Chad Daybell, the husband of Lori Vallow, is set to go on trial in Idaho in the murders of his wife’s two children, nearly a year after she was convicted of the same crime in a so-called doomsday plot.
His triple-murder trial is scheduled to start on Monday in Ada County with jury selection. It is expected to last around nine weeks, court records show.
Daybell and Vallow were both charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder for the 2019 deaths of her children, Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16. Their remains were found on an Idaho property belonging to Chad Daybell in June 2020 following a monthslong search, police said.
The complaint alleges that Daybell, 55, “did endorse and espouse religious beliefs for the purpose of encouraging and/or justifying” the homicides of the two children.
Vallow and Daybell were both charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Chad Daybell’s former wife, Tamara Daybell, who died Oct. 19, 2019, less than a month before Lori and Chad married in Hawaii. Vallow was found guilty of all charges in her trial.
Daybell was also charged with his former wife’s murder and with two counts of insurance fraud related to life insurance policies he had on her for which he was the beneficiary, prosecutors said.
