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.

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."

The Netflix series traces the life & marriages of Lori Vallow-Chad Daybell, who's awaiting trial for murder.

On May 25, 2021, Chad and Lori were formally charged with first-degree murder for the deaths of JJ and Tylee. On January 25, 2020, officials located Chad and Lori in Kauai, Hawaii, and served the latter a court order requiring her to produce her children within five days. Despite the arrest, Tylee and JJ's whereabouts and safety were still a mystery. The following year, Charles filed for divorce as he grew more fearful of Lori's erratic and inexplicable behavior. At the age of 19, Lori married her high school boyfriend Nelson Yanes, but the marriage was short-lived and ended in divorce. Lori remarried in 2001 to her third husband, Joseph Anthony Ryan, wo is the biological father of her second child, daughter Tylee Ryan. Per Chad, "light" individuals were "followers of Jesus Christ" while "dark" individuals (also known as "zombies") were devotees of Satan. In 1995, at the age of 22, she married William Lagioia and had her first child, Colby Ryan. "And I was going to murder him; just thought I couldn't take it anymore. ['The Book of Mormon,'](https://www.salon.com/2012/10/31/who_really_wrote_the_book_of_mormon/)" recounted Lori's mother, Janis Cox, in the documentary. Under the influence of her fifth husband Chad Guy Daybell — a former gravedigger turned apocalyptic novelist and [self-declared prophet](https://www.salon.com/2022/06/09/flds-warren-jeffs-keep-sweet-mormons-polygamy/) — Lori believed her 17-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son were so-called "dark" individuals and followers of Satan. Lori Vallow Daybell was born on June 26, 1973, as Lori Norene Cox and grew up in San Bernardino, California.

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.

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.

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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, 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.

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 ...

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. But to formulate any answer we must look at Lori through the eyes of the people who knew her best." [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. And "I don't know if we will ever know exactly what motivated Lori to commit such unspeakable crimes. [Borgman said](https://www.eonline.com/news/1342781/lori-vallows-son-confronts-his-mom-in-the-trailer-for-netflixs-sins-of-our-mother).