Lori Vallow’s lawyer did the only thing he could during closing arguments on Thursday: He tried to convince jurors that the doomsday-obsessed mom didn’t have it in her to commit three murders but maybe, just maybe, her husband Chad Daybell could have.
“She worked hard as a single mother,” defense attorney Jim Archibald said during his closing arguments in Ada County Court, according to East Idaho News. “One year after meeting Chad… people are dead.”
“Why can't people escape religious leaders? Why can't Lori escape and get back to her good mom life? Lori is not a leader in Chad's new church,” Archibald said, referring to the Mormon sect Daybell led.Yes, under Daybell’s sway, Vallow began to speak in “weird religious babble that really does not make sense”—but that does not mean she wanted her kids dead, Archibald said.
Wood said that Vallow is the “one common thread” in the three murders and claimed she was driven by “money, power, and sex.” Vallow and Daybell met at a Utah conference in 2018 and immediately began a love affair despite being married to other people. At the time, Daybell had written several novels and Vallow was a devotee of his work.
Two months after Vallow’s brother killed her husband Charles—allegedly at her behest, according to charges in a different case—her son, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and 16-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan, were also dead. “All of you who are mothers, I would hope your hairs on your kids’ blankets, your kids’ socks,” Archibald said. “Is that a smoking gun? No, it’s not.”
Chad’s wife, mom of five Tammy Daybell, died on Oct. 19, 2019 death—and it was initially put down as natural causes. Archibald noted to jurors how a “smooth” Daybell talked authorities out of performing an autopsy. Months later, after authorities exhumed her body, investigators determined that she was asphyxiated.
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