被判在所谓的世界末日阴谋中谋杀了自己两个孩子的母亲洛丽·戴贝尔周一在法庭上做了结案陈词最新审判在亚利桑那州，她被指控与她的兄弟密谋杀害她的第四任丈夫。
被称为“末日妈妈”的Daybell坚持认为，2019年7月，她的哥哥在亚利桑那州钱德勒的家中自卫开枪打死了她当时的丈夫查尔斯·瓦洛(Charles Vallow)。她的哥哥亚历克斯·考克斯在枪击发生几个月后自然死亡。
与此同时，检察官表示，枪击事件是Daybell摆脱分居丈夫的一个策略，这样她就可以得到他的100万美元的人寿保险，并与现任丈夫Chad Daybell在枪击事件发生四个月后结婚。检察官进一步表示，她援引他们的宗教信仰作为谋杀的理由，并给了她的哥哥“宗教权力”来杀死瓦洛，因为他们认为他被一个他们称为“奈德”的邪恶灵魂所控制。
51岁的洛里·戴贝尔在凤凰城的审判中为自己辩护。她对共谋犯一级谋杀罪的指控表示不服。
在她近20分钟的结案陈词中，她告诉陪审员，这起枪击事件不是一场有预谋的谋杀，而是一场“悲剧性的家庭事件”
“这个事件是没有计划或预期的。这太令人震惊了，”她说。
她认为警察忽视了进行彻底的调查，尽管她也说钱德勒警察局“确实像对待自卫一样对待这一事件。”
“这是州政府试图改造一个不存在的犯罪，”她说。
Daybell还敦促陪审员观看她在枪击事件后接受警方采访的整个过程，其中一部分在审判期间播放。
法官在她的结案陈词中提出了几项反对意见，因为她提到了在审判中没有被采纳为证据的证词。
在周一近两个小时的结案陈词中，马里科帕县副检察官特雷娜·凯(Treena Kay)表示，现场证据显示，瓦洛不是出于自卫被枪杀的，而是被“处决”的，这一幕是“上演的”。
她开始讲述洛丽·戴贝尔在瓦洛遇害七天后发给她丈夫查德的短信，讨论她已故丈夫的人寿保险政策。凯说，在得知她不再是该计划的受益人时，被告发信息给查德说“内德”可能“在我们除掉他之前”改变了计划。
“她的话告诉我们，她参与了这场谋杀，她的行动和她给查德·戴贝尔发短信的话告诉我们这场谋杀背后的动机——查德和钱，”凯告诉陪审员。
检察官还重新审查了证人证词，她说这些证词谈到了她所说的洛里·戴贝尔和亚历克斯·考克斯的“扭曲的宗教信仰”，以及被告在致命枪击发生前几天发给她哥哥的一条短信，短信提到了《摩门经》中的先知尼腓，他是上帝下令杀死拉班的人。
“洛里·瓦洛想要一百万美元，她想要查德·戴贝尔，她和亚历克斯利用他们扭曲的宗教信仰，这样他们就可以杀死邪恶，附身于查尔斯，并‘像尼腓一样’”，凯说。
凯说，亚历克斯·考克斯带着一把上了膛的枪出现在他姐姐家，“准备执行任务”，并向瓦洛开了两枪。她辩称，证据显示，第二枪是在瓦洛躺在地上时开的。
“这是有预谋的一级谋杀，不管你之前相信什么，”凯说。
戴贝尔在她的结束语中反驳说，尼腓“象征着坚定的信念、毅力和勇气。”
她说，“政府试图曲解关于一个了不起的宗教人物尼腓的正面短信，并试图将其变成一个杀人的命令，这是荒谬的。”
凯建议陪审员，即使你没有听到有人明确谈论阴谋，“阴谋可以从显示共同犯罪目标的情况中推断出来。”
在这种情况下，行为推断“亚历克斯带着枪过来开枪打死查尔斯的阴谋，”她说。
陪审团正在商议裁决。
在两周多的时间里，州政府传唤了十多名证人，包括戴贝尔的另一个兄弟亚当·考克斯证明他“毫无疑问”他的两个兄弟姐妹在得知他的哥哥开枪打死了他后，密谋杀害了瓦洛。
戴贝尔在审判中没有传唤任何证人，也没有出庭为自己辩护。
在反诘问中，Daybell试图质疑警方对枪击案调查的彻底性。她问了几个证人，包括她的兄弟亚当·考克斯，他们是否亲眼看到她和她的兄弟亚历克斯·考克斯密谋杀害她的丈夫，他们的回答是没有
在整个审判过程中，法官经常遭到控方对Daybell提出的作证、道听途说、相关性和推测等问题的反对。
在州政府于4月16日搁置其案件后，由于证据不足，日贝尔提出了无罪释放的动议。法官否认了这一点，称法庭发现有足够的证据表明一个理智的陪审员会判她有罪。
Lori和Chad Daybell都被判犯有一级谋杀罪，原因是她的孩子，7岁的Joshua“j . j .”Vallow和16岁的Tylee Ryan在Vallow被杀几个月后失踪。在2023年和2024年的两次独立审判中，检察官认为这对夫妇认为孩子们是被附身的僵尸，并谋杀了他们，以便他们能够在一起。经过一个月的搜寻，2020年6月，孩子们的遗骸在属于Daybell的爱达荷州的一处房产上被发现。
Lori Daybell因谋杀了她的两个孩子而被判终身监禁，不得假释。她否认杀害了他们。
Chad Daybell在被判谋杀了两个孩子和他的第一任妻子Tamara Daybell后被判处死刑，现在正在爱达荷州的死囚区等待处决。
'Doomsday mom' Lori Daybell delivers closing argument in murder conspiracy trial
Lori Daybell, the mother convicted of murdering two of her children in a so-called doomsday plot, delivered her closing argument Monday during herlatest trialin Arizona, where she is charged with conspiring with her brother to kill her fourth husband.
Dubbed the "doomsday mom," Daybell has maintained that her brother shot her then-husband of 13 years, Charles Vallow, in self-defense in her home in Chandler, Arizona, in July 2019. Her brother, Alex Cox, died from natural causes months after the shooting.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, said the shooting was a ploy for Daybell to get rid of her estranged husband so that she could get his $1 million life insurance policy and be with her current husband, Chad Daybell, whom she married four months after the shooting. Prosecutors further said she invoked their religious beliefs as justification for the murder and gave her brother "religious authority" to kill Vallow because they believed he was possessed by an evil spirit they referred to as "Ned."
Lori Daybell, 51, represented herself in the Phoenix trial. She has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
During her nearly 20-minute closing argument, she told jurors the shooting was not a premeditated murder but a "tragic family event."
"This event was not planned or expected. It was shocking," she said.
She argued that officers neglected to conduct a thorough investigation, though she also said the Chandler Police Department "did treat this event just like it was: self-defense."
"This is an attempt by the state to try to retrofit a crime that doesn't exist," she said.
Daybell also urged the jurors to watch her entire police interview conducted after the shooting, part of which was shown during the trial.
The judge sustained several objections during her closing argument after she referred to testimony that had not been entered into evidence during the trial.
During her nearly two-hour closing argument on Monday, Maricopa County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Treena Kay said the evidence at the scene shows that Vallow was not shot in self-defense, but was "executed" and the scene "staged."
She began by recounting text messages sent from Lori Daybell to her husband, Chad, seven days after Vallow was killed, discussing her now-deceased husband's life insurance policy. Kay said that, upon learning she was no longer the beneficiary of the plan, the defendant messaged Chad that "Ned" probably changed it "before we got rid of him."
"Her words tell us that she was involved in this killing, her actions and her words of texting Chad Daybell tell us the motives behind this murder -- Chad and money," Kay told jurors.
The prosecutor also revisited witness testimony that she said spoke to what she called Lori Daybell and Alex Cox's "twisted religious beliefs" and a text message the defendant sent her brother days before the deadly shooting that mentioned Nephi, a prophet in the Book of Mormon who God commanded to kill Laban.
"Lori Vallow wanted the million dollars, and she wanted Chad Daybell, and she and Alex used that twisted religious beliefs they had so that they could kill the evil, possessed Charles and 'be like Nephi,'" Kay said.
Kay said Alex Cox showed up at his sister's home with a loaded gun, "ready for his mission," and shot Vallow twice. She argued that the evidence shows the second shot was fired while Vallow was lying on the ground.
"That is premeditated first-degree murder, no matter what you believe before that," Kay said.
Daybell countered in her closing that Nephi "signifies strong faith, perseverance and courage."
"The state's attempt to misconstrue the positive text message about a wonderful religious figure, Nephi, and try to turn it into an order to kill someone is absurd," she said.
Kay advised jurors that even if you don't hear someone explicitly talk about conspiring, "a conspiracy may be inferred from circumstances showing a common criminal objective."
In this case, the conduct inferred a "conspiracy of Alex coming over with his gun to shoot and kill Charles," she said.
The jury is now deliberating the verdict.
Over two weeks, the state called more than a dozen witnesses, including Daybell's other brother, Adam Cox, whotestifiedthat he had "no doubt" his two siblings conspired to kill Vallow upon learning that his brother had fatally shot him.
Daybell did not call any witnesses in the trial and did not take the stand in her own defense.
In her cross-examination, Daybell tried to question the thoroughness of the police investigation into the shooting. She asked several witnesses, including her brother Adam Cox, if they personally saw her conspire with her brother Alex Cox to murder her husband, to which they responded no.
Throughout the trial, the judge often sustained frequent objections from the prosecution over Daybell's questions for testifying, hearsay, relevance and speculation.
After the state rested its case on April 16, Daybell presented a motion for acquittal due to insufficient evidence. The judge denied it, saying the court finds there is sufficient evidence that a reasonable juror could find her guilty.
Lori Vallow Daybell sits during her sentencing hearing at the Fremont County Courthouse in St. Anthony, Idaho, July 31, 2023.
Tony Blakeslee EastIdahoNews.com/Pool via AP
Both Lori and Chad Daybell were found guilty of first-degree murder for the deaths of her children, Joshua "J.J." Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, who went missing months after Vallow was killed. In two separate trials in 2023 and 2024, prosecutors argued that the couple thought the children were possessed zombies and murdered them so that they could be together. The children's remains were found on an Idaho property belonging to Daybell in June 2020 following a monthslong search.
Lori Daybell is currently serving life in prison without parole for the murders of her two children. She has denied killing them.
Chad Daybell was sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering the two children, as well as his first wife, Tamara Daybell, and now awaits execution on Idaho's death row.
