‘Doomsday mother’ Lori Vallow Daybell is convicted in fourth husband’s loss of life

“Doomsday mother” Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.

A Maricopa County Superior Courtroom jury discovered Vallow Daybell responsible of conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide within the July 2019 deadly taking pictures.

Vallow Daybell, who represented herself at trial, advised jurors that her brother, Alex Cox, shot Charles Vallow in self-defense following a household argument. Cox died later that 12 months from a pulmonary embolism and was by no means charged.

In response to Vallow Daybell, her husband received into an argument along with her daughter, Tylee Ryan, and threatened the teenager with a bat. Charles Vallow was at his estranged spouse’s residence in Chandler, Arizona, to take their son, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, to highschool.

Vallow Daybell, 51, was convicted in Idaho in 2023 of killing her two kids and her husband’s first spouse, Tammy Daybell. She’s already serving life in jail with out the potential for parole.

Prosecutors within the Arizona case dismissed Vallow Daybell’s self-defense declare, arguing that she had a number of causes for wanting her husband useless, together with her want to begin a life with one other man.

“Lori Vallow wished to be Lori Daybell, spouse of Chad Daybell. And in July of 2019, Lori Vallow wished to maintain the identical way of life that she had with Charles. And she or he may get all of this if Charles was useless,” prosecutor Treena Kay mentioned in her opening statements.

Kay continued: “She may marry Chad Daybell and grow to be Lori Daybell. She would get a million-dollar life insurance coverage coverage from Charles Vallow. She would get Social Safety for herself and their son, JJ, because the youngster of a useless partner. And all of this might be true if Charles Vallow was useless.”

The prosecutor added that Vallow Daybell labeled individuals who disagreed along with her as “darkish” or “possessed by evil spirits” and used faith to justify Charles Vallow’s loss of life.

Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell, a doomsday writer, married in November 2019.

In her closing argument on Monday, Vallow Daybell mentioned prosecutors tried to “retrofit against the law that doesn’t exist.”

“Underneath Arizona regulation, I had the proper to self-defense. Tylee had the proper to self-defense. Alex had the proper to self-defense. This occasion was not deliberate or anticipated. It was stunning,” she mentioned. “This occasion was not against the law. It was a tragedy. Don’t allow them to flip my household tragedy into against the law.”

Throughout Vallow Daybell’s trial, the jury heard from a health worker who testified that Charles Vallow may have been mendacity on a agency floor like a ground when he was shot. The deadly shot went by his coronary heart, health worker Derek Bumgarner mentioned.

Adam Cox advised the courtroom that he had “little doubt” his sister conspired with their brother to kill Charles Vallow. He testified that earlier than the taking pictures, Vallow Daybell had been making odd non secular feedback and that he and Charles Vallow wished to carry an intervention to deal with it.

Different testimony included Chandler police officer Cassandra Ynclan, who advised the courtroom that Vallow Daybell “appeared very form of bizarre and form of nonchalant” on the day of her husband’s loss of life.

The state rested its case final week. Vallow Daybell rested with out presenting any proof or calling any witnesses.

Sentencing in prison instances often takes place about 30 days from the date of a verdict.

Vallow Daybell is charged in a separate case with conspiring to kill Brandon Boudreaux, her niece’s estranged husband, and the choose famous that might complicate the calendar. He ordered a standing replace for mid-Could.