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
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
alyssa called melissa, mom. how did it make you feel? happy. very happy. awe, what a happy couple they were. a happy family. my being my wife now, it s just a blessing. that s what you wait for all your life. what were your plans? to buy a house and to have babies. have a family. they eventually moved here. a three bedroom ranch in the carson valley, looking up towards the sierra nevada s. alyssa spent half her time with ben and melissa. the other time with her birth month, then s ex-wife dawn. but above all, what ben really 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
they were. a happy family. for her to be my wife is just it s a blessing. it s what you wait for all your life. reporter: what were your plans?s l to buy a house and to have babies and have a family. reporter: they eventually moved here, a three-bedroom ranch in the carson valley looking up toward the sierra nevadas. alyssa spent half her time with ben and melissa. the other time with her birth mom, ben s ex-wife, dawn. but above all, what ben really wanted was to have his little girl permanently. he never thought that he could have his daughter. and i was like, yeah, you can. you could.r d reporter: and he did. he won custody. it was him and his daughter n and that s what he had always wanted. reporter: and then the little household grew. melissa s teenage brother craigh moved in. and then winter came. and the wind.