PHOENIX — A woman who was found guilty of planning to kill her two youngest children and another woman was found to be able to handle new charges on Thursday.
The courts in Arizona told two doctors that Lori Vallow Daybell was healthy enough to face charges of planning to kill her ex-husband Charles Vallow and her niece’s ex-spouse. She has already been given a life term in Idaho for her part in the deaths of Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, Tylee Ryan, 16, and Tammy Daybell.
Charles Vallow, Vallow Daybell’s fourth husband, was shot and killed in 2019 by her brother. Her brother told police he was acting in self-defense and was never charged.
Vallow Daybell was already seeing Chad Daybell, who self-published books about the end of the world that were loosely based on Mormon beliefs. She moved from Phoenix to Idaho to be near him more.
Chad Daybell married Vallow Daybell five times. He was later put to death for killing both of his children and his wife at the time, Tammy Daybell.
In the Idaho case, prosecutors called dozens of witnesses to back up their claims that Chad Daybell and Vallow Daybell planned to kill the two children and Tammy Daybell so that they could get back together and get the life insurance and widow benefits.
Police say the couple killed because they believed in an end-of-the-world belief system in which people could be possessed by bad spirits and turn into “zombies,” and that the only way for a possessed person’s soul to be saved was for their body to die. The hearing for Vallow Daybell has been tentatively set for February 24 by a judge in Maricopa County Superior Court.
