I watched this trial in 2007, and I just re watched on Court TV archives. I have watched so many trials, but this one stuck with me. It's so horrific, and it is very hard to understand that she thought she could make her husband disappear without a trace. To answer your questions, Melanie forged the prescription and was believe to have picked it up. The Walgreens was very close to her children's daycare, and the time of the prescription was dropped off was close in time to when she dropped of her children. She never produced luggage for anyone. She said it probably was her luggage, and her husband took it with him when he left her.
I will always believe Melanie didn't really care much for Bill. He was good enough for the big wedding and to father two childen. He served a purpose for her, and he was no longer needed. She found a bigger and better fish. I think there was probably discussions of divorce from Bill, but he was not going to go away easily. He would always be around making trouble for her and her new fish. She started planning a way to get rid of him. I always wondered why she went through with the closing even though she purchased a gun two days prior and the prescription the day of. There was testimony that she didn't believe the closing would go through due to a financial issue that had occurred a couple weeks earlier. She was expecting the closing to be a bust. Bill would have been upset, and she could make his demise look like a suicide. Except, the closing went through. She was so set on him being gone that she tweeked her plans to just make it look like he left. She enlisted help to transport him out of the apartment.
She is where she belongs. She had her day in court and has had several opportunities to try and appeal the verdict. She will never enjoy the lifestyle she once lived.
Bill had no day in court nor chance to appeal the way he was killed and descerated.
