at a check cashing place right up the street from where morgan and kevin live, and the owner of the check cashing place was very familiar with kevin and he saw him across the street, so that leant 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 via text to his father. what did you get back? doing okay, just need time away. and kevin s sister received this message. he says, i m fine, worry about morgan, she s the one you should be worried about. but morgan it appeared was doing just fine. the couple owned a landscaping business and monday morning morgan showed up to meet the crews and told them she was now in charge. employee al recalls she had the garage looking spotless. there s always oil drips on the ground. this day you could have ate off this floor. but this was new too as al went about his monday
so the mengel family took the investigation into their own hands. brother chris decided to stake out the apartment overnight. he brought a video camera with him. okay. what s that? early friday morning he filmed steve shappell coming and going as if he now lived there, taking kevin s place. and what was strange, it looked as though steve was packing up morgan s truck. they re coming back. okay, yeah. they re getting in the truck. to chris it sure looked like morgan and steve were getting ready for something. he has a bunch of crap with him. morgan has a bunch of stuff too. he frantically called police, looking for detective maurer. i m afraid his wife and the new boyfriend are making a move now to leave. they re leaving. they re leaving. only they didn t go far. chris followed them as they drove to the landscaping business. it turns out the detective was already there. he decided to poke around, half expecting to run into kevin back at work. she gets out of the pa
business side of this story? i think that the most important thing about us getting the business side out is that we were just ordinary people running a commercial landscaping business and we got caught up into something that we didn t expect would ever happen, so it s, you know, kind of a story about a pivot in a business where we were able to capitalize on all of this attention in a very positive way. yeah. christopher, why was it important for you to tell this story? i mean, i think everyone in the entire world wanted to tell this story, right? every outlet under the sun was reaching out to them right after and they were just getting this onslaught of interest from people, and ironically, i was actually friends with sean s brother, kevin, and so i was able to get in touch with them directly and start talking to
trump s lawyer called this infamous press conference to peddle election lies. he meant to book the four seasons hotel but that did not stop the landscaping company from poking fun this halloween dressing it self up as the hotel itself. now a brand new msnbc documentary takes a look behind the scenes at what in god s name happened there one year ago. i got a call from my son, anthony, this is bigger than we think and rudy s sitting at my desk and the plaque says boss lady. i looked at my husband, i said i think we better get over there. sure did. joining us now the documentary s director chris stout and producer glen zipper. help us understand what was it like for the little landscaping business to suddenly be on the world stage and what is it like for them now? they re famous. actually rocked their world,
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