‘Doomsday Mom’ Lori Daybell gave him 2 perpetual chains in murder conspiracy trials

Lori Daybell was sentenced to two perpetual chains in Arizona on Friday for conspiring with his late brother to kill his fourth husband, who received a fatal shot in 2019, and the ex -husband of his niece, who survived a failed shooting that same year.

Daybell was convicted of two conspiracy positions to commit a first degree murder in two separate judgments in Maricopa County this spring. She was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of probation after 25 years for each conviction, to be attended consecutively, said the judge …

“Given the deep damage, a long prison sentence is not simply a punishment, it is a necessary statement that our society values justice, protection and holiness of human life,” said Judge Justin Beresky, who presided over both judgments in Phoenix, before transmitting prayers.

The so -called “mother of the end of the world” is already fulfilling multiple perpetual chains after being convicted in 2023 for killing two of her children. The prosecutors in the Idaho trial argued that she and her current husband, Chad Daybell, thought that the children had zombies and killed them in 2019 so that they could be together. She was also convicted of stealing the benefits of social security survivors assigned to care for her children after they disappeared.

Similarly, prosecutors in Maricopa County argued that she conspired with her brother to kill her separate husband, Charles Vallow, so she could get her life insurance policy of $ 1 million and be with Chad Daybell, author of religious fiction books with whom she married four months after the dead shooting.

Prosecutors also said that he invoked his “twisted” religious beliefs as justification for murder and gave his brother “religious authority” to kill Valleow because they believed he was possessed by an evil spirit they referred to as “Ned.”

In the first of his Arizona tests, Lori Daybell argued that his brother, Alex Cox, shot Vallow in self -defense at his home in Chandler, Arizona, in July 2019.

He was then convicted in a second scheme test with Cox to kill Brandon Boudreaux, the ex -husband of his niece. Three months after the murder of Valleow, Boudreaux called 911 to inform that someone who was driving in a Jeep shot his vehicle out of his home in Gilbert, Arizona, lost his head by inches.

Prosecutors said in a sentence memorandum that Boudreaux continued to live with fear after the failed attempt of his life, wondering if Cox “would end the work again.”

Cox died of natural causes at the end of December 2019.

The reasons were money and sex, says the prosecutor

Lori Daybell, 51, did not take the position or call any witness in any of the judgments, in which he represented herself. In his final statement, he argued that his family was beaten by the tragedy and that he did not conspire to commit any crime.

In comments before the sentence, the attached lawyer of Maricopa County, Treena Kay, played the repeated statements of Lori Daybell that it was a “family tragedy.”

“A family tragedy does not imply a person’s intentional murder,” Kay said. “A family tragedy does not imply working with an accomplice to commit a first -degree premeditated murder. And a family tragedy does not imply conspiring with others to kill.”

She said that Lori Daybell’s reasons were the same as they are generally seen in cases of murder: money and sex, saying that the death of Vallow and Boudreaux would have financially benefited her and her niece, respectively.

“Although this defendant denies him, his text messages and his own actions show that these were their motives,” Kay said.

Lori Daybell continued to maintain his innocence in the comments before the sentence.

“I want everyone to know that I cried with all of you. I’m sorry for your pain. Losing those who are close to you are painful, and I recognize all the pain, and I do empathize, I feel it too,” he said. “If I were responsible for these crimes, I would recognize it.”

He said he was prevented from presenting his side in the trials, which the judge said that “it was not true.”

“When he says he couldn’t get a right trial in Maricopa County, that is not the truth,” Beresky said before transmitting the sentence.

He also questioned the need for an additional life imprisonment in addition to the multiple perpetual chains he is serving in Idaho. “Now I will serve seven perpetual chains, will it be enough? Is it enough?” She asked.

Until that time, the judge said: “Justice demands not only the recognition of inflicted pain, but a firm response that defends the dignity of each victim harmed by the actions of someone who has shown a shameless contempt for humanity.”

He said that she has “left a wake of destruction” in multiple states and the “amount of contemplation, calculation, planning, manipulation that entered these crimes has no parallel in my career.”

“His manipulation powers are deeply destructive, one that undermines trust, distorts truth and can erode the foundations of healthy relationships and society,” he said. “The impact of its manipulation has been devastating, insidious and of great reach and perhaps still unknown.”

The sentence hearing occurs after failed attempts to obtain new judgments for both positions. After being convicted of conspiring to kill Vallow, she also tried to eliminate Judge Beresky from the case without success, claiming that she was partial against her.

He frequently faced the judge while being represented during the trials. During the second trial, Beresky at one time withdrew from the courtroom after he became combative during the discussions about his character. The judge had warned that if he referred to herself as “great character”, that could open the door so that the State introduces evidence to refute that character, even with respect to their previous convictions in Idaho.

Both Lori and Chad Daybell were declared guilty of first -degree murder for the death of their children in separate judgments in Fremont County, Idaho. Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, disappeared months after Charles Vallow was killed. His remains were found in a Idaho property belonging to Chad Daybell in June 2020 after a search for months.

They were also declared guilty of conspiring to kill the first wife of Chad Daybell, Tamara Daybell, who died in October 2019, two weeks before Lori and Chad Daybell married in Hawaii. Chad Daybell was convicted of killing her.

Lori Daybell currently meets life imprisonment without probation, while Chad Daybell was sentenced to death by the three murders and now awaits the execution in the Idaho death corridor.

Emotional victim impact statements

Several of Lori Daybell’s relatives went to court before the sentence. In comments of pain, sometimes angry, they touched the loss of Vallow, as well as his nephew JJ, whom he and Lori Daybell had adopted, and Tylee, a child from Lori Daybell’s third marriage.

His eldest son, Colby Ryan, of his second marriage, remembered Vallow as a generous man.

“My father, Charles Vallow, cared for his family. He took care of our family and made sure we had a good life,” Ryan said.

He said his mother told him that Charles Vallow had died from a heart attack, before learning the truth, and talked about the pain of losing his father and then his brothers.

“I am here to tell you the effect that this has had on me. In simple terms, each of my family members was removed at once,” Ryan said.

Regarding his mother, he said that “it must be a very sad life to smile through all the pain it has caused.”

“Instead of being able to recognize the pain he has caused, he would prefer to say that the deaths of Charles, Tylee and JJ were a family tragedy and not their evil,” he said. “Frankly, I think Lori Vallow is the family tragedy.”

One of the Vallow sisters, Susan Vallow, said that the day his brother died “my life changed forever.”

“My brother’s death was a deliberate act of evil and selfish financial gain. His greed has caused a lot of pain to this day,” he said practically.

Kay Woodcock, another of Charles Vallow’s sisters and JJ’s biological grandmother, read a letter he wrote from JJ’s perspective in court.

“I can’t be here to read this letter, because I am dead. I was killed by the defendant Lori Daybell, or as I used to call her, mom,” he read. “Look, there are many tragedies that have happened to my family, and all of them are the result of my mother’s actions.”

Vallow “I would never let me hurt me, and I know he died protecting me,” the letter said.

“I should be 13 years old now, but I’m seven years old,” he read.

At the end of the letter, he shouted Lori Daybell, “I trusted you!” Before breaking crying.

Her husband, Larry Woodcock, her visceral wrath, called Lori Daybell as a “narcissistic, psychopath, delusional murderer.”

“You are nothing, murders,” he said. “I can’t stand.”

After the comments of several members of his family, including his brothers and his current wife, Boudreaux approached how the murder attempt has impacted him.

“The betrayal of someone connected to my family has left me fighting overwhelming emotions over the years,” he said, his unstable voice. “I felt fear, paranoia. I lived with constant surveillance, loneliness, repentance, sadness, depression, anger, anguish and shame.”

He said he has chosen forgive Lori Daybell to be able to be a better father, husband, son, neighbor and friend. “But I had never seen any remorse or recognition of Lori,” he said.