BOISE, Idaho — Prosecutors in Idaho say they will seek the death penalty against a couple in the killings of the wife’s two youngest children and the husband’s previous wife in a convoluted case involving doomsday religious beliefs and another suspicious death in Arizona.
The prosecutors made the announcement in court filings on Thursday, saying all three murders were especially heinous and cruel and that the couple exhibited such a propensity for killing that they are likely to be a continuing threat to society if they are allowed to live.
In Idaho, Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell are each charged with conspiracy, murder and grand theft in connection with the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan. The children were missing for several months, during which police said the couple lied about the children’s whereabouts, before their bodies were found buried on Chad Daybell’s property in Idaho.
