Such a good point! This is the very topic that I have been simmering on. Lori logic that truly contradicts her faith. This is what indicates her role in the conspiracy. Here is what she says about protection in the recorded phone conversation referenced a few posts up...
LV: "have you ever seen Jesus Christ? do know what the future behavior would be if you had seen Jesus Christ? He does protect me and he is protecting me and he will protect me against this accusation as well. And we will both stand there with him and you tell me if I was lying or not, when we’re both standing there with Jesus Christ.
It sounds like she has nothing to worry about. She does not need mortal protection; God will provide.
LVD loves to play up her good mother image, but LVD does not mourn her children, whether they were dead or inhabited by zombies. If they were zombies, that should have been very distressing, in and of itself. She shows irritation, not grief about their "zombie behavior", and I think this is code for her disinterest in parenting them. If she is not mourning because they are ...
Safe from being zombies because they are dead (still murder, btw) then there is no need for protection from mortals like Kay, and there is no need for secrecy to keep them safe. She claims she know where they are, and they are "safe" in her conversations after the fact, which logically means she knows they are dead, and she knows where they are. If she was not part of the conspiracy, why would she know they are safe and why would she protect CD and AC from investigation by telling lies and running away?
As for evidence that she participated in advance, LVD knows that calling someone a zombie= their immanent death. That is her premeditated role in the conspiracy.
She knows zombie talk will get the ball rolling with AC. CD may have initiated some of the zombie talk, but LVD surely knows (particularly after the first few examples) that there is a inevitable chain of events that follow. She may have been able to feign ignorance initially, but she knows what they are talking about when they talk about zombies, and she does plenty of zombie talk after she knows the consequences. She thinks she has somehow insulated herself from accusations by making CD and AC her tentacles.
Her dilemma is that she has cloaked herself in religious protection with her family and friends to avoid accountability with them, but that is not a legal defense, and she KNOWS it. If she publicly embraces her zombie defense, it is tantamount to a confession. She can't publicly deny the beliefs that CD has promoted because it will undermine her ability to lie to her family and friends, and she will lose her power over CD. I think she won't testify because she can't craft an answer that walks this impossibly fine line. LVD, like others with psychopathic tendencies is used to manipulating one person at a time, and court is very much public.
She is either in or out on the doomsday business, and she has painted herself into an ugly and indefensible corner.
