A Maricopa County jury unanimously convicted Lori Vallow Daybell of conspiring to kill her niece's ex-husband in 2019.
It was the second murder conspiracy conviction the 51-year-old has heard in Arizona this year and the third guilty verdict in the past three years.
On April 22, an Arizona jury had already convicted the Idaho mom of conspiring to murder her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, who was shot and killed by her late brother, Alex Cox, in Phoenix on July 11, 2019.
Vallow Daybell was convicted again on June 12 of conspiring with Cox to murder Brandon Boudreaux outside his home in Gilbert, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix.
Boudreaux, who was in the midst of a divorce from Vallow Daybell’s niece Melani Pawlowski, alleged to police he was targeted by Vallow Daybell and Cox in October 2019 when someone in a Jeep fired a rifle shot at him. The bullet missed his body but shattered his car window.
Court records show that Vallow Daybell is is scheduled to be sentenced in both Arizona cases on July 25. Each conviction carries a life sentence.
NTD attempted to contact Vallow Daybell, who represented herself in the court proceedings, at the Estrella Women’s Jail in Maricopa County, Arizona, but she did not reply to requests for comment.
During closing arguments, Vallow Daybell shed tears as she tried to sway the jury by portraying the incident as a "complex family issue."
“On June 25, 2019, Brandon Boudreaux decided that I was responsible for his family tragedy and I’m really sorry he feels that way,” Vallow Daybell said before the state objected.
The Jeep was regularly driven by Vallow Daybell’s late daughter, Tylee Ryan, 16, before her death, according to Boudreaux.
In her closing arguments, Maricopa County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Treena Kay told the jury that Vallow Daybell had misrepresented herself as innocent and that in reality Vallow Daybell had consistently meddled in Boudreaux’s marriage to her niece.
Vallow Daybell is currently serving three consecutive life sentences in Idaho after being found guilty of killing Ryan and Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, 7, as well as Tammy Daybell, the first wife of her current husband, Chad Daybell who had written several religious novels about prophecies and preparing for the end of the world.
The family were all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell were married in November 2019 and a month later Cox died of a blood clot in his lungs in December 2019, before he could be prosecuted.
Chad Daybell is currently awaiting the death penalty after an Idaho jury sentenced him for the murders of his wife, Tammy, and Vallow Daybell’s children, whose remains were found buried on his property.