Det. Ray Hermosillo testifies at Chad Daybell's preliminary hearing

ST. ANTHONY — The case against Chad Daybell has been bound over to District Court and he is scheduled to go before Judge Steven Boyce for an arraignment on Friday, Aug. 21.

After a two-day preliminary hearing in Fremont County, Magistrate Judge Faren Eddins determined there is sufficient cause that Daybell likely committed two felony counts of conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence, and two felony counts of destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence
Over a dozen witnesses were called Monday and Tuesday, including FBI agents, Rexburg and Fremont County detectives, the BYU-Idaho Dean of Student and two of Daybell’s close friends. They received questions from Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Spencer Rammell, special prosecutors in the case, before being cross-examined by John Prior, Daybell’s attorney.

Daybell showed little emotion during the hours of testimony but Larry and Kay Woodcock, the grandparents of Joshua “JJ” Vallow, were visibly upset as investigators described gruesome details about the condition of their grandson when he was found buried with his sister, Tylee Ryan, on Daybell’s property.

Once Daybell is arraigned in District Court, a jury trial will eventually be scheduled. His wife, Lori Daybell, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Fremont County on Monday, Aug. 10. She faces two felony charges of conspiracy to commit destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence and remains in the Madison County
Jail on $1 million bail.