Chad Deibel was sentenced to death Saturday, two days after an Idaho jury found him guilty of the 2019 murders of his ex-wife, Tammy Deibel, and the two children of his current wife, Lori Wallow Deibel.
On Thursday, Daybell was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges — including insurance fraud and grand larceny — in connection with the 2019 murders. The jury began weighing Daybell's punishment Friday and after about eight hours of deliberations , suggested the death penalty.
Judge Stephen Boyce formally imposed the death sentence on Saturday, saying it was appropriate under the law, reports CNN.
Deibel, an author, had won a Mormon audience interested in his self-published books filled with visions of the end of the days. In 2018, he met Lori Vallow at a religious conference in St. George, Utah. both were part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
At the time, she was married to her fourth husband, Charles Vallow. Lori's brother, Alex Cox, shot and killed Charles in 2019, successfully claiming self-defense, and died later that year of natural causes.
Months later, Daybell's wife, Tammy, died in her bed, with a delayed autopsy ultimately finding she had suffered asphyxiation. Daybell and Lori were married in Hawaii just 17 days after Tammy was found dead.
While the couple had been living alone in Hawaii, reportedly with life insurance money Daybell received after his wife's death, relatives were worried after being unable to determine the whereabouts of Lori's two children, seven-year-old son “JJ Vallow and 16-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan.
After Lori failed to turn the children over to authorities, she was arrested and extradited to Idaho for non-support and child abandonment in February 2020. Months later, the children's remains were found buried together on Daibel's property in Rexburg, Idaho.
“Two dead children were buried in defendant Chad Deibel's backyard,” District Attorney Rob Wood said in his opening statement in Deibel's murder trial. “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 her graves his property. . Three corpses.”
In 2023, Lori Vallow was convicted of first degree murder in the deaths of her two children and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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