that scott was not married at that time. what did you make of that? when you heard it. we knew that wasn t correct. a love triangle, jealous home wrecker kills wife, claims husband? no, not even close. scott s girlfriend thought his marriage was over, his divorce finalized. what was her reaction to getting the real story? she must have been upset. more hurt than upset because i think she had fallen in love with him. he d been lying like a sidewalk. that s right. and you had no idea that woman was associated with him that way either, did you? no. i had met her once or twice. but i just thought they were friends. i didn t think it was anything else. this was betrayal in all capital letters. that s a very good word. you were betrayed. lied to. yeah. taken advantage of if in a way.
they pulled teresa s cell phone records and began plotting out a timeline of her whereabouts. but the picture the records painted wasn t quite what they expected. that morning call to scott, the one he couldn t hear, teresa did not call from moundville. the cell tower shows that it s pinging from up in tuscaloosa. wait a minute. how could it be pinging from tuscaloosa? that s miles and miles away. right. there s no way she could have made the call and been back to the location where she was murdered at. 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 is missing from the crime scene. correct. so the person who very likely killed teresa mayfield must have used teresa s cell phone to call her husband, scott. what could that mean? did the killer know scott? and did scott know something he wasn t sharing?
you would see teresa at the ballpark. every game. it felt like part of my family was gone too. they had a look around the truck. no sign of a struggle. dusting revealed no viable fingerprints. there were no footprints. not even a loose hair. puzzling. was there any thought once you saw the scene that this was a suicide? there was things missing that prevented the suicide theory. like what? if you re going to commit suicide with a gun, it s usually at the scene. it was clear teresa had been murdered. shot with a gun which was now missing. and what was more, her cell phone, the one always attached to her hip, was nowhere to be found. did it look like it could have been a robbery? well, the wallet wasn t taken. the purse was on the console. but the contents of the purse
it was only later when the fog of grief had lifted that one of teresa s relatives wondered to police, who was that woman hanging around the day teresa died? ellis and boyd tracked her down, and what they discovered? well, that changed everything, or seemed to. the person they were talking to was scott s mistress. he was under the impression that scott was not married at that time. what did you make of that when you heard it? we knew that wasn t correct. a love triangle? jealous home wrecker kills wife, claims husband? no. not even close. scott s girlfriend thought his marriage was over, his divorce finalized. what was her reaction to getting the real story? she must have been upset? more hurt, probably than upset, because i think she d fallen in love with him. he d been lying like a sidewalk. that s right. and you had no idea that woman was associated with him that way either, did you? i had met her once or twice, but i just thought they were friends. i didn t thi
ballpark and things. every game. felt like part of my family was gone too. they had a look around the truck. no sign of a struggle. the dusting revealed no viable fingerprints. there were no footprints, not even a loose hair. puzzling. was there any thought once you saw the scene that this was a suicide? there was things missing that prevented the suicide theory. like what? if you re going to commit suicide with a gun, it s usually at the scene. it was clear teresa had been murdered, shot with a gun, which was now missing. and what was more, her cell phone, the one that was always attached to her hip, was nowhere to be found. did it look like it could have been a robbery? well, the wallet wasn t taken. the purse was on the console, but the consents of the purse had been dumped out in her lap.