this crime? she knew miss teresa was killed down that way so she reported it. was this the break they were looking for? the tip led to real flesh and blood. in fact, to a quite literal snake in the grass. a curious incident from teresa s past. could it shed light on the crime? coming up i looked at her, and i said you need to stay away from that woman. when dateline continues. next time, i want you on my bowling team. [ laughs ] rodney. bowling. classic. can i help you? it s me. jamie. i m not good with names. celeste! i trained you. we share a locker. -moose man! -yo. he gets two name your price tools. he gets two? i literally coined the phrase, we give you coverage options based on your budget.
dawn said, she drove to tuscaloosa and dialed a familiar number from teresa s cell phone to let her boss know his wife was dead. did you call scott and let him know it was dawn? the only thing left was to collect the $20,000 scott had promised her and go, except of course, dawn didn t keep her mouth shut about what she and scott had done. from what i could tell, he was just a coward. he wanted a divorce but didn t want to live with the responsibilities that accompany a divorce. in other words, he didn t want to pay her alimony. or child support. evil is the only thing that you can use to describe that man.
was just after kelsey was born. three years later, teresa took him back. remarried him. she wanted to have her family back together. that was her whole thing, family. what was it like for you when scott came into your house? what s happening here as he walked in the door? i tried to be sociable mutual with scott. he hurt my sister and i would not forget it. for a while, things were as things as hoped. soon scott was back to his old ways with that girl cops were talking to in tuscaloosa. you know how gossip can be. scott when from sympathetic maybe worse. he must have been aware of the fact that people were suspicious of him. it bothered me hearing the bad things people had to say about him. i knew my dad was never capable of doing something like that.
the driver was a woman in her 40s or thereabouts who said the young man offered them a sure fire way to smash that rattlesnake. lady in the car had a sghun. right. it was a handgun inside a ziploc plastic bag. i think she handed him the plastic bag for him to take it out. that was a little weird. why would it be in the bag? right. a peculiar story for sure. certain details were a little fuzzy. kid couldn t remember the exact day, for example. but he did recall with clarity who the driver was because he knew her. knew her name. and here was the most curious thing of all. it was a name you ve heard before. dawn lavender. small town moundville suddenly got even smaller. dawn lavender, you ll recall was teresa s friend who she said she waited in vain for teresa to pick her up.
mother s shoes defended her father, tried to maintain something of a normal life for her little brothers. me trying to fill my mother s shoes. those are some big shoes to fill. i felt like it was my responsibility to help my dad take care of my family. so you were able to continue to have a relationship of trust with your father. right. he was there for you guys? yeah. he tried to be strong for us so we wouldn t have a breakdown. by the first anniversary of teresa s death, there was still no arrest and the story was old news. so teresa s mother plastered this poster on doors and windows and telephone poles hoping it would dislodge some clue. and then the weirdest thing happened. we found out that just about as quick as we were putting posters up, they were being taken down.