Doomsday cult 'murderer' Chad Daybell thanked Lori Vallow's killer brother in a bizarre 'blessing'

Doomsday cult 'murderer' Chad Daybell delivered a bizarre 'blessing' to thank Lori Vallow's brother after he allegedly helped murder her two children. 

Alex Cox, who also shot dead Vallow's former husband and allegedly helped kill Daybell's wife, was told he had 'assisted us in ways that cannot be repaid'.

Vallow is on trial accused of the murder of her two children, JJ Vallow, seven, and Tylee Ryan, 16. She is also accused of conspiracy to murder Daybell's wife, Tammy Daybell, 49.

Jurors were played a 15-minute recording of the 'patriarchal blessing', in which Daybell, who will stand trial on murder charges at a later date, falsely claimed to be a member of the priesthood. He described Cox as a ‘great warrior’ who was ‘selected to help protect your sister’.

'You have already assisted us in ways that can never be repaid, but you will continue to do so as you move forward in this life,’ Daybell said. 

Daybell, pictured during a court hearing in August 2020, built a following as a religious fantasist who warned of an impending apocalypse 

Lori's brother, Alex Cox (pictured), has been implicated in a number of the deaths surrounding the case

Daybell recorded the blessing for Cox on November 24, 2019 - after JJ and Tylee were missing and Tammy Daybell was dead. Cox died in December 2019.

In it he saidCox learned lessons that 'would not have occurred in a traditional LDS home.' 

'You had to go to great depths to achieve tremendous heights, and the fruits of those trials are beginning to be demonstrated,’ Daybell says.

‘Now you will begin your terrestrial phase of existence. You will be powerful servant…You will travel all over the world through portals and you will begin to gather the souls that come unto Christ.’

The blessing also made references to Cox as a ‘prophet’ who will be ‘looked upon as an angel upon earth’. Daybell says Cox is ‘part of a very special team of people’.

Jurors also heard a bizarre recording of a phone call Daybell made to a funeral home in Chandler, Arizona, just hours after Charles Vallow was shot dead in July 2019.  

He gave a fake name of 'Chad Dabal', and claimed that his uncle 'John' passed away. 

Daybell enquired about cost of a cremation in Arizona and the shipping of ashes to Louisiana, the state where Charles Vallow was born.

Daybell didn’t mention Vallow by name but police have previously said it was ‘obvious’ that is who he was referring to.

Lori Vallow, 49, had been due to stand trial alongside her husband Chad Daybell, 54, but their cases were separated by a judge

Hours earlier, Lori Vallow's former best friend Melanie Gibb took the stand to deliver bombshell testimony against the suspected murderer. 

Jurors were played a damning phone call recording that showed Vallow chillingly insist that her son JJ was 'safe and happy', months after she allegedly partnered with Daybell and Cox to murder the little boy. 

During the call, which Chad Daybell was also on, Vallow also makes the haunting claim she could reveal JJ’s whereabouts, but that ‘that would not be good for JJ’.

Several months later, the little boy’s badly decomposed body was found buried near his sister’s remains in Daybell’s backyard.

Gibb said she was compelled to contact the couple after growing concerned about Lori's missing children, during which time the 'cult mom' had falsely claimed to police that her son JJ was with Gibb. 

In the phone conversation played to the court Thursday, Gibb confronts Vallow about the claim and is told JJ had to be ‘moved somewhere safe’ to protect him from his grandmother, Kay Woodcock, who had raised concerns about the boy’s safety.

Vallow says police who were searching for the children are ‘working with [Kay] in a dark capacity’. She also claims, ‘there’s people after me’, adding: ‘I will do whatever the Lord needs me to do every day’.

Lori Vallow's best friend Melanie Gibb (right) testified at the 'cult mom's trial Thursday 

The conversation became heated after Gibb reads Vallow a scripture. Vallow responds: ‘I don’t know why you’re being controversial to me or if you’re recording this conversation for the police or whatever, I don’t know what your intention is on this phone call.’

Vallow tells Gibb she ‘loves’ her but Gibb replies: ‘But if you really love me, you wouldn’t have told the police that I had JJ with me.’

‘This does not sound like you,' Vallow responded. 'It sounds like you’ve been influenced by somebody dark who wants you to believe dark things and have fear of the Celestial world.’

She says Christ is ‘coming soon’. At one point, Daybell intervenes to say his wife Tammy - who the couple allegedly murdered two months earlier - is ‘on a special mission’.

After a tense back-and-forth, the pair argued about Vallow’s alleged relationship with Daybell while they were still married to their respective partners. Vallow hangs up after telling Gibb she will ‘tell me if I was lying or not when we’re both standing there with Jesus Christ’.

Valloow's children, Tylee and JJ disappeared in September 2019, but their remains were not found for another 10 months

Gibb also alleges that Vallow's brother, Alex Cox, warned that 'you don't want to know' what happened to JJ after she asked about his whereabouts. 

In the previous months, Cox had ‘gradually began to learn about’ Vallow and Daybell’s ideas of ‘possessed’ people and ‘zombies’, Gibb said. She added that Cox had 'talked about how Chad had given him a patriarchal blessing'.

She told the court that Cox said he knew individuals ‘that they were hoping would pass away. He indicated that they believed that they were zombies.’

Gibb said: ‘I told him I didn’t 100 percent believe it was true and he said he 100 percent believed it.’

Fremont country prosecutor Lindsey Blake asked Gibb whether there was a 'pattern' of people who were branded zombies ending up 'gone'.

Gibb, who described Vallow as 'convincing', said: ‘The pattern was as soon as they started questioning or just thought something suspicious was going on, all of a sudden that person became dark or a zombie.’

She said that ‘most of’ the people who were deemed zombies ended up ‘gone’.