#Doomsday mom Lori Vallow wants $1M bond lowered

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Lori Vallow
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Doomsday-obsessed mom Lori Vallow wants her $1 million bond reduced in the disappearance and death of her two children, according to new court papers filed by her lawyer.

Defense attorney Mark Means said in papers filed Tuesday in court in Idaho that Vallow should have her hefty bail revisited because prosecutors in Madison County dropped two felony charges against her on July 2, and she now only faces misdemeanor counts, KIVI-TV reported Wednesday.

“Defendant asserts felony charges regarding previous bond setting were dismissed and as such bond should be reset to reflect current charges evident in the newly filed Amended Criminal Complaint,” Means wrote.

“Defendant requests this court to review applicable criteria under Criminal Statute and Criminal Rule as it pertains to bond reduction.”

The document was posted on Twitter Wednesday by KSAZ-TV reporter Justin Lum.

Vallow, 46, faces misdemeanor charges of resisting and obstructing an officer, solicitation of a crime, and contempt of court in the deaths of Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and his sister, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan, whose remains were found buried on property belonging to Vallow’s husband, Chad Daybell.

Vallow still faces new felony charges of conspiracy to destroy, alter or conceal evidence in neighboring Fremont County, and is being held on $1 million bond there as well.

Daybell, 51, faces felony charges of conspiracy to commit destruction, and alteration or concealment of evidence in Fremont.

The couple, members of a cult named Preparing a People, is accused of lying to investigators and refusing to conceal the whereabouts of the children after they went missing in September.

Vallow was tracked down to Hawaii and arrested there in February.