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  Weeks before her attack, Melissa posed for a photo with Dave “The King” Wilson, a good friend and local Indianapolis comic. (Photos courtesy of Erin Moulton)

  As the Fourth of July holiday passed, Melissa later recalled having a “really bad feeling.”

  She couldn’t shake it. She felt something was about to happen. Something major. Something big.

  She just didn’t know what.

  Or when.

  About the Author

  Investigation Discovery/Dark Minds

  New York Times bestselling investigative journalist and serial-crime expert M. William Phelps is the author of thirty-four nonfiction books. He has made over two hundred television appearances. Phelps created, produced, and starred in the series Dark Minds, and is one of the stars of Deadly Women and Oxygen’s Snapped, Killer Couples, and KillerPost. Radio America calls him “the nation’s leading authority on the mind of the female murderer.” Touched by tragedy himself through the unsolved murder of his sister-in-law, Phelps is able to enter the hearts and minds of his subjects like no one else. He lives in a Connecticut farming community and can be reached at his website, www.mwilliamphelps.com.