keep her from talking. kate waring had to die. he began to make the choice to join in the scam, to see rip off kate waring. finally, the prosecutor scarlett wilson, felt ready. and almost a year to the day after kate was found she launched the trial of ethan mack. the sole defendant in the courtroom. heather having taken the plea agreement. the warings tried to prepare themselves, though what they saw defied preparation. we had to see images and see what it was like when they found her and then go through all the forensics. and we were seeing that for the first time along with the jurors and all those other spectators in the courtroom. one by one, the a-team took the stand, as did detectives and experts from the charleston police department to present the evidence. over a stupid forgery. prosecutor wilson told the jury that ethan and heather killed kate to avoid getting caught for forging kate s checks and using her credit cards.
so she snaps and breaks. with a little more encouragement from andy savage, that is. his deal if heather told him exactly where to find kate s body, and if it turned out she had nothing to do with any murder, andy would help her with her forgery charges. and at that moment, heather kamp agreed to tell the a-team what they needed to know. her directions were precise. they drove out here right away. that s the large old tree that she described with the and then she says, if you look farther up between your left in the marsh, you ll see a dark that s running down to the water. she said, after you do, that you ll look to your left over here, on my right and left, and she said, you ll see some underbrush growing. and she said that kate remains she said the body is five feet from this path, from this roadway. incredibly detailed.
early on. early on? how many days after would you say? i would say that i mean, within that first week for sure. yeah? so you knew it was a murder investigation at that stage. no. i mean, it could have been an overdose. it could have been an accidental death. i think we felt like we were probably dealing with a death investigation. right. but neither tom nor janice waring was the least bit satisfied. hadn t the police suggested early on that kate may simply have skipped town on her own? it didn t seem to the warings that they were trying very hard to find her. what about the other families of missing people they asked. families without the resources it hire an a-team? unfortunately, missing people are low on the priority list nationwide. i feel like that a missing person or missing child should be just as important as a bank robbery because lots of people never find out what happened to their child.
handwriting expert s report showing that heather and ethan forged kate s check two days after she vanished. and now things started happening fast. after her heart-to-heart with andy savage, heather made a remarkable decision. she called the charleston police department and confessed. no, not to murder. instead, she said it was she who forged the bogus check supposedly signed by kate waring. and ethan who tried to cash it two days after kate disappeared. now surely the police would swoop in and arrest them both. but here s something you should know about the way it worked between the a-team and their former colleagues, the cops. the deal was entirely one way. that s to say the a-team told the cops everything they uncovered. the cops told the a-team nothing. so they kept their ears to the ground and waited for something
but no, said kate back then. janice had it all wrong. heather was nice. in fact, kate said she d introduced heather to her friend ethan, had and quickly a romance had blossomed. they were even talking marriage. really? if janice waring was suspicious about heather back then, the a-team was doubly so now. sure enough,a a few keystrokes on the internet told bobby that mother s intuition was right. she had been arrested for forgery in indiana. but she d been arrested in other states, too. essentially if you just googled her name, i suppose you could find out a fair amount. that s how i found her. she d been impersonating a doctor. i just googled her. and ethan wouldn t be her first husband. she had been married before and had four children. now that they knew about heather, a few fuzzy details were suddenly clearer. the one thing the last dinner with ethan made more sense because there were three meals