PHOENIX — Final arguments are scheduled Monday afternoon on the Arizona trial for Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho lady with doomsday non secular ideals who’s charged with conspiring to homicide her estranged husband in suburban Phoenix. Vallow Daybell, who isn’t a legal professional however has selected to shield herself, instructed the pass judgement on overdue ultimate week that she plans to leisure her case with out calling witnesses or hanging on proof. If she follows via on the ones plans, final arguments shall be held Monday within the Phoenix court the place jurors heard testimony from prosecution witnesses for seven days. Prosecutors say she conspired along with her brother, Alex Cox, to kill Charles Vallow at her house in Chandler in July 2019 so she may just gather cash from his existence insurance plans and marry her then-boyfriend Chad Daybell, an Idaho creator who wrote a number of non secular novels about prophecies and the top of the arena.
Cox, who claimed he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Vallow, died 5 months later from what scientific examiners mentioned was once a blood clot in his lungs. Cox’s account was once later known as into query. Vallow Daybell has pleaded now not responsible. If convicted, she would face a existence sentence with out the potential for unlock till serving no less than 25 years. In opening statements, Vallow Daybell mentioned all over the come upon inside of the home, Vallow chased her with a bat, and Alex shot Vallow in self-defense after she left the home. She has already been convicted in Idaho of killing her two youngest youngsters and conspiring to homicide a romantic rival, for which she was once sentenced to existence in jail.
Remaining week on the Arizona trial, Adam Cox, some other brother of Vallow Daybell, testified on behalf of the prosecution, telling jurors that he had definitely that Vallow Daybell and his brother Alex have been at the back of Vallow’s demise.
Adam Cox mentioned Vallow’s killing befell simply earlier than he and Vallow have been making plans an intervention to carry Vallow Daybell again into the mainstream in their shared religion within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He testified that earlier than Vallow’s demise, his sister had instructed folks her husband was once not dwelling and {that a} zombie was once dwelling inside of his frame. 4 months earlier than he died, Charles Vallow filed for divorce from Vallow Daybell, announcing she had grow to be infatuated with near-death reports and had claimed to have lived a large number of lives on different planets. He alleged she threatened to break him financially and kill him. He sought a voluntary psychological well being analysis of his spouse.
The trial over Vallow’s demise will mark the primary of 2 legal trials in Arizona for Vallow Daybell. She’s scheduled to head on trial once more in early June on a price of conspiring to homicide Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of Vallow Daybell’s niece, Melani Pawlowski.
