Detective testifies about responding to 911 call of Charles Vallow’s death

BOISE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — 4:45 Update:

Prosecutor Lindsey Blake continued with her questioning of Det. Duncan after the Tuesday morning session break and asked him to read a series of text messages out loud for the court record.

“The first message is from Charles to Lori, dated June 29, 2019, at 5:51 a.m., “Is he with whom you are having an affair? (referring to Chad) He did not stay with us in Arizona in November. Who are you lying too now? Trying to destroy another family? You’re evil. Period. I may take J.J. back to Houston unless you have a great explanation for all of this. I will not let him be a part of your apostasy.”

Blake also presented to the court emails that Charles had sent to Tammy Daybell regarding information he had regarding the affair of Chad and Lori, and requested the Duncan read the first presented out loud.

“Tammy, my name is Charles Vallow, I have some vital and disturbing information regarding your husband and my wife Lori. This is your work email, so I’ll wait to send you the evidence that is very disturbing. You can call or email me from the address where you can receive the information. I apologize to be the one sending this, but something has to be done. I feel it’s best to shed some light on this issue. Regards, Charles Vallow.”

Multiple other emails and text conversations were presented to the jury and Det. Duncan recounted data contained in Lori’s iCloud accounts.

Court adjourned at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and will reconvene at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday morning at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise.

Original Story:

The jury in the Chad Daybell murder trial heard testimony Tuesday morning regarding the shooting death of Charles Vallow at his home in Chandler, Arizona.

Detective Nathan Duncan of the Chandler Police Department was one of the officers who to the 911 phone call made by Alex Cox on June 11, 2019, of a report of a shooting at the home of Charles Vallow.

Duncan testified that he had never heard of Alex Cox when he responded to the call to assist crime scene technicians and take photographs. He described in court what he saw when he arrived at the Vallow home.

“When making my observations, I noticed the body of a Caucasian male later to be identified as Charles Vallow, laying on the west side of this room. North of where he was laying there was an aluminum baseball bat and then a little bit north of this was a baseball cap that we had we had found out was worn by Charles earlier,” Duncan told the court. “To the west of Charles’ body, there were two .45 caliber casings that were recovered. Also noted at this time there was a bullet strike and a lodged bullet, what we refer to as a projectile, that had lodged into the baseboard of the east side of that particular room. "

Duncan also described that Charles was shot once in the chest and that there was very little blood present at the scene.

Prosecutor Lindsey Blake also introduced evidence of text messages and emails between Charles Vallow and Lori Vallow Daybell about his suspicions of Chad and Lori having an affair, as well as emails from Charles Vallow to Tammy Daybell.

The trial and testimony of Detective Duncan continues, and the trial is being live-streamed on Judge Steven Boyce’s YouTube channel.

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