Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, at left, and Tylee Ryan.Photo: Rexburg Police Department (2)
The older brother of two siblings who apparently disappeared from Idaho in September says he’s “done” with their mother, who has refused to cooperate in the investigation and last week defied a court order to turn the missing kids over to police or child welfare officials.
“I’m done. I’ve been done. The day that I saw them without the kids walking around Hawaii, that was it,” Ryan toldFox10 Phoenix.
But he also says he doesn’t think Vallow would hurt his siblings. “I feel like my mom would die for the kids, so to see this and hear it, and also be questioning why they’re not being found, that’s where this all comes into a battle [between] what you think and what you feel,” he said.
Police have said they “strongly believe that Joshua and Tylee’s lives are in danger,” and in astatementalleged that Vallow “has refused to work with law enforcement to help us resolve this matter.”
Lori Vallow.Rexburg Police Department
Charles Vallow was shot and killed in a July confrontation at Lori Vallow’s home with Vallow’s brother, Alex Cox, who has since also died. Lori Vallow and Daybell subsequently married after the October death of Daybell’s then-wife, Tammy, which police have called “suspicious.”
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“There’s too many deaths — people dying — around Lori for it to all be natural. Unless she is the most unlucky person in the world,” Kay Woodcock, a grandmother to one of the missing kids, said at anews conferencelast Thursday.
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“Why would you not tell me what was going on? This is worse, this is a million times worse than what you said,” Ryan says he recalled thinking. “No matter what happened, why was he shot in the chest, why was he killed? That just doesn’t make sense, why did he have to die for a fight?”
Chad Daybell.Rexburg Police Department
He did not initially know they had moved to Idaho — and the day before last Thanksgiving, he learned something was amiss when police showed up at his door to ask about J.J. and Tylee.
“I called my mom and I’m like, ‘Two detectives just came to my door, what is going on?’ And she said ‘I got it, I’ll take care of it … Love you,’ and that was it,” he said.
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Anyone with information about either missing child is asked to call Rexburg police 208-359-3000 or 1-800-THE-LOST (843-5678).
source: people.com
