and in that moment kay says, a fathers love came shining through. that is when joe morrissey, tied up and help us, made a move to save his young son s life. patrick is now awake, he is 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, pretends 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
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plenty at the crime scene to support her story. the broken window screen, zip ties and towels. kay s story seemed to be holding up. christina had believed from the beginning that her mother was innocent. purely a victim. but what she did not know yet was how brutal the murder was. she did not want us to know i remember sitting at the funeral home, she was very firm, and kept saying it was going to be a closed casket, no one will see him, i want everyone to remember him as the lively person that he was. i knew then that it could not have been good. and when i sat down with kay, she told a story, filled with love and courage on that awful night. you are surrounded by evil. my insides were shaking. i was just thinking about patrick. that was the theme of the story that kay told me. how her five-year-old son patrick, was foremost on her
mankiewicz with broken bonds . joe morrissey had been savagely stabbed to death in a home invasion that ended with his family s house set ablaze. now police were trying to figure out who could have committed such a brutal crime. kay s daughter from her first marriage, christina, first thought it might have something to do with the renovations her mom and joe were having done at the home. i honestly thought maybe it was the contractors, because they had a lot of people coming in and out of their house doing work. i never thought it was somebody who they knew. like some random thing in which people came in to rob the house and everything went wrong? yeah, that was my first thought. that was my first guess. who didn t like joe? the only person that i knew that didn t like him was his ex wife and her family. it was a nasty divorce. it was just a bitter feelings there. police looked in at joe s previous marriage, but determined it had nothing to do with the crime. investigato
large amounts of blood. i could see a man s feet outside the sliding glass doors. this is where joe morrissey was killed? he was stabbed, right next to the sofa in this room. kay said she dragged his body out of the fire, and on to the patio. that is where joe morrissey s lay in the wee hours 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 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 to joe morrissey. why leave her alive? why leave a witness alive? why indeed? in murders like this, the spouse is often the first