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Phoenix – 22 April 2025
1. A court clerk reading the jury’s guilty verdict for the Lori Vallow Daybell murder conspiracy case, UPSOUND (English) Judge off-screen: "I’ll ask the clerk to read and record the verdict.
Clerk off-screen: "Upon our oaths do find the defendant, Laurie Daybell, as to the crime of count one conspiracy to commit first degree murder.."
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Phoenix – 22 April 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kay Woodcock (left) and Gerry Vallow (right), Charles Vallow’s siblings:
++STARTS IN PREVIOUS SHOT++
"’We got you and you’re not the smartest person in the room. And now it’s time for you just to hide away and well, after Brandon’s trial. But you can just hide away and everybody’s gonna forget about you.’ We’ll be on our way through our life and she’ll be rotting in prison where she deserves to be."
++WHITE FLASH++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Lewis, juror:
Lewis: "We just felt like there was a lot of information that didn’t make sense and that was missing."
(Reporter: "Do you think she did herself any favors by defending herself? You were not impressed with her lawyer and skills?")
Lewis: "No."
(Reporter: "What did you think of her behavior during cross-examination? The way that at one moment she was argumentative with some of the witnesses.")
Lewis: "I just, I mean many days, she just was like smiling and laughing and didn’t seem to take anything very seriously."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
An Arizona jury has found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of conspiring to murder her estranged husband, meaning the mother with doomsday religious beliefs faces another life sentence after she was already convicted in Idaho in the killings of her two youngest children and a romantic rival.
Prosecutors said she conspired with her brother, Alex Cox, in the July 2019 shooting death of Charles Vallow at her home in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler.
She was trying to collect money from his life insurance policy, prosecutors said, and planned to marry her then-boyfriend Chad Daybell, an Idaho author who wrote several religious novels about prophecies and the end of the world.
Jurors deliberated for a total of three hours over two days.
Vallow Daybell, who isn’t an attorney but chose to defend herself at trial, sat mostly still as the verdict was read but glanced occasionally at jurors as they were asked to confirm they found her guilty on the single charge.
One of the jurors, Victoria Lewis, said outside the courthouse that Vallow Daybell didn’t do herself any favors by choosing to represent herself.
“Many days she was just smiling and laughing and didn’t seem to take anything very seriously,” Lewis told reporters.
Vallow Daybell told the jury that during the encounter inside the house, Vallow chased her with a bat, and her brother shot him in self-defense after she left the house.
Cox, who also claimed he acted in self-defense, died five months later from what medical examiners said was a blood clot in his lungs.
Vallow’s siblings, Kay Woodcock and Gerry Vallow, told reporters they are grateful for the jury’s decision.
“We gotcha, and you’re not the smartest person in the room," Woodcock said when asked if she has a message for Vallow Daybell. “Everybody’s going to forget about you.”
The Associated Press left email messages seeking comment Tuesday from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, which prosecuted the case, and the lawyers who served as legal advisers to Vallow Daybell during the trial.
The trial marked the first of two criminal trials in Arizona for Vallow Daybell.
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