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 and her husband s minds. that is why kay said she became especially panicked, when she and joe were forced to go to the bank, by the man with the gun. so we said, we can t leave patrick by himself here. he said no, he stays. he told us there were people there, they had guns. and there you are, getting in the car with your husband? and some guy with a gun? leaving your five-year-old at
documented by police video was now a crime scene. there was so much chaos going on. the whole street was blocked off, tons of police cars. there were sirens, you could smell the smoke and i remember running down the street, and the police officers were trying to stop me. and i just kept going, and she was just standing there, in the middle of the street. she just looks so small, so hurt. i just ran up and gave her a big hug. she was covered in blood and kept saying he is dead. he is gone. so, why would they do that? he is gone. when i arrived at this house, about 1:30 am. detective ryan kindle the plantation florida police quickly learned the key facts. joe morrissey had been brutally stabbed to death in his own home, while his wife kay and young son had escaped. the detectives spoke briefly with kay. she gives me a brief synopsis of what happens in there.
home, with we don t even know. we don t even know who that was. it is just crazy. i mean i am crying hysterical. in the car, kay feared for her and joe s lives as well. as they returned from the bank to their home, they heard a siren. kay thought help was on the way, they would be saved. the gunman thought this might be the end of him, and of them. when he heard the siren, he becomes very strange, and he started singing, taunting us. they are coming for me, i m going to kill you. i was just so horrified. but help did not arrive. once at home, when the gunman forced kay and joe back into the master bedroom, at least they found patrick, thankfully, still asleep. 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
accomplice. shawn claimed his father was the mastermind mastermind behind the crime. now father and son were about to face trial. a tragic tale of two contrasting families was nearing its bitter end. here s josh mankiewicz with the conclusion of broken bonds . on a quiet april night in florida, intruders had invaded the home of kay and jill morrissey, and committed unthinkable crimes. the worst-case scenario you can imagine. you re living your life the way you think you re supposed to, and evil just walks in and rips your life apart. tom coleman and stephen zach prosecute the case against
they ever fight? were they arguing? was there tension between them? absolutely not, said christina. they never thought. they were always very happy. nobody, nobody goes through life and never fights, everybody fights. i remember, they would fight over him leaving socks on the floor or a wet towel or something like that. if they ever had any arguments, they were few and far between. they were a very good match. joe and kay started dating when christina was a young girl. both were divorced, single parents at the time, but it was science that brought them together. they met a cancer research institute. kay was a biomedical grad student back then, while joe was a respected molecular biologist, with a ph. d. from stanford university. he conducted research into whether there was a connection between cellphones and cancer, among other things. and his work had taken him across the globe. he was like my mom. very hardworking. he was very, very humble.