Colby Ryan, the adult son of Lori Vallow Daybell, was arrested over the weekend and charged with sexual assault and domestic violence.
The arrest occurs days before Thursday’s debut on Netflix of a real crime documentary series about Vallow Daybell, a survivalist suspected of killing her two young children and ex-husband. The series will prominently feature Ryan.
According to Fox 10 Phoenix, Ryan, Vallow’s sole living son, was detained in Maricopa County, Arizona, on Saturday.
Two allegations of sexual assault and one case of domestic violence were brought against him.
In Idaho, a person may be prosecuted with domestic violence if the parties involved were married or formerly married, or if they reside or formerly resided in the same household.
According to court documents viewed by Fox 10, Colby reportedly assaulted the victim, who he knew, at her residence after she refused sexual contact.
Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow, the doomsday couple, are enmeshed in a convoluted web of inexplicable deaths and missing children.
Thanks to the Rexburg Police Department
His mother is accused of murdering his siblings.
The odd case of Lori Vallow and her marriage to apocalyptic novelist Chad Daybell gripped the United States in 2020, after the “doomsday couple” was discovered on vacation in Hawaii while caught in a web of suspicious death and missing persons investigations.
After a relative informed them that their children had been gone for months, the couple left their house in Rexburg, Idaho.
The couple’s children, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old J.J. Vallow, were not present when authorities located them in Hawaii.
While law enforcement officers searched for the children, they uncovered a litany of other questionable deaths associated with the parents.
According to a police report released to Insider by Sgt. Jason McClimans, on July 11, 2019, officers in Chandler, Arizona responded to the shooting of Charles, the estranged spouse of Vallow, at her residence. Alex Cox, the brother of Charles Vallow, informed authorities that he shot Charles Vallow in self-defense.
After persuading Cox that Charles Vallow was possessed by a demon, self-proclaimed prophet Lori Vallow has been charged with arranging the murder along with him.
Vallow and Cox moved to Rexburg, Idaho, after the death of Charles, where Vallow married apocalyptic novelist Chad Daybell, whom she had previously met at a “Preparing a People” event.
The wedding took place one month after Tammy, Daybell’s wife, was discovered dead. Since then, he has been charged with her murder.
In June 2020, the remains of J.J. and Tylee were discovered on Daybell’s Idaho ranch, and the couple was also charged with their murders.
According to court filings for an unrelated case involving Vallow’s niece, Vallow’s acquaintances told officials she felt her two children were “possessed and had become zombies.”
Colby Ryan has frequently stated since his mother’s arrest that she has been telling him lies for a long time, including telling him that his stepfather Charles Vallow died of a heart attack when she knew he was shot.
In addition, he stated that he believed she would have sacrificed her life for her two younger children and that he was astonished by her alleged role in their disappearance.
In that case, Vallow was initially deemed “not able to proceed,” but he has since been freed from a mental health facility.
In January, she and Daybell are expected to stand trial for the murder of the children.