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Doomsday Plot: Idaho Jury Convicts Chad Daybell Of Killing Wife And Girlfriend’s 2 Children
BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho man was convicted Thursday of murdering his wife and his new girlfriend’s two youngest children in a bizarre triple murder case that involved allegations of apocalyptic prophecies, zombie offspring, and illicit affairs.
Jurors debated for only six hours before convicting Chad Daybell in a case that began in 2019 and encompassed at least four states. Daybell, standing and dressed in a long-sleeved dress shirt, remained silent while the verdicts were read.
Jurors will now decide whether Daybell, 55, should die for the killings of Tammy Daybell, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow. The sentencing phase of the nearly two-month-long trial resumes on Friday.
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Idaho Jury Convicts Chad Daybell Of Killing Wife And Girlfriend’s 2 Children
“Everything was addressed, every item was ‘guilty,’ and for that, I’m happy,” JJ’s grandfather, Larry Woodcock, told The Associated Press. “I’m still sad for the loss — there were four lives lost in this for no purpose, no reason — but my wife and I are just so satisfied with the verdict.”
Lori Vallow Daybell, the children’s mother, was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year for the same conspiracy and murder counts. She married Chad Daybell only two weeks after Tammy Daybell was killed. She is currently awaiting trial in Arizona, charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow. Charles Vallow was JJ’s father.
The court in the case has issued a gag order, banning counsel on both sides from speaking with the media until the trial is completed.
The case received extensive media attention, and the court transferred the trial from the remote Idaho village where the killings took place to Boise to ensure a fair and impartial jury.
During the punishment phase, prosecutors will attempt to demonstrate that the offenses deserve the death penalty because they were extremely wicked, heinous, or cruel or that they fulfill one of the other “aggravating factors” specified in state law. Daybell’s defense, however, will attempt to provide the jury with mitigating factors to demonstrate that a reduced sentence is more suitable.
The investigation began five years ago when JJ’s grandparents, Kay and Larry Woodcock, got concerned that Vallow Daybell was refusing to let them call the kid. Despite living in different states, JJ and his grandparents had been close, with regular video conversations since he was approximately three years old. Larry Woodcock described JJ as incredibly clever and autistic, and anytime he ran out of things to say, he’d remark, “Mawmaw, Pawpaw, I don’t know.”
“In the last few years of his life, he honed his wit and charisma. Larry Woodcock stated, “If there’s one thing I miss, it’s his wit.” “There’s not a day that goes by now that my wife and I don’t turn to each other and say, ‘Mawmaw, I don’t know,’ or ‘Pawpaw, I don’t know.'”
In 2019, Kay Woodcock requested that police check on the youngster. Investigators quickly recognized both children were gone, and a multistate search began. The investigation quickly took some unexpected directions.
Investigators believe Vallow and Chad Daybell were conducting an affair when both of their spouses died unexpectedly. Vallow Daybell’s husband, Charles, was fatally shot by her brother, Alex Cox, in Arizona in July 2019; the brother claimed self-defense. He wasn’t charged.
Vallow Daybell, her two children, JJ and Tylee, and Cox later relocated to eastern Idaho to be closer to Daybell, a self-published author of doomsday-themed fiction partly based on Mormon beliefs.
Tammy Daybell died in October 2019. Chad Daybell first informed authorities that she had an ailment and died in her sleep, but an examination later revealed that she died from asphyxiation. Chad and Vallow Daybell married just two weeks after Tammy Daybell’s death, which surprised family members.
Nearly a year after going missing, the children’s bones were discovered buried on Chad Daybell’s ranch in eastern Idaho. Investigators discovered that both children died in September 2019. Prosecutors allege that Cox collaborated with Chad and Vallow Daybell in all three deaths. However, Cox died of natural causes during the inquiry and was never charged.
Prosecutors called scores of witnesses to back up their assertions that Chad Daybell and Vallow Daybell conspired to murder the children and Tammy Daybell to remove any hurdles to their relationship and collect money from survivor benefits and life insurance policies. Prosecutors said the pair justified the crimes by developing an apocalyptic belief system in which people might be possessed by bad spirits and transformed into “zombies,” and the only way to save a possessed person’s soul was for the possessed body to die.
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Idaho Jury Convicts Chad Daybell Of Killing Wife And Girlfriend’s 2 Children
According to Fremont County prosecutor Lindsay Blake, Daybell claimed to be the leader of “The Church of the Firstborn” and informed Vallow Daybell and others that he could tell whether someone had turned into a “zombie.” Daybell also claimed to be able to tell how near a person was to death by reading their “death percentage,” Blake said during final arguments on Wednesday.
According to Blake, Daybell used these pieces to create a pattern for each of those killed.
“Chad Daybell would classify them as ‘dark’. Their ‘death percentage’ would decrease. “Then they would have to die,” she explained.
Blake further said Daybell duped Vallow Daybell and her brother, Cox, into assisting with the plot, at times bestowing spiritual blessings’ on Cox and telling Vallow Daybell that the angels were unhappy because she was ignoring him.
Daybell’s defense attorney, John Prior, disputed the prosecution’s representations of Daybell’s beliefs. He described Daybell as a traditional member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a highly pious man who shared his spiritual convictions whenever possible.
Idaho Jury Convicts Chad Daybell Of Killing Wife And Girlfriend’s 2 Children
Prior alleged that authorities looked for evidence against Daybell rather than the facts of the case and that the atrocities were done by the children’s late uncle, Cox. He stated that Cox had killed JJ Vallow’s father in Arizona and that the two children were the only witnesses to the shooting. He further claimed Cox attempted to frame Daybell by burying the deceased children in his yard.
During the sentencing phase, jurors will be asked whether Daybell should be sentenced to death (Idaho law allows for execution by lethal injection or firing squad) or life in prison. Woodcock stated that he would be satisfied with either decision.
“This is what you get for murdering children. This is what you get for murdering your wife. “Chad decided, and he knew it was wrong,” Woodcock explained.
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Mary Beth Walsh believed she was used to hot weather as she grew up in Texas. Heat waves are common in her hometown of Dallas, which is now experiencing intense heat waves.
However, the 21-year-old was taken aback by the “unbearable” 98 Fahrenheit (37 Celsius) heat waves she experienced when she traveled to Athens with her companions in mid-June. She told CNN, “It was pretty surprising because I had no idea about the heat waves that were going on until we were there.”
“I always joke around that in August (in the US), I bring my sweatshirt to class because I have such a high heat tolerance,” she said. However, she was living in an apartment without air conditioning, and it was too hot during the day to explore the city. “We didn’t have as much energy as we had anticipated,” she said.
Walking in the intense heat waves felt pretty awful.” Many visitors are aware that Europe will soon experience scorching summers due to the climate problem. According to analysts, record heat waves and wildfires in 2023 caused a decline in interest in travel to the hotter Mediterranean countries, while interest in more moderate places increased.
This trend northward might be exacerbated by recent heat-related fatalities and disappearances in Greece, such as the British TV personality Michael Mosley’s. These events have an impact on travel plans.
Southern European nations, many of which depend on tourism to support their economies, are beginning to face more challenges regarding the travel industry’s and travelers’ ability to adjust to the increasing effects of climate change.
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The recent high temperatures have pushed the climate catastrophe to the forefront for several European visitors. “The climate disaster that we had feared would occur in 10 or 15 years has already occurred in certain regions. That’s the terrifying bit,” Roo Clark, 28, of Suffolk, eastern England, told CNN while visiting with his girlfriend on the Greek island of Skyros.
“Five years ago, me and my friends wouldn’t have even spoken about it (climate change), whereas now it’s more of a conversation.” Authorities in Greece have frequently advised visitors not to underestimate the severe heat waves, particularly during the middle of the day. Hiking in hot temperatures has been a common thread connecting recent tragedies nationwide.
According to CNN meteorologists, temperatures in Greece are expected to range from 90 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit (low to mid-30s Celsius) during the next several weeks, a few degrees above the summer norm. However, rain is predicted for one or two days, which will bring temperatures down.
The owner of Greece’s biggest outdoor-focused travel business, Stefanos Sidiropoulos, advised travelers not to dive right into activities. It’s more challenging for those traveling from Canada or northern Europe, which have colder climates. They need time to get used to these circumstances,” he said to CNN.
Trekking Hellas, Sidiropoulos’ vacation firm, now offers some activities during lower temperatures, including dawn and dusk. “Or with torches at night,” he continues.
Infatuated with travel
Certain nations that rely on tourism-related revenue would suffer greatly from climate change’s impact on where visitors choose to holiday. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, Greece’s tourism industry makes up around 20% of the nation’s total GDP, or over 38 billion euros ($41 billion).
In Italy, where the highest degree of warning, level three heat warnings, has just been issued for the cities of Rome, Perugia, and Palermo, according to current data, 10% of the nation’s GDP is attributed to tourism, with one in every eight jobs related to the sector.
Following Europe’s 2023 summer heat wave, which forced thousands to flee wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes, the European Travel Commission (ETC), a nonprofit organization in charge of promoting Europe as a travel destination, reported a 7% increase in expressions of concern about climate change among European travelers.
According to ETC, this followed a drop in interest in southern Mediterranean holiday spots during the summers of 2022 and 2023, as colder places such as the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Denmark became more enticing.
“Travelers are increasingly aware of extreme weather events and their potential impact on their vacations,” Eduardo Santander, CEO of ETC, told CNN, adding that in the future, this could lead to more travelers visiting southern Europe in the spring and late fall rather than the hotter summer months.
Santander said that visitor fears over climate change are often short-lived. “Travelers are concerned after the summer but tend to forget about those events when booking their next holidays in the spring,” he told me.
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Eddie Murphy is thinking back on some of the perceived “cheap shots” he has taken throughout the years.
In an interview with the latest York Times, the Oscar-nominated actor and comedian—whose latest movie, “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” releases on Netflix next week—was asked if he felt he had been treated unfairly by the media and his peers over the years.
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Eddie Murphy Is Still Stung By That David Spade Joke On ‘Saturday Night Live’
“They used to be so hard on me back in the day, and a lot of it was racist stuff,” Murphy remarked.
Murphy began by describing how growing up in the 1980s “was a whole different world” and then mentioned an incident in which “David Spade said that s––t about my career on ‘SNL.'”
The aforementioned clip, which aired in December 1995 as part of Spade’s “Hollywood Minute” year-in-review, featured a photo of Murphy with the caption, “Look, kids, it’s a falling star.” Form a wish. Murphy revealed to the Times that the joke was inspired by his picture “Vampire in Brooklyn,” which had a disastrous box office run.
“I thought, ‘Hey, this is in-house!'” You’re f-–king with me like that, and I’m part of the family? That kind of damaged my sentiments,” Murphy remarked.
Eddie Murphy Is Still Stung By That David Spade Joke On ‘Saturday Night Live’
As a member of the core cast of “SNL,” he became well-known between 1980 and 1984. He is frequently credited with keeping the show on the air at one point.
“The producers felt that statement could be made. Among all the guests on that program, you have never heard somebody make light of another person’s career. The majority of those that leave that program don’t go on to have these incredible careers. It was intimate,” Murphy clarified afterward. “I thought, ‘Hey, how could you do that?'” My profession? Really? A joke about my work? That seemed like a cheap shot to me. Additionally, I felt that it was quite racist.
Later, Spade wrote about feeling terrible about his “stupid joke” and getting a call from an irate Murphy following the skit.
Spade wrote, “I’ve come to see Eddie’s point on this one.” In show business, everyone wants to be liked by others. It’s how you gain followers. However, when you are reamed in a drawing, on the internet, or in any other way, that stinks. And the sum can mount up rapidly.
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Eddie Murphy Is Still Stung By That David Spade Joke On ‘Saturday Night Live’
Murphy has largely avoided the long-running NBC sketch show over the years, though he did make a cameo in the 2015 “SNL” 40th anniversary special and made a big comeback as a host in 2019.
“In the end, everything turned out well. Both David Spade and Lorne Michaels are OK to me. This week, Murphy said, “I returned to SNL.” “Love is everything… nevertheless, I took a few shoddy photographs!”
SOURCE – CNN
Thailand hopes to win medals in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, from July 26 to August 11, in taekwondo, boxing, weightlifting, golf, and badminton.
Thailand’s Olympic chef de mission, Thana Chaiprasit, said at the third and last “Meet the Press” event in Bangkok on Friday that her country had high hopes for Panipak “Tennis” Wongpattanakit, the world’s top-ranked taekwondo competitor in the women’s 49 kg division.
He continued by saying that because the Thai boxing squad has earned slots in eight weight classes this year, amateur fighters from Thailand need to win at least two medals in the Olympics.
He said, “We could also win medals in badminton and golf.”
Thailand is hopeful of landing medals in five sports at Paris Olympics
During a previous press event at the Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association, Thana had previously voiced optimism that Thai weightlifters would be able to win several medals in the Paris Olympics.
Thana said that Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has announced that every Olympic medalist will be given a bonus. “He [Srettha] also promised to overhaul the administration of the National Sports Development Fund in order to guarantee that all national athletes are compensated appropriately.”
On Friday, seven different sports organizations participated in the press event. The following is a list of the goals that they have set for themselves for the 2024 Olympic Games: boxing: two medals; golf: at least one medal; water sports: round of 16; judo: round of 16; table tennis: round of 16; sailing: top 25; track and field: Puripol Boonson making it through the first round heats in the men’s 100-meter sprint.
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