2023-08-01 02:15:00
The US Justice sentenced Lori Vallow to life imprisonment for murdering two of her children due to apocalyptic beliefs and conspiring to kill her husband’s ex-wife. In this sense, the woman assured that the minors had become “zombies” after being possessed by evil spirits and that she could “communicate” with them, indicating that “now they are happy in heaven.”
Vallow was found guilty in May of murdering Tylee Ryan, her 16-year-old daughter, and Joshua “JJ” Vallow, her 7-year-old adopted son, as well as conspiring to kill Tammy Daybell, the former wife of her fifth husband. “You are sentenced to serve the maximum possible sentence in the custody of the State Board of Corrections (…) life imprisonment without the right to parole,” judge Steven W. Boyce determined Monday in a court in Idaho, northwest of USA.
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Added to this, the magistrate told the defendant that she “chose the most evil and destructive path possible”, despite having a large number of better and less harmful options. In this regard, the minors had beenor “burned, mutilated and dismembered, and buried like animals”indicated Boyce.
The woman claimed to be a goddess whose mission was to prepare humanity for the second coming of Christ, and believed that she could communicate with angels. In this sense, the prosecutors considered that used their religious beliefs to justify the murderscovered in the Netflix documentary series The sins of our mother (2022). They also maintained that the crimes were mobilized for financial reasons.
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During the trial, Vallow told the court that communicates with his dead children in heaven, where they are “very happy and busy”. In addition, she considered that the deaths occurred due to “accidents and suicides”, at the same time that she affirmed that she was a “friend” of Tammy, who is also “extremely busy in heaven”. In this regard, she explained that the three visit her regularly and that she herself died and went to heaven in 2002.
“I have access to heaven and the spirit world. I have received many communications from people who now live in heaven, including my children, my sisters, my aunts, my uncle, and my grandparents. I have had many communications with Jesus Christ and our heavenly parents, and many angelic visitors,” the woman said.
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She added: “Jesus knows me and Jesus understands me. I mourn with all of you who mourn my children and Tammy. Jesus Christ knows the truth of what happened here. Jesus Christ knows that no one was killed in this case. Accidental deaths happen, suicides happen, fatal drug side effects happen.”
her fifth husband, Chad Daybell (who self-published several apocalyptic novels) awaits his separate trial, which will take place in April 2024 and will also include the murder of his first wife, Tammy. He answered all charges pleading not guilty.
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The Vallow case drew national attention in 2019 after the children went missing. In that sense, the couple did not report the absence of the childrenbut their bodies were found in June 2020 on a property in Daybell, Idaho.
The investigation quickly took a sinister turn when the police confirmed a series of deaths in the environment of Lori Vallow and her new husband. In this regard, in 2018, the woman’s third husband had died from an apparent heart attack. The following year, her fourth husband was shot by Vallow’s brother, Alex Cox, who claimed self-defense, but also died shortly after of natural causes.
In October 2019, Daybell’s ex-wife Tammy died of apparent natural causes. However, a subsequent autopsy determined that had been suffocated. Within weeks of the event, Vallow and Daybell moved to Hawaii and were married.
Defense attorney Jim Archibald argued during the trial that there was no evidence linking his client to the murders. Rather, she clarified that there was evidence that she was a loving and protective mother, whose life changed after meeting her fifth husband and falling for her “weird” apocalyptic beliefs.
In this sense, the lawyer indicated that the man told her that they had been married in numerous previous lifetimes and that she was a “sex goddess” that he had to help him save the world to gather 144,000 followers so that Jesus could return. Added to this, he suggested that both Daybell and Cox were responsible for the deaths.
Judge Boyce ordered this Monday three consecutive life sentences due to the seriousness of the crimes committed by Vallow. But “since there are three separate homicides with three victims that occurred at three different times, paying the penalties simultaneously would not serve the interests of justice,” he said. “You need to answer separately for each of these three homicides,” he added.
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Vallow’s other attorney, John Thomas, asked for a minimum of 20 years for the mother, begging the judge to give him “hope” and remarking that the world will be a better place with “hope”. In that line, he invoked Martin Luther King Jr.: “Lori is the most hated woman in the United States, but that hate will never bring peace. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do it. How do we stop hurting pain and loss?”
Added to this, he described his client as a “misunderstood person” who was deep down affectionate. “We saved her life and that is a victory for all of humanity. If she is given a life sentence, she will have thrown it away,” he specified and indicated that “if we give her hope, we protect society by keeping her behind bars until she is 70 years old, where have the incentive to be a model prisoner.”
“Over time, he changes his behavior and helps other inmates. She becomes a better person. What do we have to lose by letting a woman in her 70s appear before a parole board?”
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For their part, witnesses included Kay Woodcock, JJ’s grandmother, who recalled her grandson’s short life and described the moments she shared with him and Tylee. The woman described the defendant as a “money-hungry, power-mongering monster”which is “a danger to society” that cannot be rehabilitated.
“This all started with the greed for a million dollar life insurance policy. I would have given him the money. She could have let them live. They could have been with us living happy lives, instead she took it all away,” Woodcock said.
Added to this, the condemned woman’s former friend, Melanie Gibb, testified during the trial, alleging that the murderer believed that evil spirits had possessed and turned into “zombies” people she knew, including her two children. In this sense, the Netflix documentary presents Colby Ryan, surviving son, who revealed that his mother was convinced that there was a “dark spirit” inside his daughter and that the only way to “free the spirit is to kill the body”.
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