a guy said he saw someone 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 that way. she just reported it. was this the break they were looking for? we can tell you this. 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 said, you need to stay away from that woman. when secrets in a small town continue. even a cactus calamity . (man 1) i read that the saguaro can live to be two hundred years old. (woman) how old do you think that one is? (man 1) my guess would be, about.
cellmate the morning teresa was killed. at 7:00 a.m., dawn called teresa with a lie to set thelan in motion. . she claimed her car had broken down nearby, could teresa pick her up? she said, yes. finished drying her hair, made the short drive and there standing alongside the road was dawn. she then shot her in the back of the head and steered her car
raising these kids. she was the one who got them into practice on time, got them to the ballgames on time. when sheriff ellis walked up to the podium, he looked at teresa s mother, reba, and vowed he d get justice yet. miss reba, i won t quit until we find out what happened to miss teresa. in fact, even as he spoke, the sheriff, along with the corporal were chasing down their first honest to god lead in what, over a year. doesn t seem like much really, not much, an overheard story of a guy from a bar how he and a friend ran into someone with a gun, not so terribly uncommon around here, mind you, except it happenround the same time and not far away from where the murder occurred. ellis and boyd tracked the boy down and he repeated the story for them. they were on a dirt road and they came up on a snake, a rattlesnake. they was trying to kill it, find something to kill it with.
welcome back to dateline extra. returning to our story, here again is keith morrison. it was a lovers lane, a quiet dusty dead-end road miles from main street moundville. the spot so uncommonly traversed, a car with taillights blazing late into the night could go unnoticed. it was here they found theresa mayfield s truck, body inside, gunshot woun the head. teresa s younger sister broke the terrible news to the mother. when i went to the house, mama was sitting in the recliner, i knelt down, got on my knees and grabbed her and said, mama, she s gone.
it took two jobs to take care of our family. money aside, teresa seemed to have a happy life as anybody could see including her mother, reba. all teresa wanted was a husband to care for her and somebody she cared for and to have a family. it was sweet and kind of corny. even after kelsey s two little brothers arrived, she could see the signs o her parents affection for each other. every night before he got ready to go to work, he would give her a kiss on the cheek and say, good night, i love her. to the town, teresa was the softball mom, the trunk of her car, bats and balls shuttling kids back and forth. there was a time i had a softball game and tanner and kobe had a baseball game at the same time. she stayed 30 minutes at each of our games. watching on the clock to make sure it was all equal? she was an amazing mother. there was nothing she would not