killer still walking free. i would say tiktok, you r coming and we re not giving up. hello and welcome t dateline melvin roberts was a vip in hi tight-knit community, and juli phillips was the light of hi life the couple seemed inseparable, then, a murder shattered the love affair and exposed th dark underbelly of a zip code, where it s considered polite t smile at your friends and your enemies. here is andrea campaigning wit death in the driveway. awesome york, south carolina, a town seeped with america history and southern manners its charm is deeply embedded a the pride of the people wh live here. it s a nice southern count, it s very quiet. it s not the sort of plac you d expect evil to com knocking my life just changed, forever. and these are not the sor of people you d expect to be victims of a vicious crime he s a prominent man in a small town she s a good christian woman sweet southern belle and in the end, what woul forever haunt this peacefu place
she was able to use a key to break free i never let go of my ca key. julie explain to police, sh wanted to get help for melvin, but a part of her new it was too late he was laying on that concrete, and i knew that wa him. and i knew with my heart tha he wasn t alive, but i didn want to believe it still wet and muddy, sh told the police should staye at this long as she needed to, she was grateful to be alive i m the type of person come up at 5:00 in the mornin reading my bible and i honestly believe that go protect me from all of this. i really do. she said i believe she left at around one, two or three in the morning.