We were dealing with a person that was leading a double life. And one of them would prove deadly. I know that you did this. It hurts too much for me to say it out loud. Hello. Welcome to dateline. Its a case that centers on a as mother who had gone missing and the small town secret that led to a very big surprise. Heres keith morrison. Suppose for a minute you were sitting in your car smackdab in the middle of ng tuscaloosa, alabama and you pointed southwest down highway a 69 and kept a sharp eye out after half an hour or so. You roll into a sweet little place called moundville. One stoplight, one main street, one general store. Been around for a long time has moundville. But its a sad truth, as the sheriff says, even here where everybody used to know everybody its not that way anymore. So many different people are t moving in from around the world. Trying to escape the crowds. Well, escape the crowd or running from something. Yes. And where have you gone, Andy Griffith . E mayberry ha
there is no way she could have made the call and been back to the location where she was murdered at. so courtesy of the cell towers, you are able to show that teresa could not have made that call. i had to be someone 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 her cell phone to call her husband, scott. what could that mean? did the killer know scott? we did scott knows something he was not sharing? coming up, we were dealing with a person that was leading a double life. secrets and lies. this was betrayal. that s a very good word. when dateline continues.
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 why she and scott had done. do from what i can tell, he was just a coward. he wanted a divorce, but he did not want to live with the responsibilities that accompany a divorce. in other words, he did not want to pay her alimony, or child support. evil as the only thing you can use to describe that man. evil. in on may 19th 2011, almost four years after teresa mayfield was gunned down on that lonely dirt road. her mother, sister, and daughter sat in a courtroom in listened as dawn and scott,
welcome back. after years of investigation, police said a suspect in the murder of teresa mayfield. it was her friend, dawn lavender. but what was dawn s motive for the murder? once again, here is keith morrison. on june 11, 2010, almost three years to the day that teresa mayfield was killed, sheriff alice and corporal boy, drove to the wire factory where dawn lavender worked. she was halfway through her day shift. and they told her she was under the arrest for the murder of her friend, teresa may field. she first wanted to know why we were arresting her and then she got to the jail, she said this was wrong, we made a mistake. the corporal in the sheriff, were only too happy to explain how one clue, had led to
nines. it comes after the chunk of the aircraft detached from it alaska airlines plane midair. now back to dateline. w back t o dateline welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. years after teresa mayfield s murder, a casual conversation, overheard in a bar, gave authorities their first break. a break which would lead them to the chilling tale of teresa s murder. once again keith morrison. under a setting sun a sweltering summer night, two years after her death, teresa mayfield s family and friends gathered to remember. i talked to her almost every day and i miss those talks are. they took turns talking about the loving daughter, the softball mom, the sweet woman gunned down in that lonely country road. a murder that was still a mystery.