hour s top stories. deadly flooding has washed through neighbors in southern california. with thousands of residents who seen here. two atmospheric rivers that their so-called. hit the state friday. causing roots to collapse, teased to travel. trapping others in the waters. a second one set to hit early next week. the rainfall will continue to rise through sunday. the sierra foothills could get up to of precipitation while coastal areas could see up to a foot of rain. now back to dateline. back to dateline welcome back to dateline, i m craig melvin. melissa oxley could breathe a little easier. while still on the radar, detectives never no longer consider the primaries suspect in ben s life. they shifted their focus on another woman invents life.
but everyone agreed with. don if she was happy, we were all happy. but after five years of marriage, neither benn nor don were happy, and the marriage went up in flames. ben had cheated on john. i can see that. this probably wasn t something that she was going to get over. don changed after that, said cindy, didn t seem to want to act like a parent anymore. she met a guy and she would stay the night at his house. when her kids are calling us to tell us that we have no more food in the house, there s no food, there s a problem. so when ben and john went to court to fight for the custody of melissa, sunday had to tell the truth. i told the judge that don was not taking care of her kids anymore. they were not a priority, they were not even number five. when ben won custody of
dream was all too real. she told investigators she d been startled from her sleep to find her husband, ben, dead from a gunshot blast. it seems streams, they thought, that no one else in the house was hurt. including melissa, who was sleeping by his side. stranger still, was who the killer ultimately turned out to be. here is keith morrison with while they were sleeping . it was cold, the night the full moon rose. february cold. in the desert valley that spilled down from reno, nevada. and in that moonlight, all silver, sale, the wind in the dead of night. wear it with the great sense of winter grass. up the driveway, round the corner of the house.
he was happy. melissa really made the difference. and if anybody would know, his best friends would. cindy and scott graham. ben was family. i mean, he was family. and then there was ben s mother love. the brightest thing in his life. the one good thing that came from his first marriage. alyssa. everybody said that he loved to me more than anything. and i think it s true. quite true, of course. so, there was little joking at first to win one man. even if one of the woman was just three. our first date alyssa was there. we were eating and i was just trying to talk to ben get to know one. and she s like, don t talk to my dad. i remember meeting her, i didn t really like her. [laughs] many he was talking to my dad. more than talking to him, as it soon turned out. ben and melissa moved in just segue together just a month later.
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