Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
When family members arrived at Sandra and Jamie Melgar's house to celebrate a wedding anniversary party, they found Sandra tied up in the couple's bathroom closet and Jamie dead in a bedroom closet.
Though she told police that and she and her husband of 32 years were victims of a home invasion, they thought otherwise and arrested her for his murder.
Details about the attack that Sandra gave led police to believe she did it.
She told them she had a seizure during the invasion and couldn't remember what happened.
During her trial, prosecutors suggested that Jamie was already dead when he was tied up in the closet, and pointed to a cloudy fingernail on her right hand that could have been evidence she used a cleaning solution to hide evidence.
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When family members arrived at Sandra and Jamie Melgar's house to celebrate a wedding anniversary party, they found Sandra tied up in the couple's bathroom closet and Jamie dead in a bedroom closet.
Though she told police that and she and her husband of 32 years were victims of a home invasion, they thought otherwise and arrested her for his murder.
Details about the attack that Sandra gave led police to believe she did it.
She told them she had a seizure during the invasion and couldn't remember what happened.
During her trial, prosecutors suggested that Jamie was already dead when he was tied up in the closet, and pointed to a cloudy fingernail on her right hand that could have been evidence she used a cleaning solution to hide evidence.
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