with it, no, no, no. i had nothing. my hands are clean as they can be. so infidelity? yes. murder? didn t sound like it. we could prove that he was an adulterer. but we was trying to prove the murder. guess there s no crime against being a lying sack of you know what. it s not against the law to have a mistress. so now the corporal and the sheriff reverted to standard procedure and followed up every tip and tracked down every tenuous lead and knocked down rumors. somebody called scott from teresa s cell phone that morning, whether he heard it or not. the investigation dragged on. weeks and months went by and there was nothing. we had no idea how that anger will get the best of you, not knowing who done this and you want the person that done this
welcome back to dateline extra. returning to our story, here again is keith morrison. it was a lover s lane. a quiet, dusty, dead-end road miles from main street moundville. a spot so uncommonly traversed a car with engine running, taillights blazing late into the night could go unnoticed. it was here they found teresa mayfield s truck, body inside, gunshot wound to the head. teresa s younger sister broke the terrible news to their mother. when i went to the house, mama was sitting in the recliner. i knelt down on my knees and i grabbed her and i said, mama, she s gone. she s gone.
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? no, he did not. corporal boyd chatted with scott for three long hours.
with a gun on a dirt road around the time teresa was killed. did she associate it with this crime? she knew miss teresa was killed down that way so she reported it. was this the break they were looking for? the tip led to real flesh and blood. in fact, to a quite literal snake in the grass. coming up, a curious incident from teresa s past. could it shed light on the crime? i looked at her, and i said you need to stay away from that woman. when secrets in a small town continues.
mayfield s friends and family gathered to remember. i talked 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. she was the one who got them to practice on time, got them to ball games on time.