A woman who was convicted of conspiring to kill her two youngest children and another woman was declared mentally fit to stand trial for more charges on Thursday.
Two doctors in Arizona have decided that Lori Vallow Daybell is capable of facing charges for conspiring to kill her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, and her niece’s ex-husband. Vallow Daybell is already serving a life sentence in Idaho for her role in the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and her husband’s first wife, Tammy Daybell.
Charles Vallow was shot and killed in 2019 by Vallow Daybell’s brother, who claimed he did it in self-defense and was not charged.
At the time of her husband’s death, Vallow Daybell was in a relationship with Chad Daybell, a man who wrote books about doomsday theories based on Mormon beliefs. She moved from Phoenix to Idaho to be with him.
Chad Daybell later became her fifth husband and was sentenced to death for the murders of her children and his own wife, Tammy Daybell.
In the Idaho trial, prosecutors presented many witnesses to support their claim that Chad and Lori Daybell planned the deaths of the children and Tammy to remove any obstacles to their relationship and to collect life insurance money.
The couple allegedly believed in an apocalyptic theory where people could be taken over by evil spirits and turned into “zombies.” They thought the only way to save a possessed person’s soul was for the body to die. A judge in Maricopa County has set a trial date for Lori Daybell on February 24.