In the months before Chad Daybell allegedly conspired with Lori Vallow to murder her two children and his first wife—before jetting off to Hawaii to get married—the doomsday author kept the romance alive in a series of steamy text messages.
“The intensity of each encounter on my mind. Each one greater than the last,” Daybell wrote to Vallow in an Aug. 9, 2019, text, followed by three flame emojis. “We were definitely in new territory in your bedroom.”
The texts were shown at Daybell’s murder trial in Idaho on Monday as context for how the couple’s relationship developed after they met at an October 2018 religious conference
