(23 Apr 2025)
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Phoenix – 22 April 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Kay Woodcock (left) and Gerry Vallow (right), Charles Vallow’s siblings:
"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."
Vallow: "Like Charles always used to say, love always wins."
Woodcock: "Oh yeah, thank you for saying that. Yeah, love always wins was Charles’ thing and yeah, so it does."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Karl, last name not given, juror from Phoenix:
"What does she have to lose? Guilty or not guilty, what does she have to lose?"
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Lewis, juror from Phoenix:
"It was sad as he said. For me, it was the text messages that did it as far as evidence. And I feel like we caught, we uncovered some lies."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Lewis, juror from Phoenix:
(Reporter, UPSOUND (English): "Was that difficult going through this and not being able to be disconnected?")
Lewis: "Yes, it was. 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."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Lewis, juror from Phoenix:
(Reporter: Were you hoping to hear her testify?)
Lewis: "Yes, I was. I was."
(Reporter: "And what about you?")
Karl: "I didn’t understand why didn’t she call any witnesses."
Lewis: "Yeah, like why she didn’t have like, I know she made a statement about the only family that was interviewed was her estranged brother and why wasn’t her parents or her sister but yet, she didn’t call them."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Lewis, juror from Phoenix:
Lewis: "Like I kept wanting to hear from Tylee."
(Reporter: "I was going to ask, is anybody wondering why Tylee wasn’t testifying?")
Lewis: "Yes."
(Reporter: "Did you ever ask the judge why aren’t they here?")
Lewis: "No, and the one witness that really got to me was hearing Kay. I was holding back my emotions."
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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.
One of the jurors, Victoria Lewis, said outside the courthouse that Vallow Daybell didn’t do herself any favors by choosing to represent herself.
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