As the search forLori Vallow’s two missing childrencontinues, the grandfather of her 7-year-old adopted boy is pleading with Lori’s newlywed husband to “do some soul searching” and help authorities locate the kids.
Lori’s husband Chad Daybell, an author who writes of religious doomsday prophecies,returned Saturdayto his Idaho home from Hawaii, where Lori is jailed and awaiting extradition after her arrest there related to the disappearance of 7-year-old Joshua “J.J.” Vallow and his sister, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan, reportsEast Idaho News.
“Chad, I know you are on your way back to Idaho,” J.J.’s grandfather Larry Woodcock said inan interview withFox & Friends Weekend.
“When you get there, please do a lot of soul searching,” he said. “Somewhere in that vicinity there are two children and we want them back safe and we hope that you will have this come-to-Jesus meeting with yourself and address these issues as soon as possible.”
Woodcock and his wife, Kay, last spoke with J.J. on Aug. 10 in a brief FaceTime call, he said.
Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, at left, and Tylee Ryan.Rexburg Police Department (2)
Until the events of the recent months, “I thought [Lori] was a wonderful mom,” said Woodcock, who has known her for more than 10 years. “Had we not thought that and cared for her and Charles the way that we did, we would have certainly never given up J.J. to allow them to adopt.”
Larry Woodcock said the current case has revealed two sides to Lori, who married Chad in November just weeks after Chad’s wife died.
Chad Daybell, Lori Vallow Daybell.Eric Grossarth/ EastIdahoNews.com
“The first Lori is the absolutely wonderful mom, as one lady said recently — the mom that other moms wanted to be like,” he said. “And then there is Lori today and within the last several months that I don’t understand.”
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Kay and Larry Woodcock.Dayley Smith/Rexburg Standard Journal
On Feb. 20,police in Kaua’i arrested Lori and charged herwith two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children after she defied a Jan. 30 court-ordered deadline to produce the two children. She also is charged with arrests and seizures — resisting or obstructing officers, criminal solicitation to commit a crime, and contempt of court — as well as willful disobedience of court process or order.
Each count carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison, according to the prosecutor’s office.
On Wednesday,a judge in Hawaii refused to reduce the $5 million bailset for her. Lori previously had fought extradition to Idaho, where the criminal charges against her were issued, but she waived her right to an extradition hearing and now will be returned to deal with the allegations.
She has not yet entered a plea and her attorney, Craig De Costa, could not immediately be reached. But during a hearing last Wednesday, De Costa characterized the charges against her as“false accusations,” reports CNN.
As Chad prepared to leave Hawaii ahead of his wife’s extradition, he claimed the“kids are safe”in a brief comment toABC News, but did not otherwise disclose their whereabouts.
source: people.com
