An Idaho man already facing first degree murder charges has now been charged with cannibalism. James David Russell, 39, was charged with the September 10 death of David Flaget, 70, after Bonner County Sheriff’s deputies found him upside down in the passenger seat of his car on property where Russell lived. Russell was on the …
An Idaho man faces three counts of sexually abusing children after a month-long investigation during which the Pocatello man allegedly confessed. The Idaho State Journal reported that the Bannock County Sheriff’s Office conducting the investigation, beginning in late September, because one of the alleged victims was related to a member of the Pocatello Police Department. …
An Idaho judge on Friday granted a defense motion for a change of venue for Chad Daybell’s murder trial. Seventh Judicial District Judge Steven Boyce said the trial should be moved out of the 10-county Seventh District entirely and suggested it be held in Ada County, where Boise is the county seat, according to Fox …
Idaho prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for Chad Daybell, according to a notice filed Thursday in the 7th Judicial Court District. Daybell is charged with first degree murder in the deaths of his first wife, Tammy Daybell, and two of his second wife’s children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow. Their …
An Idaho judge on Friday declared cult mom Lori Daybell as indigent. District Judge Steven Boyce’s one-sentence order gives no indication why he made it; Vallow’s attorney, Mark Means, told East Idaho News he will continue to represent her in court. Vallow has been charged with several felonies related to the disappearance of two of …
An eight grade math teacher credited with disarming the sixth-grader who opened fire in an Idaho school Thursday was trying to get a wounded student to safety when saw the girl with the gun across a hallway. “So she sat the boy down and told him to be quiet and to be still. And she started walking …
An Idaho grandmother has been ordered held on an $800,000 bond after the body of her 8-year-old granddaughter was found in a trash bag in the floorboard of her son’s black Lexus last week, but the initial first degree murder charge she faced was changed before the arraignment. Connie Smith, 54, now faces charges of …
An Idaho judge ruled on Wednesday that there is enough probable cause for a couple to stand trial on first-degree murder charges in September’s death of the man’s 9-year-old son. Nanny camera footage from a day before Emrik Osuna died reportedly showed the boy shirtless in the kitchen, standing on one leg with his arms …
Police in Boise, Idaho, are looking for a man they say shot a woman earlier this week and dropped her off at a hospital. Daniel Bondar, 31, has been charged with felony aggravated battery and is considered armed and dangerous. Police described him as about 6 feet 4 inches, 240 pounds, with brown hair and …
Neither Lori Vallow nor Chad Daybell have been charged with murder in the deaths of Vallow’s children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan.
An Idaho man was charged this week with the 2014 murder of his wife after Cassia County authorities brought in the FBI to help with the case, the Idaho State Journal reports. Jimmy Lee Murphy, 32, was arrested on Wednesday at his home in Minidoka County scuffling with officers when he tried to flee. He’s …
A 29-year-old Idaho man was charged this week with sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl in a “relationship” the girl’s mother reportedly supported and encouraged, East Idaho News reports. Bill Ernest Davenport and the girl initially denied any sexual contact, but Davenport later admitted they were “boyfriend” and “girlfriend,” court documents reveal. Davenport reportedly agreed to …
