Lori Vallow Daybell Trial: Jury Begins Deliberations In Doomsday Mom’s Murder Crime In Idaho

Jurors started the reviews after closing arguments against Lori Vallow Daybell trial on Thursday which she was charged with murder in the deaths of her two children and conspiracy to murder in the death of her ex-husband’s wife,  as her weekslong trial in Boise, Idaho.

Lori Vallow Daybell Trial: Jury Begins Deliberations In Doomsday Mom’s Murder Crime In Idaho (PHOTO: New York Post)

Lori Vallow Daybell Trial

Lori Vallow Daybell’s trial in Boise, Idaho where she pleaded not guilty in her defense, after being accused of murdering two of her children in September 2019 from her previous marriages, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow. Moreover, she was also accused of killing Tammy Daybell in November the former wife of Chad Daybell who died in her sleep two weeks before he married Vallow Daybell.

Vallow Daybell is facing two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of conspiracy in killing her 3 victims. Lori Vallow Daybell was also charged with grand theft on suspicion of switching bank accounts to gather the Social Security benefits of her children even though they were dead, according to a May 2021 indictment showed. The Lori Vallow Daybell trial case was the subject of a 2022 Netflix true-crime documentary.

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Lori Vallow Daybell Trial Involves Doomsday Beliefs

CBS News reported that Prosecutors claimed that in Lori Vallow Daybell trial the couple used “doomsday” beliefs involving zombies to justify murdering the children and Tammy Daybell.   The children’s remains were discovered on Daybell’s property buried.

Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell were both first arrested in 2020 and eventually in 2021 they were facing multiple charges. Prosecutors called nearly 60 witnesses, and have framed their case around what they said was Vallow Daybell’s drive for money, power, and sex.

The couple has a religious belief at the center of the case, as witnesses attested to the couple’s beliefs in light and evil spirits, their capacity to “cast out” spirits and cause spiritual pain, and their marriage in a past life.

Prosecutor Rob Wood that those three threads and religious beliefs don’t matter but the couple manipulate their friends, he argued, and Vallow Daybell manipulated Chad Daybell through what he called emotional and sexual control.

Vallow Daybell learned the idea from the death of her ex-husband, who had switched the beneficiary of his life insurance to his sister rather than his wife, to conceal the deaths of Tylee and JJ so she could still be collecting their payments, Wood said.

In the closing argument of Defense attorney Jim Archibald on Thursday stated that Vallow Daybell was a dedicated mom who was in love with Chad Daybell whom he characterized as an author going bankrupt who wasn’t successful in luring religious followers, undercutting the prosecution’s argument the murders were motivated by money or power.

The online account showed an exchange of text messages from Vallow Daybell to her husband, her brother, and others. Text conversations between the charged couple appeared to show a premeditated plan to kill Tammy Daybell and the children including a discussion of “the percentage of life left” in two of the victims before their deaths, FBI Special Agent Douglas Hart said during testimony.

Jim Archibald, Vallow Daybell’s attorney, said Thursday that “No one here thinks Lori killed anyone, that’s why she’s being charged with conspiracy.”

Before closing the Lori Vallow Daybell trial on Tuesday, the defense attorney has created a motion called Rule 29 pursuing judgment of acquittal before the case is handed to the jury. Defense attorneys argued that there wasn’t sufficient evidence to warrant the charges against Vallow Daybell but still, Judge Steven Boyce denied the Rule 29 motion on all counts.

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