Lori Vallow Daybell’s Arizona trial was rescheduled last week until early 2025.
Originally scheduled to go on trial in August for conspiracy to kill her fourth husband and the attempted murder of her niece’s ex-husband, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Justin Beresky accepted the defense attorney’s contention that it needed more time go review evidence recently given to them, AZCentral reported.
Without object from prosecutors, Beresky reset the trial date to February 2025.
Vallow Daybell was convicted earlier this year in the murders of two of her children, 7-year-old JJ Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and her fifth husband’s wife, Tammy Daybell, as CrimeOnline reported. She was sentenced to three consecutive life terms in prison. That fifth husband, Chad Daybell, was convicted on the same charges as sentenced to death. Both are appealing.
Vallow Daybell briefly appeared at the hearing last week but waived her appearance and left after Beresky decided a news camera could record the hearing.
She is charged with conspiring with her brother, Alex Cox, to kill Charles Vallow and attempted murder in the shooting that barely missed Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of her niece, Melani Pawlowski. Cox was also reportedly involved in her children’s deaths in some manner, but he died — reportedly of natural causes — in December 2019, after the children disappeared, Tammy Daybell died, and Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow married and fled to Hawaii.
The children’s bodies were found on property owned by Daybell the following June. Cox’s phone records put him on the Daybell property on dates coinciding with the last known sighting of the children while they were alive.
