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Chad Daybell murder trial in Idaho

As far as Idaho prosecutors are concerned, it is one down and one to go in proving who murdered two children and a woman in a string of killings. First, jurors convicted Lori Vallow Daybell, 50, Seventh District Judge Steven Boyce sentenced her to life in prison. Now, prosecutors are putting her husband, Chad Guy Daybell, 55, on trial in a Fremont County courtroom. You can watch it in the player above.

Authorities say that the couple either planned to kill — or did personally kill — Joshua Jaxon “J.J.” Vallow, 7, Vallow Daybell’s adopted son; Tylee Ashlyn Ryan, 16, her biological daughter from a prior marriage; and Tammy Daybell, 49, Chad’s previous wife, in a spate of killings that happened across September and October 2019. In Tammy’s death, Lori was charged with conspiracy, though Chad was charged with personally carrying out the act.

Chad Daybell is seen during his preliminary hearing in Fremont County on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. Daybell is being charged with destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence and conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence, both felony charges. The remains of Lori Vallow DaybellChad Daybell is seen during his preliminary hearing in Fremont County on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. Daybell is being charged with destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence and conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence, both felony charges. The remains of Lori Vallow Daybell’s two children were found on Chad Daybell’s property. (Image via John Roark/the Post-Register/Pool)

The murders followed after Lori became newly widowed when her brother Alex Cox fatally shot her prior husband, Charles Vallow, in Arizona, and she suddenly moved her kids to Idaho. Then Lori and Chad got married in a Nov. 5, 2019, ceremony in Hawaii.

The children’s whereabouts were then publicly unknown, and the authorities did not consider Tammy’s death in Salem, Idaho, to be criminal in nature, but suspicion circled Lori and Chad because they stonewalled efforts to locate J.J. and Tylee. The kids turned up dead on Chad’s Fremont County, Idaho, property in June 2020.

Joshua "JJ" Vallow, and Tylee Ryan (Images: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)

Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and Tylee Ryan (Images: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)

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