i can t sleep most of the time. a crime, like a storm everyone could see it coming. i want to ten had a dispositions. she was missing, matriarch with the grip on her power family fortune. did someone have a powerful motive to do her harm? i saw bruisers on bonnie s arm like somebody had grabbed her. so the image that you tried to kill me. who was behind this? a search in the dark. a secret in the family. and they jailhouse interview to make your jaw drop. this is a twisted tale, deep in the heart of texas,. people who are desperate, we ll do desperate things. hello and welcome to dateline, san saba city in texas hill country though tiny in size it was huge in the cloud growing business. even called the pecan capital of the world. the name kharkiv was synonymous with pecan harvesting. so when the matriarch of the family bonnie harkey went missing it sent shockwaves through the community. where was bonnie harkey? harris josh make-a-wish with queen of the count
he said he was the poorest military and the county. sean oliver said that bruce harkey was down and out in late 2007, when he resettled insensitive after being away for many years. he had no income coming in and every time he drove by that property, all he could see was the millions that, what he thought was millions, that he was missing out on. by then, bonnie harkey was becoming increasingly frail. hurt dementia made it difficult to she was unable to manage her daily affairs so her daughter, connie, became her guardian. after conte died in 2011, bruce harkey thought that carl pressley should be bonnie s guardian. a judge tried to point someone else, bruce and john challenge that in court. bonnie asked the judge if she could speak. and the judge said, yes. and she said, i don t want them to be my guardians. i m afraid of them.
reilly seems to have been better with pecans than with people. yeah. yeah. soon enough, john was off to college. bruce was shuttled off to live with his mother in nevada for a while. that left only bonnie s teenage daughter, connie, at home. riley never adopted connie. she was an afterthought. she was just never brought into the family. this is something less like the brady bunch and more like the earrings. the earrings without the culture, you know? it was really just constant drama. the boys took a different career paths. john became a businessman. bruce had a number of different jobs. at various times, he was a cop at reno, a medicaid fraud investigator for the texas attorney generals office, and a nursing home administrator. along the way, he married and divorced eight, account of eight, women.
it will have to be a single mother. now, nearly 50 years later, the queen of the county was missing. searchers were still on the orchards looking for bonnie harkey. when a resident who had been listening to the police scanner called with a vital clue. i know things are crazy going on right now. but i might have some information about where bonnie harkey is. the caller said she knew that pony harkey s 28-year-old grandson, carl, had visited her that very afternoon. i m 99% sure karl pressley is involved. who is called pressley? carl pressley is the adopted grandson of bonnie harkey. bunny harkey had a daughter, connie, but county adopted carl press at a very young age. when you heard those calls come and you think this is what? i was definitely concerned.
would be a whiteout major, named bonnie harkey. she had book club. she was brett had society. she was just clear constantly socializing. there are roughly 200 acres to the harkey spread. with variable waterbirds along the san saba reverse. a rambling farmhouse. and nearly 3000 pecan trees. when people hear the harken in that part of the country, what do they think? the huskies where the somebody s. you know, i know bonnie enjoy that. and maybe that was just the way she pictured it. back in 1963 when bonnie met and married, riley harkey. at the time, riley was a recently divorced father with two boys. bonnie a single mom of a teenage daughter of her own. he was a coup, you know. especially for a single mom who was really looking at how to find a husband or work for the rest for life in the early 60s it was tough to be a divorcee.