going to be through digita evidence the phone records or something like that. for melvin s family, only partial justice has been served i will not give up until we know everybody that wa involved, and what he needs to understand is that it s goin to be a lot easier if they com over instead of police havin to find them the clock is ticking. we are coming we re coming. and we re not giving up. i m craig melvin. i m natalie morales this is dateline . i see her laying there, m dad is kneeling, that was th first time i ve ever seen hi cry. they had a tumultuous marriage there would be yelling, and maybe slamming doors according to him, he sees lisa with a gunshot wound to the head so initially it was ruled suicide. her sister went to the majorit patrol to express their believ that this impact was a murder. she had been having a affair with her boss the pocket cuter says after he sought his wife, he washed his hands and watched his. they call this bac
i heard that two or thre times. such a complicated tale with its secrets, lies shifting loyalties and here of all places this throwback to an idealized past we hunted mushrooms we picked up walnuts they were inseparable children brad and his older siste marcia he was my playmate. we depended on each other. marcia became a nurse, brad ran the farm and the center of thei families in 1863 that christmas 2006, brad an lisa had been married 18 mostl happy years. we had a fairly good life there were three kids amanda, 16 that christmas eve. dallas, who was 11 then but lacey, leases daughte from the first marriage, it wa
brad then get back on a plane. right the first acclaimed claim that brad had not good representation that was a no-brainer but it failed appeals court didn t agree, an brad s trial lawyer said h served brad well anyway, marcia hired mor attorneys, but - i couldn t get them to talk to me. i couldn t get them to answer question i couldn t get him to call m back did they send you a bill? absolutely. i have lots of bills this went on for months years. she heard about a privat investigator named dwigh mcneill, but her then attorney told her, don t call him so i sat on it for a little bit. i was having a really bad day, and i called and dwight picked up the phone and i just starte crying because it had been so lon since anyone i called answered
just shock, mostly silence. i remember dallas kept saying, she was going to be okay he didn t really know what had happen because he didn t see her or nothing. no one was really saying wha happened my dad was just sitting over i the passenger seat, just a mess that was the first time i ha ever seen him cry. those news of the sor spreads very fast. but often in confused or incomplete, or fuzzy bits. so when brad s sister marcia heard something happened at th farm - i didn t realize the gravit of it. i thought there had been a accident and she was on the wa to the hospital. it was anything but a accident lisa was gone, dead at 39. killed by a bullet at clos range to the head. brad tool local sheriff deputies how he argued wit lisa then went out to his worksho to cool off. and when he came back in, mayb 20 minutes later, he found her on the bedroom floor his hand the nearby. so deputies tested leases hand gunshot residue s. they did the same with brad an lacey. that could tell t