>> yeah. that's what it feels like because you have no idea. >> reporter: how was it possible melissa hadn't seen the person who'd shot ben? she'd been lying right next to him. why was she unharmed? >> that's kind of a testy little red flag popping up. you start thinking, okay, this doesn't seem right. >> reporter: and had craig, melissa's teenage brother, truly slept through the whole thing as he claimed? >> i opened my eyes and right in my face was a bunch of barrels from a machine gun. >> reporter: it was police guns he was looking at, police who had already discovered shotgun shells on craig's bedroom dresser. >> here comes another red flag. is this a possibility? is he faking? >> reporter: melissa, craig, and little alyssa were taken to the sheriff's department at 4:00 a.m., an hour after the shooting. melissa's best friend jamie got a phone call. >> it was alyssa. and she was just hysterically crying. i'm at the police station. come down here. come down here. my daddy's been shot. >> reporter: by the time jamie arrived, melissa was already