#Friend ‘wants justice’ for Chad Daybell’s late first wife, report says

Mandy Fowler, a friend of Tammy Daybell who worked with her at Central Elementary School, said Tammy seemed distant the last time she saw her.

“I was coming to ask her about another book recommendation, and she was just really busy and didn’t want to talk a lot,” Fowler told KSL.com.

“She seemed maybe kind of frustrated, and that wasn’t typical of her.”

Tammy allegedly “passed away peacefully in her sleep” in the early morning hours of Oct. 19, 2019, at the Salem, Idaho, home she shared with Chad, according to her obituary, and her death was originally ruled to be from natural causes. 

But when Tammy’s husband Chad married Lori Vallow just a few weeks after, and suddenly became the center of an investigation regarding Vallow’s two missing kids, authorities became suspicious and exhumed her body for an autopsy. 

Fowler and other “multiple sources” told the outlet Chad refused to have an autopsy performed when Tammy died. Friends were also unsettled by the funeral, which was held in Utah just three days after she died and felt rushed, they said. 

“I just can’t help but think that I want to know what happened to Tammy,” Fowler told KSL.com.

“I want justice for Tammy.”

The results of the autopsy are still pending, authorities said. 

Chad is currently in custody on two felony counts of concealing, altering or destroying evidence after the remains of Vallow’s two missing kids, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan, were found buried in his Idaho backyard earlier this week. 

The children hadn’t been seen since September.

On Thursday, one of Chad’s sons that he shared with Tammy was spotted at the property moving items out of the home, the Daily Mail reported.  

“I’d say it happens, but it doesn’t,” Garth Daybell told videographer Tyson Draper of the shock of his father’s arrest.

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