to kill you now. a strange story that only got stranger. they had purple gloves on. and they had blue, floods the gloves. something isn t right here. could he have killed his own father? what really happened in that house. i did not do this! and, a this came forward and changed anything. if this was our story, the strangest thing of all was the truth. he planned for any scenario except for the one that happened to him. . dan was a man who built a fortune, and afford shifts to protect. it then, they found him in his home, with a bloody crime scene. how could someone so vigilant be taken by surprise? it was a riddle that threaten to destroy this family until someone, with an explosive secret, reveal the horrifying truth. here s keith morrison with mystery in hansen canyon. there are people on this glorious, sunkissed passionate of ours. who get up each morning to the miracle of being alive, and worry. not that there aren t things to worry about, of course. bu
it doesn t happen to your family , to your brother, but it does. no one thought it could happen to him. he was a tough guy, prepared for anything. he always would say if anyone tries to break in here, ç i will kill them. instead he was killed. stabbed in his own home. his son and daughter-in-law stumbled into a terrifying scene. that s when i saw the gun. they said we have to kill you now. a strange story that only got stranger. something isn t right here. could have killed his own father? what really happened in that house? then a witness came forward. in this is our story, the strangest thing of all was the truth. he planned for any scenario except the one that happened to him. hello, and welcome toúç dateline. kay mortensen was a strong- minded man who built a fortune and a fortress to protect it. then, he was attacked turning his home into a bloody crime scene. how police wondered could someone so vigilant be taken by surprise? it was a riddle tha
again. the family marked a grim anniversary of the kay mortensen murder. as kay son roger and the daughter-in-law pam cool their heels in jail. all the time maintaining their innocence. pam said that she was offered a deal if she turns the evidence against roger. if you can tell them what you want to hear, you can go home. but for me, i was not gonna lie just so i could be a free person. rodgers public defender, anthony howell, believed his client was innocent. i was looking for that piece of evidence that would be, that s the thing i can t explain. and there just was nothing. but here was the rub, how had new juries. and his trialed approached, when he was deeply unsettled. i was worried that he was gonna be convicted regardless of what i was trying to do. why? because this is the kind of case where a jury would be
whose job was to decide whether or not they should charge roger and pam with the murder. and? in just over an hour. the jury decided to indict. so what did that say to you? well, there was enough to proceed. sort of reinforce what you are thinking? it did. and that same day. eight months after kay mortensen was found dead in his home, roger and pam were deposited in the county jail. chris, the family friend who still believe they were innocent, went to roger sister. i said julie, we need some money to hire an attorney for roger. we think pam s family can come up with money for pam, but we have to give him a separate attorney. can you help me? there is millions of dollars in the trust. she told me, her words, we re not one red penny will be spent on his defense. julie told us that she did not use those specific words.
to them. even if i thought roger had done it, i would not have abandoned him. and they did? they absolutely did. not only did they abandoned him, they crucified him. months dragged by. roger and pam were headline news in utah. but in the absence of definitive evidence linking the case to murder? they remained free. day by day they went about their business. as if their lives were still quite normal. then on july 28th, 2010. utah county prosecutor took a dramatic step to break the logjam. he presented the case against roger and pm to a grand jury. so why call the grand cherry? why not just charge them? we thought the grand jury was a great tool to force them to come in to talk. it was a secret proceeding. no defendants, no defense attorney. only prosecutors, police, some members of the family, even some of pam s coworkers. all in front of 16 jurors.