A triple murder case that gripped the US and even sparked a Netflix documentary has finally come to a close. Former gravedigger and self-styled doomsday prophet Chad Daybell will face the death penalty after being unanimously convicted on Saturday of the murders of his first wife and the children of his second, Lori Vallow. Vallow is already serving life behind bars.
Her story has been documented in the Netflix series, Sins of Our Mother . Authorities charged Daybell and Vallow with multiple counts of murder, conspiracy and grand theft in connection with the demise of Daybell’s first wife Tammy and Vallow’s two youngest children – Tylee, who was 16 at the time, and Joshua, who was just seven years old. Marking the end of a nearly two-month-long trial, Idaho judge Steven Boyce said: ‘The court typically would address the defendant further.
.. But in this special sentencing proceeding, the victim-impact statements and the evidence has already demonstrated on the record, I think, the seriousness of what [has] occurred.
‘I don’t find any reason to further delve into the court’s rationale.’ So what exactly happened? Born in 1968 to a Mormon family in Springville, Utah, Chad Daybell spent time working as a gravedigger to support his studies before publishing his first religiously themed novel in the late 1990s. Five years later, he had quit his job at the cemetery to pursue his career as a writer, launching a publishing house with his first wife, Tammy.
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