Police arrested 23-year-old Andrea Shaw more than a year after her twin toddlers were found dead in May 2025.
PAYETTE, Idaho — An Idaho mother is facing murder charges for the deaths of her 18-month-old twins, after previously claiming vaccines were the cause of their deaths.
New court records obtained by KTVB show that a Payette County grand jury indicted Andrea Shaw on two first-degree murder charges, alleging she killed her 18-month-old twins by suffocation in May 2025.
KTVB filed a public records request for the indictment. The two-page indictment was filed in Payette on June 29 and lists Shaw’s charges in full: both counts accuse Shaw of killing her twin toddlers, Dallas and Tyson, by suffocation. First-degree murder charges require premeditation.
The twins were found dead in a shared bed in Northgate Mobile Park in Payette, Idaho. At the time, Payette Police Department said they were treating the case as a homicide.
Just days after their children died, Shaw and her husband went on a podcast funded by Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group previously led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the Secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services, in which Andrea Shaw claimed vaccines were to blame for their deaths.
KTVB spoke to Shaw’s private attorney, Joseph Filicetti, who said he also believes the twins died from vaccinations.
“They were looking at it as a vaccine death, and that’s still what I believe it to be,” Filicetti said. “I’m not a medical expert, but the medical experts I have, [they] go through a series of [steps] when looking at different complications.”
Four witnesses were examined before the grand jury, according to the indictment. Three of those witnesses are officers with the Payette Police Department, and one is a pediatrician at St. Luke’s intensive care unit.
Following the indictment, a warrant was issued for Shaw’s arrest last week, and she was arraigned, according to authorities.
Shaw is being held on a $2 million bond. If released on bond, she would be prohibited from having contact with anyone younger than 18 and would be subject to additional conditions.
During the hearing, the court read the charges and explained the potential penalties, including the possibility of the death penalty.
Filicetti said Shaw underwent a cesarean section on June 25, 2026, and he has filed a motion to discuss bond. He previously told KTVB that Shaw had a baby on June 25 and that her husband is taking care of the baby.