Friday, Lori Daybell was sentenced to two perpetuity penalties in Arizona for Conspirator with his late brother To kill her fourth husband, who was shot in 2019, and the ex-husband of his niece, who survived a shooting in a failed car the same year.
Daybell was found guilty of two conspiracy leaders to commit a first degree murder in two separate trials in the county of Maricopa this spring. She was sentenced to life prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years for each conviction, to mean consecutively, said the judge.
“Faced with such deep damage, a long prison sentence is not simply a punishment, it is a necessary affirmation that our society values justice, protection and the sacredness of human life,” said Justin Beresky, who presided over the two trials in Phoenix.
Lori Daybell during his condemnation audience in Phoenix on July 25, 2025.
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The so-called “Doomsday Mom” is already serving life prison after being sentenced In 2023 of the murder of two of his children. The trial prosecutors in Idaho argued that she and her current husband, Chad Daybell, thought that the children had zombies and murdered them in 2019 so that they could be together. She was also found guilty of having stolen the benefits of survivors attributed to the care of her children after their disappearance.
Likewise, the Marcica County prosecutors argued that she had plotted with her brother to kill her 13-year-old husband, Charles Vallow, so that she can get her $ 1 million life insurance policy and be with Chad Daybell, a religious fictional book author whom she married four months after the deadly shooting.
Prosecutors also declared that she had invoked their “twisted” religious beliefs as justifying murder and had given her brother “religious authority” to kill Vallow because they believed that he was possessed by a bad spirit that they called “NED”.
In the first of his trials in Arizona, Lori Daybell argued that his brother, Alex Cox, shot Vallow in self -defense in his home in Chandler, Arizona, in July 2019.
She was then found guilty during a second diagrams with Cox to kill Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of his niece. Three months after the murder of Vallow, Boudreaux called 911 to point out that someone passing through a Jeep fired his vehicle outside his house in Gilbert, Arizona.
The prosecutors declared in a memorandum of determining the sentence that Boudreaux had continued to live in fear after the failed attempt of his life, wondering if Cox “would return to end the work”.
Cox died of natural causes later in December 2019.
Lori Vallow Daybell is during his condemnation audience at the Palais de Justice of the County of Fremont in St. Anthony, Idaho, on July 31, 2023.
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The reasons were money and sex, said the prosecutor
Lori Daybell, 51, did not take a position or called for any of the witnesses in one or the other trial, in which she represented herself. In her closing declaration, she argued that her family had been struck by the tragedy and that she had not conspired to commit a crime.
In remarks before the condemnation, the deputy prosecutor of the county of Maricopa challenged the repeated statements of Lori Daybell by Lori Daybell that it was a “family tragedy”.
“A family tragedy does not imply a person’s intentional murder,” said Kay. “A family tragedy does not imply working with an accomplice to commit premeditated murder in the first degree. And a family tragedy does not involve a plot with others to kill.”
She said that Lori Daybell’s motivations were the same as those usually seen in murder: money and sex, saying that the death of Vallow and Boudreaux would have financial for him and his niece, respectively.
“Although this accused denies him, his SMS and his own actions show that it is his motivations,” said Kay.
Lori Daybell continued to maintain his innocence in the remarks before the conviction.
“I want everyone to know that I cry with you all. I’m sorry for your pain. Losing these loved ones is painful, and I recognize all the pain, and I have it sympathized, I think it too,” she said. “If I was responsible for these crimes, I would recognize it.”
She said she had been prevented from presenting her team in trials, which, according to the judge, was “not true”.
“When she says that she could not obtain a fair trial in Maricopa County, it is not the truth,” said Beresky before pronouncing the trouble.
She also questioned the need for additional perpetuity sentences in addition to the multiple perpetuity sentences that it serves in Idaho. At this stage, the judge said: “Justice requires not only the recognition of the pain inflicted, but a firm response which confirms the dignity of each victim injured by the actions of someone who has shown blatant contempt for humanity”.
He said that she had “left a wake of destruction” in several states and the “quantity of contemplation, calculation, planning, manipulation which has entered these crimes is unprecedented in my career”.
“Your manipulation powers are deeply destructive, the one who undermines confidence, distorts the truth and can erode the very foundations of healthy relations and society,” he said. “The impact of your manipulation has been devastating, insidious and large-scale and perhaps still unknown.”
The penalty for determining the sentence comes after the unsuccessful attempts to obtain new tests on the two counts. After being convicted of having plotted to kill Vallow, she also tried without success to withdraw the Beresky judge from the case, saying that he was in favor of her.
She frequently clashed with the judge while representing herself during trials. During the second trial, Beresky withdrew her from the courtroom after she became combative during discussions on her character. The judge had warned that if she qualified as “great character”, it could open the door to the state to present evidence to refute this character, including concerning his previous convictions in Idaho.
Lori and Chad Daybell were found guilty of murder in the first degree for the death of his children in separate trials in the county of Fremont, Idaho. Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, disappeared from months after Charles Vallow was killed. Their leftovers were found on a property of Idaho belonging to Chad Daybell in June 2020 following a month -long search.
They were also found guilty of having plotted 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 guilty of murder.
Lori Daybell is currently serving for life in prison without parole, while Chad Daybell was sentenced To death for the three murders and is now awaiting the execution of the corridor for the death of Idaho.
Lori Daybell made her opening declaration in his trial for murder in the county of Maricopa, Arizona, on April 7, 2025.
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Impact statements of emotional victims
Several of Lori Daybell’s relatives addressed the court before the conviction. In the remarks of mourning, sometimes angry, they approached the loss of Vallow as well as JJ, which Lori Daybell and Vallow had adopted, and Tylee, a child of the third marriage of Lori Daybell.
His eldest son, Colby Ryan, of his second marriage, remembered Vallow as a generous man.
“My father, Charles Vallow, took care of his family. He took care of our family and he made sure that we had a good life,” said Ryan.
He said that his mother had told him that Charles Vallow died of a heart attack, before learning the truth, and spoke of the pain of losing his father and then his brothers and sisters.
“I am here to tell you the effect it has had on me. In simple terms, each of my family members was removed in one game,” said Ryan.
In this March 8, 2020, file photo, Lori Vallow Daybell takes a look at the camera during his hearing in Rexburg, Idaho.
Idaho post-record via AP, pool, file
Regarding his mother, he said that “must have been a very sad life to smile through all the pain you have caused”.
“Rather than being able to recognize the pain she has caused, she prefers to say that the death of Charles, Tylee and JJ was a family tragedy and not her evil,” he said. “Frankly, I think Lori Vallow herself is family tragedy.”
One of the sisters of Vallow, Susan Vallow, said that the day his brother died “changed my life forever”.
“The death of my brother was a deliberate act of evil and financial gain which is seen.
Kay Woodcock, another of the sisters of Charles Vallow and the biological grandmother of JJ, read a letter which she wrote from the point of view of JJ in court.
“I cannot be here to read this letter, because I died. I was murdered by accused Lori Daybell, or as I called him, mom,” she read. “You see, there are a lot of tragedies that have arrived at my family, and all are the result of my mother’s actions.”
Vallow “would never have let him hurt me, and I know he died by protecting myself,” said the letter.
“I should be 13 years old now, but I’m forever seven,” she said.
At the end of the letter, she shouted to Lori Daybell, “I trusted you!” Before taking tears.
Her husband, Larry Woodcock, her visceral anger, called Lori Daybell as “narcissistic, psychopath, delusional murderer”.
“You are nothing, murderous,” he said. “I can’t bear you.”
Following the remarks of several members of his family, including his brothers and sisters and his current wife, Boudreaux explained how the attempted murder touched him.
“Someone’s betrayal linked to my family let me fight over the years,” he said, his trembling voice. “I felt fear, paranoia. I lived with constant vigilance, loneliness, regret, sadness, depression, anger, sorrow and embarrassment.”
He said he had chosen to forgive Lori Daybell so that he could be a better father, husband, son, neighbor and friend. “But I had never seen remorse or recognition of Lori,” he said.