Lori Vallow Update: Chad Daybell’s Children Claim Tylee, JJ’s Alleged Murderer ‘Framed’ Father

Although Chad Daybell has been charged with multiple murders, his five children believe his wife Lori Vallow and her brother Alex Cox framed their father.

Daybell and Vallow were charged with the murders of her children Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and daughter, Tylee Ryan, 17, in May, months after their remains were discovered on Daybell’s Idaho property.

Daybell is also facing murder charges for killing his wife Tammy, a few weeks before he married Vallow. However, his children believe he is not responsible for the death of their mother or Vallow’s kids.

In an upcoming episode of the CBS program “48 Hours,” Daybell’s daughter Emma Murray will open up to correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti about the criminal charges against her father.

In a sneak peek of the episode, Murray and Vigliotti are seen on Daybell’s property, where she insisted her father was innocent. “He was framed,” she says. “This is his property. If there’s bodies buried here, it would be attributed to him.”

When Vigliotti asked Murray who she believed was guilty of killing Vallow’s children, she claimed the answer was obvious.

“I think it’s pretty clear it was Lori and Alex,” she says. “Alex came ... and left for periods of time. ... We don’t know ... exactly what he was doing.”

While Murray admitted the circumstances surrounding JJ and Tylee’s deaths were suspicious, she doesn’t believe her father played a part in the murders.

“I don’t know why they (the bodies) would be there,” Murray said. “But I do know that if he were to commit a crime, he wouldn’t be foolish enough to put the evidence in his own backyard … We presume innocence in this country. Just because things look funny, we don’t send people to jail.”

Meanwhile, Tammy’s was initially thought to have died from natural causes, but authorities later exhumed her body. Although a new cause of death has not been released, sources told EastIdahoNews.com she died from asphyxiation.

Daybell’s children admitted they were the ones who didn’t want an autopsy done on Tammy because their father was in shock from her death. However, they believe the asphyxiation reports don’t necessarily mean she was murdered.

“Asphyxiation doesn’t necessarily mean smothered. According to my understanding, it just means the breath was interrupted. And in the end, she wasn’t able to breathe,” Mark Daybell revealed.

​​”48 Hours” will air Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET on CBS.