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 …
Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell appeared separately in court his week, Daybell on Thursday in Idaho and Vallow Daybell on Wednesday in Arizona, for hearings on their upcoming murder trials in those states. Vallow Daybell, who was convicted last year in Idaho and sentenced to three life sentences on the murders of two of …
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 …
An Arizona judge has deemed “cult mom” Lori Vallow Daybell’s case “complex,” allowing prosecutors and defense attorneys more time to gather evidence and delaying its previously scheduled April start date. Vallow Daybell has already been convicted in Idaho in the murders of two of her children and her fifth husband’s first wife and was extradited …
The judge also released the body of victim Tylee Ryan to her family.
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 …
The murder trial of Chad Daybell will be broadcast live by the court, an Idaho judge ruled Wednesday. Daybell is charged with murder and conspiracy to murder in the death of his first wife, Tammy Daybell, and two of his second wife’s children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and JJ Vallow, 7. Lori Vallow Daybell was tried …
Chad Daybell’s attorney accused prosecutors of “grand standing” and “forum shopping” in their request last week that Judge Stephen Boyce reconsider his change of venue order, made when Daybell’s murder trial was still attached to his wife’s. Lori Vallow Daybell’s trial was severed from Daybell’s because Daybell waived his right to a speedy trial, while …
The state also argued against broadcast or recording of court proceedings.
On Monday, Idaho prosecutors alerted the courts that there is no order barring communication between convicted killer Lori Vallow Daybell and her husband, who is awaiting trial. The courts denied a “strategy meeting” between Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell in January, claiming it could result in their attorneys becoming “witnesses and security of the parties.” …
