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
was this true? remember, alyssa alyssa, just six years old at the time told police she remembered seeing someone in her jewelry. i just looked out and i saw someone walking in. and then, said james, he walked into the master bedroom. saw ben and melissa sleeping in the moonlight. and i raise the gun and that s where everything in my mind that should ve happened, three or four hours ago, happened. i started thinking why am i here? something i heard to my left a sudden noise? yeah. and as i turned and jerked to see what it was, i pulled the trigger. he ran, then he said. left the front door right wide open. caught up to dawn in the truck. who drove? she did. i started yelling at her. when we got in the truck.
hard working, funny, kind and brave. when i first saw ben, i said you don t know me, i am a physician, he said when do you want to go, ben had critical injuries that required a lot of attention. i was born. get up, open your eyes get out of the car, i got out
before the third bomb hit the car. it was because of them i survived. i am here. i am doing so well. and because of them i move forward. [applause] benjamin hall has been and continued to be an inspiration to all of us, he is one of the more positive people i have met and a heck of a journalist. when this happened, i wrote ben an, mailing give whatever advice i could as an amputee from war, have patience, get familiar with your friend pain, and when you look for inspiration no