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"I love you" was heard in jail phone recordings between Melody Farris and her lover, Rusty Barton. This was after she was arrested for the murder of Gary, her husband. The two remained loyal during the police's investigation. Nearly a year after Gary Farris' remains were found in a burn pile, his wife, Melody, was arrested for his murder. But before she was out on bond leading up to her murder trial, she made several phone calls as a jail inmate. Next, the lead detective in this case testified.
"I love you" was heard in jail phone recordings between Melody Farris and her lover, Rusty Barton. This was after she was arrested for the murder of Gary, her husband. The two remained loyal during the police's investigation. Nearly a year after Gary Farris' remains were found in a burn pile, his wife, Melody, was arrested for his murder. But before she was out on bond leading up to her murder trial, she made several phone calls as a jail inmate. Next, the lead detective in this case testified.
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S1, EP80 "Lies, Denials And Distortions"The jury heard detectives raising doubt in her role in Melody Farris' claims. These doubts were heard on an audio recording of her second extended police interview. Investigators were not letting her off the hook. They were catching her in lies, denials and even distortions about her alleged role in Gary's murder and why his corpse was found burning up in a pile of debris on the family farm. Toward the end of this interview, the defendant sounded frustrated at the two detectives questioning her.
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S1, EP79 "Asssumptions Based On Evidence"The second recorded police interview of Melody Farris was not over yet in playback for jurors. In the long conversation, she went into details in the hours leading up to her husband, Gary's, murder. The whole time she sounded as if she didn't know what could have happened to him. The detective questioning her pushed back on her for inconsistent and erroneous claims she was making. Lead Detective Daniel Hayes was heard saying: Our assumptions are based on evidence.
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S1, EP78 "Defendant's Initial, Inconsistent Story"Prosecutors could not call Melody Farris to the stand. So, for jurors to hear her side of the story on what happened to her husband they played back both interviews detectives recorded of her early in their murder investigation. In the unedited second recorded police interview, topics ranged from Melody's extramarital affairs, access to the family's finances, and even her blood found in different parts of the crime scene where Gary's remains were discovered.
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