Craig Melvin

You know your son's going to be coming back in an hour with his girlfriend, and y'all are going to go to a planned event that day, and you just walk in the bedroom and take your own life.

When he got the call, he thought in his mind that he was prepared for that scene.

He admitted that he had watched videos in the police academy.

He had not seen a dead body, from my understanding, before that day.

And his comment to me was, Mr. Lee, I just wanted to get out of there.

He could have cleaned the wounds there, taken measurements, checked for gunpowder residue on the hands of Mr. Embert.

And I got to, like, the fourth or fifth photograph in the packet, and the police chief was standing in the hallway, and I said, Chief, you got a problem.

The other thing is, if you look, the gun is tucked up under his right leg.

Well, she wasn't who she portrayed herself to be.

She used to drink.

But I don't know what she does now.

Right, but when y'all were married, it was the drinking.

My personal belief is she was poisoning the dog, maybe perhaps testing some of her points.

I don't know whether it was or whether she just wanted to get rid of Zoe, but it shows her mindset.

And in my immediate opinion, this was a staged crime scene and a homicide that needed to be prosecuted.

I just hate that.

It showed that Jake had high levels of different pesticides.

DEET is the common name that we know it by.

And there was antifreeze.

Jake, you haven't killed himself.