Opening statements began Monday in the trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, who is charged with killing her two children from a previous marriage as well as her current husband’s ex-wife.

Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, are charged with murdering Vallow’s daughter Tylee from a previous marriage and her adopted son J.J., as well as murdering Daybell’s ex-wife, Tammy. The pair was charged on May 25, 2021, but the trial is just getting started, 12 News reported. Fremont County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsey Blake opened the state’s case by saying it was all about “money, power, and sex” for Vallow.

“Lori used money, power and sex or the promise of those things to get what she wanted,” Blake said, according to People Magazine.

Prosecutors used their opening statements to show jurors photos of the grave where the bodies of Vallow’s children were found.

“What was left of Tylee was found. Charred remains. A mass of bone and tissues. That was what was left of this beautiful young woman,” Blake said. “Her DNA was discovered on a pickaxe and shovel and later found in Daybell’s shed.”

“J.J. also lost his father,” Blake added. “When he lost his father, he became much more difficult to care for. He was entitled to social security benefits. The defendant didn’t want to have to take care of J.J. anymore, he had money — J.J.’s gone.”

Blake also said that Vallow didn’t do anything to locate her children when they reportedly went missing.

Prosecutors also revealed that Daybell’s ex-wife Tammy died of asphyxiation, Fox 10 reported. A masked gunman tried to murder Tammy on October 9, 2019, but failed. Vallow reportedly said that “he can’t do anything right” in response to the shooting, Fox reported, suggesting Vallow knew who attempted to murder Tammy. It is believed that Vallow’s brother was the gunman. Ten days after the attempted shooting, Tammy was found dead due to asphyxiation.

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Less than a month after Tammy died, Lori married Chad Daybell in Hawaii.

The trial will take place in Boise after being moved from eastern Idaho, where the murders allegedly took place, in order for Vallow to get a fair trial.

Late last month, during a hearing at the Fremont County Courthouse in St. Anthony, Idaho, District Judge Steven Boyce heard a motion to dismiss the death penalty, which Boyce granted “to ensure the rights of the defendant to a fair trial are protected,” East Idaho News reported.

Lori’s husband, Chad Daybell, also faces trial for the children’s murders, and at a hearing last month, Boyce ruled that prosecutors must turn over all written and recorded statements made by Chad since he’s been in custody. Chad still faces the death penalty.

In early March, Lori and Daybell had their trials separated by a judge, with Lori’s trial set to begin on April 3, with Daybell’s to occur later. The separation came after Lori tried to have the charges against her dismissed for lack of a speedy trial since she was arrested nearly three years ago.

For nearly as long as it has existed, Budweiser has been America’s beer. Its ad campaign has always revolved around that: baseball, NASCAR, the weekend cookout, bros just bro-ing out.

But that was then. Budweiser, first brewed in 1876, is now owned by the Belgian company AB InBev. And Bud Light Vice President of Marketing Alissa Heinerscheid has declared the brand’s past marketing efforts as “out of touch” and “fratty.”

“I’m a businesswoman, I had a really clear job to do when I took over Bud Light, and it was ‘This brand is in decline, it’s been in a decline for a really long time, and if we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this brand there will be no future for Bud Light,'” Heinerscheid said.

Her comments were made before it was revealed to the public that Bud Light decided to partner with transgender “influencer” Dylan Mulvaney, a biological male. Mulvaney recently marked one full year in transition, so Bud Light celebrated the occasion by creating a can with Mulvaney’s face on it.

Well, you might think, “Who cares?” But it turns out there was an incredible blowback from the craven move to cash in on the ever-growing “look-at-me-I’m-tolerant!” campaign. Consumers across the U.S. revolted against Bud Light, according to bar owners and beer-industry experts around the country.

“I think society flexes its muscles sometimes and reminds manufacturers that the consumer is still in charge,” Jeff Fitter, owner of Case & Bucks, a restaurant and sports bar in Barnhart, Missouri, told Fox Business. “In Bud Light’s effort to be inclusive, they excluded almost everybody else, including their traditional audience.”

Therein lies the irony. Beer has long been a more macho drink. Women can, of course, drink it, but beer has been associated with men standing around, talking sports and punching each other. Now, before you move to cancel me, that’s just how it has been. I didn’t make it happen. Women have a nice glass of pinot grigio, men hork down a Bud, which happens to be the nation’s top-selling beer brand.

But hoo boy, did men bail on Bud Light. Fitter said sales of Anheuser-Busch bottled products dropped 30% over the past week, while draft beer plunged 50%.

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It wasn’t just Case & Bucks that saw sales of Bud plummet. Brewhouse owner Alex Kesaris told Fox that 80% of Bud Light drinkers ordered something else this week, “while the 20% who did order the beer ‘weren’t on social media and hadn’t heard yet.'”

A national beer-industry analyst told Fox Business that Bud Light’s move was a “bad decision” that defied “virtually every rule in building brands and marketing.”

The analyst cited a scenario in Texas, where Bud Light has long sponsored a weekly dart league that draws more than 100 players every Thursday. The bar usually blows through three kegs of Bud Light at the event — nearly 500 12-ounce glasses.

This week, the bar sold only four bottles of Bud Light.

But there was more than just anecdotal evidence.  Anheuser-Busch (AB) distributors placed fewer orders of Bud Light after it launched its gender propaganda, according to a Beer Business Daily report reviewed by Fox News.

“We reached out to a handful of A-B distributors who were spooked, most particularly in the Heartland and the South, and even then in their more rural areas,” the popular beer industry trade publication wrote. “It appears likely Bud Light took a volume hit in some markets over the holiday weekend.”

“Whether it lasts or whether the publicity sparks incremental off-setting demand from over the ideological divide in metro areas, remains to be seen,” the publication wrote.

Oh, it’ll last.

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Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.