because he knew her. new her name, and here was the most curious thing out of all. it wasn t a move heard before. dawn lavender. small town moundville got even smaller. dawn lavender, global, call was teresa s friend. the one who said she waited in vain for teresa to pick her up on the day of the murder. great buddies, according to don. but maybe not so much, said kelsey. if her in my mom sites other, they would speak, but they weren t best friends or anything. they do go out together a couple times? i think my mother did it just because she was bored and wanted to get out of the house. but when they did get together, at least on one occasion, said kelsey, it was certainly memorable, and not in the good way. they went out to a local casino. one night, she said her mother came home stumbling. i thought she was drunk, and i knew that that couldn t be right, because she didn t
heart, something was not right. a mother vanished. i cried myself to sleep, it was awful, realizing that your worst nightmare has come true. a family, anguished. she is gone. do you have any idea how hard that was? now, the questions begin in a southern gothic mystery. the case is puzzling. we did not really know what had happened. who could ever imagine you could have a murder in your family? soon, there would be secrets. we were dealing with a person leading a double life. and one of them would prove deadly. anyone say i know that you did this? it hurts too much for me to say that out loud. hello, and welcome to
maybe his daughter s description of the killer was wrong. maybe it was michael beard she saw. this phone call, this is, like, the key. this is it. that s the first real connection that we had that put beard anything to do with the murder. that kind of just alerted us right off the bat as we need to go talk to michael beard again. he denied any type of involvement. he even denied receiving the phone call. they never talked. did that seem odd to you? that did seem odd. he denied having any type of conversation. he said he didn t even remember receiving it, and he wouldn t have answered a call that wasn t that he didn t know the number. and when investigators looked at beard s phone, there was no sign of a call from linda miller s cell. it had been, uh, erased. he explained that away by saying that he, the night before, had to recycle his minutes on his phone. it was a little bit suspicious to me. did you start to come down really hard on him? like, i don t we re not b
beard getting on the bike tom gave him, pedaling away under the cover of darkness. the trial for thomas clayton is now set to begin. the courtroom was packed as tom s trial began i have never been in such a tense, anxious atmosphere. the courtroom was typically tense throughout the entire trial, but as far as anxiety was concerned, i have never been in a room that was filled with so much anxiety. the only one who didn t seem tense to the reporter was the defendant himself. he saw tom clayton smiling and kidding around with family members. his lawyer, though, was on the attack. he told the jury how investigators had immediately labeled tom a killer on the night of the murder. i think he attacked her. i m afraid lloyd, here in your city at msnbc
calls and texts in the weeks leading up to the crime. clayton was contacting beard, saying, hey, we have to meet. he was getting him a bicycle, so he was having these clandestine meetings. investigators also pulled surveillance footage from outside tom s business. they believed this was video proof of a conspiracy. that s beard, they say, in a red truck that tom loaned him just hours before the murder. and that s tom following in his green servpro truck. also know that during that time period beard turned his phone off, turned it on, turned it off again. why do you think he did that? well, the inference to be drawn from that is that he has guys are not naive. they know that there s a possibility of being tracked with their phones. then, after the murder, the video shows what looks like beard returning to tom s business to drop off the truck. there are its headlights entering the lot. and investigators believe that s