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A month after prosecutors say Doomsday author Chad Daybell colluded with his paramour to kill her two children, he called 911 about another death—this one a little closer to home.
“I’m Chad the husband. She’s clearly dead,” Daybell is heard saying in an October 19, 2019 call to a Fremont County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher, according to EastIdahoNews. “She’s frozen.”
The startling 911 call, played in Ada County Court on Friday, began when one of Daybell’s sons called in a panic after he found his mother, Tammy Daybell, “stiff.” Daybell, a former gravedigger-turned-popular apocalyptic novelist for the Mormon audience, suddenly took the phone to declare his wife of nearly 30 years was deceased. He began to cry as he gave dispatchers his Idaho address.