About three months ago,
completely out of the blue,
I woke up and Melissa was gone.
What I found was a letter on my nightstand.
None of it made sense.
Do you have any insights into what she's going through
mentally, emotionally, mood wise?
Not really.
There's just a part of her
she just won't open up with.
It's a mystery to me.
Why do you think she felt a need
to separate herself from a family
that she clearly loves?
The impression I had was she wanted to spread her wings.
She wanted her independence.
Are you over protective?
I don't think I was overprotective.
I was doing--
Protective.
Things that any mother would have done.
I'm going to excuse her parents for just a few minutes
so I can talk to Melissa one on one.
What no one knows is I've got deep, dark secrets
that I've been hiding for years.
What my parents need to know is that I'm a monster.
I hate my mother and I hate my father.
I want to murder my mother,
my father and my brother, Mark.
When I'm angry, I let out a deep growl.
It sounds something like this. (growling)
My urges to kill my mother became completely uncontrollable.
The real reason why I moved across country
is because I wanted to kill her.
What is it that you want me to know so desperately?
I have a lot of pain tat I've suppressed over the years.
And most of it has to do with my family.
You have this curved knife
that looks very wicked.
You play with this knife.
You say you wish somebody would take these things
away from you,
'cause you can't be trusted with them.
These are fantasies you have in your mind,
visions that you entertain, correct?
Yes, and I've never been able
to tell anybody about these
because I don't wanna end up in an insane asylum.
So what is it that you hate her so much for?
My entire childhood I was bullied at school for my weight.
She started bullying me,
and I did not appreciate that one bit.
You write "I don't value myself at all anymore.
"I've always felt that if I died tomorrow
"nobody would even notice.
"Am I fixable or even worth fixing at this point?"
Do you feel that way?
I do.
How does this link up with killing everybody
that loves you?
I have a lot of anger.
And I have this monster inside of me.
I wanna hear what the monster says.
The monster says I deserve death,
I should just become a serial killer.
That's not what the monster says,
you're editing the monster.
What does the monster say to you?
That I'm in a lot of pain?
I don't really know.
So you don't have a monster talking to you,
this is just you thinking.
'Cause I've talked to people that have that rage,
and that's not you, Melissa.
Something's not clicking here.
Melissa's mom, Donna, said Melissa was her ray of sunshine.
And her dad, Mark, said he and Melissa have a loving
and supportive relationship.
We're gonna find out how they feel
after they hear Melissa's confessions for the first time.
So now we have Melissa on satellite,
and you guys are here,
so say hello to your daughter.
Hi, Mel.
You look beautiful.
Hi mom, hi dad.
You look beautiful.
I said before that she had written in a number of times,
and then we've talked to her
and interviewed her.
And she's been very forthcoming,
as the two of you have.
So thank you for your canter.
And the description that you guys gave
of the relationship
and the description that she gave
of the family dynamic was very consistent up to a point.
And then it, there was a great divergence.
One point of divergence was on a timeline wise,
when there was a divorce.
There was a great divergence there
with what her experience was.
Had a great impact on her,
as divorces often do.
But then there were some real contradictions
in the way she saw things
and the way you see things.
But then she gave me a very clear explanation
of why she just up and moved 2,000 miles away
without explanation.