Lori Daybell, the mother convicted of murdering two of her children in a so-called doomsday plot, has now been found guilty ofconspiringwith her brother to kill her fourth husband.
The jury in Maricopa County, Arizona, was handed the case Monday afternoon before reaching a verdict Tuesday afternoon.
Lori Daybell, 51, represented herself in the Phoenix trial. She did not take the stand or call any witnesses.
Dubbed the "doomsday mom," Lori 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.
She had pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, said the shooting was a ploy for Daybell to get rid of her estranged husband so 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 "twisted" 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."
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.
In her closing argument, Maricopa County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Treena Kay said the evidence at the scene showed that Vallow was not shot in self-defense, but was "executed" and the scene "staged." She recounted 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."
The prosecutor also discussed a text message the defendant sent Alex Cox days before the deadly shooting in which she said they could "be like 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.
Three jurors who spoke to reporters following the verdict said the text message evidence in the case had stood out while they were deliberating. The jurors said they had no knowledge of Lori Daybell's prior convictions, which were not discussed during the Phoenix trial.
Members of Vallow's family expressed relief at the guilty verdict.
"I'm ready to move on," Vallow's sister, Kay Woodcock, told reporters outside the courthouse.
"This was thrust upon us, and our lives just went into, like a tornado, for a long time," she said.
Following the guilty verdict, Lori Daybell agreed to several aggravating factors in the case, instead of having a jury make a finding on them. Among them, she agreed that this was a dangerous offense and that it involved the presence of an accomplice. When asked if she agreed that as a result of her conduct, the victim or the victim's family "suffered emotional or financial harm," she said, "Absolutely."
She will be sentenced following another upcoming trial in Maricopa County, where she is further accused of scheming with her brother Alex Cox to kill Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of her niece.
Three months after the shooting of Vallow, Boudreaux called 911 to report that someone driving by in a Jeep shot at his vehicle outside his home in Gilbert, Arizona.
She has pleaded not guilty in that case.
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 Charles Vallow was killed. In separate trials in 2023 and 2024, prosecutors argued 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.
'Doomsday mom' Lori Daybell found guilty in murder conspiracy trial
洛里·戴贝尔，这位在所谓的世界末日阴谋中谋杀了两个孩子的母亲，现在被判有罪阴谋和她哥哥一起杀了她的第四任丈夫。
亚利桑那州马里科帕县的陪审团于周一下午接到此案，周二下午做出裁决。
51岁的洛里·戴贝尔在凤凰城的审判中为自己辩护。她没有出庭作证，也没有传唤任何证人。
被称为“末日妈妈”的萝莉·戴贝尔(Lori Daybell)坚持认为，2019年7月，她的哥哥在她位于亚利桑那州钱德勒的家中自卫开枪打死了她当时结婚13年的丈夫查尔斯·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。
她对共谋犯一级谋杀罪的指控表示不服。
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“扭曲的”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。
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。
马里科帕县副检察官特雷娜·凯(Treena Kay)在结案陈词中表示，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”。她讲述了洛丽·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。
检察官还讨论了被告在致命枪击前几天发给亚历克斯·考克斯的一条短信，她在短信中说他们可以“像尼腓一样”，尼腓是《摩门经》中的先知，上帝命令他杀死拉班。
“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。
三名陪审员在判决后对记者说，在他们审议时，案件中的短信证据非常突出。陪审员说，他们不知道洛里·戴贝尔以前的定罪，在凤凰城的审判中没有讨论过。
瓦洛的家人对有罪判决表示宽慰。
“我已经准备好向前看了，”瓦洛的姐姐凯·伍德库克在法院外告诉记者。
“这是强加给我们的，我们的生活就像龙卷风一样，持续了很长时间，”她说。
在有罪判决后，Lori Daybell同意了案件中的几个加重因素，而不是让陪审团对它们做出裁决。其中，她同意这是一项危险的罪行，而且涉及到共犯的存在。当被问及她是否同意，由于她的行为，受害者或受害者的家人“遭受了情感或经济上的伤害”，她说，“当然。”
她将在马里科帕县另一场即将到来的审判后被判刑，在那里她被进一步指控与她的哥哥亚历克斯·考克斯密谋杀害她侄女的前夫布兰登·布德罗。
在瓦洛被枪杀三个月后，布德罗打911报告说，有人开着吉普车在他亚利桑那州吉尔伯特的家门口向他的车开枪。
在那起案件中，她不服罪。
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Charles Vallow被杀几个月后失踪。在2023年和2024年的单独审判中，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。
