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It was an insane
amount of fire for a normal house fire.

The fire was used
to cover up the homicide.

From the evidence
that was found,

this was a pretty
traumatic attack.

What would be
the motive for this? Would it be revenge?

The picture was starting
to be painted for us.

[Miller] Who would just roll
on your brand new husband?

[Jason speaking]

[Larry] I felt that there was
more to what had happened.

And it finally dawns on him
that he's been used.

[Jason speaking]

[Miller] If he is going down,
so is she.

The city of Alpena
lies right on the shore of Lake Huron.

It's a beautiful place
on the water. We're surrounded by water.

[Stacy] The average person
here still does not lock their door at night,

does not lock
their car at night.

It's pretty laid back,
pretty open community.

[Stacy] In a city like this,
people think they know their neighbors.

But sometimes,
there are secrets hidden

behind closed doors.

And it takes a crisis
to expose them.

[Larry] On October 15th, 2001,
Alpena county central dispatch

began receiving numerous calls
reporting what was believed

to be a fire
on the north side

and this was evidenced by
a large amount of smoke in that neighborhood.

Law enforcement was first
in response to the 911 call.

And they located
the house fire on Alfred Street.

They saw flames about
20-30 feet high.

It was an insane
amount of fire for a normal house fire.

[Larry] There was
a belief by neighbors

that there potentially was
someone in the home,

that being the owner because
his car was still in the garage

at the residence.

Several attempts were made
by the officers

who responded to call out,
see if they could get a response

from inside the home.

[Jennifer] They obviously
wanted to enter the house

to see if there were
any survivors.

But they had to just
kind of stay put and wait for

the fire department
to get there.

[Larry] When the firefighters
arrived on scene initially,

they determined that
they needed to fight the fire

from outside, simply because
of the intensity of it.

[Jennifer]They were finally able to
extinguish the flames

and get inside the house.

[Larry] The initial entry
into the home was made by firefighters.

The house was still very hot
and a lot of smoke.

The firefighters that went in
and made that initial search

actually found the remains
of a body in the kitchen area.

They know that
this is no longer just a fire investigation.

This is a crime scene
investigation.

[Larry] The next
phone call then was made

to the Michigan state police
fire Marshal's office

because any time there is
a fatal fire,

there is a need for
the state fire Marshal to come in

and conduct
their own investigation.

When I arrived,
the fire department and the police department

were both on the scene.
The fire was suppressed.

and we could enter
the scene.

Now, walking through
the living room,

I could smell what I thought
could've been a faint odor of gasoline.

It's a very distinctive odor.

It was a red flag.

In the living room,
there was some heat staining to the furniture.

And there was a little bit
of soot damage.

But there was no real
extensive fire damage.

It's typical in a fire
where an accelerant like gasoline is used.

Gasoline would
ignite initially, but immediately goes out

because it consumes
all the oxygen

in that enclosed area

and a fire needs
oxygen to burn.

And in that living room area,
you can see there was some fire damage,

but it was like
a flash fire.

At that time,
I went in the kitchen.

The victim was
laying almost directly in front of the door.

And there was heavy,
heavy fire damage

right where the victim was.

[Larry]I've seen victims of fires.

In this particular situation,
what was different about it to me,

the damage to the body.
I mean, literally, there was

very little left of
the torso area of the body.

Like, the fire burned
very hot, right on the center of this body.

[Mark] There was no
fire debris at all on the victim.

The left arm and left leg
had become detached from the body

from extreme heat
which wouldn't be unusual

on a fire victim if
the whole house collapsed around them

and it layed under
smoldering wood for several hours.

I've seen people
reduced to just bones at the fire scene.

But that's when
the house is totally consumed in fire.

This house was still
relatively intact.

To have the victim
laying on the floor

with nothing falling down
on top of him,

that's very unusual.

[Jennifer]Police are pretty sure
the body is of the homeowner,

sixty-nine year old
James Orban,

but of course, because
the body was so badly burned,

they did need to send off DNA
to get confirmation.

Even the fingerprints
were so badly damaged that they were of no use

for identification purposes.

[Jennifer] Investigators
noticed there was a lot of broken glass

around the body
and this matched the broken glass pane

of the door that was broken
in the back of the house.

[Larry] As the body
was being moved,

glass fragments were found
on the floor under the body.

[Mark] And the significance
of the glass was there was no soot

on either side of the glass.

Then our case said,
glass was broken out

and he had fallen
on that glass prior to the fire.

The crime lab technicians,
as soon as they walked in the kitchen,

they really noticed,
I believe it was a dishwasher

and the electric stove,
blood stain spatters that

other investigators had seen
and not noticed.

Crime scene tech pointed out,
he said it looks like a bloody handprint

coming down one appliance.

It looks like a bloody head
was trussed up against another appliance.

From the evidence
that was found,

this was a pretty
traumatic attack.

[Jennifer]The police were able to

tell that he was actually
stabbed multiple times.

And one of the most
noticeable and very violent stab wounds was

in the victim's forehead.

[Larry] We believe it was
multiple stab wounds

with blood spatters
spreading throughout the kitchen area.

[Mark] At that point,
all the investigators on the scene

felt there was gonna be
a homicide.

The fire was used
to cover it up.

[Jennifer] The police got back
the results of the DNA test.

Then they were able to confirm
that the body did

belong to the homeowner,
James Orban.

[Bill]Who breaks into a house
and kills an old man?

Why would somebody do that?

And why would they do it
in such a violent fashion?

[Miller] When the fire
and murder happened,

I was a full time
staff reporter for The Alpena News.

I had only been on the job
a few months.

Right away we learned
whose home it was and I knew the victim.

He had sold my grandparents
the lot that our cottage was built on.

So I've known him
my whole life.

James Orban was
an odd duck.

From the minute
he was born, he was the third child of nine.

James did not have
an easy childhood.

His father was
a terrible alcoholic, couldn't keep jobs.

His mother worked
at a factory here in town

and she was the breadwinner.

When James was born,
he was born with

significant hearing loss.

He did have
a speech impediment

that was caused by
his lack of hearing.

[Miller] He was teased
terribly because of it,

by kids his own age
and older kids,

they were horrible to him
because he talked so strange.

[Jennifer]He'd fit in better with people
that were younger than him.

So he tended to hang out
with younger kids.

[Miller] They didn't hold
the power over him

like his friends his age
and older did.

Little kids, they just were
his playmates.

[Stacy] James Orban was
able to find comfort

away from his tormenters,
but abuse like this will leave scars.

[Larry] James Orban
had been an employee at a local factory.

He was a man
whose neighbors indicated

a kind of a loner during
the time they knew him.

The day following the fire,
I was responsible for

searching James Orban's house.

The focus of my search
was the bedroom,

right off of the kitchen.

It became apparent
very early on

that this bedroom
off the kitchen

had been
James Orban's bedroom,

and in that room was
a small dresser.

And a lot of the contents
of those drawers had been

thrown on the floor,
on the bed,

just through and about
almost like someone

in a hurried fashion
was looking through stuff in the dresser drawers.

And one thing I noticed,
as I was going through this property

was the fact that
there were polaroid pictures,

appeared to have been
amateur photographs

someone had taken of
young teenage appearing girls.

[Bill] They were
not necessarily inappropriate,

but why would somebody
have these other than

having some proclivity for
liking young children?

[Jennifer] It seemed as if
they were purposefully placed there

wanting the police
to discover it.

But once they see
these polaroids, it makes them think

that maybe this is something
a lot more personal.

Anyone in law enforcement
will tell you there's

no such thing as coincidences.

[Jennifer] James Orban
hung out with younger kids

throughout his whole life
and he continued to as an adult.

And this is where
we discovered that he's actually

done some pretty
terrible things.

[Miller] I remember
when I was a kid,

I had heard he had
got into trouble

with some young girls.

He never did anything to me,
but my gut always told me

he was different, to stay away
and not to give him that opportunity.

[Larry] He had
the police investigation

conducted on him
at some point earlier in his life,

wherein a young girl,
a teenager

had accused him of
some sort of sexual behavior.

He had a sexual misbehavior
charge and conviction

and he had spent time
incarcerated.

With a murder victim
like James Orban,

police have to think,
could this be revenge?

[Bill]Two weeks before the fire,

there had been a complaint
called in that somebody had

vandalized his garage area,

spray painted "child molester"
on the garage.

[Miller] The fact that
that had happened

just two weeks before
and then, now they find

some questionable pictures
in his bedroom on display

in a house fire
just seems too coincidental.

[Bill] Maybe this is somebody
that came back and did this to Mr. Orban

in retaliation for maybe
something that happened to them.

[Miller] Law enforcement
are looking at what would be the motive for this.

Would it be revenge?
Is it someone that

he may have molested earlier
who is now an adult?

Is it robbery?

They're trying to figure out
what would be behind this.

[Larry] The picture was
starting to be painted for us.

The evidence from the scene,
what I collected

in the execution
of the search warrant.

That was just kind of
the start.

Now the real work
has to start

and that involves interviews.

The police interviewed
Robert Taylor,

a neighbor who called 911.

[Larry]He was out walking his dog
and saw smoke filling the air

under the street lights.

He told us that
he then approached

while he was at the scene.

Mr. Taylor described
the gentleman

as Caucasian, male.

Rather tall, had a beard

and was wearing
a baseball cap.

[Jennifer] He told them that
while he was out there

watching the house
burn down essentially,

this guy came up to him
and asked him,

"Have they found
the body yet?"

This person had to have some,
either direct knowledge

or direct involvement
in this particular event.

[Miller] He was sweating
and he smelled like campfire,

which is odd, again,
you know,

two o'clock in the morning
in October.

You're sweating? [chuckles]

Where have you been?
What have you been up to? [laughs]

[Larry] This is another piece
of the puzzle.

We need to try and figure out
who this person is.

When the police interviewed
the neighbors,

nobody really knew
James Orban that well,

but they did know somebody
that they thought did know him well.

And that was 21 year old
Melissa "Missy" Bredow.

[Larry]Everyone in the neighborhood
knew James Orban had

a relationship of some sort.

Didn't necessarily know
what that relationship was,

but had a relationship
with Melissa Bredow

and she lived just
a few blocks from James' house.

[Miller] She was
very boisterous, very bossy,

needed to be
the center of attention.

According to James' neighbors,

Missy was there
almost every day.

[Larry]It tweaked my thoughts that
here's James Orban that's 69,

Missy Bredow at 21.

Number one,
what did they have in common?

But more importantly,
if she's coming by his house,

what's the reason for that?

[Bill] Missy had
a difficult childhood.

Her family was not
well to do financially.

They struggled.

[Jennifer]Her dad worked on boats
and was very rarely around

and she didn't really
get along well with her mother.

[Larry] Missy, right from
the time that she was probably, barely a teenager,

had been in contact
with law enforcement.

Underage drinking,
getting in trouble.

Missy was just always
operating on the edge.

Missy thought that
she had total control

over every situation.

She felt that she was
the person in charge

and nobody was
going to tell her any different.

[Stacy]Here's another unhappy child.

But Missy seems to be
a kid who responds

by trying to control
what she can,

or who she can.

[Jennifer] When Missy
was 14 years old, she started dating

a fellow classmate
Jason Belanger.

He was a good student
and came from

a good family.
Missy's family had hoped

Jason would be a positive
influence on her.

[Larry] But lo and behold,
just the opposite happened.

Missy's influence over Jason
ended up being

the superpower, if you will
and ultimately,

Jason fell under
Missy's spell.

He wasn't an angel.
He had had some trouble.

But Missy just seemed to be
gasoline on that fire, so to speak.

And the two
became inseparable.

Jason's brain started
to go down.

[Larry]He was drinking heavily,
using drugs,

spending time with Missy.

I think her relationship
with Jason early on was

primarily characterized
as being over the top.

I think she was
very possessive,

very jealous person.

I know Jason's family
did their best to keep him away from her.

Things were
going downhill for Jason. So his family

wanted to get him
out of Alpena.

[Larry]I can feel for the Belangers.
They had good jobs,

they had a beautiful home.

And they literally
left it all behind in hopes that they could

turn Jason around
and change his trajectory in life

because I think they were
fearful for what it was gonna become for him.

And their last hope was
literally to physically separate him from Missy.

[Stacy] You can see
why Jason's parents wanted to make this move.

But it would certainly
have left a void in Missy's life.

[Larry]Once Jason was out of Alpena,
had left the picture

so to speak with Missy,

she started looking for others
to hang around with.

[Jennifer] It was right around
the time that she started

hanging out with
James Orban.

[Miller] He would give
younger people

cigarettes and alcohol.

The stuff that they wanted
and he found out

pretty early on that
if you gave them things,

they would befriend him.

So he had to buy affection
and buy friendship, which is very sad.

She'd go and clean his house
and get money for whatever cleaning she did.

[Bill] I think there was
more to this story

than just her being
helpful to him in terms of

running errands
and cleaning his house.

[Larry] Our investigation
didn't reveal

any specific behaviors
that they were involved in.

But obviously,
as an investigator, you gotta start wondering,

what was the draw
between the two of them?

Was it just money?
Was it sexual or what?

[Miller] Missy and James
spent lots of time together.

And he convinced himself
that he was in love with her

and maybe he was
in love with her.

She did that very much
on purpose.

That kind of manipulation,
she's very good at

manipulating the men
in her life.

Missy used a lot of the money
that James gave her

'cause she,
she had a bingo habit.

She's 20.

Who goes to bingo
when you're that young?

What I take from that
is that she wanted to win big.

She'd rather not work,
she'd rather just win.

That was very common
for her to be allowed to drive James' car.

[Miller] He had
an old pickup truck and she didn't like that.

So they went
car shopping one day

and he let her pick out
a used car.

I think he said that
her name was on the car,

that it was her car
and she could use it any time she wanted to,

but at his house.
She'd have to come to his house to use the car.

That to me is
sugar daddy 101.

She used everything he had.

Why would his new car
be any different?

The police know
that they have to find and speak to

Missy Bredow because
it just isn't adding up

on why they would be
such good friends.

[Larry] When she came
to the police station,

she was very upbeat.
She was bouncy,

bubbly, if you will.

Which to us seemed
very out of character

due to the fact that someone
she should've been very close to was dead.

If I had lost someone
I cared a lot about,

I don't think I would've
acted that way.

She seemed to have
the best interests of the investigation

when she spoke
to the police.

[Miller] Missy's alibi,
it was rock solid because

she always goes to bingo
on that night.

We actually had witnesses
tell us that Missy had come to bingo

when they could all...
buy her out.

We talked for some time
with Missy,

just trying to find out
what she would provide us

or offer us
and at some point we said, "Well,

what's your current
relationship with James?"

[Jennifer] She told the police
that she hadn't seen him since October third,

which is two weeks
before the murder.

[Larry] The argument
that kind of caused them

to go their separate ways
for a while was

that she had
this understanding

that the car was
always available

and suddenly, James had
kind of cut her off.

So she kind of led us
to believe that there was a financial shutdown.

Typically with interviews,
we ask the person,

"Would you be willing to
consent to a polygraph

simply to verify
what you've told us?"

And a lot of times people say,
"Sure, I'll take the polygraph."

If they say no,
they have good reason.

Now Missy said,
"I don't have time right now."

[Bill] It's always unusual
when somebody is as cooperative as she was,

but then simultaneously
refused to engage in a polygraph examination.

She says, "No, I can't.
I'm planning my wedding reception.

I'm too busy. I can't."

Because she had
just gotten married.

I'd have to say that was
a first time in my career I heard someone say

that they couldn't
take a polygraph

because they were
planning a wedding party.

Missy told the police
that her wedding was actually on October 16th.

[Larry] Which seemed
very unusual to us simply because

it was literally
the day after the fire.

[Jennifer]This is pretty strange
that she decided

to have a wedding
the day after one of the closest people

in her life, supposedly,
was found dead.

[Larry] And of course,
our next question is,

obviously,
who's she married to?

She tells them that
she got married to her high school sweetheart

Jason Belanger.

[Larry] Jason had been
gone away for a while

and a lot of people
didn't even know he was back.

But somehow,
upon his return,

he and Missy had
immediately reconnected,

were living together
and now were married.

That seemed highly unusual.

[Jennifer] He had actually
moved back into town just two weeks prior

to their wedding
when they reconnected at a party

and their romance
picked back up

right where it left off.

[Larry] During our
follow up interviews,

I had actually spoken
with a local storeowner

who had a business about
a block away from Jason's home.

And he hadn't shared with me
that as a young person,

Jason had actually
started a fire

that nearly
burned down a building.

It is possible that a child
with a history of setting fires

could turn into an adult
who uses this as a criminal method.

The detectives decide
they wanna talk to Missy's new husband, Jason.

[Larry] Jason's version of
he and Missy getting reacquainted

pretty much matched
what Missy had told us.

[Miller] They ask him
if he knows James Orban

and he says yes.

And when asked,
"What do you think of him?"

He said, "I don't like him."

He said to detectives
that he believed some of the money

that Melissa was
getting from James

was for sexual favors.

Jason knew what was going on
and he didn't like it.

And who could blame him?

[Jennifer] Jason also admitted
that when he was younger,

before he moved away,
that he had vandalized James' garage door

by throwing pink paint
on the door.

When the police asked Jason
why he said "because he's a child molester,"

and that's very
interesting phrasing

because just two weeks prior,
somebody had painted the words

"child molester"
on his garage door.

[Larry] As we're
talking with Jason,

we're kind of checking out
his appearance.

Jason pretty much met
the description

provided by Mr. Taylor
at the scene of the fire.

We also noticed that
Jason had some cuts on his hands

and when we asked him,
his explanation was that

he had been working on,
I believe, his motorcycle

and through doing some
wrenching work on it, he had cut his hands.

[Miller] Now I'm not
a mechanic,

but you don't generally get
cuts from slipped wrenches.

I think maybe broken glass,
perhaps defensive wounds

from the victim.

We basically just
explained to him

that we're gonna
need a minute.

We left him
in the interview room

to let him sweat a little bit.

We re-gather ourselves
and as we entered the room

and sat down with Jason,
he basically told us,

"Hey, I'd like to confess."

Imagine our surprise
when we heard that.

[Jennifer] Jason told police
that his original plan

to go over to
James Orban's house was to rob him.

He said that he needed
the money to support his drug addiction

and he was low on drugs.

[Larry] Jason said
he went to James' home.

It was dark,
late in the evening

and as he climbed the steps
to the back door of the house

to enter, James literally
opened the door

to put his cat out.

And they had
a confrontation literally, right in the doorway.

And the confrontation
almost immediately became physical.

[Jennifer] He told police that
when he saw James

face to face,
he was just completely filled with rage

and the reason that he was
filled with rage was because

he said that
when he was a child,

he was actually
molested by him.

[Larry] We never had
any indication that

Jason had been
molested by James.

And in addition to that,
we had no indication

that James had a proclivity
for young boys.

Everyone that
he had been around

had been young girls.

So for Jason to make this
a statement for his reason for attacking James

just really confused us a bit.

Often times, young boys
will not come forward when they've been abused.

And so,
it's completely possible

that Jason was targeted.

And if Jason had
pent up anger

because either he was abused
or Missy was abused by Orban,

then it would absolutely
make sense

that he can snap.

[Larry]Once he had attacked James
with several stab wounds,

he had actually then ransacked
the house looking for anything he could find.

Then he left.
He left James dead or dying on the floor.

[Miller] Police take this
confession seriously

because a lot of
the pieces fit.

He did rob him,
he was angry at Orban.

Perhaps Jason is the one
who spray painted

"child molester"
on the garage.

We had, at that point,
enough to take Jason into custody.

[Stacy] Police now have
a confession from Jason.

But they still
need to find out

what role Missy played
in this crime.

[Larry] We had Missy come in.

She seemed a big agitated
and she was trying to get information from us

without offering too much.

[Miller] They are turning up
the heat on her by

dropping in little details,
"Well, we know this happened and we know this happened."

[Jennifer] Missy starts
to get nervous,

she keeps
threatening to leave.

She's visibly shaken.

[Larry] Ultimately we told her
that Jason had confessed to killing James.

Her whole demeanor changes.
She just starts talking.

[Larry] She started sharing
some details that

only a person familiar
with the incident would know.

Her story is just
a little bit different.

She said that
he actually used a gun

to break the glass
and then the gun was knocked away.

The gun fell on the floor
so he reverted then to his pocket knife.

And he then
used the pocket knife

to stab James repeatedly.

Our investigation had already
revealed the presence of

stab wounds on the body.

But what's interesting is that
she actually demonstrated

exactly how the stabbing
was done.

[Stacy] Police have to wonder,

did Missy learn all of this
after the fact

or was she involved
from the beginning?

[Larry]She continues to explain to us
how Jason leaves the house

and crosses
the second avenue bridge

and as he's doing so,
according to Missy,

he has a, what she described
as a watchman's hat

and inside that hat,
he had put the gun and the knife

and she believed,
James' wallet.

And he had thrown all those
into the river.

Armed with that information,
we actually reached out

to the Michigan
state police dive team

and they made a dive
and actually recovered the hat,

the gun, the knife,
but did not find the wallet.

The DNA from the knife
was not usable.

But one thing that
helped us in that process

was Missy had actually
explained that Jason had

stabbed James so hard,
at one point that he had actually used his other hand

to drive the knife in further.

And in that process,
the tip of the knife had broken off

and the knife
that we recovered had a broken tip.

[Miller]She gave that to the cops
and they knew that

that still wasn't everything
and they asked her,

"Well, what else is there?"

She said, "I'll tell you
where the clothes he was wearing were,

but you have to
take me there."

[Larry] So we got into
a patrol car and we literally

drove to a commercial dumpster
just outside of town.

[Miller]The officers asked her,

"What are we gonna find
in the dumpster, Missy?"

And she listed bloody jeans,
bloody t-shirt,

yellow Columbia jacket.

[Larry] As soon as
we opened the dumpster,

she pointed two black
plastic garbage bags

and said, "That's them."

And my partner and I
pulled the bags out,

we opened them up
and guess what was inside.

Bloody clothing.

The clothing
that was recovered

from the dumpster
was ultimately processed

at the Michigan state police
crime lab

and a positive
DNA match was made to James Orban's DNA.

Missy brought us,
first of all,

the information about
where we could find the murder weapon,

which was located
and recovered.

And where we could
find the clothing that was worn

by the perpetrator,
which was recovered.

[Miller] Who would just roll
on your brand new husband?

Who would just absolutely
throw him under the bus?

Right out of the gate?
He wasn't in jail,

I don't know, 15 minutes
and she was spilling

all that she had
to the officers.

[Larry] Ultimately,
Jason was charged with the crime.

[Miller]He stuck to his story
and stuck to his story

and without
any sort of solid proof

that Missy had anything
to do with it.

They had to let her go.

[Larry]It was still the feeling of
all the investigators,

the prosecutor's office,
all felt that with everything that Missy had provided us,

we felt that Jason was
actually kind of taking

the fall, if you will,
for Missy.

[Miller] Jason was gonna
protect her.

Kept protecting her
at all cost.

Kept protecting her.

Always said he was
the only one involved.

Two years go by.
Jason has gone to prison.

Everything should be
done and dusted.

[Larry]There was a day in 2003.

The Alpena county prosecutor
gets a phone call

and on the other end
of the line is Jason Belanger.

Jason wanted to talk.

And he really wanted to
share some information

that he thought was
going to be

interesting for us
to hear about Missy.

[investigator speaking]

[Jason speaking]

I, uh...

When Jason was
first arrested and convicted,

and sentenced to jail,
Missy communicated

with him regularly
and visited him often.

Over time, the visits
got shorter,

and like, fewer
and further between.

And it finally dawns on him
that he's been used.

Just like she used James.

And he finally decides
that if he's going down, so is she.

[Jason speaking]

Jason shared with us
that the planning was even to the detail by Missy

that she had actually
drawn him a map,

a floor plan if you will,
of James' house.

[Jason speaking]

[Jennifer] I mean,
this is some pretty meticulous planning.

It's kind of like a heist,
the way that's got everything

mapped out and marked
and planned.

[Jason speaking]

She made sure that
she had an alibi,

but took no part
in making sure that

her husband,
the person that was

committing the murder
had any sort of alibi.

[Jason speaking]

[Miller] At this point,
you get the feeling that

he doesn't do anything
until he has say so.

He just killed a guy.

He doesn't know to go home
and change his clothes and take a shower?

He goes to the senior center's
and asks her what to do.

[Jason speaking]

[Miller]So she pays for the gas.

And Jason puts it in
two liter bottles.

Puts it in a backpack
and walks from their apartment and set the house on fire.

[Jason speaking]

I had an immediate peace

after hearing
what Jason told us.

Because all this time,
this two years of Jason was behind bars,

I as well as many others
in the community

and law enforcement
community especially,

felt that there was
more to what had happened.

[investigator speaking]

[Jason speaking]

[investigator speaking]

[Jason speaking]

[investigator speaking]

[Jason speaking]

It doesn't surprise me at all
that Jason was trying to

gain sympathy by pretending
that he was abused,

so that he could
get out of trouble.

However,
what he actually did

is take advantage of
other people's pain

in order to benefit himself.

[investigator speaking]

[Jason speaking]

So now, officers know
that they can build a really good

strong case against Missy,
but they need more.

[Stacy] If this is true,
authorities have allowed

a master manipulator
and killer

to remain on the streets
of Alpena.

They need to gather
the evidence

to bring her in,
and quickly.

The police actually
talked to people that were at bingo that night

and they claimed that
earlier in the evening,

that Missy was
in a great mood.

[Larry]Missy had come to bingo
and was her normal self

bragging about
different things

and she was actually
telling people

that if anything ever happened
to James Orban,

she was in his will
and she would inherit everything he had.

Almost like she was
proud of the fact.

[Miller] Shortly after
he was murdered,

she was at city hall
asking for his will,

saying he left me everything.
I need a copy of the will.

There's never a tear shed
for her friend

who loved her enough
to leave her everything.

[Larry] So as our
investigation continued,

we actually located
two different people

that came forward to us
willingly and said,

"Hey, we've been friends
with Missy for a while

and guess what?
She actually had asked us

if there'd be any way
that she could get us

to eliminate James Orban."

[Miller]So Jason wasn't the first.
He wasn't even the second.

He was at least
the third person

that she had asked
to kill Orban for her.

[Jennifer] This was something
that she was concocting

way before she ever
came back in touch with Jason

and so, he was just
the first person

that said yes, essentially.

[Larry] Missy had left Alpena.
She was living on

the other side of the state
at that time.

And we knew that
she needed to be interrogated.

Missy just started crying.
She just broke down in tears

and she just was
uncontrollable

for a period of time.

She basically denied
any involvement in it,

any responsibility for it.

It had all been Jason's plan
and she was not a part of it.

[Melissa speaking]

[both speaking indistinctly]

[investigator speaking]

[Melissa speaking]

[investigator speaking]

[Melissa speaking]

Finally, the officers actually
got her to settle down

to the point where
Missy was no longer

crying uncontrollably.

She started to begin to admit
some involvement.

[Melissa speaking]

[Bill] She said it
in such a way that

she didn't really
want him to do it.

But if it did happen,
it would've been beneficial to her.

She said that the goal
of going over there

wasn't to necessarily
kill Mr. Orban.

The goal of going over there
was to rob him.

[investigator speaking]

[Melissa speaking]

[investigator speaking]

[Melissa speaking]

[investigator speaking]

[Melissa speaking]

The felony murder statute
in Michigan,

if you conspire
to commit a felony with another individual,

and during that event
there is a killing,

whether it be first degree,
second degree,

or willful
and wanton disregard

it's still subjects you
to the felony murder statute,

which in Michigan is
first degree murder.

It's life without parole, so.

Her admission to engaging
in the planning of the robbery

and the conspiracy
to commit the robbery

was enough at that point
to convict her of first degree murder

whether she knew
Jason was going to kill Mr. Orban or not.

[Larry] And ultimately,
she was charged

in the murder of James Orban
and arrested

and I actually
transported her back to Alpena county

where she was lodged
pending trial.

[Miller] One of the reasons
Jason and Melissa got married,

I don't think it's
the only reason.

I think Jason married her
'cause he loved her,

but Missy married him
because they believed that

spouses cannot be compelled
to testify against each other.

[Jason speaking]

And they didn't keep up
on Michigan law because

that had long since changed.
[chuckles]

[Larry] Jason was
the star witness.

He provided
a lot of evidence

that we wouldn't have
otherwise had.

And Jason,
through that testimony,

not only did he get
a plea arrangement,

but he got the satisfaction
of seeing Missy

actually going to prison.

Even though Jason was
responsible for the death,

it's always not that person
who should pay the largest price.

In this case,
Missy was the planner.

It was for her
to benefit from,

and ultimately,
she's being held accountable.

[Miller] There was one more
big surprise for Melissa,

and that his estate was not
worth two million dollars.

[Jennifer] Not only
did he not have two million dollars,

but his house and his car
was left to his brother

and his car still had $6,000
worth of loans attached to it.

So there was no money.
There was no inheritance

and all of this was
for nothing.

[Stacy] Criminals like Missy
tend to overestimate themselves.

She was ignorant
about the system,

and arrogant enough to believe
that she was going to get away with

everything she had done.

[Larry] There are Missies
in this world.

There are people in this world
who want to be in control.

And Missy's desire
to control others

basically took over
and controlled her.

She knew she could
manipulate people.

You can't argue with somebody
that's drunk or in love.

Things started to
escalate very quickly.

She fell hard.

They could be together if
it wasn't for Mike.

This is the final lie.