Lori Daybell, the mother found guilty of having murdered two of her children in a so-called conspiracy of the day of the day, was now found guilty of conspiracy with her brother to kill her fourth husband.
The Jury of the county of Maricopa, Arizona, received the case Monday afternoon before returning a verdict on Tuesday afternoon.
Lori Vallow Daybell is during his condemnation audience at the Palais de Justice of the County of Fremont in St. Anthony, Idaho, on July 31, 2023.
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Lori Daybell, 51, was represented in the Phoenix trial. She did not take a stand or called no witness.
Nicknamed the “Mom Doomsday”, Lori Daybell argued that her brother drew on her 13 -year -old husband, Charles Vallow, self -defense in her home in Chandler, Arizona, in July 2019. His brother, Alex Cox, died of the natural causes of the months after the shooting.
She had pleaded not guilty of conspiracy to commit a first degree murder.
The prosecutors, on the other hand, said that the shooting was a stratagem for Daybell to get rid of her distant husband so that she can obtain her $ 1 million life insurance and be with her current husband, Chad Daybell, whom she married four months after the shooting.
Prosecutors also declared that she had invoked their “twisted” religious beliefs as justifying murder and had given her brother “religious authority” to kill Vallow because they believed that he was possessed by a bad spirit that they called “NED”.
For two weeks, the state called more than a dozen witnesses, including Daybell’s other brother, Adam Cox, who testified that he had “without any doubt” his two brothers and sisters conspired to kill Vallow by learning that his brother had shot him.
In his closing argument, the assistant prosecutor of Maricopa County, Treena Kay, said that the evidence on the scene showed that Vallow had not been shot in self -defense, but had been “executed” and that the scene “staged”. She told Lori Daybell text messages to her husband, Chad, seven days after Vallow’s death, discussing her deceased life insurance police. Kay said that learning that she was no longer the beneficiary of the plan, the accused sent a message to Chad that “Ned” probably changed it “before getting rid of him”.
Lori Daybell contravene his brother, Adam Cox, during his trial for murder in Phoenix, Arizona, April 10, 2025.
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The prosecutor also discussed an SMS that the defendant sent Alex Cox a few days before the deadly shooting in which she said that they could “be like Nephi”, a prophet in the book of Mormon whom God ordered to kill Laban.
“Lori Vallow wanted a million dollars, and she wanted Chad Daybell, and she and Alex used the twisted religious beliefs they had so that they could kill evil, have Charles and” be like Nephi “,” said Kay.
Three jurors who spoke to journalists after the verdict said that text evidence in the case stood out during their deliberation. The jurors said they had no knowledge of Lori Daybell’s previous convictions, which were not discussed during the Phoenix trial.
Vallow family members expressed a repair at the guilt verdict.
“I am ready to move on,” said Vallow’s sister Kay Woodcock, to journalists outside the courthouse.
“It was pushed on us, and our lives have entered, like a tornado for a long time,” she said.
After the guilt verdict, Lori Daybell agreed with several aggravating factors in the case, instead of making a jury make a conclusion on them. Among them, she agreed that it was a dangerous offense and that she implied the presence of an accomplice. When asked if she agreed that after her conduct, the victim or family of the victim “underwent emotional or financial damage,” she said, “absolutely”.
She will be sentenced following another trial to come to Maricopa’s county, where she is also accused of having completed with her brother Alex Cox to kill Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of her niece.
Three months after the Vallow shooting, Boudreaux called 911 to point out that someone passing through a Jeep fired his vehicle outside his house in Gilbert, Arizona.
She pleaded not guilty in this case.
Lori and Chad Daybell were found guilty of first degree murder for the death of his children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, who disappeared from months after Charles Vallow was killed. In trials separated in 2023 and 2024, the prosecutors argued that the couple thought that the children had zombies and murdered them so that they could be together. The leftover for children were found on a property of Idaho belonging to Daybell in June 2020 following a search of several months.
Lori Daybell is currently serving for life without parole for the murders of her two children. She denied having killed them.
Chad Daybell was sentenced to death after being found guilty of the murder of the two children, as well as his first wife, Tamara Daybell, and is now awaiting the execution of the death corridor of Idaho.
