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Lori Vallow Daybell after Idaho: the Arizona cases people lost track of
The so-called doomsday mom whose Idaho case involved the deaths of her children and Chad Daybell's former wife.
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Current status
Lori Vallow Daybell is serving life sentences from Idaho and Arizona, but the convictions are under appellate review. The Idaho Supreme Court scheduled oral argument for November 2, 2026, and notices of appeal are also pending in her two Arizona cases.
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13 months
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September 1, 2026
September 1, 2026
The Idaho Supreme Court scheduled November 2 oral argument on her appeal of the Idaho murder convictions.
August 11, 2025
Daybell filed notices appealing both Arizona convictions.
July 25, 2025
After receiving life sentences in Idaho, Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted in Arizona in 2025 in separate conspiracy cases and received additional life sentences there.
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The Idaho case made Lori Vallow Daybell nationally infamous, and for many casual news readers the story ended there. But Arizona still had major unresolved prosecutions tied to earlier violence around the same circle of people. In 2025 she was convicted there for conspiring to murder her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, and in a separate case for conspiring to murder Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of her niece. By July 2025, Arizona judges had imposed life sentences in those cases too.
The legal aftermath is not finished. Daybell appealed both Arizona convictions, while her appeal of the Idaho murder convictions advanced to oral argument before the Idaho Supreme Court, scheduled for November 2, 2026. The sentences remain operative during those appeals.
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September 1, 2026
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Daybell filed notices appealing both Arizona convictions.
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After receiving life sentences in Idaho, Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted in Arizona in 2025 in separate conspiracy cases and received additional life sentences there.
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