ST. ANTHONY, Idaho — An Idaho judge threw the book at Lori Vallow Daybell Monday, ordering her to serve five sentences of life in prison with no possibility of parole.
“You chose the most evil and destructive path possible,” Judge Steven Boyce told Daybell, saying she justified the “heinous crimes” of murdering her two children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival by “going down a bizarre religious rabbit hole and … you are still there.”
He added: “You may not believe to this day that you’ve done anything wrong, and you still may think you’re justified by your religious beliefs for what happened here. I’m not here to judge that, but I don’t think that any god in any religion would want to have this happen, what happened here,” Boyce said.
Before she was sentenced, Daybell made a bizarre statement to the court, describing how the victims — Tylee Ryan, 16, JJ Vallow, 7, and Tammy Daybell, 49 — have visited her since their deaths and they have told her they are doing fine.
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Written by EMILY ASHCRAFT, KSL.com.
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