ck to the line linda watson had just vanished. she didn t even show up to a custody hearing involving her four-year-old daughter jordan. did you feel abandoned? jordan? no not really. my dad was always right there if i needed anything. linda s mother, marilyn, however was very worried. especially when she returned to linda s house after the custody hearing. maryland calls us and says that she found blood in the entryway to linda s house. the blood was under a trash bag hidden from view. the deputy who responded to maryland s 9-1-1 call had not seen it. now, investigators came back and did a luminol test. it lit up blue. and turned out to be positive for, not only human blood, but matching dna to linda watson.
has a soft alibi. it s a timeless old west beauty as the setting sun graces the mountains. and the vast desert fades to dark. covering secrets and old bones for another night. it s as unchanging out here as the heart aches that all those people in the valley below sometimes seem to make for themselves. with their jealousies, the rages. i need someone to come out and take a report my daughter is missing. when daily routine without warning gives way to stark terror. she s an adult, but the backdoor was found unlocked and the door is in the entryway. a young woman vanished. what is your name? i m errol cox. i m her mother. that was the start of it all. and anguished mother s cry for
a new mother. but maryland s response was unusual. she sold her house, and drove her car, and headed out. she did all that for her girl and her grandkids? she did that for the family. yeah. where would living? dave built a little guesthouse out in the back. for, specifically for maryland. not every young husband likes to have the mother in law, round let s face it. it s funny that all the guys that work said that s a big mistake. they said it s gonna end up in divorce. what was he like? very pleasant. polite. and as time went on? you live with someone for 24 hours at a time and you get to know more about them. and our relationship got strained. and soon that wasn t the only relationship suffering. linda s friend who was by then married and living in burnaby notice the change when she invited dave in linda of her visit. you are seeing the cracks right before your eyes? absolutely.
because she had been very very sick and it was very desperate to find a cure. she explained to the jury that nicotine was sometimes used as a homeopathic cure to treat illnesses with symptoms similar to linda s. when we go to mexico, they would sometimes pick up herbs. steve said he couldn t remember with the herbs were. but to the defense it meant that linda was willing to try anything, maybe even nicotine. and in light of the type of illness that she had, and her tendency to use herbal medicine and non-traditional medicine, it is very reasonable to think that and this is not a drastic step. maybe it was only accidentally drastic, and inadvertent overdose that caused an unintentional suicide. so the defense argued. prosecutor ebrahim baytieh said
that her friend was dead. and that she died in a way that was not quick and certainly was painful. the autopsy concluded after the 3000 pound suv fell on her. lynn hemorrhaged into her lungs and died from asphyxiation. the only marks on her body imprints from the brake rotor. the local douglas county sheriff s department opened an investigation a few days later. the coroner ruled lynn s death an accident. the case was closed. did you have any reason to believe this wasn t an accident? no we all believed him took him at his word and any thought we would have dismissed. harold had his wife cremated spread her ashes on a mountain she said she loved and then went on with his life. he even kept driving the same jeep for a while. eventually he married tony and linda s death became a distant memory. for some people anyway but not all. nearly 18 years later after