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With the lead detective on the stand, more recorded conversations between Melody Farris and her lover were played out in court. This time it was from a burner phone the two lovers were using to communicate during police's investigation into Gary's death. The questionable role of Rusty Barton kept coming up in this trial. He continued his communication with her even after Melody was arrested on allegations of killing her husband. All their recorded calls were played back for the jury.
With the lead detective on the stand, more recorded conversations between Melody Farris and her lover were played out in court. This time it was from a burner phone the two lovers were using to communicate during police's investigation into Gary's death. The questionable role of Rusty Barton kept coming up in this trial. He continued his communication with her even after Melody was arrested on allegations of killing her husband. All their recorded calls were played back for the jury.
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S1, EP75 "The Second Police Interveiew"Just days after Gary Farris' remains were found in a burn pile, investigators interviewed all his family members. It was all recorded and played back for all to hear in the courtroom. The second Interview police conducted of the defendant came the very next day after the first interview. She insisted, telling the lead detective that she had more to say about her thoughts on her husband's shooting death.
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S1, EP76 "Defendant Gives Police Clues"The second police interview law enforcement conducted of Melody Farris was played back. Jurors heard her playing detective giving investigators clues as to what happened and who may have been responsible for Gary Farris' demise. These jurors had to be asking themselves a key question. Was Melody helping their case or helping her case? The defendant was heard giving the two detectives clues pointing to the guilt of her two sons, Chris and Scott, for the murder of her husband, Gary.
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S1, EP77 "Detectives Push Back On Melody"In Melody Farris' second police interview, she finally came clean about her extramarital affair with her longtime lover, Rusty Barton. The jury was hearing her side of the story in a recorded conversation the day after her husband, Gary's remains were found. Both detectives sounded more stern and more accusatory in this second interview. What began as a fact-finding mission early on in their murder investigation, gradually turned into police zeroing in on their prime suspect.
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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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S1, EP74 "Melody Farris, The Victim"Melody Farris was heard divulging more details in her extended police-recorded interview. She sat down with detectives just after Gary's remains were discovered in a burn pile on his family's estate. Melody sounded like she was the victim in this story. As police were interviewing the real victim, Gary, and his death, Melody was heard telling the lead detective how her husband wouldn't let her work outside the home and how she was cut off from the family finances over time.
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S1, EP73 "Blaming The Sons"In her police interview, Melody Farris was heard raising suspicions about her two sons, Chris and Scott, in their alleged role in her husband's death. Jurors listened to her account in the days and hours leading up to Gary's murder. Melody recalled that several family members were on the property when Gary went missing and the search was on to look for him. The State wanted to use Melody's recorded interview with police as their elaborate attempt to get her to testify in her murder trial.
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S1, EP72 "Extending Her Interview"The candid yet unedited police interview Melody Farris initially gave was played back in full. According to Lead Detective Daniel Hayes, the defendant kept talking. This was after he wrapped up his initial police interview with her. The jury would decide later in their deliberations whether Melody was divulging more truth on what happened to her husband or whether she was coming up with her side of the story to shift any potential blame away from her and to her adult children.
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S1, EP71 "The First Police Interview"What exactly did Melody Farris tell police in the beginning of their homicide investigation? Jurors were learning just that in the audio recording of her initial police interview. This was months before she was the prime suspect in the death of her husband, Gary. Prosecutors wanted to use the defendant's words against her. They played back the entire interview she initially gave to police. During their months-long investigation, detectives were asking tough questions to the entire Farris family.
