Lori Vallow Daybell receives several life sentences for the murders of her two children.

By Edward Era Barbacena 

Lori Vallow Daybell, known as the “Doomsday Mom” for her extreme religious beliefs, denied murdering her children and her husband’s previous wife in a bizarre and grandiose statement in an Idaho courtroom Monday as she was sentenced to life in prison.

Vallow Daybell was convicted in May of murdering her two children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua Jaxon “JJ” Vallow. She was also convicted of conspiring in the murder of Tammy Daybell, who died in 2019. Daybell was married at the time to Chad Daybell, now Lori’s husband.

Prosecutors had earlier announced that they would not be seeking the death penalty, and on Monday, Vallow Daybell was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

“Jesus Christ knows that no one was murdered in this case,” Vallow Daybell insisted during the hearing, before claiming that the spirits of Tylee, JJ and Tammy Daybell had visited her. She said she’d died in 2002 while giving birth to Tylee, and that she’s since had “access to heaven and the spirit world.”

JJ and Tylee disappeared in September 2019, inspiring a nationwide search. Vallow Daybell did not participate in the search or answer questions about her children’s whereabouts, instead fleeing to Hawaii with Chad Daybell. JJ and Tylee’s bodies were found on June 9, 2020, on Daybell’s property in rural eastern Idaho.