technology insights | December 30, 2025

Lori Vallow: Massive pile of audio evidence uncovered in ‘Cult mom’ case including 3,000 phone calls

MADISON Region, IDAHO: Lori Vallow’s lawyers gave the appointed authority a couple of somewhat late movements preceding the preliminary’s beginning. This unfurls as the lawyers for Vallow are hustling through huge proof, including approximately 3,000 pristine calls.

The principal movement conveyed to the appointed authority was purportedly currently allowed by Idaho Locale Judge Steven Boyce in December 2022. The movement expected the indictment to give Vallow’s lawyer duplicates of any composed and recorded assertions made by Chad Daybell, as indicated by The Sun.

The calls and accounts from five in-guardianship visits were given over as proof, despite the fact that it is obscure who Daybell was addressing or what was going on with the discussions from those five visits. Obviously, the safeguard could have done without how the sound examples were conveyed to them.

The adjudicator then, at that point, requested the arraignment to turn over the taped calls by February 27. His request was maintained as the indictment turned over the proof at 4.17 pm upon the arrival of the deadline.

‘We don’t really accept that it was a late divulgence’ The safeguard for Vallow is presently presenting another movement to excuse the calls, asserting they were not given sufficient opportunity to pay attention to the enormous heap of clasps completely. John Thomas, Vallow’s lawyer, expressed, “Clearly we are extremely near the beginning of preliminary in this so we have restricted chance to get past these,” as per East Idaho News.

Vallow’s other lawyer, Jim Archibald, added, “To dump 5,000 pages on us on February 27, hours of recordings and sound accounts and another 3,000 calls two days prior, it’s super frustrating that we needed to stand by this long to get all the disclosure.”

Examiners countered that they never expected to keep proof and noticed that Vallow’s present legitimate advice had not yet been designated when the request was made. Ransack Wood, the indicting lawyer for Madison Province, expressed, “We don’t completely accept that it was a late exposure. We accept February 27 was the deadline. The state has consistently tried to reveal what we have.”

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What was the last movement that Lori Vallow’s lawyer submitted to the appointed authority? The last movement of the meeting, which Vallow’s lawyer made in the wake of communicating their dismay at going through colossal proof, appeared to be a big move. Archibald made the movement to invalidate the chance of capital punishment “due to the combined of mistakes,” as indicated by The Sun.

Archibald said, “Media immersion, various infringement by the public authority, the public authority’s information on my client’s psychological wellness, and the viable outlook that Idaho has been attempting to kill individuals waiting for capital punishment and hasn’t had the option to do it on the grounds that the Idaho Division of Adjustment can’t get synthetic substances to kill individuals.”

Examiners countered that it was too early to discuss one or the other capital punishment will be talked about when Vallow will be attempted and condemned. The adjudicator said he would spread the word about his choices at a meeting on Walk 22.

Both Vallow and Daybell are confronting separate preliminaries for the homicides of Tammy Daybell, Daybell’s ex, and Vallow’s kids Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, ages 7 and 16, individually. Daybell’s preliminary will be deferred until after Vallow’s, which will in any case occur on April 3 as booked. Daybell deferred his right to a fast preliminary, yet Vallow didn’t.