PHOENIX — In Phoenix, a jury has found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of plotting to murder her niece’s former husband in 2019. This marks her second conviction for murder conspiracy in Arizona within a span of less than two months.
On Thursday, Daybell was found guilty of conspiring to kill Brandon Boudreaux, who was previously married to her niece, outside his residence in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert.
In late April, an Arizona jury also convicted Daybell of collaborating with her brother, Alex Cox, to murder her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, in 2019 at her residence in Chandler, another suburb of Phoenix.
The mother with doomsday religious beliefs has already been sentenced in Idaho to life in prison for killing her two youngest children and engaging in a plot to kill a romantic rival.
She is scheduled to be sentenced in both Arizona cases on July 25. Each conviction carries a life sentence.
Boudreaux said his ex-wife, Melani Pawlowski, aspired to be like her aunt Lori and that the two began attending religious meetings together in 2018, and soon Pawlowski was arguing that they should stockpile food for the end of the world.
In October 2019, someone in a Jeep outside Boudreaux’s home fired a rifle shot at him, missing him but shattering a window on his car.
Boudreaux recognized the Jeep as the vehicle that Vallow’s daughter, Tylee Ryan, regularly drove before her death.
Vallow Daybell isn’t an attorney but chose to defend herself at both trials in Arizona.
