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
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.
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. she was so startled, she went into a flight or flight response when she jumped out of bed. and then went to a normal reaction, which is what s going on? and that s why she discovers she discovers he d been shot. but there was another reason melissa dropped down the detectives list of suspects. and that reason was a surgeon