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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 08:05:00

Assert the sort of thing a three year old finds hard to understand. she said i love you, and i said don t talk to my dad that we. but as we said, it was a love story. then for both of them. as jamie a friend and future bridesmaid put it he was truly her best friend and he was the best dad. that s all he cared about was alyssa. that was his priority. to take care of. her so, it was melissa and ben and alyssa. the threesome. he was so involved in every aspect of her life. they were really like two peas in a pod. and one september day in 2006, as the sun was setting into the sierra nevada mountains, ben and melissa got married. the ceremony at nearby lake tahoe. melissa was a glowing bride. alyssa, a little flower girl. it wasn t just melissa and ben getting married. it was melissa marrying alyssa, to. seriously. they made a particular ceremony of. it alyssa will you promise to share in the love of this family? ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 08:38:00

Told her. all she knew. but you re pretty confident that james of something to do with it? i don t know. but was that really all she knew? don remember had a 16 year old son named devin who, detectives learned, was at home and listening in the hours before ben oxley was murdered. so if anyone can confirmed on version of the events, surely it would be wet devin. he wasn t talking yet, anyway. coming up. the question haunting this whole case. what s our? evidence? was there anything against anyone? prosecutors were about to make a deal to get the evidence they need. you want to talk about this case? you know i do. when dateline continues. yeah. i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief you need. ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 08:54:00

it s a rare thing to do to sit in the jail room just as this, where a murderer confesses chapter and verse. denial is the more common language here. i pulled the trigger but james matlean will he murdered then oxley in his sleep and must live with that for the rest of his day with. and suffered 2011, he told his story in court. it was after the da took the penalty off the table, and james decided to plead guilty. and that s one melissa said sitting in the courtroom, her for the first time about something else james was supposed to kill her to. don asked me if i would kill melissa. i just said yeah. there was a bullet there for ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 08:33:00

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 ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 08:57:00

Hook, because there was one possibility still. if the da could find hard evidence that dom lied when she was given that get out of jail free card for implicating james it s still an open book for don oxley for murder. if somebody comes today with credible evidence to show that she did in fact go, we can prosecutor. and 2011, done was sent to prison on another offense. she pleaded guilty for using her teenage daughter, brandi, to sell prescription drugs. what she employing you as an assistant in that business? i was driving. yes. don was released from prison in march of 2014. but not to be the mother of alyssa, the one judge terminated her parental rights. both alyssa and were brandy sent to live with melissa. to live a life that they did not know with their biological mom. it was a family, that s a lie that i need. in 2011, having pleaded ....

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