Chad Daybell sentenced to death [Video]

BOISE, ID (AP/AZFamily) — Chad Daybell was sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering his first wife and two children belonging to his second wife, Lori Vallow.

The sentence was handed down Saturday after an Idaho jury unanimously agreed that imposing the death penalty would be a just resolution to the triple-murder case. The sentence marks the end of a grim investigation that began with a search for two missing children in 2019. The next year their bodies were found buried in Daybell’s eastern Idaho yard.

Both Daybell and his new wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, were charged with multiple counts of murder, conspiracy and grand theft in connection with the deaths of Vallow Daybell’s two youngest children, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan. They were also charged with conspiracy and murder for the death of Daybell’s first wife, Tammy Daybell.

Jurors had been deciding whether Chad Daybell should be executed or sentenced to life in prison for the triple-murder case, which began with a search for two missing …