How many husbands has Lori Vallow had and what happened to them?
"CULT" mom Lori Vallow, whose kids were found "charred" and "buried" in Idaho nine months after they vanished, has had five different husbands since 1992.
On July 31, 2023, Lori Vallow was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Joshua "JJ" and Tylee Ryan.
How many husbands has Lori Vallow had and what happened to them?
Lori Vallow is famously known as the mother of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, two Idaho children who mysteriously disappeared in September 2019.
Throughout the course of her life, Vallow has been married at least five times, including Chad Daybell, according to .
Vallow's four former husbands are Nelson Yanes, William Lagioia, Joseph Ryan, and Charles Vallow.
According to reports, Vallow's first marriage was to her high school sweetheart, Yanes, in 1992, and following their divorce, she then married Lagioia.
Vallow and Lagioia - the biological dad of Vallow's eldest son, Colby Ryan - married in 1995 but parted ways a year later.
In 2001, Vallow then married her third husband, Joseph Ryan, who was Tylee's biological father.
The couple was together for three years before divorcing in 2004, and reported Ryan died of an apparent heart attack in 2018.
In 2006, Lori married Charles Vallow and the couple adopted JJ after Charles' sister, Kay Woodcock, who had been caring for the boy at the time, suggested the idea.
Charles also had two children from a previous marriage.
reported the family lived in Hawaii for a few years before returning to Arizona in June 2018.
However, within a year, Charles filed for divorce from Lori and was later fatally shot by her brother in Phoenix.
Who is Lori Vallow?
Vallow made headlines after she was arrested in Hawaii in February 2020 after failing to produce proof of life for her missing kids to the Madison County Prosecutor's Office.
At the time, police said Vallow and her current husband, Chad Daybell, had lied about the kids' whereabouts - and their existence.
Vallow married Daybell in November 2019, just weeks after her children disappeared.
Daybell's first wife, Tammy, who is now deceased, was married to Daybell for 23 years and had five children with him.
What happened to her children, JJ and Tylee?
On Friday, May 12, 2023, Lori Vallow was found guilty of all counts against her.
Vallow, who chose not to testify in her defense, is not facing the death penalty, but she is looking at a life imprisonment sentence.
During Vallow's trial, DNA analyst Keeley Coleman revealed to the Ada County courtroom that Vallow's hair was found on duct tape used to wrap her son JJ's body, shattering the defense's alibi claims.
JJ and Tylee disappeared in September 2019 but weren't reported missing until months later.
Vallow had initially told cops her children were staying with a family friend in Arizona when police conducted a welfare check at the family home in Rexburg.
Detectives later determined she lied and discovered that Daybell and Vallow "abruptly vacated their home" when police returned to question them the next day.
Authorities in Idaho said there was no sign that Joshua and Tylee Ryan ever made it to Hawaii.