Interesting. I'm expecting the opposite-- no crazy religious beliefs will be brought up in court by the defense IMO. Instead she will try to claim someone else took her children and she has no idea where they are now. Maybe she will claim (through her lawyer) that JJ's grandparents are hiding him and they are persecuting her through the police and courts out of spite because her brother Alex shot Charles. And she might keep saying (through her lawyer) that Tylee is in college somewhere but is an emancipated teen and stopped communicating with her, so she doesn't know where she is either. Neither explanation will make any sense but I expect she will double down on whatever explanations she has given to her lawyers and followers already. I'm basing that on Lori's past history of interactions with the police and others outside the cult.
Some examples:
1. When she talked to the police after Charles was murdered she knew not to mention any religious beliefs at all and she blamed the victim. She made up a bunch of lies about Charles being abusive and mean. She had been telling her friend in Hawaii the same lies and had been lying to her family saying Charles was cheating on her before he died. None of her lies had a religious component.
2. In early 2019, after she had stolen money from Charles' business bank account, changed the locks on the house, removed all his clothing, his business computer and anything of value from the house, taken his truck so he couldn't get back from the airport, canceled his flight, hidden Bailey's collar and JJ's meds, JJ's clothing and i-pad, etc, Charles took her purse and car keys to try to prevent her from leaving the parking lot of JJ's school so that she could be served with the order for a psych eval. Lori went straight to the police (with a friend) and told a story that made herself the sympathetic victim and made Charles look like a controlling/abusive spouse who stole her purse. She didn't mention any religious beliefs to the police then.
3. Lori has passed at least 2 psych evaluations in the past, which indicates to me she knows not to bring her crazy religious beliefs up. The first one we know about was in 2011 during a joint child custody case involving Lori, Charles, Charles ex-wife Cheryl and Lori's ex-husband Joe Ryan. Lori tried to make an excuse to get out of that one, but in the end she ended up showing up early for her appointment and as far as we know nothing was uncovered. The 2nd psych eval she passed was in early 2019 right after the purse incident- she was in and out within a matter of hours. If she had mentioned anything about Charles being possessed by a zombie named Nick Schneider I believe they would have held her for observation.
4. During that same time period as the 1st psych eval mentioned above a judge ordered cameras in Lori and Charles' home because of accusations of some kind against her (we don't know what the accusations were). Nothing untoward was ever captured on camera. IMHO Lori knew she was being filmed and was able to control herself as long as the cameras were there.
5. We have records of Lori talking to JJ's school and other people such as the dog trainer and nanny. She knows not to use her religious beliefs as an excuse for her behavior with them. She makes up other lies instead. Sometimes pointless lies-- such as telling JJ's school Charles committed suicide and telling the dog trainer that Tylee was already in college in Idaho when Tylee was at home and would move with them. She lied to make herself seem like a victim who was forced to move out of state and uproot her children's lives because of "circumstances beyond her control" when the reality is she is making choices on where to move and what she wants to do.
Lori is very cunning at this lying game and has seemingly been doing it all her life, never accepting any personal responsibility for failed marriage after failed marriage or anything else that happens to her. When her 2nd marriage ended she told a friend that Colby's father didn't want a relationship with her and Colby. We don't know the truth of the situation, but she was the one who filed for divorce in that marriage. I think the wild religious beliefs are only shared with people they perceive share their beliefs and will accept that as an excuse. Believing your children and/or spouses are zombies has never been grounds for murder and it never will be. Lori and company are well aware of that IMO. I expect instead of revealing their wild beliefs we will see more wild accusations against other people such as the ones made against Brandon in the letter from Melani's lawyer.
MOO.