teresa drove off to run errands and didn t come back. kelsey was baby-sitting the boys, then 8 and 11. hours ticked by. she called her mom. where are you? and she didn t answer. and then i called her back around lunch and she didn t answer. i called her pretty much all day long. her dad was at work, her mom was who knew where? just wasn t like her to do this. now, is she the sort of person that would take her cell phone with her everywhere? yes. it was attached to her hip. you could always easily get hold of her. yes. and you couldn t? no. she was in a panic. she called her dad who had gone from his day job to his night shift at a local factory. i m sure you told your dad you were worried. yeah. he with kept in touch during the day to see if one of us had talked to her. did he seem to be worried? he did. and we could never get in touch with her. at midnight, it was clear, something was terribly wrong. scott left work to file a missing person s report with the
they wondered if there was something he wasn t telling them. here again with secrets in a small town is keith morrison. it s a funny thing about secrets. they can only stay hidden for so long. especially in a little place like moundville. and it didn t take very long for sheriff ellis and boyd to stumble across a secret scott had been keeping. scott had had a young lady to come pick up the boys. it was only later when the fog of grief lifted that one of teresa s relatives wondered to police who was that woman hanging around the day teresa died? ellis and boyd tracked her down and what they discovered, well, that changed everything. or seemed to. the person they were talking to was scott s mistress. she was under the impression
had been dumped out in her lap. a clumsy attempt at staging, you might say? yes. but there was one important clue the killer 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?
breakfast receipt to prove it. he stopped at hardees and had a receipt showing he was there. so scott rejoined his family, caught up in the terrible business of grieving. i kept wondering, why was it happening to our family. it was awful. who would ever imagine you d have a murder in your family? investigators tried with the help of friends to fill in the gaps of teresa s last hours. they talked to scott and teresa s friend dawn lavender. she had plans to go shopping with teresa the morning of the murder. i m sure dawn was shocked and upset by what had happened. she did cry during the interview. she was at her house waiting on teresa to come pick her up and she was going to ride with her. she finally got the chance to talk to teresa around 7:00. and after that call nothing. dawn told the investigators she phoned teresa over and over and each time the phone went to a recording. just to be sure of all this,
figure, bereaved widower, to cad. and maybe worse. he must have been aware of the fact that there were people suspicious of him. it bothered me hearing the bad things that people had to say about him. and i knew that my dad was never capable of doing something like that. i was going to have his back regardless. but to investigators, scott s affair and the fact he lied about it to police certainly was suspicious. ellis and boyd asked the girlfriend to help them out by recording her conversations with scott. maybe he d let something slip. [ phone ringing ] hello. hey. are you okay? yes. i m okay. they just left. look, all i want to know, did you do it? of course not. they told me on the get-go, i would be number one prime suspect. i know. because i m the husband.