Lori Vallow Trial Day 1: Lori Cries in Court, Then Gets Hammered by the State

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Lori Vallow is back in court this time in Arizona, and she’s doing the unthinkable: representing herself in a murder conspiracy trial. Prosecutor Treena Kay opened with a bombshell text about Nephi, possession, and a premeditated plan to kill. Lori shook her head, rolled her eyes, flipped her legal pad, and then took to the podium to argue her own case.

In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the first day of trial.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Drop Dead Serious. I'm Ashley Banfield, and I've got a treat for you.
0:12.8	This podcast is the first of many updates that I'm going to be bringing your way during the second trial of Lori Vallow Daybell. I know you don't have
0:23.6	time to hang out in court for every moment of the doomsday mom acting as her own lawyer,
0:27.8	defending herself. So I've got your back. I'll be breaking down all the key moments and the
0:34.1	highlights and the lowlights over the course of this case.
0:37.8	So you are not going to miss anything.
0:40.0	And day one was a doozy.
0:42.7	Here's a theme for day one.
0:44.9	Lawyering is hard.
0:47.0	It is not like it looks like on TV.
0:50.4	It is not like suits.
0:52.2	It is not like LA law or Ali McBeal or Matlock. And you got to Google those if you're under 30. Litigating a case is hard. And the stakes are even higher if it is a criminal case. And Lori Valo-Daybell has criminal baggage to spare. Her saga has captured the country's attention for years. A mother turned triple
1:13.3	murderer, a wash in doomsday prophecies and a trail of criminal accusations stretching
1:19.0	clear across the country. Now she's back in court this time in Arizona, standing trial
1:24.8	for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder for allegedly planning the killing of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, with her brother, Alex Cox, who shot Charles dead on July 11th of 2019 in Chandler, Arizona.
1:42.0	As this trial unfolds, I'm going to keep you abreast of what's happening in
1:45.0	this courtroom. And I'll also provide some context for some of those moments that seem confusing,
1:50.8	moments that Lori herself has been struggling to figure out. Today was day one. And it was a spectacle,
1:59.1	just like we figured, I want to walk you through
2:01.7	what happened. So even before opening statements got underway, there was drama. One juror's
2:08.6	employer sent a letter to the judge essentially saying that that juror was going to have a problem
2:14.3	with staying on the jury. The judge said that he would speak to the juror at lunch to get more information. And when he did, the juror said that he said that he was going to have a problem with staying on the jury. The judge said that he would speak to the
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