own chilling tale of what happened tonight. continuing with mystery at pace in canyon, here is keith morrison. within days of k mortensen murder, his family found some deeply troubling reports. the investigation was leading, shores can be, detectives told them, to kay s son roger and rogers wife pam. garland said she could not believe it at first. i was just adamant that they could not have done it. i was their biggest defender. but then detectives asked her to listen to roger in pans recorded statements. and she too started to wonder. they told lies and it just put more suspicion on them. gradually, her conviction grew, same for k s sister, fern. i could by the fact that they were thinking of rodgers involvement. they were just too many things about roger and pam s story that didn t make any sense to fern.
s millions, to. within days of the murder, pam and roger agreed to go back to the house with detectives for a videotaped retelling of their intruder story. at the front door, my wife was holding right here. did that provide you any useful information? it provided useful information as far as more circumstantial evidence that they are not being 100 percent truthful. once again, detectives heard foggy memories. she either knocked on the door rang the doorbell. i believe she knocked on the door. they heard dialog about sounded like a bad cry movie. he pointed at us and said, your here at the wrong time. put out your hands. but then there was that same, strange lack of emotion. when roger described what should have been the worst moment of his life. came back downstairs and my wife was talking at the time to 9-1-1 dispatch. and i said, he s dead.
are going to get these guys. but pam said, she still couldn t spit it out. i was staggering through what was going on well, there was two, maybe there was three because i didn t know. i was terrified for my life, still. and i didn t know what i should have said. what about their police interrogations? when there stories didn t match? i thought their gloves were one color, she thought their gloves were another color. other than that, our stories were basically the same. both cooperated fully, said. roger kept talking for days, even as police brought up one accusation after another. there was an inheritance involved. yes. and you talk about that with the police? i may, have i m not sure. well, according to them, you talked about it. and provided one of the classic motivations that children have for killing their parents. cops run into it all the time. right? they say they do.
she said the family was advised by their attorney not to use k s money to pay for roger s defense, which meant that roger, who stood to inherit a big chunk of his dad s millions, would rely on a public defender. we re pam and roger, the cold blooded killers that their family had come to believe them to be? of course, we, and everyone else, just had to know. coming up, roger and pan face some tough questions. as the interrogations continue, your stories didn t stay the same, according to the police at least. when dateline continues. hen dateline continues walter, twelve o clock. get em boy! [cows mooing] that is incredible. it s the multi-flex tailgate. it can be a step, it can even become a workspace. i meant the cat. what s so great about him? he doesn t have a workspace.
staring down. she puts it right on roger s face. the next day, detectives took county to kay s house, showed her the crime scene, and again she named roger. i can see roger, his arms, he s holding k. you don t hear a story and say, wow, that s a piece of crap and go on from there? no, now when she gives that amount of detail. the story was hardening by the minute. now the tests actives kept the rest of the family and forms of developments. what did you think? it threw me for a loop. when pam and roger attended case funeral, the tension was stick. it was very difficult to be there there because everyone wanted to know what happened that night. but they couldn t say anything, said pam. detectives told him not to. my sister came up to me and said, tell me what really happened? and i said, i m sorry, i cannot