Dramatic opening statements in the triple-murder trial of Chady Daybell as prosecutors claim Daybell did not let anything stand in his way.in the deaths of his first wife and two stepchildren - a case Idaho prosecutors said was fueled by power, sex, money and apocalyptic spiritual beliefs.
Daybell also is charged with the murder of his first wife, Tammy Daybell, who was initially believed to have died in her sleep. He remarried less than three weeks after her death in 2019. "The next month his wife is found dead in their marital bed. Seventeen days after the death of his wife, Tammy Daybell, this defendant is photographed laughing and dancing on a beach in Hawaii at his wedding to Lori Vallow, a woman who was his mistress and the mother of the children buried in the graves on his property. Three dead bodies."
In October 2018, Chad Daybell and Vallow Daybell met at a religious conference in Utah and he began to craft an alternate reality where his "obsession for glory was rooted in her adoration for him," Wood told jurors. In his opening, defense attorney John Prior described his client as a religious man who wrote books about his faith, premonitions, good and evil, and the "coming of the end of things when his savior, in his mind, is going to come back."
A forensic digital data expert will testify phone records showed Cox was present on Daybell's property a number of times, Prior said. Vallow Daybell's two children from a previous marriage were last seen on different days in September 2019. After Vallow Daybell's indictment and not guilty plea in 2021, a judge ruled she was incompetent to stand trial, but she was deemed fit to proceed with trial after spending nearly a year in a mental hospital. Vallow Daybell has maintained her innocence.
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