Mother of two missing Idaho kids found in Hawaii with new husband

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Police in Hawaii say the mother of two missing Idaho children has been found in the state, along with her new husband, but the children still have not been located.
Tylee Ryan, 17, and Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, have been missing since September 2019. Police say their mother, now named Lori Vallow Daybell, and her new husband initially lied to investigators about where the children were. When police returned to their home in Idaho to question them, the adults had disappeared. Lori Vallow's estranged husband, Charles Vallow, was shot and killed by her brother, Alex Cox, in Arizona last summer. Cox also died in December of an undisclosed cause.
Daybell's last wife, Tammy Daybell, died in October of what the family called “natural causes,” but police in Idaho have since exhumed her remains for further investigation. The findings of that investigation have not been released. Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell were married two weeks after Tammy Daybell's death.

Vallow's estranged former husband, Charles Vallow, was killed in Arizona in July. Charles Vallow, 62, came from Texas to visit Lori Vallow and their children. But after he arrived to pick up his son, Charles and Lori Vallow started arguing.

Lori Vallow's brother, Alex Cox, intervened and killed Charles Vallow, police said at the time. On Dec. 12, Cox died. Police were awaiting autopsy results to determine the cause of death.

Chad Daybell, who says on his website that he is a Latter-day Saint, has written and self-published more than 25 books, some of which focus on near-death experiences, including Daybell's own. Other books fictionalize the end of the world.

Both Daybell and Vallow were involved in an organization called "Preparing A People," which has said it is "not a 'group' and is not a 'Cult' or something people join" in a posted statement on its website.

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