time at her mother dawn s house. and one day, while she was there. ben s sister warned her about the stepmom sheet come to love. she told me that she thought my step mom killed my dad. that night. must be pretty weird for you to hear that. yeah, i didn t believe it. didn t believe it at all? no. but if alyssa didn t believe it, others did. and before long, they had more ammunition, because of something else detective elges discovered. 400,000 dollar life insurance policy. it sounds a lot like she had the motivation to want this thing to happen. and once again, melissa found herself answering difficult questions. i didn t even know there was an insurance policy. i guess i was sort of naive to it. we were looking at it for retirement. but while the investigation
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there was no solid evidence either way. nor that james matlean killed ben oxley. only dawn s story. i which point tom gregory, the district attorney, decided he needed her help. you love to get everybody involved in the case, but there s a reality, in many cases, that sometimes you need the help of one of the people involved to get them in person. and so dawn oxley was offered a limited immunity agreement. cooperate with the prosecution. testify truth of truthfully against james matlean, and you won t be prosecuted. a sort of get out of jail free card. why go ahead and make that deal with her so soon? you had her statement. why not hold off for a while and be patient? try to get them both. let s say we don t do the deal with her and we go out and arrest him, what s our evidence? dawn signed the agreement and james matlean was charged with first degree murder. but the end of the story? oh, no.
many nights crying in the middle of the night. i would hear her. i just went and laid in bed with her. didn t sleep. couldn t sleep. just getting into a bed after that happened. i didn t want to. so where would you sleep? on the floor. and if the pain and suffering of losing her husband was in hard enough, melissa was the lead suspect. and not just in the eyes of the police. because nobody, including the public, including families, had any idea why this was to happen. so they re all grasping astros to figure out if his possibly. ben sister was certain that melissa arranged ben s murder. i was afraid to make it known around town. she had quite a little following of people. because it s always the wife, you know? so did that mean little alyssa, just six years old, so vulnerable, was living with a murder? alyssa began to spend more
yeah, for a while. it gave me a sense of feeling wanted. and then he realized, he said, she never be happy. unless he fixed what was upsetting her. i just wanted to make don happy. so, what happened? dawn and james s stories begin the same way. february 20th, 2008, a night of heavy drinking at dawn s house. a heated conversation about ben oxley. james asking dawn if she wants to have him killed. that s where the stories diverge. dawn says she never told james, no, don t do it. and fellas sleep on the couch. but that s not what james matlean s story. she was expected about what was happening. she s happy that was going to kill somebody. you know? it was after midnight. dawn, drew him a diagram of ben oxley s, said james. so he could find his way to the bedroom. then he went to the 7-eleven. drew $40 out of the atm with dawn s bank card. and then together they went to
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