Lori Vallow Daybell represents himself in his last murder trial, he above the death of his fourth husband, and in his declaration of opening on Monday, the so-called “Doomsday Mom” gave his version of events. The authorities say that Charles Vallow was fatally killed by Daybell’s brother Alex Cox in July 2019, but Cox insisted that the shooting was self -defense. Daybell said the same on Monday, saying that the confrontation had started with Vallow, from which she was distant, “shouting” about him because she refused to give her his mobile phone, reports ABC News. She says that her daughter Tylee, the daughter-in-law of Vallow, who would have had a tense relationship with him, then left her room with a bat to try to defend her mother. (Daybell and her current husband, Chad Daybell, were found guilty of the September 2019 murders of Tylee and her brother, JJ.)
Daybell says that Vallow and Tylee fought on the bat and, finally, Vallow obtained it and raised it as if to strike the teenager, reports NBC News. It was then that Daybell says that his brother started fighting for the bat with Vallow. “The evidence shows that after this fight on the ground between Charles and Alex, that Charles prevailed with the bat and started to come to me with the bat while I moved away from him in the kitchen,” she said in his declaration of opening. “The evidence shows that at one point, while I was fleeing Charles, who pursues me with the bat, that Alex apparently recovered his weapon.” The prosecutors, however, say that Daybell and Cox conspired to kill Vallow and make self-defense look so that Daybell can collect life insurance and marry her current husband.
Cox died later in 2019 of a pulmonary embolism and was never accused of the death of Vallow. In addition to the murders of her children, Daybell and Chad Daybell were also found guilty of conspiracy to commit a murder in the death of Tammy Daybell, the first wife of Chad Daybell. Daybell is also accused of conspiracy with his brother to kill Brandon Boudreaux, the husband far from his niece; She pleaded not guilty, but a date of trial has not yet been set in this case. (Boudreaux was not killed.)
