![]() Lori Vallow, 49, had been due to stand trial alongside her husband Chad Daybell, 54, but their cases were separated earlier this month ‘We had to go in and pick up the pieces out of the hole,’ said Hermosillo.Īs the discoveries were made, Daybell attempted to flee the scene in his car ‘at a high rate of speed’ but was stopped and arrested. ‘Three or four’ detectives climbed into the ditch to try and remove the remains but they were too damaged. Under the bucket they found a ‘partial human skull’. ‘The flesh and bone was all kind of stuffed in that melting bucket,’ he said. The bucket was melted so it was kind of deformed.’ ‘Once we removed some of that, under them there was another round blobs - I’m sorry, it’s the best I can describe it - just burnt flesh, what appeared to be put in a green bucket. ‘The best I can describe was just blobs of flesh that were falling apart,’ Hermosillo said. The team used paintbrushes and small trowels to carefully remove solid and ‘eventually we uncovered bits and pieces of Tylee - who we assumed was Tylee’. We could only dig for a couple of minutes.’ ![]() ![]() We had to take turns digging because the smell was so bad. We started to uncover just burnt flesh, charred bone, the smell was again of a decomposing body. He added: ‘As we began digging we were on our hands and knees. The digging ‘exposed what appeared to be a small body wrapped in black plastic’.Ī separate dig at the yard’s pet cemetery later exposed Tylee’s remains, he said. ‘They scraped away some more solid around the round object and it began to take the shape of - it looked like the crown of a head protruding from the dirt,’ the detective said. The hole where JJ was buried was ‘just a few inches deep’. He said more ‘wood paneling’ was ‘slowly and methodically’ removed from beneath the rocks, which revealed a ‘black, round object starting to protrude’. Through my experience, it was a decomposing body.' 'As they began to remove the top layer of soil, it began to expose three white rocks,' said the detective. They deny the murders.ĭuring the second day of Vallow's trial Tuesday, Hermosillo revealed in grisly detail how JJ's remains were found by the FBI's Evidence Response Team as they searched near a tree in the yard. Daybell - who will face a separate trial over the killings - was a doomsday 'prepper' who forged a reputation through books and talks about the end of the world. The 49-year-old is also accused of conspiracy to murder her husband and Chad Daybell's ex-wife Tammy, 49. The 'doomsday cult' mom allegedly murdered the two youngsters after believing the second coming of Christ was imminent and her children were 'zombies'. The burnt remains of Tylee Ryan, left, were so badly damaged that the coroner was unable to perform an autopsy Tylee's badly burned remains were found shortly after in a pet cemetery in Daybell's yard. Vallow sat motionless as shocked jurors heard how JJ's decomposed remains were discovered first wrapped in a black plastic bag bound with duct tape. The distressing images were shown hours after Hermosillo, who searched for the missing children of ‘doomsday cult mom’ Vallow, described in gruesome detail how investigators had to take turns digging at the property because the smell of decomposing flesh was so unbearable.ĭetective Hermosillo apologized as he recounted the discoveries because he was forced to use such grim language in the description, which came as jurors were also shown harrowing photographs of the burial sites. Tylee’s remains were so badly damaged and burned that the coroner was unable to conduct an autopsy, the detective said. He added there 'was some visible bruising on his arms that the medical examiner had pointed out to us.' the tips coming in, everything we had obtained and looked at, I was able to recognize that same little boy lying on the table to be JJ Vallow. Hermosillo said: ‘Through the videos and pictures that we had seen of JJ for the last eight months. JJ’s grandfather, Larry Woodcock, broke down and sobbed in the public gallery during the highly distressing testimony. Vallow spent much of the afternoon session slouched in her seat with her head propped up by her arm, in an apparent attempt to avoid eye contact with anyone else in the courtroom - a marked shift from her previously calm appearance during much of the proceedings. Lori Vallow, pictured, allegedly killed her children after believing they were 'zombies'
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