The day before Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow allegedly murdered their teenage daughter, before hiding her burned body in the backyard of their Idaho home, the doomsday authors searched online for wind direction.
A September 2019 Google search for “southwest wind” and “what is the definition of southwest direction” was one of several suspicious searches from Gmail accounts associated with Daybell. That’s what FBI tactical specialist Nicole Heideman pointed out Tuesday to Ada County jurors in the Daybell murder case. trial.
Nine months after a windy search and a lengthy manhunt that shocked the nation, authorities found Tylee Ryan near Daybell’s fire pit, suffering from indeterminate burns. On a nearby property, prosecutors said, her 7-year-old brother, JJ Vallow, was found with a plastic bag over his head and duct tape wrapped around his mouth, and it is suspected that he had been strangled to death. That’s what it means.
The gruesome slaying was one of three murders prosecutors said Daybell and Vallow were executed before fleeing to Hawaii to start a new life in 2019. The two men, who believe in the traitor brand of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were also charged. Daybell’s first wife, Tammy Daybell, passed away in November 2019.
Vallow was sentenced to life in prison last year for his role in the murder. Daybell is on trial and faces the possibility of the death penalty.
Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood said of Daybell in his opening statement that his “lust for sex, money and power led him to pursue those ambitions, and that pursuit led to the death of his wife and Lori, two innocent It led to the death of a human child.”
The defense has argued there is no evidence directly linking Daybell to the murder. But witnesses have detailed how Vallow and Daybell’s electronic footprints shed light on their thinking after their relationship began in 2019.
Heideman said authorities obtained a search warrant for a Google account associated with Daybell during the investigation into Vallow’s missing children, 7-year-old JJ Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan. explained. She said that between October 2018 and June 2019, Daybell’s name was posted on Gmail messages about “bodies possessed after the death of the original occupant,” malachite jewelry, and the constellations Cancer and Leo. People were also searching to see if they were compatible.
Daybell’s attorney, John Pryor, tried to describe the wind survey as research for his client before doing any work in his backyard. The day after the raid, Daybell texted Tammy and said he was going to burn her limbs in the garden.
