Overview
- Bailey was sentenced to two consecutive 25-years-to-life prison terms plus a consecutive term of up to five years for aggravated assault, with the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole to decide any eventual release.
- She pleaded guilty in November to two counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated assault in the June 2024 case.
- According to police and court records, Gail Bailey was shot four times and Joseph Bailey twice in the head, and Bailey then fired through a closed bedroom door at a brother who had barricaded himself inside.
- In a statement read by her attorney at sentencing, Bailey said she had converted to Islam and asserted that death would be appropriate atonement for the killings.
- Defense counsel detailed multiple psychiatric diagnoses and a recent hospital discharge shortly before the murders, while two brothers urged lengthy confinement and one alleged hormone treatment during crisis worsened instability.