Alleged ‘doomsday’ cult chief Chad Daybell to go on trial for homicide of Lori Vallow’s kids | US Information

An alleged chief of a “doomsday” cult is to go on trial in the present day charged with murdering his spouse’s two kids in a killing that transfixed America.

Sci-fi creator Chad Daybell is rumoured to have gathered followers by way of his Mormon-inspired books concerning the apocalypse – together with his spouse Lori Vallow.

He’s accused of murdering two of Vallow’s kids – Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and his sister Tylee Ryan, 16 – in addition to his ex-wife Tammy.

The killings of the youngsters sparked a months-long search and gripped information audiences throughout the US. If convicted within the trial, which is predicted to start out on Monday, Daybell may face the loss of life penalty.

It comes virtually a 12 months after Vallow – the youngsters’s mom – was jailed for all times for the murders of the 2 kids and conspiring to kill Daybell’s ex-wife.

What occurred to JJ and Tylee?

In September 2019, two kids vanished from the town of Rexburg in Idaho.

Months of looking out got here to nothing – it was not till June 2020 that police discovered the mutilated stays of JJ and Tylee at a rural property that belonged to Daybell.

JJ’s physique was wrapped in garbage luggage, his arms certain in entrance of him with duct tape. Tylee’s stays had been charred.

Daybell was arrested after the grim discovery.

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Prosecutors in Vallow’s trial stated she and Daybell – her fifth husband – went from being followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) to one thing altogether darker and cult-like, it was claimed.

Vallow’s longtime greatest good friend, Melanie Gibb, informed investigators that Vallow and Daybell believed they had been a part of the “Church of the Firstborn” and that their mission in that church was to guide the “144,000” talked about within the Ebook of Revelation.

Daybell has pleaded not responsible to conspiracy to commit homicide and first-degree homicide in relation to the deaths of Tammy, JJ and Tylee.

Jury choice is predicted to start on Monday and the trial is about to final a number of weeks.