Joe Tacopina

That's correct, sir.

Never once, not before the death of her husband or after, did she ever ask you to leave your wife, correct?

No, she did not.

You had made it clear to Melanie that you were not planning on leaving your wife anytime soon, correct?

That's correct.

Impossible for that crime to have occurred in that apartment without there being a piece of evidence.

Impossible for a neighbor not to hear gunshots.

Impossible for the neighbors not to hear a reciprocating saw sawing through bone.

They saw what they wanted to see.

They heard what they wanted to hear.

No one was investigated besides Monty McGuire.

He was a big gambler, ladies and gentlemen.

He gambled beyond his means.

There's no question about that.

12 people were able to say, going to convict her beyond a reasonable doubt based on the state of that record was shocking to me.

And then I was dealing with the raw emotion of what was going on there.

Melanie's literally pulling on my lapel and my arm.

She's telling me time and again, I didn't do it, I didn't do it.

My kids, my kids.