Episode 352

32:14Yeah. No, like I said, I wasn't there. You were there. Well, I mean, I was, but I left. You know, and I just saw it smoldering. Didn't think it was, you know, okay, it's not pleasing, it's not whatever, but we're good, you know. Didn't think, you know, but I kept thinking last night, why did Scott come in here and get so angry? last night. But that's not all that unusual either, for him to just blow up. Scott insists he's not a hothead. He admits he gets angry, like anyone, and he admits loud bangs still make him jump. But he pushes back on the idea that he's some kind of ticking bomb. My version of PTSD is if I hear a loud bang or something, that I'm just not, you know, prepared for.

33:12My drilling just goes through the roof. My heart is about pounding out of my chest. And I've learned to, I start taking deep breaths and it calms me down. But gunfire doesn't bother me. I can still be around that. You know, nightmares have ended and they ended a long time ago. Other than that, no, I don't get violent with anybody. I'm just like my dad, you know. I make friends everywhere I go. By all accounts, Scott and his dad were really likable guys who made friends everywhere they went. And they got along well together. When his dad wasn't able to keep up with the farm anymore, Scott was a huge help.

33:55It was more Gary and Melody who didn't get along so well. And Melody had her own habit of making friends wherever she went. if you know what I mean. What I mean is that Melody didn't just collect friends. She collected other women's partners. Starting with a guy named Ted who'd spent more than 20 years as the boyfriend of Gary's sister. So, yeah. Melody's brother-in-law. Melody was fucking her brother-in-law. The truth is that Melody and Scott had been together for decades until something pulled them apart. And that's something the family would later say was Melody. This was Chris's take on it.

34:46You know, my parents don't get along. They don't, honestly, don't really like each other. And so the communication... How long have they not liked each other? This has been going, this is nothing new. My grandmother, in about a series of three months, my grandmother had open heart surgery that went really wrong. She survived, but it put her debilitating. Around a month or two after that, my ex-wife told me she was leaving. Then, through that whole situation, my mother had to be in Alabama. It's my mom's, my grandmother's house, because she could no longer function on her own. So my mom had to go up there and get her house, deal with the affairs.

35:29This was a bit of a double entendre. Melody had to deal with the affairs of grandma and her house, but also had her own affairs. So during that period, my mom started... The affairs? Affairs. Started withdrawing a lot of money out of my father's account. I remember him calling me and saying, your mother just took$50 ,000 out of my account that I had set aside to pay taxes with. So I'm scrambling to find out what I'm going to do. She spent a lot of money. Everybody was spending old Big Daddy's hard-earned money, and nobody seemed to be bringing in any of their own. According to Melody, Scott was constantly taking the debit card for cash.

36:16But Scott would say his dad knew about every penny, and it was considered compensation for helping on the farm. Melody would say that Chris was abusive to his kids and constantly took vacations at the expense of Gary, Big Daddy. But Chris would answer that his dad didn't have a problem with it. In fact, he was going to go with Chris on vacation shortly before he died. And Melody wasn't happy about it. The last thing that Chris had done was booked a vacation to the beach that they're supposed to be leaving Saturday. I think it's Saturday. And Gary had said, I'm going to go with him. Instead of him just taking the money, like what he usually does, I'm going to go with him.

37:04And he said, are you going to go? And I said, no, I'm not going. Because Gary, he keeps taking, I mean, it's serious money. I mean, it's like, it's serious money. I mean, like I said, it's anywhere from$800,$900 and what, plus the girls' airline tickets. To hear Melody tell it, even plane tickets for her granddaughters were one more example of everyone spending Gary's money. But the truth was that trips with the kids weren't exactly what had nearly blown this marriage up years earlier. I mean, I told him he needed to find somebody else. You know, because she talks so bad about him to everyone to make him out to be such an awful person.

37:50And, now granted, she does that to a lot of people too. My mother has issues. Basically, he's in a tough situation. and he didn't want to break the whole family up. He's not a very conservative, traditional person. You know? And I don't know all the ins and outs. And when you're a kid, you don't want to hear that kind of stuff about your parents, no matter how old you are. But there was definitely a lot of problems, a lot of issues, and a lot of problems. Okay. Have you ever known there to be any domestic violence or anything? No, never. Is there any substance abuse going on? Anything other than her cheating and money issues?

38:29Do you know any names of anyone she had an affair with? Or do you just know she had a affair with? Ted Wiley. And then some guy named Rusty. I think his last name was Barton. And I don't know that that was an affair that actually happened. That's just something we suspected. Because she would tell my daughter's things. You know, Big Daddy. This is that and that. And she would like... She would just badmouth. Yeah, badmouth him. But she would have like always on her phone. Always talking to somebody. ends up getting a tattoo right here that says XOXO. And my daughter said, well, that's who, when she calls people, it says XOXO on her phone.

39:09And like my brother told me today, he's like, yeah, she's got a whole other cell phone. According to Chris, Gary tried his best to avoid divorce. For a while, they even moved away and tried to hit the reset button. When that didn't work, Gary bought Melody's dream farm. where he ultimately died. He thought buying this would fix everything. He did for a while, and then things started happening again. So it's been an on and off thing. Has anybody ever actually filed for divorce? I think my dad filed, but he withdrew it. Okay. Because I remember him calling me and telling him he was going to take it back.

39:49And I told him, you know, I mean, I told him not to buy this place because it's not going to fix it. I mean, I told him he needed to find somebody else. Scott backed up Chris's statements about his parents' marriage in a separate interview.

40:29I knew he loved her. He was the one, I mean, I think at one point he said something to either Chris or somebody. I just heard that he tried to get her to go to marriage counseling and she wouldn't do it. By the time detectives were done listening to everyone, Melody, the two sons and the two daughters, Emily and Amanda, they'd heard every angle on this family. The affairs. The money. The move. The dream farm Gary bought to try to hold it all together. Emily and Chris were pretty clear. They think their mother is capable of this. Amanda, the youngest, was still defending Melody while planning her wedding with her.

41:15Scott also thought his mother might be capable of it, but he was a person of interest, too. He was the son who lived on the farm and stood to gain the property if Gary were to be gone. None of this told them who actually pulled the trigger, though. On paper, it looked bad for Melody. But Scott, with his temper, his time on the farm, and his proximity to the missing gun, still seemed like the most dangerous wildcard. So, detectives stopped asking about feelings and went back to the three days that mattered most. July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, to see what evidence said about who was there when Gary died.

42:00At first, the family wanted to believe this was an accident. Gary had one of his dizzy spells, maybe a heart attack, and fell into the fire. Poof. Burned quickly and gone, just like that. But finding the bullet immediately rules that out. And the body burning quickly in a fire? well that's just not how it works kids bodies don't burn like that you don't burn on bodies you just don't throw them on a burn pile that's unusual the amount of effort needed to burn a body is significant go i mean that was just i know that he burned one okay i'm telling you bodies just don't burn in fires they just don't go away we're all water you can't burn water incinerators are designed to burn for a very long time in an exceedingly high heat that is not reaching a regular bonfire it's not reaching a brush fire it's not even really reaching a house fire house fires where houses collapse on people we still find more of those people than we did of your husband okay then how did he burn it was outside your bedroom window I was hoping maybe you could shed some light on it all I saw was I'd never went down there.

43:21But someone did. Because someone would have needed to make sure the body itself kept burning until the job was done. And Melody was on the property all day long on July 4th. The 5th is when they all went searching for Gary and found what Melody claimed to be a goat. I mean, when we were all down there the other day, I mean, everybody, me and Amanda, Scott and Chris, even, you know, Addison and Cameron, I think we were all circling around. Scott actually, when we were discussing that about the goat, I said, do we have a goat to die? Did you put one in the burn pile? And, you know, did your daddy put one on?

44:03You know, whatever, because all I saw was two legs, what I thought was two legs sticking up. Melody wasn't just playing along. So that fire, it had to be tended to for a while. I just told Gary, I said, you've got to keep an eye on that. Someone had to go back. Repeatedly. And do what to do? Keep it burning. I did not do it. I did not do that. I mean, when I tell you that fire was massive, it was massive. And he had a bunch of, like I said, there was fencing and boards to be in all kinds of... Woefully insufficient for the type of heat and the amount of the burn and everything else about it. Woefully insufficient.

44:55Woefully insufficient. It sounds like feedback on a failed science project. But what he's really saying is her version wouldn't come close to doing this. A fire like the one she describes doesn't erase a 300-pound man. someone had to stay with it and continue feeding the fire. That's all I know. That is all I know. That's all I know that was on it. I know that Gary... What can you tell me about the blood in that? What can you tell me about the blood you found? I don't... I didn't know that there was any blood. I mean, how much blood are we talking? We found blood. Do you know anything about the blood?

45:43I did not know anything about the blood. Nothing. And the entire time you were there? Because this is where, and see if this makes sense to you, and I'll let you try to explain how this could happen. Something happened to him. How did he die? I don't know. You were told. I don't know. You were told how he died, weren't you? What happened? Well, we just assumed when Scott said it, this is human remains on this fire. But you know what they say about assumptions, right? It's an old Benny Hill joke. Have you been told how he died, what we found? He told me that there was a shot or whatever, a slug in the rib.

46:33Okay, so what does that indicate to you? The gunshot wound. Okay. I mean, that's like, I mean, I told Amanda last, I mean, we told her last night here. And that's when I found out that it was when we came here. And it was like, how do you grab your head around this? I mean, I'm thinking he just got caught up in a fire. Because what we have is gunshot wound, burned our body, all of which took a long period of time. And you were the only person at the house. So that's why I was hoping. I know you keep saying you don't know anything and you didn't do it. And you keep saying that. No, I did not. I didn't.

47:18But the problem is there's almost no way in this world that you didn't see something, hear something, or know something. and someone is shot, moved, and burned, and burned, and burned, and burned, 30 feet from your bedroom window. Of course, Melody knew how he died. It was absurd for her to sit there and claim she didn't, or she forgot, or whatever. But this wasn't the detective's first rodeo in Cherokee County, Georgia. And Melody's role in Gary's death was becoming more and more suspicious. Or sus, as the kids say these days. The I don't know anything does not make sense. It doesn't jive, it doesn't match the evidence, and it just doesn't work.

48:10But I don't know the time frame. I mean, I know when I saw him. You realize, though, this makes no sense to me, right? And you realize that I have had hundreds of conversations with people that have lost loved ones, people who have had loved ones shot and we didn't know who did it, people that have had loved ones who they have done something bad to. I have had these conversations with people on both sides of the spectrum. I've had countless ones. People tend to act certain ways whether they want to or not. But I'm honestly telling you, I don't know. And the problem is that just doesn't fit. It's absolutely impossible that you don't know.

48:56I'm not saying, I'm saying, as if the evidence we have, it is absolutely impossible. By now, detectives had made it clear. Her I don't know act doesn't match what they're seeing. A body burned to fragments, bullets in the bones, blood inside the house. A fire that, in their words, would be woefully insufficient unless somebody kept coming back to feed it. They've pointed these things out to Melody, but she doesn't know yet that they've tracked Gary's cell phone moving back and forth between the house and the burn pile on the very day Melody said she never saw him. To add to this, Scott says he searched for his dad's wallet the day they found the body.

49:44He always kept it on him or in his room, never in the car. Scott searched the car twice over and found nothing, yet later that day, it was in Melody's hands. When he asked her where she found it, she said, the car. Detectives were onto Melody's lies, so they changed tact at this point. If she won't talk about the night he died, maybe she'll say more than she means to about how she really felt about him. Didn't anybody know I liked him? Oh, I can say probably all the kids, they loved him and they didn't necessarily like him. I mean, that's what I have always said. How do you feel about him? Well, I love him to death.

50:27I don't necessarily like him. I did not like the person that he had to come. Did you catch that? She said she loved him to death. Huh. Figure his speech. During the investigation, Chris and Scott both found themselves going back over the little things they'd brushed off at the time. The meals she made for Gary. The way he'd get sick afterwards. The spells everyone talked about and nobody really named. They started to ask themselves, not did she really love him to death, but... Was death the version of him that she preferred? My daughter, when she landed, called my mother and asked, can we have that, remember the sleepover?

51:13Can we have the sleepover? They wanted to do it the third. And she said, tonight would not be a good night. That's what I know for a fact. Other than that, other facts, I'll tell you what else I know. And I don't know, when I was in, when my dad was in the hospital, was April. I came in there, you know, I walk in and I was like, what's the deal for my dad? He's like, Oh, I'm okay. I'm okay. Like, no, you're not. Okay. What's the deal? He said, well, you know, I just keep having these spells. And I was like, Oh, what's going on? He said, well, your mama says my blood sugar, because she has this test kit, blah, blah, blah.

51:54And I was like, okay, I go to the doctor and I say, what's up with this blood sugar? She tells me, she's like, I run marathons and your dad has better blood sugar than I do. So don't say anything. Let me finish. So I was like, oh, okay. Now she could, this, like, number one, can you, like, this whole blood sugar thing, where'd that come from, you know? And why does Melody Ferris have a blood sugar test kit? And how can she? And then I asked the doctor that and she tells me that. So then my dad, I'm sitting there, and he goes, well, about a week ago, I was sitting in the theater, and your mother comes down and hands me a tray of freshly baked cookies.

52:39And he said, I ate them. And he said, I probably shouldn't have, because she doesn't even have the time to even talk to me. And when she does talk to me, she's yelling at me and screaming at me. But I was like, well, they look good, so I ate them. And he said, they started burning my mouth and burning my throat. and he said then I started feeling bad after that so I called my sister and I called my best friend and I told him that and so I said and he was just like oh I think she's trying to poison me or something and just laughing it off and I thought oh my god you know like no I mean come on you know Maybe.

53:16But he said, well, then a few weeks before that, she brought home a pasta dish and the same thing happened. I said, so I just went to the doctor and I said, look, I said, they have a farm. They have a lot of stuff going on out there with pesticides. And I was like, maybe y 'all should run a toxicology thing on him. That might not be a bad idea. Just try not to be like, holy shit. He just told me that he thinks my mom might be trying to poison him. You know, you don't want to just tell the doctor that and set off something that doesn't need to be set off. But now thinking back on it, I wish I would have said something a little bit more.

53:59One of Melody's final acts of hospitality towards Gary was caught on tape. It appeared Gary knew that he was being poisoned. But maybe nobody believed him. This is the voice of Gary after he's discovered a shattered plate right outside his bedroom, just hours before his disappearance. What happens when you leave a plate and forget to take it upstairs? A minor temper tantrum. Of course, I had supper tonight and it was six for me, so I'm sure I'll be feeling poorly here within minutes. But we'll see. When the two brothers were interviewed together for hours, their memories became clearer and clearer.

54:46Within this past year, the fighting between the two of them just got, you know, worse and worse. And the comments my mother, my dad never talked, said anything negative to me about my mother, except for just like her going out and spending so much money on stuff like that and all. but he never, you know, said anything other than that negative way. But my mother, on the other hand, man, I can't tell you how many times I've heard her say, I can't wait until the day I don't have to live with him. I wish she would just have a heart attack and die. Yeah, she's definitely tried to turn all of us only to each other.

55:23She has said stuff about him. She has said stuff about Emily. She's just trying to, you know, basically stir the pot up with us. She's been doing that ever since all this happened. She's been trying to get me to turn against him and my sister Emily. And I guess she's been, you know, vice versa with Amanda. I mean, trying to get Amanda turned on all of us. And that's not really, I mean, that's kind of crap my mother would do. I mean, she pretty much. Yeah, she loved drama. It's been always really weird. My mom would treat strangers and people she recently knew, or even her pets, a lot better than her family.

56:08It wasn't that Melody couldn't show emotion. It's that every emotion began and ended with her. And the only thing she ever seemed to feel for Gary was resentment. Resentment that he'd seen through her hedonistic version of marriage. She didn't just want to have her cake and eat it too. She wanted to eat hers, take his, and still complain that there wasn't enough frosting.

56:56But yet when Rebel, the horse, gets put down a couple months after we found him, she's bawling her eyes out. The more the brothers spoke about their mother, the more they realized they just may have been raised by a sociopath.

57:47On July 5, 2018, on the Ferris family's 10-acre farm off Purcell Lane in Cherokee County, Georgia, Gary Ferris, a 58-year-old Atlanta attorney, is missing. His truck is there, and his CPAP and personal items are inside. Also inside are blood droplets leading from the kitchen to Gary's basement room. His wallet ends up in the hands of Melody, who says she's found it in Gary's car, the same car Scott had already checked twice. The timeline matters, Gary's last confirmed day is July 3rd, when he's been working around a burn pile behind the house. Melody claims she last saw him that night and never checked on him the next day.

58:36That next day is July 4th, and Scott isn't on the property, but Melody is. And by the morning of July 5th, the family searches until Scott is called to the burn pile and recognizes human remains. He calls 911. At first, it looks like a terrible accident. Then the autopsy destroys that. Gary was shot, with a bullet lodged in his remains. Investigators say a burn pile would have been woefully insufficient to destroy a body of that size unless someone kept tending it. Gary's cell phone pings from the house to the burn pile and back to the house. but investigators know that Gary has already been shot and set ablaze.

59:23So the case collapses to the people with access and time, and the spotlight lands where it's been sitting all along, the house, the burn pile, and Melody. Only a few missing pieces were left in this puzzle. One of these was the missing pistol that Scott had seen in the basement before Gary's death. Another one was the question of how Gary's body was moved from the house to the burn pile. We found other things in the basement. Why? Other things in the basement that are significant. We know how long it took. We know lengths of time things took. We know that moving somebody that's 300 pounds and 6 '4", that's bigger than I am, that is a significant feat.

1:00:22We are putting layer upon layer upon layer upon layer on this picture. And right now, the only thing you're saying, bear with me for a second, the only thing you are saying is that you don't know anything about anything about anything. that does not, and you know what, that I will tell you that does not make sense to me from a very just simply, based on the information that I know, that does just simply not make logical sense in any way, shape, or form. Regardless of how the body was moved or where the pistol was, this case was prosecutable. Melody was arrested on June 18, 2019, nearly one year after Gary's death.

1:01:12During this time, she continued to have her affair with Rusty. Remember Ted? The first guy she had an affair with? The guy who had been her sister-in-law's lover for 20 years? Well, Rusty followed a similar pattern. Melody liked to keep it in the family, I guess. Rusty was the stepson of Melody's cousin Martha Jane Gross Yeah this Rusty guy he just came in the picture when Martha Jane I had some suspicions about it before my sister's wedding because Emily called me a few months before and said Melody's showing up in Nashville this Rusty guy driving daddy's Mercedes or daddy's whatever car, I don't remember what car he had at the time, and just, you know, acting really funny.

1:02:08And then she invited him to my sister's wedding in Franklin, Tennessee, and was dancing with him and acting extremely too friendly. Rusty took a while to come forward with crucial information, but fortunately, he had a conscience. What Melody told him left no doubt and would be used in the trial. Also, I wanted to let you know what I told your lawyer that I'm putting my name on the line, too, because that's how confident I am in you and about what you're going to tell us. Okay. That would be an interest to us, not the time or anything, about what happened. I think there was only one conversation that is what you're looking for.

1:02:51Okay. Okay. Okay. And it was the last conversation. Okay. Would it be safe to say there wasn't much talking after that? No. No, that was the end of the conversation. And is that the last time you've spoken with her? No, no. I talk to her. I talk to her every day. But, again, every day was just every day. Let's talk about that conversation that you feel. 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. And I said, what? And she said, he's in the burn pile. And I said, do not say another word and do not tell me anything.

1:03:42I do not need to know. Okay. and that is everything. If I'm going to give an ounce, I'm going to give a pound. That was all of it. That was everything that she said that had anything to do with whatever happened. That's pretty, I mean, you've got to admit that's pretty good. I don't know when it happened or what happened. And here's the thing. At the time that that statement was made, you've got to remember, he wasn't even reported as missing. By the time the trial took place in October of 2024, Melody's defense tried to shove the spotlight back onto Scott, the son on the property, the hothead with supposed PTSD, the one they argued had access and opportunity.

1:04:28More importantly, they pulled a statement of Chris saying he preferred.38 caliber ammunition, which they located on his premises. But that narrative contradicted the very finding that changed everything. Scott had never owned a.38 caliber pistol or revolver. He had only seen one in the basement. In a twist, a woman came forward to say her gun matching the murder weapon had come up missing in the weeks prior to Gary's murder. It was Melody's cousin, the stepmother of Melody's lover, Rusty. And turned out, Melody had spent a few weeks at her house helping to take care of her. One last question lingered in the minds of the jury.

1:05:16How did tiny Melody move Big Daddy's body? The answer was a tractor. A tractor with a big bucket attached. Melody knew how to drive the tractor and Scott knew this because he had taught her. The tractor was moved on Tuesday night and the RTV was moved in the middle of the night. Because the reason why I remember that tractor being there is because there was a cab that I've never seen before and it was sitting right there on the on that implement on the back of the tractor and that's when I walked out and saw the cap or whatever. So I knew the tractor was there on the third. After that, I don't.

1:06:04Until the fifth, when you physically walked out there and saw it. Yeah, I didn't even think to look. So the only way I knew that it was down there is because I went looking for my dad and saw it was parked there. And that's when I walked down there and put my hand on the hood to see if it was still warm. When detectives cornered Melody on this, all she had were flimsy excuses and a panicked voice. And on that property, when you were there, something that did not happen in the blink of an eye, something that took time, something that took people, something that took moving, the tractor was moved from Tuesday night and Gary could not have done it.

1:06:47The RTV was moved in the middle of the night and Gary could not have done it. Things were done. things happen. You said you parked it in one spot and worked it up. That was during the day. That was, and that was the next. But the tractor wasn't. And here's the thing. Even at the end of the day, what? I just assumed that Scott had come in. You did then, and I'm telling you that we can find evidence to prove that that is not how it went down, and that is not what happened now. I don't know. I mean, I was with Amanda J. And Karen. Okay. But the night of the third, the only person there until 1130.

1:07:37Was me? Yes. And then after that, you were still there. His body was burned in that fire pit. It was unquestionable you saw with your own two eyes. 1130 that fire is still going. Yeah. In that time frame, you don't have... But Scott was there on that time. Nobody came through the woods and was sitting there tending to this fire for time. But Scott was on that property at that point now too. Scott found his father in the burn pile and called 911. one. Melody watched that and later tried to make him out to be a murderer. It's one thing to lie to the police and it's quite another thing entirely to hand your own child to the wolves and call it self-defense.

1:08:32What a bitch. I was like, gloves are off. I mean, you try to throw your own child over to the bus. I'm straight up lying to the police and I confronted her about it. So, she's like, I never said that. I'm like, it says it in the police report. By the time Melody Ferris' trial wrapped up in late 2024, the prosecution had presented a 18-day case calling dozens of witnesses and more than 1 ,000 pieces of physical, digital, and forensic evidence. On November 4, 2024, a Cherokee County jury found her guilty on all five charges. Malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, concealing the death of another, and making false statements.

1:09:21The verdict came after several days of deliberation following closing arguments. At her sentencing hearing the next day, the Superior Court judge sentenced Ferris to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years for the murder conviction and an additional five-year term for related charges to run concurrently. The judge also bartered from contact with certain family members as part of the court order. The prosecutor read a letter from Gary's daughter, Emily, as part of the victim impact statement. She said that since Gary was taken, their family was living inside an unbearable void.

1:10:01Not sometimes. Every day. They'd lost the laughter, the warmth, the steady presence that held them all together. And now even the happy moments felt contaminated because he wasn't there to share them. But the worst part wasn't only that he was gone, but it was who did it. The betrayal of realizing the suffering came from the person who should have cared for them the most. their own mother. And as the prosecutor read her words, Chris sat in the background, breaking down, openly sobbing, wiping tears from his face. Scott conveyed an expression of hurt so deep it was impossible to ignore, while Melody just sat there, resolved to finish what she started one way or another.

1:11:00In the moments that preceded her statement, She spoke to the judge in a calm and steady voice. But the second she began reading, she suddenly and dramatically, uncontrollably became tearful. On July the 5th, 2018, six years, five months ago today, began the worst nightmare that I could have ever imagined. Not only my world, but my family's world was absolutely destroyed at the hands of one person. I've had six plus years of being told not to talk. Don't say that. Take legal advice. I could walk out of this courtroom today and drop over dead. I want to make sure that my children, my grandchildren, and Gary's family, and to be honest at this point in time, the entire world who has viewed this, I have waited for years to make this statement to everyone.

1:12:07I want the world to know who did this. I have always heard that the courtroom is the last place you're going to get the truth. And has that ever been proven to be the truth in this case?

1:12:25Not only did I not do this, but I over-did. I know Scott killed his father. Melody's sentencing statement wasn't a defense. It was a mirror reflecting exactly who she was all along. Melody wanted her dream life. The farm. The family. The image. Oh, and, you know, all the lovers. But it was all powered by Gary. How inconvenient for her. And the moment that he stopped fitting the role she needed, she treated him like an obstacle, just like all narcissists do. When confronted with the consequences, she never once showed empathy, accountability, or concern for what her children had already lost. She minimized, argued, lied, and blamed.

1:13:24When the case threatened her, she didn't protect her family, she used them. First as cover, then as human shields. A normal person hearing her daughter's grief and seeing her son sobbing like this would stop the charade. They'd realize all the hurt they'd caused all the people around them that loved them, that they supposedly loved. It would be an awakening, a moment that would define their lives. suddenly realizing what they had done and accepting the responsibility and asking for forgiveness. Melody didn't do that. Put it that way. Even in the end, with nothing left to win, she chose the move that hurt her family the most.

1:14:24because protecting herself mattered way more than taking responsibility for her own actions.

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