Cult mom Lori Vallow and husband Chad Daybell will be tried together in the new year

• Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell will be tried together in the new year.
• The doomsday couple are accused of killing their former spouses and Vallow's two children.

Lori Vallow, the mother accused of killing her two children and ex-husband and then disappearing to a tropical Hawaiian vacation, will be tried in Idaho alongside her husband in April.

The bizarre case of Vallow and apocalyptic novelist Chad Daybell captivated America in 2020 after the "doomsday couple" was found vacationing in Hawaii while entangled in a web of suspicious death and missing persons investigations.

After her ex-husband's shooting death — in which she is now charged — Vallow moved from Arizona to Idaho.

There, she married Daybell a month after the suspicious death of his wife, Tammy, in which he is now charged.

Vallow was temporarily found not competent to stand trial in the killing of her children, but her competency was restored, and a District Judge Steven Boyce ruled in November that she and Daybell can be tried together, East Idaho News reported.

A bizarre system of beliefs, and a trail of bodies

Vallow grew up Mormon, but she started to concern her relatives in 2017 or 2018 when she began reading books about near-death experiences and listening to podcasts created by people who had been excommunicated from the Mormon religion, according to police records and interviews obtained by Insider.

Around that time, she met Daybell, an author who claimed he had magical powers.

Vallow was still married to her husband, Charles, but began to claim she and Daybell were "married in a previous life and were meant to be together again," according to the documents.

The pair eventually came to believe they had "extraordinary abilities," including teleportation, the ability to harm others, and the ability to call up natural disasters.

Vallow believed she was an "exalted Goddess" with visionary capabilities, and had been tapped alongside Daybell to lead 144,000 people who would survive when the world ended in July 2020.

About a year before that expected Apocalypse, on July 11, 2019, Charles Vallow was shot dead by Lori's brother Alex Cox.

Cox initially told police in Chandler, Arizona, that he shot Charles Vallow after being attacked during a fight, which they believed at the time.

After Charles Vallow's death, Lori Vallow and Cox moved to Rexburg, Idaho, where she she married Daybell a month after the death of his wife.

Less than five months after Charles Vallow died, police in Rexburg went to Vallow and Daybell's home to check on the children — J.J. Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16 — after their grandmother said she hadn't seen or heard from them in months. Vallow told police the kids were staying with family, which authorities later learned wasn't true.

The couple disappeared the next day, and were discovered vacationing in Hawaii in February.

Cox was found dead at his home in Gilbert, Arizona, on December 12, 2019. Police said he died of natural causes.

As the investigation into the children's disappearance and death proceeded, police reopened their investigation into Charles Vallow's death.

They later learned through text messages and interviews that Vallow believed her ex-husband was possessed by a demon named Ned Schneider and plotted with her brother to kill him, according to a probable cause affidavit police.

Those who know Vallow told officials she believed her two children, like her ex-husband, were "possessed and had become zombies," according to court documents for an unrelated case involving Vallow's niece.

In May 2021, Vallow and Daybell were both charged with first-degree murder after the children's remains were found on Daybell's property. Daybell was also charged in the death of his ex-wife, Tammy.