i ve harmed or heard to forgive me for would have done. he looked in the lenses you said that. you re talking to them, right? basically talking to melissa. what i m sorry. an exchange for his guilty plea, the da agreed to recommend that james could be eligible for parole after serving 24 years. all rise final decision, up to the judge. defense attorney stove or then melissa took the stand. emotionally the damage you have cost me is almost unbearable. for alyssa, you crumbled her foundation. and everything she knew to be right untrue. and as hard as this is to do or
and that now she and those around her were probably in terrible danger. because you don t know who did it. you don t know if they re going to come back for melissa. if melissa was supposed to be in that. melissa, meanwhile, try to be a source of comfort for her six year old stepdaughter, alyssa. the little girl s father had been her world. leaving her now in a world of chaos. and with her home and love nest now a crime scene, melissa and alyssa moved in with the woman who had been bridesmaid at the wedding, jamie. and it was at night, when the curtains were drawn, that jamie what she melissa, really with pain. many nights crying in the middle of the night. i would hear her. i just went and laid in bed with her. didn t sleep. couldn t sleep. just getting into a bed after that happened. i didn t want to. so where would you sleep? on the floor.
maybe it was the man who ben warned her about, she said. her rough customer who wants dated ben s ex-wife, dawn and apparently threatened to kill both don dawn and any man she was with. was the story to? just be safe, detective elges sent officers to dawn s house where they walker up. sleeping, but unharmed. and discovered that the man in question was hundreds of miles away from the when the murder happened. so, again, the questions were formed for melissa. sometimes people knew more than they want to tell our share. and i really really need. all i m telling you, i honestly don t know. alyssa was six by this time. the only person who remembered seeing anything unusual. she told the detective right away. well, i was just fast asleep, but i woke up and heard this creek after i saw somebody walking in. and then i just, went back. do you know who they were? .
lee. if you knew ben, there is no way that you would want him dead. i could not think of anybody that would want him dead, besides don. don, don oxley s ex-wife, melissa s mother, even though pence best friends told each other. everything in me said that don had something to do with. that of course, just a few years back, that sort of thing would ve been unimaginable to don s best friends, scott and we sidney graham. not don, the don the force of nature, the center of the room. i don t know is manipulating, but everyone agreed with. don if she was happy, we were all happy. but after five years of marriage, neither benn nor don were happy, and the marriage went up in flames. ben had cheated on john.
it s a rare thing to do to sit in the jail room just as this, where a murderer confesses chapter and verse. i pulled the trigger but james matlean will he murdered then oxley in his sleep and must live with that for the rest of his day with. and suffered 2011, he told his story in court. it was after the da took the penalty off the table, and james decided to plead guilty. and that s one melissa said sitting in the courtroom, her for the first time about something else james was supposed to kill her to. don asked me if i would kill melissa. i just said yeah. there was a bullet there for you. but was it like to hear that? unreal. do you believe that she was in the house that night? i do. which makes me sick.