Theres so much confusion out there, and this is what we want. Eaton: Do you think theyre safe? Thats just the terminology I see that as. He is the ex-husband of Vallow's niece, Melani Pawlowski. Were learning continually and everythings changing. Eaton: For the casual reader seeing this, there is some shocking stuff in there. She had her first child, Colby, in 1996. She also allegedly asked Melanie Gibb to tell police that 7-year-old JJ Vallow was with her in Arizona, even though he was not. Melani & Brandon's divorce was finalized in November right after Melani was arrested TWICE for trespassing on Brandon's parents property. So things came out when I talked with the FBI in a way that (I) shouldnt have. Same thing with my ex-wife. Melani: Absolutely. The proof comes from Ian's ex-wife Natalie in an email from Dec-2019 that she sent to Brandon asking for help. Eaton: Where do you guys think JJ and Tylee are? Its these patterns of narcissism where everythings fine until you start asking questions. The Jeep driven by Cox made it back to Rexburg around 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 3, 2019. Your intent was to protect your family and helps solve the case of the missing kids. All rights reserved, If you choose local pickup, please get your gift certificate at our office at 400 W. Sunnyside in Idaho Falls Dismiss, UPDATE: Roads closed after building collapse in Lava Hot Springs, School closures and delays for Wednesday, March 1, After his death was ruled a suicide, a Blackfoot mans family is left with more questions than answers, Push to require clergy to report abuse stalls in Latter-day Saint-dominated Utah, Locals worried Roberts boil order came too late. Cox then drove back to Idaho. I admire Tylee so much for how brave she was. But the most disappointing thing was when we had a family custody hearing finally for the Boudreaux case with my children, Brandon didnt show up. Remember, just 3 days before these weddings took place, Chad, Lori & Alex fled Idaho. I was getting my home ready and was going to figure out whats going on with my kids and get them back here. [conspiratorial whisper] They cannot arrest a husband and wife for the same crime! These two must have critical information. On Oct. 2, 2019, Cox's phone searched for directions to Boudreaux's address shortly after 7 a.m. Cox then drove to the address in the Jeep and stayed outside of Boudreaux's home until 9:17 a.m. Police reports show during that time, Chad Daybell and Cox communicated multiple times using their burner phones. Correction: An earlier version of this story reported, based on the court documents, that Melanie Pawlowski visited both Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow in Hawaii in October. It has been lightly edited for clarity. But they split two years ago. Chad has said that they are safe. Eaton: Melani, why cant you ask her where the kids are? Law enforcement should really press these two for information. Everything looks suspicious. Charles, I feel, took that to an extreme with the things that he said about her. They love being with Melani. Eaton: Can you understand how that looks suspicious though? Eaton: And thats when they said the kids are missing? The way these things are worded, it sounds terrifying, and theyre stemming from bits of truth that we talk about in our religion. Then right before Thanksgiving, were driving down to Arizona to meet Ians family and have Thanksgiving, and I get a text from (Rexburg Police) Lt. Ball that says, Somebodys broken into your home. We drove up that first week in November with a moving truck. I didnt know Ian was recording all these things and that he was talking to Natalie or Brandon. I had one extra bedroom and so we spent most time at my apartment. So everything seemed really off at that point. Alex would come over and hang out with me. These are the facts.. Eaton: Then you moved up in November. Her ex-husband and my ex-wife are taking advantage of this case and going with it to keep our children away from us. It had to be your mom. -, What's coming and going on Netflix in March, As gender-based violence rises, these professors ask Utahns to advocate for change. Were allowed to discern truth from error and just learn and in our church. The next level is that they know that Lori had a basis and a belief that she needed to take steps to protect her kids. Idaho judge SLASHES Lori Vallows bail as children remain missing; will Doomsday mom walk out of jail today? Youre crazy. Lori and Chad had left probably right around when I was going down to Arizona. Is this a bad person? Never is there ever any ill intent if somebody is not making good choices in their life to do harm to them. Its just these patterns, and you just cant make this stuff up. I cant ask that question to her. Eaton: There are going to be people that say when they get together with relatives, the talk instantly turns to our kids soccer games, piano recitals, whatever. What are Ian & Zulemas role in this mess? In a Dateline episode devoted to the bizarre disappearances of Vallow's children Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow, Vallow's niece Melanie Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) sat down with her new husband Ian Pawkowski [] She married Ian Pawlowski last November and lived next door to Daybell in Rexburg during the time her children were missing. And Lori wasnt telling everyone in our family that Charles had been cheating on her. Thank you for hearing us. In a preview clip, she says that both Lori and Chad were equally destructive characterizing their dynamic as gasoline and fire but also says Daybell appeared to be in control. Chad and Lori Daybell, are already charged with multiple crimes, including conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder. But if I had to guess, Lori & Chad "arranged" the marriages. They dont think she did anything to the kids. I remember you saying how Brandon Boudreaux has claimed that I have a million dollars of reasons to shoot at him or kill him or get money for a cult. They both became very upset. In late November, when police came to Vallows home in Rexburg, Idaho, to perform a requested wellness check, they discovered the children were missing. Ian is. Wow Shyannedawn! 6 records for Melanie Pawlowski. Find Melanie Pawlowski's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. You can even see at the end of the document Im still questioning why in the world do we not know where the kids are. Boudreaux said he saw the muzzle of a gun pointed toward him and the gun was fired. Law enforcement later revealed to Boudreaux that Melani had remarried Rexburg resident Ian Pawlowski just weeks after leaving Arizona and that she was pregnant with Pawlowski's child, Fox 10. She knows they know that she doesnt trust the system. Im newly married, and Im sharing these things with him and cant sleep some nights. The third thing is that they had experienced in Loris life this notion that she has a substantial distrust of the system because of its failure in her ability to protect her own kids. In October 2019, Melani moves to Rexburg Idaho and meets Ian Pawlowski on an app called Mutual. I dont know if what we shared acted as a catalyst for that. And Tylee thought it was hard being in the house after that situation happened. Lori Vallow allegedly told a close friend that her two children had become "zombies," and that she was on a religious mission with her husband, Chad Daybell, "to rid the world of 'zombies'" months before the bodies of the missing kids were discovered buried on Daybell's Idaho property, a newly-unsealed probable cause affidavit states. MELANI REMARRIED: Fox 10 obtained marriage cert for Melani Boudreaux (Lori Vallow's niece) & Ian Pawlowski (11/30). Lori Vallow'schildren,Joshua "JJ" Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17, havebeen missing from Rexburg, Idaho, since September,sparking anationwide manhunt and international interest including in Arizona, where they previously lived for years. In an upcoming interview on Dateline, friend Melanie Gibb describes Vallow and Daybells relationship as gasoline and fire. Those days were hard and teary missing my kids, and he would come over and lift me up. BrandonbelievedMelani conspired to kill him before their divorce finalized "to cash in" on a policy"to helpsupport the cult that she is believed to be part of," according to the court documents. "So, she got pregnant with Tylee right away, and she was really excited about having Tylee." "Mother is involved in a cult where numerous members, adults and children alike have been being killed off like flies," the documents state. only for your personal, non-commercial use. But do you think theyre safe in a bunker somewhere? We want everything to be heard, and I think everything will eventually unravel as we see it continuing to move forward. They claimed Brandon wasacting in retaliation and "carried through with his threats by lying in his court documents" as an effort to get full custody of their children. But a lot of members look at the writings and have never heard a lot of this stuff. Melani Pawlowski was accused by her ex-husband of knowing the whereabouts of Lori Vallow's two children yet failing to cooperate with authorities. You can watch and read the first part of our interview here. Based on evidence obtained during the investigation, police believe Alex Cox, Lori Daybell's brother and Pawlowski's uncle, drove a green Jeep Wrangler from Rexburg, Idaho, fired a single shot at Boudreaux and missed. I think the reason for the 7/22/20 "deadline" was to hasten the removal of Tammy and Charles. I said, I dont know that, Brandon. And hes like, If you ever want to see your kids again, you have to go and tell them that.. EastIdahoNews.com, LLC. Eaton: Did you visit Lori in Rexburg before you moved there? Ian's personal network of family, friends, associates & neighbors . Northern lights provide a trippy show over Alaska's Glacier Bay, Man with history of speeding charged in fatal motorcycle-pedestrian crash, Legislature passes bill requiring police to perform lethality assessment for domestic violence calls, Zero-emission trains built in Utah promise a cleaner future Melani was the primary caretaker of her four kids for 10 years and never did anything at all to harm them. My dad Shannon Hunter was married to Zulema before her and alex got married zulema was married to my dad for four years from 2007-2011 and she was crazy she left by stealing $10,000 From my dad and half the stuff in the house . Brandon was so sure, but his story kept changing. People arent seeing the whole picture of things. Chad and Lori apparently told you, Melani, that JJ and Tylee had been possessed and become zombies, that Alex may have to take care of the kids, he had great faith and never wavered in his trust of the Lord. Can you understand these writings are alarming, concerning and suspicious on all counts? Im going to record your conversations, try to get from point A to point B, get this thing wrapped up and over with so I can move on with my life and my new wife.. Or were you telling Ian just to get it off your chest with the assumption you didnt know what to think? The major players and timeline in the disappearance of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan. In this Feb. 27, 2020 photo Melani Pawlowski is shown outside a courthouse in Mesa, Ariz. I didnt know where theyre at, I didnt know what was going on and I didnt understand these things. Theres no cult. But in the same interview Gibb also described a visit to the BYU Idaho campus with Chad and Lori, saying that they were publicly affectionate with each other as they walked campus grounds, even though Chad was still married (his wife Tammy Daybell died on October 19.) Doesnt marriage exempt you from having to testify against a spouse? Nate Eaton, EastIdahoNews.com: When is the last time you saw JJ and Tylee? Meteorological winter brought Utah heavy snowfall. Brandon went and ran with that story to his advantage. Ian marries Lori's niece in Las Vegas within 24 hours of Alex Cox suddenly marring Zulema Pastenes. She then got married to Ian Pawlowski in the same year after dating for just two weeks. Charles sold life insurance and had his own company, and the texts between people it almost looked like a setup. Ian, along . But as Ive gotten to know Summer and Janis and heard more about Loris life and the experiences shes gone through, Im starting to see maybe there is some reasoning behind whats going on. Ian, can you explain the background about how this document came to be? Ive described it like a Treehouse of Horrors episode of The Simpsons for Halloween. I get a phone call from one of Loris old friends, and she scares me with a lot of, I think this happened, or this could have happened, and Im having every what-if, because I didnt see them the whole time I was up there in November. On that same day, Cox visited Lori Daybell's apartment and received a phone call from a burner phone belonging to Chad Daybell, according to the documents. Latest Videos. The fight is being waged between Melani Pawlowski and Brandon Boudreaux, an Arizona couple who were married with four children until things started to get very strange in the summer of 2019. Depending on how you shine the light, there are facts, but depending on how you shine the flashlight, the facts look different. As the investigation unfolded, police seized the Jeep in Rexburg. Facebook gives people the. Investigators also say Chad Daybell's first wife, Tammy Daybell, was killed in October 2019. In this special report with Filippo Di Giovanni, Strategic Marketing, Power Transistor sub-Group, STMicroelectronics, Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio will discuss the . minutes. 217-825-6069 Faiga Seitzer. The children are missing from Rexburg and were last seen in September, 2019. Zulema lists herself as a touch expert and cuddling expert. Garrett Smith, attorney: Hang on a second. Michael: Why didn't you just put me in charge? Wide bandgap semiconductors provide higher performance compared to silicon. I know youre just reporting what you hear and whats given to you. And I was just there for love and support, and I just wanted to be there to help you guys (Lori). Joseph Ryan was found dead April 5, 2018, inbed at his Gilbert home,according to a report from theMaricopa County Medical Examiner's Office. Loris mom, Janis, put it really well. The kids arent missing to Lori. 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