While They Were Sleeping

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🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Melissa Oxley wakes up to find her husband, Ben Oxley, shot in the head next to her. No one in the house sees or hears anything. Who could have committed this brutal murder? Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC May 4, 2012.

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0:00.0	At first I thought I was dreaming.
0:02.8	I went to go wake him up and then I could see him.
0:06.6	Hard to get that one out of your head, isn't it?
0:09.0	You're horrible.
0:12.6	Knowing the person that you love is dead.
0:15.2	And then you're being looked at for it.
0:19.7	You've got the wife.
0:20.7	You've got a small six-year-old child and you've got a 15-year-old boy in the house.
0:24.3	And you've got everybody saying they don't know.
0:26.5	Like a ghost has done this.
0:28.3	A ghost?
0:29.3	That's what it feels like.
0:32.4	Didn't Melissa do it?
0:34.2	I mean, she cut off.
0:35.1	She's the wife.
0:35.8	She was blamed in bed with him.
0:37.6	It doesn't make sense that she wasn't shot.
0:40.4	I wanted to take you down.
0:41.6	We need you right there.
0:42.8	Back to the house.
0:46.6	We started to do surveillance on them.
0:49.0	Now they're starting to get worried because they think we're watching them.
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