The McGuire Diaries

10:11Melanie McGuire:What was he saying to you through the doorway?

10:14Maureen Maher:I'm going to take the kids and you'll never see them again.

10:17Melanie McGuire:Melanie says Bill packed his bags and stormed off in his car. Two days later, she filed a restraining order.

10:27Maureen Maher:With that restraining order, he could not go to school and pick up the kids and take off with them. And that was my biggest fear.

10:34Melanie McGuire:But Bill never tried to contact Melanie, their kids or anyone else. He simply vanished. Thursday I started to call him, no answer. Friday I started calling more frantically, no answer at any of his numbers. As days turned to weeks, Cindy questioned why Melanie had not filed a missing persons report. It wasn't that out of character for him to have a tantrum, pick up and be gone. Three and a half weeks later, with still no word from Bill, Melanie filed for divorce. While Melanie McGuire was taking measures to end her marriage, Virginia Beach police were analyzing those matching suitcases found in the Chesapeake Bay.

11:19Melanie McGuire:A fingerprint check confirmed. The man inside the luggage was Bill McGuire. But who killed him? And how did he end up here, more than 300 miles away from his home in New Jersey?

11:36Melanie McGuire:Do you believe all three suitcases were thrown off this bridge? Yes, I do. CSI investigator Beth Dutton quickly determined that Bill McGuire was shot in the head and torso with a.38 caliber gun. But other forensic evidence was far more difficult to come by.

11:57Maureen Maher:The suitcases were saturated with water. It just destroyed a lot. of that smoking gun type of evidence that probably was in the suitcase, the water became my greatest obstacle.

12:10Melanie McGuire:As investigators continued to search for clues, police informed Melanie her husband was dead. I couldn't feel the ground under me.

12:24Maureen Maher:And I was devastated.

12:32Melanie McGuire:But there was one clue that caused investigators to question the grieving widow. A blanket found wrapped around her dead husband's torso was the very same kind of blanket used at the fertility clinic where Melanie McGuire worked. I just have to try to go on.

12:53Maureen Maher:So we'll see what tomorrow holds.

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14:08Maureen Maher:People call and friends call and they want to know how I'm doing. And I feel better when I talk to them, but until I get to that point, I don't want to talk to anybody.

14:20Melanie McGuire:Melanie McGuire says she was devastated by her husband Bill's death. What is the last thing that you remember saying to Bill?

14:29Maureen Maher:You'd have to edit it.

14:31Melanie McGuire:Give me the gist.

14:33Maureen Maher:F you.

14:35Melanie McGuire:That's the last thing you said to him.

14:37Maureen Maher:Yeah. And I have to live with that. I immediately knew that his wife had done it.

14:45Melanie McGuire:Bill's sister, Cindy, refuses to believe that Bill had been violent with Melanie. I know my brother. He would never lay a hand on a woman. You never saw him abuse her? No. Emotionally? No. Physically? No. Verbally. No. And anyone that knew Melanie knew that no one would get away with that and no one could do that to her. She insists Bill would never abandon his children. He wanted to spend all of his time with his family and that's what he did.

15:12Maureen Maher:I had contacted Melanie McGuire on her cell phone.

15:16Melanie McGuire:Virginia homicide detective Ray Piquel says Melanie reluctantly admitted those suitcases belonged to her and Bill.

15:23Maureen Maher:We just felt that she was holding back some information, a lot of information.

15:27Melanie McGuire:She hinted that her husband's trips to Atlantic City may have put him in contact with some shady characters. She informed us that her husband liked to gamble, that her husband had a knack for pissing people off. Bill's car was found in Atlantic City. Even so, Piquel believed Melanie was misleading him.

15:50Maureen Maher:When you have a husband that's missing, but nobody's reported him missing, yeah, she immediately becomes a suspect.

15:58Melanie McGuire:The police searched the McGuire's apartment, their storage unit, Melanie's car, but found no murder weapon, no tool used to cut up Bill's body. In fact, there was no evidence of a crime scene. The investigation seemed stalled. Police desperately needed more evidence. Working on the theory that Bill McGuire was likely murdered in his home state, police here in Virginia handed off the case to New Jersey. There, the investigation would really begin to zero in on the prime suspect, Melanie McGuire.

16:35Maureen Maher:It was our case now, so we began to look at it and just come up with an investigative plan.

16:42Melanie McGuire:New Jersey State Police Detective David Dalrymple checked gun sale records and quickly hit pay dirt.

16:49Maureen Maher:Melanie McGuire had purchased a Taurus.38 Special revolver.

16:55Melanie McGuire:The gun, one like this, was bought just 48 hours before Bill disappeared. Melanie says her husband wanted it for protection. He couldn't buy it himself because he had a felony conviction, the result of a horrendous driving record. I wanted it to at least be a registered weapon, so I said fine. Months passed and that gun was never found. But prosecutor Patty Parzioso was determined to make a case against Melanie. Everything, everything pointed straight to her. She believes Melanie concocted an elaborate story to explain Bill's absence, beginning with that fight. Is she just flat out lying?

17:44Maureen Maher:I believe it's wholly made up, yes. I don't believe that it occurred.

17:49Melanie McGuire:The restraining order, divorce petition, and hints of shady characters, says Prezioso, were all part of Melanie's cover-up.

17:58Maureen Maher:There was nothing that we found to indicate that Bill was involved with any criminal element whatsoever.

18:04Melanie McGuire:So the investigation intensified.

18:07Maureen Maher:One of the techniques we used was to perform, for lack of a better word, a covert investigation.

18:15Melanie McGuire:Melanie's phones were tapped. Hello? And she was put under surveillance. The covert operation soon uncovered a secret. His name? Dr. Brad Miller, Melanie's boss. They had been carrying on an affair for more than two years. I was looking for attention, affection, understanding.

18:45Maureen Maher:And I found it there. And I am deeply, deeply ashamed of that.

18:53Melanie McGuire:Detectives believe they had finally found Melanie's motive for murder. You did love him. Yeah. But Dr. Miller had a secret of his own.

19:05Maureen Maher:If you want us to stick together, I've got to know everything now.

19:08Melanie McGuire:The police convinced him to betray his lover. So with tape recorders rolling, Dr. Miller asked Melanie pointed questions.

19:22Melanie McGuire:Detectives didn't stop there. Jim Finn, an old friend from nursing school, was also enlisted to secretly record conversations.

19:36Melanie McGuire:Melanie never confessed on those tapes. But through her friends, the police got another big clue. They learned that Melanie was in Atlantic City the night after she claimed Bill left her. She says she went to look for him, found his car, and then drove it to another part of town. I wanted to spite him.

19:59Maureen Maher:I wanted to piss him off. I should be, if not fearful, at least cautious. But I was just so angry at that point, so angry.

20:09Melanie McGuire:How believable is that story to you?

20:11Maureen Maher:Not believable at all. To believe that she just happened upon his car is simply incredible.

20:19Melanie McGuire:Prezioso says Melanie made up that story after the media reported police had video of someone parking Bill's car. Why do you think she went to Atlantic City?

20:30Maureen Maher:I think she went to Atlantic City to plant the car.

20:33Melanie McGuire:The video turned out to be useless. Too much glare. But Melanie had now admitted to being the last known person in Bill's car. The evidence was piling up. Did you kill Bill McGuire? No, I didn't. Did you have anything to do with his murder? I did not. Did you have anything to do with the cover-up of his murder? No. The police believe they now had enough. The blanket wrapped around Bill's torso. The gun Melanie bought. and her secret lover. Thirteen months after those grisly suitcases surfaced in the Chesapeake Bay, Melanie McGuire was arrested for the murder of her husband.

21:14Maureen Maher:I was walking out of my older son's school and out of the bushes come two detectives.

21:23Melanie McGuire:Patty Prezioso was confident she could prove that Melanie McGuire shot her husband, dismembered him with a reciprocating saw and then drove 300 miles to dump his body.

21:35Maureen Maher:Is it probable that she had assistance? Yes, it's absolutely probable.

21:41Melanie McGuire:Prezioso will not say who the possible accomplice may be, so Melanie alone will stand trial. What would you say was your biggest challenge going into the trial?

21:53Maureen Maher:We had a defendant who is quite beautiful and is not the type of person to look at her could commit such a horrific act. Wow. I think if somebody turned around and confessed to Mara, she wouldn't want to believe it.

22:14Maureen Maher:I have to figure out what to wear tomorrow. And that sounds like a completely shallow concern. And I'm reasonably certain that it is. But you know what? It is one of the very, very few things I can control right now.

22:27Melanie McGuire:So that's what I'm going to do. Nine months after Melanie McGuire was arrested, she stands trial for the murder of her husband, Bill. Are you afraid? Oh, my God, terrified.

22:39Maureen Maher:Good morning, members of the jury.

22:41Melanie McGuire:She has been free on bail, but under intense scrutiny. When people remark that, oh, she's got cold eyes,

22:50Maureen Maher:I love that one, that's my favorite, cold eyes. First time as a murder defendant, and I don't quite know what the etiquette is. There's no doubt that she did this.

22:59Melanie McGuire:Prosecutor Patty Prezioso is prepared for battle.

23:03Maureen Maher:She planned for her husband to disappear, and disappear he did.

23:07Melanie McGuire:Does she have one single mistake? Her mistake was killing her husband. Is she capable of committing a crime like this?

23:15Maureen Maher:No way. Just no way. Not physically, not mentally, not emotionally.

23:20Melanie McGuire:Melanie is represented by a courtroom star, Attorney Joe Tacopina.

23:25Maureen Maher:She's holding up very well. It's getting to her, that's for sure, and you feel it because the time is near.

23:30Melanie McGuire:He and partner Steve Torano say Bill may have tempted his own fate.

23:35Maureen Maher:When you have money out on the street and you're behind and you're not making payments, you know what happens? You get shot here and you get shot here.

23:41Melanie McGuire:The state, they say, stubbornly focused only on Melanie.

23:46Maureen Maher:There's no evidence that shows she did this. There's circumstances. I object to that. There's no hardcore evidence. When you have circumstance... She purchased a handgun. After circumstance. This is a side view of the suitcase. After circumstance. There was a blanket. I think it's very, very compelling. Ms. Precioso, call your next witness. I do know Melanie McGuire.

24:07Melanie McGuire:As the days go by, Melanie watches her life pass before her eyes.

24:12Maureen Maher:Melanie McGuire has been a nurse with our practice.

24:15Melanie McGuire:We were co-workers.

24:16Maureen Maher:We were colleagues. They bring in people that I haven't seen in years. We took their honeymoon with them. And what they try to do is have them testify to some fact. Melanie said that they had gotten into an argument. It's like watching ghosts file into the room. And her question to me was, have I seen Bill? She did ask me a question about divorce. Just these memories, these apparitions of the life that I once had. Melanie was stressed out. The one thing that I'm struck by time and time again is that they talk about me like I'm dead. Melanie was an excellent nurse. Patience loved her. It's just sort of this ominous past tense.

24:59Maureen Maher:She was a great nurse. And Richard today, when he was testifying... She is a great nurse. ...made eye contact with me and said, she still is. And I almost cried. I hope it meant something to the jury. I know it meant something to me. Would I be shocked that she was a good nurse and a good friend to some? I would believe that that's the case. But sometimes very nice people do very horrific things.

25:27Melanie McGuire:Yes, Judge. In this case, the prosecutor says, the crime was cruel and calculated. She believes Melanie drugged Bill before shooting him. The defendant somehow administered chloral hydrate. using a powerful sedative obtained with this prescription that someone forged on the pad of Melanie's lover, Dr. Brad Miller. It could have brought him very close to death. But no evidence of the drug was found in Bill's body.

25:56Maureen Maher:And that test did not show the presence of any chloral hydrate byproducts. That is correct, sir.

26:03Melanie McGuire:The state argues his body was found too late to test. Then there's the matter of the searches conducted on the McGuire home computer, just days before Bill disappeared.

26:16Maureen Maher:What was the search term? Instant undetectable poisons.

26:20Melanie McGuire:How to purchase guns. How to commit murder. But as the defense shows, that may not be as bad as it seems.

26:27Maureen Maher:You have absolutely no idea of knowing who actually conducted the searches that you talked about, correct? No, I don't. There are other searches seconds after the so-called incriminating search where it's a website or a site that only Bill McGuire could access. It's password protected.

26:42Melanie McGuire:Prezioso admits she cannot pinpoint when or even where the murder occurred, but she has a theory. I believe it happened in the apartment. That apartment, particularly the bathroom, was painstakingly searched. Not once, not twice. They went into the apartment five times. All to no avail.

27:00Maureen Maher:Not one piece of forensic evidence to be left there. Not blood in the drain, not a piece of skin in the vents.

27:07Melanie McGuire:Brazioso shrugs that off, suggesting Melanie did a thorough cleaning job.

27:13Maureen Maher:We have somebody who is very bright, who was doing computer searches and research on how to do this effectively.

27:23Melanie McGuire:Perhaps the strongest evidence against Melanie McGuire is the very story she herself has told, especially that part about coming here to Atlantic City looking for her husband. Remember, she said she came here, found his car, and then moved it out of spite. That would have been just hours before she filed a restraining order against him. Why would you go down there? It just doesn't make sense.

27:49Maureen Maher:It's not logical. It's not logical at all, and I acknowledge that. Me moving his car is something that, you know, to anybody who knows me seems so natural and so me, you know, so passively spiteful, yet at the same time not overtly confrontational. I just got to wonder, will the jury believe it, you know?

28:15Melanie McGuire:She didn't think that the suitcases would come up, and that's what made her come up with all these different stories, and that's how she got caught. My brother and I were very, very close. Four weeks into the trial, Cindy Lagash takes the stand. Today we had Cindy's testimony, and that was quite a treat. By now, she is Melanie's bitter enemy, and has temporary custody of Melanie and Bill's children. My brother's best friend called me and just told me that they found Billy in the water.

28:47Maureen Maher:It was incredibly frustrating because she came off very sympathetically. Sweatingly. To the point where when she was crying, I started to cry. I'm exhausted. I'm so tired.

29:06Melanie McGuire:I didn't realize, I don't think, how much I've been dreading her. Her. The trial is taking its toll on Melanie. And she is feeling the wrath of the prosecutor. With her? I am scum.

29:22Maureen Maher:Did I sleep with her boyfriend in high school? Did I, you know, did I beat her for a role in the high school play? Was she married to a doctor who left her for his nurse? What is so personal about this to her? It was not personal at all. This was a murder trial. It wasn't a tea party. I wasn't there to become friendly with her. I was there to do my job.

29:49Melanie McGuire:And part of that job, she says, was enlisting help from people once close to Melanie. Were you in love with the defendant?

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30:40Maureen Maher:Tonight I think I just sort of need to get myself mentally in the zone because it's going to be an absolute experience and surreality tomorrow.

30:53Melanie McGuire:It is the moment Melanie has been dreading, facing off in court with two men who betrayed her. First up, her old friend, Jim Finn, who describes how Melanie told him Bill was dead.

31:08Maureen Maher:I felt like I was the director saying, action, and she went, he's dead. It sounded phony to me.

31:14Melanie McGuire:Finn had been in love with Melanie since nursing school, a feeling she never returned. So today was Jim Finn's testimony.

31:23Maureen Maher:It was infuriating. Police were doing an murder investigation. They said, will you help us? And I said, sure. Finn was just sanctimonious and self-righteous. Really, Detective Kronenfeld is interrogating the defendant through me. Hello? Hey. Mel, I'm really scared, dude.

31:40Melanie McGuire:In his secretly recorded phone conversations, Finn pumps Melanie for information.

31:46Maureen Maher:Mel, that's done f***ing lying here. So you won't be telling you I did it when I didn't. What occurred with him recording me was just reprehensible. You yell at her at points to give you something, right? Sure. You talk to me now. Why do you want me to f***? I don't know. Give me some f***ing information. What am I going to tell these people?

32:06Melanie McGuire:But then, attorney Joe Tacopina digs a little deeper and exposes Finn's real reason for interrogating his friend.

32:14Maureen Maher:You felt betrayed when you found out the woman you were madly in love with was having an affair with the doctor that she worked with, correct? That's correct, sir. Jim disappointed me but didn't entirely surprise me. The other one, the other one cut to my very soul. The state calls Dr. Bradley Miller. I would love to be able to just cross the board, despise what he did, write him off and be done.

32:40Melanie McGuire:For the first time in two years, Melanie comes face to face with her ex-lover, who the prosecution claims was her motive for murder. It was so bizarre to see him and so anxiety-provoking.

32:57Maureen Maher:Sir, did there come a time when your relationship with Ms. McGuire got more intimate? Yes, it did. She was about 38 weeks pregnant. And before she went on maternity leave, we had oral sex in the office.

33:13Melanie McGuire:You know, a lot of people look at that and go, Melanie, what are you thinking? I'm thinking here is somebody who thinks the sun rises and sets over me anyway.

33:23Maureen Maher:Were you in love with the defendant? Yes, I was. And did she tell you she was in love with you? Yes, she did. Just to hear him say how much he had loved me. I just died all over again. We were hoping to be together in the future, to buy a house and have kids together. I want to hate him. I really do, and I can't. And it is so painful. So painful.

33:52Melanie McGuire:It becomes even more painful as she listens to his secret tape recordings in court. You swear you had nothing to do with us. Yeah.

34:01Maureen Maher:On your children's lives as I'm standing by you. Yeah. I still care. And I don't want to care. Hang in there. You're too worried about you. And I don't want to cry. And I don't want to keep living this loss over and over and over again between the loss of my family, of my husband, for better or for worse, for

34:33Melanie McGuire:the father and my kids, for Brad my whole life. On cross, Takapina uses Dr. Miller's own words to poke holes in the state's theory that Melanie murdered her husband to be with him.

34:48Maureen Maher:Never once, not before the death of her husband or after, did she ever ask you to leave your wife, correct? No, she did not. You had made it clear to Melanie that you were not planning on leaving your wife anytime soon, correct? That's correct.

35:04Melanie McGuire:After two grueling days on the stand, Miller returned to his new home in Michigan with his wife, his children, and his job at another fertility clinic. If you could say something to him now, what would it be? How could you?

35:20Maureen Maher:How do you live with yourself? How do you sleep in bed next to your wife every night still lying to yourself? How could you?

35:31Melanie McGuire:After five weeks of prosecution testimony, the defense gets its turn. Takapina comes out of the gate confident, saying the state not only failed to find a murder weapon, a motive, or an accomplice, it failed to prove its own theory that Melanie shot and dismembered Bill in their apartment.

35:53Maureen Maher:Impossible for that crime to have occurred in that apartment without there being a piece of evidence. Impossible for a neighbor not to hear gunshots. Impossible for the neighbors not to hear a reciprocating saw soaring through bone.

36:08Melanie McGuire:Impossible, says Takapina, for this loving nurse, mother, and friend to commit such a ghoulish crime.

36:16Maureen Maher:Defense call its next witness, please.

36:18Melanie McGuire:A parade of fiercely loyal friends and patients. She was my nurse.

36:22Maureen Maher:Best person I've ever known.

36:23Melanie McGuire:Take the stand to drive home that point. I have multiple sclerosis, and I was a complete vegetable.

36:30Maureen Maher:Melanie really helped me get back into shape. She's very caring and honest, and I'm sorry.

36:38Melanie McGuire:Allison LaCalcy has known Melanie for 20 years. Even in your heart of hearts, are you absolutely sure that Melanie had nothing to do with Bill's murder? Especially in my heart of hearts. Best friend Celine Trevisis is just as sure. Melanie is not a vicious person.

36:55Maureen Maher:She doesn't lose her cool. She doesn't have that in her at all.

37:01Melanie McGuire:But will the jury get to see that side of Melanie McGuire?

37:05Maureen Maher:I need to be prepared to testify. I mean, if I were a juror, I would want to hear it from me. But I understand the concerns that the attorneys have, which is why. You've already been cross-examined by two people you loved and trusted. Have you made a decision regarding whether or not you wish to testify?

37:27Melanie McGuire:Yes, Your Honor.

37:28Maureen Maher:And what is your decision?

37:29Melanie McGuire:I wish to remain silent. Closing arguments begin.

37:34Maureen Maher:They saw what they wanted to see. They heard what they wanted to hear. No one was investigated besides Monty McGuire.

37:41Melanie McGuire:Not even those shady characters Bill supposedly angered in Atlantic City, says Takapina.

37:47Maureen Maher:He was a big gambler, ladies and gentlemen. He gambled beyond his means. There's no question about that.

37:51Melanie McGuire:But Prezioso says Bill McGuire's only real enemy is sitting in the defendant's chair.

37:59Maureen Maher:Don't let drama, don't let looks keep you from doing what may be an unpleasant task. The way they've presented it, it's damning. And I'm scared. All right, I think that's about enough for tonight.

38:34Maureen Maher:What would I say to the kids and to my family if I couldn't come home to say it?

38:40Melanie McGuire:In the privacy of her bedroom, Melanie McGuire prepares for the worst while she waits for the verdict. to the boys.

38:49Maureen Maher:I hope you never see this. I hope you don't have to. I love you more than life itself, and I would never have taken your father from you. I loved my husband. Was I in love with him anymore? No. But we had kids together. We had a life together.

39:10Melanie McGuire:Why do you think people should believe you've given this mountain of evidence? It's circumstantial, but it's pretty simple.

39:16Maureen Maher:This is not who I am. I have spent my life, my professional life, giving people life, trying to bring life into the world. I am so afraid to feel optimistic, to feel hopeful. I just, I get this knot in my stomach, and if I really think about it, it's unimaginable. how I'm going to stand there, how I'm going to find my feet and physically stand there while they read that verdict.

39:53Melanie McGuire:Deliberations spread out over four days.

39:56Maureen Maher:See you guys tomorrow. Counsel, I'm told that the jury has reached the verdict. Are we all set? Yes, sir. Let's bring the jury up.

40:06Melanie McGuire:How do you find us at the count of the indictment charging Melanie McGuire with the murder of William McGuire.

40:12Maureen Maher:Guilty.

40:14Melanie McGuire:Melanie McGuire is found guilty of murder. I was crushed. Just crushed.

40:22Maureen Maher:Crushed. 12 people were able to say, I'm going to convict her beyond a reasonable doubt based on the state of that record. Was shocking to me. And then I was dealing with the raw emotion of what was going on there. Melanie's literally pulling on my lapel and my arm. She's telling me time and again, I didn't do it, I didn't do it, my kids, my kids. I felt responsible, not because I killed my husband, because I didn't, but because if I hadn't stayed with him this long, if I hadn't had the affair, if I hadn't moved the car, if I hadn't bought the gun, these people I love, let alone me, wouldn't be in this kind of pain right now.

41:03Maureen Maher:It was the worst moment of my life. It was like a death, hearing those words and seeing her face and just knowing that these 12 people could think that she killed her husband. My ears started buzzing once I heard guilty and I didn't hear anything else. Just tremendous, tremendous relief.

41:28Melanie McGuire:Melanie is taken into custody and put on suicide watch.

41:40Melanie McGuire:Three months later at sentencing, Bill's sister Cindy defends her brother's character. His heart was filled with compassion, kindness, and generosity towards others.

41:51Maureen Maher:He never held a grudge, was quick to forgive and forget, and would help anyone in need. The crime was so heinous, so cruel, and so depraved that the court finds that the maximum sentence should be imposed. Melanie McGuire is sentenced to life in prison.

42:14Melanie McGuire:It's absolutely indescribable.

42:18Maureen Maher:The hell for me, the hell for my family. This is my life now. This is what I have to deal with.

42:28Melanie McGuire:But she remains defiant.

42:32Maureen Maher:I can't make anybody believe who's convinced that I've done this, that I didn't. All I can continue to do is tell the truth. And it's not the most flattering truth, but it's the truth.

42:55Maureen Maher:We'll be right back.

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