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BREAKING NEWS: Lori Vallow’s trial for the September 2019 murder of her two children — scheduled for January — has been indefinitely suspended by the Idaho judge pending a mental competency assessment
- Lori Vallow, 48, would face charges in January for the murder of her children Tylee, 16, and seven-year-old JJ in September 2019
- On Thursday, a court in Fremont County, Idaho, announced that the trial had been adjourned pending a mental evaluation of Vallow, who married Chad Daybell.
- Steven Boyce, the district judge, wrote that the case was “suspended pending a determination of Ms. Daybell’s ability to stand trial.”
- Vallow had become obsessed with the idea that her children were possessed and turned into zombies, and that they had to be killed to ‘free’ them
- She was arrested in February 2020, and in June of that year, Tylee and JJ’s remains were found on the Idaho ranch owned by Daybell, Vallow’s fifth husband.
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Lori Vallow’s trial has been indefinitely suspended, an Idaho judge ruled Thursday, pending a mental health evaluation.
Vallow, 48, would face charges in January for the murder of her children Tylee, 16, and seven-year-old JJ, in September 2019.
Vallow had become obsessed with the idea that her children were possessed and turned into zombies, and that they had to be killed to “free” them.
She was arrested in February 2020, and in June of that year, Tylee and JJ’s remains were found on the Idaho ranch owned by Chad Daybell, Vallow’s fifth husband.
Daybell is also on trial for the murders.
Judge Steven Boyce, district judge for Fremont County in Idaho, wrote that the case was “suspended pending a determination of Ms. Daybell’s ability to stand trial.”
Lori Vallow pleaded not guilty to murdering her children in April trial
Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow, left, and Tylee Ryan, right, were last seen in September 2019. Their bodies were finally discovered buried on Chad Daybell’s property after a nine-month search.
JJ and Tylee are seen smiling and hugging on September 8, 2019, standing on a boardwalk in front of a thermal function in Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, with their uncle Alex Cox. It would be the last time Tylee was seen alive
Lori Vallow (left) and Chad Daybell (right) are said to hold extreme religious beliefs. Detectives believe the couple’s ‘belief system, lust and greed’ also led to the deaths of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow