Lori Vallow's Arraignment Postponed, Attorney Requests More Docs

PHOENIX — Former Phoenix resident Lori Vallow Daybell's arraignment has been postponed as her attorney seeks more documents and information for her case. Vallow Daybell is facing felony charges of conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence in the deaths of her two children.

The arraignment will now take place on Sept. 10. Her attorney, Mark Means, also filed a document asking for more time to potentially ask to transfer her trial outside of Fremont County in Idaho. Chad Daybell's arraignment took place Friday and his trial is due to begin in January. The couple was jailed after the remains of 7-year-old J.J. Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan were found on Daybell's rural Idaho property on June 9.

Means has also been given 14 days to inform the state if he intends to pursue a mental health defense for his client, according to Inside Edition.

Questions about Vallow Daybell's mental health have followed her since her children initially went missing in late 2019.

Worried his wife would kill him after he filed for divorce, her estranged husband Charles Vallow had filed for an order of protection, according to court documents that paint a picture of a woman who believed she was a "translated being" and "a god assigned to carry out the work of the 144,000 at Christ's second coming in July 2020."

Vallow died in his Chandler home after he was shot by Vallow Daybell's brother, Alex Cox, who claimed self-defense. Cox later later passed away from natural causes. Vallow Daybell is likely to be charged in her estranged husband's murder, according to Chandler police.

Daybell has written several apocalyptic novels loosely based on Mormon religious theology, and both had been involved in a group that promotes preparedness for biblical Armageddon. Police in Rexburg, Idaho, are investigating the death of Daybell's wife Tammy, who died two weeks before he and Lori Vallow were married in Hawaii.

Both Vallow and Vallow Daybell have denied any wrongdoing and are being held in jail on a $1 million bond.