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Ten days before her death, Tammy Daybell said in a report to police officials that a masked man approached her and shot at her with a paintball gun, EastIdahoNews.com reports.
- A deputy investigated the claim. Officials said it was likely a prankster. A masked man was never found, according to EastIdahoNews.com, which first reported on this development Dec. 30, 2019.
What’s going on?
- Tammy Daybell is the late wife of Chad Daybell, the husband of Lori Vallow Daybell, who is the mother of a pair of missing Idaho children.
- Daybell died on Oct. 19, 2019 — about a month after Lori Vallow’s children were last seen. police officials called Tammy Daybell’s death suspicious.
- Daybell explained what happened to her in a Facebook group post that she wrote about 10 days before her death.
- She wrote: “Something really weird just happened, and I want you to know so you can watch out. I had gotten home and parked in our front driveway. As I was getting stuff out of the back seat, a guy wearing a ski mask was suddenly standing by the back of my car with a paintball gun. He shot at me several times, although I don’t think it was loaded. I yelled for Chad and he ran off around the back of my house.”
More on Tammy Daybell:
- KSL-TV aired an investigative piece into the life and death of Tammy Daybell earlier this week. The piece detailed how Daybell died in her sleep in her home in Salem, Idaho.
- Authorities reportedly exhumed her body two months later to gather evidence about what might have happened to her.
- Rod Oldroyd, Springville city administrative services manager, told KSL-TV: “I have known Chad and Tammy for a long, long time — as many people in Springville have. To this day, if I thought of Tammy Daybell, it would be that she’s smiling and she’s happy. That’s how she was.”