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We are on the record in the cult mom conspiracy trial.

I'm your host, Cody Thomas, and I'm going to walk you through the final moments, including

the verdict, in the third and final week of Lori Valladay Bell's trial, which just wrapped up in Arizona.

Lori is already serving a life sentence in Idaho for the murder of her two youngest children and conspiring to kill her fifth husband's first wife.

Now she's facing another potential life sentence for conspiracy involving the death of her

fourth husband, Charles Vallow.

In week three of the Lori Vallow-Dabell conspiracy trial, it all came to a head.

After weeks of eerie testimony, apocalyptic beliefs, and disturbing details about a murder plot

cloaked in a so-called divine revelation, the case finally landed in the hands of the jury.

But before it did, day nine began with final preparations.

Jury instructions were read and both sides rested.

Lori once again chose not to take the stand and then came one of the moments we've all been

waiting for, the closing arguments.

Prosecutor Trina Kay wasted no time.

She painted a chilling picture of a woman who manipulated religious beliefs to justify murder. She laid out the texts,

the timeline, the motive, and the method, a staged scene, a deliberate execution.

Lori Vallow, she said, was the architect.

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