Andrea Shaw: Idaho Mother Charged with Suffocating Twin Toddlers After She Claimed Vaccines Killed Them
Andrea Shaw will remain in jail after a Payette County judge revoked her bond on July 14, 2026. Shaw, who is 23, faces two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her 18-month-old twins.
The children, a boy named Dallas and a girl named Tyson, were found dead in their cribs in May 2025. However, police arrested her a year later, on June 30, 2026, after what the Payette Police Department described as a "lengthy and thorough investigation."
A grand jury later indicted Shaw, after prosecutors say she suffocated the toddlers "in an act that was either planned in advance or happened during an aggravated battery."
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Shaw has not entered a plea, and her attorney, Joseph Filicetti, told ABC News that his client "absolutely denies doing anything even imaginably bad," describing the prosecution's case as weak.
From the beginning of the case, Shaw maintained that the twins' deaths were caused by a vaccine they had taken.
She and her husband even gave an interview to Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine organization founded by current Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and laid out their version of how things unfolded.
Shaw said the babies received several routine vaccinations, including shots for hepatitis A, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and the flu, eight days before they died.
She said the children became sick afterward, so she took them to a hospital, and according to her, medical staff told her the twins could be having a reaction to the vaccines.
She said the family went home with pain medication, and the children died two days later.
During the interview, Shaw also recalled that officers suggested the deaths "weren't medical" and pointed the blame at her during her official police interview.
Medical autopsy results from the investigation have not been released, and some major health organizations continue to say that serious harm from routine childhood vaccines is extremely rare.
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| Andrea Shaw |
The bond hearing on July 14, 2026, centered on whether Shaw should be released.
Her lawyer, Filicetti asked the court to lower her bond from $2 million to $100,000, arguing that Shaw needed to nurse her newborn baby who was delivered by caesarean section just five days before her arrest.
But prosecutors strongly disagreed, and they told the Judge that Shaw should not "be allowed to be anywhere near any children, let alone her own children."
"This is not a vaccine case. This is a case where a mother unfortunately has killed her two children," one prosecutor said in court.
The judge sided with the prosecution completely. She revoked the bond completely and also stated that she viewed Shaw as a threat to her newborn.
Beyond this criminal case, Shaw is also a plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by Children's Health Defense against the American Academy of Pediatrics, as per BBC.
That suit challenges the academy's recommendations for childhood vaccines. Kennedy stepped away from the organization in 2024 after his cabinet nomination, and the group has long faced criticism from medical experts for spreading false health information.
After Shaw's indictment, Children's Health Defense posted a video featuring its chief executive, Mary Holland, showing support for her. "There's zero evidence so far that this woman killed her children, zero," Holland said.
The Payette Police Department has since said it will not release further details before trial.
"Because this case is now pending before the court, the Payette Police Department will have no further comment regarding the facts of the case or the evidence. Future information will be presented through the judicial process," the department said in a statement.
Shaw faces a maximum penalty of life in prison or the death penalty if convicted. No trial date has been set, but her lawyer remains confident that she will not be convicted.
"We will have proof in trial," Filicetti said.
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