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[Music] on November 25th 2020 it was the day before Thanksgiving I received a phone call
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shortly after 4:00 from the Mount Morris police chief and he asked me kind of frantically is anybody at my house and I
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said my daughter Melissa is and and so there's a fire and it's bad my sister Melissa she was 9 months
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pregnant about to have a baby in 2 days what do you remember from November 25th 2020 what was my 17th birthday my
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birthday is November 25th me and my mom were at a store we're picking out a cake
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and we finally got home and my brother Carl frantically is calling my mom have you heard from Melissa have you heard
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from Melissa and we're like no why Carl said the neighbor called and he said the
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house is on fire so at that point my heart just sank because we were not sure if Melissa was
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home or not I just wanted them both to be okay and all I could think was please just
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have one of them at least one of them make it through the night when everyone said they didn't know
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where she was and they couldn't hear from her I knew I knew just had that gut feeling that she was
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gone for a huge tragedy like that to occur the day before Thanksgiving on Julia's birthday right before the baby
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was to be born it was just so much when I arrived at the scene I was told the victim was found laying on the
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floor in front of the stove Melissa Lish was a 27 y old EMT we're trying to figure out why there's a fire in the
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kitchen we couldn't tell if it was intentional or accidental there was all kinds of possibilities running through
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our heads but we we didn't know what happened to her my daughter Melissa she's very
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thoughtful and that's why she got into being a paramedic she wanted to help [Music]
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people when MSA first told me she was pregnant she told me a couple things about the dad Matt Ploy they on and off
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hung out for years and had a similar click of friends Matt Ploy was a firefighter paramedic he was a good
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firefighter Matt was somebody that was Dependable on the fire scene he was just one of the guys he was Keeping a Secret
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the fact that he fathered a baby in the hopes that the child wouldn't be born for Matt he never had a child before he
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didn't want to make it known to other people because he just wanted to keep that part of his life
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private Matthew py was a person of interest on day one simply because he was at the scene Matthew py later told
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investigators that he was at the house to see Melissa to talk about um the [Music]
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baby he admitted he was there he told them everything that they would have needed to know about his presence there
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didn't have anything to hide they discussed their finances and then Matt left as she was making some
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lunch she talked about some food or something but that we died in St I believe from the very beginning he
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was trying to set up a story that there was an accidental house fire that she had been cooking
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something which would explain why her body was found in the kitchen when you got the call about
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Matthew py possibly being involved in a murder what did you think uh denial that it wasn't one of
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our people it doesn't chime with what a firefighter is we put fires out we don't start fires
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we help people we don't hurt [Music] people it is unthinkable