On June 29, 2026, a grand jury in Idaho indicted twenty-three year old Andrea Shaw, on two counts of first degree murder; she is accused of suffocating her 18-month-old twins in May 2025.
Shaw appeared on an internet show produced by Children’s Health Defense — an anti-vaccine group founded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. —and claimed her twins died after getting vaccinated. Kennedy has not been affiliated with the group since December 2024, when he formally resigned as chairman to join the Trump (mis)administration.
Boise police arrested Shaw on Thursday after a grand jury indicted her. She is being held on a $2 million bond and could face life in prison or the death penalty if convicted or if she pleads guilty to first-degree murder.
During her appearance on the whack-job internet show, Shaw said she found her twins dead in their room days after they got vaccinated for the flu and other diseases.
Shaw is also a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the the American Academy of Pediatrics, which accuses the organization of racketeering for its “central role in an enterprise that has defrauded American families about the safety of the childhood vaccine schedule for several decades.” In the lawsuit, Shaw is described as a mother “whose children died following routine vaccinations administered according to AAP guidelines.”American Academy of Pediatrics
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Medical experts point out that the childhood vaccines at issue — hepatitis A, influenza and DTaP — are safe and effective for kids and recommended by various medical groups.