settled in for an evening alone. she picked up the phone and called her mother ruth who lived way off in nashville, tennessee. she was an amazing daughter who still called her mom every day. reporter: ruth was 83. the call, a nightly ritual. and then at 8 pm, the oddest thing. the line went dead. but not before ruth heard something rather terrifying. ruth tried to call back. nothing. and there she was, so far away, and now worried. so she decided to call the sheriff s department, whose headquarters is here in downtown prescott. sheriff s office, maria. how can i help you? ah, yes. my name is ruth kennedy and i m calling from nashville, tennessee. i was on the phone with my daughter and she screamed and said, oh no and the phone s gone dead. and is there anything you can do? can you go check? reporter: oh no.
reporter: once inside her house, carol put together a salad for dinner, answered a few e-mails. settled in for an evening alone. she picked up the phone and called her mother ruth who lived way off in nashville, tennessee. she was an amazing daughter who still called her mom every day. reporter: ruth was 83. the call, a nightly ritual. and then at 8 pm, the oddest thing. the line went dead. but not before ruth heard something rather terrifying. ruth tried to call back. nothing. and there she was, so far away, and now worried. so she decided to call the sheriff s department, whose headquarters is here in downtown prescott. sheriff s office, maria. how can i help you? ah, yes. my name is ruth kennedy and i m calling from nashville, tennessee. i was on the phone with my daughter and she screamed and said, oh no and the phone s gone dead.
and i think they sort of co-supported each other through a lot of the painful times that they were both experiencing. reporter: once inside her house, carol put together a salad for dinner, answered a few e-mails. settled in for an evening alone. she picked up the phone and called her mother ruth who lived way off in nashville, tennessee. she was an amazing daughter who still called her mom every day. reporter: ruth was 83. the call, a nightly ritual. and then at 8 pm, the oddest thing. the line went dead. but not before ruth heard something rather terrifying. ruth tried to call back. nothing. and there she was, so far away, and now worried. so she decided to call the sheriff s department, whose headquarters is here in downtown prescott. sheriff s office, maria. how can i help you? ah, yes. my name is ruth kennedy and i m calling from nashville, tennessee. i was on the phone with my daughter and she screamed and said, oh no and the phone s gone dead.
afraid is walking through this gate on tuesday and going back to school. i will worry. i always worry about my kids, but he has to go back to school. out can t live life afraid. you have to be able to go forward, and my job is to help him go there. tell us about what your son said on the night of the massacre when he got home. my kids were typical siblings. they loved each other. my son really took care of his sister, but they fought. they were typical siblings. he wasn t really showing a whole lot of emotion that night. i think he was in shock. but when he went to bed they had a nightly ritual. they fought over the bathroom. it doesn t mat the ter it happened every night. they did it. couldn t stop. that night he came down crying to us because jamie didn t fight back. that s what triggered his emotion.
and you appear in this series with your wife, angie. we have that picture. i shows you in bed in your nightly ritual. each of you engaged in your devices. you re holding up a mirror, and you say we re just starting to see how the mobile technology is changing our interactions. how do you think we connect more in real life in how do we roll this back? i think it s about just being aware. i think there should be some parameters that are set, and i grew up with a pretty liberal household, but one that had some rules as far as what you were doing while you were around other people. kind of the dinner table being a sacred space of sharing your day. i think it s just a give and take, and i think that we should just be aware of how we re doing it and when, and that s what s going to really matter in the long run is just knowing what