knows melissa, lives in your house, comes to work with you, but you had the phone. okay? listen, i ll be honest with you, this doesn t look very good for you. but i don t even know. her detectives searched tony s house, his car, and his train, but never did find melissa s phone. and it was still a missing motivation piece of this puzzle. why in the world with tony kill someone he barely knew? and yet, tony said something during his interview that opened a window into a private side of his character. he was capable of intense jealousy when talking about his estranged wife. the few times i ve picked up my kids, she has guys there, so i always told her i don t like flies on my meet. and i love her, i gave all my life to her. it wouldn t bother you, then if she spending a lot of time with melissa? that wouldn t bother? you know. despite what tony said,
blamed melissa for the divorce. did he tell you that it was melissa s fault? he believed that she had a part in it, yes. did he tell you that he was mad at melissa about this? yeah, he was mad about the whole situation. oh, and there was one more thing. remember melissa s jacket, the one found in her suv? tests showed tony s dna on the jacket. prosecutors believed tony wiped his nose with it after being pepper sprayed. the odds of finding an unrelated individual with that profile are rarer than one in 30 billion. you couldn t have had better evidence if you had a movie of him killing her. right. the defense had been dealt of poor hand to play. but attorney bruce fleisher chipped away at , starting with tony housemate, the guy with the scrubbing away pepper s great story. the defense said he had 250,000 reasons to make his story up. there was a reward offered. yes. and who offered that reward?
spoke to her. do you know if she had anything to do with what you re going through right now with debra? i don t know. and i really don t know. that wouldn t bother you if she? did know the thing is i just want to get away from my wife. i just want to be in peace. with melissa s death? no. but what tony didn t know was that before detective spoke to him, they had obtained a copy of the train route he drove the day after the murder. and guess what? it matched the route traveled by melissa s phone. detectives confronted him with the evidence. her phone after it was stolen, drove to the area of your house and stay there overnight. and came to work with you the next day, and travel north with the train, because the train has gps on, it doesn t? it it was on the train, okay? and less someone else here
with all these messy complications, tony s defense attorney, bruce flusher, thought about two words. reasonable doubt. a lot of people thought that because of the rothstein ponzi scheme, that he had something to do with the murder of melissa lewis. and debra villegas was back in the hot seat herself. being grilled by homicide detectives who bluntly asked her about scott, the ponzi scheme, and militias work. she had her lawyer with her this time. was melissa aware of anything that scott was involved with? and i m going to use a term ponzi scheme. no. and then the question got more direct. was there any discussion between you and got that we have melissa killed? absolutely. not are you aware of any discussion or of conspiracy to hire tony to murder. melissa would alight have killed melissa? i would ve let him move back into my house. that s the biggest forget that i have in all of this. but detectives did learn one new thing about melissa and scott. some dish. she
phone and his own personal phone with him, the night of the murder. and the next day, when he was driving his train. they moved north and then back south, on the railroad. but now, prosecutors had to tackle the head-scratching question of motive. why would tony kill melissa in the first place? debra villegas testified that tony became very jealous and angry with melissa, because she had virtually replaced him in the household. was melissa helping you through this difficult time in your life enough for this divorce? yes, ma am. and that was the theory, in order to get deborah, he killed her best friend. you have these domestic homicides all the time, but this had a twist to it, because he did not kill deborah. then tony endeavors 23 year old son, caleb, was called to testify against his father. the usual blank stare on tony s courtroom face changed, as his son recalled how his father