Lori Vallow Daybell, mom who killed her kids, handed 3 life sentences, no parole

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Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole Monday after being convicted of the gruesome killings of her two youngest children and her husband’s former wife.

Vallow Daybell was handed the maximum sentence possible more than three years after the bodies of her son, Joshua (JJ) Vallow, 7, and daughter Tylee Ryan, 16, were discovered by authorities in Vallow Daybell’s husband’s backyard in rural eastern Idaho.

Judge Steven Boyce told the court that Vallow Daybell will serve three consecutive sentences because she “needs to be held accountable separately for each of the three murders.”

In addition to the three murder charges, Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for two separate charges of conspiracy to commit murder of her two children. She was also sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison for a grand theft charge. These counts will run concurrent to the three consecutive murder charges.

Boyce said during the sentencing he doesn’t think Vallow Daybell “has any remorse for the effort and heartache you caused.”

“It’s unbelievable that are your age, you have no prior criminal history and now, you sit here convicted of the most serious charges,” Boyce said. “The most unimaginable type of murder is to have a mother murdering her own children and that’s exactly what you did. Despite the jury convicting you with overwhelming evidence, you still sit here before the court today and said you didn’t do it.”

Vallow Daybell, 50, was found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges in May, when a jury sided with prosecutors who painted her as a callous murderer who wanted to kill off her youngest children as part of a plan to start