Ron Ball
Appearances
Dateline NBC
Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview
I find it hard to believe that if Charles would have hit Alex in the head with a bat, that Alex would be up walking around with a minor cut on the back of his head. You know, Charles, he played minor league baseball. He knew how to swing a bat. I find it hard to believe.
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Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview
I think that was an attempted assassination of Tammy. That was planned out by Lori, Chad, and Alex.
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Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview
I don't think I'll ever forget that moment when he said, I had the results of Tammy's autopsy. They were ruling it a homicide. And, you know, we all knew it.
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Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview
Former lead detective Ron Ball. Come on. It's Lori trying to direct the details the way she wants them directed. Those rings were for her and Chad.
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Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview
At this point, we knew that they were married. She didn't want to get in too much of a conversation about Chad for obvious reasons at this point.
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Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview
They just disappear afterwards. And I think that those questions that we're there asking about the kids, absolutely, it triggered them to flee response. And they know that we're hot after them.
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Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview
He was 51 years old. I would have liked to have been able to arrest him and charge him for the crimes he committed. I think he got out of this world too easy.
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Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview
I remember walking out of the court at that time and talking with some guys. I'm like, these kids, they're not alive. We're now looking for bodies.
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Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview
So they got chasing down the road just a little ways, and he pulled over, and they went and pulled him out of the car and detained him.
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Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview
So I asked, do you want me to tell your kids anything? And he says, no, I already told them I'd probably be going to jail today. I went, oh, well...