Reporters, from as far away as the New York camped out from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday in the Rexburg police station waiting for Lori Vallow to show up.
She never did.
The waiting game was a result of Rexburg Police releasing a statement that Vallow had until Thursday to physically produce her missing children, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old J.J. Vallow, to either Rexburg police or Madison County office of the Department of Health and Welfare. Police served Vallow this order on Saturday in Princeville, Hawaii, where she has been living for at least a month with new husband Chad Daybell.
Tylee and J.J. have not been seen since September.
Vallow’s failure to produce the children Thursday could put her in contempt of court. It will be up to a Madison County judge to decide whether to find her in contempt and, if so, what that contempt penalty will be and if it will include extraditing Vallow and Daybell from Hawaii to Rexburg to face that contempt charge.
The Idaho Press reports, Vallow and Daybell are believed to still be in Hawaii.
