‘Doomsday mom’ Lori Vallow shares why she made unusual legal move for 2nd murder trial: ‘Fighting for my life’

As the alleged "Doomsday Mom" is acceptable to locomotion into an Arizona courtroom, Lori Vallow spoke astir her determination to enactment arsenic her ain lawyer successful her latest execution trial. 

Vallow is representing herself arsenic she faces execution conspiracy charges successful narration to the decease of her 4th husband, Charles Vallow, successful Maricopa County. 

"I’m warring for my beingness here," Vallow said successful an interrogation with True Crime Arizona. 

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Lori Vallow Daybell sits during her sentencing proceeding astatine the Fremont County Courthouse successful St. Anthony, Idaho, July 31, 2023. (Tony Blakeslee/EastIdahoNews.com)

In 2019, Vallow's brother, Alex Cox, changeable her hubby to decease erstwhile Vallow went to prime up the couple’s lad astatine Vallow's Phoenix home. 

At the clip of the killing, Vallow’s daughter, Tylee, confronted Charles with a shot bat aft proceeding screaming wrong the house. Charles reportedly took the bat from Tylee, who told constabulary she was trying to support her mother, and allegedly tried to onslaught Cox. Cox told investigators helium fired his weapon successful self-defense and was ne'er charged successful Charles' decease earlier helium died of earthy causes months later. 

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"It’s a tragedy, families person tragedies," Vallow told True Crime Arizona. "Things hap and determination was a domino effect of tragedies successful my life. And that’s truly sad."

Prosecutors allege Vallow "agreed with Cox that astatine slightest 1 of them oregon different would prosecute successful behaviour constituting the discourtesy of first-degree murder," according to a June 2021 indictment. 

The prosecuting lawyer and Vallow’s 2 advisory attorneys did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

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Lori Vallow smirks successful a mugshot taken aft her Idaho execution conviction. (Madison County Sheriff)

Vallow is opting to correspond herself arsenic opening statements are scheduled to statesman connected Monday.

"I’m not an attorney, I don’t person grooming to beryllium an attorney," Vallow told True Crime Arizona. "There’s thing that I figured retired erstwhile I got to this jail. This acquisition has been 5 years running. I went done a full trial, you know, earlier successful my different state, and past I was brought present to Arizona to look immoderate much superior charges."

While high-profile defendants choosing to correspond themselves is not unheard of, it tin supply a level of unpredictability wrong a courtroom that is already astatine the halfway of the nation’s attention. 

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"This gives [Vallow] a tremendous magnitude of power implicit the case, and she has small to lose, since she’s already been sentenced to beingness successful situation successful Idaho," Andrew Stoltmann, a Chicago-based lawyer who is not progressive successful the case, told Fox News Digital. "She whitethorn beryllium intending to crook this lawsuit into a three-ring circus, and the champion mode to bash that is by representing herself."

When asked by True Crime Arizona astir the "notion from the public" that she’s choosing to correspond herself due to the fact that she has "nothing to lose" and that the proceedings is simply a "challenge, a show, a game" for her, Vallow brushed disconnected the idea. 

"I ne'er perceive immoderate of this worldly due to the fact that I'm successful a country [for] 23 hours a time and we don't person immoderate entree to immoderate benignant of news, oregon immoderate benignant of anything, really," Vallow said. "So I didn't cognize that radical were saying that, but I wouldn't hold with that, obviously."

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Investigators hunt for quality remains astatine Chad Daybell's residence successful Salem, Idaho, connected June 9, 2020. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register )

Vallow’s upcoming proceedings comes astir 2 years aft an Idaho justice sentenced her to beingness successful situation for the 2019 murders of her children, Joshua "J.J." Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, on with conspiring with her 5th husband, Chad Daybell, to execution Daybell's wife, Tammy. 

Daybell was besides convicted successful the 3 murders and sentenced to death. 

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Vallow insists she is acceptable for the proceedings and has been "working connected my lawsuit for 5 years" and knows her lawsuit "better than an lawyer tin larn it successful 2 years." 

"Here's the thing, erstwhile you waive your speedy trial, past they tin support you present arsenic agelong arsenic you want," Vallow told True Crime Arizona. "There are intelligent, strong, beauteous women successful present that person been present for 8 years due to the fact that of household tragedies. It’s the same, like, my case, a household tragedy, not crime. A household tragedy, and they’re waiting, and they’re facing the decease punishment for a household tragedy."