her child reportedly kidnapped in haiti. the mom convicted of killing her two children, 17-year-old tylee, 7-year-old joshua, and conspiring to kill her husband s first wife, sentenced to life without the possibility of pa control. also just in, authorities say that potential mass shooting foiled. a suspect opening fire outside a jewish school in memphis, fleeing in a pickup truck. former president trump, and now his property manager at mar-a-lago in court, accused of trying to help the former president delete surveillance video at mar-a-lago, until another employee halted the effort, allegedly saying, i don t think i have the right to do that. tonight, the millions now being spent on trump s mounting legal bills by his supporters across the country. pierre thomas reporting. the dangerous heat, 60 million americans under heat alerts at this hour. ginger zee is here. the devastates russian missile strikes on president zelenskyy s hometown tonight. multiple civilians
in haiti. first tonight, the mother convicted of killing her two children, 16-year-old tylee, 7-year-old joshua, and conspiring to kill her husband s first wife, sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. what that convicted killer then said to the courtroom, and how the judge responded. also, just in, authorities say that potential mass shooting foiled. a suspect opening fire outside a jewish school in memphis, fleeing in a pickup truck. former president trump, and now his property manager at mar-a-lago in court, accused of trying to help the former president delete surveillance video at mar-a-lago, until another employee halted the effort, allegedly saying, i don t think i have the right to do that. tonight, the millions now being spent on trump s mounting legal bills by his supporters across the country. pierre thomas reporting. the dangerous heat. 60 million americans under heat alerts at this hour. ginger zee is here. the devastating russian missile
Worrying, mom, we are fine. she knows how i worry and how i miss her. reporter: and in what she called her communications with the spirit world, she says her 7-year-old son j.j. did the same. he said to me, you didn t do anything wrong, mom. i love you. and i know you loved me every minute of my life. reporter: but the judge pointed to the depravity of the crimes. they were found dead. burned, mutilated, and dismembered, and buried like animals. reporter: prosecutors said lori and her married lover, chad daybell, a doomsday author, claimed the kids and chad s wife were zombies who had to be killed. they argued the couple, who married weeks after the murders on a beach in hawaii, were driven by greed. after you knew they were dead, you collected public funded assistance payments, and for them and that was blood money you kept for yourself. reporter: lori vallow day bell forced to listen to the
Her child believed kidnapped tonight in haiti. but we begin opportunity with the stunning moment in court, the idaho mother convicted of killing her own children. tonight, sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. lori vallow daybell expressing no remorse. and what she then said to that packed courtroom and that edge. and how that judge responded. abc s chief national correspondent matt gutman leading us off tonight. reporter: lori vallow daybell today was given one last chance to repent for the murders of her children and the plot to kill her husband s first wife, tammy daybell. but instead, in a bizarre rant, she claimed her three victims told her they are happy in heaven. i know for a fact that my children are happy and busy in the spirit world. reporter: in a final gut punch for the victims families, the so-called doomsday cult mother today, unrepentant, denying her children were murdered and claiming her daughter tylee has visited her as a spirit. she said to
Families whose lives she destroyed, including tammy daybell s. you are a liar, an adulteress, and a murderer. because of the choices you made, my family lost a beloved mother, sister, aunt, and daughter. she is irreplaceable. she was 1,000 times the woman you will even dream of being. reporter: and j.j. s heartbroken grandmother. j.j. and tylee could have been with us, living happy lives. instead, she took all that away. all because she is a money hungry, power mongering monster. reporter: the judge with the final word, sentencing vallow daybell to spend the rest of her life in prison. you simply have no remorse for it. even sitting here today. reporter: and david, after listening to her statement, the judge calling out lori vallow, saying that she murdered her own children to remove them as obstacles so that she could gain financially. and she said she justified all of this by going down that