1 00:00:06,770 --> 00:00:10,310 State of Idaho Plaintiff versus Lori Norene Vallow, 2 00:00:10,310 --> 00:00:14,480 AKA Lori Norene Daybell, Defendant, count one, 3 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,440 conspiracy to commit first-degree murder 4 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:18,980 and grand theft by deception; count two, first-degree murder; 5 00:00:18,980 --> 00:00:21,390 count three, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder 6 00:00:21,390 --> 00:00:22,850 and grand theft by deception; count 7 00:00:22,850 --> 00:00:25,520 four, first-degree murder; count five, conspiracy 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,170 to commit first-degree murder. 9 00:00:28,170 --> 00:00:30,710 The crimes are unimaginable. 10 00:00:30,710 --> 00:00:33,440 Lori Vallow Daybell stood trial for the murder 11 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:38,270 of her own children, 16-year-old Tylee and seven-year-old JJ. 12 00:00:38,270 --> 00:00:41,900 She was also accused of killing Tammy Daybell, the wife 13 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:43,850 of her current husband, Chad. 14 00:00:43,850 --> 00:00:47,000 The judge in the case did not allow cameras in the Idaho 15 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,930 courtroom during testimony, but we have audio and transcripts 16 00:00:50,930 --> 00:00:52,070 of the proceedings. 17 00:00:52,070 --> 00:00:54,620 Here was prosecutor Lindsey Blake. 18 00:00:54,620 --> 00:00:58,790 "Money, power, and sex. 19 00:00:58,790 --> 00:01:00,870 That's what this case is about." 20 00:01:00,870 --> 00:01:03,080 "It didn't matter what obstacle she 21 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,330 had to remove to get what she wanted," 22 00:01:06,330 --> 00:01:10,590 "and if it was a person, it didn't matter who." 23 00:01:10,590 --> 00:01:12,810 Lori was a beauty contestant. 24 00:01:12,810 --> 00:01:15,960 Anybody you spoke to who knew Lori back 25 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:19,950 then said that she was like the mother of the year. 26 00:01:19,950 --> 00:01:24,180 The problem really seems to have started when Lori 27 00:01:24,180 --> 00:01:27,570 started following Chad Daybell. 28 00:01:27,570 --> 00:01:32,370 Chad was a podcaster and author of doomsday novels. 29 00:01:32,370 --> 00:01:36,360 Then, in late 2019, Lori's two children 30 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,490 mysteriously disappeared. 31 00:01:38,490 --> 00:01:41,790 Meantime, Lori and Chad are on the beach in Hawaii 32 00:01:41,790 --> 00:01:44,460 having the time of their lives. 33 00:01:44,460 --> 00:01:48,930 They get married, and they wouldn't talk to police at all, 34 00:01:48,930 --> 00:01:51,480 and they wouldn't tell anybody where the kids were. 35 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,420 Even after Lori was arrested, she still 36 00:01:54,420 --> 00:01:57,720 refused to say anything about where the kids were. 37 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,770 How come you're not telling anybody where your kids are? 38 00:02:01,770 --> 00:02:05,220 People looked all over the country for these kids. 39 00:02:05,220 --> 00:02:08,790 Months after vanishing into thin air, the remains of JJ Vallow 40 00:02:08,790 --> 00:02:11,760 and Tylee Ryan were found buried here, 41 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:13,720 in Chad Daybell's backyard. 42 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:17,100 What we have gathered was that Chad had this belief 43 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:20,550 that some people who were on this Earth 44 00:02:20,550 --> 00:02:23,730 weren't really the people they were supposed to be. 45 00:02:23,730 --> 00:02:28,110 They were zombies, and the only way to release their spirits 46 00:02:28,110 --> 00:02:30,780 was to kill the bodies. 47 00:02:30,780 --> 00:02:33,210 And if that's not disturbing enough, 48 00:02:33,210 --> 00:02:38,220 Lori started referring to her children as zombies. 49 00:02:38,220 --> 00:02:41,670 She had this grading system where 50 00:02:41,670 --> 00:02:43,590 she could read people's auras, and they 51 00:02:43,590 --> 00:02:44,880 were either dark or light. 52 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,440 And she had described Tylee as having a dark spirit. 53 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,770 I feel like she's kind of a monster. 54 00:02:52,770 --> 00:02:54,780 But Defense Attorney Jim Archibald 55 00:02:54,780 --> 00:02:56,850 claimed there was no way for Lori 56 00:02:56,850 --> 00:02:58,560 to have committed the crimes. 57 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:03,180 "Lori Vallow was in her own apartment in Rexburg, Idaho 58 00:03:03,180 --> 00:03:07,020 when JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan died." 59 00:03:07,020 --> 00:03:12,230 "And Lori was in Hawaii when Tammy Daybell died." 60 00:03:12,230 --> 00:03:16,880 I've thought a lot about why this story hits such a chord 61 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,910 with a wide variety of people, and I 62 00:03:19,910 --> 00:03:22,130 think it's because these kids. 63 00:03:22,130 --> 00:03:26,390 And then when you throw in the cult aspect of this-- 64 00:03:26,390 --> 00:03:29,460 we've certainly seen movies with all of this, 65 00:03:29,460 --> 00:03:32,180 but I'm not sure we've ever seen anything like this 66 00:03:32,180 --> 00:03:35,150 in real life, in true crime. 67 00:03:35,150 --> 00:03:38,060 In regards to count one of the amended indictment 68 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:42,320 answer, guilty, count two, guilty, count three, guilty, 69 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:46,790 count four, guilty, count five, guilty, count seven, guilty. 70 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:33,660 Can you tell me where your kids are? 71 00:04:33,660 --> 00:04:35,290 Did you do something to your children? 72 00:04:35,290 --> 00:04:36,450 Where are your children? 73 00:04:36,450 --> 00:04:37,710 Welcome back, Lori. 74 00:04:37,710 --> 00:04:38,670 Where are your kids? 75 00:04:38,670 --> 00:04:39,960 Anything you want to say, Lori? 76 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:41,010 Lori? 77 00:04:41,010 --> 00:04:44,730 Beginning in 2019, Lori Vallow Daybell 78 00:04:44,730 --> 00:04:49,530 spent months denying her missing children were in danger. 79 00:04:49,530 --> 00:04:52,320 Many, including her sister, Summer Shiflet, 80 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,240 believed her at the time. 81 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,770 Something's not adding up here. 82 00:04:56,770 --> 00:04:57,760 Where are they? 83 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:59,590 Where is JJ and Tylee? 84 00:04:59,590 --> 00:05:00,860 That's a great question. 85 00:05:00,860 --> 00:05:02,650 We would love to know the answer to that. 86 00:05:02,650 --> 00:05:08,890 We don't know, but we are very confident that Lori would never 87 00:05:08,890 --> 00:05:11,770 harm her children, ever. 88 00:05:11,770 --> 00:05:15,640 But during four weeks of testimony, the prosecution 89 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,480 chipped away at the facade of the former beauty contestant 90 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,630 until it exposed Lori Vallow Daybell for the person 91 00:05:22,630 --> 00:05:25,390 it claimed she really was. 92 00:05:25,390 --> 00:05:29,920 Prosecutors have painted a picture of somebody 93 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,500 who was ruthless-- 94 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:36,010 Morgan Loew is an Investigative Reporter and CBS News 95 00:05:36,010 --> 00:05:36,970 Consultant. 96 00:05:36,970 --> 00:05:42,760 --somebody who would do anything to get what she wants. 97 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:47,170 According to the prosecution, Lori was a master puppeteer, 98 00:05:47,170 --> 00:05:49,480 pulling the strings in a heinous murder 99 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,540 plot that left three innocent people dead, 100 00:05:52,540 --> 00:05:56,480 her 16-year-old daughter, Tylee Ryan, her seven-year-old son, 101 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:01,400 JJ Vallow, and Tammy Daybell, Chad Daybell's wife of almost 102 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:02,840 30 years. 103 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:06,290 It didn't matter what obstacles she had to remove 104 00:06:06,290 --> 00:06:08,570 to get what she wanted. 105 00:06:08,570 --> 00:06:11,780 48 Hours has been following the twisted saga 106 00:06:11,780 --> 00:06:14,780 of the so-called Cult Mom and her paramour, 107 00:06:14,780 --> 00:06:18,890 Chad Daybell, since the story broke in 2019, 108 00:06:18,890 --> 00:06:21,410 months before the remains of her two children 109 00:06:21,410 --> 00:06:23,630 were discovered in shallow graves 110 00:06:23,630 --> 00:06:25,820 in Chad Daybell's backyard. 111 00:06:25,820 --> 00:06:29,120 When we started, it was almost inconceivable to friends 112 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,360 like April Raymond that she would harm her children. 113 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:37,520 She did everything for JJ, everything for Tylee. 114 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,840 They were the center of her world, 115 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:46,570 and so I'm not sure what hijacked that priority. 116 00:06:46,570 --> 00:06:50,050 April met Lori in 2015 in Hawaii. 117 00:06:50,050 --> 00:06:53,800 At the time, Lori was married to Businessman Charles Vallow. 118 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,950 The couple were raising two children, Tylee, 119 00:06:56,950 --> 00:06:59,590 Lori's teenage daughter from a former marriage, 120 00:06:59,590 --> 00:07:04,030 and their adopted son, JJ, who was diagnosed with autism. 121 00:07:04,030 --> 00:07:06,980 JJ was very difficult to take care of. 122 00:07:06,980 --> 00:07:08,170 Ooh, look at-- 123 00:07:08,170 --> 00:07:12,100 So I really admired how patient she was with him 124 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:15,570 and how much care she took of him. 125 00:07:15,570 --> 00:07:18,390 His big sister was just as devoted to him, 126 00:07:18,390 --> 00:07:21,750 says Tylee's best friend, Vaisia Itaaehau. 127 00:07:21,750 --> 00:07:25,530 I loved being around JJ and Tylee. 128 00:07:25,530 --> 00:07:27,600 Tylee was really protective over JJ, 129 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,930 and she was kind of like another mama to him. 130 00:07:30,930 --> 00:07:33,870 Are you taking a video of my child? 131 00:07:33,870 --> 00:07:35,380 Your child? 132 00:07:35,380 --> 00:07:36,960 My child. 133 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,780 I just kind of loved how she would just play with him 134 00:07:39,780 --> 00:07:42,600 and just always have a really good time with him, 135 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,340 and I really loved JJ. 136 00:07:44,340 --> 00:07:47,710 He's the sweetest soul I've ever met. 137 00:07:47,710 --> 00:07:52,060 But around 2017, friends say Lori's relationships 138 00:07:52,060 --> 00:07:56,500 with her kids began to shift, about the time 139 00:07:56,500 --> 00:07:59,350 she started reading the books of Chad Daybell. 140 00:07:59,350 --> 00:08:02,500 I've recently released my autobiography. 141 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:05,980 Daybell was a former gravedigger-turned-doomsday 142 00:08:05,980 --> 00:08:10,690 novelist and podcaster from Rexburg, Idaho. 143 00:08:10,690 --> 00:08:13,810 He tapped into this prepper element 144 00:08:13,810 --> 00:08:18,100 out there, people who wanted to prepare for Armageddon. 145 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:22,000 Lori met Chad for the first time in 2018 146 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,910 at a conference in St. George, Utah. 147 00:08:24,910 --> 00:08:29,410 The first time Chad met Lori, he told her 148 00:08:29,410 --> 00:08:32,180 that they had been married in a past life. 149 00:08:32,180 --> 00:08:34,900 He said he was James and she was Elena 150 00:08:34,900 --> 00:08:39,010 and that they had lived this biblical life in the past. 151 00:08:39,010 --> 00:08:42,040 And instead of scaring her off, that 152 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:44,440 seems to have attracted her. 153 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,650 Even though Lori was still married to Charles Vallow 154 00:08:47,650 --> 00:08:50,650 and Chad was married to the mother of his five children, 155 00:08:50,650 --> 00:08:53,320 Tammy Daybell, Lori's friend, Melanie Gibb, 156 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:57,070 testified the two soon began an affair. 157 00:08:57,070 --> 00:09:00,070 Did Lori ever tell you directly that she and Chad 158 00:09:00,070 --> 00:09:02,020 would meet at hotels or motels? 159 00:09:02,020 --> 00:09:02,920 Yes. 160 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:05,110 Did Lori ever indicate to you whether or not 161 00:09:05,110 --> 00:09:07,390 she and Chad were engaged in an affair? 162 00:09:07,390 --> 00:09:10,910 She would just share that they were intimate. 163 00:09:10,910 --> 00:09:13,430 Witnesses testified that Lori took 164 00:09:13,430 --> 00:09:18,350 on Chad's extreme religious beliefs, says Morgan Loew. 165 00:09:18,350 --> 00:09:21,020 Lori believed that she was chosen 166 00:09:21,020 --> 00:09:26,600 to lead the 144,000 after the apocalypse, 167 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,590 to lead the survivors of the human race to an eternal life 168 00:09:30,590 --> 00:09:34,370 while the rest of society burned. 169 00:09:34,370 --> 00:09:38,510 She also believed she had been appointed another more ominous. 170 00:09:38,510 --> 00:09:40,370 role, says April. 171 00:09:40,370 --> 00:09:44,300 Part of her mission on Earth was to eliminate the darkness, 172 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:47,060 the demonic, the evil. 173 00:09:47,060 --> 00:09:51,050 April says one of those evil spirits according to Lori 174 00:09:51,050 --> 00:09:54,170 was her then-husband, Charles Vallow. 175 00:09:54,170 --> 00:09:56,540 The way she had explained it to me about Charles 176 00:09:56,540 --> 00:09:58,760 was that Charles was already dead 177 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,060 and that there was a demon living inside of him. 178 00:10:02,060 --> 00:10:04,490 For the first time, we heard at trial 179 00:10:04,490 --> 00:10:08,540 that Lori held what she called casting ceremonies. 180 00:10:08,540 --> 00:10:10,670 It involved getting into a circle 181 00:10:10,670 --> 00:10:15,110 with other like-minded followers and casting out 182 00:10:15,110 --> 00:10:19,520 dark spirits from people, getting rid of demons. 183 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,370 Lori's friend, Zulema Pastenes, attended 184 00:10:22,370 --> 00:10:24,380 several of these castings. 185 00:10:24,380 --> 00:10:27,500 There are certain spirits that can only be cast out 186 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:30,110 by prayer and fasting. 187 00:10:30,110 --> 00:10:33,680 Here she is on the stand talking about one of the demons 188 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:38,230 Lori claimed was living inside Charles. 189 00:10:38,230 --> 00:10:42,520 And what is that spirit or demon's name? 190 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,950 I believe they called him Ned. 191 00:10:44,950 --> 00:10:48,880 Ned Schneider, to be precise. 192 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,200 Why don't you come over here? 193 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:55,570 In January of 2019, Charles was so spooked by Lori's ramblings 194 00:10:55,570 --> 00:10:59,290 about the demon named Ned he called police. 195 00:10:59,290 --> 00:11:00,700 What did she say yesterday? 196 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:02,100 She said, you're not Charles. 197 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:04,270 I don't know who you are, what you did with Charles. 198 00:11:04,270 --> 00:11:08,330 Their conversation was recorded on the officer's body cam. 199 00:11:08,330 --> 00:11:08,830 OK. 200 00:11:08,830 --> 00:11:11,700 So what makes her a danger to herself and to others? 201 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:13,690 She threatened me, murder me, kill me. 202 00:11:13,690 --> 00:11:15,130 She threatened to murder you? 203 00:11:15,130 --> 00:11:15,670 Yes. 204 00:11:15,670 --> 00:11:20,470 In the winter of 2019, Charles changed the beneficiary of his 205 00:11:20,470 --> 00:11:24,970 $1-million life insurance policy from Lori to his sister, 206 00:11:24,970 --> 00:11:29,080 Kay Woodcock, JJ's biological grandmother. 207 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,840 After almost 13 years of marriage, 208 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,640 Charles filed for divorce. 209 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:37,500 It scared the crap out of me. 210 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:40,700 Charles Vallow had good reason to be scared. 211 00:11:57,790 --> 00:12:01,930 On the morning of July 11, 2019, Charles Vallow 212 00:12:01,930 --> 00:12:03,760 went to the Chandler, Arizona home 213 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,160 of his estranged wife, Lori Vallow, 214 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,610 to pick up JJ and take him to school. 215 00:12:09,610 --> 00:12:11,320 He goes into the house. 216 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:16,840 Lori and Tylee and JJ are there, and so is Alex Cox. 217 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,510 Alex Cox, Lori's brother. 218 00:12:19,510 --> 00:12:22,210 At trial, Lori's friend, Zulema Pastenes, 219 00:12:22,210 --> 00:12:24,640 who would later marry Alex, testified 220 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:29,080 that Chad had assigned him a mission ordained by God. 221 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,390 Chad had told him that he was going 222 00:12:31,390 --> 00:12:34,750 to be a warrior, a defender, and the sole purpose 223 00:12:34,750 --> 00:12:38,560 for him coming to this Earth was so that he could be 224 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:41,620 Lori's protector and defender. 225 00:12:41,620 --> 00:12:43,030 Did Alex believe this? 226 00:12:43,030 --> 00:12:45,010 Absolutely. 227 00:12:45,010 --> 00:12:48,160 Shortly after Charles entered Lori's home that summer 228 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:54,220 morning in 2019, Alex Cox, the defender, shot him dead. 229 00:12:54,220 --> 00:12:56,740 911, where is your emergency? 230 00:12:56,740 --> 00:13:01,900 At 8:36 AM, Alex calmly called 911. 231 00:13:01,900 --> 00:13:03,580 Is he breathing? 232 00:13:03,580 --> 00:13:04,720 I can't tell. 233 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,700 He said, I need to report a shooting. 234 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:10,210 I shot my brother-in-law in self defense. 235 00:13:10,210 --> 00:13:13,600 And is he heard or is he alive or-- 236 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:14,680 Yeah, there's blood. 237 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:16,840 He's not moving. 238 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,870 The police arrived and shot this video of Alex 239 00:13:19,870 --> 00:13:22,150 on the curb outside the home. 240 00:13:22,150 --> 00:13:25,850 Alex told them Charles and Lori got into a fight. 241 00:13:25,850 --> 00:13:27,680 So you both-- so you get in an argument? 242 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:29,210 What is it over? 243 00:13:29,210 --> 00:13:30,380 Well, it was over my sister. 244 00:13:30,380 --> 00:13:32,320 He was he was getting physical with her, 245 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:33,250 so my niece came out-- 246 00:13:33,250 --> 00:13:36,130 Alex told them he got between Charles and Lori 247 00:13:36,130 --> 00:13:40,000 and shot Charles in the chest when Charles charged at him. 248 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:45,410 At some point, Lori, Tylee, and JJ got into the car and left. 249 00:13:45,410 --> 00:13:51,710 Lori takes JJ to school, and she comes back later with Tylee. 250 00:13:51,710 --> 00:13:54,260 Police body cam caught the moment. 251 00:13:54,260 --> 00:13:57,220 Tylee's face was blurred because she was a minor. 252 00:13:57,220 --> 00:13:58,430 How long have you lived here? 253 00:13:58,430 --> 00:13:59,180 Like three weeks. 254 00:13:59,180 --> 00:14:00,170 Oh, geez, yeah, OK. 255 00:14:00,170 --> 00:14:02,210 That's why the neighbors don't know us very well. 256 00:14:02,210 --> 00:14:03,170 Gotcha. 257 00:14:03,170 --> 00:14:05,090 Like, hi, neighbor, sorry. 258 00:14:05,090 --> 00:14:08,090 What was striking about the footage 259 00:14:08,090 --> 00:14:10,970 that we saw was that there's no remorse, 260 00:14:10,970 --> 00:14:15,170 there's no, oh my gosh, my husband's dead. 261 00:14:15,170 --> 00:14:18,140 Lori, Alex, and Tylee were questioned 262 00:14:18,140 --> 00:14:19,820 at the police headquarters. 263 00:14:19,820 --> 00:14:23,000 All told similar stories of self-defense 264 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,830 and were sent home. 265 00:14:24,830 --> 00:14:29,840 Three days later, Chad and Lori were exchanging steamy texts. 266 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:33,750 Here's FBI Agent Doug Hart reading one on the stand. 267 00:14:33,750 --> 00:14:37,070 "I need so badly to just gently kiss you for hours." 268 00:14:37,070 --> 00:14:39,590 "It would likely lead to other activities." 269 00:14:39,590 --> 00:14:41,540 "Likely or luckily?" 270 00:14:41,540 --> 00:14:44,420 "It would luckily lead to nakedness." 271 00:14:44,420 --> 00:14:49,090 But prosecutors say the lovers were in for a big surprise. 272 00:14:49,090 --> 00:14:51,880 They were about to find out that Charles had changed 273 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,850 the beneficiary of that $1-million life insurance 274 00:14:54,850 --> 00:14:55,810 policy. 275 00:14:55,810 --> 00:14:58,570 Here's detective Nathan Duncan reading Lori's text 276 00:14:58,570 --> 00:15:00,850 to Chad after she found out. 277 00:15:00,850 --> 00:15:03,250 "I just got the letter from the insurance company 278 00:15:03,250 --> 00:15:05,590 saying that I am not the beneficiary. 279 00:15:05,590 --> 00:15:07,820 It's a spear through my heart." 280 00:15:07,820 --> 00:15:10,150 This is one of the strongest points 281 00:15:10,150 --> 00:15:14,260 that prosecutors have made is that Lori 282 00:15:14,260 --> 00:15:16,690 was motivated by money. 283 00:15:16,690 --> 00:15:20,590 She wanted Charles's money. 284 00:15:20,590 --> 00:15:23,110 According to prosecutors, Lori started 285 00:15:23,110 --> 00:15:25,720 drawing the Social Security death benefits 286 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,600 JJ received from his father, Charles Vallow. 287 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,480 She moved with her two kids to Rexburg, Idaho, 288 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:36,470 not far from where Chad Daybell lived with his wife, Tammy. 289 00:15:36,470 --> 00:15:40,580 Lori's brother, Alex Cox, her designated defender, 290 00:15:40,580 --> 00:15:43,220 moved into the same complex. 291 00:15:43,220 --> 00:15:46,730 He was there to take care of the problems. 292 00:15:46,730 --> 00:15:49,910 Prosecutors alleged Lori's first problem 293 00:15:49,910 --> 00:15:53,000 was her 16-year-old daughter, Tylee Ryan. 294 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,610 According to Zulema, Lori told her 295 00:15:55,610 --> 00:16:00,410 that a demon named Hillary had taken over Tylee's body. 296 00:16:00,410 --> 00:16:03,590 Now, if somebody is possessed by a demon, 297 00:16:03,590 --> 00:16:05,900 are those people dangerous? 298 00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:09,410 They're considered to be dark and to bring 299 00:16:09,410 --> 00:16:14,690 only bad things to happen, yeah, so yes, would be dangerous. 300 00:16:14,690 --> 00:16:18,320 These are the last known pictures of Tylee Ryan. 301 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:23,420 On September 8, 2019, she was with Lori, JJ, and Alex 302 00:16:23,420 --> 00:16:25,550 at Yellowstone National Park. 303 00:16:25,550 --> 00:16:28,880 The 16-year-old was never seen again. 304 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,850 Tylee was JJ's protector. 305 00:16:31,850 --> 00:16:36,980 Once she was gone, JJ had nobody. 306 00:16:36,980 --> 00:16:41,030 He had nobody to protect him or watch out for him. 307 00:16:41,030 --> 00:16:45,200 Just two weeks later, JJ Vallow went missing. 308 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,290 This photo of JJ wearing red pajamas 309 00:16:48,290 --> 00:16:52,190 was taken on September 22, 2019. 310 00:16:52,190 --> 00:16:54,800 It is the last known photo of him. 311 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,010 Melanie Gibb, who was staying at Lori's House that evening, 312 00:16:58,010 --> 00:17:01,700 says she saw Alex take JJ upstairs, she believes, 313 00:17:01,700 --> 00:17:02,930 to Lori's room. 314 00:17:02,930 --> 00:17:07,790 But the little boy was nowhere to be seen the next morning. 315 00:17:07,790 --> 00:17:10,700 Is that when she told you JJ was a zombie? 316 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:12,230 Yes. 317 00:17:12,230 --> 00:17:15,710 Melanie Gibb told prosecutors Alex Cox believed 318 00:17:15,710 --> 00:17:18,390 JJ was a zombie as well. 319 00:17:18,390 --> 00:17:20,570 He said he 100% believed it. 320 00:17:20,570 --> 00:17:24,550 According to their religious teachings, 321 00:17:24,550 --> 00:17:26,980 a zombie had to be killed. 322 00:17:26,980 --> 00:17:29,470 The body had to die. 323 00:17:29,470 --> 00:17:32,140 And the body count was climbing. 324 00:17:32,140 --> 00:17:34,930 According to prosecutors, Lori and Chad 325 00:17:34,930 --> 00:17:38,770 had identified another evil spirit in the way. 326 00:17:38,770 --> 00:17:41,170 What we learned from witness after witness 327 00:17:41,170 --> 00:17:45,280 is that Chad told some people that his wife was not 328 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,680 going to be around much longer and that he 329 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,990 was going to have a life before Tammy and a life after Tammy. 330 00:18:08,620 --> 00:18:12,610 The week after JJ was last seen and two months before 331 00:18:12,610 --> 00:18:15,280 the world would learn that the children were missing, 332 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,630 Lori was planning her fifth wedding. 333 00:18:19,630 --> 00:18:24,010 At trial, prosecutors called an FBI specialist to the stand. 334 00:18:24,010 --> 00:18:27,010 Did you learn whether or not there was ever 335 00:18:27,010 --> 00:18:29,170 a successful purchase of wedding rings? 336 00:18:29,170 --> 00:18:32,530 There were, on October 2, 2019. 337 00:18:32,530 --> 00:18:34,420 There was just one problem-- 338 00:18:34,420 --> 00:18:39,320 Chad was still married to Tammy Daybell. 339 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,800 But that was about to change. 340 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,880 Garth Daybell is one of five Daybell children. 341 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:50,320 I was asleep, and I heard a thump 342 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:55,880 and heard my dad yell, Garth, Garth, come quick. 343 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,450 Garth found his mother, 49-year-old Tammy Daybell, 344 00:18:59,450 --> 00:19:03,650 lying half on the bed, half on the floor. 345 00:19:03,650 --> 00:19:09,070 I just ran over and picked her up and put her back on the bed. 346 00:19:09,070 --> 00:19:11,320 I said to my dad-- 347 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:12,700 I said, I think she's dead. 348 00:19:15,530 --> 00:19:20,000 The coroner initially determined Tammy died of natural causes, 349 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,860 and the family declined an autopsy. 350 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,580 Chad's neighbor, Alice Gilbert, testified that a week later he 351 00:19:28,580 --> 00:19:31,150 had already moved on. 352 00:19:31,150 --> 00:19:34,480 We asked him how he was doing, and he said, actually, 353 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,410 I'm doing really good, and that he'd 354 00:19:38,410 --> 00:19:41,080 met the woman he was going to marry. 355 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,470 Did you find-- did it surprise you 356 00:19:44,470 --> 00:19:46,810 that he seemed to be doing so well? 357 00:19:46,810 --> 00:19:49,990 Yes, we were shocked. 358 00:19:49,990 --> 00:19:52,150 Alice and her husband, Todd Gilbert, 359 00:19:52,150 --> 00:19:54,850 met Lori shortly after. 360 00:19:54,850 --> 00:19:59,200 They came to the house, and his arm was around her. 361 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,110 And she was giggling and laughing, 362 00:20:02,110 --> 00:20:05,140 and they looked like teenagers. 363 00:20:05,140 --> 00:20:08,770 Alice says the conversation turned to children. 364 00:20:08,770 --> 00:20:14,100 Then Chad said, "and she recently just lost a daughter." 365 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:16,410 So I told her, "oh, I'm sorry." 366 00:20:16,410 --> 00:20:19,340 And she said, "thank you." 367 00:20:19,340 --> 00:20:22,160 This is significant because at that time, 368 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,820 Lori is still telling her sister and everybody else 369 00:20:25,820 --> 00:20:27,620 that the kids were OK. 370 00:20:27,620 --> 00:20:32,990 This is like a slip-up, an early slip-up, an admission 371 00:20:32,990 --> 00:20:35,630 against interest here. 372 00:20:35,630 --> 00:20:40,160 It did not seem to worry Chad and Lori on their big day. 373 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,490 17 days after Tammy Daybell's death, 374 00:20:43,490 --> 00:20:46,700 there was Lori dancing on the beach in Hawaii 375 00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:50,000 as her new husband strummed his ukulele, 376 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,340 exchanging those rings. 377 00:20:52,340 --> 00:20:55,580 According to investigators, the cost of the wedding trip 378 00:20:55,580 --> 00:21:00,620 was courtesy of the groom's dead wife's life insurance. 379 00:21:00,620 --> 00:21:04,430 Little do they know that the clock is now ticking. 380 00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:07,490 Soon after the newlyweds returned to Idaho, 381 00:21:07,490 --> 00:21:13,220 the Rexburg police came knocking on Lori's door, looking for JJ. 382 00:21:13,220 --> 00:21:16,410 His grandmother, Kay Woodcock, had asked authorities 383 00:21:16,410 --> 00:21:18,030 to do a welfare check. 384 00:21:18,030 --> 00:21:21,990 The conversation was recorded on the officer's body cam. 385 00:21:21,990 --> 00:21:24,930 Here's Lori talking about JJ. 386 00:21:24,930 --> 00:21:27,240 He's was one of my friends in Arizona. 387 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:28,620 Who's the friend he's with? 388 00:21:28,620 --> 00:21:30,660 My friend Melanie. 389 00:21:30,660 --> 00:21:33,090 Chad called that friend, Melanie Gibb, 390 00:21:33,090 --> 00:21:36,210 who testified he asked her not to pick up the phone when 391 00:21:36,210 --> 00:21:37,500 the police called. 392 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:40,800 Later, she says Lori asked her to lie and tell 393 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,820 the police that JJ was staying with her in Arizona. 394 00:21:44,820 --> 00:21:49,690 And I felt in a very weird and uncomfortable position, 395 00:21:49,690 --> 00:21:53,430 and I really did not know what to do. 396 00:21:53,430 --> 00:21:56,970 At first, Melanie Gibb wasn't forthcoming to the police, 397 00:21:56,970 --> 00:22:00,570 but 12 days later, she made a call to Lori and Chad 398 00:22:00,570 --> 00:22:03,320 and secretly recorded it. 399 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,180 Is JJ safe? 400 00:22:06,180 --> 00:22:08,480 He is safe and happy. 401 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,730 Chad said they couldn't tell her where 402 00:22:10,730 --> 00:22:13,640 JJ was for her own security. 403 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,210 If you knew, that puts you in danger. 404 00:22:17,210 --> 00:22:20,720 Melanie handed that secret recording to authorities, 405 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:25,010 and investigators launched a nationwide search, but not just 406 00:22:25,010 --> 00:22:26,030 for JJ. 407 00:22:26,030 --> 00:22:30,020 They would soon learn that his big sister, Tylee, was also 408 00:22:30,020 --> 00:22:30,710 missing. 409 00:22:30,710 --> 00:22:32,490 A search for two children from Idaho-- 410 00:22:32,490 --> 00:22:32,990 Listen up. 411 00:22:32,990 --> 00:22:34,040 You may know something. 412 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,430 The children mysteriously disappeared. 413 00:22:37,430 --> 00:22:42,380 It was huge news, especially to Lori's new stepchildren. 414 00:22:42,380 --> 00:22:45,320 When did you know that she had two kids? 415 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,080 I first heard of her children when 416 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,440 a detective came to my work and asked me about them. 417 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,490 I had never heard of them before that point. 418 00:22:53,490 --> 00:22:56,640 So even after your father weds Lori, 419 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,310 you didn't know that there were two kids 420 00:22:58,310 --> 00:22:59,520 in the picture at that point? 421 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,030 I did not. 422 00:23:02,030 --> 00:23:04,670 As the hunt for the children intensified, 423 00:23:04,670 --> 00:23:07,970 Lori and Chad again headed to Hawaii, 424 00:23:07,970 --> 00:23:11,440 but the honeymoon was over. 425 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,280 Mrs. Vallow, you've been served. 426 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,590 Kauai authorities caught up with Lori by the pool. 427 00:23:16,590 --> 00:23:19,910 She would be arrested on child abandonment charges 428 00:23:19,910 --> 00:23:21,770 and extradited to Idaho-- 429 00:23:25,170 --> 00:23:26,820 Please be seated. 430 00:23:26,820 --> 00:23:31,260 --Chad, the loyal husband, by her side. 431 00:23:31,260 --> 00:23:34,710 But now Chad himself was under suspicion. 432 00:23:34,710 --> 00:23:36,720 With the children missing, that's 433 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:41,880 when the police took a closer look at the death of Tammy. 434 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:46,770 Her body had been exhumed on December 11, 2019. 435 00:23:46,770 --> 00:23:50,490 The Utah state medical examiner immediately 436 00:23:50,490 --> 00:23:55,800 saw bruising on her body, and he determined that Tammy 437 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,290 died of asphyxiation. 438 00:23:58,290 --> 00:24:01,680 The medical examiner testified that that bruising 439 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,400 was consistent with somebody being restrained, 440 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:09,270 meaning she was held down and suffocated. 441 00:24:12,260 --> 00:24:14,540 Alex's wife, Zulema Pastenes, says 442 00:24:14,540 --> 00:24:17,030 that when she heard about Tammy, she started 443 00:24:17,030 --> 00:24:18,710 pressing Alex for answers. 444 00:24:18,710 --> 00:24:22,490 By then, she says Lori and Chad had cut Alex off. 445 00:24:22,490 --> 00:24:25,070 Here she is on the stand talking about when she 446 00:24:25,070 --> 00:24:27,740 asked Alex what was happening. 447 00:24:27,740 --> 00:24:28,550 What did he say? 448 00:24:28,550 --> 00:24:34,080 He was very quiet and unresponsive, and then he said, 449 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,650 I think I'm being their fall guy. 450 00:24:36,650 --> 00:24:39,450 I said, a fall guy for what? 451 00:24:39,450 --> 00:24:42,320 What is it that you have done? 452 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:47,270 What have you done that you would be the fall guy for? 453 00:24:47,270 --> 00:24:54,630 And then he said, either I am a man of God or I am not. 454 00:24:54,630 --> 00:24:59,730 Here's the prosecutor addressing that mysterious statement. 455 00:24:59,730 --> 00:25:02,880 What exactly Alex meant by this or what he knew 456 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:07,710 we may never know because Alex Cox died the next day 457 00:25:07,710 --> 00:25:10,960 on December 12 of 2019. 458 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,270 In a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction 459 00:25:13,270 --> 00:25:17,740 plot twist, the man Lori and Chad designated her defender, 460 00:25:17,740 --> 00:25:21,250 her brother, Alex Cox, suddenly dropped dead, 461 00:25:21,250 --> 00:25:24,610 an autopsy determined, of natural causes. 462 00:25:24,610 --> 00:25:27,190 That was a jaw-dropping moment. 463 00:25:27,190 --> 00:25:29,680 Right before his death, it does look 464 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,160 like Alex was second guessing what he had done 465 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,900 and why Chad and Lori had asked him to do what he did. 466 00:25:40,420 --> 00:25:45,400 They say dead men don't talk, but this one did. 467 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,160 Alex Cox's cell phone harbored a tale 468 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,610 of horrors waiting to be discovered in Chad Daybell's 469 00:25:51,610 --> 00:25:55,570 backyard, and it would give prosecutors the evidence 470 00:25:55,570 --> 00:25:56,940 they had been waiting for. 471 00:26:14,050 --> 00:26:18,640 On June 9, 2020, law enforcement descended 472 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,890 on Chad Daybell's backyard. 473 00:26:20,890 --> 00:26:23,980 According to the prosecution, Alex Cox's cell phone data 474 00:26:23,980 --> 00:26:27,040 placed him here for two hours the day 475 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,230 after Tylee Ryan was last seen. 476 00:26:29,230 --> 00:26:33,180 Authorities later discovered her remains in this same spot. 477 00:26:35,710 --> 00:26:38,620 It was an area the Daybell family once 478 00:26:38,620 --> 00:26:40,810 used as a pet cemetery. 479 00:26:40,810 --> 00:26:44,410 It now contained Tylee's badly burned remains. 480 00:26:44,410 --> 00:26:46,360 She had been dismembered. 481 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:48,940 Detective Ray Hermosillo took the stand 482 00:26:48,940 --> 00:26:52,270 and described finding what was left of Tylee. 483 00:26:52,270 --> 00:26:58,390 There was a partial human skull underneath the melted bucket. 484 00:26:58,390 --> 00:27:01,900 Alex's cell phone led them to another section of the yard 485 00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:04,930 about 50 yards, away under a shade tree. 486 00:27:04,930 --> 00:27:07,330 Investigators started digging. 487 00:27:07,330 --> 00:27:09,610 They removed a layer of rocks. 488 00:27:09,610 --> 00:27:12,640 Beneath the rocks, they found wooden planks, 489 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,570 below that, a layer of black plastic. 490 00:27:16,570 --> 00:27:19,960 One of the crime scene investigators 491 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,900 cut a hole in the top of this plastic, 492 00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:27,850 and beneath the black plastic was some white plastic, 493 00:27:27,850 --> 00:27:29,310 like plastic bag. 494 00:27:29,310 --> 00:27:31,220 And they cut through that. 495 00:27:31,220 --> 00:27:32,740 And that's when we were able to see 496 00:27:32,740 --> 00:27:36,130 what appeared to be brown human hair sticking out 497 00:27:36,130 --> 00:27:39,620 from the white plastic. 498 00:27:39,620 --> 00:27:41,390 It was JJ. 499 00:27:41,390 --> 00:27:46,490 He was still dressed in his red pajamas and covered head to toe 500 00:27:46,490 --> 00:27:48,020 in duct tape. 501 00:27:48,020 --> 00:27:50,840 --several layers of duct tape from his chin 502 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,840 to his forehead area. 503 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:59,570 His arms were duct-taped with several layers of duct tape. 504 00:27:59,570 --> 00:28:03,200 His feet were also duct taped and bound. 505 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,450 Forensic Pathologist Garth Warren 506 00:28:05,450 --> 00:28:07,940 testified how JJ had died. 507 00:28:07,940 --> 00:28:11,450 I determined the cause of death to be 508 00:28:11,450 --> 00:28:16,340 asphyxia by a plastic bag over the head and duct 509 00:28:16,340 --> 00:28:18,920 tape covering the mouth. 510 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:26,420 It's unimaginable what his last minutes of life were like. 511 00:28:26,420 --> 00:28:29,930 Experts couldn't determine Tylee's cause of death because 512 00:28:29,930 --> 00:28:33,170 of the condition of her remains, but prosecutors 513 00:28:33,170 --> 00:28:36,560 alleged the way in which both children were killed 514 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,340 aligned with Chad and Lori's teachings about demons 515 00:28:40,340 --> 00:28:41,720 and zombies. 516 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,050 Zulema testifies that if they're trying 517 00:28:45,050 --> 00:28:49,340 to cast a demon or a zombie out of somebody, 518 00:28:49,340 --> 00:28:54,140 there's two minutes after the casting where another demon can 519 00:28:54,140 --> 00:28:56,390 enter that person, and the only way 520 00:28:56,390 --> 00:29:01,190 to prevent that is to burn the person or bind them. 521 00:29:01,190 --> 00:29:02,930 Tylee was burned. 522 00:29:02,930 --> 00:29:05,690 JJ was bound. 523 00:29:05,690 --> 00:29:08,420 Despite all the talk of zombies and demons, 524 00:29:08,420 --> 00:29:12,980 prosecutors argued that Lori's true motive to murder her kids 525 00:29:12,980 --> 00:29:15,140 was much more mundane. 526 00:29:15,140 --> 00:29:17,150 Tylee had already lost her father, 527 00:29:17,150 --> 00:29:21,080 and she received Social Security benefits because of that. 528 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,760 Tylee had money. 529 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,590 Lori wanted it. 530 00:29:24,590 --> 00:29:25,760 Tylee's gone. 531 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,450 JJ also was entitled to Social Security benefits. 532 00:29:29,450 --> 00:29:31,730 The defendant didn't want to have to take care of JJ 533 00:29:31,730 --> 00:29:32,520 anymore. 534 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:33,830 She wanted the money. 535 00:29:33,830 --> 00:29:35,060 JJ is gone. 536 00:29:35,060 --> 00:29:38,870 While the prosecution's case was mostly circumstantial, 537 00:29:38,870 --> 00:29:42,170 DNA matching Tylee's profile was found 538 00:29:42,170 --> 00:29:46,400 on a shovel and pickaxe in a garage on the Daybell property. 539 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,040 A forensic specialist testified they also 540 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,410 found a finger and palm print belonging 541 00:29:51,410 --> 00:29:57,440 to Alex Cox on one of the black plastic bags that covered JJ. 542 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:02,480 Investigators also found one strand of hair 543 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:07,370 that was stuck in the tape that was around the bag. 544 00:30:07,370 --> 00:30:12,050 DNA showed that that hair belonged to Lori Vallow. 545 00:30:12,050 --> 00:30:15,020 That's significant because that's really 546 00:30:15,020 --> 00:30:19,970 the only physical evidence they have that ties Lori 547 00:30:19,970 --> 00:30:23,390 to JJ at the time of his death. 548 00:30:23,390 --> 00:30:25,700 Some of the most powerful testimony 549 00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:29,960 in the prosecution's case came from Lori's own family. 550 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,630 They played an emotional jailhouse phone 551 00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:37,280 call between Lori and her only surviving child, son Colby 552 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,300 Ryan. 553 00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:40,910 You ripped my heart out, and you ripped out everyone 554 00:30:40,910 --> 00:30:42,590 in this family's heart out. 555 00:30:42,590 --> 00:30:45,740 Then Lori's sister, Summer Shiflet, took the stand. 556 00:30:45,740 --> 00:30:49,310 She told prosecutors that she believed Lori when she told her 557 00:30:49,310 --> 00:30:51,410 the children were safe. 558 00:30:51,410 --> 00:30:52,970 Did that change? 559 00:30:52,970 --> 00:30:55,470 Yes. 560 00:30:55,470 --> 00:30:56,820 Why? 561 00:30:56,820 --> 00:31:01,500 I felt lied to, and my trust in my sister was broken. 562 00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:04,110 Prosecutors played a jailhouse phone call 563 00:31:04,110 --> 00:31:07,410 between Summer and Lori after the children's bodies 564 00:31:07,410 --> 00:31:08,620 were found. 565 00:31:08,620 --> 00:31:11,400 You went off to Hawaii and were dancing on the beach 566 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,590 while you're going through the ground? 567 00:31:13,590 --> 00:31:18,090 This phone call is painful to listen to. 568 00:31:18,090 --> 00:31:20,940 Summer is screaming at Lori. 569 00:31:20,940 --> 00:31:22,230 They were just little kids. 570 00:31:22,230 --> 00:31:25,000 I don't understand. 571 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,200 You know, Summer. 572 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:29,310 That's what I thought! 573 00:31:32,430 --> 00:31:35,730 Lori, if you let that happen to them 574 00:31:35,730 --> 00:31:37,830 and didn't tell us and let them be 575 00:31:37,830 --> 00:31:42,240 in the ground like a piece of trash, then I don't know you! 576 00:31:46,380 --> 00:31:48,960 Toward the end of its case, the prosecution 577 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,920 put on Lori's former friend, Audrey Barattiero. 578 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,940 She delivered some of the most damning testimony of the trial. 579 00:31:56,940 --> 00:31:58,830 She threatened to kill me. 580 00:31:58,830 --> 00:31:59,820 OK. 581 00:31:59,820 --> 00:32:02,190 Did she say how? 582 00:32:02,190 --> 00:32:03,060 Yes. 583 00:32:03,060 --> 00:32:09,880 She said that she would cut me up and something about-- 584 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,510 that she wasn't in the mental place to do that 585 00:32:13,510 --> 00:32:15,460 but that she would get herself in that place 586 00:32:15,460 --> 00:32:18,890 to be able to do it but that she didn't want 587 00:32:18,890 --> 00:32:20,350 to have to because it'd be so messy 588 00:32:20,350 --> 00:32:26,590 and there'd be so much blood and bleach and something 589 00:32:26,590 --> 00:32:32,890 about trash bags and that she would bury me where 590 00:32:32,890 --> 00:32:35,110 no one would ever find me. 591 00:32:35,110 --> 00:32:38,140 Audrey Barattiero's testimony is critical 592 00:32:38,140 --> 00:32:41,920 because this is a firsthand description 593 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:47,060 of Lori being ruthless with the threat to kill her. 594 00:32:47,060 --> 00:32:49,690 This is the first time anyone in Lori's group 595 00:32:49,690 --> 00:32:58,490 of friends really described her as being capable of killing. 596 00:32:58,490 --> 00:33:00,620 On cross, the defense aggressively 597 00:33:00,620 --> 00:33:03,320 tried to discredit Barattiero's testimony. 598 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,260 So you now want the jury to believe 599 00:33:06,260 --> 00:33:08,960 that even though you previously testified 600 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:14,090 under oath and nothing of this sort was talked about, 601 00:33:14,090 --> 00:33:16,880 that you come here today and say you 602 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,580 are so scared that's why you didn't previously 603 00:33:19,580 --> 00:33:20,700 testify about it. 604 00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:21,620 Objection, your Honor. 605 00:33:21,620 --> 00:33:22,310 Argumentative. 606 00:33:22,310 --> 00:33:24,350 That's overruled. 607 00:33:24,350 --> 00:33:25,850 What was your question? 608 00:33:25,850 --> 00:33:28,550 You want the jury to believe that you just 609 00:33:28,550 --> 00:33:32,660 didn't make this last crap up? 610 00:33:32,660 --> 00:33:36,020 I did not make it up. 611 00:33:36,020 --> 00:33:40,110 After 60 witnesses and four weeks of testimony, 612 00:33:40,110 --> 00:33:43,250 the prosecution rested its case. 613 00:33:43,250 --> 00:33:46,880 The defense declined to call any witnesses. 614 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:51,260 Your Honor, after consultation with my client, 615 00:33:51,260 --> 00:33:53,690 we don't believe the state has proven 616 00:33:53,690 --> 00:33:57,970 its case, so the defense rests. 617 00:33:57,970 --> 00:34:00,400 Each side would get a last chance 618 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,330 to persuade the jury in closing arguments. 619 00:34:21,860 --> 00:34:26,360 On May 11, 2023, Defense Attorney Jim Archibald 620 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:31,910 stood before the jury and argued for his client's innocence. 621 00:34:31,910 --> 00:34:34,370 Who is Lori Vallow? 622 00:34:34,370 --> 00:34:36,380 What happened? 623 00:34:36,380 --> 00:34:37,730 Where did it happen? 624 00:34:37,730 --> 00:34:39,390 When did it happen? 625 00:34:39,390 --> 00:34:41,780 Why did it happen? 626 00:34:41,780 --> 00:34:44,510 That's what you've been asked to figure out. 627 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,730 Archibald painted a picture of Lori as a devoted mother, 628 00:34:51,730 --> 00:34:54,040 someone not capable of murder. 629 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,960 He pointed to this early testimony 630 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,440 from Lori's sister, Summer Shiflet. 631 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:04,380 I think Lori was a loving mother and Tylee adored her mother. 632 00:35:06,950 --> 00:35:09,740 Were you ever concerned about the safety 633 00:35:09,740 --> 00:35:11,990 of Tylee around Lori? 634 00:35:11,990 --> 00:35:12,800 No. 635 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,580 Would you ever imagine your sister 636 00:35:16,580 --> 00:35:19,950 wanting to kill her kids? 637 00:35:19,950 --> 00:35:20,450 No. 638 00:35:23,530 --> 00:35:26,410 He also directed the jury to this testimony 639 00:35:26,410 --> 00:35:28,930 from Lori's son, Colby Ryan. 640 00:35:28,930 --> 00:35:34,310 You said, "My mom has spent her whole life protecting us kids." 641 00:35:34,310 --> 00:35:35,410 Yes. 642 00:35:35,410 --> 00:35:39,440 "After she met Chad Daybell, she changed." 643 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:40,760 I don't remember, but yes. 644 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,960 You never once thought your mom would hurt someone. 645 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,070 Is that fair to say? 646 00:35:45,070 --> 00:35:46,480 Yes. 647 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,230 Archibald argued that there is no evidence tying Lori 648 00:35:50,230 --> 00:35:53,140 to the murders of Tylee or JJ, and he 649 00:35:53,140 --> 00:35:57,460 said that hair stuck on the duct tape used to wrap JJ's body 650 00:35:57,460 --> 00:35:58,720 means nothing. 651 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:00,220 Lori was raising JJ. 652 00:36:00,220 --> 00:36:02,110 JJ was living at Lori's house. 653 00:36:02,110 --> 00:36:04,780 The defense can easily argue that that hair could 654 00:36:04,780 --> 00:36:08,800 have gotten on JJ for a hundred reasons, none of them having 655 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,600 anything to do with murder. 656 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,210 Instead, Archibald shifted the blame 657 00:36:13,210 --> 00:36:15,670 towards Lori's husband, Chad Daybell, 658 00:36:15,670 --> 00:36:18,440 and her brother, Alex Cox. 659 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,610 Remember all the GPS data? 660 00:36:21,610 --> 00:36:25,940 Lori's not in the backyard when Chad and Alex are. 661 00:36:25,940 --> 00:36:26,920 She's not there. 662 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,980 There's not one smoking gun that ties Lori 663 00:36:29,980 --> 00:36:31,720 to any of these murders. 664 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:34,660 And in order to explain Lori's lies to the police 665 00:36:34,660 --> 00:36:36,970 while the children were missing, Archibald 666 00:36:36,970 --> 00:36:42,100 suggested that Lori was manipulated by Chad. 667 00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:45,520 How can someone have that much control over you? 668 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,480 Reason and common sense just go out the window 669 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:54,280 sometimes when religious principles are involved. 670 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:59,080 Lori sees Chad as if Chad is Jesus. 671 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:04,490 Chad sold his spiel to Lori, and she bought it. 672 00:37:04,490 --> 00:37:07,310 And about Tammy Daybell's death, the defense 673 00:37:07,310 --> 00:37:10,070 questioned whether that was even a crime. 674 00:37:10,070 --> 00:37:11,870 Was she even murdered? 675 00:37:11,870 --> 00:37:13,770 Is it a natural death? 676 00:37:13,770 --> 00:37:17,240 All they need to do is raise a couple of questions 677 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:19,220 in a couple of the jurors. 678 00:37:19,220 --> 00:37:23,510 But Prosecutor Rob Wood would get the last word. 679 00:37:23,510 --> 00:37:26,870 Lori's lies tell us she's guilty. 680 00:37:26,870 --> 00:37:29,810 The innocent don't need to lie. 681 00:37:29,810 --> 00:37:31,730 The guilty lie. 682 00:37:31,730 --> 00:37:36,050 Don't let Lori pin this all on one other person. 683 00:37:36,050 --> 00:37:43,720 She was 100% involved in this, and you must convict her. 684 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:45,790 When the case went to the jury, they 685 00:37:45,790 --> 00:37:49,780 deliberated for seven hours over the course of two days 686 00:37:49,780 --> 00:37:51,880 before returning with a verdict. 687 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,610 The court shared video of Lori Vallow Daybell 688 00:37:54,610 --> 00:37:56,670 as she learned her fate. 689 00:37:56,670 --> 00:37:58,030 --Defendant would please rise. 690 00:38:01,630 --> 00:38:04,670 In regards to count two of the amended indictment, 691 00:38:04,670 --> 00:38:08,680 is Lori Norene Vallow not guilty or guilty of first-degree 692 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,930 murder of Tylee Ryan-- 693 00:38:10,930 --> 00:38:12,950 answer, guilty. 694 00:38:12,950 --> 00:38:16,230 In regards to count four of the amended indictment, 695 00:38:16,230 --> 00:38:19,700 is Lori Norene Vallow not guilty or guilty of first-degree 696 00:38:19,700 --> 00:38:23,030 murder of Joshua Jackson Vallow-- 697 00:38:23,030 --> 00:38:24,620 answer, guilty. 698 00:38:24,620 --> 00:38:27,780 In regards to count five of the amended indictment, 699 00:38:27,780 --> 00:38:31,880 is Lori Norene Vallow not guilty or guilty of conspiracy 700 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:36,710 to commit first-degree murder of Tamara "Tammy" Daybell-- 701 00:38:36,710 --> 00:38:38,570 answer, guilty. 702 00:38:38,570 --> 00:38:41,030 Guilty on all counts. 703 00:38:41,030 --> 00:38:43,250 Lori appeared emotionless. 704 00:38:43,250 --> 00:38:45,460 She will be sentenced at a later date. 705 00:38:49,060 --> 00:38:51,970 As JJ's grandparents, Larry and Kay Woodcock, 706 00:38:51,970 --> 00:38:54,610 exited the courthouse, the crowd outside 707 00:38:54,610 --> 00:38:57,970 greeted them by singing JJ's favorite song, 708 00:38:57,970 --> 00:38:59,510 "We Will Rock You." 709 00:38:59,510 --> 00:39:04,330 We will, we will rock you. 710 00:39:04,330 --> 00:39:06,340 Larry Woodcock had been playing the song 711 00:39:06,340 --> 00:39:09,340 while awaiting the verdict. 712 00:39:09,340 --> 00:39:10,750 Love always wins. 713 00:39:10,750 --> 00:39:13,570 JJ, I love you. 714 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,910 Pawpaw wishes you were here. 715 00:39:25,910 --> 00:39:29,660 Tylee, Papa loves you. 716 00:39:29,660 --> 00:39:34,430 Tammy, you are a part of our life. 717 00:39:34,430 --> 00:39:37,700 My heart hurts for these three. 718 00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:41,070 This is what this has been all about. 719 00:39:41,070 --> 00:39:44,320 Why, Lori? 720 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,940 Why, Lori? 721 00:39:46,940 --> 00:39:47,720 Why? 722 00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:50,000 Power, sex, and greed-- 723 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,350 for what? 724 00:39:52,350 --> 00:39:53,120 For what? 725 00:39:56,810 --> 00:39:59,450 It's been nearly four years since the world 726 00:39:59,450 --> 00:40:03,590 lost Tylee, a freckled-faced teenager, her baby brother, JJ, 727 00:40:03,590 --> 00:40:06,320 and Tammy, a mother of five. 728 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,710 We'll never know the lives they would have gone on to live, 729 00:40:09,710 --> 00:40:11,620 but we do know what they left behind-- 730 00:40:11,620 --> 00:40:13,790 --a happy family. 731 00:40:13,790 --> 00:40:19,130 --their smiles, their laughter, their grace. 732 00:40:43,650 --> 00:40:47,400 A loving mother of two fatally shot in her home-- but how? 733 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,770 I knew something was wrong with this case from the start. 734 00:40:49,770 --> 00:40:51,990 There were so many things that were not done. 735 00:40:51,990 --> 00:40:54,180 The father's relentless pursuit of the truth-- 736 00:40:54,180 --> 00:40:56,430 He just led us for nine years. 737 00:40:56,430 --> 00:40:57,400 He's still leading us. 738 00:40:57,400 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