Phoenix (AP) – Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell, a religious belief that was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival. This time, she was accused of conspiring to murder her estranged husband in Arizona.
The case has attracted public attention in part because of the 51-year-old Vallow Daybell’s religious belief centered on the world. She is not a lawyer, but chose to represent herself at the six-week trial. The opening remarks are scheduled to be published in Phoenix Court on Monday.
Prosecutors said she had conspired to kill Charles Vallow so she could collect money from his life insurance policy and marry then-boyfriend Chad Daybell, an Idaho writer who wrote several religious novels about prophecy and the end of the world.
Vallow Daybell pleaded not guilty and did not speak publicly about the details of Vallow’s death. This is what you know about the case.
What’s going on in Arizona
Vallow was shot dead in July 2019. Vallow Daybell then moved to Idaho with her children Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan. Two weeks after his wife, Tammy Daybell, died, she married Daybell. The children were missing for several months before they found their bodies buried in rural Idaho on Chad Daybell’s property. JJ is 7 years old and Tylee is 16 years old.
Vallow Daybell has served three in Idaho in the case of child deaths and conspiracy to kill Tammy Daybell. Chad Daybell was sentenced to death in the three-person killing.
Charles Vallow filed for divorce with Vallow Daybell four months before his death, saying she was obsessed with nearly dying experiences and claimed she had lived countless lives on other planets.
He claims she threatens to destroy him financially and kill him. He seeks a voluntary mental health assessment of his wife.
Who fired the gun
Police say Vallow was fatally shot by Alex Cox, brother of Vallow Daybell, when Vallow went to his son at his home in Vallow Daybell, a Phoenix suburb. Vallow Daybell’s daughter Tylee told police she faced the valley with a baseball bat after yelling in the house.
Telly said she was trying to defend her mother, but Vallow took the bat. Cox told police he was fired after Vallow refused to drop the bat and followed him.
Cox told investigators that Vallow Daybell and the children left the house shortly before the shooting. Investigators said she went to buy fast food for her son and then bought a trigger at the pharmacy before returning home.
Cox claimed to be self-defense and was not arrested in Vallow’s death, five months later from a blood clot in the lungs that medical examiners said. Cox’s account was later questioned.
What is the background of Lori Vallow Daybell
Vallow Daybell is a trade beautician, mother of three children and a wife – five times.
Her first marriage was a high school lover at the age of 19, and it ended soon. She married again in her 20s and had a son. Then, in 2001, she married Joseph Ryan, whom they married Tylee. A few years later, they divorced, and Ryan died in 2018 on suspicion of a heart attack.
Charles Vallow entered the picture a few months later. Vallow and Vallow Daybell got married in 2006 and later adopted JJ, but by 2019 their marriage had deteriorated. The two were alienated but were still married when Cox shot deadly.
The public interest of the world will only take several unexpected turns with the investigation of missing children, and each new revelation seems stranger than the last.
Daybell, once a contestant for “Wheel of Wealth”, is the subject of Netflix documentaries and lifelong films.
How she fights the case
While representing herself, Vallow Daybell complained about news reports on her criminal case, citing her right to swift trial, questioned whether government witnesses were truly experts, and controversial about the exchange of evidence before evidence.
At a hearing last week, she lost three people who went on strike from the list of prosecutors, including her adopted son’s grandmother. Another witness said Vallow Daybell spoke of Vallow being “owned” months before his death. Vallow Daybell lowered his head, sighed, and paused for a few seconds when the judge asked her to argue about her point of view. “Their message is not first-hand,” Vallow Daybell said. “These witnesses are all coming together. They are watching everything about it on TV.”
If convicted of conspiracy to kill Vallow in Arizona, she faces life imprisonment.
Vallow Daybell wears civilian costumes during the trial, and jurors are not handcuffed or bound in court. However, she is expected to wear a belt-like device under her clothes and if there is harassment, she will cause electric shocks by remote control.
Killed in Idaho
The Idaho investigation began in late 2019 when Vallow Daybell’s grandmother, who adopted his son, contacted police. Vallow Daybell kept shying away when asked about her two youngest children.
Chad Daybell called 911 in October 2019 and reported that his wife, Tammy Daybell, was fighting illness and dying in sleep. Her body was later dug out and the autopsy confirmed that she died of suffocation.
Idaho police conducted welfare checks on the children in November 2019 and found they were missing and had not been seen since early September. Not long after, Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell left the town and eventually showed up in Hawaii without children. She was arrested in Hawaii on an arrest warrant in Idaho in February 2020.
The defense attorney told the juror that she was a “good and loving mother” who happened to be interested in religious and biblical prophecies.
A witness at the Idaho trial said Vallow Daybell believed that the evil soul had taken over the people of her life and turned them into “zombies.”
When were the two trials in Arizona
The trial of Charles Vallow’s death will mark the first of two criminal trials in Arizona.
She plans to be retrialed in late May, in charge of the murder of Brandon Boudreaux, ex-husband of Vallow Daybell’s niece Melani Pawlowski.
In 2019, someone in the Jeep shot Boudreaux outside his home in the suburbs of Phoenix, missing him but hit his car. The jeep matches a description registered by Charles Vallow, who was killed nearly three months after the shooting outside his home in Boudreaux.
Vallow Daybell pleaded not guilty. If convicted, she faces life imprisonment. ____ Associated Press writer Rebecca Boone contributed to the report in Boise, Idaho.
