ha. morgan responds, nice babe. steve does not reply. morgan says, you back in? out there is a gap where nothing happens. then she gives him final taunt, your backing out? when she says that he says, it s done, get here now. those text messages don t even seen real. they don t seem real. as incriminating as those messages sounding, morgan s defense was ready to press her case in court saying that she was no murder mastermind. i still don t think to this day that she had a fully formed belief that steve was going to do this. but the defense never got a chance. a few days into the trial, the police officers said something on the stand. here say that the with the judge sent everyone home. a missed trial at the low triangle murder case. for kevin s family, the delay was torture. more waiting for answers to questions they never wanted to ask.
then, a stunning confrontation in a parking lot would put police on the trail of a killer and reveal a diabolical recipe for murder. here is 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? 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, once 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
passenger side and walks by me. i walk over to shappell and he s still sitting in the passenger seat. and he s got a dead stare straight ahead. and there is something inside the truck that the detective thought was peculiar. the backseat was full of false. i could see a laundry basket, bags, backpacks. he says oh, morgan is going to do laundry across the street. i said well morgan has got a washer and dryer in her apartment. i saw yesterday. things are just aren t adding up. i said, would you mind coming back to the police station? i have a couple more questions for. you and in that moment, as a detective turned his back on steve, something unexpected happened. something chris mengel, still filming, caught on video. yo, yo, yo. steve jumped in the driver seat. pulled out of the lot. and sped away. that steve. morgan walked over and sits down on a step, puts her hands on her heads and says, oh my, maybe he did sue do something to kevin.
he sent her cryptic text message that seemed to alarm her more than put her at least. so kevin s mom did something that seems a little drastic. she called the west gauche and police to report him missing. we thought that she was overreacting to kevin leaving. david was a detective on the case. there was no reason to believe that anything that happened to kevin. she was receiving text messages from kevin s phone. their feelings were that if someone is communicating with him that he s not missing. kevin instead agreed. i was a little concerned that she might end up with a little egg on her face because he was going to show up and. right she would call the cops. right. and not long after that initial missing person report was filed at the police department, the officer called the family back to say that kevin had been spotted not far from his home. one of the officers stopped
had an uneasy feeling. he apologized to me, and said it was his fault. i asked him, what was his? fall and the only response i got was, the entire situation. you think steve hurt? at this point yeah i do. morgan asked for a cigarette break. detective power went outside with her. the detective wanted to keep the conversation going, hoping she would receive something. and did she ever. it s still extremely hot, there is no conditioning in the building because of that thunderstorm. and she says, steve told me that he had kevin in the back of the head with a short shovel. we run back in and i took the recording back on at the point. morgan you just told me something would you mind repeating that? steve hit kevin in the back of the head with a shovel. here was morgan laying the blame on steve. telling police he had attacked