PHOENIX — Lori Vallow, the so-called Doomsday Mom, entered a not guilty plea during her arraignment on Thursday. Vallow is facing two conspiracy to commit first-degree murder charges here in Arizona.
Her trial is currently scheduled for April 4, 2024 but prosecutors asked the judge to amend that date. The judge declined but asked that they file a motion for the amendment. Vallow has a pre-trial conference scheduled for Jan. 18.
Vallow was recently extradited from a prison in Idaho to a Maricopa County jail.
She's been serving multiple life sentences in Idaho after she was convicted in the deaths of her children, Tylee and JJ, and the death of her husband Chad Daybell's first wife, Tammy Daybell.
The indictments in the two Arizona cases show she's facing two more counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
In one case, court records show Vallow, along with her brother Alex Cox, are accused of conspiring to kill her former husband, Charles Vallow, who was shot and killed in Chandler in July 2019.
In the months leading up to his death, Charles Vallow told local police he was concerned that Lori Vallow might hurt him and his children.
In the second case, Lori Vallow and Cox are accused of trying to kill their niece’s ex-husband outside his home in Gilbert in October 2019. He ultimately wasn’t injured.
The records show a grand jury indicted Lori Vallow on the conspiracy charges in 2021 for the Chandler case and 2022 in the Gilbert case. She’s only facing a judge now in Maricopa County because she’s been in Idaho for nearly four years to face charges in the deaths of her kids and Tammy Daybell.
She was convicted of all the charges, including murder, in the Idaho cases and was sentenced to life in prison in July 2023. Cox can’t be charged because he died in December 2019.
The warrants in each case, that indicate she needed to be extradited to Maricopa County, call her a flight risk. They detail how she fled from law enforcement before in Arizona and Idaho, notably when she was in Hawaii with her new husband after her kids had been killed.
Lori Vallow is not bondable in Arizona because she's here on extradition warrants. Once the cases play out in Maricopa County, she'll have to go back to Idaho to continue serving those life sentences.
Sheriff Paul Penzone said his office sent four deputies to extradite Lori Vallow from Idaho, including a female deputy, because they were transporting a female inmate. They opted to drive rather than fly due to weather concerns and said the journey back took about 18 hours.
They didn’t have any issues during the trip and Penzone said Lori Vallow was even “chatty.”
"I understand she was very sociable the entire trip," he said in a press conference Thursday. "She talked quite a bit."
Penzone said Lori Vallow will be isolated in a high security part of the Estrella jail.
She is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges in Arizona next week.
