Did Chad Daybell Kill Anyone? Breaking Down Prison Letters, Evidence & Tammy’s Final Days
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful extended segment of Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels tackle one of the biggest questions in the Daybell case: Did Chad actually commit the murders, or was he just complicit?
The team debates whether Lori Vallow and Alex Cox were the true hands behind the killings while Chad acted as the enabling bystander. They revisit the evidence: cell phone pings, asphyxiation findings from Tammy Daybell’s exhumation, and the suspicious burial of the children on Chad’s property. Could Chad really have been so blind, or was he more deeply involved than the letters suggest?
The discussion then flows into Letter Three, where Chad gives his sanitized account of Tammy’s declining health and eventual death. He describes fainting spells, bloating, dizziness, and her refusal to seek medical care — portraying himself as a concerned husband. The hosts cut through the fiction, pointing out how convenient it is for Chad to frame Tammy’s death as “natural” when the autopsy showed signs of asphyxiation.
With personal insights on menopause, medical neglect, and the frustrations of being gaslit by doctors, the conversation goes deeper than court transcripts — exposing how Chad mixes truth with fiction to rewrite the past.
This segment doesn’t just question Chad’s role in the murders. It shines a light on how abusers and manipulators twist narratives, even after conviction, to avoid accountability.
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| 0:29.5 | A better help ad. |
| 0:31.5 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:36.8 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:42.2 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:46.6 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:51.0 | I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:54.8 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:58.5 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 1:07.0 | Like he's not living in the real world, which we've known for a long time. |
| 1:10.1 | But to pull this out to make him sound human is just like, what the hell? |
| 1:16.0 | You know, that they would sit there and blast music just like, you know, a loving couple would do. |
| 1:21.8 | Well, they were together for a long time before Lori entered the picture. |
| 1:25.7 | So, I mean, it's not like they sat there and he was like plotting to kill her for 15 or 12, however long they were together. They were together for a long time before Laurie entered the picture. So, I mean, it's not like they sat there and he was like plotting to kill her for 15 or however long they were together. They were together for a long time. So, I mean, I could see there being, you know, a good point in the relationship before everything went to hell and Lori gets involved where they're jamming out to Depeche mode, Oingo, Boingo, B-52s, and keen um whitney comes up in one of the next letters |
| 1:46.5 | by the way i can't play any whitney i'm assuming right what's that we can't play any |
| 1:53.0 | no we don't want to do that we'll get flagged and damn it um but i can sing it i can if anyone |
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