Lori Vallow’s defence attorneys have filed a notice of appeal a month after she was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of her two children and her husband’s former wife.
After a grueling weeks-long trial, the so-called “Doomsday Mom” was found guilty in May of killing 7-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan. Their bodies were found buried in the backyard of her husband Chad Daybell in Rexburg, Idaho.
She was also found guilty of conspiring to kill her husband’s former wife Tammy Daybell who died in October 2019. A subsequent autopsy revealed that she had died by asphyxiation.
Vallow’s husband Daybell is also awaiting trial on murder charges.
JJ, who had autism, had been smothered with a plastic bag taped over his face, his little body still dressed in a pair of red pyjamas. Tylee’s cause of death meanwhile has been impossible to establish as the teenager’s dismembered, charred bones and body parts were found scattered in the ground on Mr Daybell’s pet cemetery.
This bizarre spate of disappearances and deaths came just months after Vallow’s fourth husband Charles Vallow was shot dead by Vallow’s brother Alex Cox in Arizona in July 2019.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed an extradition request for Vallow to be brought back to Maricopa County to face charges in connection to the death of Charles Vallow.
She could also face charges in the attempted murder of Brandon Boudreaux, who was the husband of Vallow Daybell’s niece.
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