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 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 property nine months after their disappearances. Vallow Daybell also got a life sentence for conspiring the murder of Chad Daybell’s late wife, Tammy Daybell, in October 2019.
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Chad Daybell, who is married to Vallow Daybell, is currently on trial for murdering the two children and his first wife. Chad Daybell remarried weeks after Tammy Daybell’s death, which was initially ruled natural but later deemed a homicide.
Vallow Daybell is awaiting trial in Arizona for killing her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, in July 2019. Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, fatally shot Charles Vallow and claimed self-defense. Cox died — reportedly of natural causes — in December 2019, months after J.J. Vallow and Ryan’s disappearances. Idaho prosecutors claimed Cox was also involved in the slayings.
Jury selection continues…
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[Feature Photo: Chad Daybell/Ada County Sheriff’s Office]
