Melani: But the most disappointing thing was when we had a family custody hearing finally for the Boudreaux case with my children, Brandon didn’t show up. I don’t know where he was. And later on, seeing him on TV a few days later in the front row at Lori’s hearing, waiting to see if they can keep her in jail longer and not reduce her bail, that’s upsetting. Where were my kids during then and why is he leaving them? And why are they not the focus of his life?
Wait didn’t she skip out on her custody hearing too?? Doesn’t seem like she wanted to fight for her kids at the time.
Agree--they are not looking at each other but, I believe, instead are looking at the 2 attorneys in the room as I think the attorneys were sliding them notes of what to say, what not to say and it appeared to me that IP was watching one of them the whole time.They way they look at each other as the other is talking is creepy, it looks like they may have been told to do this and also notice how they never look at each other at the same time and make eye contact, Something just seems off to me, there is no chemistry.
One more from @tresir2012 excellent summary of Part 2 with Nate
"I’ve always seen that in her since I was a teenager, and she flew me out to go nanny for Tylee and JJ"
Melani was born in 1989.
Melani Pawlowski, Lori Vallow’s Niece: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
JJ was born in 2012 when Melani was 23
Disappearance of Tylee Ryan and J. J. Vallow - Wikipedia
JMO but I don't think they got married because she is PG...I mean, she might be, I don't know, but that is NOT the reason for the quick wedding.If MP is pregnant i wonder what her due date is, it could be one way to explain the quick marriage if they got freaky before they were supposed to if you know what i mean.
Eaton: Melani, did you actually believe these things that Lori and Chad told you? Or were you telling Ian just to get it off your chest with the assumption you didn’t know what to think?
Melani: Lori and Chad did not tell me most of those things in the document. Those were fears I was hearing from other people, and never did I believe them.
Maybe she didn’t come up with her story to share. Maybe she was fed a story to spin a different narrative so others start to doubt which side to believe. Just thinking out loud here. All jmoI don’t think this is necessarily a misdirect as much as it is Melani being her normal uber naive trusting gullible self, but does she realize she doesn’t make any sense even right now ?? Charles’ computer is ‘covered’ with pictures of other women; yet ‘Charles worshipped Lori.’ Doesn’t multiple affairs strike you as the opposite of a worshiping spouse??
No one is going to convince me that the two Las Vegas marriages weren't an attempt to run/hide and conceal identity, 2 days after the FBI raided the apartments.
Why did Brandon have to hire a PI to track/locate Melani? What was she running from?
Why did Melani not attend court for her children's custody hearing?
Why did Melani want to hide her name from Natalie?
Why did IP text NP saying "they" told Melani they made the attempt on Brandon and failed, and he understands why Brandon doesn't want Melani to have the children?
Why was Melani isolating Ian, driving him to work, and not letting him talk to his family right after she married him?
Why did IP tell Natalie to look up the names of Alex and Chad? What did he think they had done?
Why did Chad and Lori tell IP after knowing him for two weeks (they were in Hawaii first two weeks of Nov), before Melani told him about zombies, possibly murdered children and the attempt on Brandon's life on their wedding night, that he would be "taking the reins concerning care of Melani" when clearly they fled before Thanksgiving and couldn't have known Ian and Melani would decide on a whim to get married over Thanksgiving?
Why did Ian not invite Melani to Thanksgiving before he left, if they all knew the plan was Chad and Lori would be taking off?
JMO but I don't think they got married because she is PG...I mean, she might be, I don't know, but that is NOT the reason for the quick wedding.
**NOTE-- Melani wedding and Alex Wedding both THANKSGIVING WEEKEND. Not really important but I guess, in my world, my family wouldn't just go rush out on Thanksgiving weekend to do a rush wedding that nobody else in the family knows about.
LV and CD did a Rush Wedding Nov 5
MP and IP did a Rush Wedding Nov 29
AC and ZP did a Rush Wedding Nov 30
It is ALL PART OF THEIR BIG PLAN **
LOL-- I know, but then it wanted me to prove that my fake photo I used was me by taking a selfie and posting it also.. that was final step... so I knew it wasn't going to work out LOLYou don't have to tell the truth!
One of my friends owns one of those town homes and rents to people (was not one of the the three involved in the case) and hers was not insulated too well. Not sure about the other ones in the area though. You could easily hear the neighbors if there was loud sounds. Jmo but kids are loud, even teenagers; you’d be able to hear something.Don’t let’s forget, they live next door and yet Melani NEVER SAW JJ, not once, and this is plausible to anyone?
I saw that others have already covered the issue that it was Melani who flaked on the original custody hearing.
Watch baby daddy Ian bury himself further and further, in a hole away from his ex wife and their kids... If I were him I’d be talking to one of those ‘battered women escape’ networks, prepping to steal out of the hospital with baby the minute it is born.
Life Insurance polices, Credit cards (their own or others), Life insurance policies, Church and books proceeds, ...etcJMO
It is strange to me too how there seems to be an endless supply of money to do all this moving and traveling about that so many of them did.
Moving in itself is an expensive thing to do. The cost of moving is what causes a lot of people to remain living in places that they would rather move away from.
On top of moving costs, a person usually has to have a fairly steady job to maintain normal utility costs, food, and everything else. For some of the key players in this case, it did not seem like they had a stable place to even stay let alone a stable normal job.
It is confusing how a lot of their actions would have costed quite a bit of money with all the traveling, deposits, moving costs, and so where and how did they manage to get all those funds with no real steady job or a steady place to live. The only thing I can guess is one or two of the key players came into some money or thought they would come into some money and was willing to share it or said they would share it with a couple other people to help them out with some of the more recent moves.
If LE can follow the money trail then it may help them with this case.
I hate when that happens lol! Might've found you a cute zombie!LOL-- I know, but then it wanted me to prove that my fake photo I used was me by taking a selfie and posting it also.. that was final step... so I knew it wasn't going to work out LOL
YES!!! I just went on a rant about the MP saying she had no phone number, contact number but she talked to LVD in December.I'm trying to reconcile Melani saying she had no way of contacting Lori after Lori went to Hawaii, (apart from a call after Alex died in December I think she said), and Ian recording her phone calls with Lori and Chad.