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Convicted “Doomsday Mom” killer Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to two life sentences in Arizona on Friday for conspiring to murder her estranged husband and another family member.

The unhinged murderer, 52, is already serving life sentences in Idaho in the killings of her two youngest children — 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan — and a romantic rival.

The latest hearing comes after the mom was convicted in separate trials in Arizona this spring for conspiring to murder her then-estranged husband, Charles Vallow, as well as her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux. 


  Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced in Arizona Friday for conspiring to murder her estranged husband and another family member. AP Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced in Arizona Friday for conspiring to murder her estranged husband and another family member. AP

“In the face of such profound damage, a long prison sentence is not merely a punishment, it is a necessary affirmation that our society values justice, protection, and the sanctity of human life,” said Judge Justin Beresky before handing down the sentences, according to ABC News.

Ahead of the sentencing, Maricopa County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Treena Kay also slammed Vallow Daybell’s repeated claims that what occurred was a “family tragedy.”

“A family tragedy does not involve the intentional killing of a person … a family tragedy does not involve working with an accomplice to commit first-degree premeditated murder. And a family tragedy does not involve conspiring with others to kill,” Kay said, according to the outlet.

Prosecutors had accused Vallow Daybell of carrying out the plots with her brother Alex Cox, who admitted to killing Charles Vallow in July 2019 and was later pinned as the person who opened fire on Boudreaux months later but missed. Cox died later that year and was never charged.

Vallow Daybell had conspired to kill her ex, who had filed for divorce four months before he died, so she could collect on his $1 million life insurance policy and marry her then-boyfriend Chad Daybell, according to prosecutors.

He wound up being fatally shot when he went to pick up his son at Vallow Daybell’s home just outside Phoenix, cops said.

Authorities said Boudreaux later suspected that Vallow Daybell and Cox were responsible for Charles Vallow’s death.

Three months after Vallow’s murder, someone shot at Boudreaux from an open window of a Jeep as he was driving in Phoenix.


  Vallow is already serving life sentences in the killings of her two youngest children — 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan.
 Vallow is already serving life sentences in the killings of her two youngest children — 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan.

Unlike her Idaho case, Vallow Daybell chose to represent herself at both Arizona trials — despite not having a legal background.

Vallow Daybell, whose doomsday religious beliefs led her to believe people in her life were possessed by evil spirits, is set to be sent back to prison in Idaho in the wake of the Arizona sentencing.

Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell were married in November 2019 shortly after the deaths of their respective spouses. Vallow Daybell’s children were last seen in September of that year.

Chad Daybell was ultimately sentenced to death in the killings of Vallow Daybell’s two kids, as well as his own wife, Tammy.

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