THIS is the moment the grandfather of Lori Vallow’s son cried as he visited the spot where the bodies of her two missing kids were found.
Larry Woodcock was emotional when he arrived at Chad Daybell‘s Idaho home on Wednesday evening, where cops discovered the children’s remains.
The body of little Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7 – who would have turned eight in May – was “egregiously” hidden on his stepdad’s property, along with his sister, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan.
“That’s the scene where JJ was,” Larry Woodcock sobbed in Fox 13‘s distressing video, his voice cracking with emotion. “My little man.”
“I’m not coming in hostility in any way,” he added. “I come with trying to be the peacemaker, and that’s all I want. I just want to be a peacemaker.”
“Let’s all get along here,” Woodcock added, refusing to attack anyone who was potentially involved.
Local cops, sheriff’s investigators and the FBI made the grisly discovery at Daybell‘s Rexburg ranch on Tuesday evening following the kids’ disappearance in September.
Larry and his wife, Kay Woodcock, are the biological grandparents, who was subsequently adopted by “cult mom” Vallow and her fourth husband Charles Vallow, who is Kay’s brother.
The complex nine-month investigation came to a devastating conclusion on Wednesday when Daybell, 51, made his first court appearance and the bodies at his Salem home were confirmed to be JJ and Tylee.
JJ’s grandparents made the trip from their home in Louisiana yesterday after officials confirmed they found children’s remains in a field near Daybell‘s house.
The Woodcocks were the ones who requested a welfare check in November two months after JJ and Tylee disappeared.
They said their contact with the little boy was cut off after Vallow’s brother, Alex Cox, fatally shot Charles Vallow last July – he also shot her third husband Ryan – Tylee’s dad – with a stun gun in 2007.
Kay Woodcock told KTVB their requests to see JJ were ignored once Lori found out she wasn’t the beneficiary of her late husband’s $1 million life insurance policy, which was changed over to Woodcock.
JJ was enrolled at Kennedy Elementary School on September 3, 2019, but was “unenrolled” nearly three weeks later after Vallow claimed she was homeschooling him.
Tylee was last seen in Yellowstone Park on September 8 on a family trip with her mom and Cox, who died from a pulmonary blood clot in December.
Daybell was charged with concealing evidence, his next hearing has been set for July 1, and a judge set his bail at $1 million on Wednesday.
Vallow has already been charged with child abandonment, obstructing an investigation, contempt of court and soliciting a crime, pleaded not guilty, and is in jail also on a $1 million bond.
