Lori Daybell, the mother who was punished for killing her two children in the apocalypse plot, has now been found guilty of conspiring with her brother to kill her fourth husband.
The jury in Maricopa Regency, Arizona, was handed over on Monday afternoon before reaching Tuesday afternoon.
Lori Vallow Daybell sat during his sentence at the Fremont County Court Building in St. Anthony, Idaho, July 31, 2023.
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Lori Daybell, 51, represented himself in the Phoenix trial. He did not take a stand or call witnesses.
Nicknamed “Doomsday Mom,” Lori Daybell has stated that her brother shot her husband for 13 years, Charles Vallow, in defending himself at his home in Chandler, Arizona, in July 2019. His brother, Alex Cox, died of a natural cause of months after the shooting.
The prosecutor, meanwhile, said that the shooting was a tactic for Daybell to get rid of her husband who wasolated so that she could get a life insurance policy worth $ 1 million and with her husband at this time, Chad Daybell, whom he married four months after the shooting. Furthermore, the prosecutor said that he begged their religious beliefs as justification for the murder and gave his brother “religious authority” to kill Vallow because they believed he was possessed by an evil spirit which they called “Ned.”
More than two weeks, the state called more than a dozen witnesses, including other Daybell brothers, Adam Cox, who testified that he was “no doubt” his two siblings conspired to kill Vallow after learning that his brother had shot him fatal.
Lori Daybell claimed to be innocent for conspiracy to commit first -level murder.
Lori Daybell Cross-examined his sister, Adam Cox, during his murder trial at Phoenix, Arizona, April 10, 2025.
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Both Lori and Chad Daybell were found guilty of the first-level murder of the deaths of their children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, who lost months after Charles Vallow was killed. In a separate trial in 2023 and 2024, prosecutors argued that the couple thought children had zombies and killed them so they could be together. Children’s bodies were found in Daybell’s Idaho property in June 2020 after a search for months.
Lori Daybell is currently serving a life imprisonment without a parole for the murder of the two children. He denied killing them.
Chad Daybell was sentenced to death after being punished for killing the two children, as well as his first wife, Tamara Daybell, and now waiting for the execution of Idaho’s death sentence.
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