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real estate attorney Gary Ferris's remains were found on a burn pile, a bullet lodged in a rib bone.

The discovery on the family's 10-acre Cherokee County, Georgia property is where Ferris lived

with his wife, Melody, and son Scott. As the investigation progressed, a second

bullet is found in their home's basement. So how did the body end up in the burn pile 50 yards away?

As police put that question to family members, they began pointing fingers at each other.

Scott Ferris ran the farm's day-to-day operation, his work, and personal expenses

covered by his father. Mom Melody says Scott was being pushed by his father to get another

job. Scott Ferris denies the allegations, saying tension in the family is caused by Melody

disappearing for weeks at a time and spending Gary Ferris's money.

Investigators discover Melody is having an affair and her lover lives in Tennessee.

After investigating for nearly a year, Melody Ferris is arrested for the murder of Gary Ferris.

At trial, Melody's defense claims Scott, at about six feet eight inches tall, 280 pounds, is more capable of moving Gary's six-foot, four-inch, 300-pound body than she was.

But police and prosecutors believed Melody Ferris is the killer.

She was the only one home at the time police believed Gary Ferris was killed. Then at trial,

prosecutors called a witness, an analyst from Cherokee County Sheriff's Office Intelligence Division,

who analyzed phone records discovering Gary Ferris' cell phone, moved from the house to the burn

pile and back to the house after investigators believed the body was already on the burn

pile. Melody Ferris was the only one home then as well. Also at trial, prosecutors call

Roy Rusty Barron Jr., Melody's lover. He testifies to a phone call with Melody. You told them that the defendant, probably the last minute of the last conversation,

she said, Gary is in the burn pile.

No, she said he is in the burn pile.

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