the floor, this time you could eat off. it his landscaping jobs, he 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? what i thought morgan was having another. affair it was no secret among the people who knew the couple th
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 believe 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 this ten. here s 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. i wanted to know if he knew it was happening. i wanted to know if he begged.
she called the west gauche and police to report him missing. we thought that she was overreacting to kevin leaving. kevin bauer was a detective on the case. there was no reason to believe that kevin 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
him i said are you kidding me? he told me he was not kidding and to tell the children i love them. now i have to ask, i saw a bunch of clothes in the back of the truck. who did they belong? to steve. he said he was taking his stuff, his clothes that he had accumulated at my house. he s been staying? there are a few nights. yes ? did you ever think that maybe kevin would come home and steve would be there it would be an issue? no i hadn t thought about that. and i said, if i get in a fight with my wife, i would say no one s moving into my. house as a husband, as just a sensible person, that, to me. is poor judgment. poor judgment and a bad marriage was all kevin s wife would admit to. but the family knew that morgan
and more again. we have covered her inside of the interview room and told her she was under arrest for the murder of kevin mengel ross jr.. what they sent a police officer to speak to kevin s father. they said, we believe you son has been murdered. it was, not easy to listen to. kevin s three children were stay with his sister michelle when she learned that kevin was not coming back. kevin s kids came up and they started hugging me and saying, what s wrong? i think they knew. michel had known all along, she says, in her gut, that kevin was dead. but how it happened, michelle could not believe what police were telling her. she remembered steve chappelle as that scrawny, unassuming guy who worked for kevin mooring lawns. in fact, he had done some work on michel s lawn some weeks earlier. michelle felt badly when he told her that he just had his wisdom teeth out. i was so worried about him for the two days that he was