To missouri. a guy that she had been talking to online for quite some time, you know, maybe she ran away to be with him. a missing persons case was opened, but nothing came of it. aaron and his brother moved in with ralph full-time. but aaron couldn t move on. she had to have left some trail somewhere. barely a teenager, he taught himself every web search engine, looked for years. but found no sign of his mom online. and a terrible suspicion took hold of him, hardened into something like certainty. his mother must be dead. his father must have done it. and after that, it became more of, okay, where would he put her body? he was maybe 13 or 14 when he thought about those old coal mines around walsenburg. you actually went and looked? oh, yeah, i went through a lot of those mines myself. alone? mm-hmm. you re looking for the remains of your own mother. i mean, i can t imagine what that i can t explain it. it s always been a fire that just drives you to do something.
It was very surreal. but their family was rocked by scandal, then murder. aaron s father was founded the crime scene dazed and confused, but is confusing story had police questioning his version of events. here s keith morrison with tangled. you can t put words to that. it was very surreal. 9-1-1, where is your emergency? it s true, the old saying, when you marry someone, you marry their family, too. we need an ambulance. he looks like he s been shot. he said someone broke in last night. him and his wife both. not a bad thing to turn to mom or dad for advice and counsel. it s hard. sometimes you think maybe it didn t happen. but yet it really did. it s with their help and support, after all, that true love could deepen and grow, and last. i watched the crime scene shows on tv. i never, ever
it was a crush. you were crushed. what happened? no one knew. except that now these two had one more thing in common. both products of broken homes. the wedding day approached, just a few days to go, when shannon s mother, pam, and aaron s dad, ralph, invited the bride and groom-to-be for dinner and a talk. ralph was every bit a devout a believer as pam. so some premarital guidance perhaps? oh, no. nothing like that. they told us, we ran off, we eloped and got married. wait, what? your mother and aaron s father? yes. who does that? i don t know. but i can t tell you how much it felt like i got hit by a bus. do you know what that meant? it meant that by the time you got married, you were marrying your stepbrother. right. i didn t say much. i was just like, well, we re leaving. and suddenly jerry realized how blind he d been. you didn t understand, but
Need to look at shannon and aaron, too, given their falling out with pam and ralph. but they were cleared almost immediately, because they were nowhere around? yeah, they were not involved. dead-end. the crime scene people did find some things, mind you, including a bloody fireplace poker that turned out to be the murder weapon. the marking on her head was the exact replica of the shape of the fire poker, the end of the poker. they cataloged everything they found. broken glass in the backdoor. they even took the knobs off drawers and sent them to the lab hoping the intruders left dna or fingerprints on them. and then quite unexpected. then, quite unexpected, something remarkable turned up. and right through the front door of the
Then afterwards it all all the pieces fell into place. you were never suspicious? i trusted her. don t we do that? in a relationship? no trust now. shannon and aaron were furious, told the elopers, interlopers more like, stay away from the wedding. but they couldn t pretend it hadn t happened. and when they hit the little bumps most young marriages encounter, it colored everything. did your father and her mother s relationship have anything to do with what happened to you and shannon? you know, we were pretty determined not to let their relationship have an effect, but, you know, it s always something that s in the back of your head. after a year and a half, shannon and aaron divorced. pam and ralph s marriage, on the other hand, thrived. they moved into a big house on a corn lot in the walsenburg, an owed coal mining town about 50 miles