for real migraine relief. joe morrissey had been savagely stabbed to death in his own home. now his wife kay was being questioned by detective kendall at the police station in plantation, florida. okay, maybe it s easier to start with what happened from the beginning, last night. i was in my clashed room, which is in the front of the house. and the tv was on. i heard a noise like something fall down. i thought it was my husband.
patio. she held out hope that while joe was badly injured, he was still alive. paramedics arrived but there was nothing that they could do for joe morrissey. kay s beloved husband was gone, at the age of only 46. that was the last time i saw him. you saved yourself? you saved your son? but i did not save joe. i just couldn t. it was the most horrible thing to ever happen to me, to learn he was dead. it was a heartbreaking story. one that police came to believe. they cleared kay. we found no evidence to support us to believe that she was involved in any way in this murder. it is now up to investigators to find out who had done such horrifying things to this family. a family detective kendall
it jolted? yes. i thought he was talking about the fight. but i guess he was talking about him shooting him. or stabbing him. it was a horrifying story. and if she s faking this for some reason, it s pretty elaborate. and she s doing a good job at it. she s quite an actress if she s not telling the truth. kay s doctor christine it was there when the q&a at the police station was over. we went back to my house and she didn t really see much. she was just quiet. i thought she was just letting it all sink in. now police were trying to determine whether the evidence matched kay s story. coming up kay tells her story to us. and this one is really. strange for taunting us. they re coming for me. i m going to kill you. when dateline continues. teline continues [ suspenseful music ]
sitting on the bed. so joe says to him patrick, do it for daddy, please do it for daddy. lay down, pretend you are asleep. do it for daddy? do it for daddy. and he lays there, pretend to be asleep. kay says the man with the gun forced joe to go to the other side of the house. in his final moments with his attackers, kay says that family was first in joe s mind. he starts pleading please, i have kids. please. their home was on fire. the attackers had fled, now she had to get patrick and herself out of the house, but her ankles were still tied, she could barely move. desperate to find something sharp to free her feet, kay hobbled to a nearby bathroom. i took everything out of the drawers, created a huge mess, i could not find the sisters so i called patrick, and i said to patrick, you have to be a big boy, you have to help mommy. and he did. kay told him where to find a pair of scissors, and patrick
his body out of the fire, and on to the patio. that is where joe morrissey s lay in the wee morning of april six, 2010. stabbings are always personal? yes, up close, no way to do that from a distance. everything about that says this was not a robbery, this was someone who wanted to kill atm atm kung fu joe morrissey in particular. in addition to that, joe morrissey s wedding band was still on, he still had his watch on. if this was a robbery, they would have been taken out of the house. what s more, his wife kay was still alive, not stabbed, not even once. they do a brutal, vicious murder on joe morrissey. why leave her alive? why leave a witness alive? why indeed? in murders like, this the spouse is often the first suspect, sometimes the only suspect. all of that became clear that night, to kay s daughter, christina. i remember at the police