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We didnt really know what had happened. Who would ever imagine youd have a murder in your family . Soon there would be secrets. We were dealing with a person that was leading a double life. And one of them would prove deadly. I know that you did this. It hurts too much for me to say it out loud. Hello. Welcome to dateline. Its a case that centers on a mother who had gone missing and the small town secret that led to a very big surprise. Heres keith morrison. Suppose for a minute you were sitting in your car smackdab in the middle of tuscaloosa, alabama and you pointed southwest down highway 69 and kept a sharp eye out after half an hour or so. You roll into a sweet little place called moundville. One stoplight, one main street, one general store. Been around for a long time has moundville. But its a sad truth, as the sheriff says, even here where everybody used to know everybody its not that way anymore. So many different people are moving in from around the world. Trying to escape the crowds. Well, escape the crowd or running from something. Yes. And where have you gone, Andy Griffith . Mayberry has up and left us. Sheriff ken ellis fights real crime nowadays. The crime here is the same crime you see in any large city, just a smaller version. Still, moundville is moundville and neighbors tend to know more of each others business than they might in tuscaloosa, for example, which can be a bit of a nuisance if you need to keep a secret, especially, for example, if your secret is about murder. To begin with, this thoughtful young woman was just a girl of 17 back in 07 when things started coming apart in the way things do when parents dont talk about it. Kelsey mayfield saw that troubled look in her moms eyes, her mom teresa. I could tell she was very stressed. Was it clear she was stressed about . Money would be the main thing. We wanted to be sure she had enough money to take care of her family. A lot of that going around. Like so many americans, kelseys dad had to work two jobs just to keep his head above water hard working man. It took two jobs to take care of our family. But money trouble aside, teresa seemed to have a happy life as anybody could see including teresas mother, reba. All teresa ever wanted was to have a husband that cared for her, somebody she cared for and to have a family. A sweet and kind of corny and even after her two Little Brothers arrived, she could see the signs of her parents affection for each other. He would give her a kiss on the cheek and say good night, i love you. The softball mom, the trunk of her car, a muddle of bats and balls. She shuttling kids back and forth. I had a softball game and we all had a game at the same time. She would stay 30 minutes at their games and each of our games. She was an amazing mother. Theres nothing she would not do for myself or my two brothers. Then there was that sweltering morning, june 2007, teresa drove off to run errands and didnt come back. Kelsey was babysitting the boys, 8 and 11. Hours ticked by. She called her mom. Where are you . She didnt answer. Then i called her back around lunch and she didnt answer. I called her pretty much all day long. Her dad was at work, her mom was, who knew where . Wasnt like her to do this. Is she the sort of person who would take her cell phone with her . It was attached to her hip. You could easily get ahold of her in. Yes. And you couldnt . No. She was in a panic. She called her dad who had gone from his day job to his night shift. Im sure you told your dad you were worried. We kept in touch during the day. Did he seem to be worried . He did. We could never get in touch with her. At midnight, it was clear, something was terribly wrong. Scott left work to file a missing persons report with the moundville police. Then they all waited. What was it like for you that night . It was awful. I was very scared when she didnt come home. And i pretty much knew in my heart that something was wrong. The next morning, said kelsey, she woke up in a house that no longer felt like home. She called her grandmother reba at her home in prattville, a town two hours away. She said is mama down there at your house . I said no, hon. , shes not here. And she said, mama didnt come home last night. What was going on in here . Im just turning upside down. You know, im just tied in a knot. Reba called teresas younger sister ashley at her office at the local circuit court. Mama called me up. She said teresa is missing. I said let me make some phone calls. Right away ashley called the sheriff of her town and he called the sheriff of ellis. His response to me was its bad. Its bad. It certainly was. They had found teresas truck on a dirt road less than a mile from home. She was slumped behind the wheel and she was dead. And this much was perfectly clear. It wasnt an accident. Coming up the investigation begins. We had to ask ourselves, who would get her to this location and why was she murdered . When dateline continues. For all the noses that stuff up around daisies. For all the eyes that get itchy and watery near pugs. For all the people who sneeze around dust. Theres Flonase Sensimist allergy relief. It relieves all your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. Its more complete allergy relief. And all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. Flonase sensimist helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. Most pills only block one. And 6 is greater than 1. Flonase sensimist. It was a lovers lane. A quiet dusty, deadend road miles from main street moundville. A spot so uncommonly traverse a car with Engine Running taillights blazing could go unnoticed. It was here they found Teresa Mayfields truck, body inside, gunshot wound to the head. Teresas younger sister broke the terrible news to their mother. When i went to the house, mama was sitting in the recliner. I knelt down on my knees and i grabbed her and i said, mama, shes gone. Shes gone. Do you have any idea how hard that was . Teresas daughter kelsey has spent a sleepless night waiting in vain for her mother to come home. How did you find out . My dad came and told my brothers and i. It was awful realizing that your Worst Nightmare had come true. For a brief second, i thought she committed suicide just because i knew how stressed out she was. But then i also knew how much she loved her family. Everybody who knew teresa knew that. Even sheriff ellis who drove out to the crime scene, if thats what it was. He was met there. This case was personal to you, sheriff. Yes. My daughter and miss teresa and scotts daughter played softball together. You would see teresa at the ballpark. It felt like part of my family was gone too. They had a look around the truck. No sign of a struggle. Dusting revealed no viable fingerprints. There were no footprints. Not even a loose hair. Puzzling. Was there any thought once you saw the scene that this was a suicide . There was things missing that prevented the suicide theory. Like what . If youre going to commit suicide with a gun, its usually at the scene. It was clear teresa had been murdered. Shot with a gun which was now missing. And what was more, her cell phone, the one always attached to her hip, was nowhere to be found. Did it look like it could have been a robbery . The wallet wasnt taken. The purse was on the console. But the contents of the purse had been dumped out in her lap. A clumsy attempt at staging, you might say . Yes. But there was one important clue left behind. We noticed that the only window down was the drivers window. So we figured that she had to have known the person because she had let down her window. We had to ask ourselves, who could get her to this location and why was she murdered . Someone in moundville had to know something. From there the investigation went where . Investigating her inner circle, trying to find a motive. Usually, so im told, in cases like this, the husband has got to be a person of interest. Yes. So as the family gathered to mourn the loss of their beloved teresa, scott couldnt be with them. He was down at the Sheriffs Office answering questions. Came willingly, no issue. Yes. Did he ask for an attorney . No, he did not. Corporal boyd chatted with scott for three long hours. During the whole time, he was cooperative and helpful. You know, the standard questions that we would ask is, is anyone having an affair . Are you having an affair . No. Was she having an affair . No. Good marriage, happy marriage, christian marriage . Right. I asked them did they argue . No. Scott answered all their questions about what teresa was supposed to be doing that morning. He phoned teresa from his morning job on the farm, and then two hours later she called him. But the call faded out. He couldnt hear a thing. Scott said that it sounded like she was on the road. He thought nothing of it then, he said. But now was it a distress call . No way to know. But there was one thing that call certainly cleared up for investigators. Scott could not have killed teresa. He was Something Like 30 miles away up near tuscaloosa, had a breakfast receipt to prove it. He stopped at hardees and had a receipt showing he was there. So he rejoined his family. Caught up in the terrible business of grieving. I kept wondering, why was it happening to our family. It was awful. Who would ever imagine youd have a murder in your family . Investigators tried with the help of friends to fill in the gaps of teresas last hours. They talked to their friend dawn lavender. She had plans to go shopping with teresa the morning of the murder. Im sure dawn was upset and shocked by what happened. She did cry during the interview. She was at her house waiting on teresa to come pick her up because she was going to ride with her. She finally got the chance to talk to teresa around 7 00. After that call, nothing. Dawn told the investigators she phoned teresa over and over and each time the phone went to a recording. Just to be sure of all this, they pulled teresas cell phone records and plotted out a timeline of her whereabouts. But the picture the records painted wasnt quite what they expected. That morning call to scott, the one he couldnt hear, teresa did not call from moundville. Cell tower shows its pinging from up in tuscaloosa. Wait a minute. How could it be pinging from tuscaloosa . Thats miles and miles away. Right. Theres no way she could have made the call and been back to the location where she was murdered at. Courtesy of the cell towers, you were able to show that teresa could not have made that call. It had to be somebody else using her phone and what do you know . Her phone is missing from the crime scene. Correct. So the person who very likely killed Teresa Mayfield must have used teresas cell phone to call her husband scott. What could that mean . Did the killer know scott . And did scott know something he wasnt sharing . Coming up we were dealing with a person that was leading a double life. Secrets and lies. This was betrayal. Very good word. When dateline continues. Its 6 am. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. And at our factory in boston, more than a thousand workers are starting their day building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. Today were bringing you americas number one shave at lower prices every day. Putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. As one of those workers, im proud to bring you gillette quality for less, because nobody can beat the men and women of gillette. Gillette the best a man can get. Do you want clean, stain free dentures . Try polident. 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Even though Teresa Mayfields husband scott had been very cooperative with investigators, they wondered if there was something he wasnt telling them. Here again with secrets in a small town is keith morrison. Its a funny thing about secrets. They can only stay hidden for so long. Especially in a little place like moundville. And it didnt take very long for sheriff ellis and boyd to stumble across more. Scott had a young lady to come pick up the boys. It was only later when the fog of grief lifted that one of teresas relatives wondered to police who was that woman hanging around the day teresa died . Ellis and boyd tracked her down and what they discovered, well, that changed everything. Or seemed to. The person they were talking to was scotts mistress. She was under the impression that scott was not married at that time. What did you make of that . We knew that wasnt correct. A love triangle, jealous home wrecker kills wife, claims husband . No, not even close. Scotts girlfriend thought his marriage was over. His divorce finalized. What was her reaction to getting the real story . She must have been upset. More hurt than upset because i think she had fallen in love. He had been lying like a sidewalk. Thats right. You had no idea that woman was associated with him that way either, did you . No. I had met her once or twice. But i just thought they were friends. I didnt think it was anything else. This was betrayal in all capital letters. Thats a very good word. You were betrayed. Lied to. Yeah. Taken advantage of if in a way. Kelsey may have been surprised but her mom and sister knew better. This wasnt scotts first dance with infidelity. Oh, no, there had been others. In fact, scott and teresa divorced during one affair, that was just after kelsey was born. Three years later, teresa took him back. Remarried him. She wanted to have her family back together. That was her whole thing, family. What was it like for you when scott came into your house . Whats happening here as he walked in the door . I tried to be sociable mutual with scott. He hurt my sister and i would not forget it. For a while, things were as things as hoped. Soon scott was back to his old ways with that girl cops were talking to in tuscaloosa. You know how gossip can be. Scott when from sympathetic maybe worse. He must have been aware of the fact that people were suspicious of him. It bothered me hearing the bad things people had to say about him. I knew my dad was never capable of doing Something Like that. I was going to have his back regardless. But to investigators, scotts affair and the fact he lied about it to police certainly was suspicious. Ellis and boyd asked the girlfriend to help them out by recording her conversations with scott. Maybe hed let something slip. Hey. Hey. Are you okay . Yes. Im okay. They just left. Look, all i want to know, did you do it . Of course not. They told me on the getgo, i would be number one prime suspect. I know. Because im the husband. Do you still love me . Yes, i do. If you do have anything do with her dying, was it because you love me . I didnt have nothing to do with it, no, no, no. I had nothing. My hands are clean as they can be. So infidelity . Yes. Murder . Didnt sound like it. We could prove that he was an adulterer. But we was trying to prove the murder. Guess theres no crime against being a lying sack of you know what. Its not against the law to have a mistress. So now the corporal and the sheriff reverted to standard procedure and followed up every tip and tracked down every tenuous lead and knocked down rumors. Somebody called scott from teresas cell phone that morning, whether he heard it or not. The investigation dragged on. Weeks and months went by and there was nothing. We had no idea how that anger will get the best of you, not knowing who done this and you want the person that done this to be punished for it. Kelsey took on the most difficult job of her life. At 17 she stepped into her mothers shoes defended her father, tried to maintain something of a normal life for her Little Brothers. Me trying to fill my mothers shoes. Those are some big shoes to fill. I felt like it was my responsibility to help my dad take care of my family. So you were able to continue to have a relationship of trust with your father. Right. He was there for you guys . Yeah. He tried to be strong for us so we wouldnt have a breakdown. By the First Anniversary of teresas death, there was still no arrest and the story was old news. So teresas mother plastered this poster on doors and windows and telephone poles hoping it would dislodge some clue. And then the weirdest thing happened. We found out that just about as quick as we were putting posters up, they were being taken down. Taken down by someone who didnt want teresas killer found, she presumed. And a dark thought crystallized in rebas mind. Was it scott . He never acted like a grieving husband. If he had, i wouldnt have had these thoughts. So your thoughts actually increased over the course of the time that you were with him . Yes. But you know what they say about assumptions. It wasnt scott. Me and my brothers took them down. At first, i was okay with it. But once they put the posters up and everywhere i went, i saw my mothers face, it drove me crazy, it broke my heart seeing her face splattered all over the pictures. So expectations faded again. A couple more months went by and then a girl who knew kelsey heard a strange little story. Overheard it actually. A guy saying he saw someone a gun on a dirt road around the time teresa was killed. Did she associate it with this crime . She knew miss teresa was killed down that way so she reported it. Was this the break they were looking for . The tip led to real flesh and blood. In fact, to a quite literal snake in the grass. A curious incident from teresas past. Could it shed light on the crime . Coming up i looked at her, and i said you need to stay away from that woman. When dateline continues. Next time, i want you on my bowling team. [ laughs ] rodney. Bowling. Classic. Can i help you . Its me. Jamie. Im not good with names. Celeste i trained you. We share a locker. Moose man yo. He gets two name your price tools. He gets two . I literally coined the phrase, we give you Coverage Options based on your budget. Thats me. Jamie yeah. Youre back from italy. [ both smooch ] ciao bella. [ both smooch ] this ones below market price and has bluetooth. Same here, but this one has Leather Seats use the cars. Com app to compare price, features and value. When it comes to travel, i sweat the details. Late checkout. 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They took turns talking about the loving daughter, the softball mom, the sweet woman gunned down on that lonely country road. A murder that was still a mystery. My family will not stop searching or doing whatever it takes to find out who took teresas life. When scott got up to speak, you can bet people were paying special close attention. Yes, she was a loving wife, loving mother and a loving friend to the community, yes, she would do anything for anybody at any time. Having discovered he was not exactly husband of the year, some people nursed a lingering suspicion and yet here he was devoted to the care of his children and full of praise for his dead wife. She did a wonderful job raising these kids. She was the one who got them to practice on time, got them to ball games on time. When sheriff ellis walked up to the podium, he looked at teresas mother reba and vowed hed get justice yet. Miss reba, i wont quit until we find out what happened to miss teresa. In fact, even as he spoke, the sheriff, along with the corporal, were facing down their first honest to god lead in, what, over a year . Didnt seem like much at first, just an overheard story from a guy in a bar something about they ran into someone with a gun. Not terribly uncommon around here. Except it happened around the same time and not far from where the murder occurred. So ellis and boyd tracked the kid down and he repeated the story to them. They were on a dirt road and they came up on a snake, a rattlesnake and they was trying to kill it, find something to kill it with. Trouble was, they were plum out of rattlesnake killing tools and thats when an suv just happened to pull up on the dirt road behind them. The driver was a woman in her 40s or thereabouts who said the young man offered them a sure fire way to smash that rattlesnake. Lady in the car had a sghun. Right. It was a handgun inside a ziploc plastic bag. I think she handed him the plastic bag for him to take it out. That was a little weird. Why would it be in the bag . Right. A peculiar story for sure. Certain details were a little fuzzy. Kid couldnt remember the exact day, for example. But he did recall with clarity who the driver was because he knew her. Knew her name. And here was the most curious thing of all. It was a name youve heard before. Dawn lavender. Small town moundville suddenly got even smaller. Dawn lavender, youll recall was teresas friend who she said she waited in vain for teresa to pick her up. Great buddies according to dawn. But maybe not so much said kelsey. They would speak but they werent best friends or anything. They did go out together a couple of times. I think my mother did it because she was bored and wanted to get out of house. But when they did get together, it was certainly memorable and not in a good way. They went out to a local casino one night, she said and her mother came home stumbling. I thought she was drunk. I knew that that couldnt be right because she didnt drink. She didnt know where she was at. You couldnt understand a word she was saying. She came in and my dad and i put her in the bed. How long did she sleep . She slept for two days. Two straight days. What did you think about that . It was very strange. She didnt really remember what happened. She just knew that she had taken some pills, i believe. How did she get them . I believe dawn gave them to her. Remember how teresa was stressed out the last week weeks of her life . The casino trip, dawn gave her xanax, the antianxiety medication to calm her down, dawn told her. It certainly did that. Out like a light, calm, for two whole days. I looked at her, i said teresa, you need to stay away from that woman, she is no friend of yours. How did teresa respond to that . She said ive learned my lesson. Or maybe she didnt. Because the morning of the murder teresa arranged to run errands with dawn, or at least thats what dawn said. And then it all clicked together. Dawn on the dirt road, a gun in a plastic bag, teresas car window down as though she knew her killer. Sheriff ellis and Corporal Boyd picked apart the early interview with a suspicious eye. They pulled her phone records and there it was plain as day. Dawns lies caught by cell phone technology. It painted a clearer picture that dawn was in the location of teresa the morning that she was murdered. Why in heavens name would a woman who claimed to be teresas friend want to kill her . Good question, which perhaps theyd get answered once they accused dawn lavender of murder, which they did. She, however, had but one thing to say to police. She just kept saying that it was wrong, that we made a mistake. Coming up. As far as physical evidence. We really didnt have any. But they did have a plan. An undercover sting could get the evidence they need. 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It relieves all your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. And all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. Flonase sensimist. After years of investigation, police had a suspect in the murder of Teresa Mayfield. It was her friend, dawn lavender. But what was dawns motive for murder . Once again, heres keith morrison. On june 11, 2010, almost three years to the day Teresa Mayfield was killed, sheriff ellis and Corporal Boyd drove to the wire factory where dawn lavender worked. She was halfway through her day shift and they told her she was under arrest for the murder of her friend, Teresa Mayfield. She first wanted to know why we was arresting her and then we went to the jail she said this was wrong, we made a mistake. The corporal and the sheriff were only too happy to explain how one clue led to another and eventually an inescapable conclusion. But prosecutor evans had questions, pointed ones. You could tell it was going to be difficult. Where was the smoking gun . Where was the murder weapon . Where was one single fingerprint tying dawn to the crime . As far as physical evidence, we really didnt have any. It was truly circumstantial because we didnt really know anything about what had happened. As far as evidence could see, the case was a maybe at best. She had no reason to kill teresa. So to bring a case against her would be pretty tough, i would think. The case with dawn is puzzling. When youre working with a circumstantial case, every piece of evidence is definitely important. How could Corporal Boyd and sheriff ellis thought they were wrong. They believed dawn was the killer. They told the prosecutor not only that dawn murdered teresa but they were convinced she tried and failed to kill her with a xanax overdose at the casino. The Sheriffs Department thought that was an attempt on her life, but we had nothing to really support that. If tim evans was to get a conviction, he needed more evidence, some concrete proof that dawn had pulled that trigger. You can bet dawn wasnt about to tell them anything. But that doesnt mean she wasnt talking. We had another young lady that was getting out of jail and she came to us and said that dawn had been talking about the murder. But that could have been just gossip, mind you. From a jailhouse snitch who couldnt back it up. But dawn did have a cell mate. She was kind of in a jam herself. She wanted us to try to help her. We can put a word into the d. A. Or into the jail. That was enough to get cooperation from her. Right. The objective was simple. Get dawn talking, wrangle from her something that at least sounded like a confession. Ellis and boyd outfitted dawns cell mate with a digital recorder no bigger than a matchbox. On a friday afternoon as an unsuspecting dawn reviewed her case file, her cell mate walked in and waited for some incriminating tidbit. What she got instead was the whole sickening story. Heres what dawn said about the morning teresa was killed. Around 7 00 a. M. Dawn called teresa with a lie to set the plan in motion. [ bleep ]. No more vacation days. I told her my car was dead. She claimed her car had broken down. Could teresa pick her up. Of course she said yes. Finished drying her hair, got into her car. Made a short drive to the dirt road and there standing alongside the road was dawn. How big was the gun . With calculated, cold precision, dawn lavender lured Teresa Mayfield to that dirt road. She then shot her in the back of the head and steered her car into the brush hoping it would stay hidden for a while. You will have to lie on the stand. Like poor little innocent dawnie. Cold blooded killer. If you think about it, thats exactly right. Yeah. Terrible look at it that way, though. It was all there. A prosecutors dream confession. She even referred to herself as a coldblooded killer. But there was one question anyone with a beating heart wanted to ask. Why . There just had to be an answer. Of that they were sure. Would they ever get it out of her . Why in the hell did you do it . Coming up at some point she was call up a hit man. A hit man for whom . Another painful revelation was in store for teresas family. It hurts too much for me to say it out loud. When dateline continues. Mom and dad got a new car. Its not theirs. Its mine. Mine. Mine. And it always will be, forever and forever. The new rx 350l with three rows for seven passengers. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. If yor crohns symptoms are holding you back, and your Current Treatment hasnt worked well enough, it may be time for a change. Ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohns. Entyvio works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. 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In fact, in recorded conversations with her cellmate, dawn not only admitted to shooting teresa but said that she had tried once before. That strange night at the casino when teresa came home stumbling, that was her first attempt at murder. But why . Why would she want to kill her friend . Because listen to this the answer to the whole puzzle really comes down to one little word dawn uses it when telling her cellmate what she did. We tried. We . Dawn was not acting alone. She had a coconspirator. I dont know if she was trying to be a showoff because she called herself a hit man. Dawn was a hired gun for you guessed it scott mayfield. She was a loving wife, loving mother. The man who preys on his exwife, a grieving father with children by his side. A revelation that finally made sense after a trail of disturbing stories that investigators had been running down for months. Had one guy that worked around scott offered him 500 to kill his wife. A little while later, we got a call from another guys sons that his dad approached him. He talked about killing his wife. The response was get a divorce. Thats what divorces are for. Then a third man told them the story. Scott mayfield had hired him, given him 15,000 to kill his wife. He did not have any intentions on killing her. She just wanted the mans money. Whats the old saying two is a coincidence, three is a pattern . Which is why before dawn told her grisly tale on tape. The same day she was arrested a warrant was issued for scott. Kelsey was mowing the lawn when she saw a cop car whiz by then another and another. She called her dad. I asked where he was at. He said, the cops have me pulled over. Your dad was being arrested. Had to be a shock. I was confused. I saw the arresting officer and said, why are you arresting my dad . He said it was solicitation and conspiracy. To commit murder . To commit murder, yes. He said your father was responsible for the death of your mother . Uhhuh. Still, as he sat behind bars awaiting his day in court, he assured his children it was all a mistake. He was innocent. What did you expect was would . I thought he would be found not guilty and be able to come home. At that point, the case against scott was almost entirely circumstantial. That was until dawn got to talking to the cellmate, the one with the little recording device. Sure enough, as the whole story spilled out, there was scotts name on tape. Proof at last. Once the job was done, the car half hidden by the brush, dawn said, she drove to tuscaloosa and dialed a familiar number from teresas cell phone to let her boss know his wife was dead. Did you call scott and let him know it was dawn . The only thing left was to collect the 20,000 scott had promised her and go, except of course, dawn didnt keep her mouth shut about what she and scott had done. From what i could tell, he was just a coward. He wanted a divorce but didnt want to live with the responsibilities that accompany a divorce. In other words, he didnt want to pay her alimony. Or child support. Evil is the only thing that you can use to describe that man. Evil. And on may 19th, 2011, almost four years after teresa was gunned down on that lonely dirt road, her mother, sister, and daughter sat in the courtroom and listened as dawn and scott having pleaded guilty to both murder and attempted murder were sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. He looked straight at me like he was looking at a tree or something. There was no emotion. And neither was there anything from dawn. It was like they were empty inside. For kelsey, it was simply overwhelming. At the moment of sentencing for the very first time, she saw her dad not as the loving further who took her shopping for her senior prom dress but as a man who orchestrated the death of her mother. Have you ever brought up the issue with him . Said, i know that you did this . One day i will. I dont have it in me to confront him and tell him what i know. It hurts too much for me to say it out loud. For me to tell my dad i know what he did and that i i hate what he did. But hes still my father, and ill always love him. Her mother loved him, too, loved him flew through infidelid trouble, always. Even as she loved her children, her family. As she tried to make life good, while her plotted to kill her. A couple years earlier, you had a great, full, lovely family life. Theres really not a word that you can use to describe what our family has been through in the last four years. Its been its been a very difficult four years. And youve got such a nice, sunny disposition. How do you do that . I get my strength from my mother. Thats all for this edition of dateline extra. Im craig melvin. Thanks for watching. So many young women missing. One woman determined to find them. I would tell them were one day closer to finding your daughter