Overview
- A Payette County grand jury returned an indictment on June 29 charging Andrea Shaw with two counts of first-degree murder for the May 2025 deaths of her 18-month-old twins, which prosecutors allege were caused by suffocation.
- Police say the deaths were treated as a homicide from the start after the twins were found unresponsive in a shared bed, and investigators spent roughly a year building the case that led to the indictment.
- Shaw was arrested in Boise, booked into the Ada County Jail and extradited to Payette County where she is being held on a $2 million bond while criminal proceedings move forward.
- Her attorney continues to assert the twins died from reactions to routine childhood vaccinations, a claim first made publicly on a Children’s Health Defense podcast, but the defense has not produced medical records or other corroborating evidence.
- Public-health agencies and pediatric experts reject a causal link between routine vaccines and the deaths and the case highlights wider conflicts between anti-vaccine advocacy, ongoing litigation involving Children’s Health Defense, and established medical advice about childhood immunizations.