Cult mom Lori Vallow wanted him dead now he gets the last word 7 years later

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.Although 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.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 ordeal and understand his decisions.“I’m sure I made some mistakes,” Boudreaux told Fox News Digital.

“If they need some closure, if they need to understand better… my goal was to give them all the information.”He also hoped to demonstrate how his faith anchored him, while giving his children the freedom to choose their own spiritual path.“I want them to understand their ...