Idaho “Doomsday Mom” Lori Vallow Daybell — who killed her two kids and tried to murder a romantic rival — faces yet another trial for allegedly plotting to murder her estranged husband and run off with the insurance money and her new boyfriend.
Vallow Daybell, 51, is representing herself at a trial in Phoenix, Arizona, where prosecutors are set to give opening statements Monday.
During the trial, Vallow Daybell will not be shackled or cuffed and will be allowed to wear non-jail clothes. But officers will be able to shock her with an electronic belt-like device controlled by a remote if she tries to pull anything in court.
The twisted, cult-obsessed mom is accused of conspiring with her brother to have husband Charles Vallow shot in July 2019 so she could run away to Idaho with a life insurance payout and her beau Chad Daybell.
Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in prison in 2023 for murdering her youngest kids, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, and cooking up a scheme with Daybell to kill his wife Tammy.
Daybell — Vallow Daybell’s fifth husband, with whom she shares bizarre beliefs about zombies and the second coming of Christ — was sentenced to the death penalty in June 2024 in the deaths of the two youngsters and Tammy.
Daybell and Vallow Daybell tied the knot only two weeks after Tammy’s death and before JJ and Tylee went missing for months. The kids’ bodies were discovered buried on Daybell’s rural Idaho property.
But before the twisted plot played out in Idaho, Vallow Daybell allegedly had her brother Alex Cox shoot Vallow, who had filed for divorce from her over her outlandish beliefs that she had lived past lives on other planets and her fascination with near-death experiences.
Vallow claimed his wife threatened to kill him and he sought a mental health evaluation as part of the divorce case.
Cox allegedly murdered his brother-in-law when Vallow was picking up his son at Vallow Daybell’s house in Chandler, Arizona.
The incident unfolded when Tylee tried to protect her mother by threatening Vallow with a bat, but Vallow took the bat away from her, the teen told police.
Cox claimed that after Tylee, Vallow Daybell and her other two kids left the house, he killed Vallow in self-defense as Vallow charged him with the bat.
Cox was never arrested and died of a blood clot in his lungs five months later. But investigators eventually re-evaluated the credibility of his version of the killing and determined that Vallow Daybell was allegedly part of a scheme to kill her husband.
If Vallow Daybell is convicted in Vallow’s murder, she will face another life sentence on top of the three life sentences she received for the killing of her kids and Tammy.
She faces yet another trial in Arizona in May for a scheme to have her niece’s ex-husband Brandon Boudreaux shot and killed in 2019.
Boudreaux was fired at by someone in a Jeep outside his home in Gilbert, Arizona. But the person missed and hit his car instead. The Jeep matched one that was in Vallow’s name even though he had died three months earlier.
Vallow Daybell faces another life sentence if convicted on the top count in the Boudreaux case.
She has pleaded not guilty in both Arizona cases.
With Post wires