The Murders of Tylee and JJ: The DNA Solution?

Tylee Ryan and J.J. Vallow’s bodies are discovered on June 9, 2020, on the property of Chad Daybell in Rexburg, Idaho. After months of missing person investigations, complicated circumstances surrounding their disappearance, and a string of suspicious deaths, police have charged Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell in the horrific murders of Tylee Ryan and J.J. Vallow. 

 

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the complex case against Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell in the murders of Tylee Ryan and J.J Vallow. They also discuss the striking differences between the ways in which Tylee and J.J 's bodies were treated post-mortem, complications of processing the crime scene, and the request to allow for forensic DNA testing on the evidence collected by the state of Idaho.

 

Show Notes:

1:00 - Introducing the deaths of Tylee Ryan and Joshua Jaxon “J.J.” Vallow

1:54 - Sections 1: A brief history of the confusing events that led to finding the remains of Tylee and J.J. buried on the property of Chad Daybell

5:29 - The mysterious death of Tammy Daybell

8:03 - Cause of death: natural causes, a seemingly inaccurate determination for a physically active woman who was in good health

10:32 - Searching for physical evidence of the cause of death in an exhumed embalmed body

12:00 - How authorities located the remains of Tylee and J.J. 

15:41 - The striking differences between the treatment of Tylee and J.J.'s bodies

18:32 - Section 2: Processing the crime scene

20:57 -  Examining the evidence on the tape and plastic bag encasing J.J. Vallow

22:17 - The problem with cutting open a bag containing remains at the crime scene

24:07- Recovery of Tylee’s remains

28:24 - Individualization of evidence: examining every bone fragment of a dismembered body

30:16 - Section three: Forensic DNA testing on the evidence recovered at Daybell’s property by the state’s crime scene unit 

33:40 - Specific evidence found at the crime scene

39:30 - Consumptive testing: setting a dangerous precedent by allowing third-party observers 

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