In a shocking turn of events, the legal team for Doomsday mom Lori Vallow decided to rest their case on Tuesday. They declined to put Vallow or any other witnesses on the stand to testify on her behalf. Meanwhile, the prosecution has been relentless.
, for an insurance payout before they fled to Hawaii to start a new life. When authorities finally learned the children were missing, Vallow suddenly stopped communicating with police until her arrest months later.
Closing arguments will take place on Thursday, where Vallow’s defense team will need to address the following issues if they hope to see the mother-of-three evade a prison sentence for life.One of Vallow’s former friends broke down on the stand as she detailed how the mother of three threatened to “cut” and kill her—and then bury her body in a “place nobody would ever find her.
Dr. Garth Warren, who works for the Ada County Coroner's Office, detailed how JJ was smothered with a white plastic bag that was duct-taped shut over his head. The child was still in his red pajamas when he was found in a pet cemetery in June 2020—tightly bound in a garbage bag tightly and with duct tape. Warren added that a toxicology report also concluded that JJ was found with low levels of ethanol, caffeine, and the date-rape drug GHB.
Melanie Gibb detailed to jurors how she met Vallow at a church event in 2018 and how they became fast friends, ultimately starting a religious podcast together. Gibb was with Vallow when she
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