PHOENIX (CN) — A mother convicted of murdering her two children and ex-husband in 2019 moved Wednesday to recuse the presiding county judge in her third murder trial, citing personal bias.
Lori Vallow Daybell’s motion comes as Maricopa County Judge Justin Beresky considers her request for a retrial on her most recent conviction in April on grounds of juror and prosecutorial misconduct.
Vallow Daybell, nicknamed “Doomsday Mom” for the radical religious beliefs she apparently used to justify murdering her children in Idaho and her ex-husband in Chandler, Arizona, faces a third trial in June over the attempted murder of Brandon Boudreaux, the ex-husband of Vallow Daybell’s niece. In a status conference Wednesday morning in state court, the defendant accused Beresky of holding a clear and prejudicial bias against her…