hmm moi just focus to see if she keyi or not      

@meng.huat @CannotTahanLiao

they should learn from indo, do it legally. nao indo ish like mini holland team moi think

The murder of Melinda Pleskovic is one of the most chilling cases of deception and betrayal in recent true-crime history. Because Jeffrey Scullin Jr. pleaded "no contest" right before his trial began, the public never saw a full trial play out, but the public records, police interrogation videos, and court filings reveal the full, harrowing details of what happened. ### The Setup and the "Stalker" Alibi In 2017, 20-year-old Jeffrey Scullin Jr. was living in the basement of the Strongsville, Ohio home of his fiancée, Anna Pleskovic, and her parents. He and Anna shared a young daughter. He was seemingly well-liked and fully integrated into the family.   For nearly a year leading up to the murder, the Pleskovic family believed they were being targeted by a stalker or prowler. They filed numerous police reports:    * A set of car keys mysteriously went missing.  * Melinda reported that she kept finding her car unlocked and the alarm going off.  * Just days before the murder, a report was filed claiming an unknown man tried to force open the back door.   **The Reality:** Prosecutors later revealed that these "security scares" only started happening *after* Scullin moved into the house. He was deliberately manufacturing a pattern of break-ins to establish a pre-planned alibi for the violence he was planning.   ### The Day of the Murder: October 23, 2017   Melinda Pleskovic, a beloved 49-year-old sixth-grade special education teacher, was home alone with her teenage son, who has Down syndrome.   That evening, Scullin brutally attacked Melinda in her kitchen. He shot her **three times** with a .357 revolver and stabbed her **36 to 37 times** with a knife. Her son was in another room during the attack.   **The Cover-Up:** Immediately after committing the murder, Scullin cleaned himself up, left the house, and went to meet Melinda's husband, Bruce Pleskovic, for dinner at a local restaurant as if nothing had happened.   After dinner, Scullin and Bruce drove back to the house together. They walked into the kitchen and "discovered" Melinda’s body. Both men called 911. On the recorded phone call, Scullin can be heard acting shocked and frantic, saying, *"There's a lot of blood... she has blood all around her."* He then calmly ushered his young daughter and Melinda's son outside away from the crime scene.   ### The Funeral and the Arrest   Over the next week, Scullin maintained his facade of the grieving future son-in-law.    * He comforted his fiancée, Anna.  * On October 28—the exact day he and Anna were originally scheduled to get married—he stood beside the family at Melinda's funeral.    * He served as a **pallbearer**, physically carrying the casket of the woman he had murdered. Three days later, on October 31, police called Scullin in for questioning.   ### The Interrogation, Confession, and Motive During a multi-hour interrogation by Strongsville detectives and the FBI, Scullin’s web of lies collapsed.    1. **The Physical Evidence:** Investigators found a knife inside Scullin’s Chevrolet Silverado truck parked in the driveway. DNA testing revealed a mixture of both Scullin’s and Melinda’s blood on it.    2. **The Weapon Stash:** Faced with the DNA evidence, Scullin cracked and confessed. He told the FBI that the murder weapon—the .357 revolver—was hidden inside a backpack in a car parked at his parents' house, along with the bloody sweatpants he wore during the killing. Ballistics confirmed it was the gun used.   **The Interrogation Video Revelations:**   When the interrogation video was later released, Scullin attempted to spin a bizarre self-defense story that prosecutors heavily rejected. He claimed Melinda confronted him in the kitchen about two things:    * **The Wedding Venue Finances:** Scullin's credit card had been declined **14 times** trying to pay for the wedding venue. The venue had emailed Melinda warning her that the wedding was going to be canceled for non-payment. Melinda had discovered Scullin was lying about having the money and planned to confront him.    * **A Paternity Test:** Scullin claimed Melinda also confronted him about a paternity test, screaming at him that he wasn't actually the biological father of his daughter.   Scullin claimed Melinda snapped, picked up a small gun, and pointed it at his feet. He claimed he "snatched it from her," it "just went off," and that everything else became a "blurry" loss of control. Investigators noted his self-defense claim made zero sense given that he shot her three times and stabbed her nearly 40 times.   ### The Resolution On October 17, 2018, the day his trial was set to begin, Scullin pleaded **no contest** to aggravated murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, making false alarms, and endangering children. He did this to prevent the family from having to look at the gruesome graphic crime scene photos during a trial, though his defense attorney noted it also preserved his right to appeal the legality of how his confession was obtained.   At his sentencing, Melinda's daughter Anna spoke directly to him, calling him an *"egotistical boy"* who had *"absolutely no reason or right to rip her away from us."*  Jeffrey Scullin Jr. was sentenced to **life in prison** and will not be eligible to even apply for parole until the year **2050**, after serving a mandatory 33 years.