Detective Daniel Hayes

Another detective with different experience than me overheard us talking about Gary sleeping with a CPAP every night.

He actually brought up, he's like, you know those record data, right?

I actually wrote another search warrant and went back to the house, took the CPAP, learned, you know, technology's updated, it's just got an SD card in there.

So we were able to take the SD card and get the data off of it that we were looking for.

That's when we determined that Gary always went to bed around midnight.

And he hadn't gone to bed that night.

He had never put on the CPAP.

We know he was killed that night.

We don't have any evidence directly stating when he was put on that fire, so it's possible he laid in the backyard or wherever he expired for quite some time while someone made the decision to put him on the fire and dispose of the body.

There were tracks in the area.

You could tell they were well-traveled paths, usually, that people often would drive the RTV or the tractor or something.

But nothing that was definitive.

It went from that area of the basement straight to the burn pump.

This family has utilized both of those machines to move dead horses, pull stumps out of the ground.

So anyone who's been on the property that saw knew the capabilities of these machines.

A lot of bickering, a lot of fights over money, a lot of jealousy.

I believe at some point we added it up to around four and a half, five million dollars is what someone would stand to inherit.

Evidence shows it made Melody turn against her children because the children were spending money.

Sure.

You know, when you get to a homicide, it starts, everyone in the world's a suspect, and you narrow that down, right?