the clock was hatched, this dreadful plot. and it s like a movie script it s family rivalries an betrayal and murder. it was so horrific. what were the last hours o earth like for her it looks here on this storied family estate, a mystery tangled as that was th treat for the sky. i think she s dead. it eats at me, i can t slee most of the time a crime like a stor everyone could see it coming everyone in the town ha their suspicions she was missing, th matriarch with a group on he powerful families fortune, tha someone have a powerful motive to do her harm i saw bruises on bonnie s arms, like somebody had grabbe her. she tried to kill me. who was behind this a search in the dark it s all right a secret in the family, and the jailhouse interview to mak your jaw drop. you said you wished you are dead, and then later she becam that this is a twisted tale deep in the heart of texas. people who are desperat will do desperate things
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
jury would not vote to convict bruce on the testimony o lillian king and karl pressley alone. so, he used bruce harkey s own words against him. he talked about how h couldn t get his land until sh was dead and that she just doesn t have the decency. and he said all of this in the weeks leading up to the murder richard was bruce harkey attorney he told the jury carl pressley wanted to kobanî harkey becaus he wanted the inheritance, and needed no prompting from his uncle. davis reminded jurors how many times carl had changed his story before telling polic through sport of the plot. my theory is it s all car and that was essentially our testimony. and the testimony of carl an the trial makes it clear tha this guy was erratic personality. he gave numerous different descriptions of what the event
he said he was the poorest military and the county. sean oliver said that bruce harkey was down and out in late 2007, when he resettled insensitive after being away for many years. he had no income coming in and every time he drove by that property, all he could see was the millions that, what he thought was millions, that he was missing out on. by then, bonnie harkey was becoming increasingly frail. hurt dementia made it difficult to she was unable to manage her daily affairs so her daughter, connie, became her guardian. after conte died in 2011, bruce harkey thought that carl pressley should be bonnie s guardian. a judge tried to point someone else, bruce and john challenge that in court. bonnie asked the judge if she could speak. and the judge said, yes. and she said, i don t want them to be my guardians. i m afraid of them.
it will have to be a single mother. now, nearly 50 years later, the queen of the county was missing. searchers were still on the orchards looking for bonnie harkey. when a resident who had been listening to the police scanner called with a vital clue. i know things are crazy going on right now. but i might have some information about where bonnie harkey is. the caller said she knew that pony harkey s 28-year-old grandson, carl, had visited her that very afternoon. i m 99% sure karl pressley is involved. who is called pressley? carl pressley is the adopted grandson of bonnie harkey. bunny harkey had a daughter, connie, but county adopted carl press at a very young age. when you heard those calls come and you think this is what? i was definitely concerned.