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3 days ago
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Lori Vallow Daybell back in court, charged with conspiracy to murder ex nephew-in-law
PHOENIX, Arizona (ABC4) — Lori Vallow Daybell is back in court, charged with conspiring to commit the attempted murder of her former nephew-in-law, Brandon Boudreaux. Daybell is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder of Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of her niece, Melani. Boudreaux alleges he was shot at while returning home on Oct. 2, 2019. Daybell is representing herself in the trial, as she did in her Arizona trial on conspiring to murder her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, where she was found guilty. Daybell was also previously sentenced for murder and conspiracy to murder her children, Joshua 'JJ' Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ashlyn Ryan, 16. She was sentenced to prison and is currently serving five life sentences for the crimes. Lori Vallow Daybell given 5 life sentences in prison for murder of her two children In the final chapter of the Lori Vallow Daybell trials, prosecutors are accusing Daybell of conspiring with her late brother, Alex Cox, to kill Boudreaux outside of his Gilbert home back in 2019. He gave emotional testimony of the events that took place that day, where he was reportedly shot at, but not hit. 'This defendant, Lori Vallow Daybell, has been charged with conspiracy to commit the first-degree murder of Brandon Boudreaux on October 2nd of 2019. The evidence in this case will prove to you beyond reasonable doubt that this defendant conspired with Alex Cox and others to kill Brandon,' said Prosecutor Treena Kay. Boudreaux said he went to the gym, then came home, and as he was waiting for his garage door to open, he noticed a Jeep with Texas plates on the side of the road that was parked awkwardly. He said the car moved in, the back window of the Jeep opened, and he saw the muzzle of a gun. At this point, he heard a bang and the window of his Tesla shattered. He immediately started driving, thinking someone had shot at him. Boudreaux then called 911 as he drove to the neighborhood pool. Police arrived and he talked with officers, realizing that someone had tried to kill him. Lori Vallow Daybell found guilty of conspiracy to murder husband Boudreaux also asserted before the jury that Daybell played a part in his divorce, claiming she influenced his ex-wife, Melani Pawlowski. The second day of Daybell's trial in Arizona was held on Friday, as witnesses and evidence were presented before the jury. Daybell was asked to leave the room after an argument with the judge, in which she had raised her voice in discussing whether her 'good character' could later be presented before the court. As the day progresses, evidence and witness testimony continue to be presented before the jury, including forensic evidence relating to the gunshot residue, provided by the detective involved in the case. Boudreaux will be cross-examined. Live updates of Day 2 of the trial can be found here. Watch Day 2 of the trial here. Good4Utah Road Tour: Willard Bay State Park Lori Vallow Daybell back in court, charged with conspiracy to murder ex nephew-in-law Man charged with assault for allegedly attacking and strangling neighbor NOW: Large police presence in Carbon County Bambara is redefining Salt Lake City dining with flavor, flair, and a lot of heart Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
23-04-2025
- New York Times
‘Doomsday Mom': What to Know About Lori Vallow Daybell's Convictions
Lori Vallow Daybell, the so-called Doomsday Mom who is serving three consecutive life sentences in Idaho for her role in the murders of two of her children and her husband's ex-wife, was convicted on Tuesday in Arizona of conspiracy in the killing of a former spouse. Ms. Vallow Daybell, 51, went on trial again on April 7 in the Arizona case, where she was charged with conspiring with her brother to kill her estranged fourth husband, Charles Vallow, in 2019. She pleaded not guilty and represented herself, arguing that the killing was in self-defense. After deliberating for just under three hours, a jury in Maricopa County Superior Court returned the unanimous guilty verdict against her. A sentencing date has not been set. Ms. Vallow Daybell and her fifth husband, Chad Daybell, 54, were tried separately in Idaho in connection with the deaths of two of Ms. Vallow Daybell's three children: Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua Vallow, 7, known as J.J. The children's remains were found buried on Mr. Daybell's property in 2020. In addition to being found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of the children, and of grand theft, in May 2023, Ms. Vallow Daybell was found guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the death of Tammy Daybell, Mr. Daybell's former wife. Mr. Daybell was found guilty of first-degree murder in May 2024 and was sentenced to death for the murders of Tammy Daybell and the children. The case is the subject of a Lifetime movie, 'Doomsday Mom: The Lori Vallow Story,' and of a Netflix documentary series, 'Sins of Our Mother.' Here's what to know about Ms. Vallow Daybell. What happened to the children? Tylee Ryan and J.J. Vallow were reported missing in November 2019 by J.J.'s grandparents, who had grown suspicious when they were unable to reach him by phone. Officers with the Rexburg Police Department in Idaho attempted to conduct a welfare check and later executed search warrants at the apartment complex where Ms. Vallow Daybell and her husband lived. The authorities said the couple seemed unconcerned with the children's whereabouts. In February 2020, Ms. Vallow Daybell was arrested in Hawaii on a warrant issued by the authorities in Idaho after, they said, she had not cooperated with the effort to find the missing children. In June 2020, investigators found human remains buried on Mr. Daybell's property in Idaho that were later identified as belonging to his wife's missing children. He was arrested and charged with concealing evidence. Ms. Vallow Daybell's 'doomsday' beliefs drew attention to the case. Prosecutors did not say how the children were killed, but the couple's religious beliefs played a role, according to the indictment. They 'did endorse and teach religious beliefs for the purpose of justifying' the deaths, the indictment said. News headlines labeled Ms. Vallow Daybell the 'Doomsday Mom.' In divorce records obtained by the Phoenix television station Fox 10, Charles Vallow, one of Ms. Vallow Daybell's former husbands, said she had told him that she believed she was 'receiving spiritual revelations and visions to help her gather and prepare those chosen to live in the New Jerusalem after the Great War as prophesied in the Book of Revelations.' Mr. Daybell has written several novels with recurring doomsday themes, and both he and Ms. Vallow Daybell have been linked to an entity called Preparing a People, which aims to ready people for the second coming of Jesus Christ, according to its website. Her second trial concerned the death of her fourth husband. After she was convicted in Idaho, Ms. Vallow Daybell was extradited to Arizona in December 2023 to face charges of conspiracy to commit murder in two other cases. The first of these, which ended in a conviction on April 22, involved the murder of Charles Vallow, the fourth of her five husbands, who was shot and killed in Arizona by her brother, Alexander Cox, in July 2019, when she and Mr. Vallow were estranged. Mr. Cox, who has since died, told the police that Mr. Vallow had hit him in the head with a baseball bat and that the shooting was in self-defense. Ms. Vallow Daybell is also expected to face trial in May on charges that she conspired to murder Brandon Boudreaux, her niece's former husband, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Boudreaux was not injured in October 2019 when someone shot at him from a Jeep that matched the description of a vehicle registered to Mr. Vallow, according to The A.P. What happened to Chad Daybell's ex-wife? Mr. Daybell's previous wife, Tammy Daybell, was found dead in her Idaho home in October 2019. The authorities initially said that she appeared to have died of natural causes, but her body was exhumed that December after the authorities began to question the circumstances of her death and its potential connection to the disappearances of Ms. Vallow Daybell's children. Prosecutors said at the start of Ms. Vallow Daybell's trial in Idaho that an autopsy later determined that Tammy Daybell died of asphyxiation. Mr. Daybell increased the amount of coverage in a life insurance policy for her in September 2019, a little more than a month before her death. Ms. Vallow Daybell and Mr. Daybell married shortly after their spouses died. Prosecutors described Ms. Vallow Daybell as a negligent mother. It took years for Ms. Vallow Daybell to stand trial in Idaho because she was initially declared not competent and was required to undergo 'restorative treatment.' During the trial, prosecutors described Ms. Vallow Daybell as a negligent mother with extreme beliefs who was on a 'religious mission' that she viewed as being more important than caring for her children. Former friends testified about Ms. Vallow Daybell and Mr. Daybell's purported religious beliefs. One, Melanie Gibb, said that Ms. Vallow Daybell believed that evil spirits could turn people into 'zombies' by taking over their bodies, and that she called J.J. and Tylee 'zombies,' The A.P. reported. Ms. Gibb testified that Ms. Vallow Daybell believed that the only way to get rid of the evil spirit was to kill the body. In the Idaho case, Jim Archibald, a lawyer for Ms. Vallow Daybell, described her as a 'kind and loving mother to her children' who was interested in religion and biblical prophesies involving the end of the world. He said that she was with other people in her apartment when J.J. and Tylee were killed and that she was in Hawaii at the time of Tammy Daybell's death. Ms. Vallow Daybell did not testify in her own defense, and her lawyers rested their case without calling any witnesses, Boise State Public Radio reported, telling the judge that they did not believe the state had proven its case. Judge Steven W. Boyce of Idaho's Seventh Judicial District said at the sentencing that allowing Ms. Vallow Daybell to serve her life terms concurrently 'would not serve the interest of justice.' 'The most unimaginable type of murder is to have a mother murdering her own children,' Judge Boyce said, 'and that's exactly what you did.'
Yahoo
10-04-2025
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Lori Vallow Daybell grills woman who went out with her husband
Things got tense Wednesday at Lori Vallow Daybell's murder conspiracy trial when Daybell, acting as her own attorney, cross-examined the woman who went out with her spouse the night before he was killed in 2019. When Daybell asked if the two talked about her during the date, the woman replied, 'Don't flatter yourself.' #DoomsdayMom #Vallow #Crime
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19-03-2025
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Arizona trial dates are set for 'Doomsday Mom' Lori Vallow Daybell
A judge on Tuesday decided Lori Vallow Daybell's Arizona charges — murder conspiracy and attempted murder, stemming from separate incidents — would be prosecuted in separate trials. The murder conspiracy case, related to the July 2019 death of Daybell's fourth husband, Charles Vallow, would begin March 31, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Justin Beresky said. May 30 would be the start date for the attempted murder trial, related to a shooting that narrowly missed Daybell's niece's ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux, in Gilbert in October 2019, Beresky said. Beresky also ruled during Tuesday's hearing that the names of Daybell's two youngest children would be included in juror questions to preclude seating jurors with prior knowledge of Daybell's convictions in Idaho for their murders. Joshua "JJ" Vallow was 7 and Tylee Ryan was 16 when they were killed. Daybell was sentenced to life in prison for their murders. She was also convicted in Idaho of conspiracy to murder Tammy Daybell, the ex-wife of Chad Daybell, who Lori Vallow married weeks later. Daybell and her fifth husband, Chad Daybell, believed in an imminent "doomsday" and that people around them were zombies, according to court records and testimony. Daybell has come to be known as the "Doomsday Mom," the title of a 2021 Lifetime TV movie about her. Beresky ordered Daybell's former defense team to turn over any material Daybell claimed they had withheld, including a video of Gilbert police interviewing her. In court, Daybell argued she had not received the video, but prosecutors said they had provided her with everything of which they were aware. Daybell said she knew the video existed because her previous defense team had shown it to her online. 'If they have that link, why don't they just send it to the state?" Beresky said. "And that may help the state determine if that's something they've already disclosed.' Daybell claimed her former defense team refused to help her. 'I'll tell you why they won't — because that is my former team, and they will not do anything to help my investigator, my paralegal," Daybell said. "They won't give us any information that they found. They won't talk to us at all because apparently there was a conflict." Daybell requested that an expert she retained be allowed to inspect Charles Vallow's phone. Beresky warned that if her expert needed time to examine the device, admitting the findings could delay the trial. The judge told her she had a choice: push the trial date to allow for more preparation or proceed as scheduled on March 31. Daybell repeatedly asserted that she wanted to maintain the current trial date and invoke her right to a speedy trial, even if it meant limiting her defense's ability to review evidence. 'I understand that, and I also understand that I've only been given 10 hours" for the expert from the Office of the Public Defender, Daybell said. 'So if he could spend 10 hours this week getting it ready, then he can give us a report with the best that he can do.' Beresky noted the defense already possessed digital forensic extractions from police evidence, including data from Charles Vallow's phone, and suggested the expert work from those files. This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Arizona trial dates are set for 'Doomsday Mom' Lori Vallow Daybell
Yahoo
08-03-2025
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Killer Lori Vallow, 'doomsday mom,' says Jesus spoke to her in spiritual vision, showed her prison release
Lori Vallow, known as the Idaho "doomsday mom" convicted of killing two of her children and conspiring to kill husband Chad Daybell's former wife in 2019, expressed her belief that she will be freed from prison in the future in her first TV interview since she was sentenced to life in prison in 2023. Vallow and Daybell, who was sentenced to death, killed Vallow's youngest children, 7-year-old J.J. Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as Daybell's first wife, Tammy Daybell, in what prosecutors described as an escalation of their extreme "doomsday" religious views by which they believed certain people were "zombies." Vallow maintains her innocence. "I have seen things in the future that Jesus showed me when I was in heaven, and we were not … in prison," Vallow told "Dateline" in a new episode that premiered Friday night when asked about her belief that she and Daybell will be exonerated. "And they were still in the future from now." Vallow also took aim at the media in the "Dateline" interview, saying, "They exaggerate everything, and they make stuff up, and they twist things around." 'Doomsday Mom' Lori Vallow Granted Mental Health Exam Ahead Of Second Trial Vallow added that she is "absolutely" misunderstood. Read On The Fox News App The so-called cult mom will stand trial in Arizona for allegedly conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and her niece's ex-husband after a judge recently denied her motion to dismiss the case. Sign Up To Get The True Crime Newsletter After J.J. and Tylee were reported missing in September 2019 and Tammy Daybell died a month later, in October 2019, Vallow and Daybell married in Hawaii in November of that same year. They proceeded to steal J.J. and Tylee's Social Security benefits after their disappearances. J.J. and Tylee were found in shallow graves on Daybell's rural Rexburg property in June 2020. The 16-year-old's remains were burned while the 7-year-old was bound in duct tape. When asked whether she was at the site of her children's murders, Vallow told "Dateline" in her interview, "I was not there." Lori Vallow Trial: Idaho Coroner Reveals Jj Vallow's And Tylee Ryan's Causes Of Death Idaho prosecutors alleged during Vallow and Daybell's trials the pair had extreme religious beliefs, including the idea that some people had "dark" souls while others had "light" souls. They believed the "dark" spirits could be so dark, in fact, that they could be zombies. Vallow's oldest son and only surviving child, Colby Ryan, is also featured in the "Dateline" episode. Lori Vallow Case: Jj Vallow's Grandmother Doesn't 'Recognize' So-called 'Cult Mom' Smiling Outside Court "I guess I always was, like, a positive, see-the-best-in-people kind of person, and then I watched someone I knew my entire life do what she did, and it just changed the way I view people," Colby told "Dateline" when asked how his mother's crimes have affected him. "The way that my sister was treated was with hate. That's not even human to do what they did to her after." 'Cult Mom' Lori Vallow Appeals Conviction After Being Found Guilty Of Murdering Her 2 Children The "Dateline" interview also featured interviews with retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Doug Hart, the former lead detective for the Rexburg Police Department; Sheriff Ron Ball; and Det. Ray Hermosillo of the Rexburg Police Department. Lori Vallow Trial: 'Cult Mom' Sentenced In Murders Of 2 Of Her Children, Husband's First Wife During her sentencing, Vallow spoke publicly for the first time since her arrest in 2020 and appeared to be in denial, saying at the time that she knew her children were "happy and busy in the spirit world." GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE True Crime Hub "I have had many communications with Jesus Christ, savior of this world, and our heavenly parents. I have had many angelic visitors come and communicated with me and even manifested themselves to me because of these communications," Vallow told an Idaho courtroom during her sentencing hearing. "I know for a fact that my children are happy and busy in the spirit world. Because of my communications with my friend, Tammy Daybell, I know that she is also very happy and extremely busy." POLICE SERVE SUBPOENA TO 'CULT MOM' SITTING POOLSIDE IN HAWAII: Follow The Fox True Crime Team On X In her statement to the court, Vallow added she "died in the hospital" while she was in labor with her daughter, Tylee. Doctors revived her, at which point she began seeing spirits. "One of the times that Tylee came to me as a spirit after she died … she said to me, 'Stop worrying, mom. We are fine.' She knows how I worry and how I miss her," Vallow said at the time. The so-called "cult mom" was extradited to Arizona in November 2023, about four months after she was sentenced to life without parole in article source: Killer Lori Vallow, 'doomsday mom,' says Jesus spoke to her in spiritual vision, showed her prison release
