Lori Vallow Daybell Found GUILTY: Inside the Verdict That Shocked the Courtroom
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Lori Vallow Daybell has just been found GUILTY in her Arizona trial—an explosive moment in a case already drenched in death, conspiracy, and apocalyptic obsession. The jury's decision came after mere hours of deliberation, confirming what prosecutors have argued all along: that Lori conspired with her brother to murder her husband, Charles Vallow, for life insurance money and a fresh start with her doomsday novelist lover, Chad Daybell.
Despite acting as her own attorney and putting on no defense, Lori tried to cast the fatal shooting as self-defense. But the jury didn’t buy it. As the courtroom filled with emotional family members and national media, Lori calmly agreed to aggravating factors—potentially paving the way for a harsher sentence. And with the sentencing phase looming, the stakes are higher than ever.
Why did she waive a defense? What role did her apocalyptic beliefs really play? And with another trial still to come, how far does this conspiracy go?
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| 0:00.0 | This is continuing coverage of the case against Lori Valo Daybell from the Hidden |
| 0:05.4 | Killers podcast and True Crime Today. |
| 0:09.1 | Lori Valo Daybell, it has come down to this, the end, well, of this trial. |
| 0:15.2 | There's going to be, there's another one next. |
| 0:17.8 | Not quite as exciting, but you know, it's attempted murder. |
| 0:20.6 | So thank God Brandon Boudreau survived. |
| 0:24.7 | So they're going to take a little breather. |
| 0:27.4 | And as far as you know, Lori's coming back because you're on attorney because it worked |
| 0:30.7 | out so well the first time. |
| 0:33.3 | Well, I didn't realize that she's going to represent herself yet again. |
| 0:36.7 | What is she going to, she going to get a law degree in prison? |
| 0:39.7 | Is she working at this? |
| 0:40.8 | She says she's studying a lot and she's wanting to, she helps other women as they're trying to, I can't imagine like, what is Lori bartering with in jail? |
| 0:54.0 | Oh, dude, I think she's using her, um, cosmetology skill. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh. |
| 1:00.0 | I don't know this for a fact. |
| 1:02.0 | No, I think, uh, I think she said something to that point in one of her recent interviews, like right before the trial started, where she was teaching some of the girls |
| 1:12.4 | about how to do this or that, and they were teaching her how to, like, come up with things. |
| 1:16.9 | And yeah. |
| 1:18.2 | Oh, I bet that's the barter system going on. |
| 1:20.4 | Because if you think about it, and I don't know this, but I don't think they've got |
| 1:25.0 | cosmetology going on in prisons. |
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