Extradited from Idaho, Lori Daybell pleads not guilty in Arizona in ex-husband’s death

By Nate Eaton
Idaho Statesman

PHOENIX - Lori Vallow Daybell pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges in Arizona of conspiring to kill her then-husband and her niece’s ex-husband.

Dressed in an orange Maricopa County Jail uniform, Daybell had little to say during the brief arraignment. She said her name and date of birth when a judge asked, and the court issued a not guilty plea on her behalf.

A grand jury indicted Daybell in June 2021 years after her brother, Alex Cox, shot and killed her then-husband Charles Vallow in his Chandler home. Cox died in December 2019 from what a medical examiner first deemed to be natural causes.

A second grand jury indictment was filed in February 2022 for conspiracy to commit the murder in the death of Brandon Boudreaux. At the time, he was married to Melani Pawlowski, Daybell’s niece. Police say Cox shot at Boudreaux and tried to kill him.

Daybell was extradited to Arizona last week from the Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center, where she has been since the beginning of August after Judge Steven Boyce sentenced her to life in prison for the murders of her children, Tylee Ryan and Joshua “JJ” Vallow. She was also found guilty of conspiring to commit murder in the death of Tammy Daybell, the former wife of Lori’s current husband, Chad Daybell.

Chad Daybell faces similar charges in the killings of Tammy and the children, and his trial is scheduled to begin April 1 in Ada County. Lori Daybell’s Arizona trial is set to start April 4.

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