killer still walking free. i would say tiktok, you r coming and we re not giving up. hello and welcome t dateline melvin roberts was a vip in hi tight-knit community, and juli phillips was the light of hi life the couple seemed inseparable, then, a murder shattered the love affair and exposed th dark underbelly of a zip code, where it s considered polite t smile at your friends and your enemies. here is andrea campaigning wit death in the driveway. awesome york, south carolina, a town seeped with america history and southern manners its charm is deeply embedded a the pride of the people wh live here. it s a nice southern count, it s very quiet. it s not the sort of plac you d expect evil to com knocking my life just changed, forever. and these are not the sor of people you d expect to be victims of a vicious crime he s a prominent man in a small town she s a good christian woman sweet southern belle and in the end, what woul forever haunt this peacefu place
says, are these going to b used for playboy right there. boom that was inappropriate then, the prosecution dropped a bombshell. they found a witness to testif that this was not the firs time julia had melvin s murder on her mind. a police informant name gu blinken ship, a man with a criminal past claim that a few years after melvin died, julia tried to hire him to do th hit. we had now an actual person who had heard her say that and even offered him money to kill mr. roberts. hodge built her case leadin to one question most juror wanted answered, what was th motive the granddaughter thought sh knew the answer to that. what did he leave her the building, and any car that she wanted from his car lot. the building was worth abou $150, 000, it housed her store julia s, in south carolina and a small community that would take you far yes the state believed julia wa