Lori Vallow makes shocking request before trial after she and Chad Daybell were found guilty of killing their kids

Convicted child murderer Lori Vallow asked a judge to block Court TV from streaming her upcoming murder trial in Arizona on March 31. 

Vallow, 51, also known as ‘doomsday cult mom’, was handed multiple life sentences with no chance of parole in July 2023 for murdering two of her children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow, 7, and conspiring to kill her husband’s former wife, Tammy Daybell.

Her husband, Chad Daybell, was sentenced to death for the triple murder in June 2024.

The disgraced mother, who is representing herself, filed an objection last month in Maricopa County Superior Court, stating the Court TV ‘should be ashamed’ for asking to stream her hearing which is related to alleged murder of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.

She has also been charged with attempted murder of her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux. Vallow will be tried separately for the case involving Boudreaux. 

‘Court TV should be ashamed of its very nature and its request, since its sole objective is NOT to bring people real news or facts but instead its objective is to entertain the public with the very true-life tragedies that happen in real people’s lives,’ she wrote in court documents, obtained by Fox News Digital. 

Vallow also claimed that the broadcasting network is using her and Daybell’s images in commercials, leading the couple to be ‘falsely characterized, libeled, and slandered.’ 

It is unclear if Court TV plans to comply with her request. DailyMail.com contacted the network for comment. 

She was indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit murder in 2021. Vallow was extradited to Arizona in November 2023 and pleaded not guilty to those charges. 

Charles was allegedly shot by Vallow’s brother, Alex Cox, in 2019 in what was said to be self-defense. Months later, Cox died of an apparent blood clot.

Prosecutors then alleged that the siblings worked together to murder Boudreaux as a part of cult-like slayings that Vallow initiated. 

Andrew Stoltmann, a attorney from Chicago, told the outlet that Vallow’s decision to represent herself gives her a ‘tremendous amount of control over the case,’ especially because ‘she has little to lose, since she’s already been sentenced to life in prison in Idaho.’ 

‘She may be intending to turn this case into a three-ring circus, and the best way to do that is by representing herself,’ Stoltmann added. 

Tylee and JJ’s bodies were found on Daybell’s property in Fremont County, Idaho in June 2020. 

Police said they believe the bodies were buried by Daybell sometime between September of 2019 and June of 2020.

Tammy died in 2019, mere weeks ahead of Chad and Lori Vallow’s wedding. 

Though her death was initially believed to be due to natural causes, her corpse was later exhumed and following an autopsy, it was determined that she had been suffocated to death.

Daybell and Vallow were indicted in 2021 on charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and grand theft by deception in the children’s deaths.

The pair were slapped with a handful of additional charges relating to Tammy’s death.

During his trial, Daybell was accused of crafting an alternate reality so that he could fulfill ‘his desire for sex, money and power.’

‘When he had a chance at what he considered his rightful destiny, he made sure no person and no law would stand in his way,’ prosecutor Rob Wood said.

Prosecutors, who called 67 witnesses throughout the trial, said the couple justified the three killings by creating a detailed and apocalyptic belief system, part of an elaborate scheme to eliminate any obstacles to their relationship and to obtain money from survivor benefits and life insurance. 

Before her crimes, Vallow was described by friends and family members as a doting mother.

She was a former contestant on Wheel of Fortune, where she won an impressive $17,500 in 2004. That same year, she competed in the Mrs. Texas beauty pageant, where she talked about being a good wife and mother – though ominously described herself as a ‘ticking timebomb’.

She has been married five times, and has two biological children, Colby and Tylee, and an adopted son, JJ, all of whom she raised within the LDS Church – also known as Mormonism.

Vallow’s descent into religious zealotry was fueled by her third marriage to Tylee’s father, Joseph Ryan. She claims that after discovering he had been sexually abusing her children, she told a bishop she was either going to ‘murder’ her husband or devote herself to ‘the temple.’

In 2017, she reportedly began reading a series of books by doomsday author Chad Daybell, leading her to seek out the father-of-five at a religious conference in 2018.

Her harrowing decline was detailed in the Netflix docuseries ‘Sins of our Mother,’ which included audio snippets from her bizarre podcast, ‘Feel the Fire.’

She became obsessed with theories about the impending apocalypse and the second coming of Christ, and a friend said in the docuseries she even threatened to drive her family off a cliff to spare them from the looming disaster.

Soon after meeting Vallow, Daybell joined an episode of her podcast, which would routinely espouse beliefs about the impending apocalypse.

Both Vallow and Daybell were convinced the second coming of Christ was imminent and only 144,000 people could be saved.

They also believed that people could be rated based on their ‘light or dark’ energy, leading them to vow to ‘rid’ evil spirits from these ‘zombies’.

Vallow allegedly saw her own children as ‘dark,’ and those who knew her reportedly saw her reference the youngsters as ‘zombies.’