a sweet and kind of corny and even after her two little et brothers arrived, she could see the signs of her parents affection for each other. he would give her a kiss on the cheek and say good night, i love you.an the softball mom, the trunk of her car, a muddle of bats and balls.ar she shuttling kids back and forth. i had a softball game and we all had a game at the same time. she would stay 30 minutes at their games and each of our games. she was an amazing mother. there s nothing she would not do for myself or my two brothers. then there was that sweltering morning, june 2007, teresa drove off to run errands and didn t come back. kelsey was baby-sitting the boys, 8 and 11. hours ticked by. she called her mom. where are you? h
comes down to one little word. dawn uses it when telling her cellmate what she did. we? she was not acting alone, she had a co-conspirator. i don t know if she was trying to be a show off, because she was calling herself a hit man. dawn was a hired gun for you guessed it. scott mayfield. she was a loving wife, loving mother. the man who heaped praise on his dead wife, his grieving children by his side was according to dawn the architect who designed her death, her revelation finally made sense of a trail of disturbing stories the investigators had been running down for months. we had one guy that worked around there in moundville, said a fellow offered him $500 to
ball games on time. when sheriff ellis walked up to the podium, he looked at teresa s mother reba and vowed he d get justice yet. miss reba, i won t quit until we find out what happened to miss teresa. in fact, even as he spoke, the sheriff, along with the corporal, were facing down their first honest to god lead in, what, over a year? didn t seem like much at first, just an overheard story from a guy in a bar something about they ran into someone with a gun. not terribly uncommon around here. except it happened around the same time and not far from where the murder occurred. so ellis and boyd tracked the kid down and he repeated the story to them. they were on a dirt road and they came up on a snake, a rattlesnake and they was trying to kill it, find something to kill it with. trouble was, they were plum out of rattlesnake killing tools
young woman was just a girl of 17 back in 07 when things started coming apart in the way things do when parents don t talk about it. kelsey mayfield saw that troubled look in her mom s eyes, her mom teresa. i could tell she was very stressed. was it clear she was stressed about? money would be the main thing. we wanted to be sure she had enough money to take care of heo family. a lot of that going around. like so many americans, kelsey s i m craig melvin. i m natalie morales. hard working man. it took two jobs to take care of our family.ki but money trouble aside, teresa seemed to have a happy on life as anybody could see including teresa s mother, reba. all teresa ever wanted was to have a husband that cared for er her, somebody she cared for and to have a family.
want the person that done this to be punished for it. kelsey took on the most difficult job of her life. at 17 she stepped into her mother s shoes defended her father, tried to maintain something of a normal life for her little brothers. me trying to fill my mother s shoes. those are some big shoes to fill. i felt like it was my responsibility to help my dad take care of my family. so you were able to continue to have a relationship of trust with your father. right. he was there for you guys? yeah. he tried to be strong for us so we wouldn t have a breakdown. by the first anniversary of teresa s death, there was still no arrest and the story was old news. so teresa s mother plastered this poster on doors and windows and telephone poles hoping it would dislodge some clue.