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
dated ben s ex-wife, dawn and apparently threatened to kill both don dawn and any man she was with. was the story to? just be safe, detective elges sent officers to dawn s house where they walker up. sleeping, but unharmed. and discovered that the man in question was hundreds of miles away from the when the murder happened. so, again, the questions were formed for melissa. sometimes people knew more than they want to tell our share. i m telling you, i honestly don t know. alyssa was six by this time. the only person who remembered seeing anything unusual. she told the detective right away. well, i was just fast asleep, but i woke up and heard this creek after i saw somebody walking in. and then i just, went back. you know who they were? . i don t know who it was. she saw a shadow in her doorway looking at her. and then the shadow left. she went back to sleep and then
looking at. police would already discovered shotgun shells on craig s bedroom dresser. here comes another red flag. is this a possibility? is he faking? melissa, craig and little alyssa, were taken to the sheriff s department. at 4 am. an hour after the shooting. melissa s best friend got a phone call. it was alyssa. and she was just hysterically crying. i m at the police station. come down here, come down here, my dad has been shot. at the time jamie arrive, melissa was already being grilled by detectives. today is february 21 third, 2008. detective elges had questions. lots of them. so many things about this murder didn t make sense. why didn t they take you out? i mean that s what i thought. another thing i don t understand is, why is somebody shoots him, why did you not see anything? i don t know. i honestly don t know. maybe it was the man who ben warned her about, she said. her rough customer who wants
went on, the insurance company held back any payments. while the whispers went around. it was shocking, really. had ben been dead, just what? a few months? and melissa was dating, already. it was soon, sort of. but it was like, if i didn t do it then, you almost would get stuck in this route of never doing it. i would ve just hung up the towel and be done. put on a black dress and be a widow the rest of your life? yeah. detective elges, of course, was keeping track. and try not to be judgmental. she has to do what she needs to do to heal. it is a meat i wasn t paying attention to what was going on. but as months passed, and elges scratch the way a the flu few paltry leads that went anywhere at all, asserting clarity began to emerge. despite his own early suspicions and those are brothers, hard evidence against melissa just didn t materialize. in fact, said elges he, couldn t help thinking she probably didn t do it.