Idaho prosecutors are expected to present their final arguments to the jury in the triple murder trial of Lori Vallow, a woman accused of killing her two youngest children and a romantic rival in a bizarre doomsday-focused plot.
At times, the testimony in the case has been heartbreaking — such as when Vallow’s only surviving child,Other testimony has been strange, like when Vallow’s former friendtestified that Vallow believed people in her life had been taken over by evil spirits and turned into “zombies” — including her two youngest kids. Four of the people the defendant described as “zombies” were later killed or shot at, according to the testimony.
buried in Daybell’s yard. JJ’s body had been wrapped in duct tape and plastic, and Tylee’s remains had been destroyed and burned with her bones showing evidence of chopping or stabbing marks, the witnesses said. Hair belonging to Vallow was found on a piece of duct tape used to wrap JJ, a DNA analyst testified.Vallow’s defense attorneys, meanwhile, did not call any witnesses, and Vallow declined to testify.
The case began in July 2019, when Vallow’s then-husband, Charles Vallow, was shot and killed by her brother, Alex Cox, at his home in a Phoenix suburb. Vallow and Charles Vallow were estranged, and he had filed divorce documents claiming that she believed she was a goddess sent to usher in the Biblical apocalypse.
At the time, Cox told police he acted in self-defense, and he was never charged in connection with the death. Cox died later that year of what authorities determined were natural causes. Vallow was later charged in Arizona in connection with Charles Vallow’s death; she has not yet had the opportunity to enter a plea in that case.
According to prosecutors, Vallow was already in a relationship with Daybell, who was still married to his wife, Tammy Daybell, at the time. She moved to eastern Idaho with her brother and kids to be closer to Daybell.a month later after an extended family member became worried that she wasn’t able to get ahold of JJ. Their bodies were found the following summer.
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