Chad Daybell verdict: Jury finds doomsday author guilty of murdering Lori Vallow's kids, his first wife
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An Idaho jury on Friday found Chad Daybell, husband of "Doomsday Mom" Lori Vallow Daybell, guilty of murdering two of Vallow's children and his first wife in 2019.
Daybell, 55, and Vallow, 50, are at the center of multiple murder cases involving not only Vallow's two children but both her and Daybell's deceased ex-spouses. Last year, a Fremont County jury found Vallow guilty on multiple counts, including two counts of first-degree murder, for the 2019 disappearances and deaths of 7-year-old J.J. Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, with help from her husband. Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
The pair also conspired to kill Tammy Daybell, Chad Daybell's first wife, in October 2019. They were initially scheduled to have a joint trial, but Daybell's defense attorneys got a separate trial for the self-published author in 2022, citing "mutually antagonistic defenses" between the two cases.