sheriff ellis and corporal boyd picked apart the early interview with a suspicious eye. they pulled her phone records and there it was plain as day. dawn s lies caught by cell phone technology. it painted a clearer picture that dawn was in the location of teresa the morning that she was murdered. why in heaven s name would a woman who claimed to be teresa s friend want to kill her? good question, which perhaps they d get answered once they accused dawn lavender of murder, which they did. she, however, had but one thing to say to police. she just kept saying that it was wrong, that we made a mistake. coming up. as far as physical evidence. we really didn t have any. but they did have a plan. an undercover sting could get the evidence they need.
grabbed her and i said, mama, she s gone. she s gone. do you have any idea how hard that was? teresa s daughter kelsey has spent a sleepless night waiting in vain for her mother to come home. how did you find out? my dad came and told my brothers and i. it was awful realizing that your worst nightmare had come true. for a brief second, i thought she committed suicide just because i knew how stressed out she was. but then i also knew how much she loved her family. everybody who knew teresa knew that. even sheriff ellis who drove out to the crime scene, if that s what it was. he was met there. this case was personal to you, sheriff. yes. my daughter and miss teresa and scott s daughter played softball together. you would see teresa at the
anything about what had happened. as far as evidence could see, the case was a maybe at best. she had no reason to kill teresa. so to bring a case against her would be pretty tough, i would think. the case with dawn is puzzling. when you re working with a circumstantial case, every piece of evidence is definitely important. how could corporal boyd and sheriff ellis thought they were wrong. they believed dawn was the killer. they told the prosecutor not only that dawn murdered teresa but they were convinced she tried and failed to kill her with a xanax overdose at the casino. the sheriff s department thought that was an attempt on her life, but we had nothing to really support that. if tim evans was to get a conviction, he needed more evidence, some concrete proof that dawn had pulled that trigger. you can bet dawn wasn t about to tell them anything.
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 more. scott 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.
it was only later when the fog of grief had 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. he was under the impression that scott was not married at that time. what did you make of that when you heard it? we knew that wasn t correct. a love triangle? jealous home wrecker kills wife, claims husband? no. not even close. scott s girlfriend thought his marriage was over, his divorce finalized. what was her reaction to getting the real story? she must have been upset? more hurt, probably than upset, because i think she d fallen in love with him. he d been lying like a sidewalk. that s right. and you had no idea that woman was associated with him that way either, did you? i had met her once or twice, but i just thought they were friends. i didn t thi