BREAKING | After several years and a surreal investigation involving religious extremism, Idaho mother Lori Vallow has been convicted of murdering her two children and plotting to slay her husband’s ex-wife.
The conviction comes after a six-week trial, where jurors were subjected to harrowing details about how prosecutors say Vallow and her husband were driven to murder by their beliefs in a renegade branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a need for money to start their new life in Hawaii.
“She worked hard as a single mother,” Archibald said, according to East Idaho News. “One year after meeting Chad [Daybell]... people are dead.” Melanie Gibb, one of Vallow’s former friends, testified about the initial meeting and revealed that the pair believed they had been married in a past life and were meant to be together. Both Vallow and Daybell, however, were still married to other people.
Dr. Garth Warren, who works for the Ada County Coroner's Office, detailed how JJ was smothered with a white plastic bag duct-taped over his head. He was still in his red pajamas when authorities found his body in Daybell’s pet cemetery in June 2020. An FBI expert testified that he discovered sharp trauma wounds on Tylee’s bones, which led him to believe that she had been cut with a machete, cleaver, or hatchet.
The pair initially claimed that the children were living with relatives in Arizona before they stopped all communication with authorities and refused to leave Hawaii to answer questions. After months of investigation, Vallow was finally arrested in Hawaii in February 2020—spurring a domino effect of investigations into her and her family.
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