heart, something was not right. a mother vanished. i cried myself to sleep, it was awful, realizing that your worst nightmare has come true. a family, anguished. she is gone. do you have any idea how hard that was? now, the questions begin in a southern gothic mystery. the case is puzzling. we did not really know what had happened. who could ever imagine you could have a murder in your family? soon, there would be secrets. we were dealing with a person leading a double life. and one of them would prove deadly. anyone say i know that you did this? it hurts too much for me to say that out loud. hello, and welcome to dateline. it is a case that centers on a mother who had gone missing, and the small town secret that led to a very big surprise. here is keith morrison. suppose for a minute you are sitting in your car, smack dab in the middle of tuscaloosa, alabama. and the point of southwest down highway 69, and kept a sharp eye out after half an hour o
yes. the objective was simple, get dawn talking wrangle from her something that s not like a confession. they outfitted dawn cellmate with a digital recorder, and on a saturday afternoon, as an unsuspecting dawn sat in her cell reviewing her case file, her cellmate walked in. and waited for some incriminating tidbit. what she got instead was a whole sickening story. i had always said to kill a person before i killed minimal. here is what dawn told her cellmate about the morning teresa was killed. around seven a.m., don t call to reset with a lie to set the plan in motion. why so early? i wasn t taking any more vacation days. i told my car was dead. she claimed her car was dead nearby, and could she come picker up? of course, she said yes. she finished drying her hair, got to her car, made the short drive that dirt road, but, there standing alongside the