Peter Van Sant

And you knew he was having this affair?

As Melody tells it, Gary's infidelity was the real reason they started sleeping in separate rooms.

And if this Southern soap opera couldn't get more tawdry, Melody claimed that Gary confessed to something big, really big.

But eventually, Melody came back.

She didn't tell me the identity of this mystery mother.

I'm still not getting why the two of you just didn't split up and go your separate ways.

I don't get it.

Her son Scott told me in 2024 that he believes his mother is lying.

But Gary Ferris' former assistant, Angela Phillips, admitted she did have a relationship, an affair, with her boss in the mid-1990s.

Angela wouldn't call the relationship romantic.

In her words, she said they were physical for about a year.

The sex stopped, Angela said, after she met Melody, and the two, in her words, became friends.

After years of allegedly playing musical beds, Gary did file for divorce in 2010.

That was about the time Melody said she ended her relationship with Ted Wiley, and long before she started seeing Rusty Barton.

Scott remembered that when he was serving in Iraq, his dad emailed about the troubles back home.

Scott's brother, Chris, claimed Melody hid in the bedroom when his father tried to serve his mom with those divorce papers in 2010.

But Gary eventually called off the divorce, and the Farrises didn't separate.

Instead, they bought the farm for a fresh start.

But in the months leading up to Gary Ferris' murder, Melody admitted things were getting vicious.

But there was one argument on July 2, 2018, that caught detectives' attention.