Lori Vallow looked up kids’ life insurance before children vanished
The doomsday cult mom who allegedly killed her children out of religious fixation looked up the kids’ life insurance weeks before they vanished and searched for wedding dresses online the day her then-boyfriend’s wife was buried, law enforcement revealed in Idaho court this week.
Lori Vallow Daybell, 49 — who is on trial in Boise for the murders of her children Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, 7, and conspiring to kill her husband Chad Daybell’s first wife — had shocking internet history around the time of all three of their deaths, FBI analyst Nicole Heideman testified Monday.
Heideman said that someone using Vallow Daybell’s “lollytime4ever” Gmail account googled “gerber life insurance policy” and “life insurance for children – the Grow-Up Plan” in July 2019, the East Idaho News reported.
Gerber Life Insurance’s website lists the Grow-Up Plan as a children’s life insurance policy that builds cash value.
A few days later, the same Gmail account also looked up how to sell a service dog, Heideman said. J.J., who was on the autism spectrum, reportedly used a service dog.
Tylee and J.J. were last seen alive in September 2019, just weeks after both searches were made. Vallow Daybell never reported either child missing, and missed a court-ordered deadline to produce them safely on Jan. 30, 2020.
A few months later, in June, authorities uncovered Tylee and J.J. ‘s remains in Daybell’s backyard in Salem, Idaho. Earlier trial testimony revealed that Tylee had been dismembered and burned, while J.J. had been wrapped in plastic and duct tape, People reported.
During opening statements, prosecutors argued that Vallow Daybell killed both children in a fit of religious obsession fueled by a fixation on the second coming