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Outages here and travel is going to be very difficult, if not impossible. so listen to your local weather officials. fox weather.com. download the app. we will give you the very latest in the winter storm details. all right, brian, you know i don't think dawn is going to have to shovel but i will keep you posted. >> brian: for some reason your snow storms are monday through friday when i'm at work causing a lot of stress at my house which can't be overstated. thank you so much, janice. rise in crime record homicides. how woke movement has left one major city without enough officers to protect ...

>> reporter: dawn. dawn oxley. ben oxley's ex-wife, alyssa's mother. even as more than a few local gossipers pointed suspicious fingers at melissa, ben's best friends told each other -- >> everything in me said that dawn had something to do with that. >> reporter: of course, just a few years back that sort of thinking would have been unimaginable to dawn and ben's best friends scott and cindy graham. not dawn. dawn, the force of nature, the center of any room she was in. >> i don't know if it's manipulating or what, but everybody agreed with dawn. as long as dawn was happy, then we're all happ...

>> i pulled the trigger. >> reporter: but james matlean did not shrink from it. he murdered ben oxley in his sleep and must live with what he did for the rest of his days. >> i'm afraid to deal with what i actually did. >> reporter: he told his story in court last december. it was after the d.a. took the death penalty off the table and james decided to plead guilty. and that's when melissa sitting in the courtroom heard for the first time about something else. james was supposed to kill her, too. >> dawn asked me if i would kill melissa. i just automatically said yeah. >> reporter: there was a...

A heated conversation about ben oxley. james asking dawn if she wants to have him killed. but that's where the stories diverge. dawn remember, says she told james, no, don't do it and fell asleep on the couch. but that's not james matlean's story. >> she was ecstatic about what was happening. she was happy i was going to kill somebody. you know? >> reporter: it was after midnight. dawn drew him a diagram of ben oxley's house, said james, so he could find his way to the bedroom. then he went to the 7-eleven, drew $40 out of the atm with dawn's bank card. and then together he said they went to t...

They were. a happy family. >> for her to be my wife is just -- it's a blessing. >> it's what you wait for all your life. >> reporter: what were your plans?s l >> to buy a house and to have babies and have a family. >> reporter: they eventually moved here, a three-bedroom ranch in the carson valley looking up toward the sierra nevadas. alyssa spent half her time with ben and melissa. the other time with her birth mom, ben's ex-wife, dawn. but above all, what ben really wanted was to have his little girl permanently. >> he never thought that he could have his daughter. and i was like, yeah, you ...