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
assert the sort of thing a three year old finds hard to understand. she said i love you, and i said don t talk to my dad that we. but as we said, it was a love story. then for both of them. as jamie a friend and future bridesmaid put it he was truly her best friend and he was the best dad. that s all he cared about was alyssa. that was his priority. to take care of. her so, it was melissa and ben and alyssa. the threesome. he was so involved in every aspect of her life. they were really like two peas in a pod. and one september day in 2006, as the sun was setting into the sierra nevada mountains, ben and melissa got married. the ceremony at nearby lake tahoe. melissa was a glowing bride. alyssa, a little flower girl. it wasn t just melissa and ben getting married. it was melissa marrying alyssa, to. seriously. they made a particular ceremony of. it alyssa will you promise to share in the love of this family?
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
hook, because there was one possibility still. if the da could find hard evidence that dom lied when she was given that get out of jail free card for implicating james it s still an open book for don oxley for murder. if somebody comes today with credible evidence to show that she did in fact go, we can prosecutor. and 2011, done was sent to prison on another offense. she pleaded guilty for using her teenage daughter, brandi, to sell prescription drugs. what she employing you as an assistant in that business? i was driving. yes. don was released from prison in march of 2014. but not to be the mother of alyssa, the one judge terminated her parental rights. both alyssa and were brandy sent to live with melissa. to live a life that they did not know with their biological mom. it was a family, that s a lie that i need. in 2011, having pleaded