Alaina Urquhart

It just didn't seem to fit the scenario of the situation.

If you accidentally ran over your husband, why would you not remain and explain the circumstances to whomever?

Yeah.

So the more that Jerry Swain investigated, the less he believed Melissa's story.

Gordon Stewart didn't have any history of violence.

He didn't have any criminal history.

And there was no evidence to support her claim that she had been raped.

Her claim that she had hit him with the car in order to escape was also pretty suspicious.

In Melissa's version of events, after Gordon assaulted her, he got out of the car and walked around the back of the vehicle to use the bathroom.

And that's when she jumped in the driver's seat and put the car in reverse, hitting and killing her husband before fleeing.

Which, like, you didn't need to put the car in reverse.

Yeah, I was going to say, what was the reverse about?

All she would have done to escape the scene was put the car in drive and go forward, meaning the only way that she could have hit and killed him was if she had done so intentionally and unnecessarily.

And that's investigators' opinion on this case.

Yeah, that is not our opinion.

No.

So it didn't take long for Swain to determine that Melissa had fabricated her story and his belief, and she was arrested and charged with manslaughter.

He said, as a result of the full investigation, we determined that the motive was monetary.

Gordon Stewart had a regular pension from the Department of Defense, and as his wife, she was entitled to his benefits.

So Melissa ended up going on trial for the death of her husband or for the murder of her husband in 1992.