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After four failed marriages, Lori Vallow finally seemed to finally find her soulmate in doomsday author and former grave digger Chad Daybell.
From the moment they flew to Hawaii and tied the knot in 2019—weeks after his wife died under mysterious circumstances and while her two children were missing—they were inseparable. But when Vallow, 49, goes on trial this week, she will be doing it alone because 54-year-old Daybell requested in January that their cases be severed, and a judge agreed last month.
Legal experts say that could actually benefit Vallow as she tries to convince a jury that she is not responsible for the murders of her daughter Tylee and son J.J. and did not conspire with Daybell to kill his previous wife, Tammy. The self-proclaimed prophetess’ defense can try to pin all the blame on the man she once appeared to worship.