A year after Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow met, both of their spouses and two of Vallow's children were dead. Daybell faces possible death sentences in the murders of the children and his first wife.
"There is a plan being orchestrated for the children," Chad Daybell texted Lori Vallow on Aug. 10, 2019. Vallow's children disappeared one month later; they were eventually found buried on Daybell's property. Daybell is seen here at lower left, listening as prosecutor Lindsey Blake, top right, delivers her closing argument.
Prosecutors said Daybell concocted wild, religion-tinged fantasies about people becoming zombies to justify grisly crimes — with the goal, they said, of starting a new life with Lori Vallow after having an affair with her. They also accused Daybell of insurance fraud in his former wife's death.Daybell, 55, was found guilty of first-degree murder in Tammy Daybell's death in late 2019.
Daybell responded to Vallow's message, Blake added, by saying that being with Vallow was the only thing that mattered to him. "There is a plan being orchestrated for the children," Daybell replied in the exchange of messages."I was shown last night how it fit together again."
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