funniest thing. i said, isn t our life perfect? we ve come full circle. doesn t that sound like music from heaven when he laughs? that was what day? that was sunday, the 23rd of july. three days later, on a wednesday night, dayna was struck by a news story about a mother and her baby . that night, i saw on the news i think they set a mother that was 27 and a child that was 8 months had been murdered. one of the roommates came to the south complex just before 9:00. i said a prayer for that family, that is horrible. i went to bed, thought nothing of it. the next day, dayna got a called from tori s workplace, dana tori had not shown up. she got a call from the
that works, but at 16, tori felt she could not take it anymore. tori said, i love you, but i hate you when you drink and i will not watch you destroy your life and i found a place for you to interview at a recovery home, and you get one shot. if you fail at this, i m not coming back. i need my mom back . that had to feel good , knowing that whatever mistakes you made, you raised a daughter who had that kind of backbone? i was very proud of her. so, dayna went to rehab for nearly a year. roy moved on to deal with the family s collapse in his own way. and tori , still in high school, worked with prince as a waitress. when dayna emerged nine months later sober, it was tori s turn to be proud. i wanted her to see, you could stand back up when you fall, and you could get your life back together. we put our marriage back together, put our family back together. over the next few years, tori and dayna become closer
kids or your parents. what happened here in san diego turned a happy mother and grandmother into a fighter, who now wants the world to know what happened to her family, because to me she says, there are lessons here about life, about trust, and about the choices we make, and what she has learned might be a gift to someone else s family. before we go ahead, i want to ask you something, are you sure you want to do this? yes. because this is not going to be pleasant. but i think it is important. i think it is important to do. tori could have been any girl. of course, she was not any girl and she was dayna s . tori was the perfect daughter for me. she was not perfect, but she was perfect for me. from the minute she was born, we were two peas in a pod. she was perfectly flawed, i believe. most mothers probably would argue that there daughter does
loved her, tori spent years dealing with her mother s issues . i will say this from jump , i am a recovering alcoholic, and up until she was 16, her life was fairly normal. and then, i crashed. i think i ve always been an alcoholic, but it came to a head at this point . although you were drinking, you were functioning? i was functioning, but then i could no longer function. and then i could not stop. i woke up and i had a drink and i would take my daughter to school . drunk? yeah. yeah. as many children of alcoholics do, tori helped her mother cover up the drinking, hiding bottles, denying there was a problem. and for a while,
they were a mother and daughter who had both made mistakes, but there was no mistaking her love . she was not perfect , but she was perfect for me. and when her daughter became a mom, life itself seemed perfect, but not for long. called the sergeant and said, please tell me this isn t true and he said, i can t . but who wanted her daughter dead ? she had lovers not enemies. friends with benefits . the question for police, which fred was the father, and which the killer? it doesn t seem as if she always made the best choices in a man . no. no. single mom tori vienneau was surrounded by love. hello, and welcome to dateline. single mom, tori was surrounded by love. in addition to her baby, dean, she had a boyfriend, a best friend, and a mother who adored her hear the grown-ups work as