Attorneys for Lori Vallow Daybell made the claim in court documents filed in eastern Idaho last week in the triple murder case.
She is also asking for permission to meet with her husband, who is also charged, to discuss strategy before the case goes to trial in April.
The bizarre and complex case, which involves allegations of doomsday-focused religious beliefs, accusations of a plot to steal social security funds and the mysterious deaths of the couple’s former spouses, has been marked with twist and turns since Vallow Daybell and her new husband were arrested two years ago. But the “notice of alibi” filed in Idaho’s 7th Judicial Court provided the first glimpse of Vallow Daybell’s planned defense.
Attorneys for Chad Daybell haven’t offered details about his planned defense, other than saying in court last November that Daybell and Vallow Daybell will have “mutually antagonistic defenses” — a legal term that generally means a jury would have to disbelieve one defendant in order to believe the other.
Vallow Daybell is also separately charged with conspiracy to commit murder in Arizona in connection with the July 2019 death of her previous husband, Charles Vallow. He was shot and killed by Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, who claimed it was self-defense.Court documents suggest that things began to unravel for the family in early 2019, when Lori was still married to Charles Vallow.
Meanwhile, JJ’s grandparents, Larry and Kay Woodcock of Louisiana, were growing increasingly worried about the kids, whom they weren’t able to reach on the phone. They said Lori Daybell wouldn’t tell them why the boy was always unavailable, and they asked police to check on the family.
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