BOISE, Idaho — In a brief hearing at the Payette County Courthouse on Tuesday, an Idaho mother denied killing her 18-month-old twins and had what could be a monthlong murder trial scheduled for January 2027.

Appearing in an orange and white jumpsuit, 23-year-old Andrea Renee Shaw pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of first-degree murder, her attorney, Joe Filicetti, said on her behalf. Filicetti has stayed adamant that his client isn’t guilty, and he told reporters outside the courthouse that he attended the memorial service for the twins after they died.

Shaw “was not a mother who murdered her children,” he said.

He has called the prosecution’s criminal case against his client “circumstantial” and contradicted by medical records that he said show the twins were suffering from post-immunization reactions.

Her toddlers, Dallas and Tyson, were found dead in their shared bed in May 2025, according to the Payette Police Department. After an investigation, Shaw was indicted on the two felony counts in June this year.

Her case has garnered nationwide attention over the claims that the children’s deaths were a result of vaccination reactions, and her connection to Children’s Health Defense, a controversial group started by current U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who resigned as the organization’s chairman and chief legal counsel in December 2024.

The nonprofit, which has made false claims about the safety of vaccinations, interviewed Andrea and her husband, Nathaniel, days after their children’s deaths. The couple said they wouldn’t have described themselves as antivaxxers, but blamed their children’s deaths on the flu shot.

“This is not a vaccine case,” Payette County Prosecutor Mike Duke said. “This is a case where a mother, unfortunately, has killed her two children.”

He’s argued in prior court filings that a forensic pathologist ruled out vaccines as a possible cause of death. Other possible factors, such as heat exposure or carbon monoxide poisoning, were ruled out by investigators — leaving suffocation as “the only conceivable explanation,” Duke wrote.

Shaw’s next hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. Oct. 15 at the Payette County Courthouse, where Filicetti said he’s likely to argue for his client to be released on bond, after a failed attempt to get that bond lowered previously.

A Payette County grand jury indicted 23-year-old Andrea Shaw on two counts of first-degree murder in the May 2025 deaths of her 18-month-old twins. Courtesy Joe Filicetti

In a brief hearing at the Payette County Courthouse on Tuesday, an Idaho mother denied killing her 18-month-old twins and had what could be a monthlong murder trial scheduled for January 2027.

Appearing in an orange and white jumpsuit, 23-year-old Andrea Renee Shaw pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of first-degree murder, her attorney, Joe Filicetti, said on her behalf. Filicetti has stayed adamant that his client isn’t guilty, and he told reporters outside the courthouse that he attended the memorial service for the twins after they died.

Shaw “was not a mother who murdered her children,” he said.

He has called the prosecution’s criminal case against his client “circumstantial” and contradicted by medical records that he said show the twins were suffering from post-immunization reactions.

Her toddlers, Dallas and Tyson, were found dead in their shared bed in May 2025, according to the Payette Police Department. After an investigation, Shaw was indicted on the two felony counts in June this year.

Her case has garnered nationwide attention over the claims that the children’s deaths were a result of vaccination reactions, and her connection to Children’s Health Defense, a controversial group started by current U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who resigned as the organization’s chairman and chief legal counsel in December 2024.

The nonprofit, which has made false claims about the safety of vaccinations, interviewed Andrea and her husband, Nathaniel, days after their children’s deaths. The couple said they wouldn’t have described themselves as antivaxxers, but blamed their children’s deaths on the flu shot.

“This is not a vaccine case,” Payette County Prosecutor Mike Duke said. “This is a case where a mother, unfortunately, has killed her two children.”

He’s argued in prior court filings that a forensic pathologist ruled out vaccines as a possible cause of death. Other possible factors, such as heat exposure or carbon monoxide poisoning, were ruled out by investigators — leaving suffocation as “the only conceivable explanation,” Duke wrote.

Shaw’s next hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. Oct. 15 at the Payette County Courthouse, where Filicetti said he’s likely to argue for his client to be released on bond, after a failed attempt to get that bond lowered previously.

In a brief hearing at the Payette County Courthouse on Tuesday, an Idaho mother denied killing her 18-month-old twins and had what could be a monthlong murder trial scheduled for January 2027.

Appearing in an orange and white jumpsuit, 23-year-old Andrea Renee Shaw pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of first-degree murder, her attorney, Joe Filicetti, said on her behalf. Filicetti has stayed adamant that his client isn’t guilty, and he told reporters outside the courthouse that he attended the memorial service for the twins after they died.

Shaw “was not a mother who murdered her children,” he said.

He has called the prosecution’s criminal case against his client “circumstantial” and contradicted by medical records that he said show the twins were suffering from post-immunization reactions.

Her toddlers, Dallas and Tyson, were found dead in their shared bed in May 2025, according to the Payette Police Department. After an investigation, Shaw was indicted on the two felony counts in June this year.

Her case has garnered nationwide attention over the claims that the children’s deaths were a result of vaccination reactions, and her connection to Children’s Health Defense, a controversial group started by current U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who resigned as the organization’s chairman and chief legal counsel in December 2024.

The nonprofit, which has made false claims about the safety of vaccinations, interviewed Andrea and her husband, Nathaniel, days after their children’s deaths. The couple said they wouldn’t have described themselves as antivaxxers, but blamed their children’s deaths on the flu shot.

“This is not a vaccine case,” Payette County Prosecutor Mike Duke said. “This is a case where a mother, unfortunately, has killed her two children.”

He’s argued in prior court filings that a forensic pathologist ruled out vaccines as a possible cause of death. Other possible factors, such as heat exposure or carbon monoxide poisoning, were ruled out by investigators — leaving suffocation as “the only conceivable explanation,” Duke wrote.

Shaw’s next hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. Oct. 15 at the Payette County Courthouse, where Filicetti said he’s likely to argue for his client to be released on bond, after a failed attempt to get that bond lowered previously.

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