Lori Vallow Daybell Extradited to Arizona

Lori Vallow Daybell, who is serving consecutive life sentences in Idaho for murdering two of her children after being inspired by what prosecutors called her “doomsday” beliefs, has been extradited to Arizona to face charges of conspiracy to commit murder in two other cases.

Sheriff’s deputies from Maricopa County, Ariz., accompanied Ms. Vallow Daybell, 50, on the 18-hour drive from prison in Pocatello, Idaho, to the Estrella Jail in Phoenix, where she was booked late on Wednesday night, the Maricopa County sheriff, Paul Penzone, said at a news conference.

Ms. Vallow Daybell, who will remain in custody without bail, “was very sociable the entire trip,” the sheriff said. She “talked quite a bit.”

Ms. Vallow Daybell faces two counts of conspiracy to commit murder related to two cases in Arizona.

She was indicted in 2021 in Maricopa County after her brother, Alexander Cox, shot and killed the fourth of her five husbands, Charles Vallow, in July 2019.

She had “agreed with Alexander Cox that at least one of them or another” would engage in what would constitute the first-degree murder of Charles Vallow, according to an indictment.

In October 2019, Mr. Cox also shot at Brandon Boudreaux, her niece’s former husband. Mr. Boudreaux survived, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Cox died of natural causes in 2019, the Maricopa County medical examiner said.

After Ms. Vallow Daybell was booked into the jail in Maricopa County, an arraignment was set for Dec. 7 in both cases, according to video of her initial appearance in court on Thursday.

In a case that drew national attention for what prosecutors described as her “doomsday” beliefs, Ms. Vallow Daybell was sentenced in Idaho in July to three consecutive terms of life in prison without parole for the murders of two of her children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua Vallow, 7, known as J.J., and for conspiring to murder her husband’s former wife, Tammy Daybell.

Ms. Vallow Daybell’s husband, Chad Daybell, has also been charged with first-degree murder in that case and in connection with the deaths of the children. His trial has been set for April 2024.

In November 2019, J.J.’s grandparents reported the children missing.

Officers with the Rexburg Police Department in Idaho tried to conduct a welfare check and later executed search warrants at a residence where Ms. Vallow Daybell and Mr. Daybell lived.

The authorities said the couple seemed unconcerned with the children’s whereabouts. The couple eventually turned up in Hawaii but without the children.

In February 2020, Ms. Vallow Daybell was arrested in Hawaii on a warrant issued by the authorities in Idaho, after, they said, she had not cooperated with the effort to find the missing children.

In June 2020, investigators found human remains buried on Mr. Daybell’s property in Idaho that were later identified as belonging to his wife’s missing children. He was arrested and charged with concealing evidence.

At the sentencing in Idaho in July, Ms. Vallow Daybell told the court that she has had “many communications with Jesus Christ” and that because of those communications she knows that her children are “happy and busy in the spirit world.”

Judge Steven Boyce of the Seventh Judicial District said Ms. Vallow Daybell “chose the most evil and destructive path possible.”