Enter the a team. Private eyes. There had been a brief encounter with a mysterious stranger. On the train coming home. She met this woman. Did that hold the answer . She is talking about how someone has tried to assume her identity. A chilling case of a daughter in danger. Strangers on a train. Hello and welcome to date line extra. She was beautiful. Talented and trusting and sometimes troubled. A young woman from a prem innoce prominent family. When the police were unable to find her. Her family hatched a plan. To solve the mystery. Heres keith morris son. It began in the great morning
A young woman disappears, and a chance encounter with a stranger on a train may hold some answers. Visa. A Paperwork Mixup sort of thing that would have sent her into a tailspin once, but now, the new kate vowed to try again later. Boarded the palmetto for charleston and once home threw herself into College Classes and a Childrens Book shed been writing. Big brother joe was, to say the least, encouraged
he began to make the choice to join in the scam to rip off kate waring. finally, the prosecutor scarlett wilson, felt ready. and almost a year to the day after kate was found she launched the trial of ethan mack. the sole defendant in the courtroom. heather having taken the plea agreement. the warings tried to prepare themselves, though what they saw defied preparation. we had to see images and see what it was like when they found her and then go through all the forensics. and we were seeing that for the first time along with the jurors and all those other spectators in the courtroom. one by one, the a-team took the stand, as did detectives and experts from the charleston police department, to present the evidence. over a stupid forgery. prosecutor wilson told the jury that ethan and heather killed kate to avoid getting caught for forging kate s checks and using her credit cards. then heather took the stand and
had their talk, he appeared before the judge and admitted he did participate in the murder of his good friend, kate. he agreed to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for a 25-year prison sentence. you understand that the court still treats this as a guilty plea. yes, ma am. and that your criminal record will reflect that as a guilty plea? yes, ma am. of course, since heather pleaded guilty to murder and forgery and obstruction of justice, they didn t need a trial for her either. guilty but mentally ill, by the way. at her sentencing, her attorney said she developed after a deeply traumatic childhood psychological disorders. some of which rendered her incapable of separating truth from her elaborate fictions and led to her years of failed marriages, abandoned children, and constant drifting. if heather was hoping for a shorter prison term because of that, she didn t get it. instead, solicitor scarlett
beat, taser, and drown his best friend, the woman he claimed was like a little sister to him. and then after 14 interminable hours, they trooped back into the courtroom and told the judge they could not decide whether or not ethan was guilty of murder. what i m going to do is on the murder charge, i m going to declare a mistrial on that. mistrial, a hung jury. huge letdown. right. it wasn t going to be over. it wasn t going to end. we were going to possibly have to relive that whole event again. as she packed up her file, solicitor scarlett wilson vowed to find justice somehow. and then quite unexpectedly, there was an intervention from a surprising source. it was ethan mack s own church-going, no-nonsense mother.
and with her as ethan s chief accuser, how could any jury convict him? but just days before the trial was to start, solicitor scarlett wilson finally uncovered something the case lacked. a clear motive. she found it, she said, in letters kate wrote to her friend before she disappeared. she s talking about how someone has tried to extend her credit limit or has tried to assume her identity and mess with her money in her bank. and she was livid. and i think kate was threatening to get her father involved. that was a new dimension. sure. for heather kamp. i mean didn t need katie as an enemy. and i have no doubt katie confronted heather kamp with that. and that, the prosecutor said, is when heather kamp and ethan mack decided they had to keep her from talking. kate waring had to die.