What Melani Pawlowski Wanted a Week After Lori Vallow Was Arrested

In the second part of our panel on Melani Pawlowski, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI behavior chief Robin Dreeke go inside the months she spent living next door to her aunt Lori Vallow in Rexburg, Idaho. Melani testified she was taught some people carried a darkness that couldn't be cast out and would end up killing them. Brandon Boudreaux testified she asked for a divorce after saying God told her he was gay. On a recorded call after Alex Cox's death, she told Lori she wanted Brandon to stay afraid of Alex. A memo attributed to her new husband, Ian, says she feared JJ and Tylee "needed to die." Around the same time, by her own account, Alex stood as a witness at her wedding. Melani has never been charged in the shooting at Brandon and denies any part in it. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LoriVallow #MelaniPawlowski #HiddenKillers #MelaniBoudreaux #ChadDaybell #ShavaunScott #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #BrandonBoudreaux #TrueCrimeCommunity

Melani Pawlowski, then Melani Boudreaux, was Lori Vallow's niece and a mother of four in Gilbert, Arizona, when Lori started pulling her into the world she shared with Chad Daybell. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott and retired FBI behavior chief Robin Dreeke join me for the first part of a three-part panel on how it happened. Lori was the one who told Melani her mother had died when Melani was a child, and Brandon Boudreaux testified Lori became a mother figure to her. Melani met Chad in November 2018 and testified she'd heard he had a gift for seeing light and dark in people. Brandon says she shut him out of the firesides and wanted a huge food-storage purchase at once. This part covers how the pull began and the small signs that come first. Melani has never been charged in the shooting at Brandon and denies any part in it. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LoriVallow #MelaniPawlowski #HiddenKillers #MelaniBoudreaux #ChadDaybell #ShavaunScott #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #BrandonBoudreaux #TrueCrimeCommunity

Lori Vallow Daybell's niece Melani has never been charged in the October 2019 shooting at her then-husband, Brandon Boudreaux, and says she knew nothing. FBI testimony puts her phone on a 35-minute call with Lori's in the hour around the shot, and a filing attributed to Ian Pawlowski says she believed Brandon had to die for the Lord's plan. Robin Dreeke and I set her story beside two more. Gypsy Rose says she's 100 percent certain Ken Urker's death wasn't suicide, three weeks after saying she didn't know. And in the Matthew Farwell trial, Sandra Birchmore's therapist testified Sandra feared something would happen in her apartment the day before she died, while the defense argued suicide. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LoriVallow #MelaniPawlowski #LoriVallowDaybell #GypsyRose #SandraBirchmore #KenUrker #MatthewFarwell #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity

Melani Pawlowski called Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell "Mom and Dad," she testified at Chad's 2024 trial. Robin Dreeke and I ask how deep that went. A document attributed to Ian Pawlowski, filed in Brandon Boudreaux's custody case in 2020, says Melani believed Brandon needed to die as part of the Lord's plan, and didn't expect anyone to act. Their lawyer said she didn't believe the religious ideas she passed along. After the October 2019 shot, she told Gilbert police she knew nothing and refused to share Lori's or Alex Cox's phone numbers. Weeks later, Lori kept giving her different answers about where JJ and Tylee were. On a call Ian recorded after Cox's death, Melani told Lori she wanted Brandon to stay afraid. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LoriVallow #MelaniPawlowski #LoriVallowDaybell #BrandonBoudreaux #ChadDaybell #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #GilbertArizona #TrueCrimeCommunity #JusticeForBrandon

An FBI agent testified that on September 25th, 2019, while Alex Cox's phone sat at the Idaho Falls Walmart where a burner was bought, Lori Vallow's phone took a call from her niece Melani's. Weeks later, in the hour around the shot at Brandon Boudreaux in Gilbert, Arizona, Lori's phone was on a 35-minute call to Melani's. Melani, Brandon's wife at the time, has never been charged and denies any role, though Lori's prosecutor told the 2025 jury she was in on it. Robin Dreeke and I look at the address, the morning handoff, the missing money motive, and the 2021 case Gilbert police sent prosecutors on Lori and Chad that left Melani out. The county attorney says she'd review it if Gilbert takes another look. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LoriVallow #MelaniPawlowski #LoriVallowDaybell #BrandonBoudreaux #ChadDaybell #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime #GilbertArizona #TrueCrimeCommunity #JusticeForBrandon