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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.
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.
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S1, EP68 "Statements From Jail""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, EP69 "Tapped Phone Calls"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, EP70 "Lead Detective Explains"The theme of candid, recorded phone calls continued to play out in the courtroom. The jury listened to all the calls her lover made to Melody Farris on his burner phone--all while police were investigating the death of her husband, Gary. Lead Detective Daniel Hayes explained to jurors how he and his team began their investigation. After they processed the crime scene, police scoured the large 10-acre family property to search for the murder weapon. Ultimately, they never found it.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
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.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP67 "This Was A Set Up"The family turmoil following the arrest of Melody Farris was heard in jailhouse phone calls. The jury listened to the back and forth between her and her lover, Rusty Barton, who remained loyal to her after her husband was killed, and she came out as the prime suspect. Rusty was heard saying: This was a set-up. Early on, Melody pointed the finger at her two sons—Chris and Scott—for her husband Gary's fatal shooting.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP66 "Calls With Her Lover"Jurors listened to more of Melody Farris' recorded jail phone calls she made after being arrested for her husband, Gary's, murder. On the phone was her lover. Prosecutors wanted the jury to get a deeper insight into the sexual affair she was having with Rusty Barton months leading to this homicide. While she never confessed to the murder of her husband, Melody did appear calm and collected in the recordings. She was convinced police did not have key evidence linking her to the murder.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP65 "Phone Calls From Jail"Jurors heard jail calls between Melody Farris and her daughter, her son-in-law, and the man she was having an affair with. The calls took place shortly after the defendant's arrest for the murder of her husband, Gary. What did Melody say in these recorded calls and what did she leave out? Jurors got the sense of her demeanor and explanations after she was accused of first-degree murder.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP64 "Ashley Pope"Another key detective who was assigned to Gary Farris' homicide investigation. Not only did investigators come upon key crime scene evidence they interviewed people of interests as they were gathering their information. While Ashley Pope is an arson Investigator, he was a Sergeant with the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office. He was among the detective team that scoured the large 10-acre family farm Looking for valuable clues and key evidence. Pope interviewed Rusty Barton, Melody's longtime Lover.
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