'Doomsday' murders: Chad Daybell found guilty of murdering first wife and second's two children

Chad Deibel, the An Idaho man charged in the 2019 murders of his ex-wife, Tammy Deibel, and the two children of his current wife, Lori Vallow Deibel, was found guilty of first-degree murder by an Idaho jury on Thursday. CBS mentionted.

Daybell was also found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in the death of his ex-wife, conspiracy to commit murder and grand larceny by deception in the deaths of Lori Vallow's children, seven-year-old son “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old daughter Tylee. Ryan, and insurance fraud. The prosecution sought the death penalty and the case will proceed to the penalty phase. Jurors were told by Judge Steven Boyce that the timeline for the sentencing phase would be determined by them, according to the report.

The verdict comes nine months after his second wife, Lori Vallow, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing her two children, as well as conspiring to kill his first wife, Tammy.

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.

The case gained national attention due in part to the gruesome details of the crimes. Lori Vallow's brother, Alex Cox, shot and killed her husband, Charles Vallow, in 2019, successfully claiming self-defense, and died himself 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 Vallow were married in Hawaii just 17 days after Tammy was found dead. While the couple was living alone in Hawaii, reportedly with life insurance money Daybell received after his wife's death, relatives grew concerned after being unable to determine the whereabouts of the two children.

After Lori Vallow 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 Diebel's property in Rexburg, Idaho. Daybell was arrested that summer.