Boise — Idaho mother Lori Valor Daybell was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Monday for murdering her two youngest children and a romantic partner. strange claim Her son and daughter are zombies and she is a goddess sent to guide the biblical apocalypse.

Valor Dabell is Convicted in May For murdering her two youngest children, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Valor and 16-year-old Tyree Ryan, and for conspiring to kill Tammy Dabell. Wife before 5th Husband. Valor Daybell will serve three life sentences in a row, the judge said.

Her husband, Chad Daybell, is also awaiting trial on the same murder charges. Valor Dabell faces two other lawsuits in Arizona. She is charged with conspiring with her brother to murder her fourth husband, Charles Varrow, and conspiring to murder her niece’s ex-husband. Charles Varrow was shot dead in 2019, but her niece’s ex-male survived an attempted murder later that year.

In Fremont County Courthouse in St. Anthony, Idaho, Judge Stephen W. Boyce said the search for missing children, the discovery of bodies, and photographic evidence shown in court traumatized law enforcement and juries. , said he would never be able to. To get the image of murdered children out of my head.

“It’s the most shocking thing I can imagine,” Boyce said of a parent killing their own child.

Valor Dabell justified the murder by saying he was “going down a weird religious rabbit hole, but you’re still there, obviously.”

“To this day, I don’t think you have any regrets for the effort and heartache you caused,” he said.

Boyce heard testimony from several victims’ representatives, including Colby Ryan, Valor Dabell’s only surviving son.

“Tyree will never have the opportunity to be a mother or a wife or have the career she deserves. JJ will never grow up and spread her light to the world the way she once did,” said Ryan. said in a statement read by prosecutor’s attorney Rob Wood. “My brothers and my father deserve more than this. I want them to be remembered for what they are, not just for show.”

Ryan also wrote about his grief.

“I lost the opportunity to share my life with the people I loved most. I lost my sister, my father, my brother and my mother,” he said, adding, “The one who took the lives of all we love. We are praying for the healing of everyone involved, including us.”

The murder plot and Tammy Dabell’s death left deep rifts in the family, Tammy’s sister Samantha Gwilliam told the court.

“Why? citing the allegations. “My family lost a beloved mother, sister and daughter because of your choices.”

Gwilliam said Tammy Dabell’s mother was battling cancer and spent the last few months of her life attending murder trials. Gwilliam also told Valor Daybell, who sat among her defense attorneys and looked down, that “all the vile scandals you’ve caused” have left her family shunned by the media and others. said there is.

“I miss my sister every day. I will miss her and my mother for the rest of my life,” Gwilliam said. “As for you, I choose to forget you, and when I leave the courtroom here today, I choose never to think of you again.”

Boyce also spoke with Valor Daybell before handing down his sentence. She quoted from the Bible that people should not judge each other. She said she also mourned the loss of her children and Tammy Davell, but knew they would be together in the afterlife.

She claimed that she was regularly visited by the spirits of her deceased children and that of her “eternal friend” Tammy Dabell, suggesting that the three were not killed at all.

“Jesus Christ knows that no one was killed in this incident,” she said. “Accidental deaths do happen. Suicides do. Fatal side effects of drugs do happen.”

Wood pointed to two cases in Arizona and three murders in six weeks in Idaho.

“A defendant willing to kill his own child is willing to kill anyone,” Wood said.

Valor Dabell has been incarcerated multiple times for treatment to keep him mentally ready for court proceedings. But Wood said there was no evidence, according to reports referred to in court, that her crimes were influenced by her “alleged mental illness,” including delusional disorder with grandiose features. rice field.

“There is overwhelming evidence that she knew right from wrong,” said Wood, referring to several testimonies that she lied about her death.

In July 2019, Valor Dabell’s brother Alex Cox shot and killed his estranged husband, Charles Valor, in his suburban Phoenix home. Cox told police he was acting in self-defense. He was not charged and later died as authorities ruled it to be a natural death.

Valor Daybell was already dating writer Chad Daybell, who has self-published an apocalyptic-focused novel loosely based on Mormon teachings. She moved to Idaho with her children and siblings to be closer to him.

The children were last seen alive in September 2019, and police discovered the children missing a month later after relatives worried. Their bodies were found buried in Chad Daybell’s garden the following summer.

During the trial, experts said Tyree was likely stabbed and her body burned before being buried in the pet cemetery, Wood said.

Wood said JJ’s head was suffocated with tape and plastic, and speculated that his last thoughts must have been “filled with fear and betrayal.”

Wood said Tammy Dabell had bruises on her body, suggesting she fought back when she suffocated in her bed.

Chad Daybell and Lori Valor married in November 2019, about two weeks after Dabell’s ex-wife Tammy was murdered. Tammy Dabell was initially described as having died of natural causes, but an autopsy later revealed she died of asphyxiation, authorities said.

Attorney Jim Archibald argued during the trial that there was no evidence linking Valor Daybell to the murder, but much evidence indicates that she was a loving and protective mother, and that she was the daughter of Chad. Meeting Davell and falling in love with his “weird” apocalyptic religion turned his life upside down. Claim. He suggested that Davell and Valor Davell’s brother Alex Cox were responsible for the deaths.

Ms. Daybell told her that they had been married several times in previous lives, that she was a “sex goddess” and that she wanted to help save the world by gathering 144,000 followers so that Jesus could return. He said he was supposed to, said Archibald.

Melanie Gibb, a former friend of Valor Daybell, testified during the trial that Valor Daybell believed people in her life were possessed by demons. turned into a “zombie” Including JJ and Tyree.