Alaina Urquhart

He didn't know why these drugs were in his system, which sounds familiar.

It sure does.

So in mid-1991, the couple moved to Halifax, and Gordon hoped that the change of environment maybe would get things back on track again.

But things only got worse from there.

His drinking got worse.

And while he never seemed like what we were just saying, to have money problems before, he was hemorrhaging money at this point at a rate that didn't seem to make sense at all.

And the only explanation for all of it was Melissa.

Well, in a letter written shortly before his death, he detailed his life with Melissa, how she drained their bank account, lied, and cheated.

He said, I took her back.

I still loved her and kept hoping things would change.

But unfortunately, just a few months after moving to Halifax, tragedy struck.

So one night, while Gordon and Melissa were out in a very rural area, he was struck and killed by his own car while Melissa was behind the wheel.

No.

There are different and very conflicting reports about this, so I'm just going to tell you what we have here.

Melissa reported the death to the police, claiming that, and this is just what she claims, that Gordon had attacked her and raped her.

So she said she ran him over with the car in order to flee the scene and that it was self-defense.

Wow.

The problem, though, and this is an investigator's problem, as soon as they started looking into the case, nothing Melissa said about the scene made a lot of sense.

For one thing, when an autopsy was performed on Gordon, tests showed a quote-unquote lethal dose of various drugs in his system at the time of death, which meant that not only would he have been too sedated to pose a threat to anyone, he almost certainly wouldn't have been able to drive a car either.

According to Jerry Swain, the RCMP detective assigned to the case, it aroused suspicion to hear that story.