Prosecutors said during the Lori Vallow murder trial on Monday that her husband’s ex-wife, Tammy Daybell, died of asphyxiation.
Vallow is charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and grand theft in connection to the deaths of her two children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, and Tammy Daybell. She has plead not guilty and her trial started on April 3.
Tammy Daybell, the ex-wife of Chad Daybell, was found dead in October 2019 of what were believed to be natural causes at the time. Investigators later exhumed her body and conducted an autopsy, which ruled her death was a homicide.
Fremont County Prosecutor Lindsey A. Blake revealed the results of the autopsy during opening arguments of the trial on Monday morning, according to NBC News affiliate KSL-TV. Tammy was married to Chad Daybell for 28 years before her death.
Chad Daybell is charged with murder in the death of his ex-wife, and accused of committing insurance fraud related to her death.
Tammy Daybell’s death came just a few months after that of Charles Vallow, Lori Vallow’s ex-husband, who was shot and killed by her brother, Alex Cox. A grand jury charged Lori with conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree nearly two years after his death, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said. She will be tried separately, in Arizona, in that case. Cox died in 2019 and was never charged.
Vallow and Chad Daybell married just two weeks after Tammy Daybell’s funeral, KSL-TV reported. Police documents obtained by KSL revealed that Charles Vallow had learned of Lori Vallow’s infidelity with Chad Daybell 12 days before he died and threatened to tell Tammy Daybell.
Prosecutors believe Vallow and Chad Daybell became obsessed with doomsday-focused religious beliefs that led them to commit a series of four murders: those of Vallow’s children and each of their former spouses.
Vallow’s trial comes years after the disappearance of her children, Joshua and Tylee, made headlines, as the indictment…
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