“Doomsday mom” Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.
A Maricopa County Superior Court jury found Vallow Daybell guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the July 2019 fatal shooting.
Vallow Daybell, who represented herself at trial, told jurors that her brother, Alex Cox, shot Charles Vallow in self-defense following a family argument. Cox died later that year from a pulmonary embolism and was never charged.
According to Vallow Daybell, her husband got into an argument with her daughter, Tylee Ryan, and threatened the teen with a bat. Charles Vallow was at his estranged wife’s home in Chandler, Arizona, to take their son, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, to school.
Vallow Daybell, 51, was convicted in Idaho in 2023 of killing her two children and her husband’s first wife, Tammy Daybell. She’s already serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Prosecutors in the Arizona case dismissed Vallow Daybell’s self-defense claim, arguing that she had several reasons for wanting her husband dead, including her desire to start a life with another man