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>> could she have been the killer or was someone keeping a secret? >> i said what did you do? what did you do? s >> i don't know what to tell you. >> just the truth. >> hello. and welcome to "dateline." it's the stuff of nightmares. an intruder 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, bing, dead from abi gunshot blast. it seems g strange, they though that no one else in the house was hurt including melissa, who was sleeping by his side....

Stranger still was who the killer ultimately turned out to be. here's keith morrison with "while they were sleeping." it was cold the night the full moon rose, february cold in the desert valley that spilled down from reno, nevada. in that moonlight all silver pe pale, the wind whipped and cried up the driveway, round the corner of the house, whistled past the unlocked door, something evil afoot, something here inside. the moon peered through the window and into the master bedroom. a little after 3:00 in the morning. >> it's really, really bad. >> what's really bad? >> my husband. >> strange...

Disappeared. they would find him though the next day. hidden in a small bathroom cabinet at the ranch. >> when charlie was arrested in death valley, he was booked as charles manson, aka jesus christ because he was telling everybody he was the resurrection of jesus. >> four months after the murders, a ragged band of killers and their strange leader now behind bars. but the mystery of why, stranger still. coming up, inside the mind of a madman. >> charles manson is literally one of the worst human beings that ever walked this planet. tonight we come to let loose. tonight we come to dance.

>> they worshipped charlie like a god. >> in the days after the murders, charlie seemed dangerous and unhinged. >> he was almost in a frantic state, i would say. he was very worried. >> and so was hoyt. she knew something was very wrong. but she didn't know what. and neither did police. it would be months of false leads and missed opportunities for them to unravel the mystery of the seven savage murders. >> in the case of this nature where you have so many people who are dead, and then you try on find out, who did they know? where do you start? >> hunting a monster when we come back.

Day, hidden in a small bathroom cabinet at the ranch. >> when charlie was arrested in death valley, he was booked as charles manson, aka jesus christ because he was telling everybody he was the reincarnation of jesus. >> four months after the murders, a ragged band of killers and their strange leader now behind bars. but the mystery of why, stranger still. coming up, inside the mind of a madman. >> charles manson is literally one of the worst human beings that ever walked this planet. right now, at&t is giving you 50 percent more data. that's 15 gigs of data for the price of 10. and get 300 do...