The Book of Daybell | Part 5: A Bullet for Her Husband

Lori Vallow Daybell's niece, Melani Pawlowski, was in the middle of a divorce when a bullet shattered her husband Brandon Boudreaux's car window outside his Gilbert, Arizona, home in October 2019. Days earlier, she had spent a weekend at Lori's apartment in Idaho, where she testified she never saw JJ or Tylee, and both children were already dead. In Part 5 of The Book of Daybell, I put her police interview next to her own testimony. The detective wrote that she said she'd last seen Lori and Alex Cox about two weeks before, but she had flown home from Lori's apartment four days earlier. He also wrote that she wouldn't give him Lori's or Alex's phone numbers. Melani has never been charged in the shooting and maintains her innocence. In October 2026, the county attorney said she's open to reviewing the case if Gilbert police take another look.

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