The night before Tammy Daybell was found dead in her Idaho bedroom in October 2019, the doomsday novelist’s wife told her son that all she wanted was her favorite meal and some rest.

“She said, ‘I don’t feel good today; I don't want to cook. Can you go get some McDonald’s for us?’” Garth Daybell testified on Monday at the trial of his father, Chad Daybell, who is accused of murdering Tammy and his lover’s two children.

Garth Daybell said he made the McDonald’s run—making sure to get his mom a quarter-pounder with cheese—then left the house a few hours later for his night shift at a local haunted house.

When he got home around 1 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2019, he heard only Chad Daybell “snoring” when he fell asleep two hours later. He woke early the next morning to his father demanding he come to his bedroom—where his mother was on the floor, her feet tangled in the bedsheets.

“I felt she was cold, stiff........

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