oh, yes, he certainly was. and sure enough, one night 911. what s the address of your emergency? well, we re getting ahead of ourselves. what happened that night was a long time coming. it was long before that that kay became a survivalist. with attitude. he knew exactly what he thought about everything. and even though he knew what he was saying was going to be outrageous and not accepted he would say it anyway. he had a black belt in karate. he owned scores of firearms, kept guns in just about every room of the house. and in all of his cars. a fully stocked concrete bunker outside his home in payson, utah. he had food. he had everything there. water. magazines. books to read. kay was very clear about it with his wife darla. he d say this is where you
defend himself against just about anything. he always would say if anyone tries to break in here i ll kill them. but life, no matter how well we prepare, is full of rude surprises. as it was for kay mortensen. it was november 16th, 2009, just before thanksgiving. hi, this is flint. we have police on the way to help you there. are you sure your dad s close to the touch? kay did not shoot some intruder, as he d long promised he was prepared to do. no. somebody killed him. without firing a shot. and the man on the phone reporting the crime? roger mortensen, kay s eldest son. sliced his throat? yeah. it wasn t long before kay s wife, darla, had made it to the mouth of the canyon and was
the two were roger and pam. and we know the rest of the story. rachel bingham kept the secret for months until finally her conscience won out. and she told the police one more thing. how the crooks got the drop on kay mortensen. it turned out that martin s dad and kay were old friends. kay had known martin as a kid. which is why kay, armed against intruders, welcomed him in and turned his back to his killers. he had planned for any worst case scenario to happen. except for the one that happened to him. in that there are so many ironies, aren t there? there are so many ironies, yeah. the biggest perhaps? roger and pam s crazy stories about armed intruders was true all along. though sergeant knutzen still had trouble believing it. i can pick up the case and i can read through it and i can read through it and i can see discrepancy after discrepancy.
bolster the detective s case with her own chilling tale of what happened that night. continuing with mystery in payson canyon, here s keith morrison. within days of kay mortensen s murder members of his family began hearing deeply troubling reports from the utah county sheriff s office. the investigation was leading sure as can be, detectives told them, to kay s own son roger and roger s wife, pam. darla said she couldn t believe it at first. i was just adamant that they couldn t have done it. i was their biggest defender. but then detectives asked her to listen to roger and pam s recorded statements, and she too started to wonder. they told lies and then it got it just put more suspicion on them. gradually her conviction grew. same for kay s sister, fern. i could buy the fact that they were thinking of roger s
it was a riddle that threatened to destroy kay s family until someone with an explosive secret revealed the horrifying truth. here s keith morrison with mystery in payson canyon. there are people on this glorious sun-kissed planet of ours who get up each morning to the miracle of being alive and wor worry. not that there aren t things to worry about, of course. whether we can do anything about them or not. but some people worry a very great deal indeed and do try to be prepared for whatever. and one of those prepared people was a brilliant retired university professor named kay mortenson whose sister was a woman named fern. they said, well, kay, what would happen if i m not prepared and i m hungry or my kids are hungry? can we come to the house? no, i ll probably just shoot you. jestingly. he wouldn t have. but he was definitely willing to protect what he had.