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
i was woken up by the smell and then a loud noise. my ears were ringing. but at first i thought i was dreaming. the smell? yeah, it was the smell of the gunpowder. as she told it, she looked over at ben. saw by the light of the moon he appeared to have slept through whatever it was. she managed him. he didn t stir. so i was like, ok i ll go check it out. so i walked around our bed and got about halfway down the hallway and realized our front door was open. but you didn t see anybody? no. halfway down the hall, she said, cold air rushing in. she knew something was very wrong. so, she ran back to the bedroom. turned on the light. i went to go wake him up and then, i could see him. yeah. hard to get that one out of your head, isn t it? yeah.
appeared to have slept through whatever it was. she announced him. he didn t stir. so i was like, ok i ll go check it out. so i walked around our bed and got about halfway down the hallway and realized our front door was open. but you didn t see anybody? no. halfway down the hall, she said, cold air rushing in. she knew something was very wrong. so, she ran back to the bedroom. turned on the light. i went to go wake him up and then, i could see him. yeah. hard to get that one out of your head, isn t it? yeah. and thus, her call to 9-1-1. and the detective who rushed over to find out what happened and discovered that he could not tell. you ve got the wife. you ve got a small six year old child. and you ve got a 15 year old boy in the house. have you got everybody saying they don t know what happened. how did everyone else
anybody? nope. reporter: halfway down the hall she said, cold air rushing in. she knew something was very wrong. they ran back to the bedroom, turned on the light. i went to go wake him up and then i could see him. reporter: yeah. hard to get that one out of your head, isn t it? yeah. reporter: and thus her call to 911 and the detective who rushed over to find out what happened and discovered that he could not tell. you got the wife. you ve got a small 6-year-old child and you got a 15-year-old boy in the house. and you ve got everybody saying they don t know what happened. how did everyone else survive that night without a scratch? coming up. the investigation begins and melissa is at the very center.