Police in Payette, Idaho, USA, arrested Andrea Shaw on 30 June, a year after her two children – fraternal twins Dallas and Tyson Shaw – were found dead at their home on 1 May 2025, eight days after receiving their 18-month vaccines.
Police charged Shaw with two counts of first-degree murder. Shaw alleges that her children’s deaths were caused by the vaccines they received at a routine doctor’s appointment. She said doctors ignored her when she warned that the twins’ father had previously experienced a bad reaction to a flu vaccine.
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Mother of Twins Who Died 8 Days After Vaccinations Charged With Murder
By Brenda Baletti, PhD, as published by The Defender on 1 July 2026
A 23-year-old mother charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her twin toddlers was set to be arraigned later today, after an Idaho grand jury indicted her late Monday, the Payette Police Department said in a press release.
Police arrested Andrea Shaw on Tuesday afternoon, more than a year after her two children – fraternal twins Dallas and Tyson Shaw — were found dead at their home in Payette on May 1, 2025, eight days after receiving their 18-month vaccines.
The Payette Police Department said the arrest follows “a lengthy and thorough investigation” and said it would have no further comment regarding evidence in the case. “Future information will be presented through the judicial process,” officials said.
Shaw alleges that her twins’ deaths were caused by the vaccines they received at a routine doctor’s appointment.
Nurse Angela Wulbrecht, an advocate for people injured by vaccines and who has been supporting the Shaws, told The Defender she was “ shocked and heartbroken” to learn of Shaw’s arrest.
“Over the past year, I have had the privilege of walking alongside Andrea and her family after the unimaginable loss of her twin babies,” Wulbrecht said. “I have witnessed a mother’s profound grief, unwavering love for her children and determination to seek answers.”
Andrea gave birth to a new baby, born three weeks prematurely, on 25 June, Shaw’s attorney Joseph Filicetti told the local KTVB7 news station. Her husband is caring for the newborn while she is incarcerated.
Shaw Told Physician of Family History of Adverse Vaccine Reaction
The details of the Shaw twins’ story are laid out in court documents that are part of the lawsuit against the AAP. Andrea and her husband Nathaniel also shared their story in May 2025 with CHD.TV.
According to Andrea, she and her mother-in-law say they warned the twins’ paediatrician that there was a family history of adverse reactions to the flu shot.
However, the paediatrician dismissed these concerns. Nurses administered the flu vaccine along with hepatitis A and DTaP shots on 23 April 2025. The twins had previously received most routine childhood vaccinations, including their 1-year shots.
Within hours, Andrea said the toddlers became lethargic and ill. The next morning, their lips were blue, and they struggled to move. Andrea took the twins to the emergency room and told the doctor they had received three vaccines the day before.
The treating physician in the emergency room diagnosed them as suffering from “post-immunisation reaction, initial encounter.”
The babies remained symptomatic over the days that followed. A week later, on the morning of 1 May, Andrea found both children unresponsive. Police and paramedics were called, and investigators immediately focused on the parents. Andrea and Nathaniel told CHD.TV that the police immediately treated them as suspects.
“They said that it wasn’t medical and that they figured asphyxiation, and that I had supposedly had a postpartum overwhelming blackout and done it to my children,” Andrea said. The family filed a report with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS.
Rather than investigating Andrea’s vaccine concerns, the Payette Police Department opened an investigation into her.
Medical Industry Ignores Vaccines As Possible Cause of SIDS
[Read articles previously published by The Exposé about SIDS HERE]
When infants under age 1 die suddenly, and a cause can’t be determined, the deaths are typically classified as sudden infant death syndrome (“SIDS”). SIDS is the third leading cause of infant mortality in the US, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Public health researchers developed a “triple-risk model” for explaining SIDS. That model says SIDS occurs when a baby has an unknown medical condition, is going through an important period of development where the body changes quickly, and encounters an outside stressor, such as sleeping on its stomach.
But even as the medical industry claims to remain puzzled about the cause of SIDS, numerous studies have reported a plausible association between vaccines and SIDS in peer-reviewed literature for decades.
Researchers theorise, for example, that some children with underdeveloped liver enzyme pathways may not be able to process excipients – inactive ingredients used as preservatives or to enhance a vaccine’s efficacy – which can lead to illness or death.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Programme has also recognised links between vaccines and infant deaths. Last year, the programme compensated two families whose babies died. The programme determined the deaths were vaccine-induced.
Due to concerns over the link between vaccines and SIDS, some states recently introduced legislation to require that medical examiners document recent immunisations on the death certificates of children who died from unknown causes.
How Common Is It To Bring Criminal Charges Against Parents In Infant Deaths?
In recent years, some parents have been criminally charged when their infants die after sleeping on their stomachs.
Last year, two different sets of Pennsylvania parents were charged with felonies for placing their babies in unsafe sleeping positions. Attorney Daniel Nevins told Spotlight PA that such charges are rare and that the burden of proof on the prosecutors will be high.
But some parents have been convicted. In 2014, Virginia resident Candice Christa Semidey, age 25, was charged with murder after she swaddled her baby and put it to sleep on its stomach, The Washington Post reported. In that case, the police did not think that she intended for the baby to die.
She pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and child neglect. She was ordered to serve three years of probation to avoid a five-year prison term.
Some charges have also been brought against parents in the deaths of infants sleeping with Boppy pillows. There have also been several cases of parents charged for sleeping in the same bed as their child.
Related articles in The Defender:
- SIDS and the Vaccine Connection: Decades of Suppression, 9 June 2025
- Judge Revokes Bail for Mother Charged With Murdering Twins Who Died 8 Days After Vaccines, 14 July 2026
- What a Landmark Case in Britain Could Mean for Mother Charged in Idaho Twins’ Deaths, 15 July 2026
About the Author
Brenda Baletti, PhD, is a senior reporter for The Defender, the Children’s Health Defense online news and views website. She wrote and taught about capitalism and politics for 10 years in the writing program at Duke University. She holds a PhD in human geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Oh my goodness, that mother needs our prayers. She did nothing wrong, it was the doctor who put that poison in the boys little system. Shame on the courts for issuing warrent for her arrest of first degree murder, Shame on the cops for falling orders and arresting an innocent woman. Listen up authorities start going after the real perpetrators which would be Bill Gates and Tony Fouchi to start with, then work your way down to the big pharmacy people, then the Doctors. Ok I said my peace, now Lord take care of this woman and help her I n the way she needs help, supply for her strength to get through this horrible situation and the right attorneys to get her home where she needs to be. Father I ask this in Yeshua’s name. Amen.