fifth, sixth generation ranchers and silver miners co-exist with artists and hippies and wide-eyed newcomers. as we say, quirky. it s just lots of different perspectives, which is always fascinating. but, of course, this is not a travelogue. no. no, this is about what happened here, or more precisely, what happened in there, inside that little house to her. she was beaten from head to toe. she had bruises from the top of her head down to her feet. her name was cassy farrington. and what was done to her in the bathtub of her own house was dreadful. she s in the bathtub. and i
single mom had two kids, a doting boyfriend and an exciting new job. but that future was washed away. cassy was found dead in her bathtub. cassy s parents set out to solve this mystery and would stop at nothing to get justice for her daughter. here is keith morrison with suspicion in silver city. out in the middle of new mexico, hours of desert highway from better known haunts like santa fe is an old mining town called silver city, and such an unusual place it is, quirky would be a good word. very old west. there s a lot of history in silver city. a vast arid desert one way out of town. lush green mountains the other. fourth,
months, all anyone could do was speculate. i thought it was over. i thought she was just dead and that was it and nothing was ever gonna be done about it. at the sheriff s office, investigative supervisor tavizon questioned his deputy, sanchez. why hadn t he even dusted for fingerprints? he said, no, he said, it s too clean. to him it wasn t anything that would ve been helpful to the investigation. kind of an assumption there, huh? well, i guess i would that s what you could call it. what s the old expression? to assume makes an ass of you it makes both and me. yeah, exactly. so, with zero physical evidence to point to anyone, the case of the murder in the bathtub went cold. until? until six months later, a particular friend, once suddenly gone, just as suddenly
and you heard the water running? yes. it was just, like, gushing. coming from? the bathtub. so she ran to the master bathroom, intending to turn off the water. and there she was. i saw her in the bathtub. it was like i ve never seen anything like it. it was heaped up, and the waves were just, like that s a deep big cresting. deep bathtub, too. yeah, it was, like, cresting. and she was on the top. oh. and she was in the water. yeah. she was upside down. and it was face down. right. right. i mean, you re a nurse. you ve seen lots of things. yeah. but that can t have been easy. no. well, at the time, you know, you re just in like emergency mode, you know? you just you don t even stop to think. you and so i just went and grabbed her and pulled her over to here and turned her over to see if there was something i could do to help her. i mean, it was kind of horrifying because she was still in her nursing scrubs.