Anne-Marie Green
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Chelsea and Sabrina say that before their mother was even buried, their father asked for help purging all traces of her.
He wanted us to get rid of everything.
It's like he wanted her erased.
We had to go down to the thrift store where they donated the clothes, and I had to get clothes for my sister to bury her in.
Bruno even got rid of Melissa's dog, Zeus.
It wasn't long before Joanne says she began to suspect that Bruno had another motive for erasing the memory of Melissa.
Bruno was talking about Tonya Wilczewski, Jack Wilczewski's wife, the couple that Bruno and Melissa were out to dinner with on the night of the shooting.
Jack says he has no idea when the relationship began, but says he started noticing a big difference in his wife's relationship with Bruno the day after the shooting, when he walked into Melissa's hospital room and found Tonya and Bruno.
Jack says in the weeks after the shooting, he would often come home from work and find Bruno's car in his driveway.
And how did Tanya explain it?
Within months of Melissa's death, Jack says his wife went missing from their home, and he knew exactly where to find her.
Chelsea now had a new neighbor, Tonya Wilczewski.
I remember looking out my window and she was cooking Christmas dinner in my mom's kitchen.
Chelsea says she forced herself to accept what was because she didn't want her father to be alone.
Then, about a year and a half later, she says her father casually revealed an alarming new detail about her mother's shooting.
I kind of always knew and I didn't want to believe it, but when I heard it come from his own mouth, I couldn't get past it.
As the months ticked on, it was now 2015, about a year and a half since Bruno Rucuba had allegedly accidentally shot and killed his wife, Melissa.
His daughter, Chelsea, says she was still struggling with her father's relationship with Tanya Wilczewski.