home in the old military graveyard under the black prairie sod and the wind. that s all for this edition of dateline extra. i m craig melvin. thanks for watching. she would come into our room, the room with just bright enough. people instantly thought, i m kelly s best. from the very first message that i looked that, was, have you seen? kayleigh this pass, can i help. you re my daughter is missing. i had this sickening. feeling and i m looking at a desperate man, anything could happen. i would ve never been able to tell my daughter, you re a monster, your bogeyman will pull up alongside you and instead of coming to help you. come to harm. you inside the ship, there was a green purse, there was also a large rock saturated in dry blood.
july 24th, the day after the bachelorette party. kelly s mother was driving home from a weekend camping trip. she approached ben around 5 pm. re-entered cellphone range. i turned my phone back on and my phone was just pinging and pinging. and the very first message that i looked at was from cam saying, have you seen kayleigh? have you heard from kayleigh? why would cam be asking her about kayleigh? after all they live together. julie s phone jerked over and over. camera texted or the same question almost hourly all day? so you re looking at multiple messages. yes. each getting a little bit more word. yes, and i called her first. and her phone went to voice. mel which kayleigh notoriously letters cellphone battery go really low. so that wasn t surprising. by then, cam had already
that evil had fooled their defenses. and slipped inside to snatch its prey. wolf this is the place, here in the wide handsome high desert of central oregon. a small city when. an annual occupant of any list of the best places to live in america. it s a nice place to live. i love it here. it s perfect. an outdoor recreation heaven. on the slopes of the cascade rain, right with rivers, with legs, and rugged independence. everything here is about outdoors. about connections. and then was home to a beautiful young woman, named kayleigh sawyer. this is kelly s mother, julie. she was probably, 17. and she said to me, mom, when people describe me i want them to describe me as smart and
here is where she was, or ravine just off the highway. and kaylee sawyer, family got the call that they dreaded. the last time that i got to kiss my baby girl on the forehead was through a black body bag. we asked when we could see her identify the body, and they would not let us see her. their words were, you cannot see her because she s unrecognizable. unrecognizable is the haunting word. how do you accept that? kelly s mom, couldn t bring herself to visit the morgue. i just knew that if i went i m i climb up on that table with her. and notley. that can joe with the detectives, he seemed pleased to have an audience, and had decided to reveal more, and
girl and she didn t deserve what i did to her. and when told the whole story. no little, nothing hold back. and not avoid of it would be heard by any jury, any time. inadmissible. so as prosecutors prepared even without that confession, to ask a jury to give him the death penalty. his defense team asked for a meeting with the da, made an offer. laura would plead guilty, to a sentence of life without parole. but with kelly s family a retired judge sat down with katie s mother, and told her what desired result would almost certainly be. he explained to me what happens in a death penalty case,