Judge: Woman accused in kids’ slayings still unfit for trial

ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) — A judge has decided an Idaho woman charged with conspiring with her new husband to kill her two children is still not fit to participate in her own court proceedings. District Judge Steven Boyce made the decision Wednesday to extend Lori Vallow Daybell’s time in a state mental hospital by at least 180 days. The East Idaho News reports Daybell was committed on June 8 after a mental health professional said she was not competent to stand trial. Daybell and her husband Chad Daybell are charged with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder, among other crimes. She was arrested in Hawaii last year. Lori Daybell is also charged in Arizona in the death of her previous husband. She has not yet entered a plea in either state.