahoNews.com
Earlier in the trial, Rexburg, Idaho,police detective Ray Hermosillo testifiedabout the day he found the remains of Lori’s two children buried on Chad’s Idaho property in June 2020. Hermosillo said that he and a few other detectives began digging in the dirt with their hands.
“We eventually uncovered bits and pieces of Tylee — whom we assumed it was Tylee — that had been burned. There were pieces of bone, charred flesh, just globs of flesh that were falling apart,” Hermosillo said.
Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, at left, and his sister Tylee Ryan.
The remains of J.J. were found wrapped in black bags underneath a tree in the backyard.
“I saw a little boy in red pajamas,” Hermosillo said. “He had a white plastic bag around his head. Several layers of duct tape from chin to his forehead area. His arm was duct taped with several layers. [His arms] were folded across his chest. His feet were also duct taped and bound.”
Detective Hermosillo.Lisa Cheney of Boise, Idaho
J.J., who had an autism diagnosis, was last seen Sept. 23, 2019, at his Rexburg school before Lori withdrew him and told the principal she was considering home-schooling. The last known image of Tylee was taken Sept. 8, 2019, while she was on a day trip to Yellowstone National Park with her mother, brother and uncleAlex Cox, according to a court filing.
Lori’s trial is ongoing. In March, it was ruled that she will not face the death penalty in the slayings. She faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted. Chad is also charged in connection with the deaths of J.J., Tylee and Tammy, and has pleaded not guilty, but will be tried at a separate time.
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source: people.com
