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
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.
inheritance. and needed no prompting from his uncle. davis reminded jurors of how many times carl had changed his story before telling police bruce was part of the pot. my theory is that it s all carl. that was essentially our testimony. and the testimony of carl in the trial makes it clear that this guy was an erratic personality. he gave numerous different descriptions of what the events were, how he did, it why he did it. and it was originally, that he didn t do it. right. i didn t do it. i did it. if i didn t do, it was because of this. finally, he numbers. exactly. sort of at the point where prosecutors and police are starting to talk about the death penalty. my question, in any case, where there is a statement from a witness who has a lot to lose, what s the most likely to be
yes. i saw that it was carl. he was yelling at me to close the door, get in here. go in there with his grandmother. once karen johnson was dead, lilian says, carl let to her bedroom, where, she says, carl asked her to pray. i see the pillow. while they re praying, he starts pushing her down on that. she thought him. she did. but the doorbell ring. and it scared carl. so, he jumped up and told me to go see who was. well inside whoever was left after about five minutes. it was then, lilian told the jury, that carl decided to drive his grandmother to normangee. in your mind, was it clear that probably try to kill her than? yes. she looked at him and said, you tried to kill me. across, had no. grandma. i was trying to do that. willis has the last time she
understandable that white investigators ears perked up once they learned that the last person they have seen bonnie harkey the day she went missing was karl pressley. we are pretty sure that if able to find car we are going to be up to find body harkey. according to the tipster, carl was with his girlfriend, lilian king. they were riding in her car. we have the information for vehicle? all i know she s run 2004 mustang. soon just but every la niña texas was on the lookout for that 2004 mustang. but in the meantime deputy wilkerson says the san saba sheriff took a more personal approach. trying to close up, on sending in multiple text messages. [inaudible] absolutely, absolutely. want to be great if police could just text suspects and get them to come in? the world doesn t work like that. except, perhaps, in san saba. just after midnight karl pressley responded.