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Mrs. somers, if youll come forward to the clerks desk. >> for six years summers had been the strongest most persistent voice arguing her father murdered her mother. prosecutor chad grunader. >> her testimony was huge. >> under oath, alexis told the same story she told us. >> why were you seeking information as to your mothers death? >> because i believe my fathered killed her. >> but now the defense was going to try to prove alexis wrong. in fact, they were going to question if there was a murde...

So i paid for an online search and it came up with a name and it was gypsy jillian willis. >> gypsy jillian willis? >> ya. we thought maybe its a stripper? i dont know what. but anyway, my mom went to my dad and confronted him. >> martin denied everything said alexis and then the very next day, he made a curious suggestion. >> my father came to my mom and told her that she needs a facelift. >> that is -- i mean, lots of facelifts, but when their husband comes and says you need one? >> yeah. yeah...

Reasoning for that, he told them that it made him too sad looking at her -- having her medication there. >> reporter: very unpleasant thoughts rattled around in alexis head. and then the business of the funeral. >> my father was very adamant to have her funeral right away. >> reporter: and at the funeral said his daughters, martin talked less about his wife of nearly 30 years than he did about himself. alexis and rachel were appalled by that and angry. even as they wonderpondered whao the autops...

This was my mom, a vibrant healthy woman who was just ripped out of the world. >> reporter: what happened? michelle was a young 50, didnt drink, didnt smoke. she was carrying more weight than she wanted to but the only thing really out of the ordinary was the surgery she just had. >> i wasnt concerned about the health aspect of her doing the face-lift. i just didnt think she needed it. >> reporter: so if a complication from the surgery seemed unlikely, perhaps this theory from martin made more s...

>> yes, for gypsy, who it would emerge was how should we say, financially challenged. the new forged identity wiped her debts away. it also gave her a brand new name jillian mcneil. but the lies didnt end there. they began posing as husband and wife. >> gi sele is out of the pictur. martin wants to make gypsy look like his wife. >> now that was low. but even worse -- >> they used the date of my moms funeral as their marriage date. >> martin and gypsy were arrested in january of 2009, not for mur...

But still, there were practical matters to deal with such as who should care for the four younger mcneil children. alexis returned to medical school, so rachel volunteered. but their father demanded they find a nanny right away. right away. >> he asked me -- he demanded we go to temple to pray for a nanny which was strange. because a nanny not a at all. >> and there they were approached by a mysterious brunette. >> she said i was at the funeral and im so sorry for your loss and my father said, i...