Jury begins deliberating in Lori Vallow Daybell’s trial on charge she conspired to kill her husband
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Jurors have begun deliberating in the Arizona trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho woman with doomsday religious beliefs charged with conspiring to murder her estranged husband in suburban Phoenix.
The jury convened for a short time Monday afternoon and will resume deliberations Tuesday.
Throughout the trial that began two weeks ago, jurors heard vastly different versions of Charles Vallow’s deathat Vallow Daybell’s home in 2019.
Prosecutors argued that Vallow Daybell and her brother, Alex Cox, had planned to kill Vallow so she could collect money from his life insurance policy and marry her then-boyfriend, Chad Daybell, an Idaho author who wrote several religious novels about prophecies and the end of the world.
“What we see is a very planned out, premeditated murder,” prosecutor Treena Kay told the jury Monday in her closing argument.
Vallow Daybell isn’t a lawyer but chose to defend herself. She didn’t call any witnesses or put on any evidence in her defense, but said in her opening statement and again Monday in her closing argument that her estranged husband’s death wasn’t a crime.
“This was a tragedy,” she said Monday. “Don’t let them turn my family tragedy into a crime.”
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