valley. after dinner, ben, melissa, her teenage brother craig and little alyssa settled in the den to watch a movie. melissa remembers falling asleep on the couch, waking up with a start. thinking i was late for work. it was like 2:30 in the morning. i was like oh, i m not late. so i went and got into bed. reporter: crawled in with ben, she said. moonlight on the covers. warm inside. about an hour later is when i was woke up by the smell and then a loud noise. my ears were ringing. at first, i thought i was dreaming. reporter: a smell? yeah. it was a smell. reporter: gunpowder smell? yes. reporter: as she told it, she looked over to ben, saw by the light of the moon he appeared to slept through whatever it was. she nudged him. he didn t stir. i was like okay, i ll go check it out. i walked around our bed and got about halfway down the hallway and realized our front door was open. reporter: but you didn t see
melissa s teenage brother craig moved in. and then winter came and the wind. on february 20th, 2008, the moon rose full over the carson valley. after dinner, ben, melissa, her teenage brother craig and little alyssa settled in the den to watch a movie. melissa remembers falling asleep on the couch, waking up with a start. thinking i was late for work. it was like 2:30 in the morning. i was like, oh, i m not late. so i went and got into bed. crawled in with ben, she said. moonlight on the covers, warm inside. about an hour later i was woke up by the smell and a loud noise. my ears were ringing. at first i thought i was dreaming. a smell? yeah. it was a smell of the gun powder. as she told it, she looked over to ben, saw by the light of the moon he appeared to have slept through whatever it was.
go in the house. the plan was for just me to go in the house. i didn t know how to get in. or where the bedroom was? or where the bedroom was. so dawn had to go inside. reporter: the front door was looked, so dawn took him around back where a sliding glass door was unlocked and they eased their way in and walked down the hall. then, said james, dawn pointed him towards the master bedroom. and i turned around and she was going into alyssa s room. going into the room? yeah. she was about half her body was into the room. she said she was going to take alyssa with her. i said you can t take alyssa. reporter: is this true? remember, alyssa, just 6 years old at the time told police she remembered seeing someone in her doorway. i just looked out and i saw somebody walking in. reporter: and then said james, he walked into the master bedroom, saw ben and melissa sleeping in the moonlight. and i raised the gun.
stranger still was who the killer ultimately turned out to be. here s keith morrison with while they were sleeping. it was cold the night the full moon rose, february cold in the desert valley that spilled down from reno, nevada. in that moonlight all silver pe pale, the wind whipped and cried up the driveway, round the corner of the house, whistled past the unlocked door, something evil afoot, something here inside. the moon peered through the window and into the master bedroom. a little after 3:00 in the morning. it s really, really bad. what s really bad? my husband. strange, the things that happen to people under a full moon. good people, not so good people. under that moon that night, it
mayor. maybe they shouldn t do it, but for him to play this thing like they re paying disrespect to a police officer like another lie adding to another lie. no way they were disrespecting officer liu. they were out there in the rain while the mayor was nice and warm inside. they wouldn t have been standing out in the rain for hours if they disrespected officer liu. and they didn t turn their back on anybody else. it was directed at one person a person they feel disrespects them. should they have done it i don t think so. do they have a right to do it? i m kind of proud of them for doing it. here s the problem for the mayor. how does he govern this city when he doesn t have the support of the people serving and protecting it? i have four uncles who were cops, each one would have turned their backs. how does he get back their