THE estranged husband of an alleged cult member mother was shot dead five months after he predicted she or her brother would kill him.
Attorneys for Charles Vallow have revealed their client was scared someone would try to kill him while he he was trying to divorce Lori Vallow, who is believed to be involved in the disappearance of her two children.
Charles claimed Lori was "infatuated" with near-death experiences and doomsday after joining a religious cult called Preparing a People, according to court documents.
Steven Ellsworth, his lawyer, told Fox10 on Wednesday that Charles told him in February: "I'm afraid I'm gonna be killed, and I know who's gonna do it.
"I'm telling you, Steve, so that if something happens to me, I wanna make sure you let everyone know that something happens, I'm killed, that it's my wife Lori and her brother, Alex Cox."
Charles' prediction came true five months later.
Charles had gone to Lori's home in Chandler, Arizona to pick up their seven-year-old adopted son Joshua 'JJ' Vallow, where he reportedly got into an argument with the mom on July 11.
Cox then got involved and fatally shot Charles, and police initially said Lori's brother had acted in self-defense.
Lawyer Taylor Larson said: "We knew that this wasn't an accident. This wasn't self-defense."
BIZARRE CASE
The father's death is now under investigation as the case continues to perplex authorities.
Ellsworth and Larson, Charles' former attorney's, said they were stunned at the case given what they knew about Lori through their dead client.
Court documents filed on behalf of Charles seeking a divorce from Lori and custody of JJ were made public this week.
Charles had alleged Lori threatened to kill him five months before he died, according to the documents.
Lori allegedly told Charles in a phone conversation on January 29 that she was "God assigned to carry out the work of the 144,000 at Christ's second coming in July 2020 and that if Father [Charles] got in her way of her mission she would murder him", according to the documents.
Lori, who is referred to as "mother" in documents, reportedly told Charles "she has lived numerous lives on numerous planets prior to this current life" and that "she is received spiritual revelations and visions to help her gather and prepare those chosen to live in the New Jerusalem after the Great War as prophesied in the book of Revelations".
The aims of the cult Lori and Chad are reported to be affiliated with are to help prepare the people of Earth for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
There continues to be a multi-state national search for JJ and Lori's 17-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan.
PUZZLING MYSTERY
JJ and Tylee Ryan were last seen on September 23 in Rexburg, Idaho, but Lori never reported her children missing.
Authorities only started looking for the kids in late November after concerned relatives demanded they perform a welfare check when they hadn't heard from JJ in months.
Lori, 46, and her new husband Chad Daybell, 51, fled their Idaho home a day after the welfare check, investigators said.
They claimed the couple repeatedly lied about where JJ and Tylee are and were not cooperating with the investigation.
Lori and Chad are considered a person of interest in the kid's disappearance as investigators also say they believe the mom knows where they are or what happened to them.
The multi-state hunt for JJ and Tylee Ryan has baffled investigators as the case becomes more complex.
The first mysterious death in the case that had grabbed headlines across the country is that Lori's estranged husband Charles.
The second death is Tammy Daybell, who is Chad's previous wife.
Tammy, 49, was found dead on October 19 in Salem, Idaho in the home she shared with Chad.
Her obituary said she passed away in her sleep and it was ruled she died of natural causes after Chad reportedly declined to have an autopsy performed.
Investigations have now reopened the case after learning JJ and Tylee were missing, and that Lori married Chad just two weeks after Tammy's death.
They believe the cases could be linked.
On December 11, Tammy's body was exhumed and Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries told DailyMail.com on Monday investigators believe she may have been poisoned.
The third mysterious death is that of Alex Cox, who was found dead on December 12.
The results of his autopsy have not yet been released, but his dead was deemed suspicious.
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