He checked his coffee pot and the tap water, noticing that the tap water was normal, but that the coffee pot showed high levels of chlorine. In May of 2023, he set up a hidden camera. He knew, he said in his statement, that Melody would prep his coffee pot at night so that in the morning he just needed to turn it on to make his coffee. After he set up the cameras, he stopped drinking the coffee, but pretended to continue to do so