The man Lori Vallow married after the disappearance of her two children and the death of his wife pleaded not guilty Friday to accusations of abducting the children’s bodies.
An Idaho judge has ordered Chad Daybell, the author of self-published doomsday novels, to stand trial in January after a preliminary hearing last month.
Daybell was accused of destroying evidence after authorities discovered the bodies of Vallow’s missing children in his backyard in Salem, Idaho, in June.
COURT PAPERS SAY ‘CULT MOM’ LORI VALLOW TRUSTED HER CHILDREN WERE ‘ZOMBIES’
Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow
(Rexburg Police Department)
JJ Vallow, a 7-year-old boy with autism, and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan disappeared last September. Vallow was arrested last winter in Hawaii on charges of forgetting children, where police say she ran with Daybell.
His ex-wife, Tammy Daybell, died in October. Idaho prosecutors are investigating the death.
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Police said they found JJ’s body in a black plastic bag with his wrists and ankles tied with duct tape. Tylee’s remains were found to have been burned.
“By pleading guilty, you will retain all your constitutional rights in this case,” Boyce told Daybell via Zoom, according to East Idaho News. “Under those rights, you have the right to be innocent. The suspicion of innocence is a real and important right that lies at the foundation of our criminal justice system. ”
Daybell is being held on $ 1 million bail.
Vallow was also charged with removing the bodies and has a month to set a date for a judge in the case.
Police said in court papers that Vallow believed JJ and Tylee were “zombies.”
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Vallow friend Melani Gibb was quoted as saying researchers say the term “refers to an individual whose mortal spirit left her body and that her body is now the host of another spirit.”
