
The Tammy Douglas Daybell Foundation, created by her family members a year after her death, wrote in a press release that the verdict would bring “some measure of closure” for everyone. He also thanked the jurors, noting that the graphic evidence they had to view was “mindboggling,” and something that could never be unseen. They say that all good things must end,” he sang, before returning to speaking.

I am sorry for what happened.”Īsked if he had a message for Vallow Daybell, Woodcock recited the lyrics to a Willie Nelson song. Tammy, I never met you, but you are part of our life. Papa wishes you were here,” Larry Woodcock said, choking up as he used the name JJ used to call him. Some began singing, “We Will Rock You” - JJ’s favorite song. When they first stepped outside court, the crowd of onlookers who had gathered to support the family and watch the verdict cheered. JJ’s grandparents, Larry and Kay Woodcock, held an emotional news conference after the conviction. Prosecutors in the case described Vallow Daybell as a power-hungry manipulator who would kill her two youngest children for money, while the defense team said she was a normally protective mother who fell under the romantic sway of a wannabe cult leader. Ninety days from today, we will be in Fremont County” for Vallow Daybell’s sentencing, said Larry Woodcock, the grandfather of the youngest victim.

Vallow Daybell herself is also facing another murder trial in Arizona - this one on a charge of conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow. BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted Friday in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival, a verdict that culminates a three-year investigation that included bizarre claims that her son and daughter were zombies and she was a goddess sent to usher in the Biblical apocalypse.įor the victims’ family members, the verdict is only a temporary balm: Vallow Daybell must be sentenced, and her fifth husband, Chad Daybell, is awaiting trial on the same murder charges.
