roger and pam took a polygraph test. and what do you know? roger was found to be deceptive. and pam was jumpy. the operator couldn t complete the task. but still roger and pam swore up-and-down brought they had nothing to do with it. they were victims themselves. truth be told, the police needed some real evidence. when out of the blue, something arrived. investigators are confronted with new evidence and strange does not begin to describe it. someone saw the killing in a dream. coming up i have a photo lineup drawn up. and she puts her finger on it, she puts it right on roger s face. when dateline continues. design delivers fast, powerful, long-lasting pain relief.
what a story. erik knutson as one of the lead detectives. he was sitting in the office when, from up of the house, the first officer to talk to pam and roger called them. i said, you know, something isn t right here. it seems, from his perception that something was staged, or something was not normal for crime as vicious and heinous has this. something about this bizarre story did not sit right. he just could not put his finger on it. not yet, anyway. coming up, problem was, that bizarre story got weirder by the minute. they had blue fuzzy gloves. when dateline continues
so, kay and darla got married. married couple and they were as happy as either one of them had ever been. he d say, what else do we need to do? we re retired. we have plenty of money. we ll just have fun. kay was a rich man. made most of his money buying gold at 250 an ounce, said darla. he just had the foresight. he was always you know, the dollar bill is not going to be worth anything. he put his money into a trust, so that roger and his other children would inherit everything once he was gone. heaven knows, he wasn t spending it. worth millions but he was very frugal. very frugal. and i just used to say to him i said, when is it you are going to spend your money? you know? what are you waiting for? so kay promised darla he d travel with her. see the world. but he made sure his bunker was stocked. and he kept his guns close to hand. just in case.
abandoned him. and they did. absolutely. not only did they abandoned him, they crucified him. months went by, they were headline news in utah. but the evidence linking them to kay s murder made them free. day-by-day, they went about their business, as if their lives were still quite normal. then in july 28, 2010, utah prosecutor took a dramatic step to break the logjam. he presented the case against roger and pam to a grand jury. so i call a grand jury? we thought a grand jury was a great tool to force them to come in and talk. it was a secret proceeding. no defendants, no defense attorney. only prosecutors, police, some members of the mortensen family, even some of
house doctor saying it is a rebound case and not a new infection. president says he has no symptoms and it s continue to feel quite well. in las vegas, a tense summer thunderstorms have drenched parts of the city. rain is leaking from casinos see leagues leaving pools of water sports betting places. the storms are part of a weather system that may linger over the areas over the weekend. that s going to the national weather service. now back to dateline. w back to dateline welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. police suspected roger and pam mortensen were cold blooded killers. to investigators, their story about finding kay mortensen dead at the hands of two armed intruders did not add up. and with kay gone, roger stood to inherit a fortune. soon, an unlikely witness would bolster the detectives case with her own chilling tale of what happened that night. continuing with full mystery