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
love is dead. 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? i 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 strange, they thought, that no one else in the house was hurt. including melissa, who was sleeping by his side. stranger stil
assert the sort of thing a three year old finds hard to understand. she said i love you, and i said don t talk to my dad that we. but as we said, it was a love story. then for both of them. as jamie a friend and future bridesmaid put it he was truly her best friend and he was the best dad. that s all he cared about was alyssa. that was his priority. to take care of. her so, it was melissa and ben and alyssa. the threesome. he was so involved in every aspect of her life. they were really like two peas in a pod. and one september day in 2006, as the sun was setting into the sierra nevada mountains, ben and melissa got married. the ceremony at nearby lake tahoe. melissa was a glowing bride. alyssa, a little flower girl. it wasn t just melissa and ben getting married. it was melissa marrying alyssa, to. seriously. they made a particular ceremony of. it alyssa will you promise to share in the love of this family?
just of the truth is all i m hoping you re giving me. i am. melissa s friend jamie was there. when she came out of the interrogation room. melissa just dropped to the floor. when she saw me. and she had a little bit of blood on her. she just said, i didn t do this. i said i, i know you didn t do it. but jamie knew there were others and not just the police, who were very suspicious of melissa. she s the prime suspect. she s the wife. she was laying in bed with him. it is a makes sense that she was a shot. did melissa do it? well, i hope not. but i mean, she could ve. why was it she shot? i thought, if she did commit the murder, she s going to make a mistake. you can only live that life so long. coming up a new clue. what police believe might be a reason for murder. a 400,000 dollar life issuance policy. she had motivation to want this to happen.
looking at. police would already discovered shotgun shells on craig s bedroom dresser. here comes another red flag. is this a possibility? is he faking? melissa, craig and little alyssa, were taken to the sheriff s department. at 4 am. an hour after the shooting. melissa s best friend 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 dad has been shot. at the time jamie arrive, melissa was already being grilled by detectives. today is february 21 third, 2008. detective elges had questions. lots of them. so many things about this murder didn t make sense. why didn t they take you out? i mean that s what i thought. another thing i don t understand is, why is somebody shoots him, why did you not see anything? i don t know. i honestly don t know. maybe it was the man who ben warned her about, she said. her rough customer who wants