If you are just tuning in, we encourage you to go back and listen from episode one.

This podcast may contain content that is graphic and disturbing in nature.

Listener discretion is advised. Last time on direct appeal we brought you up to date on Melanie's case. We really appreciate your patience now while we follow up on tips and conduct additional interviews for our final episodes.

In the meantime, we give you the second Q&A with Melanie.

Before we get to the second Q&A, though, we also have a couple of announcements.

This week, Amy and I will be on Dialogue with Rebecca Sebastian. That's D.I.E. Dialogue. We'll be talking about Melanie's case, but we'll also be talking about other criminal justice system issues, crime trivia, and more. We had a lot of fun

with Rebecca and we appreciated her having us on the show. We hope you'll check us out.

Amy and I have also been invited to speak at American Crime Fest this year in

Wildwood New Jersey at the Wildwood Convention

Center, the weekend up November 8th. Tickets for that event are on sale now. And for those of you

who had to miss CrimeCon, this may be your chance to get your true crime fix.

We're super excited and we look forward to seeing lots of you there.

Thanks.

All right, let's get going.

First question. Okay, Melanie, you said you looked at furniture stores in

Delaware and made a list of stores. Did you not look at what times those stores were

open even though you had done so much other research?

I actually had a list and I did have sometimes next to a couple of them.

I probably overestimated the amount of time it would take to get there as well.

But yes, some of them were 10 o'clock opens, a couple were 9 o'clock opens, so yes, I did.

I did have those times.

And what time did you say you got there around?

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