Lori Vallow

Jury selection was expected to begin in Boise, Idaho, in the murder trial of Lori Vallow Daybell. Her two children, JJ and Tylee, were killed.

“Would anything in that make it difficult for you to sit in judgment on a case?” No, the potential juror said. She leaned forward to listen to the questions posed to the jury pool. On Monday morning, defense attorneys and prosecutors began questioning the remaining jury pool members in an effort to pick 12 jurors and six alternates to hear the case. The children's bodies were found buried on Chad Daybell’s property in rural Idaho. “The driver of the getaway car is as guilty as the bank robber. She occasionally appeared to take notes as the potential jurors spoke. Four other trials were also being held at the courthouse, and jurors stood alongside news reporters as they all waited to pass through metal detectors and security screening. One potential juror said she had two elementary school-aged children, and she believed it would be difficult for her to look at that sort of evidence. As a result, Seventh District Judge Steven Boyce moved the trial more than 200 miles east to the city of Boise. Cox died in December 2019 due to bilateral pulmonary thromboemboli, a condition in which one or more arteries in the lungs become blocked by a blood clot. Yes, the panel of potential jurors agreed. Prosecutors also have charged the couple in connection with the October 2019 death of Chad Daybell's late wife, Tammy Daybell.

The murder trial of Idaho mom Lori Vallow started with jury selection on Monday. Vallow and her husband Chad Daybell are accused of killing their former spouses ...

Her cause of death has not been revealed publicly, though her children told [CBS](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chad-daybell-children-mother-asphyxiated/) they had been told by officials it was asphyxiation. Ten days later, on October 19, 2019, she was found dead in her bedroom in the Daybell family home outside of Rexburg, Idaho, [CBS](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chad-daybell-children-mother-asphyxiated/) reported. [CBS](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chad-daybell-children-mother-asphyxiated/) reported, but — following the disappearance of Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow in later months — her death was treated as suspicious. The court needs 42 previously-vetted jurors to choose from before the defense and prosecution begin eliminating jurors until 18 — 12 trial jurors and six alternates — remain. Vallow's grandparents, who reported the children missing, out of the courtroom. Last month, a judge ruled she will not face the death penalty, even if convicted, The pair were [declared unfit to stand trial](https://www.insider.com/lori-vallow-found-unfit-for-trial-accused-of-killing-kids-2021-5) before a judge reversed that ruling, appeared in court today as prospective jurors were interviewed by prosecution and defense attorneys. Chad Daybell has since been charged in the case investigating Tammy Daybell's death. Lori Vallow's daughter, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan Vallow, and son, 7-year-old Joshua "J.J." The pair had been in communication online since 2017 or 2018, while Lori Vallow was still married to her husband, Charles. Cox alleged he interrupted a domestic dispute between the couple over visitation of their child, and shot Charles Vallow after he attacked him with a bat.

The trial of “doomsday mom," Lori Vallow Daybell, began Monday, April 3. She's on trial for the murders of her two children, J.J. and Tylee.

If found guilty of the murders of Tylee and J.J., Lori Vallow could serve up to life in prison. In a stunning twist, the case moved to Hawaii when it was discovered that Lori and Chad Daybell had been married. "My oldest really wants to do a victim impact statement because they were close to, I mean, they grew up with Tylee and JJ. The missing person’s poster for the siblings was created by one of Charles Vallow’s sons in Austin. The trial of "doomsday mom," Lori Vallow Daybell, began Monday, April 3. Within weeks of moving to Idaho, Tylee and J.J. When this double murder trial is over, Lori also faces charges for her role in the death of Charles Vallow. Shortly after Charles’ death, Lori moved to Idaho with her kids, J.J. She’s on trial for the murders of her two children, J.J. I've taken over Charles' body," Charles Vallow said to police. "I've tried to support her as much as I could, but it's gotten really, really bad lately. [for the murders of her two children, J.J.

Jury selection began Monday in the trial Lori Vallow Daybell, 49, in Boise, Idaho. She was initially set to go to trial alongside her husband, Chad Daybell, ...

Lori is also served with a court order to produce the children to authorities in Idaho in five days. Chad is also charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife Tammy. Lori and Chad claim he is in Arizona with relatives and ask their friend, Melanie Gibb, to lie and say she took the boy there for Thanksgiving. The couple are approached by the media while officers serve the documents and refuse to say anything about the children. They also comb over sections of the snow-covered yard with rakes and metal detectors. Months later an autopsy determines that he died of natural causes while he had the overdose drug Narcan in his system. October 2, 2019: Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of Lori's niece Melani Pawlowski, is targeted in a drive-by shooting in Arizona. Chad declines an autopsy and her death is listed as due to natural causes. September 23, 2019: The last time JJ is seen at his school in Rexburg. He watched from his truck, placing a call to Vallow as the bodies were unearthed before making a break for it. She sat between her attorneys, Jim Archibald and John Thomas in the courtroom where cameras are barred. It was at one such conference that Vallow and Daybell met in 2018.

Jury selection is entering its second day at the Ada County Court in Idaho - with no video streaming available to the public.

Mr Daybell married his first wife Tammy in 1990 and they had five children together. The case was largely put on hold when Ms Vallow was found not mentally competent to stand trial. At some point the alleged victim wanted to stop, and claims they expressed that to Mr Ryan several times. Months after the video was taken, she and her fifth husband, Chad Daybell were also accused of murdering her two children Tylee, 17, and JJ Ryan, 7. JJ and Tylee were ultimately found buried on Mr Daybell’s property in Salem, Idaho, in June 2020. Mr Cox claimed he fired in self-defence, and died in 2019 of natural causes before charges could be brought. Early in questioning, prosecutors warned that the case involves uniquely disturbing evidence, giving prospective jurors a chance to step away if they didn’t think they could handle it. But her husband and his new wife are now charged with her murder, with prosecutors alleging that the couple conspired with Cox to kill the 49-year-old. Vallow claimed in divorce documents that Ms Vallow believed she was a god-like figure chosen to carry out the work of 144,000 believers. In March, an Idaho judge ruled that Ms Vallow and Mr Daybell will be tried separately for the murders – prompting Mr Daybell’s case to be pushed back to an unconfirmed date while jury selection gets under way on 3 April in Ms Vallow’s trial. In the three-part series, people close to the case recount how Ms Vallow met her doomsday preacher husband and how they allegedly planned to kill the children after they became convinced the minors were zombies whose “dark spirits” had to be released through death. She claims in the court documents that this prompted Mr Ryan to apologise and begin crying.