noticed morgan, the bosses wife, flirting with a 21-year-old employee named steve chappelle. she said steve knows what color under where i have on, he said yeah pink and black stripes. right off the bat. steve s their steve is answering her phone. why was this kid who mowed lawns and it was barely old enough to buy beer suddenly acting like the new man in charge? kevin sister michelle remembered him as a quiet, unassuming young guy who had done some work on her yard just 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 the development and she was sitting by the pool with steve. you see steve sitting with our new think?
put up their had come from his cell phone. because it shows a little cell phone. this one came from a computer. what s seems so odd, the family knew that he did everything on his cell. what is more, the wording in the text messages he had been sending, just in sound like kevin. for example, michelle wondered, when did he start calling her sister? in the pit of my stomach, i just knew something bad had happened to kevin. and if the cops would not investigate, the family decided it was time to do some detective work themselves. we and the white new boyfriend are leaving. coming up. why would it take to alert the police? things were just not adding up to another questions for. you when dateline continues. neighborhoods open . businesses open . fields open . who doesn t love open ?
closed doors? she laughed and said, you know, there s no fear. someone was keeping secrets. and even police couldn t wrap their heads around this one until they found it, a trail of texts. we were like, holy smokes, it s right there. it sure was. every, stunning detail. snap all ice tea seemed like the perfect tool to put poison inside of it. was this a loving spouse or a lethal one? police were in for a killer surprise. i feel like the gates of hell are opening. i don t know what they were thinking. hello and welcome to dateline. kevin and morgan mengel had their share of ups and downs. but through it all they seem to make it work. then one of them disappeared. it would take a families relentless pursuit of the truth to jump-start the investigation.
at a cheque cash place, where morgan and kevin lived and the only check catching place was familiar with kevin and hugh saw across the street. so that landed some credibility that kevin was in the area. he was close to home sending texts to his wife and mother, just refusing to see or speak to his family. and he did finally respond to his father. i just need time away. and kevin sister received this message. he s says, i m fine, worried about morgan, she s the one you should be worried about. but morgan, it appeared, was doing just fine. the couple owns a landscaping business. and monday morning, morgan showed up to meet the crews and said she was now in charge. employee said that the garage was spotless. there is always oil spots on the floor, this time you could eat off. it his landscaping jobs, he
kevin had walked out on her and the kids. and she had proof. text messages in her own phone from kevin, breaking it off. she had received a message from kevin that he was leaving and she showed me these text message exchanges. something to the effect of, are you kidding me? he said no, i m done, i can t do this anymore. the detective also spoke with steve shappell, kevin s young employee, who had been hanging around the apartment complex with morgan and the kids. he just seemed like a kid. a young kid. he was 21 years old. and morgan scoffed at the idea that they were anything more than friends. she laughed and said no, i m a married mother of three. i m 34 and he s 21. that s absurd. there s no affair. absurd is precisely what friends mike and noelle who would have said had they heard that. they knew firsthand that morgan had a long history of cheating. sometimes even with kevin s closest friends.