after her father. i just remember saying, help, someone is in trouble. are you really scared? yes, i was really scared. the reporter: voice was coming from inside a walking closet attached to the bathroom. which to the he tugged the, side open the door and there was sandra. on the floor, tied by her arms and ankles, a life. he said that she did not look well at all. reporter: as marissa s mom cassandra lewis, sandra spoke. where is my brother, where is your uncle? the answer to that unspeakable. what had happened to jim melgar entities wife? coming up she looked like she had aged ten years overnight. just broken. and lost. reporter: sandra melgar the, only possible witness to a night of tower. what would she remember? there was a car following us when dateline continues.
A couple s anniversary celebration ends in murder during what appears to have been a home invasion, but investigators believe the suspect might be connected to.
needs, served as counsel. she s a sweet person. she doesn t have a temper. and it was really apparent to us that she had a good relationship with her husband. they couldn t fathom how sandra was under suspicion for a crime that defied physical possibilities. after all, she was found tied up, barricaded in her closet. she believed she s had a seizure. or maybe, she was actually hit in the head and was knocked unconscious. to these attorneys, the case seemed suspiciously thin. where is the beef? worse the crime? i guess more importantly, was the investigation? it had taken more than a year and a half to indict sandra. so, what were the detectives doing all that time? well, that s an involved story. investigated by nbc affiliate kprc tv. the lead detective on the case, ruben had become the center of a scandal. a controversy is going tonight over a document falsified by a harris county detective now working for the
that she killed him. she didn t confess. what did you have going for you? first story. it was ridiculous. so, the prosecution made the call. the people versus sandra melgar would proceed to trial. coming up a deadly seduction? the prosecution thinks that sandra melgar lowered jaime to the bedroom under the guise of six play. she s massaging his neck. and then she makes a strike straight up. but where was the proof? this case out to scare the crap out of all of you. when dateline continues. way for you to sell your car. whether it s a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions. and our techno wizardry calculates your car s value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you re ready, we ll come to you, pay you on the spot and pick up your car, that s it.
about 15 minutes, 20 minutes. later, another revision. maybe about five minutes. and detectives were perplexed by what senator claimed she did and did not hear that night. hear anybody scream? no. hear the dogs? well you could hear the dog sparking? yeah, because they were right outside the window. but after almost two hours, as investigators pushed her, sandra seemed to tweak this key element of her story. actually, i don t even remember hearing the dogs. my husband was the one that sees he s got better hearing than i. of course, the changes in sandra story could be attributed to shock. but as the detectives unit, sandra was being deliberately evasive. enhancing her story to align with a conjured up crime scene. a sounds like a bloody event. was it? it was bloody in the area that he was in. there was blood in the carpet. there was blood on a chair. he, himself was very bloody. and the closet, but nowhere and