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'Cult mom' Lori Vallow's brother waited nearly an hour to call 911 after he fatally shot her fourth husband while she went out to pick up breakfast and a pair of flip-flops, it has been revealed.  

Lori was charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, in Maricopa County, Arizona, on Tuesday - just over a month after she and her fifth husband Chad Daybell were charged with killing her two children and Chad's first wife.   

Charles was fatally shot by Lori's brother, Alex Cox, on July 11, 2019, during a custody dispute over their adoptive seven-year-old son Joshua 'JJ' Vallow in Chandler, Arizona. 

Police initially ruled that Cox acted in self defense but the case was reopened months later - shortly before JJ and his sister Tylee Ryan, 16, were reported missing in Idaho in November 2019. Cox died the following month.  

New details about the prolonged investigation were revealed on Thursday in a probable cause statement filed in connection with the grand jury indictment.

The Chandler Police Department alleged that Lori and Alex conspired to kill Charles so that she could marry Chad and fulfill a religious prophecy before the end of the world.   

Lori Vallow was charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death of her fourth husband Charles Vallow (above together) in Maricopa County, Arizona, on Tuesday

Charles was fatally shot by Lori's brother, Alex Cox (pictured), on July 11, 2019. A probable cause document alleges that Cox waited 43 minutes to call 911 after the shooting

The probable cause statement obtained by FOX10 describes how police reopened their investigation into Charles' death in October 2019 after the estranged husband of Lori's niece, Melani Boudreaux, was targeted in an attempted murder. 

Brandon Boudreaux - whose name was redacted in court documents - was arriving at his home in Gilbert on October 2 when a bullet was fired into his car, narrowly missing his head. Brandon suspected the shooter was Cox - prompting police to revisit their probe into Charles. 

While the Charles investigation was ongoing, Chandler Police were informed in late November 2019 that Lori's children had been reported missing from Rexburg, Idaho, where they'd moved shortly after Charles' death.

Police also learned that Lori had married Chad earlier that month - less than three weeks after his first wife Tammy Daybell died. 

Through interviews with people who know the couple, police learned that Lori believed she was 'an exalted goddess and she and Chad were directed to lead 144,000 people in preparing for the end of the world,' the probable cause statement reads.  

'It was discovered the Lori and Chad believed that they had extraordinary abilities. Some of these abilities included the power to teleport and cause harm to others, the ability to call up natural disasters, the ability to pray away demonic spirits attached to others and also visionary capabilities.' 

Because of these 'abilities,' Lori and Chad believed they could tell if someone had a 'light' or 'dark' scale. Dark scales were attached to Charles and the two kids. Charles was referred to as a 'dark spirit named Ned or Hiplos.'

Charles had filed for divorce from Lori five months earlier in February 2019. In court documents Charles predicted that either Lori or her brother would kill him and alleged that she was 'infatuated' with doomsday and near-death experiences after joining a religious cult called Preparing a People.   

Speaking to FOX10 in January of last year, Charles' lawyer Steven Ellsworth claimed his client told him: 'I'm afraid I'm gonna be killed, and I know who's gonna do it. 

'I'm telling you, Steve, so that if something happens to me, I wanna make sure you let everyone know that something happens, I'm killed, that it's my wife Lori and her brother, Alex Cox.' 

Body camera footage from January 2019 also showed Charles telling police that Lori needed 'serious help' and asking for her to be committed for psychiatric treatment. 

Lori is now undergoing under that treatment after a judge in Fremont County, Idaho, deemed her unfit to stand trial in late May. 

In the probable cause statement police said that on June 29, 2019, Charles confronted Lori about a letter she sent in his name asking Chad to visit to come to Arizona to help him write a book. He accused her of having an affair with Chad and threatened to tell his wife Tammy.  

A day before Charles was killed - July 10, 2019 - he told Lori and Alex's brother about an intervention for their 'radical beliefs.'

Lori found out about the planned intervention and texted Alex, 'We both need to stay here to defend ourselves ... It's coming to a head! This week will change everything.'

The next day, July 11, 2019, Charles went to Lori's home to pick up JJ at 7.35am, according to cell phone records.  

He was shot 14 minutes after he arrived, police said.  

At 7.49am, immediately after the shooting, Lori took Charles' rental car and cell phone and then went to Burger King with JJ and Walgreens to buy flip flops.  

She returned to the home 59 minutes later as police were arriving after Cox placed a 911 call at 8.32am. 

'When reporting the incident, Alex indicated that it just happened,' police wrote in the probable cause statement. 

'He was provided with CPR instructions and he acted as if he was performing life-saving measures on Charles. 

'It was not until emergency personnel began life-saving measures that they saw blood coming from Charles' body. 

'This would indicate that Alex performed no emergency aid.

'Based on this timeline, Charles would have laid dead or dying for approximately 43 minutes before Alex called 911. 

'During this time, phone records indicated that Alex called Lori.' 

When interviewed by police, Lori, Tylee and Cox said a physical altercation was started by Charles.   

Cox said Charles struck him in the head with a baseball bat and he responded by retrieving a gun and shooting Charles twice in the chest.

Lori and Tylee said they heard a gunshot as they were leaving the house. 

An autopsy indicated that Cox shot Charles once while he was standing and a second time when he was lying on the floor.   

'Based on this investigation, it has been proven how valuable that Alex Cox was to Lori,' Chandler police wrote in the probable cause documents. 

'His mission on this earth was to protect his sister.' 

Weeks after Charles' death, Lori and her children moved to Rexburg, Idaho, miles away from where Chad lived with his first wife Tammy and their five children.

Tylee vanished on September 8, 2019, just days before her 17th birthday. Investigators said her body was burned and dismembered before being buried sometime the following day.

JJ was last seen two weeks later on September 23. His body was wrapped in duct tape and plastic and buried the same day, investigators said.

Authorities believe Cox brought the children's bodies to Chad's home to dispose of them. 

Lori's kids Joshua 'JJ' Vallow, seven, and Tylee Ryan, 16, were last seen alive in September 2019, and their remains were discovered on her Idaho property last June

In this aerial photo, investigators search for human remains at Chad Daybell's residence in Idaho where they allegedly found the remains of Lori's missing children

Lori and Charles are pictured at their wedding in 2006

Tammy died at the home she shared with Chad on October 19, 2019. Chad reportedly declined an autopsy and went on to marry Lori less than three weeks later. 

On December 12, Cox was found dead in Gilbert, Arizona. 

An autopsy determined that the 51-year-old's died of natural causes but noted that he had the overdose drug Narcan in his system at the time.  

Police tracked Lori and Chad down in Princeville, Hawaii, in late January 2020 and served the mother with a court order requiring her to physically produce the children to authorities in Idaho within five days.

Lori failed to meet the deadline, prompting her arrest and extradition to Idaho, where she is currently being held at Madison County Jail in lieu of $1million bond.

Chad was arrested three months later after the children's bodies were found.

Lori and Chad were named persons of interest in the children's disappearance after investigators said they believe the mother knew where her children were or what happened to them. 

The case captured nationwide attention with the revelations that police were also investigating at least three mysterious deaths linked to Lori and Chad, as well as family members' claims that the couple are members of a dangerous doomsday cult.  

The first death is that of Lori's estranged husband Charles, followed by Chad's first wife Tammy - whose body was exhumed on December 11, 2019.  

Chad is also charged with the murder of his first wife, Tammy Daybell (pictured together)

Over the course of the search for the kids several people who knew Lori and Chad came forward with claims that the pair were members of a 'cult' called Preparing a People, which was dedicated to bracing for the end of the world.

The organization aimed to distance themselves from Chad and Lori as the missing children's case made headlines, allegedly fearing that misconceptions about Preparing a People could cause members to be excommunicated from the LDS Church.

At the core of the couple's beliefs was the idea that they were prophets sent to earth by God to lead the 'chosen 144,000' into the New Millennium on July 22, 2020, according to court documents and accounts from friends and family.

Part of their preparations included eradicating the world of 'zombies' before Doomsday arrived, according to Lori's former best friend Melanie Gibb, who was part of a small group with which Chad shared his personal gospel.

'It was their commission to get rid of all the zombies before tribulations came upon us,' Gibb told the East Idaho News last year.

Chillingly, Lori had accused three of her loved ones of turning into zombies prior to their deaths: JJ and Tylee, as well as her fourth husband Charles.

Lori is facing two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in their deaths. She also faces one count of conspiracy to commit murder over the death of Chad's first wife Tammy Daybell in October 2019.

Lori was a committed to a mental health facility in Idaho for evaluation earlier this month after she was ruled unfit to stand trial. 

Chad appeared in court on June 9 and pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and murder charges in the deaths of JJ, Tylee and Tammy.

Chad in court on June 9 where he pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and murder charges

Lori and her fifth husband Chad Daybell (right) were separately charged with murder for the deaths of her two children and Chad's first wife in May by prosecutors in Idaho