On Friday we finally got the guilty verdicts in the Lori Vallow Daybell murder trial held at the Ada County Courthouse here in Boise. It had run for six weeks and been a media circus that involved sixty witnesses testifying. The prosecution closed with the same theme they had started with – Money, Power, and Sex – which could have been the title for a long Russian novel – maybe the sequel to War and Peace.
An article by Rebecca Boone at AP News on May 13, 2023 is titled Doomsday plot: Idaho jury convicts woman in murders of 2 children, romantic rival. A previous article on May 11, 2023 is titled A look at who’s who in the murder trial of slain kids’ mom, and one on April 1, 2023 is titled Doomsday plot? After 3 years, slain kids’ mom to stand trial. The May 13 article described defense claims not found credible by the jury:
“Defense attorney Jim Archibald countered that there was no evidence tying his client to the killings, but plenty showing she was a loving, protective mother whose life took a sharp turn when she met her fifth husband, Chad Daybell, and fell for the ‘weird’ apocalyptic religious claims of a cult leader. He suggested that Daybell and Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, were responsible for the deaths.”
This trial was extensively covered by both local TV (KTVB7 and 2IdahoNews) and national TV, but without cameras in the courtroom, except for reading of the verdict. But later there will be another trial of her husband, Chad Daybell. At various times it looked like either he would be tried first, or they would be tried together, or she would be found not competent for trial.
The circus tent cartoon was modified from this one at Wikimedia Commons.
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