Phoenix – Lori Vallow Daybell, the mother of Idaho with religious beliefs of the Final Judgment Day who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to kill a romantic rival, is in trial again. This time, she is accused in Arizona to conspire to kill her separate husband.
The case has attracted public attention in part because Vallow Daybell, 51, has religious beliefs focused on the day of the end of the world. She is not a lawyer, but has chosen represented herself in the six -week trial. Opening statements are scheduled on Monday in a Chaenix court room.
Prosecutors say she conspired with her brother to kill Charles Stunso that he could raise money from his life insurance policy and marry his then boyfriend Chad Daybell, a Idaho author who wrote several religious novels about the prophecies and the end of the world.
Vallew Daybell declared himself innocent and has not spoken publicly about the details of Valleow’s death. This is what you should know about the case.
Vallow was a deadly shot in July 2019. Vallew Daybell moved to Idaho with his children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan. He married Daybell only two weeks after his wife’s death, Tammy Daybell. The children disappeared for several months before their bodies were found buried in the Rural Idaho area on the property of Chad Daybell. JJ was 7 years old and Tylee was 16 years old.
Vallow Daybell is already fulfilling three perpetual chains in Idaho for children’s deaths and conspiring to kill Tammy Daybell. Chad Daybell was Death condemned In the three murders.
Four months before dying, Charles Vallow Presented for divorce of Vallow Daybell, saying that he had fallen in love with experiences close to death and that he had claimed to have lived numerous lives on other planets.
He claimed that she threatened to ruin him financially and kill him. He looked for a voluntary mental health evaluation of his wife.
Police say that Vallow was a fatal shot by Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, when Vallow went to pick up his son at the house of Vallow Daybell in Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix. Vallow Daybell’s daughter, Tylee, told the Police that she faced Vallow with a baseball bat after she woke up screaming at home.
Tylee said he was trying to defend his mother, but Vallow took the bat, according to police records. Cox told the police that he shot after Vallow refused to drop the bat and came after him.
Cox told the researchers that Vallow Daybell and the children left the house shortly before the shooting. The researchers say he went to look for fast food for his son and bought flip flops in a pharmacy before returning home.
Cox, who said he acted in self -defense and was not arrested in the death of Vallow, died five months later for what the examiners said it was a blood clot in the lungs. The Cox account was later questioned.
Vallow Daybell was a aestheticist by profession, mother of three children and wife, five more times.
His first marriage, with a high school girlfriend when he was 19, ended quickly. He married again at age 20 and had a son. Then, in 2001, he married Joseph Ryan and had Tylee. They divorced a few years later, and Ryan died in 2018 at his home of an alleged heart attack.
Charles Vallow entered the photo several months later. Vallow and Vallow Daybell married in 2006 and then adopted JJ, but by 2019 their marriage had been grated. The two were separated but still married when Cox fatally shot Vallow.
The public interest from all over the world only grew as research on missing children He took several unexpected shiftsEach new revelation seemingly more strange than the previous one.
Daybell, who was once a contestant in “Wheel of Fortune”, has been the subject of a Netflix documentary and a movie for life.
While represented herself, Vallow Daybell has complained about the coverage of news of her criminal cases, she invoked her right to a rapid trial, questioned whether a government witness was really an expert and dedicated himself to disputes about the exchange of evidence prior to the trial.
At a hearing last week, he lost an attempt to attract three people from the prosecutor’s witness list, including the grandmother of his adoptive son. Another witness says that Vallow Daybell talked about Vallow as “possessed” in the months prior to his death. When the judge asked him to argue his point, Valow Daybell lowered his head, sighed and stopped for a few seconds. “His information is not firsthand,” said Vallow Daybell. “All these witnesses are joining. They are watching everything that happens on television regarding this.”
If he is convicted in Arizona for conspiring to kill Vallow, he would face a life imprisonment.
Vallow Daybell will wear civil clothing during his trial and will not be handcuffed or chained when the jurors are in the courtroom. However, it is expected to wear a belt -shaped device under your clothes that will allow a prison officer to deliver an electric shock by remote control if there is a disturbance.
Idaho’s investigation began at the end of 2019 when the grandmother of the adopted son of Vallow Daybell, concerned about your well -beingHe approached the police. Vallow Daybell had been evasive when asked about his two youngest children.
Chad Daybell called 911 in October 2019 to report that his wife Tammy Daybell was fighting a disease and died while sleeping. Later, his body was exhumed and an autopsy determined that he died of suffocation.
The Idaho Police did a social assistance control over children in November 2019 and discovered that they were missing and had not been seen since the beginning of September. Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell left the city a short time later, and finally appeared in Hawaii without the children. She was arrested in Hawaii in February 2020 with an arrest warrant against Idaho.
The defense lawyers told the jurors that it was a “kind and loving mother” who was interested in religion and biblical prophecies.
A witness at the Idaho trial said Vallow Daybell believes that evil spirits have seized people in their lives and made them “zombies.”
The trial of the death of Charles Vallow will mark the first of the two criminal trials in Arizona for Vallow Daybell.
Is scheduled to go to trial again at the end of May for a conspiracy position to kill Brandon BoudreauxThe ex -husband of Vallow Daybell’s niece, Melani Pawlowski.
Someone in a Jeep shot a shot in Boudreaux in 2019 out of his house in a suburb of Phoenix, missing him but hitting his car. The Jeep coincided with the description of one registered with Charles Vallow, who was killed almost three months before the shooting out of Boudreaux’s house.
Vallow Daybell declared himself innocent. If she is convicted, she would face a life imprisonment. ____ The Associated Press Rebecca Boone writer in Boise, Idaho, contributed to this report.
