Grief. It was a tragedy, but for lisas dad, he was sure he knew who the killer was. A neighbor with a gun and a grudge. I thought they better get to him before i do. Some said this couple was having trouble, and that seth had a secret others said that the real murder was someone else right under cops noses. A case unfolding on camera that would test three families and take one final twist. That the biggests. The cornfields from iowa are far from nashville, but a little girl was named lis ama ama mar. She lived up to her big name. She was the life of the party. Theyre divorced now, but tracey and Todd Caldwell watched their girl grow up unstoppable. Were not just talking about recreational saturday night. Anything she did, she had to be the best at. Lisa was a teenager when her parents divorced. Todd remained an active fwauath. He was working as a depty in the wapello Sheriffs Department. One was his occasional hobby. Hed take out his sketch pad from time to time. And then he met and fe
your mossberg in that rack? yes, it s the middle one. lucas talked to deputies about the gun on the day of the murder. i told em that i hadn t took it with me and it should be there. but his 12-gauge wasn t there when crime scene techs scoured the trailer. and cops knew another place it wasn t on the list of guns kept at the house that seth had written out for the dci agent. investigators felt certain the mossberg was used to kill lisa, but a big question remained. where is it? that s what we wanna know. where is the gun? that same sunday morning, a team began searching the big, beautiful piece of property where seth and lisa were starting married life and preparing to raise a family. deputy marty wonderlin, working his first-ever homicide case, was back at the scene. not too long into this sunday morning search, over here by this big old tree, what do you hear? i hear, we ve got it. you know, shotgun here. they were going nuts.
the girls and we all hugged seth, you know, told him we loved him. when investigators finished their forensic work inside the trailer, tracy, seth, and his parents went out there to retrieve some of lisa s things. it was very tough. i was just amazed, the way it looked. crime scene techs have been all over it, hadn t they? all over it. i guess i went into dad mode and tried to protect seth a little bit. and i i wanted to cover up the bed. what was your thinkin there? i just didn t want him to see the blood. how was your boy dealin with all this, in these hours after? i think he was just shocked. that sunday wasn t a day of rest for the men and women trying to solve the crime either. investigators were focusing on the murder weapon, and were working a lead on a 12-gauge mossberg shotgun. it belonged to seth s friend, lucas howell, who d been rooming with seth and lisa and had just moved out. we showed lucas this photograph taken of seth at his home. if you look in th