PICTURED: Lori Vallow is seen for the first time in mugshot

'Cult mom'  has been pictured in her mugshot with her dyed blonde hair fading and a smug grin on her suddenly aged face.
The image came in stark contrast to the coiffed, blonde-haired and wrinkle-free mother she has presented herself to be during the course of a five-week trial. 
Vallow, 49, was found guilty last week of murdering her two children — seven-year-old JJ and 16-year-old Tylee — in 2019.
Authorities have said their mother, newly-in-love with Doomsday-cult enthusiast , avoided questions and evaded authorities after the children disappeared that September.
She then fled to , refusing to tell the police where her children were, or answering any kind of questions about not only her children but the vast web of death and deceit that seemed to engulf her family. 
Vallow now faces life in prison, while the trial for Daybell remains paused.
She has also been
Lori Vallow, 49, is pictured in a mugshot from the Madison County Jail.

She was found guilty last week of murdering her two children
The image came in stark contrast to the coiffed, blonde-haired and wrinkle-free mother she has presented herself to be in previous mugshots.

Vallow is pictured in mugshots from 2018, left, and 2020, right
Vallow was previously pictured in mugshots from 2022, left, and 2023
Vallow killed seven-year-old Joshua (JJ), left, and 16-year-old Tylee, right, and avoided authorities in the aftermath
In 2020, police discovered JJ and Tylee's remains in shallow graves in Chad Daybell's yard
Vallow had come under scrutiny shortly after her children disappeared in September 2019. 
In the aftermath, local authorities had started to look into all the deaths that were connected to Vallow and Daybell.
Tammy Daybell was Chad's wife when he met Lori and the mother of their children. She died suddenly in October 2019. 
Initially, her death was ruled as the result of natural causes. 
After attention turned to Lori and Chad, she was exhumed and reexamined.  
An autopsy - which Daybell had refused the night she died - shows she , the same cause of death which would later be determined for JJ.
Vallow was eventually arrested in Hawaii in February 2020 - five months after JJ and Tylee were last seen alive. 
The children would not be found for another four months, in shallow graves in Daybell's backyard.
JJ had been suffocated with a plastic bag, while Tylee's corpse was so badly burned and dismembered that it is still not clear how she was killed. 
The 49-year-old was emotionless as the verdict was read aloud in Boise, Idaho.

Her defense team did not call a single witness nor did they put forward any kind of explanation for how the children died
In court, prosecutors argued Vallow was and that she used all three of those things to achieve her twisted ends.
Lori and Chad Daybell met in October 2018 at a religious conference 
Jurors heard how they saw her children and Daybell's wife as 'obstacles' to the romantic life they envisioned for themselves in Hawaii. 
Prosecutors said Vallow and Daybell believed - or chose to believe - that those who stood in their way were 'dark' possessed individuals who they referred to as 'zombies.'
'Remember, the defendant will remove any obstacle in her way to get what she wants, and she wanted Chad Daybell,' prosecutor Lindsey Blake told jurors.
'The defendant used money, power and sex to get what she wanted.'
The couple had planned to use life insurance money from Tammy's death, and that Vallow kept collecting and spending the children's social security and benefits after they died, the state argued in court. 
'Tylee had money.

Lori wanted it and because of that, Tylee is gone,' Blake said. 
She described JJ as a 'vibrant, happy-go-lucky'. But caring for JJ, who had autism, required 'time, effort and energy'.
Caring for JJ 'took away from the defendant doing what she wanted to do - devoting her time to Chad Daybell,' said Blake.
Lori was also found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Chad's wife, Tammy, who died from asphyxiation in October 2019

Blake also said that Vallow and Daybell felt they needed to destroy the bodies because the children were 'dark' and 'zombies.'
The couple had believed they could rate people 'light or dark' and getting 'rid' of evil spirits from dark people, jurors heard.

They were convinced the second coming of Christ was imminent and only 144,000 people could be saved. 
'She was here on a religious mission to gather the 144,000, so she needed to spend her time and energy there,' the prosecutor said.
'What she did on earth no longer counted for her,' Blake added.

Vallow and Daybell used their warped religious ideas to 'justify' their actions.
'The common theme was the body has to be destroyed,' Blake said. 'The defendant and Chad used their self-proclaimed religious teachings to justify their actions to others — their actions from affair to murder.'
When the children's bodies were ultimately found, authorities said,  with duct tape binding his arms in front of him and wrapping around his head.
He had been suffocated inside a plastic bag.
All that was left of Tylee, meanwhile, was charred remains.
'You will hear it explained as a mass of bone and tissue,' Blake said.

'That's what was left of this beautiful young woman.'
Tylee's DNA was later found on a pickaxe and shovel in a shed on the property. 
The last known photograph of Tylee, center, during a family trip to Yellowstone National Park with JJ, left, her uncle Alex Cox, right, and her mom Lori, in September 2019 

However, Vallow's defense attorney pointed the finger at her doomsday preacher husband in a last ditch attempt to sway the jury. 
Jim Archibald attempted to paint a picture of Vallow as a loving mother who was seduced by Daybell and lied to protect him.
Outlining the defense case, Jim Archibald said Vallow 'believes in life after death' and 'believes she will see her deceased children'.
He accepted she had an interest in the 'end times', adding: 'In this country we get to worship how we choose.

The evidence will show that once Lori and her friends met Chad Daybell - an author on religious subjects - her beliefs began to morph, to change.'
Archibald told jurors 'that's where you come into this story'.
'What happened?
How did these children die? Who was involved? When did it happen? Where did it happen? Why did it happen?' he said.
He said Vallow was a 'good, responsible mother' and that's what motivated Kay Woodcock to ask Vallow to adopt JJ with Charles Vallow in 2014.
'The evidence will show that people were attracted to her,' said Archibald, including her 'pretty smile, her vivacious personality, her fun-loving, happy go luck personality.

People wanted to be around her.'
He claimed she had no idea Daybell and her brother Alex had 'stuffed her kids' bodies in Chad's backyard'.
But the jury was not convinced, and she faces life in prison.
Charles Vallow (left, with wife Lori) was shot dead in July 2019 in Arizona by Alex Cox, his wife's brother.

Cox died in December 2019. In July 2021, Lori Vallow was charged by a grand jury with conspiracy to murder her husband
In the meantime, Vallow has been extradited to Arizona to face conspiracy to murder charges in the death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, who died in July 2019.
Her brother Alex Cox fired the fatal shot, but a grand jury in June 2021 found Vallow should be charged with one count of conspiracy to commit first degree murder.
They argued that before Charles Vallow died, he had filed for divorce. 
Cox was never charged after shooting him dead, and argued self-defense.
Allister Adel, Maricopa County Attorney, said that the two-year gap between the crime and the decision to charge Lori Vallow was due to the complexity of the case.
He said in July 2021 that 'complex, difficult cases of this nature take time to properly investigate and solve.'