Judge denies motion to acquit Vallow Daybell The couple “did endorse and espouse religious beliefs for the purpose of” justifying or encouraging the killings of the children and Tammy Daybell, the May 2021 indictment states. People who knew the couple, who married shortly after Vallow Daybell’s children were last seen in September 2019, have described them as having extreme religious beliefs and being doomsday cult members, according to East Idaho News. In June 2020, law enforcement discovered the remains of his stepchildren in his backyard in Fremont County, Idaho. Vallow Daybell faces a separate conspiracy charge in Arizona for Vallow’s murder.Ĭhad Daybell, who is being tried separately in relation to the deaths, was charged with two felony counts of conspiracy to commit destruction alteration or concealment of evidence and two felony counts of destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence.ĭaybell pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Lori Vallow Daybell, Idaho mother accused of killing her children and conspiring to kill husband's ex-wife, was motivated by 'money, power and sex,' prosecutors sayĬox, who died in December 2019, shot and killed Vallow Daybell’s estranged husband, Charles Vallow, in July 2019. Tony Blakeslee/Pool/East Idaho News/AP/File Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, was also accused in the conspiracy to commit the murders, according to the indictment. “You must convict her,” Wood said at the Ada County Courthouse as images of Vallow Daybell’s children and Tammy Daybell were displayed on a screen, East Idaho News reported. “What does justice for these victims require? It requires a conviction on every count,” said Madison County prosecuting attorney Rob Wood during Thursday’s closing arguments in Boise, Idaho.

The case was the subject of a 2022 Netflix true-crime documentary. Vallow Daybell is also charged with grand theft on suspicion of changing bank accounts to collect Social Security benefits on behalf of her children after they were killed, the May 2021 indictment showed. Vallow Daybell, who has pleaded not guilty, faces life in prison if convicted on two counts of first degree murder and three counts of conspiracy in the 2019 deaths of her children from previous marriages – Tylee Ryan, 17, and Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7 – as well as Tammy Daybell, the former wife of Chad Daybell who died in her sleep several weeks before he married Vallow Daybell. Jurors began deliberating Thursday after closing arguments in the trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho mother accused of killing her two children and conspiring in the murder of her husband’s first wife, according to CNN affiliate East Idaho News.

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