Lori Vallow Daybell doomsday cult mother discovered responsible of conspiring to homicide fourth husband | EUROtoday

Lori Vallow Daybell has been discovered responsible of conspiring to homicide her fourth husband within the newest flip of the deeply disturbing saga involving the doomsday cult mother.

Vallow Daybell conspired along with her late brother, Alex Cox, to kill her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, at his house in Chandler, Arizona, in July 2019 so she might acquire cash from his life insurance coverage coverage and marry her now-husband and “doomsday” prophet Chad Daybell.

The jury deliberated for 3 hours over two days earlier than handing down the decision to Vallow Daybell, who’s already serving three consecutive life sentences with out parole for killing her two youngest youngsters and conspiring to homicide a romantic rival in Idaho.

She faces a life sentence with out the potential of launch till serving at the least 25 years in Arizona.

The newest verdict is just one a part of a dramatic and sophisticated case centered on the doomsday couple that spans a sinister sample of murders, unexplained deaths and weird cult beliefs about killing zombies.

Chad Daybell acquired the demise sentence final yr after being discovered responsible of homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide within the deaths of Vallow Daybell’s youngsters Tylee Ryan, 16, JJ Vallow, 8, and his ex-wife Tammy Daybell, 49.

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Charles Vallow’s demise in 2019 was step one in a wider plot by Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell to rid their lives of “obstacles,” that means their spouses and her youngsters, in keeping with textual content messages introduced as proof at her 2023 trial for the murders of her youngsters.

Throughout the most recent trial, jurors heard vastly totally different accounts of the demise of Charles Vallow, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at his house in suburban Phoenix.

“What we see is a very planned out, premeditated murder,” prosecutor Treena Kay advised the jury Monday in her two-hour closing argument.

Vallow Daybell represented herself throughout the trial and argued her estranged husband’s demise was “a tragic family event” throughout her 20-minute closing argument.

She painted Charles Vallow because the aggressor within the incident that led to his demise. At the beginning of the trial, Vallow Daybell stated Charles Vallow had chased her with a bat throughout the encounter and her brother shot him in self-defense after she left the home.

Alex Cox mysteriously died 5 months after Charles Vallow’s homicide from what medical experts stated was a blood clot in his lungs. His model of occasions that it was self-defense was later referred to as into query.

During the trial, the prosecution delved into Vallow Daybell’s “twisted religious beliefs” and highlighted a scarcity of bodily proof of the confrontation between Charles Vallow and his brother-in-law.

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Alex Cox waited 47 minutes earlier than calling 911 “to stage the scene” and depart a bat close to Charles Vallow’s head, Kay stated.

Before the jury started deliberating, prosecutors performed a recorded dialog between Vallow Daybell and the life insurance coverage firm, the place they heard her say she was the beneficiary of her husband’s $1 million coverage, Kay advised the courtroom.

In the recording, Vallow Daybell is heard saying that Charles Vallow had been shot and that “it was an accident.”

During the trial, one other of Vallow’s brothers, Adam Cox, advised jurors that he had “no doubt” his siblings have been behind Charles Vallow’s demise.

Testifying for the prosecution, Adam Cox stated the homicide occurred simply earlier than he and Charles Vallow have been planning an intervention to convey Vallow Daybell again into the mainstream of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He testified that his sister had advised folks her husband was not dwelling and {that a} zombie was dwelling inside his physique.

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Four months earlier than he died, it additionally emerged that Charles Vallow filed for divorce from Vallow Daybell, saying she had grow to be infatuated with near-death experiences and had claimed to have lived quite a few lives on different planets. He alleged she threatened to wreck him financially and kill him.

Vallow Daybell is scheduled to go on trial once more in early June on a cost of conspiring to homicide Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of her niece, Melani Pawlowski. Boudreaux survived a drive-by capturing in Arizona in October 2019. The assailant was driving Charles Vallow’s automotive.

Vallow Daybell’s beliefs started to vary in 2017 after she began studying Chad Daybell’s doomsday books. The pair met in individual for the primary time at a non secular convention in Utah in 2018 and married in November 2019 – two months after the disappearance of Vallow Daybell’s two youngsters.

In June 2020, their stays have been found on Chad Daybell’s property. The couple was not charged with the murders till May 2021. They have been tried individually, the place Vallow Daybell was discovered responsible of first-degree homicide, conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide and grand theft over the deaths of her youngsters. She was discovered responsible of conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide within the demise of Chad Daybell’s ex-wife, Tammy Daybell, who died in October 2019.

After a seven-week trial, Chad Daybell was discovered responsible of homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide in May 2024 within the deaths of the youngsters and his ex-wife. He is awaiting execution within the Idaho Department of Corrections’ most safety facility.

AP contributed