you just smiled. no, i didn t. the detectives felt they had enough. they issued a warrant for steve shappell, who was still on the lam. and morgan? we handcuffed her inside of the interview room and told her that she was under arrest for the murder of kevin mengel jr. they sent a police officer to talk to kevin s father. he said that we believe that your son has been murdered. it was not easy to sit and listen to. kevin s three children were spending the day at his sister, michelle s house when she learned that kevin was not coming back. kevin s kid came s came in ay just came up and they just started hugging me. they re like, what s wrong? i think they knew. michelle had known all along, she says, in her gut that kevin
seen him for days, and fearing the worst they reported him missing to police. at first investigators believed he had simply left his wife, but then there was a very strange incident and their suspicions were raised. now this case was about to heat up. once again, here is hoda kotb with toxic. it sounds so hoke but three months before i had a terrible nightmare that something had happened to kevin and that kevin was hurt, and i woke up crying hysterically in my bed. michelle hopkins, kevin mengel s younger sister, was now in a waking nightmare. her brother kevin had been missing for a week, and the young man who appeared to be having an affair with her sister-in-law had just fled from police. why did he just steal her pickup truck and flee when i asked him to come back to the police station. the situation suddenly looked much worse than detective david maurer had thought. he brought morgan to the station
fiction? these text messages don t even seem real. like they don t, they just don t seem real. reporter: long before kevin mengel had a cellphone or a facebook page he was a high school guy in suburban philadelphia with a cute little sister to worry about. kevin was the stereotypical older brother. he would follow me around and tell all of his friend they weren t allowed to talk to me and things like that. reporter: was he being protective? very protective. reporter: for as long as michelle can remember, kevin mengel was a family man, a big brother who felt he needed to look after his younger siblings after their parents divorced. kevin had a terrible time with it. right. and just always told us that he would never get a divorce, he would never get a divorce. reporter: instead, kevin grew up in search of perfect romance. kevin always had girlfriends. but he was always sort of a monogamous guy, when he was with
went about his midland escaping jobs. he noticed morgan, the boss s wife, flirting with a 21-year-old employee named steve shappell. morgan looks at me and says, steve knows what kind of underwear i have on. steve is like, yeah, pink with black stripes. right off the bat. and when al had a question about an assignment i would call morgan and steve is there. steve is answering her phone. why was this kid who mowed lawns and was barely old enough to buy a beer suddenly acting like the new man in charge? kevin s sister, michelle, remembered him as a quiet, unassuming young guy who had done some work on her yard 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 her development and she was sitting out at the pool with steve and the kids. okay. you see steve sitting with her
would have sex in her and kevin s bed when he would go out, how they would have sex in the cars, you know, the business cars. i said to myself, you know, she s not right. there s something wrong with her. and kevin as family? by now they were sure morgan and the young landscaper were up to something. michelle confronted morgan directly. i said, i m not okay with this, like he just disappeared. like i don t believe you, like i don t. adding to their worry, they say morgan had not let them see the three kids since kevin disappeared and they worried she might leave town. they asked the detective if he would do surveillance on the apartment, but he said no. i said based on the fact that we had a witness that saw him, the fact that i now know morgan and kevin have a troubled relationship, i thought that maybe kevin really was just fed up and had enough of morgan and left. so the mengel family took the