relentless pursuit of the truth to jump start the investigation, but soon a stunning confrontation in a parking lot would put police on the trail of a killer and reveal a diabolical recipe for murder. here s hoda kotb with toxic. how much do we reveal to the ones we love? do we keep our betrayals hidden behind closed doors or do we hide in plain sight, masking our deeds with words? the text message says, i m fine, just clearing my head. that was kevin mengel for a time, clearing his head he told his family and friends. facebook status, wants to be left alone. maybe he just had enough and needed a vacation for himself. but there was a trail of electronic messages that seemed to tell another story, a far more sinister one. we were floored. it was all there for us to read. you can t make this stuff up. which was fact and which was
landscaping jobs. he noticed morgan, the boss s wife, flirting with a 21-year-old employee named steve shappell. morgan looks at me and says, steve knows what color underwear i have on. and steve s like, yeah, pink with black stripes. right off the bat. and when al had a question about an assignment i would call morgan and steve is there. steve is answering her phone. why was this kid who mowed lawns and was barely old enough to buy a beer suddenly acting like the new man in charge? kevin s sister, michelle, remembered him as a quiet, unassuming young guy who had done some work on her yard weeks earlier. this kid steve could not have been more polite to us. so what would kevin think now of his employee spending the workday at the pool with his wife and kids as michelle observed when she took a drive by? i drove by her development and she was sitting out at the pool with steve and the kids. okay. you see steve sitting with her and you re thinking what?
he said he was taking his stuff, his clothes that he had accumulated at my house, home. he s been staying there? a few nights, yes. did you ever think that maybe kevin would come home and steve would be there and there would be an issue? no, i hadn t thought about that. and i said if i get in a fight with my wife, i said, nobody s moving into my house. as a husband, as just a sensible person, to me that it is poor judgment. poor judgment and a bad marriage was all kevin s wife would admit to, but the family knew that morgan had a history of deception, a strange one that went back many years. there s something that is innocent looking in her face, that you just believed her. whatever she said, you just believed her. one of her biggest lies, they say, was back when morgan got pregnant before the couple was married and refused to tell the
( ) what a pain in the. alice? if it s let s wrap this up season, it s walgreens season. the first break in the case of missing husband kevin mention el had come out of the blue. morgan, the wife, under questioning by police revealed that her lover, steve, had killed her husband in the landscaping garage.
she didn t sound right. i said, are you okay? she said, kevin left and she just started crying hysterically. kevin left, kevin left. i said, mom, something s not right here. he left the three kids, he left morgan, i don t know where he went, he won t pick up his phone, he just sent me a text message. kevin, the till-do-us-part romantic, leave his wife and kids? perhaps morgan put it best when she typed out their father s day regrets to kevin sr. we received a text message from morgan saying, due to unforeseen circumstances we will not be able to be there today. happy father s day. unforeseen circumstances? what exactly did that mean? we all knew how excited he was before father s day. it would be the one day kevin would not miss ever, no matter what happened. no matter what happened. where had kevin mengel gone? coming up, maybe there was a