By Jacques Bilaud, Associated Press
Phoenix (AP) – Lori Vallow Daybell, the mother of Idaho with religious beliefs from Doomsday who were recognized as guilty of having killed her two youngest children and conspired to assassinate a romantic rival, is again judged. This time, she is accused in Arizona to conspire to assassinate her distant husband.
The case drew public attention in part because Vallow Daybell, 51, has religious beliefs focused on the day. She is not a lawyer but has chosen to stand out in the six -week trial. Opening declarations are scheduled for a courtroom in Phoenix on Monday.
The prosecutors say that she plotted with her brother to kill Charles Vallow, so that she can perceive money from her life insurance policy and marry her boyfriend at the time, Chad Daybell, an author of the Idaho who wrote several religious novels on the prophecies and the end of the world.
Vallow Daybell pleaded not guilty and did not publicly speak of details of Vallow’s death. Here’s what you need to know about the case.
What happened in Arizona
Vallow was fatally killed in July 2019. Vallow Daybell then moved to Idaho with his children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan. She married Daybell only two weeks after the death of her wife, Tammy Daybell. The children disappeared for several months before their bodies were found buried in the rural Idaho regions on the property of Chad Daybell. JJ was 7 years old and Tylee was 16 years old.
Vallow Daybell is already serving three perpetuity sentences in Idaho for the death of children and for the plot to kill Tammy Daybell. Chad Daybell was sentenced to death during the three murders.
Four months before his death, Charles Vallow asked for the divorce of Vallow Daybell, saying that she had become in love with imminent death experiences and had claimed to have lived many lives on other planets.
He alleged that she had threatened to ruin him financially and kill him. He asked for a voluntary assessment of his wife’s mental health.
Pulling the pistol
Police said Vallow was fatally killed by Vallow Daybell’s brother Alex Cox when Vallow went to get his son from Vallow Daybell in Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix. Vallow Daybell’s daughter Tylee told the police that she had confronted Vallow with a baseball bat after being woken up screaming in the house.
Tylee said she was trying to defend her mother, but Vallow removed the bat, according to the police archives. Cox told the police that he had pulled after Vallow refused to drop the bat and came after him.
Cox told investigators that Vallow Daybell and the children had left the house shortly before the shooting. Investigators say she went to get fast food for her son and bought flip flops in a pharmacy before going home.
Cox, who said he had acted in self -defense and was not arrested in the death of Vallow, died five months later from what the forensic doctors said they were a blood clot in his lungs. The Cox account was then questioned.
What is the history of Lori Vallow Daybell
Vallow Daybell was a trade esthetician, a mother of three and a woman – five times more.
His first marriage, with a school lover at the age of 19, ended quickly. She married again at the beginning of the twenty and had a son. Then, in 2001, she married Joseph Ryan, and they had Tylee. They divorced a few years later and Ryan died in 2018 at his home from an alleged heart attack.
Charles Vallow entered the image several months later. Vallow and Vallow Daybell got married in 2006 and then adopted JJ, but in 2019, their wedding was embittered. The two were distant but still married when Cox mortally shot Vallow.
The public interest of the world has only increased as the survey on missing children has taken several unexpected rounds, each new apparently foreign revelation than the previous one.
Daybell, who was once a candidate on “Wheel of Fortune”, was the subject of a documentary and a life film of Netflix.
How she fights the case
While representing himself, Vallow Daybell complained about the media coverage of his criminal affairs, invoked his right to a quick trial, wondered if a witness to the government was really an expert and engaged in disputes concerning the exchange of evidence before the trial.
During an audience last week, she lost an offer to strike three people from the list of accusation witnesses, including the grandmother of her adopted son. Another witness says that Vallow Daybell spoke of Vallow as being “possessed” in the months preceding his death. When the judge asked him to discuss his point, Vallow Daybell lowered his head, sighed and stopped a few seconds. “Their information is not first -hand,” said Vallow Daybell. “These witnesses all come together. They watch everything that is happening on television on this subject.”
If she is found guilty in Arizona of conspiracy in order to kill Vallow, she would be sentenced to life.
Vallow Daybell will wear civilian clothes during his trial and will not be handcuffed or chained when the jurors are in the courtroom. However, it should wear a belt -shaped device under its clothes which will allow a prison officer to deliver an electric shock by remote control in the event of a disturbance.
Who was killed in Idaho
The investigation of Idaho began at the end of 2019 when the grandmother of the adopted son of Vallow Daybell, worried about his well-being, contacted the police. Vallow Daybell had been evasive when he was asked about his two youngest children.
Chad Daybell called 911 in October 2019 to point out that his wife Tammy Daybell was fighting against a disease and died in his sleep. Her body was then exhumed, and an autopsy determined that she died of asphyxiation.
The Idaho police made a wellness check on children in November 2019 and discovered that they were missing and had not been seen since early September. Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell left the city shortly after, ending up showing up in Hawaii without the children. She was arrested in Hawaii in February 2020 on a mandate from Idaho.
Defense lawyers told the jurors that she was a “kind and loving mother” who was interested in religion and biblical prophecies.
A witness to the Idaho trial said Vallow Daybell believed that bad spirits took up people in his life and transformed them into “zombies”.
When the two tests in Arizona are
The trial on the death of Charles Vallow will mark the first of the two criminal trials in Arizona for Vallow Daybell.
It should be tried again at the end of May for a conspiracy in order to kill Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-Mari de la niece de Vallow Daybell, Melani Pawlowski.
Someone in a Jeep fired a shot on Boudreaux in 2019 outside his house in a suburb of Phoenix, missing him but hitting his car. The Jeep equaled the description of the one registered in Charles Vallow, which was killed almost three months before the shooting outside the home of Boudreaux.
Vallow Daybell pleaded not guilty. If she is convicted, she would be sentenced to life. ____ The writer Associated Press Rebecca Boone in Boisse, Idaho, contributed to this report.
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