it sure was. every stunning detail. snap life, the seem like the perfect tool to put the poison inside of. was this a loving spouse or a lethal one? the police were in for a killer surprise. i did feel like the gates of hell are opening. i don t know what they re thinking. hello, welcome to dateline. kevin and morgan mingle had their share of ups and downs. but do it all the seem to make it work. then one of them disappeared. it would take a families relentless pursuit of the truth to jump-start the investigation. then, a stunning confrontation in a parking lot would put police on the trail of a killer and reveal a diabolical recipe for murder. harris hoda kotb with toxic . how much do we reveal to the ones we love? do we keep our betrayals hidden behind closed doors? or do we hide in plain sight, masking our deeds with words? text message says, i m fine, just clearing my head. that was kevin mengel for a time, clearing his head he told his family and friends. fa
closed doors? she laughed and said, you know, there s no fear. someone was keeping secrets. and even police couldn t wrap their heads around this one until they found it, a trail of texts. we were like, holy smokes, it s right there. it sure was. every, stunning detail. snap all ice tea seemed like the perfect tool to put poison inside of it. was this a loving spouse or a lethal one? police were in for a killer surprise. i feel like the gates of hell are opening. i don t know what they were thinking. hello and welcome to dateline. kevin and morgan mengel had their share of ups and downs. but through it all they seem to make it work. then one of them disappeared. it would take a families relentless pursuit of the truth to jump-start the investigation. then, a stunning confrontation in a parking lot would put police on the trail of a killer and reveal a diabolical recipe for murder. here is hoda kotb with toxic . how much do we rev
police looking for detective maurer. i m afraid his wife and the new boyfriend are making a new a move right. now you re leaving. they re living. only, they didn t go far. chris follow them as they drove over to landscaping business. it turns out the detective was already there. he decided to go poke around, half expecting to run into kevin back at work. she gets out of the passenger side and walks by me. i walk over to shappell and he s still sitting in the passenger seat. and he s got a dead stare straight ahead. and there is something inside the truck that the detective thought was peculiar. the backseat was full of false. i could see a laundry basket, bags, backpacks. he says oh, morgan is going to do laundry across the street. i said well morgan has got a washer and dryer in her apartment. i saw yesterday. things are just aren t adding up. i said, would you mind coming back to the police station?
and they worried she might leave town. they asked the detective if he would do surveillance on the apartment, but he said no. i said, based on the fact that we had a witness that saw the fact that i now know that morgan and kevin have a troubled relationship. i thought that maybe kevin was really just fed up and had enough of morgan and left. so the mengel took their investigation into their own hands. brother chris decided to stake out the apartment overnight. he brought a video camera with him. what s that? early friday morning he filmed steve shappell coming and going as if he now live. they re taking kevin s place. and what was strange, it looks as though steve was packing up morgan s truck. they re getting in the trunk there. to chris, it sure looked like morgan and steve were getting ready for. something yes, it s a bunch of crap with them. morgan has a bunch of stuff. to he frantically called the
a big father s day and he could ve been more excited. kevin s younger brother chris was also looking forward to being with his family. after all, kevin had just recognize with their father after many rocky. years i thought, man, this is odd. why would he do this? now it doesn t make any sense? the story morgan, the wife told, is that kevin had taken off. told her that the marriage was over. in fact, by father s day, he had already been gone for two days. kevin s fine, he s clearing his head. what do you mean kevin is fine? he s fine, he had to get away, clears. head so she s trying to tell you he needs. space he needs. space i could see him taking off, blowing off, i m just going to get away. so that part of me said, okay, he just did that, he s going to come back today, tomorrow. we just said to be patient. yes we just have to be patient. patient because those close to kevin and morgan had seen