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there was a little jockeying at first. two women, one man. even if one of the women was just 3. our first date, alyssa was there. we were eating and i was trying to talk to ben and get to know him and she was like don t talk to my dad. i remember meeting her and i didn t really like her. she was talking to my dad. more than talking to him as it turned out, ben and melissa moved in together a month later. the sort of thing a 3-year-old finds hard to understand. she said i love you and i said don t talk to my dad that way. as we said, it was a love story for both of them. as jamie is the friend and future bride s maid put it he was truly her best friend. he was the best dad. that s all he cared about was a lisz a. that was his sprirt was to take care of her. melissa and ben and a lisz a.
sure enough when they tested him for residue or cast off, he was clean. could not have fired the gun. back to melissa. melissa, understand that i m not blaming you. i m asking you to help solve the problem, okay? there was blood on melissa and gunshot residue. just the truth is all i hope to get. melissa s friend, jamie, was there when she came out of the interrogation room. melissa just dropped to the floor when she saw me and she had a little bit of blood on her. she just said i didn t do this.
all hell broke loose. but murder? police went to see her a couple of hours after ben was kill and found her fast a sleeve. . what time did you go to sleep? i watched a movie and probably around 4:00? she happened to be sharing her bedroom with a 24-year-old family friend named james. we watched a movie and went to bed. not a convincing alibi any more than james, the new man in her life, was just a friend. even less convincing when the detective learned about a trip to a 7-11 store about an hour and a half before the murder. why are they hiding little pieces? we started to do surveillance on them and they were worried wa because they think we are
why he would want to hurt melissa. couldn t connect the dots and put him in the garage. absolutely not. but the dots were connecting for detectives. they shared their suspicions with debra, how the evidence of the traveling iphone pointed to tony. i remember that i couldn t stand up. i wasn t able to stand on my feet. melissa s murder was devastating and frightening for everyone at the law firm, especially, it seemed, for scott rothstein. only the week before, rothstein was toasting melissa after making her a partner. now he was helping her family with funeral arrangements. melissa s aunt, lynn, spoke at the church memorial. i could look out from the podium and see a sea of lawyers out there. including scott rothstein. including scott rothstein. who actually paid for the services. he came to the funeral home and paid for everything. three days after the funeral, detectives arrested tony villegas.