Bryan Kohberger Is Imprisoned With Lori Vallow's Husband Chad Daybell

Bryan Kohberger is behind bars in the same prison as Chad Daybell, who is “Doomsday Mom” Lori Vallow’s husband.

Us Weekly confirmed earlier this month that Kohberger was transferred to the Idaho Maximum Security Institution inside the Idaho State Correctional Complex in Kuna, Idaho, after being sentenced to life in prison.

Kohberger received four life sentences without the possibility of parole on July 23, more than two years after he broke into a house located at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, on November 13, 2022, and murdered college students Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Police documents released after Kohberger’s sentencing revealed that he stabbed Kernodle more than 50 times (she had visible defense wounds) and Goncalves over 20 times to the point where she was “unrecognizable.”

Kohberger’s sentence was part of a deal in which he agreed to plead guilty to four counts of first-degree murder, removing the possibility of the death penalty, which was a possibility had the case gone to trial.

The Idaho Maximum Security Institution is the state’s only maximum security prison, which has a capacity of 535 inmates. The prison, which has been open since November 1989, “houses Idaho’s most dangerous and volatile male residents” and was on the list of 15 Worst Prisons in America published by Security Journal Americas in 2024. It was previously reported that there have been “violent brawls, feces-covered recreation ‘cages’ and a dirty ventilation system described as being ‘biohazard’” in the prison.

Along with Kohberger, the prison holds serial killer Thomas Creech (whose lethal injection was botched in 2024) and Gerald Pizzuto (who is currently awaiting execution).

True crime aficionados, however, are more interested in Kohberger and Daybell, 56, being kept in the same prison. Chad was convicted of first-degree murder of his first wife, Tammy Daybell, and Lori’s kids Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 13. He was sentenced to death in June 2024.

Chad was a doomsday author who claimed to have visions of the apocalypse. Lori eventually adopted his beliefs, and the two became publicly referenced as part of a “doomsday cult.” JJ and Tylee disappeared in September 2019, and their remains were found buried in June 2020 in a property owned by Chad. The murder of Lori’s ex-husband Charles Vallow also became part of the case, along with an attempted murder on Lori’s nephew-in-law Brandon Boudreaux.

Lori has been sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for her involvement in the murders of her children, Tammy and Charles plus the attempted murder of Boudreaux.