‘Cult mom’ Lori Vallow’s missing autistic son, 7, is seen playing and laughing in doorbell cam vid before he disappeared
DOORBELL camera footage shows “cult mom” Lori Vallow’s missing seven-year-old son playing outside just days before he disappeared. Joshua “JJ” Vallow, who has autism, was seen laughing and playing in the final captured sighting from a neighbor’s camera on September 1 7 — just six days before he was last seen at school. JJ and […]
DOORBELL camera footage shows “cult mom” Lori Vallow’s missing seven-year-old son playing outside just days before he disappeared.
Joshua “JJ” Vallow, who has autism, was seen laughing and playing in the final captured sighting from a neighbor’s camera on September 1 7 — just six days before he was last seen at school.
JJ and his sister, Tylee Ryan, 17, have not been seen in over five months — but the children were not reported missing until November, sparking a widespread investigation into their disappearance.
Vallow was arrested this week in connection with her kids’ disappearance.
The video, captured by a neighbor and shared with KUTV, shows JJ playing outside in the yard with a friend in Rexburg, Idaho.
In the video, JJ runs across the sidewalk between yards with some kind of stick in his hand, as he and his friend yell playfully.
He occasionally raises his arms into the air, playing carefree with his friend as they run across the yard.
Just a week after the video was taken, Vallow pulled her children out of school and said she was going to homeschool them.
JJ was last seen at school on September 23.
Another clip from the same camera more than a month later shows Vallow at the same apartment, indicating she likely still lived there at the time.
The neighbor told KUTV they were afraid to go on camera, as Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, are allegedly members of a “doomsday cult.”
Daybell is an author, who writes about the end of the world.
Although the kids haven’t been seen since September, they were not reported missing until months later, after JJ’s grandmother had police complete a welfare check on the kids in November.
As Rexburg police began to question Vallow over her children’s whereabouts, she and Daybell moved to Hawaii, where they have been staying in a rented condo in Princeville.
Vallow was arrested late last week in Hawaii — where she has been staying for the past few months — after she failed to produce her children in front of police.
Police had given Vallow five days to produce her children by January 30.
The mother has had little to say surrounding her children’s disappearance.
Vallow was charged with two counts of desertion and nonsupport of her children, along with a sling of other charges in Idaho in relation to their disappearance, Kaua’i Police said.
She also allegedly failed to go quietly when police arrested her, and now faces two counts for resisting arrest in Hawaii.
As police have searched for Vallow’s kids, she has made conflicting statements about their whereabouts.
Police said at one point that Vallow claimed her kids were staying with a relative in Arizona.
She told the parents of her husband Chad Daybell — who she married just a few weeks after the kids were last seen — that she was an empty nester, despite having two children.
Police say one person was told by the couple that Tylee died a year before her father, and Daybell also said Vallow had no minor children.
In addition to the disappearance of the children, multiple people close to Daybell and Vallow have died under mysterious circumstances, leading police to look further into the deaths.
Vallow’s fourth husband was shot by her brother, and Daybell’s wife of 30 years, Tammy, 49, died in October.
According to Tammy’s obituary, the mother-of-five died when she was ambushed by a masked person, holding something that appeared to be like a paintball gun, while she was sleeping.
Cops say Daybell collected a $430,000 life insurance policy on his late wife.
Weeks after his wife’s death, Daybell and Vallow were married.
Records surfaced last week show she was also linked with the botched murder attempt of her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux.
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In her first court appearance Friday, Vallow smirked as the judge questioned her before her bail was set at $5 million.
She will appear in court next on March 2, as she tries to fight extradition to Idaho.
There, Vallow faces a possible 14-year sentence for each charge surrounding the disappearance of her children.
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