Accused killer Lori Vallow aggressively cross-examines lady who dated husband the evening earlier than he was murdered | EUROtoday
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Notorious mother Lori Vallow Daybell, who’s representing herself at her Arizona trial within the homicide of her fourth husband, ripped right into a witness who testified about occurring a date with him the evening earlier than he was killed.
The confrontation grew tense as Vallow Daybell aggressively cross-examined Nancy Jo Hancock Wednesday in court docket concerning the date and what they talked about.
“So, you spent your whole date getting to know each other talking about me?” Vallow Daybell pressed.
“Don’t flatter yourself,” Hancock snapped again. “No, we did not spend the whole time talking about you.”
Vallow Daybell, 51, referred to as the “Doomsday Mom” for her non secular beliefs, was convicted in 2023 in Idaho for her position within the killing of her two youngest kids — 16-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old adopted son JJ Vallow — and a romantic rival.
She is now on trial for conspiracy to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, in 2019 in order that she might marry Chad Daybell, prosecutors cost. They accuse Vallow Daybell of conspiring along with her brother Alex Cox to kill Daybell to money in on a life insurance coverage coverage, whereas insisting that Charles was possessed by an evil spirit. Cox died earlier than he might be tried for the crime.
Hancock instructed the court docket Wednesday that she had met Charles Vallow on a courting website for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in early July 2019.
They exchanged “hundreds of texts,” and had hour-long cellphone calls earlier than assembly in particular person on July 10, 2019, the evening earlier than he was fatally shot by Lori’s brother, Alex Cox.
“I just remember thinking that he was strangely calm and still kind toward Lori,” Hancock stated. “His hope was that she would be a great mom JJ,” their adopted son.
Hancock’s voice cracked with emotion as she recounted that Charles was “like a kid on Christmas morning” every time he was about to see JJ.”
Charles revealed to her the evening earlier than his loss of life that he had modified the beneficiary of his property within the occasion of his loss of life to his sister Kay Woodcock, Hancock testified. She stated she urged that he share that information with Vallow Daybell.
“Charles was a texter and a talker,” Hancock famous, including that their conversations have been stuffed with banter.
Hancock and Charles continued to textual content after dinner the evening earlier than he was murdered, however when she texted him the subsequent day, she didn’t obtain a response.
“I was puzzled how I had misread what I had thought was a good date that he would not even take the courtesy to reply,” she stated. “I wondered why, but just figured that was what his decision was.”
It wasn’t till December that 12 months that Hancock discovered on the information that Charles had been killed.
“Oh my gosh, that’s right when I went out with him,” Hancock testified she thought on the time. She wasn’t interviewed by police in Chandler, Arizona till April 2020, she stated.
In court docket on Wednesday, Vallow Daybell requested Hancock if she was shocked to study later that Charles was not within the strategy of a divorce, as he had claimed, and requested if she would have gone on a date with Charles had she realized he wasn’t dissolving his marriage.
“He was not in the process of a divorce,” Vallow Daybell angrily famous.
Hancock responded that that they had solely shared a dinner, including: “I wasn’t sleeping with him or anything.”
“Do you go on dates with married men?” Vallow Daybell requested, which prompted an objection from prosecutors.
“You’re trying to tell me and this jury that you went on one date with my husband and he told you all the details of our lives?” Vallow Daybell requested.
“I’m telling you the truth,” Hancock stated. “That’s what I know.”
On Monday, Vallow Daybell broke down in tears whereas giving her opening statements as she painted Charles because the aggressor within the incident that led to his loss of life. She stated her brother fatally shot Charles as he threatened her daughter with a bat.
Charles’ loss of life was allegedly step one in a wider plot by Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell to rid their lives of “obstacles,” which means their spouses and her kids, in keeping with textual content message offered as proof at her 2023 trial for the murders of Vallow Daybell’s kids.
Four months earlier than he died, Charles filed for divorce from his spouse saying she had change into infatuated with near-death experiences, and had claimed to have lived quite a few lives on different planets.
He alleged she had threatened to damage him financially and kill him. He sought a voluntary psychological well being analysis for his spouse.
Vallow Daybell has pleaded not responsible for his loss of life. If convicted, she would face life in jail.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/lori-vallow-charles-daybell-murder-trial-b2730591.html