Prosecutors say Stephen Capaldi murdered his wife Elizabeth Capaldi last October to make way for his mistress, who supported his dream of opening a comic book store while his wife did not. He was sentenced to 22 to 44 years in prison.
Ruth Ann Comer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for solicitation of capital murder. Prosecutors say she hired carnival worker Charles Grube to kill her son and daughter-in-law in 2013 to tie up loose ends in her boyfriend's murder the year before.
Kay Woodcock, the biological grandmother of slain 7-year-old J.J. Vallow, said that Lori Vallow was once a "doting mom." But even before divorcing, then allegedly killing ex-husband Charles Vallow, Woodcock testified, the mother shifted focus to her "Doomsday cult" and new husband Chad Daybell.
Letecia Stauch pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity for the alleged murder of her stepson Gannon Stauch, 11. But prosecutors say the efforts she made to cover up the killing refute claims that she suffered a "major psychotic crack."
Lori Vallow Daybell, the mother accused in the triple murder of her two youngest children as well as her new husband’s previous wife, was willing to “remove any obstacle in her way to get what she wants,” a prosecutor told jurors Monday.
Danielle Pamula told police that she was showering upstairs in her family home when her twin sister, Jennifer Pamula, allegedly stabbed their father Joseph Pamula with garden shears. But now both sisters are charged with first-degree domestic murder.
As the trial of a woman charged in three killings in what prosecutors say was a doomsday-focused plot began Monday, attorneys asked potential jurors if they would have trouble being impartial after viewing autopsy photos of children.
