technology. it painted a clearer picture that dawn was in the location of teresa the morning that she was murdered. why in heaven s name would a woman who claimed to be teresa s friend want to kill her? good question, which perhaps they d get answered once they accused dawn lavender of murder, which they did. she, however, had but 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 didn t have any. but they did have a plan. an undercover sting could get the evidence they need. when dateline continues.
they took turns talking about the loving daughter, the softball mom, the sweet woman gunned down on that lonely country road. a murder that was still a mystery. my family will not stop searching or doing whatever it takes to find out who took teresa s life. when scott got up to speak, you can bet people were paying special close attention. yes, she was a loving wife, loving mother and a loving friend to the community, yes, she would do anything for anybody at any time. having discovered he was not exactly husband of the year, some people nursed a lingering suspicion and yet here he was devoted to the care of his children and full of praise for his dead wife. she did a wonderful job raising these kids. she was the one who got them to practice on time, got them to ball games on time. when sheriff ellis walked up to the podium, he looked at
one he couldn t hear, teresa did not call from moundville. cell tower shows it s pinging from up in tuscaloosa. wait a minute. how could it be pinging from tuscaloosa? that s miles and miles away. right. there s no way she could have made the call and been back to the location where she was murdered at. courtesy of the cell towers, you were able to show that teresa could not have made that call. it had to be somebody 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 teresa s cell phone to call her husband scott. what could that mean? did the killer know scott? and did scott know something he wasn t sharing? coming up we were dealing with a person that was leading a double life. secrets and lies. this was betrayal. very good word.
long. especially in a little place like moundville. and it didn t take very long for sheriff ellis and boyd to stumble across more. scott had a young lady to come pick up the boys. it was only later when the fog of grief lifted that one of teresa s relatives wondered to police who was that woman hanging around the day teresa died? ellis and boyd tracked her down and what they discovered, well, that changed everything. or seemed to. the person they were talking to was scott s mistress. she was under the impression that scott was not married at that time. what did you make of that? we knew that wasn t correct. a love triangle, jealous home wrecker kills wife, claims husband? no, not even close.
window. so we figured that she had to have known the person because she had let down her window. we had to ask ourselves, who could get her to this location and why was she murdered? someone in moundville had to know something. from there the investigation went where? investigating her inner circle, trying to find a motive. usually, so i m told, in cases like this, the husband has got to be a person of interest. yes. so as the family gathered to mourn the loss of their beloved teresa, scott couldn t be with them. he was down at the sheriff s office answering questions. came willingly, no issue. yes. did he ask for an attorney? no, he did not. corporal boyd chatted with scott for three long hours. during the whole time, he was cooperative and helpful. you know, the standard questions that we would ask is,