1-on-1 with Lori Vallow Daybell’s surviving victim
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PHOENIX — On Friday, “Doomsday Mom” and convicted killer Lori Vallow Daybell will be sentenced in Arizona for two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
One of those counts is for the attempted killing of her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux. He’s the only living victim from all of the cases, or as he calls himself, a survivor.
He plans to speak at the sentencing.
The plot to kill him involved Lori’s brother, who shot at Boudreaux back in October 2019. The bullet narrowly missed his head.
Boudreaux was key in all of Lori’s convictions, working with investigators for nearly six years on all the other murder cases.
She’s already been sentenced to life in prison in Idaho for the murders of her children, Tylee and JJ, and for her role in the death of Tammy Daybell, her current husband Chad Daybell’s first wife.
She was also convicted in Arizona for conspiring to kill her former husband, Charles Vallow, who died in 2019. Lori Vallow Daybell will be sentenced in that case on Friday, too.
“The side effect of going through something so crazy and having so many people get hurt and killed, and you know attempted murders, is that, like you don’t know who you can trust,” Boudreaux said. “Even amongst the people who you think you should be able to trust.”
Boudreaux used to be married to Lori’s niece, and they were going through a divorce at the time of the shooting. Lori represented herself at trial and got to question Boudreaux on the stand.
“It was uncomfortable,” Boudreaux said. “I didn’t enjoy it. I wouldn’t want to do it again, but it was the right thing to do at the time.”
At the core of the crimes are extreme doomsday religious beliefs, including Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell rating people light or dark and calling victims zombies before they died.
“What was it like for you to uncover or learn about some of those beliefs?” asked the I-Team’s Erica Stapleton.
“Probably just like it is for everybody else,” Boudreaux said. “Shocking. Weird. Bizarre. Doesn’t really connect. Doesn’t make doesn’t make sense to me. Personally, it’s not something I would believe.”
Chad Daybell was sentenced to death in Idaho, but was not charged in Arizona. Lori Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, died before charges were filed.
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