Larry Woodcock, the grandfather of Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, appeared virtually in court today to give a final message to ‘Doomsday mom’ Lori Vallow Daybell, two years after a jury convicted her of killing his seven-year-old grandson.
“I will never speak your name again, murderess,” Woodcock told Vallow Daybell, just before she was handed two life sentences with the possibility of parole in a pair of Arizona murder conspiracy cases. “You will never get anything out of me again in your life. You are nothing.”
Vallow Daybell was sentenced Friday after she was found guilty of conspiring to kill her fourth husband and her niece’s ex-husband in Arizona six years ago. This comes as she’s already serving three life sentences in Idaho for the murder of her two children: J.J. and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan. She was also convicted of conspiring to kill Tammy Daybell, the ex-wife of her fifth husband, Chad Daybell.
An Idaho jury also found Chad Daybell guilty of killing the two children and his ex-wife. He has been sentenced to death.
The two life sentences handed down Friday to Vallow Daybell will be served consecutively, which means one after another. She will serve these two sentences consecutively with her Idaho sentences, as well, ensuring that she will never leave prison.
Vallow Daybell was found guilty of the first conspiracy charge in April. A jury found she conspired with her brother, Alexander Cox, to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow. Prosecutors say Cox fatally shot him in July 2019.
She was convicted again in June for conspiring with Cox to kill her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux. Prosecutors said Cox attempted to kill Boudreaux in an October 2019 drive-by shooting. Cox died later that year.
If the plot succeeded, Boudreaux said his children “would have been left to face a lifetime of grief, robbed of the love, stability and spiritual guidance I provide as their father.”
“The betrayal by someone connected to my family has left me battling overwhelming emotions over the years,” Boudreaux told the court Friday.
Colby Ryan, the only surviving son of Vallow Daybell, gave a statement honoring his father and siblings.
“I’m the son of Charles Vallow, the brother of Tylee Ryan and J.J. Vallow,” he said. “I’m here to tell you what I’ve lost. Not only are my father, sister and brother gone, but so is my mother.”
“Rather than being able to acknowledge the pain that she has caused, she would rather say that Charles, Tylee and J.J.’s deaths were a family tragedy and not her evil doing,” he added.
Todd Trahan, J.J.’s father, addressed Vallow Daybell directly in his statement to the court.
“I’m here today to forgive you. I know what it’s like to be in prison,” he said. “I was in prison when you got the rights to my son. I know what it’s like. Once you get done with this court and you go sit in that cell, you have to relive everything that you did.”
