Anne-Marie Green

The day after the shooting, Bruno agreed to a polygraph exam.

According to police records, the results were inconclusive.

Worried about her father, Chelsea says she suggested he speak with attorney Joe D'Andrea.

Did you wonder why he was calling you?

Melissa spent several days in intensive care.

Three days after the shooting, Melissa's family made the agonizing decision to take her off life support.

We knew she was suffering.

It was August 10, 2013, at 1.45 a.m., when Melissa passed away.

Joanne says they were all in shock.

And even though no one in the family wanted to believe Bruno had deliberately shot Melissa, they were surprised when he was never arrested.

Joe D'Andrea says the district attorney's office felt they didn't have enough evidence to charge Bruno with murder and decided not to charge him at all.

Melissa's death certificate listed her cause of death as a gunshot wound to the head.

The manner of death was left pending.

No one said to you, we've concluded it was an accident?

No, it was just still an open, open case.

But as the family began to catch their breath and process Melissa's death, they slowly started comparing notes about Bruno's version of what happened and his behavior before and after the shooting.

And a case for murder began to unfold.

I just couldn't justify any of his stories.

The daughters of Melissa and Bruno Recuba say they grew up believing they had the ideal family.

The couple met in the summer of 1988.