Killer Parents

Closing arguments are being heard today in the trial of Joseph Daniels, the man accused in the presumed death of his 5-year-old son. More

June 11, 2021

PODCAST: On June 9, 2020, the bodies of Tylee Ryan and her little brother JJ Vallow were discovered buried in Chad Daybell’s backyard. Murder charges were filed against Daybell and his new wife, Lori Vallow, the children’s mother. The couple were charged with the deaths of not only Tylee and JJ but also Chad’s first […] More

June 10, 2021

By Katie McLaughlin FREEMONT COUNTY, Idaho (Court TV) – An Idaho district judge has signed an order that will send Lori Vallow Daybell to a state mental health facility. In the meantime, her husband Chad Daybell has entered a plea of Not Guilty in court today. Just moments ago, he appeared before District Judge Steven […] More

June 9, 2021

PODCAST: Encore Episode — This encore episode will give you all of the background you need on the Doomsday Couple. Lori Vallow and her husband, Doomsday prophet Chad Daybell, hoped to spend the rest of their lives together, but instead, their marriage has been spent behind bars due to the discovery of the bodies of […] More

June 3, 2021

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Scripps News Nashville) — The jury has been selected in the trial of Joseph Daniels who’s accused of killing his 5-year-old son, Joe Clyde Daniels. The evidence phase of the trial will begins Thursday at 1 p.m. in Dickson County. Jury selection began Wednesday morning in Chattanooga. It was supposed to begin Tuesday, […] More

June 3, 2021

JASPER, Texas (AP) — A child found dead in a Texas motel room is believed to be a boy reported missing in Houston and a suspect has been arrested in the case, police said Wednesday. Authorities had been searching for Samuel Olson, who was reported missing May 27. On Tuesday night, police recovered a child’s […] More

June 2, 2021

Investigators in Arizona want to charge Lori Vallow Daybell with the death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, who was killed in 2019. More

May 28, 2021

By Ivy Brown BOISE, Idaho (Court TV) — Lori Vallow-Daybell has been declared not currently competent to stand trial in a recent court record. Vallow-Daybell underwent a competency evaluation after her “fitness to proceed was drawn into question by counsel,” according to the document. The state has contested the findings, leading the court to schedule […] More

May 27, 2021

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Chad Daybell made his first appearance in Idaho court Wednesday on three murder charges in connection with the deaths of his late wife and his new wife’s two children. Meanwhile, the mother of the two slain children, Lori Vallow Daybell, had her first appearance on murder […] More

May 27, 2021

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The mother of two kids who were found dead last year in Idaho and her new husband have been charged with murder in a grim case involving bizarre doomsday religious beliefs and two other suspicious deaths. >>>WATCH ON DEMAND: ID v. DAYBELL PRELIMINARY HEARING (2020) Lori […] More

May 26, 2021

A judge has denied Justin Ross Harris' motion for a new trial in the hot car death of his toddler son, according to official court documents. More

May 25, 2021

The father of two young children found dead in his eastern Nebraska home was charged Monday with child abuse resulting in death. More

May 18, 2021

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — The trial of a New Mexico man accused of murdering his wife and four daughters in 2016 began Tuesday. Juan David Villegas-Hernandez, 40, faces five counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths of his wife, 34-year-old Cynthia Villegas, and their four daughters: Yamilen, 14; Cynthia Janeth, 11; Abby, 7; […] More

May 14, 2021

CHARLOTTE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Joseph Daniels was back in a Dickson County courtroom Thursday, as a slew of motions are being heard just weeks before his murder trial is set to begin. Daniels is charged in the death of his missing son, Joe Clyde, who disappeared from his Dickson County, Tennessee home on April 4, […] More

May 13, 2021

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Nearly two decades after an Australian woman was convicted of killing her four children, dozens of scientists are backing the claim that they may have died of natural causes. Australian law says Kathleen Folbigg is one of the nation’s worst female serial killers who smothered her […] More

May 6, 2021

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (Scripps News Colorado Springs) — Court documents released on Monday, May 3, show Letecia Stauch requested a state attorney be appointed to her case, after waiving her right to counsel and deciding to represent herself. In the motion filed on April 28, Stauch writes that she does not want an attorney […] More

May 5, 2021

The California Supreme Court on Monday reversed the death penalty for a woman who killed her four young daughters and tried to kill her son by setting their house on fire 23 years ago. More

May 4, 2021

IDAHO  — April 23, 2021: Lori Daybell Attorney Mark Means and Chad Daybell Attorney John Prior filed multiple motions: Motion to oppose use of DNA Motion to preserve DNA samples Motion for photographic recordings of serology samples and review lab records Means also asks that prosecutor not “CC” the court on discovery-related letters, accusing Wood […] More

April 23, 2021

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A jury deliberated for less than an hour before convicting a West Virginia woman charged in the death of her 5-year-old grandson. Michelle Lynn Boggs, 49, of Lost Creek wept at the verdict finding her guilty of knowingly allowing death of a child by parent, guardian or custodian by child abuse, The […] More

April 22, 2021

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California woman who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the torture and killing of her 8-year-old son is asking a judge for a re-sentencing hearing. Pearl Sinthia Fernandez is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the 2013 murder of Gabriel Fernandez. She argues in her […] More

April 9, 2021

SEATTLE (AP) — The mother of a newborn found dead in a trash can at a convenience store in Seattle more than 23 years ago was arrested after she was identified using genetic genealogy, authorities said. The mother was 27 when the baby was born, The Seattle Times reported. The statute of limitations for manslaughter is […] More

March 15, 2021

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman accused of trying to abandon her 6-year-old son at a park, dragging him as she drove away and later dumping his body in the Ohio River was indicted Friday on charges including murder and corpse abuse. The 16 counts against Brittany Gosney, of Middletown, also include involuntary manslaughter […] More

March 5, 2021

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A 37-year-old Texas woman has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for the death of her 4-year-old son, whose body was found on a beach in Galveston in 2017. Rebecca Suzanne Rivera was sentenced Thursday following her conviction on a charge of injury to a child […] More

February 5, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The father and stepmother of an 11-year-old boy who was found dead in Northern California a year ago have been arrested in his death and are accused of torturing and poisoning the child, authorities announced Thursday. Jordan Piper, 36, and Lindsay Piper, 38, were arrested Wednesday and are facing child abuse, […] More

February 5, 2021

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma woman whose two young children wandered from their apartment and drowned has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in the case. Donisha Renee Willis, 24, agreed Monday to two child neglect charges in the May 2020 deaths of 3-year-old Miracle Crook and 21-month-old Tony Crook Jr., according to court records. The charges […] More

January 29, 2021

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — A former western Michigan college professor has been sentenced to prison for manslaughter in the death of his autistic teenage son, who drowned after spending an hour in an icy backyard pool with his arms restrained. Timothy Koets, 51, was sentenced Monday to a minimum of two years in prison […] More

January 20, 2021

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A judge in Colorado ruled Tuesday that a stepmother who is accused of killing her 11-year-old stepson is competent to stand trial. The case against Letecia Stauch, 37, will now advance to a two-day preliminary hearing where prosecutors will present evidence they say support the charges against the stepmother, The […] More

January 19, 2021

MONROE, Wis. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has admitted killing his newborn daughter and leaving her body in some woods, according to prosecutors in Green County. Logan Kruckenburg-Anderson is charged as an adult with first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. He’s being held on $1 million bail.   According to a criminal complaint, the […] More

January 15, 2021

The Doomsday Couple, Lori Vallow-Daybell and Chad Daybell, were back in court petitioning to have the lead prosecutor removed for ethics violations. (Episode 72 More

January 14, 2021

Parents Jessica and Daniel Groves were convicted and sentenced on what would've been Dylan Groves' first birthday. More

January 7, 2021