'Doomsday mom' Lori Vallow to be sentenced in Arizona murder conspiracy trials
In April, she was found guilty of conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, in July 2019. Vallow Daybell, who represented herself at trial, told jurors that her brother shot Charles Vallow in self-defense after a family argument. Her brother, Alex Cox, died that same year from a pulmonary embolism and was never charged.
Less than two months after that conviction, Vallow Daybell was found guilty of conspiring to kill her niece's now ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux, outside his home in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert. He told the jury that in October 2019, someone in a Jeep fired a rifle shot at him but missed. Boudreaux said he recognized the car as belonging to a family member.
Vallow Daybell, who represented herself at that trial as well, said in her opening statement that she had nothing to do with the shooting.
Friday's sentencing will end a years-long legal saga that involved doomsday religious beliefs, zombies, and evil spirits. Her current husband, Chad Daybell, is a doomsday author.
In 2023, Vallow Daybell was convicted by an Idaho jury of killing her two children, Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow, and conspiring to kill her current husband's first wife, Tammy Daybell.
disappeared in Idaho. Court documents revealed that Joshua, 7, had been buried in a pet cemetery on Chad Daybell's property, and Tylee, 17, had been dismembered and burned in a fire pit.
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