Inside 'cult mom' Lori Vallow's disturbing relationship with her brother as book claims he 'tried to have sex with her'

LORI Vallow shared a disturbing relationship with her alleged personal hitman brother who once tried to have sex with her when she was in seventh grade, according to a new book.

Lori, 48, reportedly had a significant hold over her older brother Alex Cox, with friends of the so-called "cult mom" telling true crime author John Glatt in his new book, The Doomsday Mother, that when she would say "jump", her sibling would ask "how high?"


Others told Glatt that Alex Cox had a "strange preoccupation" with Lori and would do "anything for her" – including allegedly killing her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and two of her children, JJ and Tylee, at her direction.

Alex, who died suddenly in December 2019 just two months after JJ and Tylee were last seen alive, had reportedly developed an obsession for Lori from an early age, possibly to an incestual degree.

A childhood best friend of Lori's, identified under the pseudonym Rose Vaughn in Glatt's book, told the author how Alex gave her the "creeps" growing up and how he seemed "fixated" on his younger sister.

"When Lori and I were in the pool, he was always watching us and I didn't like that," Rose remembered of Alex, who was five years Lori's senior.

SEXUAL ADVANCES

One night when they were in seventh grade, Rose recalled how she had been sitting in Vallow's bedroom when she suddenly burst into tears and blurted out that Alex had been making sexual advances on her.

"We grew up together so we talked about everything," Rose said. "Suddenly Lori was crying and emotional, and she just said, 'Alex is trying to have sex with me. What can I do?'"

Rose said she comforted Lori, who never spoke of the apparent advances to her again.

While it's unclear if Alex continued to pursue Lori sexually as a child, his obsession with her would continue for several more decades, with other friends of the family voicing concerns over the pair's strange bond and behavior years later.

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Mary Tracy, a former friend of Alex Cox's, said she witnessed something "odd" in the summer of 2008 when she accompanied Cox to Lori's home for a family gathering.

The gathering was held shortly after Cox was released from prison, having served 90 days in prison for attacking Lori's third husband, Joseph Ryan, with a stun gun and threatening to murder him.

Cox had reportedly become obsessed with the idea that Ryan was sexually abusing Tylee – a lie that had been repeatedly fed to him by Lori.

Mary said that prior to the gathering, she had been intrigued to meet Lori as Alex often spoke about her and she was "puzzled by their unusual relationship."

BROTHER'S 'FIXATION'

Remembering it to be a hot Sunday afternoon, Mary said she walked into the home to find Lori parading around the house in a skimpy bikini in front of fascinated Alex, as Tylee and JJ followed closely behind her.

"I just thought it was so odd," Mary said. "She looked great, but I've never actually been around someone who walked around the house in a bikini.

"I remember feeling that Lori was high-maintenance."

Years later, in early 2015, Alex had flown out to visit his sister in Kauai and Lori brought him into her church to meet the congregation.

Earlier, Lori had told her friend April Raymond how Alex had tried to kill her ex-husband on her behalf and gone to jail for his efforts.

"Alex admitted to trying to kill [Joseph Ryan]," April told Glatt. "That's when I started feeling, like, this is something very wrong. He was very loyal to Lori and would do anything she asked him to."

April said she spent the remainder of Alex's visit trying to avoid him, remembering Cox as socially awkward and "a little off."

She said he appeared to be fascinated by the fact that she, like Lori, had blond hair, and would often ask intimate questions to see how she measured up to his younger sister.

"Alex seemed to have a very strange preoccupation with Lori," April said.

"He would want to know things like, how much I weighed or what my ring size was, or what my shoe size was, and then compare it to Lori.

"And that just made me feel very uncomfortable."

EX-WIFE RECALLS 'SEXUAL TOUCHING'

Another person to voice discomfort over Alex and Lori's strange relationship was an ex-wife of Cox's who, in an interview with police in September 2020, claimed the two siblings would touch one another sexually.

The woman, identified only as Debbie in police reports, told a detective with the Chandler Police Department in Arizona, that Alex and Lori would simulate sex acts in front of her and the rest of the family.

"For example," Debbie said, according to transcripts of the call, "he would pick her up and she would wrap her legs around his waist and he would kind of bounce her up and down on himself in front of me and they would moan and simulate sex acts.

“He also talked about [how she was] hot, and he sexualized her quite a bit. He did touch her breast and things."

Debbie also told the officer that Cox and Lori’s parents would “constantly” talk about their sex life in front of the family, saying it seemed “kind of like a game for them.”

She said the family had “no shame” and acted this way whenever they were together.

The strange dynamic was what led Debbie to leave Alex just months after their marriage, she said.

“Alex and I only lived together for about four or five months and then I just knew that that family was too weird, that I had made a big mistake, and so I got out,” Debbie said.

She then described Alex as a "really, really protective big brother", who often sexualized her.

Debbie claimed that she once confronted Alex over his apparent affinity for Lori, asking if they were having sex.

In response, Alex reportedly accused her of "being weird for thinking it was weird."

THICK AS THIEVES

While the true extent of the siblings' bond may never be known, whatever obsession Cox had for Lori saw him shoot her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, dead in July 2019.

Cox claimed at the time that he had acted in self-defense after Charles came at him with a baseball bat.

Police initially ruled that Cox had acted in self-defense but the case was reopened when JJ and Tylee were reported missing in Idaho in November 2019.

Now, prosecutors say Cox killed Charles Vallow at the direction of Lori.

For months, Lori's fifth husband, doomsday author Chad Daybell, had been pining over him, telling him he'd been a "special protector" to important figures in past lives.

Chad also told Cox that he had been put on this earth to protect Lori from "zombies", which he deemed to be people that had apparently lost their souls and been overtaken by evil spirits.

After Charles Vallow's death, Glatt claims that Cox was enlisted to serve as Lori and Chad's personal hitman, to help rid the world of such so-called "evil spirits", including Lori's children, seven-year-old JJ and 17-year-old Tylee

"Alex was only too willing to kill for Lori and Chad's divine mission and started going to a local gun range to improve his shooting," Glatt writes in his new book.

Just two months later, Tylee and JJ would be seen alive for the last time.

BUTCHERED AND BURNED

The last known sighting of Tylee came during a trip to Yellowstone National Park on September 8, 2019, while JJ was last seen on September 23, being carried by Alex Cox as he slept in his arms.

Their bodies were found nine months later buried in a pet cemetery on Chad Daybell's property in Salem, Idaho.

Investigators allege that the two children were killed by Alex Cox at the direction of Lori and Chad. The FBI discovered Cox had been at the Daybell property on both September 9 and 23.

JJ's body was discovered first. The young boy, who was autistic, was found wrapped from head to toe in duct tape and stuffed in garbage bags.

Tylee, meanwhile, had been dismembered and burned in Daybell's firepit, before her charred bones were disposed of in a shallow grave.

Prosecutors allege that Daybell, who for years had worked on and off as a gravedigger, had put his skills to use to help Cox dispose of the children's bodies.

Daybell's wife Tammy also suddenly passed away in October 2019 in her sleep, two weeks before Vallow and Daybell tied the knot in Hawaii. Her death was initially deemed to be the result of natural causes but is now considered suspicious.

No cause of death has ever been made public, but Glatt notes that first responders observed a "pink foam" pouring from her mouth.

Alex Cox then died on December 12, 2019, the day after Tammy Daybell's body was exhumed for further investigation.

He was found unconscious at home and, like Tammy, had pink foam coming out of his mouth. 

TRIAL AWAITS

Both Daybell and Vallow have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the September 2019 deaths of Lori's children.

The couple faces the same charge in the death of Daybell's previous wife, Tammy Daybell, 49.

Lori is also charged in Arizona with conspiring to kill her former estranged husband, Charles Vallow, 62, with the help of her now-deceased brother, Alex Cox. 

Daybell's trial for his alleged role in the murders of Tylee, JJ and Tammy is currently slated to being in January 2023. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against him.

Vallow has been determined mentally unfit to stand trial for the killings and is being treated in a secure mental health facility until she's ruled to be competent enough to do so.

According to Glatt, Vallow continues to write to Daybell and reads his scripture every day.

Chillingly, sources told the author that at night she is often seen on surveillance camera "dancing in her cell at night to the music deep inside her head."

The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family by John Glatt was published by St Martin's Press on January 18 and is available for purchase here.



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