Lori Vallow, mom indicted in case of missing Idaho kids, denied bail reduction

Lori Vallow Daybell glances at the camera during her hearing on Friday, March 6, 2020, in Rexburg, Idaho.(John Roark/AP)

Lori Vallow, the Idaho mother implicated in the disappearance of two children, was denied a bail reduction Friday, ABC News reported.

Vallow’s bond is set at $1 million, according to ABC News. Her attorneys argued that it should be reduced because their attorney-client conversations were taped without permission.

Magistrate Judge Michelle Mallard was not buying it, ABC News reported. She said she didn’t hear any “good cause” for dropping the $1 million bond, despite Vallow’s lawyers’ pleas for it be lowered to $100,000-$250,000.

Prosecutors have argued that Vallow should not be granted anything until the children are found. They also denied that any attorney-client privilege had been violated.

The children, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old JJ Vallow, have been missing since September 2019. Rexburg, Idaho, police said they’ve found no evidence of anyone caring for the kids.

Lori Vallow’s husband, Charles, died in July after her brother, Alex Cox, fatally shot him in Phoenix.

Five months earlier, Charles Vallow had filed for divorce, accusing his wife of becoming “infatuated at times obsessive about near death experiences and spiritual visions.”

This bond hearing had been delayed twice because of the coronavirus pandemic.