Phoenix (AP) –Lori Valo DaibelThe killing of her young children and conspiracy to kill a romantic competitor, trial again on Monday. This time, she was accused in Arizona of conspiracy to kill her separate husband.
At the opening of the data, the prosecution said that Vallow Daybell conspired with Brother Alex Cox to kill Charles Valo and take advantage of a life insurance policy, with the adoption of the belief that Charles had an evil spirit.
The case has drawn great attention to the audience in part because Vallow Daybell, 51, has religious beliefs focusing on the Day of Resurrection. She is not a lawyer, but she chose to represent herself in the six -week trial.
Fallo Debil acknowledged that she was not guilty and said in her opening statement that Cox had acted in self -defense after Charles attacked her daughter with Bastoul’s beater, describing the death as a tragedy but not a crime.
Here is what to know about the case.
What happened at the beginning of the trial
“Lori Valou is the reason Alex was able to shoot Charles,” said Prosecutor Tina Kai. “Lori Valou is the cause of Charles’s death.”
The jury from 16 seats in the Phoenix court hall, including four alternative jurors. Kai has provided a detailed time schedule and argued that phone records, witnesses and criminal evidence will show that Cox’s photography of Charles was not “self -defense”.
The prosecution also said thatVallow DaybellShe conspired to kill so that she could move forward in marrying her boyfriend at the time, Chad Daibel, author of the state of Idaho, who wrote several religious accounts about the prophecies and the end of the world.
“Lori Valo wanted to be Lori Daibel, the wife of Chad Daibel, and in July 2019 Lori Valou wanted to maintain the same lifestyle that she had with Charles. She could get all this if Charles died,” said Kai. “She can marry Chad Dibel and become Lori Daibel. You will get a million dollar life insurance policy.”
Vallow Daybell erupted in her opening statement as she separated the physical fight with a baseball racket between her daughter Tylee Ryan and her fourth husband Charles.
Fallo Daibel said that the evidence will show that Charles struggled with a Pespol strike away from Tile, and that Cox spent self -defense as she rushed to the house.
“Self -defense is not a crime. The family’s tragedy is not a crime, it is a tragedy.”
What happened in Arizona
Foreo was fired in a deadly manner in July 2019. Then Fallo Daibel moved to the state of Idaho with two of her younger children and married Daibel two weeks after the death of his wife, Tami Daibel. Joshua “jj” Vallow was 7 years old and 16-year-old Tylee laterI found burialIn the countryside of Idaho on the property of Chad Daibel.
Vallow Daybell is already three lifelong sentences in the state of Idahu due to the death of children and conspiracy to kill Tami Daibel. Chad Daibel wasHe was sentenced to deathIn the three killings.
Four months before his death, Charles FalloI came to divorceFrom Vallow Daybell, saying that she became fascinated by almost death experiences and claimed that she lived many lives on other planets.
He claimed that she threatened to destroy him financially and killed him. He sought to evaluate the voluntary mental health of his wife.
Who released the gun
Police says that Fallo was shot by Cox in a house in a suburb of Phoenix. Tylee told the police that she faced Vallow with Pespols after she woke up to screaming at home.
Tiley said she was trying to defend her mother, but Valo got rid of the bats, according to police records. Cox told the police that he had shot after Falo refused to drop the bats and came after him.
Cox told the investigators that Vallow Daybell and the children left the house shortly before the shooting.
Cox, who claimed that he had acted in self -defense and was not arrested on the death of Falo, five months after what the medical examiners said was a blood clot in his lungs. The Cox account was asked later.
What is the background of Lori Valo Daibel
Vallow Daybell was a cosmetic expert by trade, a three -fold mother and a wife – five times.
She got married to Falo in 2006, and later adopted JJ, but by 2019, their marriage tense. The two were stopped, but they are still married when Cox shot Foto.
The public interest has grown only from all over the world with the investigation of missing childrenTake several unexpected coursesAll the new revelation seems strange from the latter.
Daybell, who was previously a contestant on “Wheel of Fortune”, was the subject of a documentary in Netflix and a lifelong movie.
If Erzona was convicted of plotting to kill Valo, she will face a life sentence.
During the opening of the trial, Vallow Daybell wore civilian clothes. Hands or restrictions will not be handcuffed when jury are in the courtroom. However, she must wear a belt -like device under her clothes that would allow the prison officer to deliver an electric shock by remote control if there is a disturbance.
Who was killed in the state of Idaho
The investigation of the state of Idaho began at the end of 2019 when Flo Debell, his son Jeddah, was adopted,Anxiety about his well -beingI arrived at the police. Vallow Daybell was dodging when she was asked about her young children.
Chad Daibel called the number 911 in October 2019 to report that his wife, Tami Daibel, was fighting a disease and died in her sleep. Her body was later extracted, and the autopsy determined that she died of suffocation.
Idaho State police examined the well -being of children in November 2019 and discovered that they were missing and have not seen since early September. Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell left the city shortly, as it appeared in Hawaii at the end without children. She was arrested in Hawaii in February 2020 based on an order from the state of Idaho.
Defense attorneys told the jury that it was a “nice and loving mother” who was interested in religion and biblical predictions.
A witness in the trial of Idahu state said that Valu Debil believes that evil spirits have acquired people in her life and turned them into “zombies”.
When is the other trial in Arizona?
Vallow Daybell is scheduled to be tried again in late May for conspiracy to killBodrrow Bodru. I acknowledged that she was not guilty.
If convicted, she will face a life sentence.