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reporter: dawn. dawn oxley. ben oxley s ex-wife, alyssa s mother. even as more than a few local gossipers pointed suspicious fingers at melissa, ben s best friends told each other everything in me said that dawn had something to do with that. reporter: of course, just a few years back that sort of thinking would have been unimaginable to dawn and ben s best friends scott and cindy graham. not dawn. dawn, the force of nature, the center of any room she was in. i don t know if it s manipulating or what, but everybody agreed with dawn. as long as dawn was happy, then we re all happy. reporter: but after five years of marriage, neither ben nor dawn was happy. and the marriage went up in flames. ben had cheated on dawn. i could see that. this probably wasn t going to be something that she was ever going to get over. reporter: dawn changed after that, said cindy, didn t seem to want to act like a parent anymore.
i pulled the trigger. reporter: but james matlean did not shrink from it. he murdered ben oxley in his sleep and must live with what he did for the rest of his days. i m afraid to deal with what i actually did. reporter: he told his story in court last december. it was after the d.a. took the death penalty off the table and james decided to plead guilty. and that s when melissa sitting in the courtroom heard for the first time about something else. james was supposed to kill her, too. dawn asked me if i would kill melissa. i just automatically said yeah. reporter: there was a bullet there for you. what was it like to hear that? unreal. do you believe that she was in the house that night? i do, which makes me sick. i have a harder time with dawn than i do james, because if it wasn t for her, none of it would happen. reporter: and that s where