Cult Mom" Lori Vallow Claims SHE'S The Victim — Prosecutors Just Ended Her Appeal
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Lori Vallow Daybell murdered her two children. A jury said so. Now she's arguing that her constitutional rights were violated and she deserves a new trial. Prosecutors in Idaho just filed a 59-page response that tears every single claim apart. Her attorney had an impossible conflict of interest — representing both Lori and Chad Daybell simultaneously while Chad paid the bills. She was found incompetent twice, accounting for nearly a year of delays she's now complaining about.
The Arizona evidence she wanted excluded? It proved the entire pattern: Chad declares someone has a "dark spirit," Alex Cox kills them, and Lori collects the insurance money. That's not prejudicial — that's the blueprint. We go through each of her five claims and show you exactly why this appeal has no foundation. Seven-year-old JJ was found with a plastic bag taped over his head, his wrists and ankles bound. Sixteen-year-old Tylee was burned and dismembered. Their mother spent those months in Hawaii, collecting their Social Security checks and marrying Chad Daybell. And now, from a prison cell, she's still playing the victim. The Idaho Supreme Court hasn't scheduled oral arguments yet. But based on the state's devastating response, this appeal is going nowhere.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.0 | Lori Valadee Bell, the woman convicted of murdering her own children is now arguing that |
| 0:12.4 | she's the one whose constitutional rights were violated. |
| 0:19.6 | Let that sit for a second. |
| 0:22.1 | Jury found her guilty of killing 7-year-old JJ and 16-year-old Tiley. |
| 0:25.5 | Their bodies were dug up from her husband's backyard, and now from prison. |
| 0:29.1 | She's filed an appeal claiming the system did her wrong. |
| 0:35.1 | It's... |
| 0:36.6 | It's just procedural noise. |
| 0:38.7 | If any of these five claims land with the Idaho Supreme Court, she could get a new trial. |
| 0:47.3 | How legit? |
| 0:48.7 | How are we looking at this? |
| 0:51.6 | What are the odds involved in this? |
| 0:53.5 | Let's walk through each one, shall we? |
| 0:55.8 | Because spoiler, they're about as sturdy as a religious prophecy that didn't come true. |
| 1:03.7 | And as we go through these, give me your thoughts in the comment section on YouTube, |
| 1:08.2 | or even better yet on our substack, where you can interact |
| 1:11.0 | directly with me here in the studio. Please do check that out. HiddenKillers.substack.com. |
| 1:15.7 | The link is in the comments. Quick context for anyone who needs it. June 2020, investigators find |
| 1:21.7 | the remains of JJ and Tiley, her kids buried on Chad Daybell's, her husband's property, in rural Idaho. |
| 1:28.2 | The kids have been missing since September of 2019. |
| 1:30.9 | During those months, Lori wasn't exactly tearing apart the countryside looking for them. |
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