By Jacques Billeaud
Phoenix (AP) – An Arizona jury admitted Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of conspired to assassinate her distant husband, which means that the mother with religious beliefs of the day is confronted with another sentence of imprisonment perpetuity after having already been condemned in Idaho in the killings of her two younger children and a romantic rival.
The prosecutors said that she had plotted with her brother, Alex Cox, when Charles Vallow’s July 2019 death died at her home in the suburbs of Phoenix in Chandler.
She tried to collect money from her life insurance policy, said prosecutors, and planned to marry her boyfriend at the time, Chad Daybell, an author of Idaho who wrote several religious novels on the prophecies and the end of the world.
The jurors deliberated for a total of three hours over two days. Vallow Daybell, who is not a lawyer but who chose to defend himself at the trial, sat above still while the verdict was read, but took a look at the jurors when they were invited to confirm that they found him guilty for the only accusation.
One of the jurors, Victoria Lewis, told journalists outside the courthouse that Vallow Daybell herself had no favor by choosing to represent himself.
“Several days, she smiled and laughed and did not seem to take anything very seriously,” said Lewis.
Vallow Daybell told the jury that during the meeting inside the house, Vallow continued it with a bat and that his brother shot him on self -defense after leaving the house.
Cox, who also said he had acted in self -defense, died five months later from what the forensic doctors said they were a blood clot in his lungs.
The trial marked the first of the two criminal trials in Arizona for Vallow Daybell. It must be tried again in June at the beginning of June for a conspiracy to kill Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-Mari de la niece de Vallow Daybell. Boudreaux survived the attempt.
Vallow Daybell will be sentenced to Vallow’s death after his second trial. It is already serving three sentences in perpetuity in the Idaho case.
Last week at the Arizona trial, Adam Cox, another brother of Vallow Daybell, testified on behalf of the accusation, telling the jurors that he did not doubt that his brothers and sisters were behind Vallow’s death.
Adam Cox said that murder had occurred just before he and Vallow provided an intervention to bring his sister back in the dominant current of their common faith in the church of Jesus Christ of the Holy Dates. He testified that before the death of Vallow, his sister had told people that her husband no longer lived and that a zombie lived inside his body.
Four months before his death, Vallow asked for the divorce of Vallow Daybell, saying that she had become in love with imminent death experiences and 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.
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California Daily Newspapers
