L. Charles Anthony Vallow, 62, was shot dead at a Chandler, Arizona, home on the morning of July 11, 2019. He had gone to the residence to pick up his son and became involved in an argument with his estranged wife, Lori Vallow, who was living there with her two children. Lori’s brother, Alex Cox, intervened; the confrontation turned physical and Cox shot Charles twice in the chest. Charles was declared dead at the scene.

Alex Cox told police he shot Charles in self-defense after being struck in the head with a baseball bat; he called 911 and he and Lori were questioned and released. Investigators later reported evidence suggesting the killing was planned rather than a spontaneous act. In the months before his death, Charles reportedly feared Lori’s increasingly extreme religious beliefs; texts from June 2019 referenced working on Charles and called it war. Adam Cox told detectives he believed Lori and Alex murdered Charles, citing a pattern of behavior in the family. Alex Cox later died of natural causes on December 12, 2019.

In June 2021 a Maricopa County grand jury indicted Lori Vallow Daybell on one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in Charles’s death, alleging she agreed with Alex Cox to cause Charles’s death. Did anyone in Chandler at the time notice escalating tensions in that household or have information about the days before July 11, 2019?