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Come down here. come down here. my daddy's been shot. >> reporter: by the time jamie arrived, melissa was grilled by detectives. >> detective elgas has questions. lots of them. so many things about this murder didn't make sense. >> you were right there? >> the other thing i don't understand is why somebody shoots him and you don't see anything. >> i don't know. >> reporter: maybe it was the man ben warned her about, she said, a rough customer who once dated ben's ex-wife, dawn, and apparently threatened to kill dawn and any man she had been with. was the story true? just to be safe, detective ...

Me more than anything. and i think it's true. >> reporter: quite true, of course. so 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. i was just trying to talk to ben and kind of get to know him. she is like -- alyssa is like don't talk to my dad. >> i remember meeting her. i didn't really like her. she was talking to my dad. >> reporter: more than talking to him, as it soon turned out, ben and moelissa moved in together a month later. sort of thing a 3-year-old finds hard to understand. >> and ...

Terrible danger. >> because you don't know who did it. you don't know if they're going to come back for melissa, if melissa was supposed to be in that. >> reporter: melissa, meanwhile, tried to be a source of comfort for her 6-year-old stepdaughter, alyssa. the little girl's whole world had been destroyed, leaving her now in a world of chaos. and with her home and love nest now a crime scene, melissa and alyssa moved in with the woman who had been bridesmaid at the wedding, jamie, and it was at night when the curtains were drawn that jamie watched melissa reading with pain. >> many nights of c...

Everybody in the house says i don't know. >> a ghost? >> yeah. that's what it feels like because you have no idea. >> reporter: how was it possible melissa hadn't seen the person who'd shot ben? she'd been lying right next to him. why was she unharmed? >> that's kind of a testy little red flag started popping up. okay, this doesn't seem right. >> reporter: and had craig, melissa's teenage brother truly slept through the whole thing as he claimed? >> i opened my eyes and right in my face was a bunch of barrels from a machine gun. >> reporter: it was police guns he was looking at, police who had...