‘Doomsday mom’ Lori Vallow Daybell hit with 2 more life sentences

Phoenix (AP) – Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in prison on two conspiracy in Arizona on Friday on two condemnations, marking the end of a winding legal saga for the mother with religious beliefs from Doomsday who affirmed that people in her life had been possessed by bad spirits.

Vallow Daybell, already serving perpetuity in Idaho in the killings of her two youngest children and a romantic rival, was condemned during the separate trials this spring in Phoenix to have plotted to assassinate his ex-husband, Charles Vallow, and the ex-husband of his niece, Brandon Boudreaux.

Vallow Daybell, who chose to represent himself in the two cases of Arizona even if she is not a lawyer, used her final testimony to complain about the prison and the legal system.

“If I was responsible for these crimes, I recognize it and I would let you know how sorry,” she said.

The judge says that Vallow Daybell should never be released

Justin Beresky Judge said Vallow Daybell “showed a blatant contempt for humanity” and refuted her assertion that she had not obtained a fair trial in Arizona.

“You should never be released from prison,” said Beresky before pronouncing the trouble. “Finally, the camera you are looking for, the media requests them, will decrease over time and you will get high in the dark.”

The authorities say that Vallow Daybell produced the plots with his brother Alex Cox, who admitted to having killed Vallow in July 2019 and was identified by prosecutors as the person who pulled on Boudreaux for months later but missed.

Prosecutors said Vallow Daybell had conspired to kill Vallow so that she could perceive her $ 1 million life insurance policy and marry her boyfriend from the Chad Daybell time, an author of the Idaho of religious novels on the prophecies and the end of the world. They said Boudreaux suspected Vallow Daybell and Cox was responsible for Vallow’s death.

Maricopa’s county prosecutor Rachel Mitchell said the trial was a long process but necessary to obtain justice for Vallow, Boudreaux and their families. Vallow Daybell will return to Idaho “knowing that she was not failed with her crimes committed in Maricopa County,” Mitchell told journalists after the hearing.

Almost two years ago, Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in an Idaho prison for killing his children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, and conspirator to assassinate Daybell’s wife, Tammy.

The children disappeared for several months before their bodies were found buried on the property of Daybell in rural Idaho. Daybell was sentenced to death for the horrible murders of his wife, Tylee and JJ.

The family members of the victims shed tears during the hearing on Friday

Vallow Daybell appeared in court on Friday in an Orange prison uniform while family members called him “badly”, “gourmet” and “monster” while describing their sorrow. The members of the family of the victims sat in the jury box, going around the fabrics.

The only surviving child of Vallow Daybell – his adult son, Colby Ryan – described how he “had to fight to stay alive after pain” to lose his brothers and sisters and Vallow, his stepfather whom he called his father.

Testing by a distant bond, Ryan focused on his mother, who said that Arizona’s affairs were family tragedies that should not have found himself in court. “I believe that Lori Vallow herself is the family tragedy,” said Ryan.

Vallow’s brother Gerry Vallow launched scathing comments at Vallow Daybell.

“She wrote her own imaginary story and wrote it in her blood,” he said. “And she tried to kill Brandon when he started to look like the next dollar sign available.”

Charles Vallow was fatally shot in 2019

Vallow asked for divorce four months before his death. He said that Vallow Daybell was entitled with imminent death experiences and claimed to have lived many lives on other planets. He told the police that she had threatened to kill him and that he was concerned about his children.

Vallow was shot dead when he went to get his son from Vallow Daybell’s home outside Phoenix, police said. Vallow Daybell’s daughter Tylee told the police that the sound of the crisis woke her up, and she confronted Vallow with a baseball bat that he managed to take her. Cox told the police that he had pulled on Vallow after refusing to drop the bat and came after him.

Cox died five months later from a blood clot in his lungs. His request for self -defense was later questioned, the investigators saying that Cox and Vallow Daybell waited more than 40 minutes before calling 911.

Just before his death, Vallow and the other brother of his wife, Adam Cox, planned an intervention to try to bring Vallow Daybell back in the dominant current of their common faith in the church of Jesus Christ of the Saints of the last days. Adam Cox, an accusation witness, said earlier in the trial that his sister told people that Vallow no longer lived and that a zombie was inside the body of her distant husband.

Someone shot Brandon Boudreaux for months later

Almost three months after the death of Vallow, someone shot Boudreaux from an open window from a Jeep while he went to his home to Gilbert, another suburbs of Phoenix. He missed Boudreaux, the ex-Mari de la niece de Vallow Daybell, Melani Pawlowski. Pawlowski had attended religious meetings with her aunt and suggested to her husband that they stored food for the end of the world, Boudreaux said earlier in the trial.

Boudreaux described on Friday in court how the attempt at his life caused a huge stress and made him fear for the security of his family. His sisters told the judge that their brother was hiding with his children after the attack.

Prosecutors bound the Jeep to Vallow Daybell and said that she had lent her to Cox. The two bought a burner phone used to carry out the attack and tried to concoct an alibi for Cox to give the impression that it was in Idaho at the time, prosecutors said.

“No one deserves to live a life of fear and trauma,” said Boudreaux in tears. He said he had forgiven the vallow beard so that he could be a better person and a better father, but that he would not feel safe if she had freedom.

After the conviction, Boudreaux told journalists that he was grateful that the justice system worked.

Originally published: July 25, 2025 at 4:32 p.m. HAE