Detective Ray Hermosillo said the scene was so awful that his team had to take shifts digging.
Rexburg Police told the man they needed to chat with Daybell immediately—and walked up to his room, where he was sleeping, to inform him they had a search warrant to search his property, Detective Ray Hermosillo testified Tuesday.
Several times, Hermosillo said, Daybell looked over his shoulder to eye a tree and pond area on his property. It was in that same area, he said, that authorities ultimately found JJ in a shallow grave tightly wrapped in plastic. A few feet away, authorities would later discover a burned mass they believed to be JJ’s half-sister Tylee.
During the investigation, Hermosillo said, investigators searched the apartments of Vallow and two of her family members. In the November 2019 search of Vallow’s, Hermosillo said that investigators found dishes still in the sink in the furnished apartment—but no clothing in the closet. Prosecutors say that at the time, Daybell and Vallow had been married for weeks after meeting at a religious conference in 2018. Daybell, a former gravedigger, was the author of apocalyptic novels aimed at Mormons—and Vallow had been a long devoted fan of his work.
“As they began to remove the top layer of soil, it exposed three large rocks,” Hermosillo said. “At that point, there was a strong order that through my training I knew was a decomposing body.”
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