he s gonna comey in a couple of days, he never called. his family in agony. america s most wanted. a rookie detective finally broke the case. i said oh my god. a strange phone call revealed a secret. david needed to be gotten rid of. a bombshell revelation. was she really a bereaved acts? i always loved him. or just maybe a black widow? she is in the middle. hello and welcome to dateline. for years judy carlson lived in a most painful kind of limbo, her son david had disappeared without a trace. the case went unsolved, setting cold for more than a decade before a detective was assigned to investigate. she uncovered a twisted tale of love gone bad and a grizzly family secret. the detective still needed to know what motive was at the heart of the crime. here s keith morrison with buried secrets. it s a strange thing that happens among the here in coastal florida. things have a way of coming up. things buried in the ground in the past. or both. it was
what did you expect would happen? i thought he would be found not guilty and be able to come home. but at that point, the case against scott was entirely circumstantial. that was until dawn got to talking to that cell mate, the one with the little recording device. and sure enough, as the whole story spilled out, there was scott s name on tape, proof at last. did scott give you the gun? he stole it from his daddy. once the job was done, once the job was done, the car half hidden by the brush on said, she drove to tuscaloosa and dialed a familiar number from to resist cell phone, to let her boss know his wife was dead. did you call scott and tell him would it was done. the only thing left was to
mate, dawn not only admitted to shooting teresa but she said that she had tried once before. that strange night the casino, when teresa came home stumbling, that was her first attempted murder. but why? but why? why would she want to kill her friend? because, listen to this, the answer to the whole puzzle really comes down to one little word. dawn uses it when telling her cell mate what she did. i mean, we tried. we? dawn was not acting alone. she had a co-conspirator. i don t know if she was trying to be a show off, because she was calling herself a hit man. dawn was a hired gun, for, you
get don talking, wrangle from her something that was sounded like a confession. ellis and boyd outfitted don cell mate with a digital recorder, no bigger than a matchbox. and on a friday afternoon, as an unsuspecting dawn sat in her cell reviewing her case file, her soulmate walked in and waiting for some incriminating tidbit. which she got instead was the whole sickening story. here s what dawn told her cell mate about the morning to release it was killed. around 7 am. dawn called teresa with a lie to set the plan in motion. no more vacation days. i told her my car was dead. she claims her car had broken down. could teresa pick her up. of course she said yes. finish drying her hair got into her car. made the short drive to the dirt road and they re standing