PHOENIX: Closing claims are scheduled Monday evening at the Arizona test for Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho woman with doomsday spiritual ideas who’s charged with conspiring to murder her estranged father in suburban Phoenix. Vallow Daybell, who isn’t a lawyer but has chosen to protect herself, told the judge later last week that she plans to rest her situation without calling testimony or putting on information. If she follows through on those plans, closing arguments will be held Monday in the Phoenix courthouse where jurors heard testimony from prosecutors testimony for seven days. Lawyers say she conspired with her brother, Alex Cox, to eliminate Charles Vallow at her house in Chandler in July 2019 so she could obtain money from his life insurance policy and married her then-boyfriend Chad Daybell, an Idaho author who wrote many religious books about predictions and the end of the world.
Cox, who claimed he acted in self-defense when he tragically shot Vallow, died five months later from what health investigators said was a blood clot in his lungs. Cox’s consideration was afterward called into question. Vallow Daybell has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, she may experience a life phrase without the possibility of relieve until serving at least 25 years. In opening remarks, Vallow Daybell said during the experience inside the house, Vallow chased her with a pitcher, and Alex shot Vallow in self-defense after she left the house. She has already been convicted in Idaho of killing her two youngest kids and conspiring to murder a loving enemy, for which she was sentenced to life in prison.
Last week at the Arizona test, Adam Cox, another brother of Vallow Daybell, testified on behalf of the trial, telling jury that he had no doubt that Vallow Daybell and his brother Alex were behind Vallow’s death.
Adam Cox said Vallow’s shooting occurred only before he and Vallow were planning an action to take Vallow Daybell up into the mainstream of their shared faith in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He testified that when Vallow’s death, his girlfriend had told citizens her father was not long living and that a monster was living inside his brain. Four weeks before he died, Charles Vallow filed for divorce from Vallow Daybell, saying she had become infatuated with near-death experience and had claimed to have lived many lives on different planets. He alleged she threatened to ruin him financially and kill him. He sought a voluntary mental health evaluation of his wife.
The trial over Vallow’s death will mark the first of two criminal trials in Arizona for Vallow Daybell. She’s scheduled to go on trial again in early June on a charge of conspiring to murder Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of Vallow Daybell’s niece, Melani Pawlowski.
