The Idaho “doomsday mother” who was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for killing her two young kids appeared to slightly smirk in her recent prison booking photo, taken after her sentencing this week where she claimed her kids weren’t dead.
Lori Vallow Daybell, 50, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole formurderingher two children and conspiring to murder her fifth husband’s first wife in aplotthat stemmed from the bizarre doomsday prophecies she believed.
The Idaho woman showed little emotion when a jury found her guilty back in May of murdering her two children Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, as well as conspiring to kill Tammy Daybell, her husband Chad Daybell’s first wife.
The children first went missing in the fall of 2019, shortly beforeTammy Daybellwas found dead in October of that same year.
Chad, 54, has also been charged in connection with the deaths of Tylee, J.J. and Tammy, but will be tried separately. He has pleaded not guilty.
Idaho Department of Corrections
The mother told the courtroom in a ranting statement Monday that she believed she had spoke to her dead children, as well as Tammy, and had a near death experience that allowed her to communicate with Jesus Christ and angels.
Lori claimed J.J. was now an “adult spirit” and very tall.
“He is busy," she said in front of the packed courtroom, which included her victims' family members. “He is engaged. He has jobs he does there. He is happy where he is. His life was short but J.J.’s life was meaningful.”
She also claimed her children were happy after their deaths.
Lori Vallow Daybell.Tony Blakeslee/EastIdahoNews.com via AP, Pool
Tony Blakeslee/EastIdahoNews.com via AP, Pool
Earlier in the trial, Melanie Gibb, a former friend of Lori’s who testified in her murder trial, told the court that Lori had previously told her that both of her children had “dark” spirits.
Lori believed people existed on a scale of “light” and “dark,” according to Gibb, with those that “signed contracts” with Jesus Christ being light and those who did the same with Satan as dark.
Lori told Gibb in September 2019 that J.J. and Tylee had recently become “dark,” the friend testified.
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Police attempted to search Chad’s property for the children in November 2019, but the couple had fled to Hawaii, where child services from Idaho later served both the husband and wife with court orders in early 2020 demanding the couple turn over custody of their children to the state.In June, however, the grisly remains of J.J. and Tylee were discovered buried on Chad’s property.
Lori Vallow Daybell.Dennis Fujimoto/AP/Shutterstock
“We eventually uncovered bits and pieces of Tylee — whom we assumed it was Tylee — that had been burned,” police detective Ray Hermosillo had told the court. “There were pieces of bone, charred flesh, just globs of flesh that were falling apart.”
Judge Steven Boyce told Lori before her sentencing Monday that her crimes were “heinous and egregious,” adding that she showed no remorse for her actions.
source: people.com
