Lori Vallow Daybell seems in court docket in Lihue, Hawaii, on Feb. 26, 2020. Dennis Fujimoto, Related Press
Rexburg police detective Chuck Kunsaitis testifies in Lori Vallow Daybell homicide trial in Boise on Wednesday. Lisa Cheney
Lori Vallow Daybell continued to seem calm and nonchalant on the seventh day of testimony Wednesday in a homicide trial for the deaths of her two youngsters.
A police officer testified Wednesday she had an identical demeanor simply after her earlier husband was shot and killed by her brother.
Jurors additionally heard extra particulars all through the day about what investigators discovered from the household's monetary information, the response and investigation into her former husband's loss of life, and the numerous change in Daybell's spiritual beliefs within the yr earlier than her youngsters had been killed.
Daybell is on trial for homicide, conspiracy and grand theft within the deaths of 7-year-old JJ and 16-year-old Tylee. She can also be charged in reference to the loss of life of Tammy Daybell, the late spouse of her husband Chad Daybell. Chad Daybell can also be charged within the three deaths and can face a separate trial.
Rexburg police detective Chuck Kunsaitis testified Wednesday about a number of paperwork that indicated Tylee and JJ weren't round in late 2019. Investigators looked for monetary transactions, prescription fulfillments and aircraft tickets.
He stated there was a $100 fee despatched from Lori Daybell to her son Colby Ryan from an IP handle matching a resort in Missouri, and a reservation on the resort confirmed solely two individuals had checked in — Daybell and her niece — though the fee was constructed from Tylee's telephone.
Kunsaitis additionally stated aircraft information present Lori Daybell flew with out her youngsters from Hawaii to Idaho Falls on Oct. 23, 2019 — the day of Tammy Daybell's funeral.
Kunsaitis reviewed an e mail to a Hawaii realtor from Chad Daybell, who stated he was on the lookout for a house for "a clear couple, with no pets or youngsters" days after his marriage ceremony to Lori Daybell and earlier than the seek for Tylee and JJ started.
The estimated loss of life date for Tylee is Sept. 9, 2019, when purchases on her account turned sparse, and the estimated date for JJ's loss of life is Sept. 23, 2019 — across the time his mom withdrew him from college, in keeping with trial testimony. The seek for the 2 youngsters, nevertheless, didn't start till Nov. 26, 2019, when JJ's grandparents had been capable of finding an handle for Lori Daybell and requested native Rexburg police to conduct a welfare verify.
Their our bodies had been present in shallow graves in Chad Daybell's yard months in a while June 9, 2020.
Prosecutors are utilizing monetary information to piece collectively what the completely different gamers within the case had been doing across the time of their deaths.
Rexburg police detective Chuck Kunsaitis testifies in Lori Vallow Daybell homicide trial in Boise on Wednesday.
Lisa Cheney
Michael Douglass, a forensic accountant with the FBI, testified that Lori Daybell obtained about $22,545 from Social Safety funds after her youngsters's deaths and earlier than funds stopped in January of 2020. This included cash for each youngsters as a result of that they had misplaced their fathers, and funds to Lori Daybell as the kids's caregiver. He stated the cash Tylee was receiving from Social Safety was deposited into her mom's account.
After Tammy Daybell died, Chad Daybell made a lot of the giant purchases between him and Lori Daybell, together with seven tickets for Knotts Berry Farm — tickets had been for himself, his 5 youngsters and Lori Daybell, Douglass stated.
Douglass additionally stated financial institution information present that Chad Daybell transferred $8,000 to 3 of his youngsters on the similar time police had been looking out his property on June 9, 2020 — the identical day the kids's our bodies had been discovered.
‘Her perception system had modified’
April Raymond gave the impression to be avoiding wanting towards Lori Daybell when she took the witness stand Wednesday. Raymond met Daybell when she and her then-husband Charles Vallow moved to Hawaii in 2016. They had been associates, spent holidays collectively, labored collectively in the identical Latter-day Saint department and their youngsters performed collectively.
When Daybell got here again to go to Hawaii in February of 2019, Raymond stated her pal's spiritual beliefs had modified considerably. She stated Lori Daybell additionally informed her she was having issues in her marriage.
Raymond stated Daybell informed her that "Charles wasn't Charles" however was a demon named Ned Schneider. When she requested Daybell how she knew that, she stated she informed her, "As a result of he is shorter."
Raymond stated her pal additionally informed her she was "performed with JJ" and Raymond took that to imply that after a divorce, Charles would look after JJ solely.
Daybell later invited Raymond to hitch a bunch involving her new beliefs.
"It was my understanding that her perception system had modified due to this group that she had not too long ago turn into part of," Raymond testified.
She stated Daybell had been appointed as a pacesetter of this group "and that she was there to assemble me." However Raymond stated she was informed that she "would have to be separated" from her youngsters with a purpose to be part of and was informed that Raymond had fulfilled her position in her youngsters's lives and had a higher position along with her — and that she ought to depart her youngsters with their father.
Raymond stated she was not within the suggestion, and didn't consider the spiritual beliefs Daybell was sharing.
Focus turns to Arizona and Hawaii
Prosecutors on Wednesday additionally referred to as first responders to the stand from Chandler, Arizona — individuals who responded to and investigated the loss of life of Charles Vallow. Vallow was shot by Lori Daybell's brother, Alex Cox, on July 11, 2019. The taking pictures loss of life was handled as a case of self-defense; Cox was not charged earlier than he later died in December of the identical yr.
Following repeated objections from protection attorneys, Choose Steven Boyce instructed jurors that details about what occurred within the Arizona loss of life might solely be used to indicate motive however not character. He reiterated that Daybell just isn't on trial for something that occurred in Arizona.
Scott Cowden, who works with the Chandler Hearth Division, stated when he carried out CPR on Charles Vallow, it didn't seem that Alex Cox had carried out any CPR earlier than he arrived, despite the fact that Cox had talked by way of the method throughout his 911 name.
Chandler police detective Cassandra Yncaln testified about her interactions with Lori Daybell that day whereas transporting her and Tylee to and from the police station and interviewing them.
Yncaln stated when she first noticed Daybell outdoors the house, she appeared calm and did not have a lot of a response after she was informed that her husband had died.
"She appeared calm, very nonemotional, was form of hanging out and gave the impression to be simply having … common dialog, probably not upset," the detective stated, including that at "one level she was laughing."
She stated Daybell informed her she had been within the house when her husband was shot, however then left.
The detective stated she transported Daybell and Tylee to the police station to be questioned. "In the course of the entirety of the automotive trip, she was very calm and put collectively. Very nonchalant about what had occurred, not upset," Yncaln stated.
Chandler police detective Ariel Werther informed jurors about monitoring the place Lori Daybell had gone after her husband was shot. He tracked her by way of Charles Vallow's telephone, which she had taken along with her. She left the home and went to Burger King, a Walgreens to buy flip flops for her youngsters who left the house shortly, after which to drop JJ off at college earlier than heading again to the home the place she was met by police investigating the taking pictures.