scott s girlfriend thought his marriage was over. his divorce finalized. what was her reaction to getting the real story? she must have been upset. more hurt than upset because i think she had fallen in love. he had been lying like a sidewalk. that s right. you had no idea that woman was associated with him that way either, did you? no. i had met her once or twice. but i just thought they were friends. i didn t think it was anything else. this was betrayal in all capital letters. that s a very good word. you were betrayed. lied to. yeah. taken advantage of if in a way. kelsey may have been surprised but her mom and sister knew better. this wasn t scott s first dance with infidelity. oh, no, there had been others. in fact, scott and teresa divorced during one affair, that
teresa s mother reba and vowed he d get justice yet. miss reba, i won t quit until we find out what happened to miss teresa. in fact, even as he spoke, the sheriff, along with the corporal, were facing down their first honest to god lead in, what, over a year? didn t seem like much at first, just an overheard story from a guy in a bar something about they ran into someone with a gun. not terribly uncommon around here. except it happened around the same time and not far from where the murder occurred. so ellis and boyd tracked the kid down and he repeated the story to them. they were on a dirt road and they came up on a snake, a rattlesnake and they was trying to kill it, find something to kill it with. trouble was, they were plum out of rattlesnake killing tools and that s when an suv just happened to pull up on the dirt road behind them.
if you think about it, that s exactly right. yeah. terrible look at it that way, though. it was all there. a prosecutor s dream confession. she even referred to herself as a cold-blooded killer. but there was one question anyone with a beating heart wanted to ask. why? there just had to be an answer. of that they were sure. would they ever get it out of her? why in the hell did you do it? coming up at some point she was call up a hit man. a hit man for whom? another painful revelation was in store for teresa s family. it hurts too much for me to say it out loud. when dateline continues. mom and dad got a new car.
surprised but her mom and sister knew better. this wasn t scott s first dance with infidelity. oh, no, there had been others. in fact, scott and teresa divorced during one affair, that 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, mu ml 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
mayfield s friends and family gathered to remember. i talk to her almost every day and i miss those talks. 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