The trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, accused along with her husband Chad Daybell in the murders of her children and Daybell's first wife, concluded its third week Friday as the prosecution continues to build its case.
The couple, who are being tried separately, are accused in the three murders. Vallow Daybell also faces theft charges for allegedly collecting Social Security payments on behalf of her children.Witnesses for the prosecution discussed the couple's fringe religious beliefs and their blooming relationship as their spouses each died, as well as details about finding the children's bodies. Here are some of the most compelling moments of testimony so far.Det.
Prosecutors played audio of a phone call between Vallow Daybell, who at the time was being held at the Madison County Jail on child abandonment charges, and Chad Daybell while investigators were searching Daybell's property for the children's remains. "I said, 'Fall guy for what? What is it that, that you have done? What, what have you done that you would be the fall guy for?' It was like I kept pressuring him and I was so frustrated because he wasn't answering me," she said."So I would walk away and he would say something, and then I would come back and I — he was — and then I would pressure him again.
Emails between Daybell and a realtor in Hawaii, introduced as part of testimony by Rexburg Police Det. Chuck Kunsaitis, note the couple is interested in seeing a property. Daybell asks if the owners would"be interested in leasing this property to a clean couple with no pets or children." Lori Vallow Daybell says she"deserved to find happiness" after children's remains found in disturbing recording played in courtsaying she deserved to find happiness, as her sister, Summer Shiflet, testified. Shiflet was heard sobbing and screaming on a jailhouse call with Vallow Daybell after the children's remains were found by police in June 2020.
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