Chris Melton

Did he actually come into the house, maybe surprise Tara and kill her, and then go about setting the place on fire?

Two of them.

And from what I was told back then, they reached out to their sources, you know, might have been involved in different criminal activities, and a name never came up.

I can't tell you for 100 percent, but that screen was out of that window.

The window screen right here?

This window screen and was propped against the side of the building.

Maybe so.

I never met anybody in my life more confident in who they were, what they were doing, and where they were going than my little Tara.

As you go through your lives practicing law, remember, that was Tara's dream.

That's what her dream was.

As you do it, Tara will practice law.

With Chris, because he was the boyfriend, you know, if these other factors were true, an emotional killing, had access to the house, then, you know, Chris is a suspect.

The killer didn't leave behind anything.

He came in and killed Tara, then he left.

So I think that made me personally suspect Chris Melton initially.

All of the tools that were used to commit the crime are sourced right there from the scene of the crime.

When we start looking at his timeline, we know that he shows up on the crime scene at some point the day that her body's found.

And local affiliates filming outside the crime scene actually capture him on video.

He gets to talking with investigators about, theoretically, how somebody could have made entry.

And he demonstrates how to open one of the windows with a knife blade.