Andrea Shaw, 23, on May 1, 2025, “did willfully, unlawfully, deliberately, with premeditation, and with malice aforethought and/or in the perpetration of an aggravated battery ... did kill and murder the child ... by the act of suffocating her which resulted in her death,” according to an indictment from a grand jury in Payette County.
The same count was brought with regard to the male twin.
“There are no confessions or statements that would indicate that she committed this horrendous allegation,” Shaw’s lawyer, Joseph Filicetti, said in a recent court filing. “While we have not seen any of the evidence or testimony due to the use of the Grand Jury, at best the State has a circumstantial case. The Defense has a phalanx of expert testimony that will dispute the State’s allegations. The Defendant is presumed innocent of these charges until proven guilty.”
The twins were 18 months old when they died at home, family members have said. Police in 2025 said the deaths were suspicious and that they were investigating.
The two-page indictment does not provide details on how authorities reached the conclusion that Shaw suffocated her children. The county coroner did not respond to a request for the autopsy reports by the time of publication.
The Payette Police Department denied a request for documents on the matter, including any police reports, because they pertain to an active criminal case “and production of this information at this time would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or impartial adjudication,” the department told The Epoch Times in an email.
County prosecutors are not providing any statements or participating in interviews at this time, a spokesperson for the Payette County Prosecutor’s Office told The Epoch Times in an email. Shaw, who was arrested on June 30, remains in custody, the spokesperson said on July 8.
Lead Plaintiff
The group, the American Academy of Pediatrics, has moved to dismiss the case, alleging its position on vaccines is based on “its best, evidence-based understanding of the status of the relevant science” and that plaintiffs have not offered any evidence showing vaccines are unsafe and ineffective.
Shaw’s twins received three vaccines each during a doctor’s visit in April 2025, according to the suit, and the next day displayed symptoms such as blue lips and sunken eyes. They were diagnosed at an emergency room as having post-immunization reactions and a fever of unspecified cause, according to medical records reviewed by The Epoch Times.
The twins were discharged but died several days after that, eight days after receiving the vaccines.
Shaw said in a video interview with Children’s Health Defense several weeks after the deaths that the children had been healthy before receiving the shots, that she had warned the doctor about a family history of problems following influenza vaccination, and that she believed the shots caused their deaths.
“Andrea Shaw tried to warn her doctor about a family history of adverse reactions to the flu vaccine, but she was dismissed and assured that the shots her toddlers were to receive were perfectly safe for her twins, Tyson and Dallas Shaw. Now she potentially faces life in prison,” Mary Holland, president and CEO of Children’s Health Defense, told The Epoch Times via email.
“All parents deserve to be heard when they raise vaccine safety concerns, and they should be free to make individualized, informed choices for their children. Unfortunately, infant deaths from vaccination are well documented, and they happen far more often than most doctors and health officials admit.”
If convicted, Shaw could face the death penalty, or life in prison.
Developments in Criminal Case
Shaw gave birth to a baby on June 25, according to court filings. The female baby was born prematurely. Prior to Shaw’s arrest, she had been breastfeeding the infant.
Shaw’s bond was set at $2 million. Filicetti, her lawyer, asked the county court in which she is being tried to reduce the bond to $100,000, stating that the baby “needs her mother to feed as she is not taking too much of the formula.”
There are also concerns about the health of the mother, including the potential of dangerously high blood pressure in the wake of the premature birth, according to the motion.
Filicetti also said that Shaw is not a threat to anyone and that he and her relatives would make sure she would appear in court to face the charges.
That’s when he said that there was no indication she committed the crimes of which she is accused and that the defense would provide expert testimony to dispute the allegations.
District Judge Kiley Stuchlik has not ruled on the motion as of yet.
The next hearing in the case, on the motion, is slated to take place on July 14.
