the clock was hatched, this dreadful plot. and it s like a movie script it s family rivalries an betrayal and murder. it was so horrific. what were the last hours o earth like for her it looks here on this storied family estate, a mystery tangled as that was th treat for the sky. i think she s dead. it eats at me, i can t slee most of the time a crime like a stor everyone could see it coming everyone in the town ha their suspicions she was missing, th matriarch with a group on he powerful families fortune, tha someone have a powerful motive to do her harm i saw bruises on bonnie s arms, like somebody had grabbe her. she tried to kill me. who was behind this a search in the dark it s all right a secret in the family, and the jailhouse interview to mak your jaw drop. you said you wished you are dead, and then later she becam that this is a twisted tale deep in the heart of texas. people who are desperat will do desperate things
sure but on march 25th, 2012, a new and bloody chapter was added i remember that sunny morning because of wha happened the rest of the day the events that would forever fix that day in th reverend saying crosby s memory, centered on 85-year-old bonnie harkey, an active member of th first baptist church of sa saba you can set your watch by bonnie harkey coming to church you could she would be right here she d be right here, an even after she had to have 24-hour care, her caretake would bring her. the trouble began a few hours after church out of th harkey place, a few miles west of town. 9-1-1, what s your emergency? it was about 5:30 on the sa saba sheriff s departmen dispatch received this cal from a young boy i found my mom on the floor she, i think she is dead i am at the harkey residence it turns out th
pecan growing family had bee brutally murdered by member of that family. but why? the more investigators pondere that, the more they came t believe the answer might b found in a long running family feud the first time i met th harkey family, i was in cour because we were shorthanded. and i got to sit through a little hearing where the harkeys where trying to gain control of the property. and you could tell it was very heated situation, ver heated that puck had been at a slo boil ever since that day i 1963, when bonnie harkey becam stepmother to her husban riley s two boys, bruce an john ruth and johnny just didn t like body, they didn t like he at all and so, almost from th beginning, it was acrimonious. what form that acrimony take? bruce and johnny were jus
rude to bonnie, openly insulting. her and riley put up with that he let it go, he just let i go a lot of blended families have rough starts, but thi newly-grafted branch of th harkey family tree never had a chance and i don t think riley mad a real effort with his boys to say, this is a wonderful woman i want you to love her like love her i think he just sat here and went reilly seems to have been better with pecans than with people yeah, yeah. soon enough, john was off t college, and bruce was shuttle off to live with his mother in nevada for a while that left only bonnie s teenag daughter connie at home. riley never adopted connie. she was an afterthought. she was just never brought int the family this is something less like the brady bunch and more lik the ewing s just the goings without the culture, it was really jus