i called my mom and she didn t answer. i pretty much knew in my heart that something was wrong. a mother vanished. i cried myself to sleep. it was awful realizing your worst nightmare had come true. a family anguished. she s gone. do you have any idea how hard that was? now, the questions begin in a southern gothic mystery. the case is puzzling. we did not really know what had happened. who would everett manage and you would have a murder in the family. soon there would be secrets. we were dealing with a person that was leading a double life. and one of them, would prove deadly. have you ever said, i know you did this? it hurts too much for me to say it out loud. hello. and welcome to dateline. it s a case that centers on the mother who had gone missing in a small town secret, that led to a very big surprise. here s keith morrison. suppose for a minute you are sitting in your car. smacked up in the middle of tuscaloosa alabama. and you poin
heart, something was not right. a mother vanished. i cried myself to sleep, it was awful, realizing that your worst nightmare has come true. a family, anguished. she is gone. do you have any idea how hard that was? now, the questions begin in a southern gothic mystery. the case is puzzling. we did not really know what had happened. who could ever imagine you could have a murder in your family? soon, there would be secrets. we were dealing with a person leading a double life. and one of them would prove deadly. anyone say i know that you did this? it hurts too much for me to say that out loud. hello, and welcome to dateline. it is a case that centers on a mother who had gone missing, and the small town secret that led to a very big surprise. here is keith morrison. suppose for a minute you are sitting in your car, smack dab in the middle of tuscaloosa, alabama. and the point of southwest down highway 69, and kept a sharp eye out after half an hour o
i asked them to they? argues scott said. no sky answered all their questions about what s reused was supposed to be doing that morning. he told them he phoned her, a wake up call, then about two hours later she called him. but the call faded out he could not hear a thing. scott said that it sounded like she was on the road. he thought nothing of it, then he said. but now, was it a distress call? no way to know. but there was one thing that calls certainly cleared up for investigators. scott could not have killed teresa. he was something like 30 miles away, up near tuscaloosa, had a breast first receipt to prove. it he had stopped at a hearties and had a receipt showing he was there. so scott rejoined his
he was innocent. what did you expect would happen? i thought he would be found not guilty and he could be able to come home. at that point, the case was almost entirely circumstantial, that was until don got talking about cellmate, the one with a little recording device. and sure enough, as the whole story spilled out, there was scott s name on tape. truth and prove at last. did scott give you the gun? he stole it from his daddy. did you want the gun back? he ain t getting the gun back. ain t no way in hell he can find it. i have thrown it away. yeah, that s where it s at. once the job was done, the car has hidden by the brush, don said, she drove to tuscaloosa and all the familiar number from theresa s cell phone, to let her boss know that his wife was dead. did you call scott and let him know that it was done? i called him teresa s number.
teresa around seven. and after that call, nothing. dawn told the investigators that she found teresa over and over. and each time the phone went to a recording. just to be sure of all of this, they moved teresa s cell phone records and began plotting out a timeline of her whereabouts. the picture the records painted? it was not quite what they expected. that morning call to scott, the one he could not hear? teresa did not call from moundville. the cell tower shows it s pinging from up in tuscaloosa. wait a minute how could it paying from tuscaloosa, that s miles away? right. there is no way she could have made the call and made it back to that location where she was murdered. so courtesy of the cell towers, you were able to show that teresa could not have made that call? it had to be somebody else using her phone, and what do you know, her phone was missing from the crime scene? correct. so the person who very likely killed teresa mayfield