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
yeah, for a while. it gave me a sense of feeling wanted. and then he realized, he said, she never be happy. unless he fixed what was upsetting her. i just wanted to make don happy. so, what happened? dawn and james s stories begin the same way. february 20th, 2008, a night of heavy drinking at dawn s house. a heated conversation about ben oxley. james asking dawn if she wants to have him killed. that s where the stories diverge. dawn says she never told james, no, don t do it. and fellas sleep on the couch. but that s not what james matlean s story. she was expected about what was happening. she s happy that was going to kill somebody. you know? it was after midnight. dawn, drew him a diagram of ben oxley s, said james. so he could find his way to the bedroom. then he went to the 7-eleven. drew $40 out of the atm with dawn s bank card. and then together they went to
wanted was to have his little girl permanently. he never thought that he could have his daughter. i was like, yes you can. you could. and he did. he won custody. it was him and his daughter. and that s what he always wanted. and then the little household grew. melissa s teenage brother, craig, moved in. and then winter came. the wind. and on february 20th, 2008, the moon rose full over the carson valley. i after dinner, ben, melissa, her teenage brother craig and little alyssa, settled in the dental watch a movie. melissa remembers falling asleep on the couch when she woke up with a. start. thinking i was late for work. it was 2:30 in the morning. i was like, oh i m not late. so i went and got in the bed. crawled in with ben, she said. moonlight on the color covers. warmth inside. about an hour later is when
household grew. melissa s teenage brother, craig, moved in. and then winter came. the wind. and on february 20th, 2008, the moon rose full over the carson valley. i after dinner, ben, melissa, her teenage brother craig and little alyssa, settled in the dental watch a movie. melissa remembers falling asleep on the couch when she woke up with a. start thinking i was late for work. it was 2:30 in the morning. i was like, oh i m not late. so i went and got in the bed. crawled in with ben, she said. moonlight on the color covers. warmth inside. about an hour later is when 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