Lori Vallow

The 49-year-old was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of her two children. Her trial is set to begin early next year.

Idaho District Judge Steven Boyce wrote in a ruling Vallow Daybell is “restored to competency and fit to proceed.” She was arraigned on the charges days later, and [ pleaded not guilty](https://www.today.com/news/news/lori-vallow-idaho-mother-charged-killing-children-pleads-not-guilty-rcna25065). [ first-degree murder charges](https://www.today.com/news/lori-vallow-chad-daybell-indicted-murder-charges-deaths-her-two-t219590) in the deaths of Tylee and JJ in May 2021. [additional charge](https://www.maricopacountyattorney.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=820) of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the death of her ex-husband, Charles Vallow. [Yellowstone National Park](https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/missing-rexburg-kids/fbi-releases-new-photo-of-jj-vallow-tylee-ryan-and-alex-cox-at-yellowstone/277-abca0aaf-94e1-4c8d-bee9-f1e97d687e3a) while on vacation with her family. Family members later described [ Daybell’s beliefs as a “turning point](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-lori-vallow-said-her-marriage-doomsday-author-chad-daybell-n1280351)” for Vallow Daybell in the podcast “The Followers: Madness of Two.” [Chandler, Arizona, police](https://www.ksl.com/article/50257874/arizona-police-release-new-documents-from-investigation-into-charles-vallows-death). Tammy Daybell’s body was exhumed in December and in February 2021, Tammy Daybell’s [autopsy was completed by the](https://www.kivitv.com/news/tammy-daybells-autopsy-is-complete) Utah Medical Examiner Wednesday, according to a news release from Sheriff Len Humphries, but the contents of the report “would not be made public” as it is “evidence in an open and ongoing investigation. After divorcing, she [married](https://www.eastidahonews.com/2022/05/the-latest-timeline-in-the-lori-and-chad-daybell-murder-case/) Charles Vallow in 2006, changing her name to Lori Vallow. [](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lori-vallow-indicted-2019-killing-ex-husband-n1272675) [ (Vallow Daybell pleaded not guilty](https://www.today.com/news/news/lori-vallow-idaho-mother-charged-killing-children-pleads-not-guilty-rcna25065) to the charges, and others, during an arraignment at the Fremont County Courthouse, April 2022.) [ third husband](https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/investigators-to-review-the-death-of-lori-daybells-3rd-husband-joseph-ryan), Joseph Ryan, who is the father of her child, Tylee. [The Followers: Madness of Two](https://www.ucpaudio.com/podcast/followers-madness-two),” speaking of their childhood growing up in a Mormon family in Southern California.

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[charged](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/us/chad-daybell-lori-vallow-murder.html) with first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Tylee and JJ. Lori is also [charged](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lori-vallow-idaho-mom-charged-killing-children-says-conspiracy-count-c-rcna43461) with conspiracy to commit murder in Arizona in connection with the death of her former husband, Charles Vallow. Charles Daybell is also [charged](https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/vallow-daybell-murder-charges/277-58d3aa10-6d51-4e2c-b2b9-7dd1a9ade829) with an additional count of first-degree murder in the case of his late wife Tammy Daybell, whose body was exhumed after authorities began searching for Tylee and JJ in 2019. In December 2019, Lori’s brother [Alex Cox died](https://www.eastidahonews.com/2021/01/new-details-released-on-what-happened-the-day-alex-cox-died/), also of what authorities determined to be natural causes. Lori’s family members, including her mother and her eldest son Colby, who both feature in the new documentary, begged her to explain where the children were, but to no avail. [shot and killed](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/us/chad-daybell-lori-vallow-murder.html) Charles Vallow, claiming it was in self-defense. [visited](https://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-idaho-mom-arrested-hawaii-held-million-bail/story?id=69114442) the apartment complex where Lori lived, and she claimed that her children were with a friend in Arizona. According to Netflix’s documentary, Lori then attempted to take out Charles’s $1 million life insurance policy—though she found out she was no longer the beneficiary—before moving with her brother Alex and her two children Tylee and JJ to Rexburg, Idaho, where Chad Daybell lived. As Netflix’s doc explains, Chad Daybell believed that the world was imminently ending, and that he had the power to determine who had a “light” spirit, and therefore would survive the apocalypse, and whose spirit was “dark.” According to Daybell, the only way to exercise a dark spirit, which he called a zombie, was to kill the earthly body. After a nationwide search covered extensively in the media, Tylee Ryan, age 17, and JJ Vallow, age 7, had been found. In Arizona, during July 2019, Lori Vallow’s brother Alex Cox [excavated](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/us/chad-daybell-stepchildren.html) from the Rexburg, Idaho backyard of LDS doomsday author Chad Daybell.

Lori Vallow Daybell is the subject of the Netflix documentary Sins of Our Mother. She, along with husband Chad Guy Daybell, are accused of murdering two of ...

Lori and Chad Daybell were each charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Tylee Ryan. Chad was [arrested](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/10/chad-daybell-arrested-lori-vallow-missing-idaho-children-case/5332350002/) on June 10, 2020, and charged with tampering with evidence. Vallow Daybell was also charged with conspiracy to commit murder in connection with her ex-husband Charles Vallow's death; Chad Guy Daybell was additionally charged with first-degree murder of his ex-wife, Tammy Daybell. She and Chad Daybell will be tried together in January 2023 and may face capital punishment if convicted of the murders of which they've been accused. Raymond said that Vallow Daybell believed she was one of 144,000 people who would survive the end of days. She missed the deadline and was [arrested](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/01/updates-lori-vallow-daybell-her-missing-idaho-kids-chad-daybell/5148716002/) in February 2020 and denied bail. [was believed](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/coroner-tammy-daybell-initial-cause-of-death-was-cardiac-event) she suffered cardiac arrest in her sleep. [tied the knot](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/video/653056) in Hawaii on Nov. Vallow's [grandmother](https://parade.com/1145663/marynliles/grandmother-names/), alerted police that she hadn't seen or heard from J.J. Vallow Daybell and Ryan separated in 2004 and divorced in 2005. But over the past three years, something went very wrong: Now Lori is in jail, waiting to stand trial for conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her fourth husband, her fifth husband’s wife, and her two youngest children." She, along with husband Chad Guy Daybell, are accused of murdering two of her children, as well as in connection with the homicide of her ex-husband; Chad is also accused of murdering his former wife.

In the Netflix documentary about Lori Vallow, Alex Cox is seen admitting that he shot his brother-in-law, Charles Vallow—and saying it was self-defense.

Alex Cox was also one of the last people seen with Tylee before she went missing in September 2019. She was charged with two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children by prosecutors in Madison County, Idaho. The locker was rented by Lori Vallow. He was 51. Cox died of natural causes on December 12, 2019. Alex Cox is also listed in the Vallow-Daybell indictment as a co-conspirator in the deaths of Tylee, JJ and Tammy Daybell, according to ABC. Cox tasered Ryan and threatened to murder him. Lori thinks death is nothing. On July 11, 2019, Cox shot dead Lori's fourth husband, Charles Vallow. Video footage seen in Sins of Our Mother shows Lori Vallow and Alex Cox moving items in and out of a storage locker in Rexburg, Idaho, in November 2019, when Tylee and JJ had been declared missing. I'm telling you there is something wrong about Lori and Alex and this belief they have. As seen in Sins of Our Mother, he co-operated with the police on arrival, telling them he had shot Charles Vallow in self-defense and to protect his sister and niece Tylee.

Lori Vallow Daybell was accused of killing her two children in 2019. A new Netflix doc, 'Sins of our Mother' delves into her story. Here's where she is now.

Lori was arrested in early 2020 when she failed to show authorities that her children were safe, per Cosmo. The police were soon involved and, in June 2020, the remains of both children were found on Chad’s Idaho property, with authorities alleging that the children had been murdered by the couple in September 2019. The children's bodies were found a few months later. A friend told authorities that Lori called her two youngest children as "zombies" at one point, and that they'd said Tammy had been possessed by a "dark spirit," per - Conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the death of Tammy. Lori's two younger children, Tylee and JJ, both went missing in September of 2019. - Conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and grand theft by deception in the death of Tylee. JJ’s grandparents panicked when they couldn’t locate JJ or Tylee, the doc says. More on that in a sec. The couple has also been She has been married five times, and was mother to two biological children and one adopted son. Lori also believed that Chad could see good and bad spirits, or "zombies."

But over the past three years, something went very wrong: Now Lori is in jail, waiting to stand trial for conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder in ...

in March 2021; Vallow was additionalyl charged with conspiracy to murder her husband Charles in June 2021. and Tylee’s. Lori Vallow told authorities he was visiting family in Arizona, but she packed up her and Daybell’s belongings and fled the next day, with the FBI on her tail. Sins of Our Mother investigates the story of Lori Vallow, a mother who was reportedly indoctrinated by a cult leader and accused of murdering two of her children. Vallow was seen as a picture-perfect mother, but in 201 she reportedly began reading the literature of Christian preacher Chad Daybell, who claimed that the apocalypse was near and that humans could be graded on a light-dark spectrum. Lori Vallow was known to friends and family as a devoted mother of three, a loving wife, and a woman of God.

Missing children and mysterious deaths - many want to know where Lori Vallow Daybell is now, as her story gets told in new Netflix documentary Sins of our ...

Along with Vallow Daybell, he has been charged with the murders of Tylee and JJ. They have suggested Vallow Daybell will qualify for capital punishment due to the deaths of her children being “exceptionally depraved and carried out for financial gain”. He also faces the same counts of conspiracy and grand theft, along with a charge of first-degree murder and insurance fraud in relation to the death of first wife Tammy Daybell. We believe it would be confusing to a jury to be able to figure out what elements were met, when the elements were met and to what extent the elements were met”. A second conspiracy charge maintains the same allegations, but in relation to JJ being estranged from his family and Vallow Daybell caring for him. Lori Vallow Daybell is set to stand trial in January 2023. Cox alleged that during the visit, Charles became aggressive towards Vallow Daybell, and he’d stepped in to protect her. By June 2020, Vallow Daybell maintained a refusal to give up the whereabouts of her children. However, in April 2022, Vallow Daybell was found to be competent to stand trial, and returned from the mental health facility to Madison County Jail. In May 2021, Vallow Daybell underwent psychological evaluation and was declared mentally unfit to stand trial. Such is the nature and breadth of her crimes, the documentary needs 3 parts to cover it all in terrifying detail. Her sister thinks she’s innocent, and there’s a lot of inconsistencies in the story - for those asking

Netflix's new docuseries Sins of Our Mother featured Lori Vallow's son Colby Ryan and other family members giving their takes on how she ended up charged ...

[in connection with the 2019 death of her fourth husband](https://www.eonline.com/news/1273498/lori-vallow-and-chad-daybell-officially-indicted-for-murder-of-her-children), Charles Vallow, who was fatally shot by her brother. The three episodes dive into heartbreaking and disturbing story of Lori and her husband Chad Daybell, [who were both indicted for first-degree murder in June 2021 in the deaths of Lori's children](https://www.eonline.com/news/1273498/lori-vallow-and-chad-daybell-officially-indicted-for-murder-of-her-children) Tylee, 17 and JJ, 7. [Lori Vallow](https://www.eonline.com/news/1160513/what-happened-to-lori-vallow-s-children-a-months-long-search-buried-remains-and-two-arrests) asked her son Colby Ryan in a recorded phone conversation featured in Sins of Our Mother, Netflix's new documentary series premiering Sept. But to formulate any answer we must look at Lori through the eyes of the people who knew her best." And "I don't know if we will ever know exactly what motivated Lori to commit such unspeakable crimes.

Sins of Our Mother is the latest limited crime docuseries to hit Netflix and fans are already obsessed with this shocking true story.

Later in 2021, Lori and her fifth husband Chad were charged with murder in the first degree of Tylee Ryan and J.J. Following the disappearance of her children in 2019, Lori was arrested in 2020 on two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children. The couple filed for divorce in 2004 and in 2005 it was finalized. Lori's other son, Colby Ryan, from her second marriage who was adopted by her third husband, is still alive and is currently living in Arizona. Here is a breakdown of Lori's relationships and the children resulting from these relationships, along with what Lori is doing right now. The series is just three episodes long and explores Lori's involvement with a cult-like religion which led the press to label her, the 'doomsday mom'.

Lori Vallow Daybell is accused of being involved in the murder of multiple family members including two of her children. Sins of Our Mother is now on ...

Readers in the US are encouraged to contact the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline on (1-800-422-4453) or the American SPCC ( [www.americanspcc.org](http://www.americanspcc.org)). As a result, all trials concerning her – including the two murder charges, concealment of evidence and conspiracy to commit murder – were stayed. In the documentary, her family and friends state that she was becoming more obsessed with death and the afterlife by this point. They were indicted that May, with the additional charge of Together, Lori and Chad believed they were chosen to lead people into the second coming of Christ, which they felt was due at any moment. As a result, Lori wasn't present at the time of the shooting. If they are found guilty, the maximum charge is the death penalty, which is what prosecutors are seeking. On July 11, 2019, Charles was shot in the chest and killed by Lori's brother Alex Cox. The three-part series tracks the downward spiral of Lori Vallow Daybell into a cult-like obsession with religion, which resulted in her being branded the 'Doomsday Mom' in the press. Here's the latest on the case, and what is happening with Lori Vallow Daybell's trial. The children were missing for almost nine months. Lori's wedding ring was bought on Amazon, using the late Charles Vallow's account.

Lori Vallow, the “Doomsday Mom,” had five husbands total, including a high school sweetheart, William Lagioia, Joe Ryan, Charles Vallow, and Chad Daybell.

Lori first learned of Chad when she attended a 2018 conference in Rexburg, Idaho. “I had been married to someone who was very awful and who raped my children,” she said. “My dad and my mom were in a bad relationship,” Colby says in the Netflix docuseries. In 2013, the Vallow family grew when they adopted Joshua Jaxon “J.J.” Vallow. “I don’t know if he started to be annoyed by me as a little kid, but everything I did was annoying to him,” he says in the docuseries. Soon after, Chad, who was married to Tammy Daybell and raising five children at the time, was a guest on Lori’s religious podcast. In July that year, Charles was shot and killed by Alex Cox (via “But I think a part of it was he was very financially secure. Lori Vallow, the “Doomsday Mom,” had five husbands total, including a high school sweetheart, William Lagioia, Joe Ryan, Charles Vallow, and Chad Daybell. “She didn’t feel like she wanted me to be in that [bad relationship] so she took me from that situation.” In audio clips of Lori, she explains how her relationship with Joe turned her toward the Mormon temple. “Her first marriage did not last,” Colby explains.

The harrowing, tragic tale of the murders of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan made national headlines, first as a disappearance, then something more unseemly in ...

After the scene cleared, Lori called her eldest son, Colby Ryan, and told him it was a heart attack. That church, an offshoot of the LDS church, is almost entirely defunct. He told police it was self-defense and was never charged. That’s when Charles allegedly grabbed the bat and hit Cox in the back of the head. And in a three-part Netflix docuseries, “Sins of Our Mother,” director Skye Borgman attempts to separate fiction from heartbreaking reality. Tylee charged out with a baseball bat and tried to separate the pair, Cox told police.

Nate Eaton, news director at East Idaho News, was one of the first reporters on the case involving Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell. Here's his story.

When asked what it felt like in Rexburg the day and the week the children’s remains were found, Eaton said it was one of the heaviest weeks the town has experienced. His coverage for [East Idaho News](https://www.eastidahonews.com/news/daybell/) has become arguably the most widely cited news coverage of the case. Before the children’s remains were found and Daybell was arrested, the town exploded with Chad Daybell sightings. They arrived at the scene and Vallow and Daybell were there. The police served two warrants and seized Vallow and Daybell’s vehicle. “Chad was not in custody, and you’ve got these deaths that had happened, but you didn’t know who else were their followers. Vallow and Daybell refused to answer any of Eaton’s questions. Later that day, the investigator called Eaton again and said, “Things have sped up, we need to move on.” While on the call, Eaton said he looked up and saw two police cars and an SUV. While Eaton was at a recital for his daughter, an intern who worked for East Idaho News discovered that both Vallow and Daybell’s former spouses had died in the past year. Shortly after Christmas, an anonymous tipster with a fake Facebook profile sent East Idaho News GPS coordinates of the location of Vallow and Daybell. On Sunday, Eaton coordinated with an investigator who said that nothing was going to happen that day. The statement indicated that the parents were not cooperating.

FREMONT COUNTY, Idaho (KIFI) - Lori Vallow-Daybell appeared before Judge Steven W. Boyce Thursday morning. You can watch the motion hearing below.

Lori Vallow-Daybell’s former husband, who died while the two were estranged, said in divorce documents that Vallow-Daybell believed she was a god-like figure responsible for ushering in the apocalyptical end times. The attorneys, Jim Archibald and John Thomas, claimed the cameras and microphones could potentially be used to overhear private conversations or to view private notes on the defense table. The Associated Press was among the nearly three dozen news organizations that joined in the request. Late last month, attorneys for Vallow-Daybell asked the judge to ban cameras from the courtroom, contending one news organization abused the privilege to videotape the proceedings when it repeatedly zoomed in on Vallow-Daybell's face during an Aug. The couple is accused of conspiring together to kill Lori Vallow-Daybell's two children, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as Chad Daybell's late wife Tammy Daybell. “You've named off 35 major media organizations, which tells me that there is huge interest in putting all the information out to as many people as possible,” 7th District Judge Steven Boyce said Thursday.

ST. ANTHONY — A motion hearing was held Thursday to determine whether or not cameras will continue to be allowed during court proceedings for Lori Vallow ...

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KTVB is among 32 news organizations that have joined to oppose the motion to ban cameras.

Lori Vallow was back in an Eastern Idaho courtroom Thursday morning, as her lawyers argued the media should not be permitted to have cameras present during ...

[Related: Lori Vallow appears in court for hearing, attorney's argue indictment language unclear](https://www.kivitv.com/news/lori-vallow-appears-in-court-for-hearing-attorneys-argue-indictment-language-unclear) The joint trial of Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell is set to start in January in Ada County. The judge will consider the arguments and issue a ruling.

The harrowing, tragic tale of the murders of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan made national headlines, first as a disappearance, then something more unseemly in ...

Vallow remains in jail following an extended stay in a mental health hospital after being pronounced unfit to stand trial for the murders of JJ and Tylee. In an email that Charles Vallow forwarded to relatives, Daybell had ranked everyone as a dark or a light spirit, and then the shade of corruption; Tylee, for example, was marked as a 4.1D. Police eventually traced the car, which was registered to Charles Vallow, who had already been dead for months. The series, which released Wednesday, is a mix of interviews, news footage, courtroom video and audio files, from podcasts to secretly recorded calls. After the scene cleared, Lori called her eldest son, Colby Ryan, and told him it was a heart attack. And in a three-part Netflix docuseries, “Sins of Our Mother,” director Skye Borgman attempts to separate fiction from heartbreaking reality.