Anne-Marie Green

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.

I wasn't invited.

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.

I had to live here.

I had to see her.

She cut her hair like my mom.

She would go get her nails done like my mom.

She sat on my mom's front porch in my mom's chair.

With the passage of time, she says she finally had the courage to ask her father for an explanation about his actions on the night of the shooting, and says she got an astonishing answer.

He said, I didn't mean to kill her.

I just tried to scare her.

Chelsea says that Bruno changed his story and admitted that he and Melissa had been arguing the night of the shooting.

The gun, he said, was just meant to frighten her.

Then Chelsea says her father abruptly changed the subject.

He said he had groceries in the car, and he turned around and walked out like he hadn't just said what he said to me.