Cops Think Step-Mom Killed Dad – Until 6YO Reveals This Clue | The Case of the Oxley Family
“It was like making a deal with the devil”
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At 3:30 am on February 21st 2008, Melissa Oxley frantically calls 911 from her bedroom in Minden, Nevada. She’s just woken up next to the dead body of her husband, Ben, who’s been murdered with a shotgun in his sleep. She hides with her 6-year-old stepdaughter, Alyssa, pleading with dispatchers to hurry, since she can hear footsteps downstairs, but when police arrive, there’s no intruder found. As all clues point to Melissa, Ben’s daughter, 6 YO Alyssa, breaks her silence: she was the only one awake in the house, and what she saw that night will take the investigation in a whole different direction, throwing suspicion onto her own mother, Dawn Oxley, and Dawn's boyfriend, James Matlean.
Directing, writing & editing by Matthew Rice
Research by Tianyi Zhang
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
Voiceover by William Akana
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Sources:
Dateline NBC - While They Were Sleeping 2019
Discovery Plus - Does murder sleep - S01E01
Deadly awakening
Oxygen - Killer Motive: S2E7
Waking nightmare
Apple TV - In Plain Sight : Family Nightmare
Interrogation Footage: Law & Crime Network - She Woke Up Covered in Her Husband’s Blood
