The Killer Boyfriend Who Murdered His Mother-in-Law

On a Monday afternoon in Prospect, Connecticut, a 56-year-old schoolteacher named Melinda Pleskovic was found dead in her kitchen, shot in the back with a revolver. Within days, police had arrested the man who was about to marry into her family: her daughter's fiancé, Jeff Wilson, then 20 years old. The interrogation that followed, captured on recording and replayed in this episode, shows a suspect who initially insists on his innocence with remarkable composure—and then, over the course of hours, slowly begins to crack.

The Interrogation Begins

The episode opens with Jeff Wilson sitting in an interview room, talking freely with detectives. He is not under arrest yet. He describes himself as unemployed, living in the basement of the Pleskovic home with his fiancée Anna and their 18-month-old daughter Aurora. He says Melinda was excited about the upcoming wedding and that the family had taken him in. He recounts his movements on the day of the killing: he woke up around 10:25 a.m., watched the baby, and said Melinda came home around 3:00 p.m. He claims he left shortly after she arrived, heading to his aunt's house to do yard work. On the way, he says, his truck ran out of gas on Drake Road, and a kind stranger helped him. He says he eventually made it to his aunt's, stayed about an hour, then met his fiancée's father, Bruce, at Applebee's. They returned home together, foun