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She brought up that she has to speak to the guy in court. That is ballsy. Melissa said that from the first she told Alyssa that they would approach her father's murder with compassion no matter who it turned out to be. She said, I always told her pretty much from day one, whenever we found out who did this, we'd have to be able to forgive them at some point in order to go on.

We got to look them in the face too. What balanced people, like just sane, balanced people. So 2014, Dawn is released from prison. Is that right? Absolutely. So also since then, they say with Melissa's guidance, they're mother and daughter now, Melissa and Melissa. And the crazy shit is,

They have another member of the family that they've taken in. Brandy, who is Alyssa's half-sister, the girl that Dawn got busted making with the drugs shit. With the drug stuff, yeah. Brought her in the house now? She brought her in too. Every time Dawn fucks up and loses a kid, they end up with Melissa. Melissa scoops them up and puts some sanity on them. Wow. So this angel of a woman...

Tämä iso iso on rakentanut Alyssaa ja tämä lapsi ei edes ole hänen isänsä lapsi. Se ei ole mitään yhteyttä hänelle. Hän on vain hieno ihminen, joka haluaa auttaa ihmisiä. Tämä on Melissa. Kiitos, Melissa, jos kuulet tämän.

You're amazing. You're fucking incredible, and honestly, that's incredible. And you're fixing Dawn's life one child at a time. Yeah, you're fixing her fuck-ups. Yeah, fixing every mistake she makes. She poured sugar in the gas tank of her life, and you're going through it with a fucking strainer trying to get it all out. Putting a new motor in it.

God damn it. She said that she had no connections to Brandy, but she's committed to paving a new way forward for herself and Alyssa. And that's Alyssa's sister, and Alyssa's worried about her, so she's not going to let her go into foster care. She'll take her. She said welcoming Brandy as she had Alyssa became her mother and gave them the safe family that they needed. And...

Ja kun tutkimus oli loppunut, hän sai Alyssän takaisin täysin. James on Ely-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli-yli.

People said that she got her shit together and kind of cleaned up her life a little bit and is going by an assumed name and kind of just living quietly. So who knows? We don't know. But either way...

Tuntuu pahalta Benille. Hän ei tehnyt mitään väärää. Melissa, sinulla on vuosivuotanto-opiskelija vuodesta vuoteen. Hän on mahtava. Meillä on. Tämä on hyvä. Tämä on hyvä. Tämä on hyvä. Tämä on hyvä. Tämä on hyvä. Tämä on hyvä.

Even after the husband's gone. So it's not just, oh, I'm trying to get in good with him. This is just her genuine who she is. That's insane. For nothing. For nothing. Wow. How do you do that? That's wild. So if you like this story, let everybody know. Get on whatever app you're on and give us five stars. It really, really helps drive the show up the charts. Head over to shutupandgivememurder.com.

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Hello, and welcome back to Small Town Murder Express.

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Oh, yay indeed, Jimmy.

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My name is James Petrigallo.

I'm here with my co-host.