Chad Daybell Starts Website | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 09.20.25
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline
4.2 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Breaking crime news as it happens throughout the day! Follow "Crime Alert Hourly Update" now on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/Crime_Alert
Here's some of our top stories this week:
Authorities conduct a search of a residence belonging to artist D4vid in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles. It's part of an ongoing investigation into the discovery of a teen girl's remainsin one of his vehicles.
Convicted murderer Chad Daybell takes a page out of Chris Watts’ play book, sharing his innermost thoughts through letters from death row. He’s started a website called Letters from Chad.
A Pennsylvania father is accused of setting a gasoline-fueled fire that killed his daughter and left his wife badly burned.
A steakhouse staff is accused of dumping a dying diner outside into their parking lot - because they thought he was a homeless man...instead of calling 911 for help.
Stay informed, stay safe, and stay ahead with "Crime Alert Hourly Update.”
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Crime Alert, hourly update. |
| 0:06.7 | Breaking Crime News now. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Jackie Howard. |
| 0:09.2 | Convicted murderer Chad Daybill takes a page out of Chris Watt's playbook, sharing |
| 0:14.1 | his innermost thoughts through letters from Death Row. |
| 0:17.6 | He's started a website called Letters from Chad. It features uncensored and unfiltered content |
| 0:24.1 | to share with the world with the help of his daughter, Emma Murray. She has said she believes her |
| 0:30.2 | father was framed. Daybell found guilty in 2024 of murdering his first wife Tammy 49 and current wife Lori Vallow DeBell's two children, |
| 0:41.8 | Joshua J.J. Valo, 7, entirely Ryan, 16. He continues to profess his innocence. In his first letter, |
| 0:50.8 | DeBell writes, quote, I have never caused anyone's death and never conspired to commit such acts against anyone. I share in your sadness, pain, and grief over the deaths of Tammy, Tiley, and JJ. I don't have all of the answers even now, but I'm grateful a more complete story will be shared during my appeals process, unquote. |
| 1:14.4 | Daybell is on death row at the Idaho Maximum Security Institute in Kuna, where a convicted killer |
| 1:20.8 | Brian Coburger is also housed. From there, Daybell has thanked those who have sent him cards and |
| 1:26.8 | letters saying, |
| 1:28.3 | Your kind words of support really helped me. I cherished each one. |
| 1:32.5 | He writes, I suppose you could say I've settled in. |
| 1:35.9 | It really is a different world in here, but I'm surviving. |
| 1:39.7 | And I spend a lot of time working on my upcoming appeals. |
| 1:46.1 | Daybill says he hopes the letters will help change people's perception of him, saying he is not a conspirator or killer and never has |
| 1:53.1 | been. More crime and justice news after this. I'm Nicole Parton on Wednesday night. |
| 2:03.6 | Authorities conducted a search of a residence in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles |
| 2:08.4 | as part of an ongoing investigation into the discovery of human remains belonging to a missing teenage girl. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.