i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. i just collapsed. she s dead because she was my friend. first melissa disappeared. where s melissa? that s the million dollar question. i knew right then she absolutely never made it into her house. left behind in her garage signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist, then her boss went missing too. who is he afraid of am. he might have been afraid he s next. he left behind a bigger mess. we three kings be stealing the gold. a missing fortune. ballpark a billion, billion and a half dollars. a missing woman. we have know clue, no leads. some wonder was there a link? this had a twist to it. two crimes, one for money, one supposedly for love, and behind both, a lingering mystery. it s just so ugly and so wrong, and i can t fix it. welcome to dateline. hotshot florida attorney melissa lewis was living large in fort lauderdale dale, but then her seemingly charged life ended
absolutely never made it in her house. left behind her garage, signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist. we did not know what it was. then her boss went missing to! who is he afraid of? he was might be afraid that he was next. someone would put a bullet in my head. he left behind a bigger mess. we kings be stealing the gold. a missing fortune. ballpark, a billion and a billion and a half dollars. a missing daughter. we have no clues, no leads. some wondered, was there a length? this had a twist to. it two crimes, supposedly for love. and behind both? a lingering mystery. it s just so ugly and so wrong. that i can t fix it. welcome to dateline! hot shot florida attorney melissa lewis was really large in fort lauderdale. but then, her seemingly charmed life ended in tragedy. her body was discovered in a drainage canal. she had been murdered. but who would want her dead? with few clues, fewer suspects, and a scandal with the law firm. inves
divorce? yes, ma am. reporter: and that was the theory. in order to get back at debra, he killed her best friend. you have these domestic homicides all the time but this had a twist to it because he didn t kill debra. reporter: then tony and debra s 23-year old son, caleb, was called to testify against his father. the usual blank stare on tony s courtroom face changed as his son recalled how his father blamed melissa for the divorce. did he tell you that it was melissa s fault? he he believed that she had a part in it. yes. did he tell you that he was mad at melissa about this? yeah. he was mad about the whole situation. reporter: oh, and there was one more thing. remember melissa s jacket, the one found in her suv? tests showed tony s dna on the jacket. prosecutors believe tony wiped his nose with it after being pepper sprayed. odds of finding an unrelated individual with that profile are rarer than one in 30 billion. reporter: you couldn t have
sprayed on him. and that is hands were burning and itching. then an expert on cell phone tracking told the jury, tony had both melissa s phone, and his own personal phone with him the night of the murder. and the next day, when he was driving his train. they moved north and then back south. along the rail word. but now, prosecutors had to tackle the head-scratching question of motive. why would tony kill melissa in the first place? debra villegas testified that tony became very jealous and angry with melissa because she virtually replaced him in the household. was melissa helping you through this difficult time in your life now through this divorce? yes ma am. and that was the theory in order to get back at debora, he would kill her best friend. you have these domestic homicides all the time. but this had a twist to it. because he didn t kill debra. then tony and debra s 23 year old son, caleb, were called to testify, against his