() A cousin of Lori Vallow Daybell says that the accused murderer is employing the same manipulation tactics in her Arizona trial that she has used throughout her life.

“The tactics that she uses to try and get her way, to try and manipulate, to try and get what she wants, those are the same things that I personally have seen historically,” Megan Conner, Vallow Daybell’s cousin, said Monday on ‘s “Banfield” after attending court proceedings.

“Her fake crying today, I believe it was fake, and her basically trying to endear herself to witnesses and to jurors by sort of making jokes, pretending to laugh along,” Conner said.

Vallow Daybell, 51, is currently representing herself in an Arizona trial where she faces charges of conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, who was fatally shot by her brother in July 2019. She is already serving three life sentences in Idaho for the murders of her two youngest children and conspiracy to kill her fifth husband’s previous wife.

Conner, who hosts a podcast called “The Midlife Revolution,” attended the trial to seek closure about the circumstances surrounding Charles Vallow’s death. She said that while Vallow Daybell’s “histrionic style, her religious zealotry, her delusion” have evolved in recent years, her manipulative tactics remain consistent.

“She was really trying hard to get people on her side,” Conner said. “However, in a courtroom setting, she has rules, and she can’t use the same tactics that have worked for her before. And I think that’s really frustrating to her.”

Prosecutors allege Vallow Daybell conspired with her brother, Alex Cox, to kill Charles Vallow and collect on a million-dollar life insurance policy while pursuing a relationship with Chad Daybell, an author who wrote about doomsday prophecies. Cox, who claimed self-defense in the shooting, died five months later from what medical examiners determined was a blood clot in his lungs.

Conner explained that her perspective differs from other family members because she distanced herself from the Cox family years ago and is no longer a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“I’ve also been through a great deal of therapy and healing, and so I have a hair trigger for manipulation and control. I recognize those tactics like right off the bat,” she said.

The case has garnered international attention, particularly due to Vallow Daybell’s doomsday-focused religious beliefs and the subsequent murders of her two children, whose bodies were found buried on Chad Daybell’s property in Idaho. Chad Daybell has been sentenced to death for the three Idaho killings.

In her opening statement for the Arizona trial, Vallow Daybell claimed Cox acted in self-defense, describing her husband’s death as “a tragedy but not a crime.”

Testimony in the six-week trial continues Tuesday. Vallow Daybell faces an additional trial in Arizona in late May on charges of conspiring to murder her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.