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NEW THREAD: Joseph Murray, Emma's husband, is called to the stand. #ChadDaybell

Joseph says he and Emma have been married for seven years. They have three children, including a newborn. Prior asks how many times he and Joseph spoke or met before last night. Joseph says just once on the phone for about five minutes.

Prior asks about Oct. 9, 2019 and what Joseph was doing that day. He says in the evening, he was out chopping wood for their fireplace. He got a notification that Tammy posted in a Facebook group that someone had attempted to shoot her with a paintball gun.

Joseph went inside and Emma was calling Tammy. Joseph asked Tammy if she called law enforcement. Tammy said no, so Joseph called the police.

Joseph said in the Facebook post, Tammy said it was a paintball gun. Prior asks Joseph if he recalls what he said when he called 911.

Joseph said he told them his mother-in-law was shot at by someone with a paintball gun and the person ran away. This was based off what Tammy had told him.

Joseph says he was in the woodshed when he learned about the Facebook post. Joseph never heard a scream or yell from Tammy. He never heard a swooshing sound or rifle or anything like that. Joseph never saw anything.

Prior asks Joseph about his talk with Dep. Colter Cannon. Joseph says after calling 911, he saw Cannon in his vehicle and spoke with him.

Prior asks Joseph if he spoke with any members of the family after the incident. He says he talked to his wife. The discussion about whether it was a paintball gun or another gun was never discussed. Based off what Tammy said, Joseph understood it was a paintball gun.

Prior asks about the Dodge Dakota. He got it in December 2019 from Chad. Prior asks Joseph if he observed Chad's regular patterns of travel living kitty-corner to him. Joseph works at the hospital and said his work shift began at noon.

Joseph would often cross paths with Chad as Chad was headed to the Salem church to write around 9 a.m.

Chad also did some writing at the BYU-Idaho library, Joseph says. The majority of each day, Chad was either writing at the church or the campus, Jospeh explains. Prior asks who was the primary driver of the Dodge Dakota - Tammy or Chad. Joseph says Tammy was.

Tammy and Chad then bought a black Equinox and Tammy drove it.

Prior asks about Tammy Daybell preparing for a book fair on Friday, Oct. 18. Tammy was driving the Dodge Dakota that day. Joseph said that fall there was a major issue with potatoes freezing. Joseph was helping his friend get the potatoes in.

Joseph went and picked up Emma from school. They only had one working vehicle and Joseph wanted to help his friend. Tammy said Joseph could use the truck and Emma said she would take Tammy home.

Joseph said he needed to get Tammy's set of keys that had keys to the truck and the Equinox. He used the truck and returned it to the Daybell home. Joseph got there around 5-5:30 p.m. - early evening.

Joseph went into the house and handed Tammy the keys. She was sitting on the couch. Chad was also there.

Prior asks Joseph if he observed anything unusual when he went in to see Tammy. Joseph says earlier in the day, around 2-3 p.m. when he went to go get the truck, Tammy seemed exhausted.

"She was carrying around several scholastic school boxes that were pretty heavy," Joseph says. "She seemed exhausted and exasperated."

That evening, when he brought the keys back, Tammy was sitting on the couch and seemed "very exhausted and was coughing pretty hard." Chad was sitting at the computer desk.

Tammy was sitting up on the couch. Prior asks if she was in distress. Joseph says, "It appeared she was sick and wasn't feeling well."

The next morning, Joseph was getting ready for work. He saw a deputy vehicle outside and he was worried Garth may not have come home from work. Joseph went back inside and told Emma. Emma called Garth, Chad and Tammy but nobody answered.

Joseph and Emma started walking across the street to the house and then a deputy and Garth told them what happened. Garth was very shaken up. Joseph says when he saw Chad, he was wandering aimlessly and kept holding his head.

He kept asking, "What are we going to do? What are we doing to do?" Joseph had never seen him in that state before.

Prior asks how far away Joseph is from Chad's house. He asks who lives in the homes near Chad's house. Prior asks about raccoon problems the summer of 2019.

Joseph said raccoons were getting into the animal feed bins so a neighbor offered Joseph the use of a trap. Raccoons were caught.

Prior asks about a red shed on the Daybell property. Joseph borrowed tools from the neighbor or from Chad's red shed. Joseph explains the shed and how it was never locked.

Joseph says the red shed is about the distance from the wall behind him to where Prior is standing at the podium.

Prior asks if there are two driveways on the Daybell property. Joseph says there is a short driveway on the northwest side of the lot in front of the house. Behind the house, there is a much longer driveway.

Prior asks if there is access to the field from the long driveway. Joseph says there are two access points from the driveway to the pasture area.

Prior asks where JJ and Tylee were buried. Joseph answers. Prior asks if someone could access the burial sites from the driveway and not be visible. Joseph says that's possible.

Joseph says even after Chad was arrested, Det. Hermosillo drove by their property several times a week. Prior asks about the 5K race for September 2019. Joseph put on a race for Operation Underground Railroad. He was the lead organizer.

Tammy and their publishing company sponsored the race. Tammy was a volunteer in the race - she didn't run it, Joseph says.

Prior asks Joseph about him going to Sunday School and a lesson in church that Matt Daybell was giving. Rocky Wixom objects based on relevance. Boyce sustains.

Murray says after Chad was arrested, he got a lot of dirty looks at church and on Facebook, the deputy prosecutor for Fremont County at the time made a "pretty nasty post" about the case.

Prior wants to ask Joseph about his parents and a competition between them and Tammy. Joseph says it was a FitBit competition regarding the number of steps they got in each day.

His parents were competitive and Tammy was competitive. Jospeh says there was a family joke about Tammy shaking her arm to get more steps on her FitBit.

Joseph says her dad was losing weight and Tammy was jealous. Prior has nothing further. Boyce asks for a brief sidebar.

Larry Woodcock just walked in during the sidebar. He and Kay left for the weekend for a graduation. Kay stayed back in Louisiana as her brother Gerry is in the hospital.

Boyce says we are dismissing for the day. We will be back tomorrow. Join me tonight on 'Courtroom Insider' at 6:30 p.m. MDT. Lots to discuss!