Chad Daybell’s jury is deliberating whether he’s a murderer as ‘cult prophet’ shakes head over case details
Jurors are deliberating the fate of an Idaho man who is charged with murdering his first wife and his girlfriend’s two children in what prosecutors say was part of a plan for “desire for sex, power, and money.”
Chad Daybell, 55, has remained mostly expressionless throughout the two months of testimony at the Ada County courthouse in Boise, where he sits like a statue at the defense table, his hands clasped tightly in front of him.
But during closing arguments on Wednesday, the self-proclaimed prophet with bizarre cult beliefs shook his head multiple times while prosecutor Lindsey Blake was speaking.
Daybell is charged with murder in the 2019 deaths of his wife Tammy Daybell, who was found dead in their bedroom in October 2019, and ’s two children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua “JJ” Vallow, who were found buried in Daybell’s backyard in June 2020 – nine months after they vanished.
