believe, i also want you to know i have found it in my heart to forgive you. and then james got his sentence. the murder charge you are sentenced to life in prison. life without parole, ever. afterwards, the little girl in the middle of the family drama turned to melissa with a remarkable request. alyssa asked to meet with james. and was ushered in to see him before he was whisked way. i told him that i decided to forgive him and that i wanted him to have hope. and she wept then. tears of forgiveness. of lingering grief for her father. and as for melissa? after the trial, she told us, she was ready to move on. where will you keep ben? he will always be in my heart. he will never be forgotten war, but we do have to go on.
alyssa. everybody said that he loved to me more than anything. and i think it s true. quite true, of course. so, there was little joking at first to win one man. even if one of the woman was just three. our first date alyssa was there. we were eating and i was just trying to talk to ben get to know one. and she s like, don t talk to my dad. i remember meeting her, i didn t really like her. [laughs] many he was talking to my dad. more than talking to him, as it soon turned out. ben and melissa moved in just segue together just a month later. 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.
i have, okay? because there was blood on melissa and gunshot residue. i don t know what to tell you. 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
doing it. i would ve just hung up the towel and be done. put on a black dress and be a widow the rest of your life? yeah. detective elges, of course, was keeping track. and try not to be judgmental. she has to do what she needs to do to heal. it is a meat i wasn t paying attention to what was going on. but as months passed, and elges scratch the way a the flu few paltry leads that went anywhere at all, asserting clarity began to emerge. despite his own early suspicions and those are brothers, hard evidence against melissa just didn t materialize. in fact, said elges he, couldn t help thinking she probably didn t do it. she was so startled, she went into a flight or flight response when she jumped out of bed. and then went to a normal reaction, which is what s going on? and that s why she discovers she discovers he d been shot. but there was another reason melissa dropped down the detectives list of suspects. and that reason was a surgeon
yeah, i didn t believe it. didn t believe it at all? no. but if alyssa didn t believe it, others did. and before long, they had more ammunition, because of something else detective elges discovered. 400,000 dollar life insurance policy. it sounds a lot like she had the motivation to want this thing to happen. and once again, melissa found herself answering difficult questions. i didn t even know there was an insurance policy. i guess i was sort of naive to it. we were looking at it for retirement. but while the investigation went on, the insurance company held back any payments. while the whispers went around. it was shocking, really. had ben been dead, just what? a few months? and melissa was dating, already. it was soon, sort of. but it was like, if i didn t do it then, you almost would get stuck in this route of never