PAYETTE, Idaho (Court TV) — An Idaho woman accused of killing her twin toddlers appeared in court on Tuesday, where she pleaded not guilty.
Andrea Shaw appears in court on Aug. 18, 2026. (Court TV)
Andrea Shaw, 23, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her 18-month-old children, identified as D.S. and T.S. in court documents.
Shaw sat silently at Tuesday’s brief hearing as her attorney entered the plea on her behalf and asked for a trial date in early January to allow time to review the case’s discovery materials. Judge Kiley Stuchlik scheduled the trial to begin on Jan. 11, 2027; both the prosecution and defense said they expected the trial to last three to four weeks.
Shaw was arrested in July, months after the deaths of her children. D.S. and T.S. died on May 5, 2025; prosecutors have accused Shaw of suffocating the victims as they slept.
But Shaw claims she never hurt her children and that their deaths were the result of vaccines they received at their 18-month checkups with their pediatrician the week before they died. At that doctor’s visit on April 23, 2025, Shaw’s children each received vaccines for hepatitis A, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, as well as a flu shot. An affidavit previously submitted to the court said that Shaw’s mother-in-law had been concerned about giving the twins shots.
Shaw remains behind bars; Stuchlik previously denied a motion to reduce her $2 million bond and instead revoked bond completely. Part of Shaw’s reasoning for wanting to be released from custody is that she has a newborn at home, born just five days before her arrest. Stuchlik found that Shaw posed a risk to the infant’s safety should she be released.
After the hearing, Shaw’s attorney, Joseph Filicetti, told KTVB that he plans to revisit the issue of bond, but is waiting for pending reports. “There are samples and other things that our experts want before they produce a document that they’re going to stand by,” he said. “The prosecutor and I worked on having a transfer of the physical evidence of the children, so that our experts could examine those microscopically and in other ways.”
Prosecutors have not yet announced whether they will seek the death penalty for Shaw.
