Missing Persons

Jury selection resumed Tuesday in the trial of the so-called "Doomsday mom" charged in the murders of her two children. FOX 10's Justin Lum is in Boise, Idaho and has all the details you need to know from inside the courtroom during the process.

As the trial of Lori Vallow charged in three killings in what prosecutors say was a doomsday-focused plot began Monday, attorneys asked potential jurors if they would have trouble being impartial after viewing autopsy photos of children. A look at Lori Vallow via Zoom from a remote courtroom inside the Ada County courthouse showed her sitting between her two lawyers watching the jury selection process intently.

Dozens of jurors walked into the Ada County courthouse on April 3. The judge, prosecution and defense pointed specific questions to some jurors. At last check, 17 jurors made it out of the first two panels. The media and some of the public got to see Lori Vallow despite news cameras being banned.

Prosecutors charged Lori Vallow Daybell and her husband, Chad Daybell, with conspiracy, murder and grand theft in connection with the deaths of Vallow Daybell’s two youngest children: 7-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow and big sister Tylee Ryan, who was last seen a few days before her 17th birthday in 2019.

The Lori Vallow trial begins on April 3 for the so-called doomsday mom who left Arizona for Idaho, and she's accused of killing her two kids. The trial is being held four hours away from Fremont County, where the bodies of her kids, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, 7 and 16, were found.

Lori Vallow was known as a loving mother and devout Mormon raising a family in Arizona. But in 2019, her religious beliefs transformed into extreme and disturbing ideas, according to police. The so-called "Doomsday Cult Mom" is about to stand trial, accused of murdering her two children and conspiring with a self-proclaimed prophet in the death of his first wife. In a FOX 10 Investigative Special, Justin Lum unravels the timeline and reveals how murder, money and the end of days shaped the Lori Vallow case.

The trial for the so-called doomsday mom Lori Vallow gets underway next week in Boise, Idaho. She's accused of killing her children JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan and conspiring with her husband Chad Daybell in the murder of his previous wife Tammy. Vallow's lawyers are expected to argue that Vallow was not physically there when the kids or Tammy were killed. Her religious beliefs focused on the world's end may play a big part in the trial.

The triple murder trial for Lori Vallow, a woman known as the so-called 'Doomsday Mom,' is set to get underway on April 3. Vallow has been in custody in Idaho since March 2020, and FOX 10 Investigator Justin Lum has a preview of what we can expect from the trial.

As the Lori Vallow trial approaches, Judge Steven Boyce held a hearing to define who qualifies as a statutory victim. Vallow's defense argued that Kay Woodcock, the grandmother of JJ Vallow is not his grandmother due to JJ being adopted by her brother Charles Vallow several years ago, saying she should not be allowed in the courtroom outside of her testimony. The prosecution is expected to call on Kay as a witness and argues she should be allowed in the courtroom for the entire trial, not just her testimony.