“Cult mom” Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to two more life sentences on Friday in an Arizona court, this time for conspiracy to kill her fourth husband and her niece’s ex-husband.
“You’ve shattered lives, you’ve undermined trust, you’ve sowed fear in the hearts of many,” said Judge Justin Beresky, who ordered that the sentences run consecutively to each other and to the three life consecutive life sentences she received in Idaho for the murders of two of her children and her fifth husband’s first wife, NBC News reported.
Vallow Daybell, who represented herself in Arizona, was convicted in two separate trials earlier this year of conspiring with her brother, Alex Cox, to kill Charles Vallow, her fourth husband, and Brandon Boudreaux. Boudreaux survived the attempt on his life in 2019, but Vallow did not.
Cox is also believed to have been involved in the deaths of 7-year-old JJ Vallow — the son of Vallow’s nephew, adopted by the Vallows because his parents could not take care of him — and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan — the daughter of Vallow Daybell and her third husband. But Cox died months after those deaths, supposedly of natural causes.
JJ and Tylee vanished around September 2019, two months after Cox gunned down Charles Vallow, claiming it was self defense. As a search for the children began, Tammy Daybell, Chad Daybell’s wife, died mysteriously. Then Chad and Lori disappeared, later found to be in Hawaii, where they married.
The children’s bodies were found nearly a year later on property owned by Daybell, and the doomsday couple were charged.
Vallow Daybell and Daybell, her fifth husband, were convicted in separate trials in the children’s deaths and that of Tammy Daybell, Chad Daybell’s first wife. While Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in prison, her fifth husband received the death penalty.
Multiple family members delivered emotional victim impact statements during Friday’s sentencing hearing. Kay Woodcock, Charles Vallow’s sister and JJ Vallow’s biological grandmother, told the convicted killer that she is “a manipulator, a parasite and a coward,” while Woodcock’s husband, Larry Woodcock, yelled at Vallow Daybell, the BBC reported.
“You murdered Charles, the best thing that’s ever happened in your life, for your delusional, narcissistic ways,” he said. “I will never speak your name again, murderess. You are nothing.”
Colby Ryan, Vallow Daybell’s only surviving child, also spoke, according to NBC.
“Not only are my father, sister, and brother gone, but so is my mother,” said Ryan, the son of Vallow Daybell’s second husband who considered Charles Vallow his father.
Boudreaux, the only survivor of the murderous saga, cried as he spoke, explaining how he had battled depression and paranoia since the attempt on his life.
“Had this heinous crime succeeded, my children would have been left to face a lifetime of grief,” he said, adding that he forgives Vallow Daybell “so I can be a better father … better husband … better son and brother.”
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[Featured image: This image taken from video shows Lori Vallow Daybell during her sentencing hearing on two murder conspiracy convictions in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo, Pool)]
