Child Killer Chad Daybell Is Sending Shocking Letters from Death Row, with Daughter’s Help By KC Baker

Chad Daybell is sharing his innermost thoughts — from death row.

The convicted killer has started a website called Letters from Chad, featuring “uncensored and unfiltered” dispatches “from his cell on Death Row,” it says on its opening page.

Despite being found guilty in 2024 of murdering his first wife, Tammy Daybell, 49, and current wife Lori Vallow Daybell’s two children, Joshua “J.J.” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 16, he steadfastly maintains his innocence.

“I have never caused anyone’s death, and never conspired to commit such acts against anyone,” he writes in his first letter. “I share in your sadness, pain, and grief over the deaths of Tammy, Tylee and JJ. I don’t have all the answers even now, but I’m grateful a more complete story will be shared during my appeals process.”

Daybell is on death row at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna, where convicted killer Bryan Kohberger is also housed.

The former doomsday cult leader is able to get his letters out to the world with the help of his daughter, Emma Murray.

Murray, who has said she believes her father was framed, shared the letters with The U.S. Sun, saying in an email to the publication, “My father, Chad Daybell, was convicted by the state of Idaho to die. I started a page on X to share his letters and thought you might be interested.”

Posted at the end of August, Daybell wrote in his first dispatch, “Hello, my friends! This is Chad Daybell, writing to you from my cell in Idaho’s Maximum Security Institution. This is the first of several letters I will send. I want to thank everyone who sent me cards and letters while I have been incarcerated. Your kind words of support really helped me. I cherished each one!”

Noting that he started his prison sentence in June 2024, he writes, “I suppose you could say I’ve settled in. As for Death Row itself, I won’t be sharing details about my daily schedule or information about my fellow inmates. As the newest arrival on Death Row, it isn’t my place to talk about such things. It really is a different world in here, but I’m surviving, and I spend a lot of time working on my upcoming appeals.”

He says he hopes the letters will help change people’s perception of him. “I am aware of how I have been portrayed in the media,” he writes. “Frankly, those portrayals of me are unrecognizable.”

“I am not a cult member who should be feared. I am not a conspirator or a killer,” he said. “I never have been.”

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While he says he realizes many people “will never change their negative opinion of me,” he writes, “all I can hope for is that these letters can begin to generate feelings of healing, reconciliation, and understanding.”