Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell will be tried together

Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, charged with murder and conspiracy in the Idaho missing children case, will be tried together, an Idaho judge has ruled.

Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell wanted to be tried separately, but they will face court together. Judge Steven Boyce announced in writing Monday that the couple charged with murder and conspiracy will be bound at their trial. Lori Vallow’s ability to stand trial, however, remains in question, as she was initially found unfit due to her mental illness. It is also the mental state of his wife who pushes Chad Daybell to demand a separate trial, his lawyers indicating that there were too many uncertainties about him. “Although the court does not dispute that there may be an additional burden on the defense because of co-defendant Vallow (…), this uncertainty is not a determining factor that the court takes into account”, a let the judge know.

The couple are accused of murdering two of the children of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell’s ex-wife. JJ and Tylee disappeared in September 2019 but the alert was not given until the following November by relatives. Their mother, Lori Vallow, refused to cooperate in the investigation and fled with Chad Daybell, her last husband, as soon as their disappearance was announced. The couple were eventually found several weeks later in Hawaii and Lori Vallow was extradited and charged with concealment of evidence and conspiracy. She pleaded not guilty in September. Her husband was not arrested until June 2020, after the discovery of the bodies on his property. Seven-year-old JJ wore red pajamas. He had been placed inside a plastic bag, his ankles and wrists tied with duct tape. This tape had also been used to wrap plastic around the child’s face. The bodies were in a kind of cemetery for animals installed on the ground of the man. It was there that authorities recovered a mass of burnt flesh and bones kept in a melted green bucket. Under this bucket, a partial human skull was discovered. Remains belonging to Tylee.

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The murder of Tammy Daybell

In addition to the deaths of the two children, Chad Daybell is also accused of having killed his wife Tammy, whose death just two weeks before Chad Daybell’s remarriage with Lori Vallow, was first considered natural before being qualified as a ‘homicide. Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow’s indictment does not provide details of how the victims were killed. The documents, however, confirm that Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow “endorse and follow religious beliefs for the purpose of justifying or encouraging the homicide” of the three victims. They would have explained to the police that their mission was also to “get rid of the zombies”. According to the police, it was precisely because she felt that her children were now zombies inhabited by the dark spirit of someone else that Lori Vallow would have decided to attack them.

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