i called my mom and she didn t answer. i pretty much knew in my heart that something was wrong. a mother vanished. i cried myself to sleep. it was awful realizing your worst nightmare had come true. a family anguished. she s gone. do you have any idea how hard that was? now, the questions begin in a southern gothic mystery. the case is puzzling. we did not really know what had happened. who would everett manage and you would have a murder in the family. soon there would be secrets. we were dealing with a person that was leading a double life. and one of them, would prove deadly. have you ever said, i know you did this? it hurts too much for me to say it out loud. hello. and welcome to dateline. it s a case that centers on the mother who had gone missing in a small town secret, that led to a very big surprise. here s keith morrison. suppose for a minute you are sitting in your car. smacked up in the middle of tuscaloosa alabama. and you poin
friends or anything. they did go out together a couple of times. i think my mother did it because she was bored wanted to get out of the house. but when they did get together, at least on one occasion said kelsey, it was certainly memorable. and not in a good way. they went out to a local casino, one night she said, and her mother came home stumbling. i thought she was drunk. and i knew that couldn t be right because she did not drink. she didn t even know where she was at. you could hardly understand a word she was saying. she came in in my dad and i got her and put her in bed. how long did she? sleep she slept for two days. two straight days. what did you think about that? it was very strange. she did not really remember what happened. she just knew that she had taken some pills, i believe. how does she get them? i believe dawn them to give them to. her remember how teresa was
there is no way she could have made the call and been back to the location where she was murdered at. so courtesy of the cell towers, you are able to show that teresa could not have made that call. i had to be someone else using her phone and what do you know? her phone is missing from the crime scene. correct. so, the person who very likely killed teresa mayfield must have used her cell phone to call her husband, scott. what could that mean? did the killer know scott? we did scott knows something he was not sharing? coming up, we were dealing with a person that was leading a double life. secrets and lies. this was betrayal. that s a very good word. when dateline continues.
another and eventually an inescapable conclusion. but prosecutor evans, had questions, pointed. ones you could tell it was going to be difficult. where was the smoking? gun where was the murder? weapon where was even one single plug fingerprints tying dawn to the crime? as far as physical evidence, we did not have any. it was truly circumstantial, because we didn t really know anything about what had happened. as far as evans could see, the case was maybe a best. she had no reason to kill teresa. so to bring a case against her, would be pretty tough, i would think. the case with dawn is puzzling. when you are working with a circumstantial case, every piece of evidence is definitely important. how could corporal boyd and sheriff ellis thought for second they were wrong. they believe dawn was the killer. they told the prosecutor not
teresa that morning that she had murdered. but why in heaven s name would a woman who claimed to be teresa s friend want to kill her? good question. which perhaps they would get answered once they accused dawn lavender of murder. which they did. she however, had one thing to say to police. she just kept saying that it was wrong, that we made a mistake. coming up. as far as physical evidence, we really did not have any. but they did have a plan. an undercover sting could get the evidence they. need when dateline continues. something more. that gritty feeling can t be brushed away. even a little blurry vision can distort things. and something serious may be behind those itchy eyes.