• A Payette County judge revoked the $2 million bond for Andrea Shaw, 23, ruling she is a threat to her newborn child.
  • Shaw is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the May 2025 deaths of her 18-month-old twins, Tyson and Dallas.
  • Shaw has claimed the children died from vaccine reactions, a claim prosecutors dispute, stating the case is about suffocation.
  • Shaw’s attorney, Joseph Filicetti, had requested the bond be reduced to $100,000 so she could nurse her new baby after a caesarean section.

Shaw blamed vaccines; prosecutors say case not about shots

A Payette County judge on Wednesday revoked the bond for Andrea Shaw, the 23-year-old Idaho mother charged with murdering her twin toddlers, ordering that she remain in custody after ruling she poses a threat to her newborn child.

Shaw’s attorney, Joseph Filicetti, had asked the court to reduce her $2 million bond to $100,000, arguing she should be released to nurse her infant and recover from a caesarean section. The judge rejected the request and instead revoked the bond entirely, saying she viewed Shaw as a danger to the new child, according to the BBC.

“This is not a vaccine case,” one prosecutor told the court. “This is a case where a mother unfortunately has killed her two children.”

Prosecutors in Payette County argued that Shaw should not “be allowed to be anywhere near any children, let alone her own children,” the BBC reported.

Shaw was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder in the May 2025 deaths of her 18-month-old twins, Tyson and Dallas. The children were found dead in their cribs. MSI previously reported that Shaw was indicted after prosecutors alleged she suffocated the toddlers, a case first covered on July 6.

Medical autopsies related to the investigation have not been released, and Shaw has not yet entered a plea.

Her case drew wider public attention after she appeared on a podcast hosted by Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group founded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. During the interview, Shaw said the twins had been found dead and face-down in their cribs eight days after receiving vaccines for hepatitis A, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and the flu. She said they became unwell and that a hospital told her the children could be having a reaction to the shots, and that they were given pain medication but died two days later.

Shaw also told the podcast that when police questioned her, they suggested the deaths “wasn’t medical” and that she was to blame.

Filicetti has said the case against his client is “weak” and told ABC News that “Mrs. Shaw absolutely denies doing anything even imaginably bad.”

Shaw is also a plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by Children’s Health Defense and others against the American Academy of Pediatrics challenging its childhood vaccine recommendations.

Public health experts and medical organizations continue to emphasize the safety of vaccines, stating that serious side effects are rare.

If convicted of first-degree murder, Shaw could face life in prison or the death penalty. Her next court appearance is scheduled for July 14.