Doomsday author Chad Daybell’s first wife was found dead with ‘pink foam coming out of her mouth’, family friend claims
THE spotlight is back on the mysterious death of Chad Daybell's first wife Tammy after a grisly discovery was made at his home.
On Tuesday, authorities served a search warrant at Chad's rural Idaho property, where they unearthed the remains of his second wife Lori Vallow's two children: Tylee Ryan, 17, and seven-year-old Joshua. Chad was arrested and charged with two counts of felony destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence.
Court documents allege Chad hid or between September 22, 2019 and June 9, 2020 knowing that they could be used as evidence in a criminal proceeding.
He is being held at Fremont County Jail on a $1million bond with his next hearing set for July 1.
with child abandonment, obstructing an investigation, contempt of court and soliciting a crime and is in jail also on a $1million bond. She has pleaded not guilty.
Lori, 46, and Chad, 51, have been linked to a string of suspicious deaths that occurred prior to their wedding on November 5 last year – including , his wife of 23 years and mother of their five children.
An for the 49-year-old, described how she "passed away peacefully in her sleep" on October 19.
Neighbors reportedly claimed that Tammy at their Salem home. Chad and Lori wed just two weeks after Tammy died.
According to colleague Mandy Fowler, the day after her friend's death, she met with Tammy's daughter Emma - who shared concerns with her and others about having seen her dead mother with pink foam coming out of her mouth, the reports.
Mandy and multiple sources reportedly told KSL that Chad refused to have an autopsy performed on his wife. They also expressed concerns about Tammy's funeral, which they felt was rushed.
In December, police ruled that her death was suspicious and began investigating it alongside the disappearance of the Vallow children.
Tammy's body was exhumed from Springville’s Evergreen Cemetery for an autopsy in December. The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office says Tammy’s autopsy results are still pending.
Tammy, a typically cheerful librarian at Central Elementary School, appeared distant and frustrated the day before she was found dead, according to Mandy.
Mandy told the she approached Tammy to consult her about book recommendations that day.
When a supervisor later delivered the news of Tammy Daybell’s death, “I was in total disbelief,” Mandy recalled. “Everyone was having a hard time because it was so sudden.”
In April, the Idaho Attorney General launched an ongoinginvolvement in Tammy's death.
But Sheriff Len Humphries told The Sun investigators found no evidence relating to her mysterious death when they searched the Daybell property this week. Police previously
The Idaho Attorney General’s Office which is investigating Tammy’s death says it’s “refraining from commenting on a pending investigation”.
On Monday, Tammy’s father Ron Douglas told ABC4 it was a sensitive time for his family.
“I appreciate the concern for my daughter,” he said.
“There will be a time when we’re ready to make a comment. Right now, we aren’t ready to talk on-camera.”
Close relatives of Tammy's offered their condolences on Thursday after the remains of the Vallow children were unearthed.
“We share the pain of the tremendous and shocking loss you are enduring,” Tammy Daybell’s family members said in a statement addressed to relatives grieving over the loss of Tylee and Joshua.
“We still suffer and we will suffer with you for many years to come.”
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They're not the only ones who have tragically lost a loved one linked to Chad and Lori.
Lori's estranged husband, Charles Vallow, was shot and killed by her brother Alex Cox before Alex's own death, found to be from natural causes.
In divorce papers filed prior to the killing, Charles alleged his wife considered herself “a god assigned to carry out the work of the 144,000 at Christ’s second coming in July 2020”.