An Idaho mother who claimed her twins died last year after receiving vaccinations has now been charged with murder in connection with the death of the 18-month-olds.
Andrea Shaw, 23, was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder, the Payette Police Department announced last week. She was arrested in Boise on Tuesday.
Police previously said the boy and girl were found dead in a shared bed on May 1, 2025.
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Police did not publicly state the kids’ cause of death, but an indictment filed in Payette accuses Shaw of killing her twin toddlers, Dallas and Tyson, by suffocation, according to KTVB.
Just days after their children died, Shaw and her husband appeared on a podcast funded by Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group previously led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in which she alleged that the twins became sick and died shortly after receiving three vaccinations.
Shaw’s attorney, Joe Filicetti, said he still believes the children’s deaths were linked to the vaccinations without providing evidence to support that claim.
“They were looking at it as a vaccine death, and that’s still what I believe it to be,” he told KTVB.
Filicetti also said Shaw recently gave birth to another baby prematurely through a cesarean section and that her husband is taking care of the child.
Shaw was initially held at the Ada County Jail before being extradited to Payette County. She is being held on a $2 million bond.
She appeared virtually for her arraignment at the Payette County District court on Thursday.
During the hearing, the court read the charges and informed her of the potential penalties, including the possibility of the death penalty.
