The “Doomsday mom” stands accused of murdering her kids Tylee Ryan and Joshua “JJ” Vallow and her husband Chad Daybell’s former wife.
, told authorities the couple thought people turned to “zombies” once they were overcome by evil spirits.Friends also told investigators the two communicated through a “portal” from which Daybell could also go between other realms. Vallow Daybell allegedly boasted about being able to “teleport” between Hawaii and Arizona.His attorneys have said the pair have “mutually antagonistic defenses.”Chad Daybell appears during a court hearing in St. Anthony, Idaho, on Aug. 4, 2020.
Her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, detailed his then-wife’s newly espoused beliefs in divorce papers, writing that she thought she was a god-like figure. She felt she was leading 144,000 believers in preparing for the apocalypse, he wrote.But he died suddenly in July 2019, when Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, shot and killed him in Phoenix, in what he claimed was self-defense.APLori Vallow Daybell after a hearing at the Fremont County Courthouse in St. Anthony, Idaho, on Aug. 16, 2022.
JJ’s and Tylee’s bodies were discovered months later buried on the property of Daybell’s Salem, Idaho, home. Mourners attend a memorial service for Tylee Ryan and Joshua “JJ” Vallow in Idaho Falls on June 12, 2020.Larry and Kay Woodcock, center, during a court hearing for Lori Vallow Daybell in St. Anthony, Idaho, on April 19, 2022.Meanwhile, Tammy Daybell was initially thought to have died unexpectedly from “natural causes” in October 2019 – and loved ones declined not to have an autopsy performed.
in May 2021 and later spent nine months in a mental health hospital before she was deemed fit for trial in April 2022.Opening statements are slated to begin at 8:30 a.m. local time Monday in the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho – 700 miles from the Salem area. The trial is expected to last up to three months.With Post wire
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