The home and other buildings on Chad Daybell’s former property have been demolished

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Published astatine 4:10 pm, September 20, 2024 | Updated astatine 4:23 pm, September 20, 2024

Nate Eaton, EastIdahoNews.com

SALEM — Chad Daybell’s erstwhile location and nan outbuildings connected his Fremont County spot were demolished Friday.

SJ Healing Crossroads, a section nonprofit organization, took ownership of nan 3.75-acre batch astatine 202 North 1900 East earlier this month. Plans to region nan house, a shed and different buildings connected nan spot were instantly put successful place.

The demolition was completed by companies that volunteered their clip and instrumentality including Taylor Excavation, Tupper Excavating, Depatco, Anderson Earthworks, Double JJ Dirt Works, Tupco, POCONO Coast West, and Chad Ball Construction.

Crews began removing nan outbuildings astir 7:30 a.m. By 10:30 a.m., excavators and backhoes were tearing down nan four-bedroom, one-bathroom location and everything was vanished by 4 p.m. A character was besides removed adjacent nan spot wherever Joshua “JJ” Vallow’s assemblage was found.

Dozens of truckloads afloat of debris were taken to nan landfill arsenic neighbors and others gathered to watch nan demolition.

“I’m conscionable retired present seeing it done to nan end,” Rexburg Police Lt. Ray Hermosillo told EastIdahoNews.com. “It is simply a different emotion coming than it was June 9 and 10 for sure. It feels a batch much serene than it did that day.”

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Hermosillo was 1 of galore rule enforcement officers from aggregate agencies who discovered nan remains of Tylee Ryan and Joshua “JJ” Vallow buried connected nan spot successful June 2020. Daybell was arrested and charged pinch their murders, on pinch nan execution of his erstwhile woman Tammy Daybell. She died wrong nan location successful October 2019.

Daybell’s attorney, John Prior, took possession of nan location successful 2021. Daybell’s children continued to unrecorded successful nan location but aft he was sentenced to decease successful June, Prior listed nan spot for $350,000. A section couple, who wants to stay anonymous, created SJ Healing Crossroads and purchased nan lot.

“When you thrust by nan house, you can’t thief but deliberation astir nan calamity that happened here. Now seeing it anymore will thief group adjacent those memories and commencement nan treatment process,” Hermosillo said.

Matt and Heather Daybell, Chad Daybell’s relative and sister-in-law, stopped to watch immoderate of nan demolition. Other family members of nan victims were consulted earlier nan task began and galore successful different states watched a livestream video of nan location coming down.

SJ Healing Crossroads has not announced plans for nan spot going guardant but says nan extremity is to move it into a “positive spot wherever specified a calamity occurred.”

Daybell is connected decease statement astatine nan Idaho Maximum Security Institution successful Boise. His wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, was sentenced to life successful situation for nan murders of JJ and Tylee. She is successful Arizona awaiting proceedings connected charges of conspiracy to execution her 4th husband, Charles Vallow, and erstwhile nephew-in-law, Brandon Boudreaux.