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
i want to go see my dad. and i just older, you can t go see your dad. ron was the detective who got the call. do you remember getting that call? yeah. because i was sleeping. he woke up, fast. through a very big problem. a killing. just didn t make sense. hearing like a ghost has done this. no evidence. no weapon. everybody in the house says, i don t know. a ghost? yeah. that s what it feels like, because you have no idea. how was it possible melissa hadn t seen the person who shot ban? she s been lying right next to him. why was she unharmed? that s kind of a little red flags. start popping up. you start thinking okay this does not seem right. and had craig, melissa s teenage brother, truly slept through the whole thing as he claimed? i opened my eyes and right in my face was a bunch of barrels from a machine gun. it was police guns he was
to check on her own call 9-1-1. and of course alyssa, six years old, and completely unaware of what just happened asked to see her father. i want to go see my dad. i want to go see my dad. and i just older, you can t go see your dad. ron was the detective who got the call. do you remember getting that call? yeah. because i was sleeping. he woke up, fast. through a very big problem. a killing. just didn t make sense. hearing like a ghost has done this. no evidence. no weapon. everybody in the house says, i don t know. a ghost? yeah. that s what it feels like, because you have no idea. how was it possible melissa hadn t seen the person who shot ban? she s been lying right next to him. why was she unharmed? that s kind of a little red flags. start popping up. if you say ok, it just doesn t seem. right and had craig, melissa s teenage brother, truly slept through the whole
yeah. that s what it feels like because you have no idea. reporter: how was it possible melissa hadn t seen the person who d shot ben? she d been lying right next to him. why was she unharmed? that s kind of a testy little red flag popping up. you start thinking, okay, this doesn t seem right. reporter: and had craig, melissa s teenage brother, truly slept through the whole thing as he claimed? i opened my eyes and right in my face was a bunch of barrels from a machine gun. reporter: it was police guns he was looking at, police who had already discovered shotgun shells on craig s bedroom dresser. here comes another red flag. is this a possibility? is he faking? reporter: melissa, craig, and little alyssa were taken to the sheriff s department at 4:00 a.m., an hour after the shooting. melissa s best friend jamie 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 daddy s been shot. repor