In a shocking turn of events, the legal team for Doomsday mom Lori Vallow decided to rest their case on Tuesday without mounting a defense of their client, whom they say is innocent of murdering her two children and conspiring to murder her husband’s ex-wife. They also declined to put Vallow or any other witnesses on the stand to testify on her behalf.
But while Vallow’s team claims they “don’t believe the state has proven its case,” the prosecution has been relentless—its case has included 60 witnesses, harrowing physical evidence, and the recitation of dozens of graphic text messages from Vallow to her paramour.
After 25 days, Idaho prosecutors rested their murder case against Vallow on Tuesday afternoon, arguing that the Doomsday mom, fueled by her extreme religious beliefs, murdered her two children in September 2019 with her new husband, Chad Daybell. A month later, the couple allegedly conspired to murder Daybell’s first wife, Tammy, for an insurance payout before they fled to Hawaii to start a new life. When authorities finally learned the children were missing, Vallow suddenly stopped communicating with police until her arrest months later.
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