they wondered if there was something he wasn t telling them. here again with secrets in a small town is keith morrison. it s a funny thing about secrets. they can only stay hidden for so long. especially in a little place like moundville. and it didn t take very long for sheriff ellis and boyd to stumble across a secret scott had been keeping. scott had had a young lady to come pick up the boys. it was only later when the fog of grief lifted that one of teresa s relatives wondered to police who was that woman hanging around the day teresa died? ellis and boyd tracked her down and what they discovered, well, that changed everything. or seemed to. the person they were talking to was scott s mistress. she was under the impression
you d roll into a sweet little place called moundville. one stoplight, one main street, one general store. been around for a long time has moundville. but it s a sad truth, as the sheriff says, even here where everybody used to know everybody it s not that way anymore. so many different people are moving in from around the world. trying to escape the crowds. well, escape the crowd or running from something. yes. and where have you gone, andy griffith? mayberry apparently has up and left us. sheriff ken ellis fights real crime nowadays. the crimes that you see in this county is the same crime you d see in any large city, just a smaller version. still, moundville is moundville and neighbors tend to know more of each other s business than they might in tuscaloosa, for example, which can be a bit of a nuisance as you re about to see if you need to keep a secret. especially, for example, if your
figure, bereaved widower, to cad. and maybe worse. he must have been aware of the fact that there were people suspicious of him. it bothered me hearing the bad things that people had to say about him. and i knew that my dad was never capable of doing something like that. i was going to have his back regardless. but to investigators, scott s affair and the fact he lied about it to police certainly was suspicious. ellis and boyd asked the girlfriend to help them out by recording her conversations with scott. maybe he d let something slip. [ phone ringing ] hello. hey. are you okay? yes. i m okay. they just left. look, all i want to know, did you do it? of course not. they told me on the get-go, i would be number one prime suspect. i know. because i m the husband.
but that doesn t mean she wasn t talking. we had another young lady that was getting out of jail and she came to us and said that dawn had been talking about the murder. but that could have been just gossip, mind you. from a jailhouse snitch who couldn t back it up. but dawn did have a cellmate. she was kind of in a jam herself. she wanted us to try to help her. we can put a word into the d.a. or put a word into the jail. that was enough to get some cooperation from her. right. the objective was simple. get dawn talking, wrangle from her something that at least sounded like a confession. ellis and boyd outfitted dawn s cellmate with a digital recorder no bigger than a matchbox. and on a friday afternoon as an unsuspecting dawn sat in her cell reviewing her case file her cellmate walked in and waited for some incriminating tidbit. what she got instead was the