This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske.

Were you surprised? At least I was about this, the lack of religiosity that she intertwined into her questioning, her lines of questioning on cross in this trial.

She didn't present any sort of

defense. I was kind of surprised by that. But she didn't go into crazy territory. And when she did

talk about Nephi from the book of Mormon, it wasn't in any sort of extreme ways. It was just,

why do you think I'm only going down the road of where God commands him to kill people? There's all these other books of extreme ways. It was just, why do you think I'm only going down the road of where God

commands him to kill people? There's all these other books of Nephine, all these other things that

he did. Why do you think that this is the only road that I would be going down? She didn't get into

zombies. She didn't even entertain these things. And I was kind of surprised by that, because

that's not the Lori Valo we all know and love.

It, to me, showed a sense of control. It showed a sense of awareness that I didn't think she had,

where she knew if she went down that road, it seems, it wasn't going to play well-do-a-jury.

And the jury wasn't going to see it from her perspective.

I was kind of thinking she was oblivious to what the jury thought and she was going to use it as a platform to preach.

What was that?

I mean, the consciousness of it was a little spooky because it made me think maybe Lori is in a little bit more control than

we all think she is.

That's another interesting aspect of this.

Because people have gotten feedback when their ideas are considered nutty, and they know

it's not going to serve them to share that, you know, with the general public.

They do seem to have the ability to control it.

And even if that's what's going in their head, they don't talk about it.

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