Woman With ‘Doomsday’ Beliefs Gets Life Without Parole in Her Children’s Deaths

An Idaho decide sentenced Lori Vallow Daybell on Monday to a few consecutive phrases of life in jail with out parole for the murders of two of her kids and for conspiring to homicide her husband’s former spouse in a case that drew nationwide consideration for what prosecutors described as her “doomsday” beliefs.

Judge Steven Boyce of the Seventh Judicial District stated on the sentencing, which was streamed on-line from a packed Fremont County Courthouse in St. Anthony, Idaho, that Ms. Vallow Daybell “chose the most evil and destructive path possible.”

“The most unimaginable type of murder is to have a mother murdering her own children, and that’s exactly what you did,” Judge Boyce stated, including that permitting Ms. Vallow Daybell to serve her phrases concurrently “would not serve the interest of justice.”

In May 2021, a grand jury indicted Ms. Vallow Daybell, 50, and her husband, Chad Daybell, 54, in reference to the deaths of two of Ms. Vallow Daybell’s kids, Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua Vallow, 7, referred to as J.J.

Before she was sentenced, Ms. Vallow Daybell informed the court docket that she has had “many communications with Jesus Christ” and that due to these communications she is aware of that her kids are “happy and busy in the spirit world.”

Rob Wood, the prosecuting lawyer, learn a press release written by Colby Ryan, Ms. Vallow Daybell’s solely surviving little one, who stated that “Tylee will never have the opportunity to become a mother, wife or have the career she was destined to have,” and that “JJ will never be able to grow and spread his light with this world the way he did.”

“My siblings and father deserve so much more than this,” Mr. Ryan wrote. “I want them to be remembered for who they were, and not to be just a spectacle or a headline to the world.”

The sentencing adopted a jury’s responsible verdict in May within the murders and the conspiracy. Ms. Vallow Daybell had initially been declared not competent to face trial and was required to bear psychiatric remedy. The trial in Boise, Idaho, started on April 3 after years of delays.

At the beginning of the trial, prosecutors described Ms. Vallow Daybell as a negligent mom who believed that her “religious mission” took priority over caring for her kids.

Ms. Vallow Daybell, in accordance with prosecutors, believed that her kids have been “zombies” possessed by evil spirits.

About 60 witnesses have been known as by prosecutors to testify, in accordance with Fox 10, a Phoenix news station.

Ms. Vallow Daybell pleaded not responsible however didn’t testify in her personal protection, and her attorneys rested their case with out calling a single witness, Boise State Public Radio reported. Her attorneys informed the decide that they didn’t imagine the state had proved its case. The verdict was streamed on-line.

Ms. Vallow Daybell was additionally discovered responsible of conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide within the loss of life of Tammy Daybell, Mr. Daybell’s former spouse. Mr. Daybell, who additionally pleaded not responsible, has been charged with first-degree homicide in that case. Mr. Daybell’s trial was set for April 2024.

In November 2019, Tylee Ryan and J.J. Vallow have been reported lacking by J.J.’s grandparents, who had develop into involved once they have been unable to achieve him by telephone.

Officers with the Rexburg Police Department in Idaho tried to conduct a welfare examine and later executed search warrants on the house advanced the place Ms. Vallow Daybell and her husband lived. The authorities stated the couple appeared unconcerned with the youngsters’s whereabouts.

In February 2020, Ms. Vallow Daybell was arrested in Hawaii on a warrant issued by the authorities in Idaho, after, they stated, she had not cooperated with the trouble to search out the lacking kids.

In June 2020, investigators discovered human stays buried on Mr. Daybell’s property in Idaho that have been later recognized as belonging to his spouse’s lacking kids. He was arrested and charged with concealing proof.

At the trial, Detective Ray Hermosillo of the Rexburg Police Department described images of the youngsters’s stays. A DNA analyst testified {that a} hair discovered caught to duct tape used to wrap J.J.’s physique matched his mom’s, in accordance with The Associated Press.

Detective Hermosillo additionally stated on the trial that Tylee’s stays had been burned and packed right into a bucket that was buried elsewhere on Mr. Daybell’s property.

Both Mr. Daybell and Ms. Vallow Daybell have been in custody for the reason that arrests.

In October 2019, Tammy Daybell was discovered useless in her Idaho house. The authorities had initially stated that she appeared to have died of pure causes, however her physique was exhumed that December after the authorities started to query the circumstances of her loss of life and its potential connection to the disappearances of Ms. Vallow Daybell’s kids.

At the beginning of the trial, prosecutors revealed in court docket that an post-mortem decided that Ms. Daybell died of asphyxiation.

The murders have been the main focus of a Lifetime film, “Doomsday Mom: The Lori Vallow Story,” and a Netflix documentary collection, “Sins of Our Mother.”

Michael Levenson contributed reporting.