Three dead bodies and a thirst for money and sex: Prosecutors lay out Chad Daybell death penalty case
Three dead bodies. Found on Chad Daybell’s property.
It’s how Fremont County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsey Blake began her closing arguments in the self-proclaimed prophet’s death penalty trial on Wednesday.
The impactful words followed a snippet of a recorded jail phone call between Mr Daybell and Lori Vallow in June 2020 while authorities searched his backyard where they would later find the mutilated bodies of her children buried in shallow graves.
“Two of them are children. His mistress’ kids,” Ms Blake told the jurors in the Ada County courtroom in Boise, Idaho. “Tammy Daybell was found dead in their marital bed.”
“And for what? Money, power and sex. That’s what the defendant cared about,” she added.
Prosecutors say it was Mr Daybell’s that led to the and Vallow’s children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow.
