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This is one of the most unique cases I've ever been involved in. Personally as a as an attorney, as a prosecutor,
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[music] or anything that I've read or seen. Jeffrey Fowles prosecuted the [music]
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case against Melody Farris when she went on trial for the murder of her husband Gary. [music]
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It was October 2024, six years after Gary's [music] charred remains were found in a burn pile on the Farris
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property. The type of murder that happened in this case under [music] the facts doesn't
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happen a lot, but if it were to happen, it would be in this family. This family,
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the Farris family. [music] When prosecutor Fowles began his opening statement, he introduced them one by one
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to the jury, sharing a photograph [music] of Gary, Melody, and their four children on
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Emily's wedding day. They looked happy, but as we know by now, looks can be deceiving.
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You're going to hear about the Farris will. Unfortunately for this family is they
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have drama. They are not a perfect family. Listening stoically, her lips [music]
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pursed at the defense table, was the matriarch, Melody Farris. Dressed in all black [music] with
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shoulder-length gray hair and a strand of elegant pearls [music] around her neck. Her eyes followed the prosecutor
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as he told jurors about her motives for killing her husband. Money, [music] sex, and a new life with
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her traveling salesman lover. >> [music] >> The truth, sad as it is, as hard as it is,
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is that the defendant murdered and desecrated her own husband. Over the course of the weeks-long trial,
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all the Farris family secrets, jealousies, and resentments would air out in public.
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Melody sat and watched as each of her children took the stand. Three of them, Chris, Scott, and Emily, testified
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against their mother. I felt something was very off. There was red flags. [music]
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>> She became more hostile. She was more aggressive with us. I just had my suspicions that she had something to do
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with this. Can you describe what it was like to watch each of your children take the
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stand? The most heart-wrenching, >> [music] >> gut-wrenching thing I had ever sat there
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in my entire life. Because I knew they were lying. Only youngest daughter Amanda distanced
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[music] herself from her siblings, refusing to believe her mother was [music] capable of murder.
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She has told me that she's not guilty, and all I can do is believe that until >> [music]
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>> somebody can prove she is guilty. So, I would like to believe that my mother had
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nothing to do with this. That burden of proof was on the prosecution. And while there was lots of [music]
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circumstantial evidence, there was no eyewitness, no confession, and no damning DNA evidence. Investigators
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never found the suspected murder weapon, that .38 snub-nose revolver Scott claimed was in the basement. [music]
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Not to mention something else, something literally big, that the defense [music]
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argued just didn't make sense. The sheer weight of Gary, um and the fact that [music] it's it's
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just not possible that he could have been moved by a 120-lb [music] woman, um if the murder scene was in
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fact within the house. But as the defense worked to sow [music] doubt, a surprise witness came forward.
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I have worried about this for a long [music] time. I'm Peter Van Sant from 48 Hours. This
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is Blood is [music] Thicker, the Farris Wheel. Episode 6, One More Spin. In the fall of 2024, jury members heard
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evidence about the crime scene, the digital data from the phone records, and Gary's CPAP machine.
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Not to mention testimony from one of Melody's former lovers, Ted Wiley. And of course, there was Melody's most
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recent paramour, Rusty Barton. Can we agree that your job is to tell us the truth? Correct.
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The whole truth? And nothing but. Prosecutor Jeffrey Fowles questioned Rusty on the stand and knew he [music]
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had to challenge this colorful southern personality. He's charming, he's [music]
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charismatic, he's smart. He had the ability to to talk and also push back when he wanted to. So, but
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Rusty was extremely [music] reluctant. Hostile in the sense that he did not want to be there, and reluctant in the
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sense that he had already changed his story. If you recall, Rusty changed his story
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about when Melody revealed to him that Gary was in the burn pile. He first [music] told police Melody said
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Gary was in the burn pile early on the 4th of July, >> [music] >> before law enforcement was alerted that
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Gary was even missing. But then, Rusty retracted and said Melody told him the burn pile story after the remains were
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discovered. But [music] Fowles told me he had a strategy when it came to this tale of
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two stories. [music] You basically give the jury two options, the first statement, the second
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statement, and they get to believe which one they believe and use that one. So, our goal with Rusty was to get him to
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paint the relationship he had with the defendant, talk about the affair, talk about how close they were, talk about
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the plans that they had for each other. Fowles asked Rusty about his relationship with Melody.
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Is it awkward being here in court in front of her? It's awkward being in court, period.
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So, yes. When it comes to your feelings for the defendant at this moment, how much love do you have for her?
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Don't know that that's a measurable item. Fowles pressed Rusty on his decision to
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recant his story a year later after Melody was in jail. There was that call we played in the
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last episode where Melody confronts Rusty about talking to law enforcement. The jury heard all of it.
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And you would agree with me that the defendant in this jail call was very concerned
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with you talking, right? Yes. And the words she used were single-handedly hang me.
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Yes. >> [music] >> That's not what an innocent person says, is it? Uh that I I don't know.
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Uh Who? What she said or what I said? What she said. Well, I guess if you were locked up and
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somebody had said something against you, you'd probably say that, too. Because if the jury believes what you said on
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July 24th, that she had knowledge that he was in the burn pile, she's guilty of murder, right?
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If it's true. I can't comment on that one. Cuz you don't want to comment today. No.
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Rusty never went back to his original story on the stand, but the prosecution felt he delivered.
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He was an important witness for many reasons. But Rusty was Rusty, but he was uh
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We felt like we had a plan with him. We felt like we got that plan done. We we also couldn't predict the future
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that Martha Jane would come into the picture later on. Martha Jane Barton. While she was
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Melody's second cousin, Melody said they had more of a mother-daughter relationship.
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When Martha Jane fell ill in 2014, [music] Melody helped take care of her. And that's when Melody reconnected
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[music] with Rusty Barton, who she first met as a teenager. Rusty also happened to be Martha [music]
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Jane's stepson. And in this country soap opera, Martha Jane didn't know her second [music]
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cousin and stepson were intimate. It was only after Martha Jane saw Rusty testify that she picked up the phone and
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called law enforcement. How were you feeling when you called that number? Awful. I had a heavy, heavy heart.
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Did you sleep the night before? I have worried about this for a long time. And what she had to say surprised even
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[music] the prosecutors. I had a gun that's missing. >> [music] >> Martha Jane told the court that years
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earlier, her husband Roy, Rusty's father, got her a gun as a Christmas present to use for protection.
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And what kind of gun was it? It was a .38 special, and he said it was called a Saturday night special.
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This was important because Scott Farris had told the sheriff's department that he had seen that type of gun in the
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basement weeks before Gary's murder, only for it to disappear the day Gary's remains were found.
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Now, Martha Jane testified that she put that .38 pistol along with another gun in a chest.
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And who else knew it was there? Did you have a weak moment when you told her where some things were in your
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house? I did. Why was it weak? Well, [clears throat] looking back on it, it was weak.
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>> [music] >> Martha Jane said she told Melody all about it around the time of Emily's
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wedding in 2016. But defense [music] attorney John Luke Weaver didn't buy it. Why hadn't Martha
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Jane brought up this missing gun earlier? You never said anything about a missing
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gun to Melody. Okay? You never called law enforcement and uh reported this gun stolen.
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>> [music] >> No. Okay. You still have not reported this gun stolen. >> I have. He asked if she had any proof that this
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gun ever even [music] existed. I don't have a receipt or anything like that. In fact, in '79,
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you didn't have [music] to I'm sure you didn't have to register a gun. The defense argued there was no [music]
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picture, no witness, no nothing to support Martha Jane's claim besides [music] Martha Jane herself.
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I know I had a gun then, and I know I don't have a gun now. >> [music] >> Could they convince the jury that there
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was enough doubt in this case to acquit Melody? Her attorneys turned on the detectives.
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At the end of the day, it was kind of a failure of who was in charge of this investigation. So, they never actually
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had a plan. [music] Every case, it's our job to raise doubt. But in this case, we felt that the
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investigation was not conducted properly by the state, [music] so we felt like we had to do it. Defense
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attorney John Luke Weaver told me he not only had to be a lawyer in this case, but also a detective of [music] sorts.
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We talked in 2024. And we felt like we had to do it through the trial ourselves live in front of the
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jury. That's what we feel like we needed to do [music] uh to bring justice for Melody. So,
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Weaver and his co-counsel began [music] poking holes. They started with the prosecution's assertion that Melody
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first shot Gary in the kitchen. The forensic evidence doesn't line up with that. If you if you're to say that
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the shooting would happen in the kitchen area, you would expect [music] far more
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blood. And and there just really wasn't. It It's It They've never been able to give an explanation for the lack of
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blood. It is consistent with a dog bite >> [music] >> instead of a shooting. Here's Amanda.
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And my husband said, "Damn, Gary, like what happened to your leg?" He said, "That damn dog bit me." Meaning
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Molly, her little black Molly her little terrier dog. So, So, Molly was a kind of the an ankle
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biter. Yeah. Essentially. Yes. I don't like I don't like that dog. Um for lack of a better term. But you
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you saw with your own eyes this injury to your dad's [music] leg. Yes, it was bad. And what about that bullet
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detectives found in the basement? There's not a There's zero amount of blood around the bullet.
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Nothing is out of place. Nothing is broken. Every single witness testified that there was nothing out of place in
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those spots. But that bullet had Gary's DNA on it. How did it get there then? If the shooting didn't take place in the
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house, how did it get there? Are you suggesting someone planted it? I think that's possible.
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I asked about Gary's blood on the tractor. The defense said it doesn't make sense that blood came from moving
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Gary's body because there was none of his blood in the bucket of the tractor. And what about Melody's blood on the
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RTV? They claimed she had simply cut her finger minutes earlier when she broke a
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dinner plate during an argument. And how do you interpret this cell phone analysis that shows his phone moving
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from the house to the burn pile where authorities believe he's dead and that the person who's carrying that phone
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must be Melody? So, they actually didn't give us the full scope of the information. They They just gave us
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little brief snippets. We saw that he went to dinner the night before, but we didn't necessarily see for hours
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throughout the night where the phone was located. And furthermore, there was no one sent to testify who actually worked
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for Google. This was a Google geofence, and we had a member of essentially the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office who was
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tendered as an expert, and she she became the all-knowledgeable person on Google geofences at that time. And so, I
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don't I don't know that that's necessarily reliable evidence. What about that motive? What do you have to
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say about that? Well, I I do want to note this. So, Melody, of course, for them, that just made the
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most sense. That was just easy. That was the easy route to go. But what in reality was Melody didn't want for
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anything. And when you look at the pictures, I mean, her house was immaculately decorated. She had
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fantastic clothes and shoes, and Gary let her have whatever she wanted because that was his her money as well. Um
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everyone all the children would say, "Well, that was Dad's money." But they're married, and under Georgia law,
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what's mine is yours and what's yours is mine in marriage. According to investigators,
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uh she was in love with Rusty. He had looked at some wedding rings, and they are
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claiming that these two were planning on getting married and living happily ever
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after with Gary's money. >> They don't know that. That was sheer speculation. Who else had motive to kill
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Gary in your opinion? Scott Farris. And his motive would be? Financial. He He wanted the property. He was jealous.
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He wanted to be his father. But he couldn't. Scott told police about a missing gun.
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What do you think of the missing gun story? He made it up. There was never a missing
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gun. >> [music] >> During the defense's cross-examination [music] of Scott Farris, John Luke
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Weaver pressed him about the .38 snub-nosed revolver Scott said he saw in the basement before Gary's death.
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And you didn't um tell anybody about that gun. You didn't talk to your dad about it.
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No, because I forgot. I completely kind of forgot about it. You didn't talk to your mother about it.
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No, because she wasn't in town. Well, she was obviously in town at some point. The defense was suggesting to jurors
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that Scott's behavior was fishy. He didn't tell his parents [music] about seeing the gun or that he noticed it had
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disappeared. But Scott did alert detectives that it was missing as soon as they arrived at
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the farm before they found the bullet in Gary's rib cage. 10 hours. 12 hours before this bullet is found.
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>> [clears throat] >> You have set them off looking for things. You have been controlling where they go
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and what they do. Have you not? No, I'm not controlling. I just asked them to search the house
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to see if they could find that gun because I knew something bad had happened. Weaver bored in, turning up the
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pressure. Did you shoot him at the barn, Scott? I never shot my father. Did you take that bullet and put that
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bullet in the floor in your mother's house? I never knew of that bullet. Then, Weaver cleverly used Scott's own
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body as potential evidence. He asked him to stand up, which revealed Scott's height of over 6 ft 5 in.
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And how much do you weigh? Currently, I'm about 280. You can have a seat. You understand that you are the only
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person on the property who could have physically pulled off what the District Attorney's
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Office and the state has alleged that your mother did. You're aware you're the only person.
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Why? Because Melody Farris stands a mere 5 ft 4 in, and according to police reports, weighs just 120 lb, allegedly
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not big or strong enough to lift her giant husband. And Weaver wasn't done making his point.
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[music] During his closing argument, he decided this one [music] unresolved issue could
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lead to an acquittal for Melody. He turned to some props he had stacked up in the courtroom. This bag is 40 lb
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of peace. I've got a few more bags to go. Weaver walked across the courtroom, away
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from the jury, to pick up a bag of rock salt. One after another, he carried the 40-lb
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bags of salt back and dropped [music] them in front of the jury box. Weaver was stacking enough rock salt to
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equal the more than 300-lb weight of the victim, Gary Ferris. When you add this up,
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that someone who weighs 100 and 20 pounds can move this. That is a doubt. And it's all wrong.
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Weaver placed all of the bags of salt into two larger brown construction bags. Then, with considerable strain, he tried
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to drag them across the floor. This is 300 and 20 pounds. And I'm 185 pounds. Weaver gritted his teeth and pulled the
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salt a few feet before giving up. And that's all I have. Out of breath, he put his hands on his
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hips and lowered his head as if he'd finished a sprint. He wanted jurors to see for themselves
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how nearly impossible it was for him to move that 300-pound pile. The doubt I contend to you
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absolutely exists. I'm sorry I had to do this demonstration. But they didn't. Melody's fate was now in the hands of
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the jury. They had heard from just about [music] everyone on the Ferris wheel, except
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one, Melody herself. Yet, it was what she later said in the courtroom after the trial and then in an
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exclusive interview with me that set the Ferris wheel [music] spinning into outer
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space. I wanted the truth out there, and this is why I am making the statement. The Melody Ferris trial [music] had
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garnered national attention. And after 3 days of deliberating, the jury was deadlocked.
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We got the text [music] message that the jury gave a note to the judge that they were hung.
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Scott Ferris remembered [music] receiving the news. Immediately, we were all sick to our
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stomach [music] cuz we didn't know what that meant. When informed that there was one
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holdout, one juror [music] preventing a final verdict, the judge ordered the jury to go back and try again.
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A day later, on November 4th, 2024, [music] the jury announced they had made a determination. And then it sent your
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head crap. [snorts] >> [music] >> We don't know if she's they found her guilty or not guilty.
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>> [music] >> And then it's the most nerve-racking thing you get I don't think you ever know how that
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feeling is. Full of fear and anticipation, Melody stood. Her eyes welled up with tears.
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We, the jury, as to count of count five, we find the defendant guilty. We, the jury, as to count four,
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find the defendant guilty. Melody put both hands over her mouth as the verdicts for the five counts against
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her were read aloud. And we, the jury, as to count one, find the defendant guilty.
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Melody [music] was found guilty of two counts of murder, aggravated assault, [music] concealing the death of another,
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and making a false statement. Jurors told me [music] what ultimately clinched their decision was the evidence
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showing Gary's phone moving [music] back and forth from the burn pile to the house when Melody was the only other
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person at the [music] farm. Is the verdict agreed to by you? Yes. And is it still your verdict? It is. All
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right. You may be seated. That's all for jurors. Sitting [music] back down, Melody buried
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her face in her hands. Scott told me he felt relief. Because we got justice for my father.
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We fought 6 [music] years to get answers. And hopefully [music] find find out the
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truth. But the legal process wasn't over yet. One month later, >> [music] >> it was time for sentencing.
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Yes, your honor. We are here on the state of versus Melody Wagner Ferris in 23 CR07.
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>> Melody returned to the [music] courtroom, this time wearing an orange uniform.
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The prosecution played a video of Gary Ferris >> [music] >> with his baby granddaughter
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and then read a statement from Emily on behalf [music] of the family. Scott and his brother Chris were present
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to listen. Emily wrote, "Gary was not just our beloved [music] father, but our confidant and our rock."
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She added, "This loss is only made worse by [music] the betrayal of trust we feel
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for our mother." And then came a dramatic [music] moment years in the making. All right, Ms.
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Ferris, do you have a statement? I do. I've written this so that I can get the words.
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After staying silent during the [music] trial, Melody went on the attack. I want the world to know who did this.
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I was there in the courtroom and what she said was a first for me. Not only did I not do this,
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I know who did. I know Scott killed his father. There were audible gasps in the courtroom as a mother proclaimed her son
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the murderer of his own father. I refuse to cover for you. Scott turned red-faced with anger,
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shaking his head no as she continued. His brother Chris looked blindsided. And I plead with you to throw this verdict
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out. Help me get justice for the correct person. >> [snorts] >> As bad as it sounds, I want to be there
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to watch him chained and shackled and brought to justice. Her words didn't [music] influence the
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judge. He sentenced 64-year-old Melody to life in prison with the possibility of parole
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after 30 years. She also received an additional 5 years for concealing Gary's death by burning
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his remains and making a false statement to police. For Scott, who denied [music] killing
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his father, Melody's last words were a final jab. That shows you what she was like.
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One last turn of the knife. >> One last turn. Last to make somebody's life a living hell because it didn't go
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her way. That's the woman that we had to deal with. >> [music] >> Now, my question is, did y'all interview
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her before her sentencing or after? After. Oh. So, she went from the courtroom to y'all. Yeah.
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Yes, right after that breathtaking sentencing, Melody walked straight from the courtroom to our interview chair.
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Peter Van Sant. >> Hi. She sat down in front of me with both her hands and feet shackled.
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I just watched one of the most extraordinary moments inside a courtroom that I have ever seen in my career. What
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do you want the world What do you want this audience to know? I didn't do this. I know who did.
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Without a shadow of a doubt. I know my son did it. And why would he do that? Was that an
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attempt to frame you? Oh, I'm sure. I'm positive. I would bank my life on it. It was as my now son-in-law said, "It's
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the perfect murder." You kill your daddy, you set your mother up, she goes to prison, you get
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everything. And you believe that's what this was, a conspiracy to kill his own father
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and to frame you for it. >> Without a shadow of a doubt. I asked about that phone call with Rusty
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at 2:30 a.m. on July 4th. Did she tell Rusty that Gary was in the burn pile? I never told him that. Not
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then. I told him that Gary had started the burn pile and that I was concerned that
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he was going to catch the woods on fire. I pointed out that she was caught in lies with investigators from the start.
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Like her affair with Rusty. I did lie to them about Rusty. And you realize when you lie, it it
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destroys your credibility. >> I didn't I did not want to be have innocent people brought into something that
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didn't have to be. And in hindsight, I should have told them right off the bat. I told him I did not have a second
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phone, but yet that second phone was taken out of my purse where it was when Detective Hayes searched it.
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I know he took it. All right. When you were asked if you had a second cell phone and you said no,
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you were lying there, too, right? So, there's a couple of lies now you're telling.
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And you, like I said, you lie to to investigator, that's just red meat. You the two of you were not talking
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about getting married. And you're telling me the truth, right? Cuz you know if you were planning on
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getting married, it sounds like a motive for murder. And what about what Martha Jean said on
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the stand about her missing gun? I know Martha Jean well. I know that when she gets angry
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there's pure venom that spews out of her mouth. Did you have anything to do with
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her missing gun? And why do you think she said this? I don't know. I don't know. I have not
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talked to her. As for her accusation about Scott's role, she told me she believed her other
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children were aware. I do. You do? I do. I know I I'm Emily, I'm not so sure about. Emily, I'm
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I mean, Amanda, I'm positive she knows. How about Chris? Chris? Oh, yeah. I think him, you know, he knew from the
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get-go. Why would why would your children, Gary's children, all agree or cover up
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for Scott on this? Are you Money. Absolutely money. Chris and Scott, you saw it,
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denied they had anything to do with their father's death and at times were emotional about it.
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What did you think as you watched that? The Scott that was in that courtroom was not my son. You understand though
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that to people listening to this, they're thinking here is a mother willing to sacrifice
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not only her son Scott, but potentially two of her other children to save her own skin. What would you say to that?
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This is a mother's worst nightmare. It is. It is beyond There, you know, it has been called the Ferris wheel.
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And it was, but it was our Ferris wheel. It was our life. I never intended for it
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to be put out on for the public at all. Never wanted anybody to know. Do you [music] think you will ever be
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able to repair your relationship with your children or >> [music] >> will you want to?
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Oh, absolutely I want to. I pray every day it will. Despite all that's happened?
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>> Despite all that's happened. Despite three of their >> [music] >> beliefs that you are a killer?
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>> They're much older. And for those who believe you got exactly what you deserved,
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[music] you say? I didn't do it. I did not do it. Melody has requested [music] a new
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trial, arguing that the evidence does not support the verdict and that the state failed to prove beyond a
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reasonable doubt that she was guilty. As of this recording, a judge is scheduled [music] to consider Melody's
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motion in June 2026. No one else has been charged in connection [music] to her husband's
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murder. Had the Ferris wheel finally come to a stop? For Scott, he may never make sense of
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his family's tragedy. She used to be a mother to me. But after she murdered my father, no.
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She turned into an evil person. He only hopes that one [music] day he and his family can move on and find some
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peace. It is embarrassing [music] to us. I mean, this is we don't wish this upon
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anybody. So, but it's also been seen around the world. We're hoping we're able to put this in
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our past and talk about [music] the good times and not about this. From 48 Hours, this is Blood Is Thicker,
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the Ferris Wheel, produced by Sony Music Entertainment. [music] I'm your host, Peter Van Sant.
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Judy Tygard is the executive producer of 48 Hours. Original reporting by 48 Hours producers
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[music] Betsy Schuler, Ryan Smith, and Hannah Vere. Jamie Benson is the [music] senior
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producer for CBS News podcast and Mara Waltz is the senior story editor. Recording [music] assistance from Alan
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Peng and Alana Myers. Special thanks [music] to CBS News podcast vice president Megan Marcus.
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Blood Is Thicker was written [music] and produced by Alex Sherman. Stephanie Serrano is our editor.
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Our executive producer is Shira Morris. Our associate producer [music] is Zoe Colkin.
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Theme and original music composed by Hansdale Hsu. Cedric [music] Wilson is our sound
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designer and mixed the episodes. We also [music] use music from Epidemic Sounds.
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Fendel Fulton is our fact-checker. Our production manager is Tamika [music] Balance Colacurcio.
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Thanks for [music] listening.