‘Cult mom’ Lori Vallow’s daughter was ‘dismembered and burned and her skull and teeth found near a melted bucket’
INVESTIGATORS have said they found Lori Vallow’s daughter’s skull and teeth in a melted bucket — months after the teen’s remains were found in Idaho.
At a preliminary hearing for on Tuesday, Special Agent Steve Daniels told the court that the remains of because she had been burned.
“It was a mass of dismembered human remains, partially burnt,” Daniels said. “We did the best we could but it was kind of hard to recognize.
“We just couldn't tell what we were dealing with. We ended up excavating all the way around it and at the very bottom of this mass, we find this melted green bucket and then to the bottom, to the side of that green bucket, we eventually find a skull,” he said.
He added, , they “found some teeth.”
“We did the, the team did the best they could to kind of excavate around this and tell this story,” Daniels said on Tuesday.
Investigators confirmed they found the "charred" remains of Tylee Ryan and her younger brother, JJ Vallow, seven, in the backyard of Daybell’s home on June 9.
were searching."
When he tried to leave, saw him, pulled him over, and arrested him "due to the fact that human remains were discovered on his property."
Daybell has been with two felony counts of destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence after the remains were discovered two months ago.
His wife preliminary hearing is scheduled for next Monday.
She’s been charged with two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children, and one misdemeanor count each of resisting and obstructing an officer, solicitation of a crime and contempt.
, have included testimony from the detectives who discovered Tylee and JJ’s remains on the Idaho property in June after a monthslong search for the children.
FBI Agent Daniels said while searching, they found JJ’s pelvic bone, which he said was a “major piece of evidence.”
JJ’s body was found inside of a black plastic bag, and .
The kids were last seen in September 2019, and on the day Tylee was last seen alive, Daybell claimed he shot and buried a “big raccoon.”
The FBI has said it found texts Daybell sent his late wife, Tammy, who died last year, on September 9, explaining to her what he was supposedly doing.
Daybell claimed he had shot and killed a raccoon on the property and was burying the animal in his fire pit.
"Well, I've had an interesting morning! I felt I should burn all of the limb debris by the fire pit before it got too soaked by the coming rains," Daybell texted Tammy just before noon on September 9, according to the FBI.
"While I did so, I spotted a big raccoon along the fence. I hurried and got my gun, and he was still walking along. I got close enough that one shot did the trick. He is now in our pet cemetery," Daybell said. "Fun times!"
Daybell told his late wife that he buried a large raccoon in pet cemetery where the kids' bodies were found.
In court on Tuesday, FBI Special Agent Benjamin Dean said the texts were weird because it was the first time he saw Daybell explain details of his day.
He said previous messages between Daybell and his former wife read things like, “I love you” and “can’t sleep without you.”
The day cops searched his property in June, Daybell called Vallow in jail — and the audio was played in court on Tuesday.
“Are they seizing stuff again?” Vallow asks several times during the June 9 call from Madison County Jail, after Daybell tells her police are conducting a search at his property.
“Are you OK? What can I do for you?"
Daybell responds: “I’m not really supposed to be talking to you,” before adding that he's "glad" she called.
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The pair go on to repeatedly profess their love for each other.
Minutes later, investigators made the grisly discovery at Daybell's home.
When Vallow was first questioned about her missing children in November 2019, she told cops she was a "good person," .