A bullet missed Brandon Boudreaux’s head by inches when a gunman opened fire on him outside his Arizona home in 2019.The failed assassination exposed a murder-for-hire plot involving Lori Vallow Daybell.Prosecutors said she recruited her brother, Alex Cox, to kill Boudreaux, who was in the midst of a contentious divorce from Vallow’s niece, Melani Pawlowski.Now, Boudreaux is telling his side of the story.On Oct.
2, 2019, Cox allegedly fired from a parked Jeep Wrangler as Boudreaux pulled his Tesla into the driveway at his Gilbert home.Boudreaux saw the vehicle’s rear window open moments before the shooter fired.
A bullet struck Boudreaux’s driver’s-side door, shattering the window.Brandon Boudreaux was shot at during a failed murder-for-hire plot involving Lori Vallow Daybell.(Courtesy of Brandon Boudreaux)ARIZONA JURY FINDS 'CULT MOM' LORI VALLOW GUILTY OF CONSPIRING TO MURDER LATE HUSBANDAlthough police identified Cox as the suspected shooter shortly after the attack, he died in December 2019 without facing charges.An Arizona jury convicted Vallow, known as the "cult mom," in June 2025 of conspiring to kill Boudreaux.
Two months earlier, another jury convicted her of conspiring to murder her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, whom Cox shot and killed in July 2019.The Arizona convictions followed Vallow’s 2023 Idaho trial.Jurors found her guilty of murdering her two children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua "JJ" Vallow, 7, and conspiring to murder Tammy Daybell, the former wife of her husband, Chad Daybell.Jurors also convicted her of grand theft for collecting her children’s Social Security benefits.Lori Vallow glances at the camera during her March 6, 2020 hearing in Rexburg, Idaho.
At her right is defense attorney Edwina Elcox.(John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, Pool)Boudreaux is telling his story in his new book, "Unthinkable." He initially wrote the book privately for his four children.
He wanted them to have a broader account of the orde...