Jocelyn's Family Member
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard May 2025
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48 Hours · Poison · 5 Dec 2024
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No one saw it coming. Late Monday afternoon, emergency crews got the call to Darrell Willard's home after his wife found his lifeless body in his garage.
The intense scrutiny put on the Willard home may have become too much.
Willard had some kind of relationship with Miller's widow before he died.
We did not want him cremated. We just, we didn't want it. It was like he's died and then they was gonna destroy him again.
She just knew how to play your heartstrings.
And we're like, no, why? Carl said, the neighbor called, and he said, the house is on fire. So at that point, my heart just sank because we were not sure if Melissa was home or not. I just wanted them both to be OK. And all I could think was, please just have one of them, at least one of them, make it through the night.
For a huge tragedy like that to occur the day before Thanksgiving, on Julia's birthday, right before the baby was to be born, it was just so much.
I had said, if he doesn't want to be a part of the baby's life, don't push. The baby is your child.
She knew she had plenty of family support. Everything would have been fine.
She was a go-getter.
I believe that the parents then approached him, but it was not long after that that she had said, he's mad I told them. Because he had kept it a secret?
We have to plan a funeral, and while we were still waiting for things, it was nearly three weeks.
We didn't get to kiss his forehead, touch his cheek. The first time we got any kind of Contact. They were in a casket. And the first time I touched his hand, I just remember gasping, just, and I had decided I was going to keep holding his hand. Something Melissa didn't get to do.
To sit through trial was beyond devastating. Deanna Lamish came to court every day. I had been prepped by the victim's advocate. Things were going to be gruesome. I was going to see a lot. Deanna says she always kept Melissa and her baby Barrett in her thoughts. She was so strong-willed and had such pride. That baby was going to be a strong guy.
guilty of all charges. I could hear people sobbing and gasping, but, like, I couldn't even lift my head. What did you feel?
I know it's the justice system, and we received our justice, but nothing about this is just.
Nothing about this is fair. No punishment in the world brings them back. I miss her personality.
We took toys to a local homeless shelter. To honor Barrett. To honor Barrett. We donated money to the no-kill shelter that Melissa got her cat from. They also sponsored a tree at a local arboretum that Melissa loved. Every year at the holidays, this tree will always be lit as part of their display.
Chris was in a band and a singer, and they had connected, and he asked her out.
He lived 65 miles away in a really small farming community.
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