personally is the family has closure. but do they? it isn t just kay s murder they must learn to live with but also the wreckage strewn for god knows how long through the family story. i had emotions of happiness and relief but still there s some regret that i didn t support roger and pam. from the beginning. it changes your perspective on the world. it really does. and by the way, said roger and pam, a little piece of advice. if anything happens and there s anything dealing with law enforcement, you don t say a word and you get an attorney. as for darla, who d finally found the love of her life, what was there to say? that moment of sunshine snatched away, huh? yep. you just take what life brings you and it s not always what you d expect it. when you re a young girl, you have all your dreams of what
oh, yes, he certainly was. and sure enough, one night 911. what s the address of your emergency? well, we re getting ahead of ourselves. what happened that night was a long time coming. it was long before that that kay became a survivalist. with attitude. he knew exactly what he thought about everything. and even though he knew what he was saying was going to be outrageous and not accepted he would say it anyway. he had a black belt in karate. he owned scores of firearms, kept guns in just about every room of the house. and in all of his cars. a fully stocked concrete bunker outside his home in payson, utah. he had food. he had everything there. water. magazines. books to read. kay was very clear about it with his wife darla. he d say this is where you
defend himself against just about anything. he always would say if anyone tries to break in here i ll kill them. but life, no matter how well we prepare, is full of rude surprises. as it was for kay mortensen. it was november 16th, 2009, just before thanksgiving. hi, this is flint. we have police on the way to help you there. are you sure your dad s close to the touch? kay did not shoot some intruder, as he d long promised he was prepared to do. no. somebody killed him. without firing a shot. and the man on the phone reporting the crime? roger mortensen, kay s eldest son. sliced his throat? yeah. it wasn t long before kay s wife, darla, had made it to the mouth of the canyon and was
bolster the detective s case with her own chilling tale of what happened that night. continuing with mystery in payson canyon, here s keith morrison. within days of kay mortensen s murder members of his family began hearing deeply troubling reports from the utah county sheriff s office. the investigation was leading sure as can be, detectives told them, to kay s own son roger and roger s wife, pam. darla said she couldn t believe it at first. i was just adamant that they couldn t have done it. i was their biggest defender. but then detectives asked her to listen to roger and pam s recorded statements, and she too started to wonder. they told lies and then it got it just put more suspicion on them. gradually her conviction grew. same for kay s sister, fern. i could buy the fact that they were thinking of roger s
opportunity to defend his client in court. the reason was that phone call to the utah county sheriff s office, a call from a woman named rachel bingham. and here s what she had to say. what she had been blocking out was a bombshell. her ex-husband, martin bond, told her he and a friend named benjamin retig, went to kay s house to steal his guns. bond, she said, told her everything. took him to the bathroom and bent him over the tub. and cut his throat. and then