so clearly you. andrea canning: four months after the death of stephen moore, kathleen dorsett and her father were in jail awaiting trial for his murder. given all that, you d think kathleen would have been wallowing in despair while she was sitting in jail. that s not how she sounded when she called her mother. they talked about the weather. and the cats. and gossiped about a friend s kids. and they also talked about money. kathleen, an inmate, suddenly needed a lot of cash.
coming back to them. you also had asked for a photo. was that provided? it was not. she said that kathleen dorsett did not tell her to bring the photo. andrea canning: so mother did as she was told. she got the picture of evelyn, got back in her car and headed out to mail the photo to the hit man. however this hit was never really going to happen, was it? - it was not. - why not? because i m a detective from the monmouth county prosecutor s office. andrea canning: not hit man sami, but detective scott samus. it turns out kathleen s cellmate tipped him off that kathleen wanted to put a hit on evelyn. the cellmate said kathleen was so angry evelyn had custody, she wanted to have evelyn killed. so the cops were on to them from the start. lots of people don t like their mother-in-law, but murder? it was highly disturbing to know and see
andrea canning: eventually evelyn decided to retire to the jersey shore, and she wanted steven to come too. she needed his help, so her loyal son grabbed his skates and the rest of his stuff and jumped in his car. it was packed with every every single thing that he owned was in that car. it was funny. [music playing] andrea canning: he knocked around for a few years. and then one day in 2006 he met kathleen dorsett. cam graham: i knew she was a schoolteacher and that she lived in jersey and that he was in love with her. and it seemed like he found the one. [music playing] andrea canning: and if opposites attract, this match couldn t miss. kathleen dorsett seemed as grounded as it gets. she had her own house right across the street from her folks, and she was great with children, as friends noticed when steven brought her out to california. they came down and stayed i think a week with us. she seemed really nice. they took my kids out and took them shopping and bought some games for th
both of us, looking at her. andrea canning: kathleen seemed born to be a mother. and steven? evelyn moore: all of a sudden, it all came together for him. and his daughter made a man out of him. andrea canning: that should have been the beginning of the happy ending for steven and his wife kathleen. but in 2010, on a monday morning in august, steven just didn t show up for work. the guys at honda called kathleen. she hadn t seen him since early morning. i knew something was wrong because he s there before me. and when he didn t show up, i started calling his phone. but it kept on going to voicemail. andrea canning: his mom evelyn was taking a little vacation in maine. maybe he d blown off work to join her. lloyd mccracken doubted it. when i finally got hold of her, i just said, do you know where your son is? she says no. and then she started panicking. i called him, and he didn t answer. [music playing] andrea canning: the honda folks waited a couple of hours, then called the police. al
you just want to disappear for a little bit and not talk to anybody and get your thoughts together and find out exactly what s going on. andrea canning: but that s not the vibe investigators were getting. his mother said stephen didn t sound like he wanted to get away. in fact, he sounded pretty happy the night before he disappeared. he was enjoying an overnight visit with 20-month-old elizabeth. evelyn moore: he called me. he said, we re in our jammies and we re watching cartoons. and i said, sleep tight. i ll talk to you tomorrow. [ominous music] andrea canning: the next morning, he left the baby with kathleen. stephen showed up to her house around 7:45 am with their daughter. he drops them off. andrea canning: kathleen told investigators she hadn t heard from him since, even when she sent him a text. what was the text message she sent to him? she showed me her phone, and it said, where are you? everyone is looking for you. andrea canning: so investigators ran through all the possibi