Alternate Lori Vallow juror speaks out on most painful moments of ‘monster cult mom’ trial

AN alternate juror from the trial of alleged cult mom Lori Vallow has spoken out, revealing the most painful moments of the process.

The woman is the latest juror to speak out since Vallow, 49, was found guilty of first-degree murder for the deaths of her children JJ, seven, and Tylee Ryan, 16, and conspiracy to kill her husband’s wife.

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Tiffany, who was Juror 17, spoke to Fox 10 Phoenix about the experience.

“There were six numbers that we were going to be picked to the very end, right before deliberations,” Tiffany told the outlet.

“I was really hoping it wasn’t my number.”

Tiffany spoke about the different testimonies from 60 different witnesses that she heard before she was chosen as an alternate.

“Probably the more emotional testimonies that stood out to me was her son Colby and her sister,” Tiffany said.

“Just listening to them talking to her in jail and how emotional they were, and I can feel the impact this has had on their life.

“She’s destroyed so much around her and just destroyed her relationships with her family and there’s no hint she realized that on the phone.”

Tiffany also said that seeing the images of Vallow’s children, Tylee and JJ, was the toughest part.

“And I started crying when they brought in the tissues and the plastic bags that they were going to show the pictures,” Tiffany said.

As a mother herself, the images of Vallow’s teen daughter struck a nerve.

“She was done such a disservice that the fact that they just didn’t have very much evidence for her,” Tiffany said.

“You know it, just so. I just can’t. I still can’t. This is gonna affect me for the rest of my life thinking about that, probably.”

‘LONE HOLDOUT’

Another juror, Saul Hernandez had suspicions about Vallow during her murder trial in Idaho but was later convinced that she was guilty after re-examining the facts of the case.

“As the case progressed, as the evidence came to light, testimony was shared, it was harder to look at her,” Saul Hernandez told Good Morning America.

“Growing up, we’re taught good and bad, God and evil, and I think for the first time in my life, I put a face to evil.”

The prosecution argued throughout the trial that Vallow and Daybell had motives to kill their kids based on their extreme religious beliefs and need for money so that they could leave their old life behind and start fresh in Hawaii.

Hernandez was convinced that Vallow and Daybell “wanted to believe something that only applied and benefited them, only applied and benefited those people they liked, their circle that they liked and they wanted to be around.”

When prosecutors shared photos of the pair dancing on a beach in Hawaii after Vallow’s children vanished, Hernandez was “disgusted” and “didn’t want to look at them,” he said.

Hernandez said that he was initially held up during deliberations because of the details that were presented about Tylee’s disappearance and death.

“I just didn’t feel like at that timeline with Tylee, we were quite there yet,” Hernandez said of when the case was handed to the jury.

“And if we were, I perhaps was missing it.”

Deliberations took two days because of his hesitation but eventually, Hernandez was convinced that Vallow killed her kids after the jury looked at all the evidence and testimony.

NEW INDICTMENT

Vallow is not facing the death penalty for the murders of her children but could be sent to prison for the rest of her life.

A sentencing hearing is expected in about three months.

Meanwhile, a new indictment against Vallow in Maricopa County has emerged.

She stands accused of conspiring to kill her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux.

A jury indicted her in February 2022 but the charge was only recently made public, Fox 10 Phoenix reported.

Police in Gilbert, Arizona, allege that Vallow and her brother Alex Cox – who died in December 2019 – conspired to kill Boudreaux, who was formerly married to Vallow’s niece.

Boudreaux was shot at in October 2019 by someone in a gray Jeep Wrangler.

He told cops that someone pointed a gun out of a window and shot at him in the driveway of his Gilbert home, though the bullet missed.

Investigators got their hands on surveillance footage that showed Alex and Lori unloading a gray Jeep Wrangler.

Additionally, authorities have digital evidence linking Cox to the Gilbert area close to when the shooting occurred, Fox 10 Phoenix reported.

Vallow is also facing another trial in Arizona on a charge of conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.