Convicted kid-killer Lori Vallow Daybell received right into a testy alternate whereas cross-examining a lady who went on a date along with her fourth husband the night time earlier than his homicide.
Vallow Daybell — who’s representing herself within the Arizona trial for her estranged husband Charles Vallow’s 2019 killing — appeared peeved that her late hubby went on a date with witness Nancy Jo Hancock whereas they had been nonetheless technically married.
“Do you go on dates with married males?” Vallow Daybell requested throughout cross-examination Wednesday, earlier than being shut down by the decide. “So you probably did go on a date with a married man?” she requested once more, reframing the query.
Hancock — who met Hancock on a Christian relationship app in July 2019 as his marriage to Vallow Daybell was breaking down — insisted they did nothing greater than textual content for just a few days earlier than assembly up for dinner, and that she wouldn’t have seen him if he wasn’t separating.
“I did go on a date with Charles,” Hancock advised Vallow Daybell, in keeping with NBC Information. “I knew his divorce was not ultimate.”
“His divorce was not began,” Vallow Daybell quipped.
“Okay,” Hancock mentioned, evidently puzzled.
The trial is the 51-year-old cult-obsessed mom’s second over a vicious scheme to run off with a lover and pile of insurance coverage cash that left two of her kids — 7-year-old JJ and 16-year-old Tylee — murdered.
She was already convicted of her children’ murders and is dealing with life sentences in Idaho — however is now accused of conspiring to homicide Vallow, who she allegedly enlisted her brother, Alex Cox, to shoot lifeless. Cox died later in 2019.
That was simply the primary of quite a few moments through the cross-examination the place the 51-year-old appeared offended and jealous that her slain husband had been to dinner with Hancock that July.
Later, Vallow Daybell pressed for particulars on what was spoken about through the date, and Hancock recalled that Vallow talked about his children, a bit about his marriage, and the way he talked about feeling “considerations for his security” that drove him to make his sister the beneficiary of a $1 million life insurance coverage coverage
“So that you spent your complete date attending to know one another, speaking about me?” Vallow Daybell requested.
“Don’t flatter your self. No, we didn’t spend the entire time speaking about you,” Hancock responded.
Later, Daybell requested Hancock if males typically talked about “supposed ex-wives” on dates
“It’s truly quite common,” Hancock replied.
“Actually?” Vallow Daybell shot again. “Fascinating.”
The decide then sustained an objection towards Vallow Daybell, telling her to “please cease” including feedback about Hancock’s solutions.
Vallow had filed for divorce shortly earlier than the murderous plot allegedly unfolded, with the alarmed husband rising involved over her beliefs about previous lives on different planets, zombies, Armageddon and the second coming of Jesus.
He claimed that his spouse had threatened to homicide him and included a request for psychological well being remedy in his divorce.
The day after Vallow’s date with Hancock, he was shot lifeless whereas he was selecting up Tylee from Vallow Daybell’s home. There, he encountered Cox, who’s believed to have shot him lifeless after an altercation. Cox claimed self-defense and was by no means charged within the killing earlier than he died.
Vallow Daybell may face one other life sentence if convicted. She additionally faces one other Arizona trial in Might for an alleged plot to kill her niece’s ex-husband.
The husband Vallow Daybell allegedly hatched the murderous plot with — Chad Daybell, who she married solely two weeks after his spouse Tammy was additionally murdered — was sentenced to loss of life in June for the deaths of her children and Tammy.
Daybell has been allowed take away her jail garb in court docket as she mounts her protection — however continues to be required to put on a shock-belt that police can use to subdue her if she will get out of line.
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