A month after lying to authorities about the whereabouts of Lori Vallow’s 7-year-old boy at his mom’s behest, Melanie Gibb demanded answers from her best friend.
About a month earlier, Vallow had asked Gibb not to talk to the cops about her son J.J.’s whereabouts, suggesting that the 7-year-old’s grandmother wanted to kidnap him, the friend testified Monday during a preliminary hearing in the case against Daybell. .
The fourth witness of the day, Gibb testified about her relationship with Vallow, whom she once considered a “best friend†after meeting the mother-of-two at church in Arizona.
Gibb testified she last saw Ryan in July or August 2019 in Arizona and had assumed she was in college when she traveled to visit Vallow in Idaho in September.
During that trip, Gibb said she saw Daybell and Vallow acting “affectionately,†holding hands and kissing—even though the doomsday writer was still married to his ex-wife. .
At the end of the weekend, Gibb said Vallow revealed that she had lied to J.J’s grandmother, Kay Woodcock, and told her “she had breast cancer†in order to persuade her to take care of the autistic 7-year-old.
Two months later, Gibb said she was “shocked†when she received a phone call from Daybell in the “late morning†warning her not to answer a future call from the Rexburg Police Department inquiring about J.J. .
About an hour later, Gibb said Vallow called her, stating that everything was “fine†and that she wanted to protect J.J
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