Lori Vallow, Infamous ‘Doomsday Mom,’ Sentenced to Life in Prison for Killing Her Two Children | US News

A woman dubbed the “doomsday mom” has been jailed for life without the possibility of parole for the murders of two of her children and conspiring to kill her husband’s ex-wife.

Lori Vallow, 50, had become obsessed with a religious apocalypse, prosecutors in the US said.

The mother, from Idaho, believed her children had to be destroyed so they could go to heaven, her trial heard.

She allegedly believed her son and daughter were zombies – and that she was a goddess sent to usher in the Biblical apocalypse.

She was handed three life sentences, one for each of the charges, to be served one after the other.

The disappearance of two of her children – seven-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and his sister Tylee Ryan, aged 16 – in September 2019 transfixed the nation and sparked a months-long search.

It was not until June 2020 that police found the mutilated remains of JJ and Tylee at a property in rural Idaho that belonged to Vallow’s fifth husband, Chad Daybell, who is awaiting trial on the same murder charges.

After a lengthy trial, Vallow was convicted of their murders in May this year, along with conspiracy to murder her husband Daybell’s ex-wife, Tammy.