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Daily Mail
13-06-2025
- Daily Mail
'Doomsday mom' Lori Vallow is found guilty of attempted murder as she serves life for killing her two children
Lori Vallow has now been found guilty in the attempted murder of her niece's ex-husband in 2019. The 'doomsday mom', who is already serving a life sentence for killing two of her children, was convicted by an Arizona jury on Thursday of conspiring to kill Brandon Boudreaux, who was once married to her niece, outside his home in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert. Vallow was previously sentenced to life in Idaho in 2023 for murdering her two youngest children, seven-year-old Joshua 'JJ' Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as conspiring to kill Tammy Daybell, her fifth husband Chad Daybell 's previous wife. Thursday's court result marks her second conviction in two months, with another Arizona jury finding the 'cult mom' guilty in late April of conspiring to kill her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, in July 2019 at her home in Chandler, another Phoenix suburb. Her brother, Alex Cox, shot Charles Vallow and claimed he had done so in self defense. Cox was not charged before he died of a pulmonary embolism in December 2019. Prosecutors have claimed that these deranged series of murders carried out by the unhinged mom and Daybell - who was sentenced to death in June 2024 for killing his ex-wife Tammy as well as Vallow's two children - were done so the new couple could run off together to pursue 'money, power and sex.' Vallow's plot to kill Boudreaux, for which she was convicted Thursday, also had to do with her goal to get rid of anyone who stood in the way of her burgeoning relationship with Daybell. Boudreaux testified that his marriage to Vallow's niece, Melani Pawlowski, broke down because she became heavily involved in Vallow's twisted cult. Vallow and Daybell were Mormons who splintered off from the church because they were becoming increasingly radical. Daybell was self-published author who wrote doomsday-focused fiction and would later promote spiritual beliefs to justify the murders, essentially saying his victims were possessed and marked for death. Boudreaux explained that Pawlowski aspired to be like Vallow, which led to the two of them attending religious meetings in 2018. Soon after, Pawlowski was telling him that they should be stockpiling food for the end of the world. By July 2019, the two began divorce proceedings. The attempt on Boudreaux's life came on October 2019, when someone in a white Jeep rolled up to his house and fired a rifle shot that missed him but shattered a window on his car. By this time, Vallow's children Joshua and Tylee had been missing for about a month. Boudreaux previously claimed Pawlowski likely knew the location of their bodies, which weren't found until June 2020 after the search for them had swelled into a nationwide manhunt. Boudreaux was also on high alert because Charles Vallow had been killed by gunfire months earlier. Boudreaux had gone to him for advice about his marriage to Pawlowski mere weeks before he was gunned down. On the stand, Boudreaux said he immediately suspected Vallow and her brother Alex Cox, USA Today reported. Prosecutor Treena Kay presented cellphone location data, receipts and video footage that placed Cox at the scene of the shooting driving what was later determined to be Vallow's Jeep. She argued that Vallow gave Cox a fake alibi, arranged for the phone used in the plot and planned out the shooting. Vallow, despite not being a lawyer, represented herself at trial and sought to downplay or outright deny all the evidence being presented against her. At times, she suggested that the data could have been tampered with by prosecutors. Vallow's closing argument shifted the blame onto Boudreaux as she claimed he had a vendetta against her because he blamed her for his marriage falling apart. 'Boudreaux decided that I was responsible for his family tragedy, and I'm really sorry he feels that,' Vallow said. The jury spent just 30 minutes deliberating before convicting Vallow of attempting to murder Boudreaux. In both of the Arizona cases against her, she is set to be sentenced on July 25. Each conviction carries a life sentence.
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Lori Vallow Daybell: 'Doomsday Mom' felt sick, left court early
PHOENIX - Lori Vallow Daybell, a convicted killer also known as the so-called "Doomsday Mom," left court proceedings early on May 30, saying she felt sick. What we know Opening statements were set to begin on Monday, June 2, but the judge did instruct Vallow Daybell if she needed to be quarantined in jail over the weekend and could not make it to Monday, to let her counsel know. Despite what happened, some work did get done early this afternoon, as eleven jurors were excused from duty for hardship reasons or scheduling issues. We reached out to officials with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office regarding Vallow Daybell's illness, but were directed to the county's health services liaison. The backstory For her second and final trial in Arizona, Vallow Daybell is accused of conspiring with her late brother, Alex Cox, in the attempted murder of her ex-nephew-in-law, Brandon Boudreaux. Boudreaux was shot at outside his Gilbert home in October 2019. While Boudreaux was not hit, the incident is linked to a series of deadly events in Idaho, including the murders of Vallow Daybell's two children, Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Chad Daybell's first wife, Tammy. In April 2025, Vallow Daybell was also found guilty of plotting the fatal shooting of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, in Chandler. What's next If everything is back on schedule on June 2, and Vallow Daybell is feeling better to represent herself, we expect nearly 60 jurors to return for selection. The court will narrow the pool down to 16 including four alternates.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Yahoo
Arizona judge denies Lori Vallow Daybell's request for new trial
An Arizona judge on Friday denied a request from Lori Vallow Daybell for a new trial after jurors found her guilty of conspiring to murder her then-husband, Charles Vallow. She asked for a new trial on May 1, just over a week after she was found guilty, claiming misconduct from jurors and prosecutors and claimed the judge was not impartial. She also argued that statements from Tylee Ryan and Alex Cox — who are both dead — should have been allowed in the trial, that part of a detective's testimony should not have been allowed and that she should have been given the opportunity to use newer download technology on her husband's phone. Arizona Judge Justin Beresky denied that any of these things caused prejudice against Lori Daybell. Daybell was given five life sentences in Idaho after being found guilty of murdering her two children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old JJ Vallow, and conspiring to murder them and Tammy Daybell, before marrying Chad Daybell. In an interview immediately after the Arizona trial, a juror seemed to say he knew she had already been given multiple life sentences before the end of the trial. In multiple other comments in media interviews, however, the same juror verified he did not know until after the guilty verdict was delivered. The judge considered all of the statements that juror made to the media and ruled in Friday's decision that there was not a 'clear indication of juror misconduct' or any evidence of prejudice against Daybell from this — which she would have needed to prove. Beresky maintained his previous ruling, saying out-of-court statements from Tylee and Cox would be considered hearsay because they are dead and could not testify. He said Daybell was invited to bring specific statements from them for him to consider outside the jury's presence during the trial, but she never did. The judge also determined that Daybell did not offer any evidence that the information she might have found on Vallow's phone could have negated her guilt. Beresky also found that none of the arguments in her request for a new trial 'come close' to establishing misconduct from prosecutors. Daybell's argument of prosecutorial misconduct included claims that the prosecutor repeatedly brought up her religion throughout the trial, thus violating her rights to religious freedom. The judge determined this was not the case. 'The (Religious Freedom Restoration Act) does not protect someone from committing criminal acts in the name of religion,' he said. Beresky also determined he correctly ruled to strike witnesses from her list because she did not establish they had any relevant information, and did not show prejudice against her. He said she was told she could make the request again if she had new arguments that the witnesses were relevant, but she did not. The judge did agree that he made a comment that was 'not necessary' — when denying an objection from prosecutors while Daybell, acting as her own attorney, was questioning Serena Sharpe, but he said it did not show bias or partiality. That comment was: 'To the extent that you are comparing yourself to these biblical figures I will allow it.' Bereksy said that although he should not have made the comment, there was no evidence it influenced jurors. Daybell asked to be sentenced in this case after her next criminal trial. That trial, on charges alleging she conspired to murder Brandon Boudreaux, her niece's then-husband, will begin in June.
