Lori Vallow, the so-called “cult mom” accused of killing two of her three children in 2019, has filed an appeal of her conviction in Idaho.
An Idaho jury in May found Vallow, 50, guilty of multiple charges, including two counts of first-degree murder, in the 2019 disappearance and deaths of 7-year-old JJ Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, allegedly with the assistance of her husband, Chad Daybell. .
Vallow also conspired to kill Tammy Daybell, Chad Daybell’s first wife, in October 2019.
Vallow’s attorney, Jim Archibald, asked the Idaho Supreme Court to consider 16 different issues that may be related to his conviction, including whether the court erred in deeming his client “competent to stand trial” in April 2022 after he spent “10 months in a mental hospital,” said the court filing.
He also asked the Supreme Court whether Idaho prosecutors’ “repeated requests for a continuance” violated Vallow’s right to a speedy trial and court determination and whether the court erred in allowing prosecutors to amend the grand jury indictment filed against Vallow, among other requests to consider.
Vallow had spent more than 1,200 days in local jails before his sentencing hearing where he was ordered to serve three life sentences without parole.
At the end of his weeks-long murder trial, District Judge Steven Boyce of Fremont County said Vallow “removed” his “children from their home in Arizona, isolated them from friends and family” and took them to his new home in Idaho “to kill them .”
Lori Vallow has filed an appeal of her conviction for killing her two children. Idaho Department of Corrections
Vallow was ordered to serve three life sentences for the disappearance and deaths of 7-year-old JJ Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan. National Center on Missing & Exploited Children via AP, File
“You had a lot of other options. … You chose the most evil and destructive path possible,” he told the defendant in court. “I don’t think to this day you have any regrets for the effort and heartache you did.”
He added that Vallow had “mental health issues.”
His diagnosis from February stated that Vallow suffered from a “delusional disorder” mixed with “hyper-religiousness” and a “persistent and undefined personality disorder” with narcissistic features, Boyce said.
Vallow’s attorney asked the Idaho Supreme Court to consider 16 different issues that may be related to his conviction.AP Photo/Kyle Green, File
JJ and Tylee were found in a shallow grave in Rexburg, Idaho, by Chad Daybell, in June 2020, a few months after they went missing from their home in September 2019.
The body of the 16-year-old was burned while the 7-year-old was tied with duct tape.
Prosecutors argued that Vallow killed her children in an effort to gain “money, power and sex.”
Vallow and Daybell met in 2018 at the Preparing a People conference, where they bonded over their apocalyptic religious beliefs and shared the idea that they were married in a past life, as reported by FOX 10 Phoenix.
Police at the scene of the bodies of JJ and Tylee found in Salem, Idaho on June 9, 2020. John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, File
They referred to each other as Bible figures named James and Elena and discussed their belief that people can have light or dark spirits — some so dark that they could be considered zombies who needed to be removed from Earth, prosecutors said, according to FOX 10.
JJ and Tylee disappeared in September 2019, and Tammy Daybell died the following month.
After her funeral and before Vallow’s two children were finally found dead, she and Chad Daybell married in Hawaii in November of that year.
Vallow’s husband Chad Daybell is awaiting trial on his charges in connection with the mruders.John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, Pool, File
A few months later, in June 2020, Idaho authorities found the remains of JJ and Tylee buried on Rexburg property outside the town of Daybell.
The Ada County Coroner testified that JJ died of suffocation by a plastic bag, and Tylee died of homicide by unknown means due to the fact that her body had been dismembered and badly burned before burial.
Vallow was also found guilty of grand theft after she collected JJ and Tylee’s Social Security benefits – allegedly with help from Daybell – between Oct. 1. 2019 and January 22, 2020, after their murder.
Vallow at his sentencing hearing in Fremont County Court in St. Anthony, Idaho on July 31, 2023.Tony Blakeslee/EastIdahoNews.com via AP, Pool
Daybell has yet to face trial for her charges in connection with the murders of Tylee, JJ and Tammy Daybell, and Vallow is facing trial for murder charges outside Arizona, where she is accused of plotting the 2019 murder of her ex-husband Charles Vallow with her now-deceased brother, Alex Cox .
He is also accused of conspiring to kill his niece’s husband, Brandon Boudreaux, in Arizona.
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