An Idaho mother who publicly claimed that vaccines caused the deaths of her 18-month-old twins has now been charged with murdering them.
Andrea Shaw, 23, was indicted by a Payette County grand jury on two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her twins, Dallas and Tyson Shaw. She was arrested the next day by Boise police and later arraigned in Payette County, where a judge set her bond at $2 million, according to the Idaho Statesman.
Police responded to a home in Payette, Idaho, on May 1, 2025, after receiving a report of a possible child death. Officers found both toddlers dead in a shared bed. Authorities later investigated the case as a suspected homicide.
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The charges come more than a year after Shaw and her husband appeared on a program connected to Children’s Health Defense, the vaccine-skeptic group formerly chaired by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. During that appearance, Shaw claimed the twins became sick after receiving routine 18-month vaccinations.
Kennedy resigned from his Children’s Health Defense roles as he pursued the Secretary of Health and Human Settlements post under the Trump administration.
Children’s Health Defense has also reported Shaw’s claim that the children died eight days after receiving vaccines. That claim has not been confirmed as the cause of death by authorities.
The group framed the deaths around vaccine exposure, medical dismissal, and suspected vaccine injury. Its article said the twins received flu, hepatitis A, and DTaP vaccines on April 23, 2025, became lethargic and ill, were taken to an emergency room, then were found unresponsive a week later.
The official cause of death has not been publicly released. Law&Crime reported that the indictment remains sealed.
Shaw’s attorney, Joe Filicetti, has continued to argue that the deaths were related to vaccines. “They were looking at it as a vaccine death, and that’s still what I believe it to be,” he told KTVB, according to WKRC. However, WKRC reported that Filicetti did not provide documents supporting that claim when asked.
Filicetti also told Law&Crime that prosecutors do not have proof of suffocation, cutting, shooting, or a motive.
Payette police have declined to release further details about the evidence while the case is pending in court.
