Nationwide Search Alert Issued For Idaho Missing Siblings In ‘Extreme Danger’

A nationwide search alert has been issued by the FBI for two children from Idaho who reportedly went missing in September.

The Rexburg Police Department in Idaho fears the two kids may have landed in extreme danger. They also believe the children’s disappearance may be linked to the suspicious death investigation of an Idaho woman. The children might have gone missing even before the death of the woman.

The children’s mother, Lori Vallow, 46, and their stepfather Chad Daybell, 51, were questioned by police when the latter’s ex-wife, Tammy Daybell, was found dead in her house in late November. Although authorities initially believed she died due to natural causes, the Fremont County Sheriff's Office found something amiss in a subsequent investigation. Her remains were exhumed by the department with the help of the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner from her grave for further investigation, according to KUTV.

Vallow, during the interrogation, said her son, Joshua Vallow, 7, was living with a family friend in Arizona. However, officers later found the boy and his sister, Tylee Ryan, 17, were missing. Joshua is an adopted child with special needs, police said.

Soon after, Vallow and Daybell also disappeared, leading police to seek the public help in locating them.

Vallow's husband, Charles, died on July 11 in Chandler, Arizona during a scuffle with the former's brother, Alex Cox, who admitted to shooting him to death in self-defense.

Anyone with information about the children can call Rexburg police at 208-359-3000 or alert the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.