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“It was like making a deal with the devil”
At 3:30 am on February 21st 2008, Melissa Oxley frantically calls 911 from her bedroom. 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-year-old 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.
Directing, writing & editing by Matthew Rice
Research by Tianyi Zhang
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
Voiceover by William Akana
Sources:
Documentary:
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
4.7
229229 ratings
“It was like making a deal with the devil”
At 3:30 am on February 21st 2008, Melissa Oxley frantically calls 911 from her bedroom. 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-year-old 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.
Directing, writing & editing by Matthew Rice
Research by Tianyi Zhang
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
Voiceover by William Akana
Sources:
Documentary:
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
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