i can t sleep most of the time. a crime, like a storm everyone could see it coming. i want to ten had a dispositions. she was missing, matriarch with the grip on her power family fortune. did someone have a powerful motive to do her harm? i saw bruisers on bonnie s arm like somebody had grabbed her. so the image that you tried to kill me. who was behind this? a search in the dark. a secret in the family. and they jailhouse interview to make your jaw drop. this is a twisted tale, deep in the heart of texas,. people who are desperate, we ll do desperate things. hello and welcome to dateline, san saba city in texas hill country though tiny in size it was huge in the cloud growing business. even called the pecan capital of the world. the name kharkiv was synonymous with pecan harvesting. so when the matriarch of the family bonnie harkey went missing it sent shockwaves through the community. where was bonnie harkey? harris josh make-a-wish with queen of the count
trying to gain control of the property. you could tell that it was a very heated situation. very heated. that pot had been at a slow boil ever since that day in 1963 when bonnie harkey became stepmother to her husband riley s two boys, bruce and john. bruce and johnny just didn t like bonnie. they didn t like her at all. and so, almost from the beginning, it was acrimonious. how was formed that acrimony take? they were just rude to bonnie, openly insulting her. reilly put up with? it let it go. he just let it go. a lot of blended families have rough starts. but this newly-grafted branch of the harkey tree never had a chance. and i don t think that reilly made a real effort with his boys to say, this is a wonderful woman. i want you to grow to love her like i love her. i think he just said, here you go.
heated situation. very heated. reporter: that pot had been at a slow boil ever since that day in 1963 when bonnie harkey became stepmother to her husband riley s two boys, bruce and john. bruce and johnny just didn t like bonnie. they didn t like her at all. and so almost from the beginning it was acrimonious. reporter: what form did that acrimony take? bruce and johnny were just rude to bonnie. openly insulting her. reporter: and riley put up with that? let it go. he just let it go. reporter: a lot of blended families have rough starts. but this newly grafted branch of the harkey family tree never had a chance. i don t think riley made a real effort with his boys to say, this is a wonderful woman. i want you to grow to love her like i love her. i think he just said, here you go. reporter: riley seems to have been better with pecans than people. yeah. yeah. reporter: soon enough, john