On May25, the day that Joshua “J.J.” Vallow was turning 8 years old, his big brother Colby Ryan posted an emotional birthday message to him on You Tube.
5月25日,在科爾比·“J.J.”·瓦洛即將8歲的時候,他的哥哥科爾比·瑞恩在You Tube上給他發了一條充滿感情的生日信息。
He hadn’t seen J.J. or sister Tylee, 17, since they’d gone missing in September 2019,
自2019年9月失蹤以來,他就沒再見過J.J.或17歲的妹妹泰莉了,
and Colby choked back tears as he talked about the boisterous little boy he used to swim and wrestle with
在談及這個吵鬧的小男孩曾跟他一起游泳、摔跤時,科爾比強忍著眼淚,
and who used to wake him up at 5 a.m. to get on his scooter and “just start going.”
他還曾在5點叫醒他去玩滑板車,喊著“開始吧”。
“You just bring joy,”Colby said.
“你帶來的都是快樂,” 科爾比比說。
“You just walk into a room and just make people attracted to the light you are....
“當你走進房間時,人們就會被你身上的光所吸引……
And Tylee, you are such a strong, beautiful sister, and I miss you guys....I’m praying that we make it through this as a family.
還有泰莉,你是一個堅強美麗的妹妹,我想你們……希望我們全家人都能度過難關。
I’m always here for you. And I love you so much.”
我永遠在你們身邊。非常愛你們。”
But weeks later, on June 9, it became heart-breakingly clear that J.J. and Tylee never saw the message.
但幾周后,也就是6月9日,一個讓人心碎的事實擺在眼前:J.J.和泰莉根本就沒有看到過這條信息。
After months of searching, Idaho police and FBI agents discovered the children’s remains buried on a rural property outside Rexburg, Idaho,
經過幾個月的搜尋,愛達荷州警方和聯邦調查局探員發現了這兩個孩子的遺體,埋在愛達荷州雷克斯堡郊外的一處鄉間房屋里,
belonging to Chad Daybell, 51,an author and self-proclaimed doomsday prophet—and fifth husband of the children’s mother, Lori Vallow, 46.
這個房屋屬于51歲的乍得·戴貝爾,他是一名作家,自稱是世界末日先知,也是兩個孩子46歲的母親洛里·瓦洛的第五任丈夫。
“It is not the outcome we had hoped: to be able to find the children safe,” Rexburg Police Department assistant chief Gary Hagen said in a statement.
雷克斯堡警察局助理局長加里·哈根在一份聲明中說:“這個結果并不是我們所期待的:能夠安全地找到孩子們。”
Chad was arrested and charged with two counts of destroying or concealing human remains, his bail set at $1 million.
乍得被捕,并被控兩項罪名:毀壞或藏匿遺體,保釋金為100萬美元。
He has yet to enter a formal plea.
他還沒有進行正式的抗辯。
Lori, who was arrested in February after refusing to produce the children, remains in jail on multiple charges; she has pleaded not guilty.
洛里今年2月因拒絕撫育孩子而被捕,目前仍在監獄中,面臨多項指控;她拒不認罪。