Lori Vallow’s murder trial will commence today (Monday) at the Ada County Courthouse.
Vallow is charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and grand theft in connection with the deaths of her children, 7-year-old J.J. Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as the death of Tammy Daybell, her husband Chad Daybell’s late wife.
The Idaho Press reports getting to trial has been a years long process — Vallow was initially arrested in January 2020 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai for not producing her children, who at that point had been missing for months.
The bodies of J.J. and Tylee were found in Daybell’s backyard in June 2020.
Vallow’s trial has been delayed in part because she has twice been deemed not mentally competent to assist in her defense and was sent to a state-run mental facility to receive restorative psychiatric care.
The trial has been moved to Ada County out of concerns for Vallow receiving a fair trial and cameras have been banned from the courtroom.