Smirking “Cult mom” Lori Vallow, in full hair and makeup for her latest prison mugshot, has been transferred to her new home at the Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center in Idaho.
As CrimeOnline reported, Idaho District Court Judge Steven Boyce sentenced Vallow to life without parole Monday for the murders of her children, Tylee Ryan, 15, and Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and conspiring to murder Tammy Daybell.
Both children wee found dead in shallow graves on Chad Daybell’s Rexburg, Idaho, property in 2020, nine months after they were reported missing. Tammy Daybell was found murdered in her bed in 2019.
Vallow was previously housed at the Madison County Jail. Following sentencing, she was transferred to the state prison and booked at 9:24 a.m. on Tuesday, Jeff Ray, a spokesman for the Idaho Department of Correction, confirmed to KTVB 7.
Vallow, who spoke on her own behalf before sentencing, read a Bible quote and broke out in tears momentarily as she claimed to mourn her children who “rest safely in the arms of Jesus,” adding that Tammy Daybell is her eternal friend.
Boyce, who said he didn’t agree with Vallow’s religious ideology that “God or any religion” would want children murdered, addressed Vallow directly prior to sentencing.
“You had so many other options – you could have gotten divorced. You could have found someone to take care of those kids,” Boyce said. “You killed those children to remove them as obstacles and profit financially. You justified all this to go down a bizarre religious rabbit hole and clearly you are still there.”
“I don’t think you have any remorse for the effort and heartache you caused.”
Vallow Daybell received the following sentences, to be served consecutively:
- Tylee Ryan’s first-degree murder: Life without parole
- conspiracy: Life without parole
- J.J. Vallow’s first-degree murder: Life without parole
- conspiracy: Life without parole
- Conspiring Tammy Daybell’s first-degree murder: Life without parole
- Grand theft by deception (2 counts): 5-10 years in prison
Chad Daybell, is facing the same charges but he has not yet stood trial.
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[Feature Photo: Idaho Department of Corrections]
