Police detail cultish beliefs of mom charged in kids' deaths

Newly released documents from the complex investigation of a woman accused of conspiring to kill her children and husband reveal sordid details of a cult-like belief system.

Both are charged in Idaho with conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of Lori's children, 7-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan. They face the same charge in the death of Chad's previous wife, Tammy Daybell. Tammy Daybell died unexpectedly at the home in eastern Idaho that she shared with Chad Daybell and investigators became suspicious after Chad Daybell married Lori two weeks later.

The children were missing for months, but their bodies were eventually found buried in the yard outside Chad Daybell's eastern Idaho home.

And Lori Daybell is also charged in Arizona with conspiring to kill her former estranged husband, Charles Vallow, with the help of her now-deceased brother, Alex Cox. It was Charles Vallow's death on July 11, 2019, that launched the Chandler Police Department investigation. More than 50 files from the investigation, including hundreds of pages of police reports and dozens of video and audio recordings, were released by the police department on Wednesday.