#Doomsday mom trial#
Now the couple awaits their trial for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and grand theft by deception charges. They were, sadly, the bodies of Tylee and JJ. It wasn't Charles Vallow he'd killed, Pastenes said Cox told her: It was a zombie.Chad wasn’t arrested until June 2020 when human remains were found on his property in Idaho. Pastenes, who was briefly married to Cox, later told police that the group's belief in zombies was so deeply entrenched that when she asked her husband if he was okay with having killed Charles Vallow, he responded that he was fine. Cox died in December 2019 of what a medical examiner said was natural causes, but Maricopa County prosecutors have since charged Lori Vallow with conspiring with him to murder her ex-husband. Cox claimed self-defense, telling police that Charles Vallow had attacked him with a baseball bat. Gibb said Daybell would often explain that their prayers had eliminated the zombies and caused people to physically pass away.Ĭharles Vallow was shot and killed by Alex Cox on July 11, 2019. The pair would often try to figure out how many "zombies" inhabited a given space, according to Gibb, who told investigators Vallow once pulled out a map of Arizona and said a prayer to try and determine how many zombies resided in the state.
Vallow's religious beliefs first started giving her relatives pause around 2017 or 2018, when she began reading books about near-death experiences and listening to podcasts created by people who had been excommunicated from the Mormon religion, her brother Adam Cox later told investigators. Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and their inner circle came to believe the world would end in July 2020 Overall, the documents portray Lori Vallow as a deeply troubled and zealous woman whose extreme beliefs threatened and alienated those closest to her. The police documents contained interviews with Lori Vallow's relatives and friends, along with text messages and emails, as part of their investigation into Charles Vallow's death. Vallow has been deemed not competent to stand trial, and Daybell has pleaded not guilty.
The pair are also charged in the murder of Daybell's ex-wife, Tammy, and Vallow is charged in connection with her ex-husband's murder. Vallow, along with Daybell, who she went on to marry, has been charged with conspiring to murder her 7-year-old adoptive son, JJ, and her 17-year-old daughter, Tylee Ryan. That cascade of events ultimately led to the allegations that she participated in the murders of two of her children and her ex-husband. Those beliefs coincided with a failing marriage, a secret affair, and the disappearance of Vallow's two children.
But they also help piece together Vallow's descent into a fantastical and apocalyptic belief system. The documents, which total over 1,000 pages and were obtained by Insider, investigate the July 2019 death of Vallow's ex-husband, Charles. Pastenes' story is one of hundreds of bizarre anecdotes revealed in a tranche of documents from the Chandler, Arizona Police Department. "Like many things she did not understand, she would put it on a shelf and get more information later to make a decision." It was new to her but she could not discard it," police documents said. "Zulema was not sure what to believe about this zombie talk. Vallow explained to Pastenes that that she'd inadvertently had sex with her husband, who she believed was now a zombie. In fact, he had already died, Vallow said, and within two minutes an entity had taken over his body. Vallow had been explaining to Zulema Pastenes, a member of her and apocalyptic novelist Chad Daybell's inner circle, that her then-husband would soon pass away. It often indicates a user profile.Ī friend of Lori Vallow recalled to police the moment the infamous "doomsday" cult mom said she'd had sex with a zombie - twice. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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