Ashley Pope

It appeared that Gary's relationship with everyone was a source of income for all of the kids. So in some shape or form, Gary had close ties or disagreements with all the family members relating to money.

By the end of that interview, Rusty explained to us that he wanted to do anything he could to assist us because he had no part of this homicide. He also gave us information to verify his alibi.

It had nothing to do with Gary. We also find out that he is searching things like how to delete your text messages, what can cops find in text messages. That phone was a revelation. As time goes on, Rusty had told us that he had not talked to her on the night of July 3rd. Well, the cell phone data reflected inconsistencies in that. And it also reflected that he had lied to us.

So that led to Detective Hayes and I going back up there again to conduct an interview with Rusty to challenge him on these lying statements.

If this statement was true, it is very important because Gary had not been reported missing and had not been located at the burn pile. The 911 call did not occur until July 5th at 1247 p.m. So that's a full day and a half before anybody knew the nature of this crime.

And it didn't last. We feel like Rusty's going to record the phone conversations and not notify Melody. But we later learned that he, in fact, did tell her.

Gary had close ties with all the family members related to money.

We have had accidental fires where that situation was similar, where people have fell in the fire. It's usually not, the body's not consumed that much.

In some shape or form, Gary had close ties or disagreements with all the family members related to money.