and then your being looked at for it. imagine, your shaken in the dead of night. my ears were ringing. i thought i was dreaming. in bed, right next to you. your husband, murdered. hearty wrap around your head, is it? yes. and here s the twist. you are the suspect. it s the worst feeling, thinking you re gonna be blamed for your husband s death. could she have been the killer? or, with someone keeping a secret? he said, what did you do. what did you do? i don t know what to tell you. just of the truth. hello, and welcome to dateline . it s the stuff of nightmares. and a traitor creeps into your bedroom in the middle of the night and opens fire. but for melissa oxley, the bad 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
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
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 went on, the insurance company held back any payments. while the whispers went around. it was shocking, really. had ben been dead, just what? a few months? and melissa was dating, already. it was soon, sort of. but it was like, if i didn t do it then, you almost would get stuck in this route of never