The bodies of doomsday-obsessed mom Lori Vallow’s missing kids were discovered because of a dead man’s cellphone.
Location data from a phone belonging to Vallow’s deceased brother, Alex Cox, led investigators to the precise spot on the Idaho property where the bodies of the children, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, 17, were found last week, according to the Daily Mail.
Cox, 51, who died suddenly in December, shot and killed his sister’s estranged husband Charles Vallow in 2019 in what Cox had claimed was self-defense. His apparent role in the case of his missing nephew and niece came to light in an affidavit unsealed by authorities on Friday.
The children disappeared in September. Their bodies turned up on the property owned by Vallow’s new husband, Chad Daybell.
Both Lori Vallow and Daybell are behind bars. The pair fled to Hawaii after refusing to cooperate with authorities searching for Vallow’s children.