looking at. police would already discovered shotgun shells on craig s bedroom dresser. here comes another red flag. is this a possibility? is he faking? melissa, craig and little alyssa, were taken to the sheriff s department. at 4 am. an hour after the shooting. melissa s best friend 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 dad has been shot. at the time jamie arrive, melissa was already being grilled by detectives. today is february 21 third, 2008. detective elges had questions. lots of them. so many things about this murder didn t make sense. why didn t they take you out? i mean that s what i thought. another thing i don t understand is, why is somebody shoots him, why did you not see anything? i don t know. i honestly don t know. maybe it was the man who ben warned her about, she said. her rough customer who wants
they believe she held a grudge. investigators were about to bring her in for questioning and the story she would tell what s send the case in the stunning new direction. here again is keith morrison with while they were sleeping 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 as more than a few other gossipers pointed suspicious fingers at melissa, ben s 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,
for alyssa, you crumbled her foundation. and everything she knew to be right untrue. and as hard as this is to do or 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,
whistled past the unlocked door. something evil afoot. something here, inside. when the moon appeared through the window and into the master bedroom. a little after three in the morning. it s really, really bad. what s really bad? my husband. strange, the things that happened to people under a full moon. good people? not so good people. under that moon, that night, it was hard to tell, which was which. who was who. this is a case built on lies and deception and a cat and mouse. who knew what it was? but the story, when it began back in 2005, was about love. or what certainly felt like it. in fact, fair to say it was two kinds of love. there was what happened to ben when he met melissa. as soon as he met melissa, he was something i ve never seen. just for no reason he d call her and say, i love you. he was a change man. absolutely.
shoot ben without harming her, and leave not a trace of evidence behind. the case boggle detective ron elges s mind. is there somebody who didn t like him? is this a far higher crime? what could this? melissa s closest friends believed her when she insisted that she had nothing to do with it. that in fact, she lost the love of her life. 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.