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
he was at work at the time o the murder investigators set out to check his story. this police were also very interested in someone else melvin s handyman, jeanne moss david said he walked in on his dad and moss having an argumen in the conference room on th night of the murder. that had been having some issues with jean, and i though that they were gonna have conversation, and i said by dad, i ll see you tomorrow. and i walked out of the door that was the last time davi saw his dad alive. jeanne wasn t doing with da was doing to was jeanne gonna get th boot i thought so. i thought that dad was being a little too hard on gene. dad maybe you should back it down a notch, if you re gonn fire him just fire him he was one of the mai suspects police got a break. they discovered dna on that zi tie found around melbourne s neck they immediately started
that he was friendly t everyone the street where he lived was named after him, roberts avenue a true renaissance ma devoted to his family. he was everything to me he was my best friend, he wa my mentor. melvin had two sons david and ronny he was instrumental i making me into who i am. the three men shared an unusually strong bond. dad, david and myself, it was our normal routine to have lunch every day. you all sound thick a thieves, the three of you? absolutely. the last thing i did every day was i gave dad a big hug and told him i love him, and h told me the same thing every single day he loved to take me out t the farm melvin s only grandchild, recalled how her granddad ha our way of keeping the famil close. we would always g vacationing, different countries, fishing in cost rica, for my graduation, fro college, or scuba diving and really bonding together. it was an amazing relationship
of the family? yes we were really happy for that. but now, everything has changed as investigators wor the crime scene, tommy jenkins then your police captain knocked on brawny s door he says ronny i have to tel you something, your father i dead and i said no tommy, that is not true. and he said it is your father, i ve known him most of you life and it s him. wrong and his brother david drove to the father s hous hoping it was all a mistake. i looked over to the side and i see coroner written on the back and that s when you know that s when you know, he s not coming back. as the news of julia attack in melvin s murde spread, so too did fear. if it could happen to this prominent couple, who might be