think she wanted people to believe she had it all together. she wouldn t tell us about the problems she was having with lyle. she had always taken care of you. you re on tv. and doing great and maybe she thought, you know what? i m not going to break aasha s concentration for a minute. definitely. yeah. out of protection. a little bit of pride. so perhaps lesley was still alive somewhere and just keeping her head down. it is what vivian was hoping. i believed that lesley would come home. i went to sleep every night and imagined i could hear the doorbell ring. i could imagine that there were knocks on the door. i imagined the phone would ring. she believed it because vivian knew something that aasha didn t know. something vivian didn t tell detectives right away. that lesley had spoken openly to her mother months earlier about some
lesley had told her that lyle needed cash badly. so badly that he had committed identity theft against his own wife. he forged her signature and took money from her credit cards. and she found out about that? yes. and i m guessing she was pretty furious. yes, she was furious. it turned out that for months, lesley had been telling her mother she was nearing the end of her rope. vivian cautioned lesley not to tell lyle she was thinking of leaving him. i said if you want to leave, you cannot let him know what your plans are. just leave. so don t tell in advance? no. don t leave a note? no. was this mother trying to hold on to anything that might mean her missing daughter was still alive? or did she know more than she was saying? coming up
she called me and said do you want to be a witness at my wedding? and i m like, you re getting married? she s like, yeah. married less than a year after they met, lesley and lyle were clearly happy together. they seemed a pretty good match. yes. vivian tellford thought her oldest daughter had found for her the perfect man. lesley and lyle even dressed alike. they had the same jackets, they had the same sweaters, they had the same caps. and they were together all the time? all the time. it was funny about lyle. after the marriage, he became closer to lesley s family than he was to his own. vivian felt it. he always told me he loved me more than he loved his own mother, and he told me that my family was better to him than his own family. you loved him like a son.