Lori Vallow Daybell was photographed on Tuesday as she was booked into the Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center in Pocatello, Idaho. Prosecutors in Arizona need to carry her to that state to face extra costs there.

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Lori Vallow Daybell was photographed on Tuesday as she was booked into the Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center in Pocatello, Idaho. Prosecutors in Arizona need to carry her to that state to face extra costs there.

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An Idaho choose sentenced Lori Vallow Daybell to spend the remainder of her life in jail for murdering two of her youngsters, however she additionally faces two pending legal instances. Prosecutors are working to extradite her to Arizona, the place she has additionally been indicted on conspiracy homicide costs associated to her late husband’s killing.

Vallow Daybell, 50, was sentenced to multiple life terms in jail with no risk of parole after being discovered responsible of murdering her two youngest youngsters and conspiring to homicide a romantic rival. Authorities stated the killings have been a part of an elaborate plan to begin a brand new life along with her fifth husband, Chad Daybell — a scheme that included killing Daybell’s earlier spouse, Tammy Daybell.

Now that Vallow Daybell has obtained a sentence, prosecutors in Arizona need to carry her to their state. They need her to face homicide conspiracy costs in her earlier husband’s dying, in addition to in an try on one other relative’s life.

The Arizona instances are the following twists in a convoluted crime saga, wherein Vallow Daybell is claimed to have been motivated by beliefs about doomsday situations and zombies — and likewise by a want to gather insurance coverage payouts and profit funds.

Here’s the place issues stand now:

Vallow Daybell is below two indictments in Arizona

In Arizona, Maricopa County prosecutors accuse Vallow Daybell of conspiring along with her brother, Alex Cox, to homicide her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, so she might marry Daybell and procure a payout from a $1 million life insurance coverage coverage.

Charles Vallow died on July 11, 2019. On that day, Cox known as 911 and “reported that he had shot and killed his brother-in-law,” the Maricopa County prosecutor’s office said. Cox claimed he had acted in self-defense after an argument. Months earlier, Vallow had told police that his spouse had threatened to kill him, describing her as more and more unbalanced.

“I can murder you now, with my powers,” she stated, based on Vallow.

Vallow Daybell can be accused of conspiring with Cox in an try on the lifetime of her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux, who was shot at in the fall of 2019 however survived. At the time, the couple was going via a contentious divorce.

Based on the assault on Boudreaux, police in Gilbert, Ariz., recommended felony charges of tried first-degree homicide in opposition to Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell in 2021.

The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office began the extradition course of for Vallow Daybell after her sentence in Idaho was handed down, the workplace advised NPR on Wednesday.

“Once the paperwork for the governor’s requisition has been filed with the Governor of Arizona, the process typically takes 90-120 days for extradition,” the prosecutor’s workplace stated in an e mail.

Vallow Daybell’s beliefs factored into her crimes

Vallow Daybell is at present residing on the Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center. She was found guilty of first-degree homicide and conspiracy costs in May, as a jury agreed with prosecutors who stated she wished to eradicate her youngest youngsters as a part of a plan to embark on a brand new life.

Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell have been discovered to have invoked arcane spiritual theories, together with the concept they have been exalted figures known as “James and Elena” with an extended non secular historical past, in what prosecutors described as an elaborate scheme to justify their actions.

The pair additionally claimed Vallow Daybell’s youngsters have been turning into “zombies,” based on courtroom paperwork.

In Idaho, jurors heard an audio recording, discovered on Vallow Daybell’s iCloud account, of Daybell conferring a “patriarchal blessing” upon Alex Cox, though Daybell didn’t have the suitable standing to try this within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the recording, Daybell stated he had the authority to take action below the “Church of the Firstborn.”

The recording was dated November 2019; Cox died a month later. A health worker concluded that he died of pure causes.

In November 2019, Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell held a marriage in Hawaii; prosecutors in Idaho famous that the ceremony passed off days after Tammy Daybell died; weeks after Vallow Daybell’s youngsters, Tylee Ryan and Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow, died; and months after Charles Vallow died.

Parts of the Arizona instances probably acquired a preview in Idaho

Before he died, Charles Vallow altered his insurance coverage coverage to make his sister, not his spouse, the beneficiary of his insurance coverage coverage — a change that evidently took his spouse abruptly after his dying.

During the murder trial in Idaho, Detective Nathan Duncan of the Chandler Police Department in Arizona learn aloud a textual content message that Vallow Daybell despatched to Daybell on July 18, 2019 — one week after Cox killed Charles Vallow in Arizona.

“I just got a letter from the insurance company that I am not the beneficiary. It’s a spear thru my heart,” Duncan stated as he learn the message from Vallow Daybell, based on East Idaho News.

Also testifying in Idaho was Boudreaux, who spoke concerning the day he was practically killed.

As Boudreaux began to drag into his driveway, he stated, he noticed a gun with what a “silencer” on it emerge from the rear window of a Jeep Wrangler parked shut by. He heard a sound, and his driver-side window shattered. Boudreaux sped off and known as 911. He later got here to imagine the Jeep was the identical one which Charles Vallow had bought earlier than his dying, he stated.

The trial additionally included Cox’s widow, Zulema Pastenes, who testified that she requested her husband whether or not he had something to do with Tammy Daybell’s dying or whether or not he knew the place Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell have been, as East Idaho News reported.

“I think I’m being their fall guy,” Cox reportedly stated, however he refused to elaborate. He died the following day.

Pastenes’ model of occasions might loom massive in Arizona: In the Idaho trial, massive parts of her private journal have been accepted as proof.

This is not Vallow Daybell’s first extradition course of

When Idaho authorities initially filed costs in opposition to Vallow Daybell in early 2020, she was residing in Hawaii, the place she and Chad Daybell had wed.

Those early costs included felony counts of kid abandonment, as Vallow Daybell could not account for the whereabouts of her youngsters.

In that occasion, Vallow Daybell waived an extradition hearing, clearing the best way for her return and eventual homicide trial in Idaho.

The large seek for the lacking youngsters resulted in June 2020, when their our bodies have been present in horrendous situation, buried on property in Rexburg, Idaho, that was owned by Chad Daybell.

Chad Daybell nonetheless faces homicide costs within the three deaths in Idaho. His trial is slated to begin in April 2024.