carry shared a zest for work and i love a family. busy all during the day, meetings at night. running late, watching home. getting the kids baths. but he did looking forward to going home and giving the kids baths. he was proud of always being there for his three children, and his wife. someone he had known since high school. the only real girlfriend he had was robin. that i m aware of. in high school, robin had been voted class clown. and when the vibrations girl started dating the quiet, street laced, carrie. some did not see the match. but it worked for them. they got married a year after graduation. he loved her from day one. he did everything he could for her. sure did. and now carrie and his father phillips violent deaths were a mystery. if only carries mother, linda, miss linda to one and all. could help with crucial details. but she could not speak. her lower jaw and neck had been
three people, gunned down, to fatally, in a quiet road, in a quiet georgia town. now, linda, the lone survivor, was on route to the hospital in grave condition. what had happened in the dark hours of monday morning in that modest house? peeling back the layers of the mystery would take years. it would leave a family torn apart, and a community, devastated but to begin to comprehend. , what happened, you need to roll back the clock, back to 2008, to a town called springfield, and a family named the heights. if i were to ask you what the height family was like, in 2007, what would you say? great family. spiritual family. pillars of the community. the high family, in 2011? destroyed. what had happened on springfield road? who would want to god fearing people like the heights, dead? coming up
motive as old as the bible. to his loss for his brother s wife. and greed fooled by the last. they begin by bringing to the stand the one witness in the case. who asked not to have her face shown on camera. the defendants old mother linda. he came up to the house, he was going to spend the night with us. speaking hesitantly after several surgeries to her face. she told the story of that harrowing night her quiet world was ripped apart by three gunshots. it was august 25th, 2008. she and her husband philip had an extra gas that night. their son carry. he and his wife or having problems, and he came to our house. they had all gone to bed. but linda had recently become absorbed with puzzles called word find books. she was doing one of the bathroom, off the bedrooms, to not disturb her husband. when she heard a sound. and i heard a very loud noise, a blast. so i went out and went in the
deputies. and they were flashing the flashlights. and they said man put down the weather. but i was sitting there, holding my cell phone. and one of the officers went back to the bedroom and they said there s two back here dead. and pretty well after that, i don t remember anything for about four weeks later. what, if anything could she tell authorities about the assailant? do you remember giving a description of the person that you saw in a slender man? you weren t able to give any other better decisions or more detail than that? no. linda s son craig hardly look slender in court. but the state said if you put all the pieces of the crime scene together, the shadowy figure in the bedroom that night had to be craig. first, a crime scene analysts concluded only once assailant
robin says she called craig and told him that carrie had left. and where he was headed. she says she spoke to craig on the phone one last time before going to sleep. but, later that night, craig did one make more phone call to the old girlfriend, tina williams. i m sorry for ruining your life. i m sorry i can t help you financially. i m sorry for involving you in my life, in my drama. and i m thinking, okay. and i thought it was kind of strange. tina said she got the eerie sense that craig was fixing to do something. but she couldn t tell why. that s why she had wondered with regret later whether she could ve prevented what was about to happen to the heights in the next few hours. should she have told philip and miss linda early on about the disastrous affair. if they lifted in the bud, with maybe the murders never have taken place? for the next several hours or so. what happens? i think the rage is still building up. and he knew that if he was ever