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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 ....
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. strange ....
But everyone agreed with. don if she was happy, we were all happy. but after five years of marriage, neither benn nor don were happy, and the marriage went up in flames. ben had cheated on john. i can see that. this probably wasn t something that she was going to get over. don changed after that, said cindy, didn t seem to want to act like a parent anymore. she met a guy and she would stay the night at his house. when her kids are calling us to tell us that we have no more food in the house, there s no food, there s a problem. so when ben and john went to court to fight for the custody of melissa, sunday had to tell the truth. i told the judge that don was not taking care of her kids anymore. they were not a priority, they were not even number five. when ben won custody of ....
Time at her mother dawn s house. and one day, while she was there. ben s sister warned her about the stepmom sheet come to love. she told me that she thought my step mom killed my dad. that night. must be pretty weird for you to hear that. yeah, i didn t believe it. didn t believe it at all? no. but if alyssa didn t believe it, others did. and before long, they had more ammunition, because of something else detective elges discovered. 400,000 dollar life insurance policy. it sounds a lot like she had the motivation to want this thing to happen. and once again, melissa found herself answering difficult questions. i didn t even know there was an insurance policy. i guess i was sort of naive to it. we were looking at it for retirement. but while the investigation ....
I can see that. this probably wasn t something that she was going to get over. don changed after that, said cindy, didn t seem to want to act like a parent anymore. she met a guy and she would stay the night at his house. when her kids are calling us to tell us that we have no more food in the house, there s no food, there s a problem. so when ben and john went to court to fight for the custody of melissa, sunday had to tell the truth. i told the judge that don was not taking care of her kids anymore. they were not a priority, they were not even number five. when ben won custody of melissa, and more than $200 a month in child support, john was devastated. this is her mother, sherrie washington. a retired deputy sheriff. this was eating her alive? ....