An Idaho judge said that opening statements will begin on Wednesday in the Chad Daybell triple murder trial. Jury selection began last Monday and ended this Monday with Chad Daybell’s lawyers and prosecutors completing their peremptory challenges which eliminate potential jurors. Monday’s hearing was not live-streamed, but EastIdahoNews.com reported that there are 10 men and …
Jury selection began on Monday in the Chad Daybell triple murder trial. East Idaho News reported that 18 jurors will be selected — 12 decide Daybell’s fate, while six are alternates. The trial is expected to last eight to 10 weeks. Chad Daybell’s wife, Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced last July to life without parole …
The judge overseeing Chad Daybell’s murder trial in Idaho on Thursday issued a gag order after Daybell’s attorney gave an interview to a media outlet talking about the case. Judge Steven Boyce ordered that “the attorneys for any interested party in this case, or any attorney who has previously represented any party to this case, …
Chad Daybell’s attorney said Lori Vallow Daybell could be called as a witness at his client’s upcoming triple murder trial. Vallow Daybell was sentenced last July to life without parole for the September 2019 slayings of her two children, J.J. Vallow and Tylee Ryan, 7 and 16, who were reportedly found buried on Chad Daybell’s …
Chad Daybell, the Idaho doomsday writer whose wife has already been convicted of killing her children and his first wife, has been transferred to Ada County where his own murder trial will be held. Daybell’s trial is set to begin April 1 in the same courtroom where Lori Vallow Daybell was tried and convicted last …
An Idaho judge issued a series of orders last week as the start date of Chad Daybell’s trial for the murders of two of his wife’s children and his first wife rapidly approaches. Daybell’s trial is set to begin on April 1 in Ada County, Idaho, where Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted last year on …
The judge overseeing Chad Daybell’s murder trial has denied his attorney’s motion to withdraw from the case, apparently agreeing with prosecutors that the motion was an attempt to delay a trial that has been in preparation since 2021. John Prior, who has been Daybell’s sole attorney since he was arrested for the murders of his …
Chad Daybell’s attorney has filed a motion to withdraw from his case and requested that the accused murderer be appointed two public defenders qualified to work the death penalty case. John Prior wrote in his motion that his client had confirmed that he cannot pay for his services and that he is withdrawing with Daybell’s …
The judge also released the body of victim Tylee Ryan to her family.
As Lori Vallow Daybell stands trial for the murder of two of her children, JJ and Tylee, prosecutors in Arizona take another look at Charles Vallow’s death. On the morning of July 11, Charles Vallow goes to Lori’s rental home in Chandler, Arizona, to pick up JJ for school. Alex Cox, Lori’s brother, is also …
The judge overseeing the case of Chad Daybell this week denied the state’s motion to reconsider his earlier decision to move the trial hours away from Fremont County to Ada County. Judge Steven Boyce made that decision earlier this year, when Daybell’s case was still tied to that of his wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, as …
On Thursday, Lori Vallow Daybell was arraigned in Arizona on murder charges in the 2019 shooting death of her fourth husband. Vallow Daybell was extradited to Arizona from Idaho — where she is serving life sentences for killing her two children, J.J. Vallow and Tylee Ryan in September 2019, months after her brother, Alex Cox, …
