Where are the “Doomsday Murders” couple, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell Now?

Six years after the killings that became known as the “Doomsday Murders,” Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell remain behind bars in separate Idaho facilities, still linked to the religious beliefs prosecutors said fueled the string of shocking deaths.

Lori is serving multiple life sentences at Pocatello Women's Correctional Center. Chad is on death row at a maximum-security prison in Kuna after being convicted of murdering Lori’s two youngest children and his first wife, Tammy Daybell.

The pair met in October 2018 at a religious conference in Utah. Prosecutors later said the relationship quickly turned into a deadly partnership, built on extreme beliefs that the apocalypse, spirits, and a coming religious war.

Authorities said Chad convinced Lori that people close to them had become zombies possessed by dark spirits. Among them were Lori’s daughter, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, and his seven year old adopted son, Joshua Vallow, who had autism.

Tylee was last seen during a trip to Yellowstone National Park on September 8, 2019. Meanwhile, Joshua disappeared two weeks later. In October 2019, Tammy Daybell died suddenly at home, and Chad claimed. She had gone to bed with a cough and died in his sleep.

Two weeks later, Chad and Lori got married in Hawaii.

As she stays in the Correctional Centre in Idaho, Lori’s legal troubles have continued even after her 2023 conviction for murdering Tylee and Joshua and conspiring to kill Tammy.

She was later convicted in Arizona, in two separate conspiracy cases linked to the death of Charles Vallow, her first husband, and the attempted shooting of Brandon Boudreaux, the former husband of Lori’s niece. In July 2025, Lori received two additional life sentences that will run consecutively.

Despite the conviction, Lori has continued to defend her beliefs and insists she will eventually be cleared.

In March 2025, in an interview with Dateline, NBC, Lori claimed she would one day be exonerated. During her 2023 sentencing, Lori told the court that Tylee, Joshua, and Tammy had visited her after her death and that Joshua told her she did nothing wrong.

George Steven W. Boyce rejected those claims while handing down the sentence.

“You chose the most evil and destructive path possible,” Boyce told her. “You justified all this by going down a bizarre religious rabbit hole — and clearly you are still down there."

Lori's surviving son, Colby Ryan, testified during the trial that his mother changed after meeting Chad in 2018.

“My mom has spent her whole life protecting us, kids. After she met Chad, she changed.”

Chad entered Idaho’s maximum-security prison on June 3, 2024, days after the jury convicted him on murder and fraud charges.

Prosecutors said Chad used his religious teachings to convince Lory that certain people around them had become zombies possessed by evil spirits. Investigators later found the remains of Tylee and Joshua buried on Chad’s Idaho property in June 2020.

Tammy Daybell’s body was later exhumed, and an autopsy determined that she died from asphyxiation.

Two days later, after arriving on death row, Chad filed an appeal, challenging both his conviction and death sentence. His attorney has also requested a public defender, saying he could not afford legal representation.

The appeal process is expected to take years. The Idaho property where Tammy died and where the children’s remains were discovered was sold in 2024 to a non-profit organisation. Even now, the case continues to draw tension because of the pair's claim that they were carrying out a divine mission before the second coming of Jesus Christ.