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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". i...

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". ...

Yada, yada, and james said, "i'll go out and kill him right now. you just say the word i'll kill him." she was like a broken record. "i want him dead. i want him dead." >> sound like a woman who was shocked when the murder happened? but there was more. it was after that when james matlean told his attorney ken stover it was time to tell the whole story. >> i could tell he was telling the truth. over the course of 15 months he's always told the same story. >> reporter: so now comes another story. james's story. not a love story this time. >> nobody could believe that i would do what i did. i ha...

Welcome back. dawn oxley agreed to testify that james killed her ex-husband, ben. in exchange, dawn received limited immunity and james was charged with first-degree murder. in court, there would be a couple of surprises, including a terrifying detail about the night ben was killed. turns out ben was not the only one in danger. here's keith morrison with the conclusion of our story. >> it's a rare thing to sit in a jail house room such as this while a murderer confesses, chapter and verse. denial the more common language here. >> i pulled the trigger. >> james did not shrink from it. he murder...

To the display of james' attorney, she may never face a murder charge. >> the prosecutor made a deal with the devil. >> a deal with the devil. without dawn's testimony at the preliminary hearing, the murder charge would never have stuck. but dawn was not totally off the hook. there was one possibility still. if the da could find hard evidence that dawn lied for implicating james -- >> it's an open book on dawn oxley for murder. if someone showed she did go, we could prosecute her. dawn was sent to prison on another offense. she pleaded guilty to using her teenage daughter to sell prescription ...