woman convicted of conspiracy to commit murder Her two youngest children and another woman were found competent to stand trial on additional charges Thursday.

Two Arizona state-appointed doctors deemed appropriate to be charged with conspiracy to murder Lori Vallow Daybell separated husbandCharles Vallow, niece’s ex-spouse. She is already serving a life sentence in Idaho for her role in the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and Tammy Daybell.

Vallow-Daybell’s fourth husband, Charles Vallow, who was shot and killed by Vallow-Daybell’s brother in 2019, told police he acted in self-defense and was not charged.

Vallow-Daybell was already dating Chad Daybell, a self-published writer who has written a series of end-times-focused novels loosely based on Mormon teachings. She moved from Phoenix to Idaho to be closer to him.

Chad Daybell became Vallow Daybell’s fifth husband and was later sentenced to death for the murders of his children and then-wife Tammy Daybell.

prosecutor idaho incident Chad Daybell and Vallow Daybell conspired to murder their two children, reinforcing claims that Tammy Daybell conspired to remove obstacles to their relationship and obtain survivor benefits and life insurance. He called dozens of witnesses to do so.

Prosecutors say the couple is an apocalyptic belief system in which people can become possessed by evil spirits and turn into “zombies” and that the only way to save a possessed person’s soul is for the possessed body to die. He claimed that he justified the killing by making up a story.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge tentatively set Vallow-Daybell’s trial for Feb. 24.