[ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and today i am driving through a roughandtumble part of dallas, texas, called rock island. You know, some inheritances come crashing down on heirs just when they least expect it, like todays story, where a Violent Crime suddenly leaves a young woman in a big fix. My name is Hannah Hargrove. In 2013, my father was killed in a bar fight. I was only 23 and inherited his struggling junkyard business that i thought might be a diamond in the rough. I meet hannah at the strange inheritance she received three years before. That was a tragedy, but time heals. Hi, hannah today shes a beaming expectant mother. But this place is clearly her baby, too. You inherited a wreck. I like to refer to it as my queendom of junk. Can we take a look . Lets do it. Come on. Hannahs junkyard has a little bit of everything. Doors, cabinets, sinks, wheels, windows, tubs. A home depot where nothings new. Do people really buy doorknobs . People really buy doorknobs. It even has random odds and ends like this old adding machine. We made two dollars today on a doorknob. Theres actually a old cable box beside it. Oh, my gosh. Wait, theres only 36 channels. I know. Ooh. I would not have done well. Where do you find this stuff . First and foremost, we do demolitions. We go down and actually take apart the house piece by piece. We get it cleaned up, put it on the yard. By doing that, we keep things out of the landfill, so theres a big recycling factor. And then the other way is we have people show up with trucks. I mean, 85 of the time its crap. Last week i had someone show up with a truck of futons. [ laughs ] but ill typically give em five bucks and just throw it away because granted, their ten loads might suck, but that eleventh load, it might have the killer of all killers. From there, its up to hannah to turn that junk into gold by selling it to home builders, antiques vendors, contractors, or anyone who walks through her gates. Its kind of my life. A junkyard life that starts for hannah in 1993, when shes just a toddler. Its then that her father, john, makes an offer to buy the orrreed wrecking company. My father was the only one who wanted to keep the business open for the business and not just for the land. John is not the highest bidder, but he impresses the owner, charles orr, says johns exwife, michelle. Why is it that mr. Orr decided john was the right guy . cause he probably could have sold this land for a pretty penny. Absolutely. I think for him it was this little cute young family that wanted to keep his legacy going. While 31year old john has no experience running a salvage yard, he has the most important skill in spades. John could sell ice cubes to eskimos. What kind of salesman was your dad . Watching him was like watching magic. The air around him would become electrified. I sense hannah inherits that ability, too. People would buy things they never thought they would. And theyd leave happy doing it. The junkyard is a family affair. Mom does the books. Dad handles sales, while little hannah models for newspaper ads. You were a little junkyard princess. Thats what i like to refer to myself as, yes. You would play here . I would. This was the best playground any girl could ever ask for. I would go find candlestick holders, and id set up areas in the woodpiles and have tea parties. When youve got giant lumber piles to crawl on, its a lot more fun probably not as safe but its a lot more fun than just going to go swing on a swing set. We were all a little family, and we stayed together every day. Whatever we did, we did together. But there are two sides to John Hargrove. The dad i know and the dad that people knew up here are two very different people. My father was very good at playing the character of John Hargrove. What was that . Vivacious and always happy. That was the character . Yeah, but he had his own demons. His family suffers from his alternating bouts of depression and binge drinking. Would you say your dad was an alcoholic . Yeah. He would be sober for long amounts of time, and then hed go off the wagon. And realize that he screwed up and go back on the wagon. When he was left to his own devices, he got into a lot of trouble. There were more than one occasion where somebody that hed gone to school with would meet me and say, oh, we thought hed either be dead or in jail by now. He brought a lot of pain to this family. Absolutely, and a lot of anger. By 2002, michelle has had enough. She files for divorce, kicking john out of the house and away from teenage hannah and her sister and brother. That was hard. The man was no saint, but he was still my hero. He was still my best friend. Did the divorce affect the business . Yes, because his heart wasnt in it. I mean, it was a family business, and without my mom, without me, without any of it, i mean, he just didnt love it as much. In 2007, when hannahs a senior in high school, john promises to dry out, and reconciles with hannahs mom. It was kind of like an ongoing soap opera. By then, hannahs life plan no longer revolves around daddys junkyard. Did you think you were going to follow in your fathers footsteps . My goal was to go to college and get my doctorate. I wanted to be an art therapist. Meanwhile, the city of dallas launches a campaign to rezone rock island, which actually is an island in the middle of the trinity river. The idea is that all of this area will be converted to fancy shops and condos and so on. Jim schutze is a local reporter and friend of johns. There was a concerted effort to paint this area as dirty. And the threat was that the city would use Eminent Domain to force these people to sell. I was like, no, no, no, theyre not doing that. You know, youre gonna have to fight this. Were not buckling. John leads the fight against city hall. John was absolutely the hell, no, i wont go Emotional Center of the resistance. Not that the salesman wont bargain at all. He and his fellow Business Owners promise to beautify the area. I saw their cause as hopeless because so much power and money was in play, and people in their position just dont win. But surprise the little guys do win the city council sides with them. Fresh off his david vs. Goliath victory, john falls completely off the wagon. Michelle leaves him a second time. And at that point, the business kind of fell on the wayside. My father, i think, was overwhelmed. Even for a junkyard, the place becomes a chaotic mess. John neglects the grounds, loses customers, and piles up a mountain of debt. How much are we talking about . I want to say like 800,000 worth of debt. [ gasps ] in the spring of 2012, hannah returns home to save the family business. Or is it the family itself . Part of the reason i came home to take over the business was to make sure my dad was okay. 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The answer is b. The lost imperial easter egg was designed by faberge for tsar alexander iii in 1877. In 2013 in dallas, Hannah Hargrove is helping to revive her fathers junkyard business. John hargrove is an alcoholic whos long suffered from depression. But things are finally starting to look up for him and his salvage yard. He had been sober for about six months. Orrreed was on the way up again. But things never stay good for John Hargrove long. January 26. Hannah came to my house crying. She couldnt find him, he wouldnt answer phone calls. For my father to not pick me up for work that morning, it was very strange. Hannah contacts local hospitals, but there is no trace of john. By evening, the family reluctantly calls the morgue. And has their worst fears confirmed. I honestly still have a scar on my knee from sinking to the ground so quickly. Were you with hannah . And my son. Id wished him dead so many times cause i was so angry with him, but i remember going, i didnt mean it, im sorry, i didnt mean it, you know, [crying] but. You know. I never wanted that for john, never. Or for your children. Or for my babies. [ siren wails ] the police open a murder case. It turns out john got drunk and hit an east dallas nightclub with a history of violence. Give us another another one. Yeah my first impulse was to think, oh, man, walking in there is a death wish. Yall want a beer . You gotta love this place when you put yourself in dangerous situations, i mean, youre basically playing russian roulette. Around 3 00 a. M. , a fight breaks out. Witnesses say john is beaten with a chair and a pool stick and kicked multiple times in the head. My dad liked to say he had ten good seconds fight in him. Well, that night i guess he just didnt have the ten good seconds in him. [ siren wails ] an hour later, John Hargrove is dead at 50 years old. A known criminal, 24yearold frederico prado, turns himself in. After witnesses refuse to testify against him, hes offered a plea deal. In her anger and grief, hannah embraces her strange inheritance as the place to rebuild her life. My uncles came in, and they were ready to start liquidating everything. And i was over there, going, no this is his legacy. This is my legacy. She wanted to make it work, and she wanted to rejuvenate it. But the business is not quick to embrace her. Howd the customers react . Not so great. Shes had to face some comments about you little girl, why arent you out shopping . This is a mans business. One of the first calls hannah takes as boss is a demolition client backing out. She loses three more jobs over the next two weeks. That was the struggle, dealing with customers, dealing with the just running of a business. Not to mention that crushing debt. That became hannahs problem. Yes, it did. She was strapped with a big, big, big financial burden. I mean, there were some days in the beginning when id come down here with hannah and we might stay 30 minutes and just say, we cant. I cant. We got to go. And then theres that other thing on hannahs plate her wedding, just weeks away. She didnt know if she wanted to do the wedding, and i said, dont postpone this wedding, because thats not what he would want. Mm. I mean, everyone that knew john would say, no youre going go for the gusto. Go for it plus she already has the venue picked out. The wedding was here on the junkyard. Excuse me . [ laughs ] thats next. Heres another quiz question for you. Set in a South Central l. A. Junkyard, the tv series sanford and son was nbcs answer to what cbs hit show . The answer after the break. [ wind howls ] so, the tv series sanford and son was created in response to what other hit show . The answer is b. The lead character, fred sanford, played by redd foxx, was created as a black version of all in the familys lovable bigot, archie bunker. In 2013, Hannah Hargrove is struggling to revive the dallas junkyard she just inherited after her father is killed in a bar fight. She was worried in the beginning, after he passed away, that she couldnt do it. And while hannah is trying to keep the business from going under, shes also ready to move on in other facets of her life. Her wedding is set to take place just six weeks after her dads funeral. In the junkyard at the end of the day, i wanted it to be at the place that i, my heart was. And my heart was here. Describe the dress. So, silk chiffon, strapless, sweetheart neckline with a blue bow. How did you feel in it . Like a princess. I felt beautiful. With the help of a lot of people, we made this junkyard look like a magical place. With draped chiffon. And i made a 70foot train. It was beautiful. And then. [ thunder crashes ] it poured the day of the wedding, but it stopped raining about 15 minutes before the ceremony, and i just say my father was up there blocking the rain. With the memory of her father hovering above, hannahs three uncles walk her down the aisle. And shes thinking, yeah, everythings gonna be all right. Im a part of it, and its a part of me. Its my life, you know. Its not something i could ever see it being another way. This is what i love. And when you love something, its what do you love about this . Its junk its my junk. I mean, its my kingdom. With the support of her mother, hannah dedicates herself to turning the junkyard into a money maker. The first step attracting a new client base. So my goal was to really market it to the Younger Generation because i knew that the way to survive in this world was to bring in a younger crowd. How . By turning orrreed into an upscale junkyard. Reporter jim schutze wonders if such a contradiction in terms will catch on. I had some concern. I didnt get where she would have the business acumen to run Something Like this. Retooling the wrecking business. Thats the goal. 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And that old storefront, once stuffed with just rusty tools and hardware, is transformed into a boutique with artisan crafts and collectibles. Its definitely more organized. Its girlified. I mean, i definitely put that Feminine Touch on it. So, when you drive up, you think junkyard, and then, i have to say, the minute you walk through those doors, its a magical experience. It is because i feel like youre entering a whole new world when you come in here. Another inspiration hannah invites artists to work on site, using materials gleaned from the yard. [ saw whirring ] johann is the yard manager here who also makes custom furniture. Today. A barnstyle gate for a pet. Where did this stuff come from . Most of this is all reclaimed, actually out of the same house that we just took down not long ago. Its just 3 1 4 antique pine. Its probably over 100 years old. And these hinges also reused . Yeah, old hinges off a cabinet probably from inside the house. Can i. Yeah. Johann tells me the wrecking company saves up to 90 of the materials from the houses it demolishes. And so, where would this wood go if not to be used again . More than likely, into a landfill. And youre preventing that