Chad Daybell, the husband of “cult mom” Lori Vallow, is scheduled to go on trial in Idaho this week for the murders of his wife’s two children and his first wife in 2019.
This pair is in the center multiple murder cases This involved not only Vallow’s two children, but also both her and Chad’s deceased ex-spouse. Initially, the two sides were scheduled to have a joint trial, but Chad’s defense attorneys decided to file a separate trial against the self-published author in 2022, citing “mutually conflicting defenses” between the two cases. I decided to accept it.
“Our view of the facts of this case will be materially different from what Ms. Vallow and her attorneys will present,” Daybell’s attorney, John Pryor, said in court on Nov. 10, 2022. Told.
In May 2023, an Idaho jury indicted Vallow on multiple charges, including two counts of first-degree murder, in the 2019 disappearances and deaths of 7-year-old JJ Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan. The defendant (50 years old) was found guilty. assistance from her husband. Vallow also conspired to murder Chad’s first wife, Tammy Daybell, in October 2019.
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The trial of Chad Daybell, charged with the deaths of his first wife and his second wife’s two youngest children, is scheduled to begin this week in Idaho. (John Rourke/Idaho State, post-registration via AP/Pool)
Vallow was also convicted of grand theft after collecting Social Security benefits for JJ and Tylee with Daybell’s assistance between October 1, 2019 and January 22, 2020. . their murder.
JJ and Tylee were found in a shallow grave on Chad Daybell’s property in Rexburg, Idaho, in June 2020, months after they disappeared from their home in September 2019. The 16-year-old’s body was burned and the 7-year-old boy was restrained. duct tape.
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An Idaho jury has convicted Lori Vallow Daybell of murder in the deaths of her two youngest children and romantic rival, a verdict that is linked to bizarre claims of zombie children, apocalyptic prophecies and illegal activity. This brought an end to a three-year investigation that included the (Kyle Green)
The Ada County Medical Examiner testified that JJ died of suffocation with a plastic bag and Tyree’s body was dismembered and badly burned before being buried, resulting in a homicide by unknown means.
Vallow and Daybell flew to Hawaii in 2019 to get married while their children were missing and shortly after Tammy Daybell’s death.
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Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell are accused of killing Vallow’s two youngest children and Daybell’s first wife. (Facebook | Tony Blakeslee/East Idaho News)
As FOX 10 Phoenix first reported, Vallow and Daybell met at a “Preparing a People” conference in 2018 and bonded over their apocalyptic religious beliefs and the idea that they were married in a past life. Shared.
According to FOX 10, prosecutors say the two men refer to each other as Biblical characters, James and Elena, and that humans can be inhabited by spirits of light or spirits of darkness, some of which need to be removed from the earth. They discussed their belief that some spirits are dark enough to be considered zombies, prosecutors said.
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Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell are accused of killing 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old JJ Vallow in 2019. (Rexburg Police Department)
Authorities arrested Vallow in February 2020 and Daybell in June 2020. Initially, Ms. Vallow and Ms. Daybell were scheduled for a joint trial, but Ms. Vallow refused to waive her right to a speedy trial, and Ms. Daybell did not.
Daybell has written several apocalyptic novels loosely based on Mormon theology. Both men were involved in groups promoting Biblical end-time preparedness.
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Chad Daybell hears a motion to change the trial during a court hearing in St. Anthony, Idaho, on April 19, 2022. (Tony Blakeslee/EastIdahoNews.com via AP/Pool)
Prosecutors said Vallow’s case was not about religion but about “money, power and sex.”
Mr. Vallow was sentenced in July to life in prison without the possibility of parole on five separate charges.
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Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow (Madison County Jail)
“You took children from their homes in Arizona, separated them from their friends and family, and brought them here to be murdered. You had so many other options… He has chosen the most evil and destructive path,” Judge Stephen Boyce said. During Vallow’s sentencing hearing. “To this day, I don’t think you have any remorse for the effort and heartache you caused.”
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Authorities will extradite Vallow to Arizona to face one count of first-degree murder and one count of premeditated first-degree murder in Maricopa County in November 2023.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
