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"CULT mom" Lori Vallow's mother said her missing kids may be hidden in a bunker somewhere.

Vallow's sister, Summer, and mother, Janice, said the "cult mom" would never harm her kids in an interview with CBS' 48 hours.

 Lori Vallow's mother, Janice Cox, speaks with CBS' 48 Hours
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Lori Vallow's mother, Janice Cox, speaks with CBS' 48 HoursCredit: CBS
 Tylee Ryan (left) and Joshua 'JJ' Ryan, who have not been seen since September
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Tylee Ryan (left) and Joshua 'JJ' Ryan, who have not been seen since SeptemberCredit: CBS

Tylee Ryan, 17, and Joshua "JJ" Vallow, 7, have not been seen since September last year – and the mom has refused to comment on their whereabouts.

In a clip from a 48 Hours interview that airs tomorrow, host Jon Vigliotti asked Vallow's family if they think the kids could be hidden.

"Do you think they're in a bunker somewhere?" Vigliotti asked in the clip on CBS This Morning.

"I think that's possible," Vallow's mother, Janice Cox said.

Vallow's family has insisted the kids are alive – and the "cult mom" would never do anything to harm them.

"She's not a monster," Vallow's sister, Summer Shiflet told 48 Hours.

"Lori would never harm her children, ever.

She added: "She's not a heartless, cold-calculated, murderess-type of person."

Vallow's mother agreed.

"She would never harm her children," Cox said in another clip from the interview. "I know her."

DISAPPEARANCE

Cops have been working desperately to try and find Vallow's missing kids.

 Lori Vallow's mugshot
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Lori Vallow's mugshotCredit: AP:Associated Press
 Vallow's sister, Summer Shiflet (left), and mother, Janice Cox (right)
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Vallow's sister, Summer Shiflet (left), and mother, Janice Cox (right)Credit: CBS
 JJ and Tylee at a restaurant before their disappearance
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JJ and Tylee at a restaurant before their disappearanceCredit: CBS
 Vallow with her ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux, and kids
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Vallow with her ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux, and kidsCredit: Refer to Caption

Although they have not been seen since September, the kids were not reported missing until November when JJ's grandparents had cops do a welfare check.

Vallow and her new husband, Chad Daybell, have refused to reveal where the kids may be.

Lori reportedly believes she is “a god assigned to carry out the work of the 144,000 at Christ’s second coming in July 2020,” according to divorce documents filed by Lori's ex-husband, Charles before his death.

LORI'S ARREST

The couple – who married just two weeks after Daybell's first wife died in October – were flouting around Hawaii as police tried to locate Tylee and JJ.

At the end of January, police gave Vallow one week to produce her kids in front of cops.

When she did not show her kids to police to prove they are alive, Vallow was arrested in Hawaii and extradited to Idaho.

She was charged with two counts of desertion and nonsupport of her children.

Vallow also faces charges for obstructing an officer, solicitation of a crime and contempt.

She is held in jail on a $1million bail.

 Lori Vallow and her family
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Lori Vallow and her familyCredit: Dateline
 The apartment complex where Vallow and Daybell lived in Rexburg, Idaho
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The apartment complex where Vallow and Daybell lived in Rexburg, IdahoCredit: AP:Associated Press

'THERE'S ANOTHER SIDE TO THIS'

Cox and Shiflet insisted to CBS in a previously-aired clip of the 48 Hours interview that there's another side to the story.

"We know there's another whole side to this," Cox said.

"We don't know what it is, but we know her," she added.

Her family has not revealed why Vallow would conceal her kids' whereabouts.

Cox also said she spoke with JJ over the phone on October 1. She could not show proof of a phone bill of the conversation.

The "cult mom's" niece, Melani Boudreaux, has also insisted the kids are alive and safe.

MYSTERIOUS DEATHS

Several people close to Daybell and Vallow have died under mysterious circumstances.

The 1998 death of Vallow's sister, Stacey Lynne Cox Cope, is the most recently-emerged mysterious death in the family.

Vallow's third husband, Joseph Ryan, died of an apparent heart attack in 2018.

The following year, the "cult mom's" fourth husband, Charles Vallow, was shot dead by her brother, Alex Cox.

Lori Vallow's sister died young of mysterious causes - the FIFTH person associated with ‘cult mom’ to die

He claimed self-defense and was never charged in the death.

Chad Daybell's former wife, Tammy Daybell, died of unknown causes in her sleep. Tammy died just two weeks before Vallow and Chad married.

Alex Cox was found collapsed on his bathroom floor in his Arizona home in December.

He was later pronounced dead.

Two of Vallow's lawyers mysteriously withdrew themselves from her case in March, and a judge stood down from hearing her case.

Vallow has maintained her innocence in her children's disappearance.

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