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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grease Cole Mom Laurie Valo finally convicted,
- 0:18Speaker 1: but what about Chad Dabell. And now we learn that
- 0:23Speaker 1: coltman Laurie Valo, Hey, it ain't over yet. She's heading
- 0:28Speaker 1: to Arizona for yet another murdered case that in the
- 0:34Speaker 1: shooting death of her husband, Charles Valo. Now that would
- 0:37Speaker 1: be her fourth husband, Charles Value. The prophet Chad Dabell
- 0:42Speaker 1: was number five.
- 0:43Speaker 2: And I got.
- 0:44Speaker 1: A pretty sneaky suspicion that the prophet is going off script.
- 0:53Speaker 1: I do not believe that Unlike his wife, the Goddess
- 0:58Speaker 1: Laurie Valo, I don't think he's going to stand by
- 1:02Speaker 1: her at trial. I think he's going to sell her
- 1:05Speaker 1: straight down the river. Joining me right now is the
- 1:09Speaker 1: founder and director of the Cold Case Research Institute, forensic
- 1:13Speaker 1: expert in star of a hit podcast, Zone seven, Cheryl McCollum. So,
- 1:20Speaker 1: you know, after we learned that, it's kind of hard
- 1:27Speaker 1: for it to come out. After we learned that the
- 1:30Speaker 1: prophet Chad day Bell's penis was named the Storm. Yeah, okay,
- 1:37Speaker 1: that was like eating a dirt sandwich in court, which
- 1:39Speaker 1: I've had to do many many times. It looks like
- 1:44Speaker 1: the prophet Chad day Bill and the Storm are going
- 1:48Speaker 1: on trial for murder. Tell me your thoughts A on
- 1:51Speaker 1: the verdict regarding caled Mam Laurie Valo, and B what's
- 1:55Speaker 1: up for the Storm?
- 1:57Speaker 3: The verdict was absolutely just an accurate I think that
- 2:02Speaker 3: a lot of us are waiting and waiting to be
- 2:05Speaker 3: able to say convicted murderer, you know, Louis Valo, and
- 2:10Speaker 3: we can do that now, and I think Mother's Day
- 2:12Speaker 3: is an appropriate weekend to be able to do that.
- 2:15Speaker 3: Regarding the Storm, I think the Storm is going down.
- 2:19Speaker 1: I think that he yeah, you know what, I'm going
- 2:21Speaker 1: to try to ignore your phraseology, but go ahead.
- 2:25Speaker 2: I think putting the.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Storm and going down in one sentence is just too much,
- 2:30Speaker 1: but go ahead.
- 2:30Speaker 2: That's just you.
- 2:32Speaker 3: But she realizes absolutely what's coming for him. So he
- 2:38Speaker 3: knows one, you've got the murder charge, you know that
- 2:44Speaker 3: he's facing. But he knows he's probably more than likely
- 2:48Speaker 3: going to be somehow implicated in what happened to Charles
- 2:52Speaker 3: because you had a million dollars on the line here,
- 2:54Speaker 3: you had a crime scene that was staged, and his
- 2:58Speaker 3: name's going to be all over it. No question about it.
- 3:01Speaker 1: The extradition off Calmont Laurie Valo to Arizona is coming up.
- 3:06Speaker 1: It could be weeks, it could be months. We know
- 3:08Speaker 1: that it's going to be three months until she is sentenced. Interestingly,
- 3:13Speaker 1: the DPE death penalty off the table for Lori Valo,
- 3:18Speaker 1: but not so for Chad day Bell.
- 3:21Speaker 2: And this is what I think is the reasoning behind that.
- 3:24Speaker 1: As you know, Cheryl McCollum, they are very strict deadlines
- 3:28Speaker 1: that the state has to meet. I remember, I think
- 3:33Speaker 1: you may have been there. It's a big blur.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Now.
- 3:36Speaker 1: We have this giant, giant Xerox machine at the District
- 3:41Speaker 1: Attorney's office. It literally took up a room and there
- 3:45Speaker 1: was a strict deadline. If I wanted to start a
- 3:49Speaker 1: trial on let's just say Monday the tenth, very often
- 3:54Speaker 1: it would be the Friday night before, ten days before
- 3:57Speaker 1: I would have to be getting out discovery because it
- 4:00Speaker 1: had to be postmarked ten days.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Prior to trial.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Normally I'd hand it over much much longer before that,
- 4:10Speaker 1: but that is xerox machine would break down and I
- 4:15Speaker 1: would be in there throwing a fit all alone, to
- 4:18Speaker 1: be like ten o'clock at night, trying to xerox, the
- 4:23Speaker 1: defendant statements and the crime lab report and this, and yes,
- 4:27Speaker 1: I would have shared it with a defense like here,
- 4:30Speaker 1: you can look at the file, but you had to
- 4:32Speaker 1: actually give it to them. You couldn't just show it
- 4:35Speaker 1: to me. You had to give it to them before
- 4:38Speaker 1: a certain deadline or that evidence would not be allowed
- 4:42Speaker 1: at trial. You know, scientific reports like this is positive
- 4:45Speaker 1: for cocaine, and these are his fingerprints, and this says
- 4:49Speaker 1: the fiber from his.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Carpet blah blah blah.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Anyway, then I would have to drive it to the
- 4:57Speaker 1: Atlanta airport because they had the very last I guess
- 5:02Speaker 1: FedEx or mailing that would go out at midnight and
- 5:05Speaker 1: it had to be postmarked that day or it wouldn't
- 5:09Speaker 1: come in.
- 5:10Speaker 2: I'm leading up to something. Just go with me on this.
- 5:13Speaker 1: As the investigation was, you know, rapidly accelerating leading up
- 5:18Speaker 1: to trial, the state found evidence like that long blonde
- 5:23Speaker 1: hair that absolutely DNA proved was Lori Valo's on the
- 5:28Speaker 1: tape wrapped around seven year old JJ. That happened within
- 5:34Speaker 1: the discovery period. And I think that a lot, well
- 5:39Speaker 1: not a lot, some very vital evidence was discovered during
- 5:44Speaker 1: that period. And it was too late to hand it.
- 5:48Speaker 1: It was handed over, but it didn't meet the deadlines.
- 5:51Speaker 2: Now why is that important?
- 5:52Speaker 1: Because Lori Valo called mal Lauri Valo had filed a
- 5:55Speaker 1: demand for speedy trial, so the trial couldn't be further no,
- 6:00Speaker 1: oister continued a month later. It had to be done
- 6:03Speaker 1: then or else should be acquitted under the law. And
- 6:07Speaker 1: I think that's why they took the DP off the table,
- 6:09Speaker 1: because the state could not not that they were doing
- 6:12Speaker 1: anything sneaky or nefarious. They could not meet that that deadline.
- 6:17Speaker 1: And I believe that's why the DP was taken off
- 6:19Speaker 1: the table.
- 6:19Speaker 2: That's just me.
- 6:20Speaker 3: That's a solid reason. But let's talk about the reality.
- 6:25Speaker 3: If you have the deathiny.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all the discovery deadlines, they're not real. Is
- 6:28Speaker 1: that what you're saying?
- 6:29Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm saying something regarding the destinity in prison.
- 6:34Speaker 3: If you get the destinery, you get a single cell
- 6:37Speaker 3: by yourself, you get total privacy. I would like to
- 6:42Speaker 3: see her in general population. I would like for her
- 6:45Speaker 3: to see the full effect of being in prison the
- 6:49Speaker 3: rest of her days. That's just me.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Okay, So that was okay, that was an okay observation.
- 6:58Speaker 2: But who wouldn't.
- 6:59Speaker 1: Can we talk about the strongest evidence at the trial.
- 7:02Speaker 1: And I believe that hair that I was just describing
- 7:06Speaker 1: was incredibly, incredibly strong.
- 7:09Speaker 3: That's true.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Another thing, the sexting. While the bodies are
- 7:21Speaker 1: buried in his pet cemetery, he the prophet and she
- 7:28Speaker 1: the goddess are exchanging sex messages over and over and
- 7:33Speaker 1: over as they plot to kill Tammy Dave Bell.
- 7:36Speaker 2: I mean, it removes every.
- 7:37Speaker 1: Shred of a facade of a motherly concern for these children.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Everything.
- 7:44Speaker 1: All she is concerned about is hopping in the sick
- 7:47Speaker 1: at some hotel with Chad Dave Bell, who is complete idiot.
- 7:51Speaker 2: I mean, have you read any of his prophecies?
- 7:54Speaker 3: I have not, but I want to go back.
- 7:56Speaker 2: Oh hold on, I think I'm going to gag right now.
- 7:59Speaker 2: Listen to this.
- 8:00Speaker 1: James their pseudonym for each other, James and Olena. James
- 8:05Speaker 1: took her in his arms and they smiled at each other.
- 8:08Speaker 1: The vibration in the room was intense. Their hearts reached out.
- 8:12Speaker 2: To each other in glorious reunion.
- 8:15Speaker 1: James gently touched the side of Elena's breast and he
- 8:19Speaker 1: was in ecstasy. You know, there's so much more I mean,
- 8:25Speaker 1: I don't know how the jerry kept their lunched down
- 8:27Speaker 1: looking at these two in court.
- 8:29Speaker 3: Oh Nancy, well James and Elena. Again, they're going to prison,
- 8:34Speaker 3: so he's gonna have plenty of time to write these
- 8:37Speaker 3: lovely things to her. But let's go back seriously, because
- 8:40Speaker 3: when the DNA came back matching Lori Valow to the
- 8:45Speaker 3: hair that was found on the duct tave yep Aj,
- 8:50Speaker 3: I thought of you immediately, because you remember with Kasey Anthony.
- 8:53Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have to think that through, but I'll
- 8:55Speaker 1: save that for another day. When you find out about
- 8:57Speaker 1: the defendant's hair wrapped in that.
- 9:00Speaker 2: Duct tape, you thought of me. Thank you. I think
- 9:03Speaker 2: this first thing I should say, but go ahead.
- 9:05Speaker 3: The reason is because you said something so passionately one
- 9:09Speaker 3: day and it was so dead accurate. You were like,
- 9:13Speaker 3: there's no way you're ever gonna find duct tape on
- 9:17Speaker 3: somebody's face and it not the murder.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I was talking about the fact that the
- 9:24Speaker 1: duct tape facilitated the death. It may not have been
- 9:28Speaker 1: the intentional mode of death, but when you wrap duct
- 9:32Speaker 1: tape around let's just say, Kaylee Anthony's face around her mouth,
- 9:36Speaker 1: and knows she's going to die, just like JJ. Of
- 9:39Speaker 1: course I think he was already dead. But doing that
- 9:45Speaker 1: to the child, to JJ and her hair being in it,
- 9:49Speaker 1: not just on his pajamas or his socks or his person,
- 9:52Speaker 1: which could have come from a hug, but on the
- 9:55Speaker 1: tape that facilitated his death.
- 9:59Speaker 3: Right, you no longer have an accident, You no longer
- 10:02Speaker 3: have something that she's going to be able to explain,
- 10:05Speaker 3: just like with Casey Anthony, there's no way to explain
- 10:08Speaker 3: why that action was taken. And when you look at JJ,
- 10:13Speaker 3: him having the scratches on his throat, that to me
- 10:18Speaker 3: was when the devil walked in that room, because that
- 10:21Speaker 3: baby tried to save himself. And cook.
- 10:41Speaker 2: Time stories with Nancy Grace.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Another thing that came out in trial, which we really
- 10:49Speaker 1: didn't talk about that much, these damning text messages about
- 10:55Speaker 1: plotting to cause the children pain JJ and Tony. I'm
- 10:58Speaker 1: wanting to hear this. Dave Bell asks Valo if she
- 11:03Speaker 1: wants him to quote cause pain to children, and he
- 11:11Speaker 1: says that they were dark people. Dave Bell, Valo told
- 11:17Speaker 1: him to hold off, but if they these children they
- 11:20Speaker 1: were with acted up again, quote, we can zap them. Also,
- 11:27Speaker 1: she says that day well, Dave Bell responded, if they're
- 11:31Speaker 1: going to act up, we'll at least give them a
- 11:33Speaker 1: reason to scream. He also states that he had quote
- 11:43Speaker 1: turned up the pain on her daughter.
- 11:47Speaker 2: It just.
- 11:49Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand anyone's thinking when they talk
- 11:53Speaker 1: about children in this manner. But I also think that
- 11:56Speaker 1: her demeanor in court really hurt her. Cheryl McCollum, what
- 12:00Speaker 1: do you think.
- 12:02Speaker 3: The jury sat and watched her every day have no
- 12:07Speaker 3: emotion with stoic To me, it sometimes even smugs. That
- 12:13Speaker 3: absolutely affected the way that they saw her, the way
- 12:17Speaker 3: they understood this crime. Again, when you have a mama
- 12:22Speaker 3: that is going to allow any man to harm their
- 12:26Speaker 3: children to the point they're going to scream, she knows
- 12:30Speaker 3: it's going to happen, so it's premeditated and she sits
- 12:33Speaker 3: by and allows it.
- 12:35Speaker 1: Let me ask you what you think, what you predict
- 12:37Speaker 1: in the prophet Chad da Bell's upcoming trial. I mean,
- 12:43Speaker 1: she would not take this dance. She would not sell
- 12:46Speaker 1: him or her brother Alex Cox down the river. I
- 12:50Speaker 1: don't think that's going to work for him, And I'm
- 12:52Speaker 1: basing that on the way he has behaved in court.
- 12:55Speaker 1: The few times they've been in there together before their
- 12:58Speaker 1: cases were severed, she would smile and be flirtatious toward him,
- 13:05Speaker 1: chin a mouth of words at Himp, just go and.
- 13:08Speaker 2: Look away from her.
- 13:10Speaker 1: I know that's just body language, but I think he's
- 13:15Speaker 1: going to try to blame everything on her.
- 13:18Speaker 3: I think body language is important because a lot of
- 13:20Speaker 3: times that's something you don't even realize you're given away.
- 13:23Speaker 3: Just like Ballow after the guilty verdict, she crossed her
- 13:26Speaker 3: arms while the jury was leaving. She was disgusted, she
- 13:30Speaker 3: was over that. So I think what you're observing with
- 13:34Speaker 3: you know, Dave Bell, is important because here's the thing.
- 13:39Speaker 3: He is now on an island alone. He doesn't have
- 13:43Speaker 3: the benefit of her you know, whatever you want to
- 13:48Speaker 3: call it sexual. I don't know Nancy. Whatever she's doing
- 13:53Speaker 3: for him, she can't do anymore. So he doesn't have that.
- 13:57Speaker 3: He's alone the majority of the time, with his own thoughts,
- 14:00Speaker 3: his own fears, his own feelings. If the right person
- 14:04Speaker 3: can get to him, whether it's a family member or
- 14:07Speaker 3: an attorney, I think there's a great possibility that he's
- 14:11Speaker 3: going to flip.
- 14:12Speaker 2: Well, here's another thing that we haven't talked about.
- 14:14Speaker 1: Yet while they took the DPE death penalty off the
- 14:17Speaker 1: table for caltmom Laurie Valo in this trial, Arizona has
- 14:21Speaker 1: the death penalty. That's where she's going in for the
- 14:25Speaker 1: trial of her fourth husband, Charles Valot. And there, as
- 14:30Speaker 1: you know, the death penalty was put on a moratorium
- 14:33Speaker 1: after a botched execution of Joseph Wood back in twenty fourteen,
- 14:38Speaker 1: and since that time they have changed their cocktail for
- 14:42Speaker 1: the DP, the needle lethal injection to one simple ingredient,
- 14:49Speaker 1: penta barbitol. She can look at the death penalty in Arizona,
- 14:55Speaker 1: and when you've got now.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Three dead bodies that have legally been chalked up.
- 15:00Speaker 1: To you, I think there's a very good chance she
- 15:04Speaker 1: could get the death penalty in az.
- 15:08Speaker 3: If you're ever going to use the death penity, it's
- 15:11Speaker 3: in a case like this. If we're ever going to
- 15:13Speaker 3: say that a person deserves to be put to death
- 15:17Speaker 3: by the state, it is here. It's when somebody has
- 15:22Speaker 3: this just trail of death behind them only for their
- 15:27Speaker 3: own advancement. I'm not somebody that's spleetly bought in that
- 15:32Speaker 3: they thought this was the end of time. This has
- 15:35Speaker 3: a very evil thread of money all throughout it. Well,
- 15:40Speaker 3: she started reading these books by Chad. She's thinking he's
- 15:44Speaker 3: got money, he's some big time you know author. She
- 15:49Speaker 3: wanted the million dollar insurance from Charles. She wanted to
- 15:55Speaker 3: again gain financially from these people. There's no question about it.
- 16:01Speaker 3: To get rid of your children again, there's money because
- 16:05Speaker 3: she goes and she gets their social security. I mean,
- 16:08Speaker 3: there's a there's a thread here. You can't ignore that
- 16:11Speaker 3: she is doing. She wanted that money, she wanted.
- 16:14Speaker 1: The un You're right, and I just jumped to the
- 16:19Speaker 1: next step, the next concludion, the logical conclusion for you're saying,
- 16:23Speaker 1: I really believe that she should be prosecuted in Arizona
- 16:29Speaker 1: for the murder of Charles Valle, her fourth husband, for
- 16:33Speaker 1: pecuniary or money gain. I really do, because when you
- 16:38Speaker 1: add that that is an aggravating circumstance for which you
- 16:43Speaker 1: can get the death penalty. And listen, dp's up to
- 16:46Speaker 1: the jury. It's the state's duty to advance it, and
- 16:51Speaker 1: it's the jury's decision. But if the state wants to
- 16:55Speaker 1: seek the death penalty on her, which they did here
- 16:59Speaker 1: in Idaho, but they got up against that timeline and
- 17:03Speaker 1: had to withdraw it. Not so in Arizona. Pecuniary gain
- 17:08Speaker 1: is one of the most successful child strategies to get
- 17:11Speaker 1: a DP because it displays Cheryl such a cold heart
- 17:16Speaker 1: and Charles value murder was.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Just the beginning.
- 17:20Speaker 1: After that came Tylely and and JJ his son, then
- 17:28Speaker 1: came Timmy J. Bell, and then came Alex Cox, and
- 17:34Speaker 1: there's always Joseph Ryan.
- 17:36Speaker 2: I guess that would have been her third husband, right,
- 17:40Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
- 17:40Speaker 1: And I find it really hard to believe with all
- 17:43Speaker 1: these dead bodies that he died of natural causes. And
- 17:48Speaker 1: I got another problem with Alex cox cod cause of
- 17:51Speaker 1: death because according to official documents, there have been two
- 17:55Speaker 1: different CODs for one person.
- 17:59Speaker 3: Ok.
- 18:00Speaker 1: Yeah, that stinks to high Heaven. So something's way wrong
- 18:03Speaker 1: with that. So in my mind his death is suspicious
- 18:06Speaker 1: as well. And wouldn't you just know it, the trigger
- 18:10Speaker 1: man dies of natural causes.
- 18:14Speaker 2: I'm not buying that at all.
- 18:16Speaker 3: Not only does he die of natural causes, he's with
- 18:19Speaker 3: a wife he's been married to for what two weeks
- 18:22Speaker 3: that Chad puts him up with as a thank you
- 18:27Speaker 3: for being so supportive of his sister.
- 18:29Speaker 1: I only hope Cheryl McCollum that the prophet Chad da
- 18:33Speaker 1: Bell's pickup line can come into court, that pickup line
- 18:37Speaker 1: being Hey, we were married in a previous life.
- 18:43Speaker 2: We've already had sex, so what's the problem.
- 18:47Speaker 3: Well, when you self steal yourself to somebody, you know,
- 18:52Speaker 3: I guess it's pretty easy to convince that same person
- 18:54Speaker 3: you were married in a previous life. Hey, I wonder
- 18:57Speaker 3: if we can get a wedding shower the legs we
- 19:00Speaker 3: had before the.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Listen.
- 19:04Speaker 1: I don't need any more pots and pans or irons,
- 19:06Speaker 1: which I'm not going to use anyway. But you know,
- 19:10Speaker 1: I'm just thinking this through because you know, Cheryl, you
- 19:12Speaker 1: and I have been through a lot of cases together,
- 19:14Speaker 1: not just covering them, but trying them, investigating them.
- 19:18Speaker 2: And we are.
- 19:22Speaker 1: Actually laughing at some of the things that cult man,
- 19:26Speaker 1: Laury Valo and Chad Dave Bell have done. And I
- 19:29Speaker 1: think that's kind of a would you say when a
- 19:35Speaker 1: case is so upsetting, like what was done to JJ
- 19:39Speaker 1: and Tyley. It is overwhelming, it's dark and upsetting, and
- 19:48Speaker 1: if you don't watch out, it will grab you by
- 19:50Speaker 1: the toe and drag you under aim you will never
- 19:52Speaker 1: see the light of day again. And I guess laughing
- 19:57Speaker 1: at some of the like the storm, the name for
- 20:00Speaker 1: his penis. I've got a lot of other names for
- 20:03Speaker 1: his penis, but that ain't one of them. And thinking
- 20:07Speaker 1: about how stupid they were going on Amazon and buying
- 20:11Speaker 1: your quote beach b each wedding dress to marry the
- 20:18Speaker 1: prophet Da Bell before his wife died, and then woe
- 20:23Speaker 1: she dies and you have a wedding on the beach
- 20:28Speaker 1: like a couple of weeks later.
- 20:29Speaker 3: It's just crazy, it is, It is crazy. Lori Vallow's
- 20:34Speaker 3: sister said it best you were dancing on the beach
- 20:37Speaker 3: while your children were buried in the ground. There's no
- 20:42Speaker 3: way any mama can make sense of that in her head,
- 20:47Speaker 3: it's not going to happen. So again, yes, when you
- 20:51Speaker 3: think of Hollie being burned and they can't even tell
- 20:57Speaker 3: you how she died, don't have a call to death
- 21:01Speaker 3: for her. That's how pitiful that baby was treated. And
- 21:04Speaker 3: just jump thrown on top of her. And then you've
- 21:06Speaker 3: got jj that you know at one point was alive
- 21:10Speaker 3: when he was being suffocated because he's trying to save itself.
- 21:14Speaker 1: Covered in bruises, trying to breathe through that plastic bag
- 21:18Speaker 1: that they had over his head.
- 21:20Speaker 3: But of course we have to talk about the storm.
- 21:23Speaker 3: We have to balance that. So yeah, we're gonna make
- 21:26Speaker 3: fun and we're gonna laugh, because there has to be that,
- 21:30Speaker 3: you know, balance that we could just self protect ourselves.
- 21:36Speaker 1: You know, I know it's hard to understand, but thinking
- 21:40Speaker 1: about I mean really thinking about it has to make
- 21:44Speaker 1: juries do this, and I'd be so upset. I couldn't
- 21:49Speaker 1: sleep at night, literally could not sleep at night to
- 21:53Speaker 1: make a jury confront the evidence because it's so upsetting
- 21:58Speaker 1: and so settling, unsettling to think about what was done
- 22:02Speaker 1: to these two children.
- 22:04Speaker 2: It's just so hard to think about.
- 22:06Speaker 1: And if you notice you said about how JJ fought
- 22:09Speaker 1: for his life, he was asphyxiated with a plastic bag.
- 22:13Speaker 2: That's how he died.
- 22:14Speaker 1: And there are bruise marks on his body where he
- 22:18Speaker 1: tried to fight to get that bag off of his
- 22:21Speaker 1: face and his head.
- 22:23Speaker 2: Same thing with Tammy Dabell.
- 22:28Speaker 1: She was asphyxiated and she had bruising on her body
- 22:32Speaker 1: where she tried to live. And by God, they're gonna
- 22:37Speaker 1: answer up for this, true, of course, as they had
- 22:41Speaker 1: to hell, but in a court of law, So help
- 22:45Speaker 1: me God, Thank you, Cheryl McCombe.
- 22:48Speaker 2: Goodbye for