Lori Vallow, Idaho mother accused of killing her child, pleads not guilty

Lori Vallow, Idaho woman charged with murder in the deaths of her two childrenpleaded not guilty on Tuesday.

Vallow entered the plea during an interrogation at Fremont County Courthouse, about 40 miles north of Idaho Falls.

She replied softly, “Yes, I do,” when Judge Steven Boyce asked her if she remembered signing her right to counsel, according to NBC affiliate KTVB in Boise.

Vallow remained silent on the charges against her and Boyce pleaded not guilty on her behalf, KTVB reported.

Vallow is “Rehabilitation and fit to continue” appeared in court earlier this month, almost a year after she declared mentally unfit to stand trial for concealing separate evidence. The murder at that time was to stay.

Idaho does not allow “crazy defenses,” but it does require defendants to be able to understand the charges they face.

Vallow was moved last week from oversight authority of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to an eastern Idaho prison.

Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, was indicted last year for first degree murder and other charges over the deaths of her two children, Tylee and Joshua, aged 16 and 7 when they were last seen in September 2019. They also face death-related charges. of Daybell’s first wife, Tammy Daybell.

Vallow’s attorney, Jim Archibald, asked Boyce on Tuesday to call her Mrs. Daybell, instead of Vallow, according to KTVB.

Joshua’s grandparents were in the courtroom and wiped away tears as charges related to his death were brought up, KTVB reported.

Daybell has previously pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. He was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder and two counts of conspiracy. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Vallow was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder and two counts of conspiracy. If found guilty, she could face the death penalty or life in prison, according to KTVB.

The Child’s body found in Daybell property in June 2020.

Many people are close to Vallow raised the red flag about her uncanny mental state and doomsday beliefs.

The indictment said the pair “endorsed and espoused religious beliefs with the intent of encouraging and/or justifying the murders” of Tylee, Joshua and Tammy Daybell.

Tylee was last seen on September 8, 2019. Police were able to find a photo from that day of Tylee during a trip with Vallow, Vallow’s brother, Alex Cox, and Joshua to the National Park Yellowstone, according to authorities.

Joshua, who has special needs, was last seen alive on September 23, 2019 at Kennedy Elementary School in Rexburg. When the police went to Vallow’s house to conduct a welfare check at Grandma’s reminder in November, Joshua was nowhere to be found.

But Vallow and Daybell never reported the children as missing and did not cooperate with investigators before they fled the state, Rexburg police said.

They did Found in Hawaii in January 2020, at which point authorities gave Vallow until the end of the month to “bring forth her children”. She didn’t, and did charge with two counts of desertion and non-support of dependent children.

In June 2020, Daybell was arrested after the rest of the Vallow’s children found in his property.

Daybell was was previously charged with two felonies of conspiracy to destroy, alter or conceal evidence, and two felonies of destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. He pleaded not guilty to these charges.

Vallow was previously charged with misdemeanor resisting or obstructing officers, inciting a crime, and contempt of court. She pleaded not guilty to those charges.

Daybell and Vallow got married a few weeks after Daybell’s first wife, Tammy Daybell, was found dead at her home in 2019. She is 49 years old.

Tammy Daybell’s death was initially assumed to be natural but was later classified as suspicious, and her remains were exhumed so an autopsy could be performed. An autopsy determined her death to be a homicide.

Vallow’s the fourth husband, Charles Vallow, also died in 2019. He was shot dead by Vallow’s brother, Alex Cox during a confrontation in Chandler, Arizona. Cox claimed self-defense. The Maricopa County Medical Examiner in Arizona ruled the death a homicide.

Vallow and Cox were questioned by police but were not charged.

Cox passed away in December 2019 of an apparent blood clot in his lung, the Associated Press reported. He was singled out by prosecutors on Tuesday as an accomplice in the killings of Joshua, Tylee and Tammy Daybell.

Before Charles Vallow died, he filed for divorce, claiming in the documents that his wife believe she was reincarnated and sent by a god to lead people in the Lord’s return in July 2020, and she told her husband that if he got in her way, she would kill him.

Vallow’s third husband and Tylee’s father, Joseph Ryan, also expressed “real and serious concerns” in court documents between their divorce and custody battle. The documents say Vallow was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after she told social workers that “death would be an option before giving Tylee to her father, Joseph Ryan, even while visiting.”

Ryan died of an apparent heart attack in 2018. An online obituary said Ryan was 59 years old.

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