Idaho doomsday author Chad Daybell, who was found guilty of murder in the deaths of his first wife and his second wife’s two youngest children, was sentenced Saturday to the death penalty. Jurors on Thursday found Daybell guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the slayings of his first wife, Tammy […]
Idaho doomsday author Chad Daybell, who was found guilty of murder in the deaths of his first wife and his second wife’s two youngest children, was sentenced Saturday to the death penalty. The sentence came two days after jurors found Daybell guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the slayings of […]
An Idaho jury sentenced Chad Daybell to death on Saturday, two days after he was found guilty in the triple-murder case involving his first wife and Lori Vallow’s children. Vallow still faces murder charges in Arizona for the death of her ex-husband, Charles Vallow. Daybell, who had married Vallow two weeks after the death of […]
A jury in Boise has decided Chad Daybell deserves the death penalty for murdering his former wife and his new wife’s two children. After deliberating for almost six hours on Friday and two on Saturday, the same 12 jurors who found Chad Daybell guilty of all crimes against him on Thursday determined that his crimes […]
This is a breaking news story. Check back to idahostatesman.com for updates. To sign up for breaking news alerts, click here. Investigators for years have believed that Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell conspired to kill two of her children, along with Chad Daybell’s first wife. The lengthy criminal case is one step closer to ending […]
“Do you think he killed her?” After Tammy Daybell died, that’s the question a former neighbor asked a family member about Chad Daybell, Fremont County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsey Blake told the jurors in closing arguments Wednesday at the Ada County Courthouse. During Chad Daybell’s eight-week trial on murder and other charges, Steven Schultz, a mortician, […]
An Idaho jury has started deliberating in the case of Chad Daybell, who is accused in the deaths of his first wife, Tammy Daybell, and Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, the children of his second wife, Lori Vallow Daybell. The trial, which started nearly two months ago, comes after Vallow Daybell’s July 2023 conviction […]
Eager spectators in the Chad Daybell murder trial packed the court Monday fuller than it has been in the six weeks of trial so far, spilling into the hallways where they sit playing the livestream of the testimony on their phones, all in anticipation of what Daybell’s children would say. The defense began presenting its […]
While comparing satellite footage of Chad Daybell’s property, Rexburg Detective Chuck Kunsaitis said he noticed “discoloration” in a part of the yard that wasn’t previously there. Having been on the stand earlier in the trial, Kunsaitis was questioned again by both parties in the case of Chad Daybell vs. the State of Idaho on Monday. […]
BOISE, Idaho (ABC4) — Lori Vallow Daybell’s niece was one of two witnesses who took the stand in Chad Daybell’s murder trial and discussed the religious beliefs of “zombies,” “light and dark,” and “Cain’s translated followers.” Prosecutors called Lori’s niece, Melani Pawlowski, and her husband, Ian Pawlowski, to the stand Monday, May 6, and asked […]
Testimony continues in Chad Daybell’s criminal trial. The 55-year-old father is accused of first-degree murder and conspiring to commit murder in the deaths of two of his wife’s children, 7-year-old JJ Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and his then-wife Tammy Daybell. He’s also charged with two counts of insurance fraud. Daybell pleaded not guilty to […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man charged with three murders in an unusual doomsday-focused case crafted an alternate reality so that he could fulfill “his desire for sex, money and power,” a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday morning. “When he had a chance at what he considered his rightful destiny, he made sure no person […]