The Brandon Boudreaux episode was the eighth Dateline episode on the Lori Vallow Daybell saga.
“this was number eight, and I think every time for the last, what, two years”
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Shane Bishop
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Brandon Boudreaux wrote a book called Unthinkable and sent a copy to producer Shane Bishop.
“he wrote a book called Unthinkable, so he sent me that book a few months ago.”
Brandon Boudreaux married Melanie, the niece of Lori Vallow, in 2008.
“Brandon married, uh, Lori Vallow's niece, Melanie, in 2008.”
Melanie's mother Stacy died when Melanie was young, and Lori Vallow acted as a surrogate mother to her.
“Melanie's mom, Stacy, had died when she was young, so Lori was kind of a surrogate mom.”
Lori Vallow was married to her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, for roughly a dozen years.
“Lori was married to her 4th husband, Charles Vallow, and had been for a dozen years or so”
Melanie and Brandon Boudreaux had been married for more than ten years and had four children when the events began.
“Melanie and Brandon had been married for more than ten years, they had four kids”
Chad Daybell told Lori Vallow that the two of them had been married in previous lives.
“He told Lori that they had been married in previous lives”
Dateline's interview with Melanie took place about three months before the children's bodies were found, while she still claimed hope that they were alive.
“It was three months before the kids bodies were found, so she was still, you know, claiming to have hope that the kids were alive”
The deaths of JJ and Tylee were confirmed in June 2020.
“I got the feeling that he was pretty sure they were gone by the time it was confirmed in June of 2020.”
Brandon Boudreaux identified JJ's body in Rexburg because JJ's grandfather Larry Woodcock had vertigo and trouble standing.
“Larry had vertigo and he was having trouble standing up. And they needed somebody to go identify the JJ's body.”
A custody evaluator recommended a 50/50 custody split between Brandon and Melanie after she asked for reconsideration of his temporary sole custody.
“a custody evaluator came back and said, I recommend fifty fifty.”
Brandon Boudreaux's parents were on a church mission in Montreal and so did not appear in the Dateline story.
“his mom and dad would've been great, too, but they were on a mission, uh, a church mission up in Montreal”