years after her death, teresa 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 raising these kids.
he ain t getting the damn gun back. once the job was done, the car half hidden by the brush, dawn said, she drove to tuscaloosa and dialed a familiar number from teresa s cell phone to let her boss know his wife was dead. did you call scott and let him mow that know that it was done? the only thing left was to collect the $20,000 scott had promised her and go. except scott never gave you no money? but of course dawn didn t keep her mouth shut about what she and scott had done.
but the contents of the purse had been dumped out in her lap. a clumsy attempt at staging, you might say? yes. but there was one important clue left behind. we noticed that the only window down was the driver s window. so we figured that she had to have known the person because she had let down her window. we had to ask ourselves, who could get her to this location and why was she murdered? someone in moundville had to know something. from there the investigation went where? investigating her inner circle, trying to find a motive. usually, so i m told, in cases like this, the husband has got to be a person of interest. yes. so as the family gathered to mourn the loss of their beloved teresa, scott couldn t be with them. he was down at the sheriff s office answering questions. came willingly, no issue. yes. did he ask for an attorney?
no, he did not. corporal boyd chatted with scott for three long hours. during the whole time, he was cooperative and helpful. you know, the standard questions that we would ask is, is anyone having an affair? are you having an affair? no. was she having an affair? no. good marriage, happy marriage, christian marriage? right. i asked them did they argue? no. scott answered all their questions about what teresa was supposed to be doing that morning. he phoned teresa from his morning job on the farm, and then two hours later she called him. but the call faded out. he couldn t hear a thing. scott said that it sounded like she was on the road. he thought nothing of it then, he said. but now was it a distress call? no way to know. but there was one thing that call certainly cleared up for investigators. scott could not have killed teresa. he was something like 30 miles away up near tuscaloosa, had a
they pulled teresa s cell phone records and plotted out a timeline of her whereabouts. but the picture the records painted wasn t quite what they expected. that morning call to scott, the one he couldn t hear, teresa did not call from moundville. cell tower shows it s pinging from up in tuscaloosa. wait a minute. how could it be pinging from tuscaloosa? that s miles and miles away. right. there s no way she could have made the call and been back to the location where she was murdered at. courtesy of the cell towers, you were able to show that teresa could not have made that call. it had to be somebody else using her phone and what do you know? her phone is missing from the crime scene. correct. so the person who very likely killed teresa mayfield must have used teresa s cell phone to call her husband scott. what could that mean? did the killer know scott? and did scott know something he wasn t sharing?