Associate judge Lori Vallow opens up on the most painful moments of the ‘monster cult mother’ trial.
An assistant juror in the trial of alleged cult mother Lori Vallow has spoken out and revealed the most painful moments of the trial.
The woman is the youngest juror to speak since Vallow, 49, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children JJ, seven, and Tylee Ryan, 16, and conspiring to murder her husband’s wife .
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Tiffany, who was a 17-year-old judge, spoke up Fox 10 Phoenix about the experience.
“There were six numbers that we were supposed to pick until the very end, right before the deliberations,” Tiffany told the outlet.
“I was really hoping it wasn’t my number.”
Tiffany spoke about the various testimonies she heard from 60 different witnesses before being chosen to act as a proxy.
“I probably noticed the more emotional testimonies from her son Colby and sister,” Tiffany said.
“I just listen to how they talked to her in jail and how emotional they were and I can feel the impact it’s had on their lives.”
“She has destroyed so much around her and just destroyed her relationships with her family and there is no indication that she realized that over the phone.”
Tiffany said the hardest part was seeing the pictures of Vallow’s kids, Tylee and JJ.
“I started crying when they brought the tissues and plastic bags that they wanted to show in the pictures,” Tiffany said.
Being a mother herself, the pictures of Vallow’s teenage daughter struck a chord.
“They did her such a disservice because they just didn’t have a lot of evidence for her,” Tiffany said.
“You know it, just like that. I can not do it. I still can’t. That will probably affect me for the rest of my life when I think about it.”
She added, “I looked straight at Lori.
“I hope she was able to look over at me and see my evil eye because I… that really showed what a monster this woman is.”
“LONELY HOLDOUT”
Another juror, Saul Hernandez, suspected Vallow during her Idaho murder trial but was later convinced of her guilt after a re-examination of the facts of the case.
“As the case progressed, and as more evidence was uncovered and testimonies exchanged, she became more difficult to look at,” Saul Hernandez said Good morning America.
“Growing up, you learned good and evil, God and evil, and I think for the first time in my life I put a face to evil.”
Prosecutors argued throughout the trial that Vallow and Daybell had motives for killing their children because of their extreme religious beliefs and their need for money so they could leave their old lives behind and start anew in Hawaii.
Hernandez believed that Vallow and Daybell “wanted to believe in something that was only for them and benefited them, only for the people they liked, for their circle, who they liked and wanted to be with, and which benefited them .”
When prosecutors shared photos of the couple dancing on a Hawaiian beach after Vallow’s children disappeared, Hernandez was “disgusting” and “didn’t want to look at them,” he said.
Hernandez said he was initially held up during the deliberations because details of Tylee’s disappearance and death were released.
“I just didn’t feel like we were there with Tylee at that point,” Hernandez said as the case was brought to the jury.
“And if it were us, I might have missed it.”
Deliberations lasted two days because of his hesitation, but eventually Hernandez was convinced Vallow had killed her children after the jury reviewed all the evidence and testimonies.
NEW CHARGE
Vallow does not face the death penalty for killing her children, but she could face prison for the rest of her life.
A sentencing hearing is expected in about three months.
Meanwhile, a new indictment against Vallow in Maricopa County has surfaced.
She is accused of plotting to murder her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux.
A jury indicted her in February 2022, but the indictments were only recently released. Fox 10 Phoenix reported.
Gilbert police, Arizonaclaim that Vallow and her brother Alex Cox, who died in December 2019, conspired to kill Boudreaux, who was previously married to Vallow’s niece.
Boudreaux was allegedly shot by someone in a gray Jeep Wrangler in October 2019.
He told police that someone in the driveway of his home in Gilbert pointed a gun at him from a window and shot him, but the bullet missed.
Investigators found surveillance footage showing Alex and Lori unloading a gray Jeep Wrangler.
In addition, authorities have digital evidence linking Cox to the Gilbert area near the shooting, Fox 10 Phoenix reported.
Vallow is also facing another trial in Arizona for conspiracy to murder her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.