Chad Daybell sentenced to death for triple murder by Idaho jury

Chad Daybell was sentenced to death Saturday in a triple murder case, nearly a year after his second wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Bell of the day was convicted of the first degree murder of his first wifeTammy Daybell, and two of his then-girlfriend's children, Lori Vallow, Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, as well as conspiracy to commit murder and insurance fraud.

Lori Vallow Day Bell was convicted of murder in their three deaths last year and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The case initially gained national attention in 2019 after 7-year-old JJ was reported missing by his grandparents and investigators learned Tylee was last seen around the same time.. Police arrested Daybell and Vallow for the first time during their honeymoon in Hawaii, just weeks after Tammy Daybell's death.

The children's bodies were discovered buried on Daybell's property months later.

The case highlighted the couple's fringe religious beliefs that evil spirits could possess a person's body, turning them into a “zombie.”

The jury that convicted Chad Daybell also deliberated his sentence on the capital charges. Justice Steven Boyce, who presided over both Daybell and Vallow Daybell's Idaho Trialssaid Thursday he would be sentenced later for insurance fraud.

Victims filled the courtroom Friday as nine people, including Tammy Daybell's brother, Tylee and JJ his older brother and others gave victim impact statements.

Daybell, who did not testify in his own defense, also chose not to speak during the penalty phase.

Vallow's Bell was extradited to Arizona following her conviction in Idaho, where she is awaiting trial on murder charges in the 2019 death of her husband, Charles Vallow, who was fatally shot by his brother, Alex Cox. Cox also died later that year.