Who’s who in Lori Vallow Daybell’s trial in Arizona?
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PHOENIX — It’s a complex case that led investigators from Arizona to Idaho and Hawaii, to unravel a twisted plot built on bizarre claims that the victims were possessed by evil spirits and that the defendant — Lori Vallow Daybell — was after money from a life insurance policy and chasing a marriage with a new lover.
Vallow Daybell is already serving three life sentences in Idaho for murdering her two youngest children and conspiring to kill her lover’s wife. Now, she’s on trial in Arizona — on charges she conspired to kill her estranged husband in 2019. Prosecutors contend she had help from her brother and that doomsday prophecies peddled by her boyfriend and soon-to-be husband Chad Daybell played a role in the death of Charles Vallow.
Here’s a look at some of the people connected to the case.
Vallow Daybell, 51, was a beautician by trade, a mother of three and has been married five times.
She married her high school sweetheart when she was 19. It ended quickly, but she married again in her early 20s and had a son. With her third husband, Joseph Ryan, she had a daughter. That ended after a few years, and Ryan later died in his home of a suspected heart attack.
In the summer of 2019, her fourth husband — Charles — was shot to death by her brother. That’s when she moved with her daughter Tylee Ryan and youngest son Joshua “JJ” Vallow to southeastern Idaho, where she could be closer to Chad. That September, the children disappeared, and prosecutors said Chad and his wife at the time, Tammy Daybell, applied to increase Tammy’s life insurance benefit.
Tammy died the next month, and Chad Daybell and Vallow Daybell got married two weeks later. Authorities grew suspicious about Tammy’s death and had her body exhumed for an autopsy, which determined she died of asphyxiation. The children’s bodies were found in 2020, buried in Chad Daybell’s yard.
During her sentencing, Vallow Daybell said “accidental deaths happen.” She claimed the spirits of the three victims visited her regularly and were all happy in the “spirit world.”
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