Lori Vallow's 35-Minute Call to Her Niece Is Still a Mystery

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Oct 27, 2026 · 18m

In the hour around the October 2019 shot at Brandon Boudreaux's Tesla, Lori Vallow Daybell's phone was on a 35-minute call to her niece Melani's, according to FBI testimony. Melani was Brandon's wife at the time. She has never been charged and says she had no part in it, but Lori's prosecutor told jurors in 2025 she was one of the four people in the plot. Robin Dreeke and I go through the address Melani asked for two weeks earlier, the park handoff that morning, and the Gilbert detective's email asking if Melani had any financial gain from Brandon's death. At Lori's trial, the prosecutor said…