THANK YOU. >>> WE ARE FOLLOWING SOME BREAKING NEWS. IN THIS CASE, WE DO HAVE A VERDICT IN THE TRIAL OF AN IDAHO MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS FIRST WIFE AND HIS SECOND WIFE'S TWO CHILDREN BACK IN 2019. >> CHAD DAYBELL HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO MURDER AND CONSPIRACY CHARGES. DAYBELL IS FACING NINE CHARGES, INCLUDING THREE COUNTS OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND TWO COUNTS OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER. JURY DELIBERATIONS BEGAN YESTERDAY, JUST YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN FACT. THE PROSECUTION CLAIMS MURDERS WERE FUELED BY, QUOTE, SEX, MONEY, AND POWER ALONG SPIRITUAL THEMES. LORI VALLOW DAYBELL IS CONVICTED OF MURDER, CONSPIRACY, AND THEFT LAST JULY. SHE WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE. >> WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR THAT SITUATION, WHERE ANY MOMENT NOW, YOU CAN SEE RIGHT THERE THE COURTHOUSE IN BOISE, IDAHO WHERE THE JURY WILL DISCLOSE THE VERDICT AND THEY HAVE REACHED AN HAND THAT VERDICT UP TO THE JUDGE. IN THE MEANTIME WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE. BOTH JESSICA LEVINSON, A CBS NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AND LOYOLA SCHOOL OF LAW PROFESSOR, AS WELL AS CBS NEWS CORRESPONDENT CARTER EVANS WHO IS JOINING US FROM LOS ANGELES. DO WE HAVE WORD FROM THE COURTROOM YET? ALL RIGHT, WE WILL LISTEN IN FIRST. >> AND THE COURT AT THIS TIME IS GOING TO INSTRUCT THE JURORS TO PLEASE BE BROUGHT INTO THE COURTROOM. THAT WILL INCLUDE THE ALTERNATE JURORS AS WELL TO BE SEATED, AND THEN I WILL HAVE THE MARSHALL GET THE VERDICT FORM FROM THE JURY ONCE THEY RETURN TO THE COURTROOM. IF THEY CAN COME IN AT THIS TIME, WE WILL HAVE THEM BROUGHT IN. >> ALL RISE, PLEASE. >> WHILE WE ARE WAITING FOR THE JURY TO MAKE THEIR WAY INTO THAT COURTROOM THERE, I'M GOING TO ASK A QUESTION OF OUR CARTER EVANS WHO IS FOLLOWING THE CASE FOR US. CARTER, REMIND OUR VIEWERS IN THE CASE OF CHAD DAYBELL, THE CHARGES THAT HE FACES, AND THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE POSSIBILITY OF HIS CONVICTION. >> RIGHT. HE IS FACING TRIPLE MURDER CHARGES, IT ALSO CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER, AND THEN THERE ARE ALSO SOME INSURANCE FRAUD CHARGES RELATING TO AN INSURANCE CLAIM FILED AFTER CHAD DAYBELL'S WIFE'S DEATH. ALL OF THAT IS BEING CONSIDERED RIGHT NOW. YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE COURTROOM LIVE. THEY ARE GOING THROUGH SOME PROCEDURAL THINGS RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE GETTING READY TO BRING THE JURY IN TO READ THE VERDICT. THE JURY GOT THIS CASE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. THEY CAME BACK AT 8:00 THIS MORNING. THEY DELIBERATED FOR A FEW MORE HOURS AND THEY SAID THEY HAD A VERDICT. IN GENERAL, THAT IS NOT RECOGNIZED AS A GREAT SIGN FOR THE DEFENSE IN A CASE LIKE THIS, BUT WE WILL SEE IN JUST A MINUTE. GOING BACK HERE, HE IS ACCUSED OF NOT JUST THE MURDERS OF LORI VALLOW DAYBELL'S CHILDREN, BUT ALSO THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE. NOW, HIS WIFE, THEY ORIGINALLY RULED HER DEATH NATURAL CAUSES, BUT HER BODY WAS LATER EXHUMED AFTER IT WAS BELIEVED THAT HE MIGHT BE INVOLVED IN VALLOW'S CHILDREN'S DEATHS, AND THEY RE- EXAMINED HER AND THEY SAY THAT SHE DIED OF ECSTASY ASIAN, AND BASICALLY THEY ARE CALLING THIS A HOMICIDE RIGHT NOW. THAT IS WHERE THE THIRD HOMICIDE CHARGE COMES IN HERE. THAT IS HIS WIFE. AGAIN ALL OF THE BODIES FOUND ON HIS PROPERTY, BUT THERE IS NO DIRECT EVIDENCE LINKING HIM TO ANY OF THESE CRIMES. >> WE SEE CHAD DAYBELL THERE IT LOOKS LIKE IN A YELLOW TIE SITTING NEXT TO HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY, WAITING TO FIND OUT IF HIS SENTENCES RETURNED AS GUILTY, AS IT WAS FOR LORI VALLOW DAYBELL, HIS MOST RECENT WIFE WHOSE TWO CHILDREN, JJ AND TYLEE, WERE FOUND DEAD ON HIS PROPERTY, AS WELL AS IN THIS CASE A QUESTION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT HE ALSO KILLED HIS PREVIOUS WIFE. OF COURSE HE MARRIED LORI VALLOW DAYBELL JUST TWO MONTHS AFTER HIS WIFE PASSED AWAY WHETHER BY NATURAL OR UNNATURAL CAUSES IN OCTOBER OF 2019. WE ARE GOING TO LISTEN TO THE COURTROOM NOW TO SEE WHAT VERDICT IS BEING RETURNED. >> THANK YOU. >> THE COURT HAS REVIEWED THE VERDICT FORM. I WILL NOTE THAT ALL COUNTS HAVE BEEN PROPERLY MARKED, AS WELL AS THE VERDICT FORM HAS BEEN PROPERLY DATED AND SIGNED BY THE FOREPERSON. THE NEXT STEP THEN IS MR. DAYBELL, IF YOU AND COUNSEL WILL PLEASE RISE, I'M GOING TO HAVE THE CLERK READ THE VERDICT. >> IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO IN FOR THE COUNTY OF FREMONT, STATE OF IDAHO PLAINTIFF VERSUS CHAD GUY DAYBELL DEFENDANT, CASE NUMBER CR 22 21 1623. VERDICTS, WE THE JURY DULY IMPANELED AND SWORN TO TRY THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION FOR VERDICT UNANIMOUSLY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS SUBMITTED TO US AS FOLLOWS. QUESTION NUMBER ONE, IN REGARDS TO COUNT ONE OF THE AMENDED INDICTMENT, IS CHAD GUY DAYBELL NOT GUILTY OR GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FIRST- DEGREE MURDER OF TYLEE RYAN AND GRAND THEFT BY DECEPTION. GUILTY. QUESTION NUMBER TWO, IN REGARDS TO COUNT TWO OF THE AMENDED INDICTMENT, IS CHAD GUY DAYBELL NOT GUILTY OR GUILTY OF FIRST- DEGREE MURDER OF TYLEE RYAN. GUILTY. QUESTION NUMBER THREE, IN REGARDS TO COUNT THREE OF THE AMENDED INDICTMENT, IS CHAD GUY DAYBELL NOT GUILTY OR GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FIRST- DEGREE MURDER OF JOSHUA JACKSON BELL -- VALLOW, AND GRAND THEFT BY DECEPTION. GUILTY. QUESTION NUMBER FOUR. IN REGARDS TO COUNT FOUR OF THE AMENDED INDICTMENT, IS CHAD GUY DAYBELL NOT GUILTY OR GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER OF JOSHUA JACKSON VALLOW. GUILTY. QUESTION NUMBER FIVE, IN REGARDS TO COUNT FIVE OF THE AMENDED INDICTMENT, IS CHAD GUY DAYBELL NOT GUILTY OR GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FIRST- DEGREE MURDER OF TAMARA TAMMY DAYBELL. GUILTY. QUESTION NUMBER SIX. IN REGARDS TO COUNT SIX OF THE AMENDED INDICTMENT, IS CHAD GUY DAYBELL NOT GUILTY OR GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER HE OF TAMARA TAMMY GAIT DAYBELL. GUILTY. QUESTION NUMBER SEVEN. IN REGARDS TO COUNT SEVEN OF THE AMENDED INDICTMENT, IS CHAD GUY DAYBELL NOT GUILTY OR GUILTY OF INSURANCE FRAUD. GUILTY. QUESTION NUMBER EIGHT IN REGARDS TO COUNT EIGHT OF THE AMENDED INDICTMENT, EXCUSE ME, IN REGARDS TO COUNTS NINE OF THE AMENDED INDICTMENT, IS CHAD GUY DAYBELL NOT GUILTY OR GUILTY OF INSURANCE FRAUD. GUILTY. DATED THIS 30th DAY OF MAY, 2024, AND SIGNED BY THE PRESIDING JUROR. >> ALL RIGHT, MADAME CLERK, THANK YOU FOR READING THE VERDICT. AT THIS TIME I'M JUST GOING TO COLLECTIVELY ASK THE JURORS, ALL OF YOU, IS IS IN FACT YOUR UNANIMOUS VERDICT ON EACH OF THOSE COUNT? VERY WELL. AT THIS TIME I AM GOING TO INQUIRE IF THE PARTIES WISH TO HAVE THE JURY, DOES THE STATE WISH TO HAVE THE JURY PULLED? >> NO YOUR HONOR, THANK YOU. >> DOES THE DEFENSE WISH TO HAVE THE JURY PULLED? >> NO THANK YOU. >> VERY WELL, I WILL ASK THE CLERK TO RECORD THE VERDICT. AT THIS TIME THEN THIS DOES CONCLUDE THE GUILT PHASE OF THIS TRIAL. BECAUSE THE DEFENDANT HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF COUNTS OF FIRST- DEGREE MURDER AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FIRST-DEGREE MURDER, THE STATE HAS FILED A NOTICE OF INTENT TO SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY, AND SO A SECOND PHASE OF THIS TRIAL CALLED THE SENTENCING PHASE WILL BE TAKING PLACE NEXT. WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A RECESS AT THIS TIME FOR APPROXIMATELY AN HOUR. WE WILL COME BACK ON THE RECORD AND BEGAN WITH THE START OF THAT SENTENCING PHASE OF THE TRIAL. I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT THIS COURTROOM CONDUCT ORDER IS STILL AN APPLICATION THROUGHOUT THESE PROCEEDINGS. THANK YOU OFFER COMPLYING WITH THAT. WE ARE GOING TO TAKE HIS RECESS AT THIS TIME. MR. DAYBELL IS TO REMAIN IN CUSTODY AT THIS TIME FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SENTENCING PHASE, AND WITH THAT, THANK YOU ALL, AND WE WILL BE IN RECESS. >> ALL RISE, PLEASE. >> WE ARE GOING TO BRING IN JESSICA LEVINSON NOW FOR HER LEGAL ANALYSIS. SHE IS A CBS NEWS LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR AT A LOCAL LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR. HERE WE HAVE ALL GUILTY COUNTS. CHAD DAYBELL EMOTIONLESS AS HE WAS LISTENING. WHAT ARE YOUR TAKEAWAYS? >> Reporter: I THINK CARTER WAS EXACTLY RIGHT. IF YOU SEE THAT THERE IS A VERDICT THAT COMES BACK WITH IN ABOUT 24 TO 36 HOURS, THAT IS GOING TO BE A CONVICTION. ONE OF THE THINGS PEOPLE WILL BE SEEING TODAY IS, BUT THERE WASN'T DIRECT EVIDENCE. THIS IS A BIT OF A LEARNING OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL OF US THAT THERE ISN'T ALWAYS DIRECT EVIDENCE WHEN IT COMES TO THESE CONVICTIONS. I THINK ULTIMATELY THE PROSECUTION TOLD A MUCH MORE COMPELLING STORY. ULTIMATELY, IN THIS CASE, THE JURORS BELIEVE THAT CHAD DAYBELL WAS A BAD ACTOR. SO EVEN THOUGH THEY DID NOT HAVE THAT SO-CALLED SMOKING GUN, I THINK THE PROSECUTION TOLD A STORY THAT JUST MADE MUCH MORE SENSE. AND LET'S REMEMBER THAT LORI DAYBELL WAS ALREADY CONVICTED OF THESE CRIMES, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT SHE ACTED ALONE. THAT IS WHAT THE JURY FOUND TODAY. NOW WE KNOW BECAUSE THE JUDGE SAID WE ARE COMING BACK THAT THERE WILL BE A DISCUSSION OF SENTENCING IN JUST 60 MINUTES. SO WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FATE OF CHAD DAYBELL WILL BE. >> JESSICA, I WANT TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT, BECAUSE I WAS SURPRISED THAT THEY SAID WE ARE GOING TO TAKE THE SHORT RECESS AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO COME BACK AND DISCUSS THE SENTENCING PHASE. THE JUDGE ALSO MADE THE POINT THAT THE NOTICE OF INTENT BY THE PROSECUTION WAS TO SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY IN THIS INSTANCE. JUST AS A REMINDER FOR OUR VIEWERS, IN THE CASE OF THE TWO CHILDREN, JJ AND TYLEE, THEY WERE LAST SEEN IN SEPTEMBER OF 2019. THEN LORI AND CHAD GOT MARRIED. THEY WENT ON A HONEYMOON. DURING THIS WHOLE TIME PEOPLE WERE ASKING WHERE ARE THESE CHILDREN. THEIR BODIES WEREN'T FOUND UNTIL JUNE OF 2020. THIS WAS A HEINOUS EVENT, A HEINOUS MURDER. HOW LIKELY IS IT THEN, JESSICA, THAT WHEN THE JUDGE COMES BACK, THAT HE IS IN FACT GOING TO IMPOSE A DEATH PENALTY SENTENCE? >> Reporter: IT IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE. I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT TO OUTLINE THE FACTS, BECAUSE IT DOESN'T ONLY SHOW I THINK THE STORY THAT THE PROSECUTION WAS ABLE TO TELL, WHICH IS WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. YOUR SECOND WIFE'S CHILDREN ARE NOWHERE TO BE SEEN, AND YOU ARE OUT HONEYMOONING, YOU ARE OUTLIVING YOUR LIFE. HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE. AND WHEN IT COMES TO A DEATH ELIGIBLE CASE, IT IS DIFFICULT TO PREDICT THE MOTHER THAT WE HAVE SOMEBODY WHO HAS NOW BEEN CONVICTED OF TRIPLE MURDER, SO IF YOU THINK ABOUT A DEATH ELIGIBLE CASE, OFTEN TIMES, UNFORTUNATELY, CHILDREN ARE INVOLVED. OFTENTIMES THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MURDER, AND WE HAVE BOTH OF THOSE THINGS PRESENT TODAY. >> CARTER, AS WE THINK ABOUT THIS, AND LANA HAD MENTIONED A REALLY HEINOUS CRIME, IT IS AN EMOTIONAL CASE ALSO. THERE ARE MANY FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE FOR THESE VICTIMS. TALK TO US ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS MOMENT? >> Reporter: I THINK THIS WILL GIVE PEOPLE SOME CLOSURE. A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS TRIAL. ESPECIALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE VERY CONCERNED FOR A VERY LONG TIME WHEN THESE KIDS WERE MISSING. OF COURSE IT CERTAINLY HAS IMPACTED THEIR FAMILY AS WELL, AND LORI DAYBELL IS NOT DONE WITH HER COURT BATTLES YET. SHE IS STILL GOING TO FACE SOME CHARGES IN ARIZONA FOR ALL OF THIS, SO THIS IS STILL NOT QUITE OVER, BUT IT DOES BRING SOME CLOSURE, AND IT GETS THE PENALTY PHASE WILL REALLY DETERMINE EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE GOING. I THINK JESSICA LEVINSON PUT IT DISTINCTLY. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THREE MURDERS THAT HE WAS CONVICTED OF HERE. PREMEDITATED MURDERS. TWO OF THEM ARE CHILDREN. ALL OF THEM ON HIS PROPERTY. THESE ARE HEINOUS, HEINOUS CRIMES. CAN YOU THINK ABOUT THE RELIGIOUS UNDERTONES, THE GODLIKE BEHAVIOR THAT WAS DESCRIBED IN THE TRIAL. ALL OF THIS IS GOING TO COME INTO PLAY HERE IN THE SENTENCING, AND ALSO, IS THERE ANY REMORSE, YOU KNOW? WE DON'T REALLY SEE THAT ON HIS FACE THERE IN THE COURTROOM. HE WAS PRETTY UNEMOTIONAL. I'M INTERESTED TO SEE HIS REACTION TO ALL OF THIS. >> AND AS YOU MENTIONED, LORI VALLOW DAYBELL ALSO FACING CHARGES IN ARIZONA. HER FUR STORE HER EARLIER HUSBAND, HER PRIOR HUSBAND TO CHAD DAYBELL, CHARLES VALLOW, WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HER BROTHER, ALEX, WHEN THEY WERE ALL AT THE HOUSE TOGETHER. REMIND OUR VIEWERS ALSO ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF THIS BIZARRE CASE. >> Reporter: YOU KNOW, AND IT, THIS CASE IS SO CONFUSING, AND IT HAS SO MANY DETAILS AND SO MANY POINTS THAT YES, THAT ONE KIND OF GETS LEFT BEHIND. BUT YES, LORI VALLOW'S FIRST HUSBAND WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HER BROTHER, AND THE REASON HE IS NOT ON TRIAL RIGHT NOW IS BECAUSE HE DIED, BUT HE DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES. SO, THAT AT LEAST HAS BEEN RESOLVED TO SOME DEGREE, AT LEAST TWO KILLED HER HUSBAND THERE, BUT AT WHOSE DIRECTION? THAT IS A QUESTION STILL LOOMING. >> JESSICA, OFTENTIMES WHEN WE HAVE DECISIONS BY JURIES, YOU AND I DISCUSSED THE NEXT STEPS IN TERMS OF APPEALS, ET CETERA. IS THAT EVEN A LIKELY POSSIBILITY IN THIS? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE GIVEN JUST HOW MUCH JUST OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE THERE WAS, AND AT THE PARTICULARLY DISTASTEFUL NATURE OF THESE DEATHS? >> Reporter: I WILL SAY THE LEGAL DECISION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT TO APPEAL DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HOW HEINOUS THE CRIMES ARE. IT HAS TO DO WITH WHETHER OR NOT THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY INKS THERE IS SOME OPENING TO SAY WE THINK THAT THERE IS A REASON TO OVERTURN THE VERDICT. I THINK THE THING TO REMEMBER, AND IN PART BECAUSE WE ARE TALKING SO MUCH ABOUT APPEALS WITH RESPECT TO ANOTHER CRIMINAL CASE HAPPENING IN NEW YORK, IS THAT APPEALS ARE NOT OFTEN SUCCESSFUL. SO WE MIGHT HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT, BUT AT THIS POINT THERE IS NOTHING THAT STICKS OUT AS A MAJOR ISSUE THAT COULD COME UP ON APPEAL. AGAIN, AN APPELLATE BRIEF WILL PROBABLY BE FILED. IT WILL BE REVIEWED, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT ANYTHING WILL CHANGE FROM THE VERDICT THAT WE SAW TODAY. >> ONE MORE QUESTION FOR YOU, SINCE WE ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM THE JUDGE IN JUST ABOUT 40 MINUTES, 45 MINUTES TIME, WITH A LIKELY SENTENCE, POSSIBLY INCLUDING THE DEATH PENALTY, DOES THE JUDGE ALREADY LIKELY HAVE A SENTENCE IN MIND WHEN THE JURY COMES BACK WITH THEIR VERDICT? >> Reporter: THIS IS A JUDGE WHO OVERSAW THE CASE. HE KNOWS WHAT THE MITIGATING FACTORS ARE PICKING US WITH THE AGGRAVATING FACTORS ARE. THE AGGRAVATING FACTORS UNFORTUNATELY ALMOST GO WITHOUT SAYING IN A CASE THAT IS IS HEINOUS IN THIS TRAGIC COME AWAY YOU HAVE THE CHILDREN. SO I THINK OFTENTIMES A JUDGE DOES KNOW WHERE HE OR SHE IS GOING TO GO IN A CASE LIKE THIS, BUT IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE GIVEN THE TIME ON BOTH SIDES THAT HE DID WANT SOME TIME, BUT NOT A LOT OF TIME. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT COMES NEXT IN TERMS OF THAT LIABILITY PHASE, SO TO SPEAK, IN TERMS OF THE PENALTY PHASE, EXCUSE ME. >> AND WILL BE WATCHING TO SEE WHAT IT IS, AND OF COURSE CBS NEWS 24/7 WILL BRING THAT INFORMATION TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE IN A
