right. it was a hand good, inside a plastic ziplock bag. i think she handed him the plastic bag for him to take it out. and that was a little weird. why would it be in the bag? right. a peculiar story for sure. certain details were a little fuzzy. kid could not remember the exact date for example. but he did recall with absolute clarity, who the driver was, because he knew her. knew her name. in here was the most curious thing of all. it was a name you have heard before. dawn lavender. small town moundville suddenly got even smaller. dawn lavender, you will recall is teresa s friend, the one who said she waited in vain for theresa to pick her up on the morning of the murder. great buddies according to don. but maybe not so much, said kelsey. if our mom saw each other eight games, or wherever they would speak, they were not best
stressed out those cat last weeks of her life. the night of the casino trip teresa told kelsey, don gave her xanax, the anti anxiety medication, just to calm her down. dawn told her. it is certainly did that. out like a light calm, for two whole days. i looked at her, i said teresa, you need to stay away from that woman, she is no friend of yours. how did she respond to that? she said i ve learned my lesson. or maybe she did not. because the morning of the murder, teresa had arranged to run errands with dawn, or at least that s what dawn said. and then it all click together. dawn on the dirt road, a gun in a plastic bag, teresa s car window down as though she knew her killer. sheriff alice and corporate boyd, picked apart dawns early interview with a suspicious i. they pulled her phone records and there it was plain as day. dawns lies caught by selling phone technology. it painted a clearer picture, that don was in the location of
her car always a muddle of bats and balls. she shuttling kids back and forth. i remember there was a time where, i had a softball game and they had a baseball game all at the same time. she would stay 30 minutes at their games in 30 minutes and my game. just watching the clock and making sure. she was just an amazing mother. there was nothing she would not do for myself or my two brothers. then there was that sweltering morning, june 2007, teresa drove off to run errands it did not come back. kelsey was babysitting the boys then eight and 11. hours ticked by. she called her mom. where are you? and she did not answer. then i called her back around lunch. and she did not answer. i called her pretty much all day long. her dad was at work, her mom was who knew where. just was not like her to do this. is she the sort of person who would take herself on with her?
what s the old saying? two is a coincidence, three is a pattern. which is why, even before dawn told her grisly tale on tape, in fact on the same day dawn was arrested, a war was also issued for scott. kelsey was outside mowing the lawn when she saw a cop car whiz by and another and another. she called her dad on his cell phone. i asked him where he was at. and he said the cops have me pulled over. your dad, for heaven s sake, was being arrested. it had to be a shock. i was very confused. so i asked the arresting officer, why are you arresting my dad? and he said it was solicit and and conspiracy. to commit. murder to commit murder, yes. in other words, he said your father was responsible for the death of your mother. still, as he sat behind bars awaiting his day in court, he assured his children that it was a mistake. that he was innocent.
like a grieving husband. if he had, i would not have had these thoughts. so your thoughts actually increased over the course of the time that you are with him? yes. but you know what they say about assumptions. it wasn t scott. me and my brothers took them down. at first, i was okay with it. but once they put the posters up and everywhere i went i saw my mother s face, it just drove me crazy, it broke my heart seeing her face splattered all over these pictures. and so, expectations faded again. a couple more months went by and then a girl who knew kelsey, heard a strange little story. overheard actually. a guy saying he was someone won with a gun on a dirt road about the time to reset was killed. did she associate it with this crime? haut she knew that theresa