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The children went missing in 2019. Their bodies were found
buried in rural Idaho on the property of Vallow Daybell’s new
husband, Chad Daybell, an author of several religious novels
about prophecies and the end of the world.
Vallow Daybell was sentenced to three life sentences in the
state, while Chad Daybell was sentenced to death for the three
killings.
Vallow Daybell was convicted separately in Arizona for
conspiring to murder her estranged husband and her niece’s
ex-husband, the latter of whom survived.
In the Idaho appeal, her lawyer argued that a lower court denied
her a speedy trial, that it would not let her keep the attorney
of her choice — the judge ruled that there was a conflict of
interest because the lawyer had represented both her and her
husband — and that it should not have allowed jurors to hear
about the shootings involving Charles Vallow and Brandon
Boudreaux in metro Phoenix.
Months after filing for divorce from Vallow Daybell, Charles
Vallow was fatally shot in July 2019 in Chandler by Vallow
Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, whose claim of self-defense was
later called into question by investigators.
Nearly three months after Charles Vallow’s killing, someone
parked in a Jeep fired a gunshot at Boudreaux, the ex-husband of
Vallow Daybell's niece, as he was driving up to his home in
Gilbert, another Phoenix suburb. The shot narrowly missed
Boudreaux.
Prosecutors say Vallow Daybell conspired with Cox to kill
Charles Vallow so she could collect money from his life
insurance policy and marry Chad Daybell, then her boyfriend.
Cox, who was identified by prosecutors as the person who shot at
Boudreaux, later died from a blood clot in his lungs.
Vallow Daybell received two life sentences for her Arizona
convictions, and she has appealed those as well.
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