In her husbands murder . The indicators are in cases like this, that its the spouse, not a random act. Why should she kill a man she obviously loved. They never fought. They always were very happy. This was a Family Affair all right. But it was another family that was keeping secrets. You ever see anything like that before . No. One father who fought to save his son. Another who used his son to save himself. Hes a monster. What would you do for your family . Would you lie . Would you walk through fire . Could you ever accuse them of something terrible to save yourself . This is a story about two very different families. Its about loyalty, terror, deception and love. And for one of the families it began with a late night phone call. Something told me to pick up the phone. You could hear the sirens and she kept saying you have to come here, they broke into the house and hes dead. They killed him. He was Joseph Morrissey who had been married for 12 years. Their suburban florida home documented by police video was now a crime scene. There was so much chaos going on. The whole street was blocked off. There was tons of police cars and the sirens and you could smell the smoke. I just 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 and she just looked so small and so hurt. I ran up and gave her a big hug. She was covered in blood and she just kept saying, hes dead. Hes gone. Why would they do that . Hes gone. When i arrived at this house, it was 1 30 in the morning. Detective Brian Kendall of the plantation, florida, Police Quickly learned the key facts. Joe had been brutally stabbed to death in his own home while his wife and young son had escaped. The detectives spoke briefly with kay. She gives me a brief synopsis of what happened that night. Believable . At that point, yes. Thats the only thing i had to go on at that point. She told the detective that a man had entered their home some time after 11 00 p. M. And began a reign of terror that started with tieing their hands and feet with zip ties and ended with the murder of her husband and their house on fire. Kays story suggested a robbery gone bad. But to figure out for himself what had happened, the detective worked from the outside in. Whatd you see when you got here to the front of the house . The screen to the window right over here was leaning up against the house. There was a vertical slice down the middle of the screen, and this window was wide open. Thats how kay told you the guy first came into the house . That was the entry area where the suspect first came in, correct. I walked down this hallway here. There was a pair of scissors. One of it long plastic flex cuffs was on the ground, a zip tie. When i walked into the master bedroom, another zip tie was on the ground. At the foot of the bed there were bath towels laying on the ground. On the bed itself there was a wedding ring which i thought was unusual. Kay had said that the man that came in asked for jewelry. Demanding cash, valuables. But he didnt take them. At this point he didnt take the ones that were in this room at least because when i looked in the closet there was a large significant amount of jewelry. So if this is a robbery, its kind of a strange robbery because they didnt take the stuff they supposedly wanted. Then he sees the blood. Right down on the floor here, large amounts of blood. I could see a mans feet outside the sliding glass door. This is where joe was killed. He was murdered and stabbed right next to the sofa. Kay said she dragged his body out of the file and on to the patio and thats where his body lay april 6, 2010. Stabbing always personal. They are. Theyre up close. There is no way to do it from a distance. Everything about that says this wasnt a robbery. This is somebody that wanted to joe morrissy in particular. In addition to that, joe still had his wedding band on. Valuables that if it was a robbery, it would have been taken out of the house. Whats more, his wife kay was still alive, not stabbed, not even once. They do a brutal vicious murder. Why is she alive . Why indeed. In murders like this, the spouse is often the first suspect, sometimes the only suspect. All of that became clear that night to kays daughter christina. I remember when they took her to the Police Station and she asked me to stay and watch the house. And i remember sitting there and they would come up and ask me questions, the different detectives and the Police Officers and, you know, they asked me, you know, did they ever fight . Or were they arguing . Or was there tension between them . Absolutely not said christina. They never fought. They always were very happy. Nobody goes through life and never fights. Everybody fights. I remember they would fight over, you know, him leaving socks on the floor or a wet towel or Something Like that. But if they ever had any arguments, they were few and far between. They were a good match. They 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 at a Cancer Research institute. Kay was a Biomedical Lab student back then and joe was a respect said was a respected molecular biologist with a phd that connected research to see if there was a connection between cell phones and cancer among other things and his work had taken him from across the globe. He was hard working and very, very humble, the most humble person i know. He never bragged about anything. He was always trying to be a good guy and teach us to do the right thing. Joe and kay dated for a year. And then joe popped the question on a roman holiday. I thought it was so cool he proposed on the top of the vatican. It was fun to plan a wedding. They made sure the kids were all included. That meant not only christina but also a son of joes. It wasnt just a wedding between the two of them. It was like all of us becoming a big family. It wasnt long before they wanted a child of their own and decided to adopt patrick, a baby boy from south korea. He was a very hands on father. He was always doing something with patrick. All the time. It was either baseball lessons or hockey practice or going fishing. I mean, they were together all the time. But now joe was gone. Patrick and kay had survived. And detective kendall had some questions for kay. Coming up, there are some other questions detectives would like answered. Why would the intruders demand valuables but then leave them behind. After murdering her husband, why did they leave kay alive . The indicators are in cases like this that it is the spouse, not a random act. 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Their fiveyearold son asleep in the master bedroom. Then suddenly, kay looked up. I saw him. And the gun was like right here, and he was right there and i couldnt believe it. I was like i could not believe that this was happening to me. There was a young man in the room pointing a gun right at her. Kay said the man asked her where her husband was. She told him she thought he was sleeping in either the family room or their bedroom. She said, if you lie to me, im going to shoot you. Im going to kill you. What does your radar say at the beginning . Is she telling the truth . Initially i want to believe her, but the indicators are in cases like this that it is the spouse or a domestic issue or some other personal issue, not a random act. Then kay told police, the man took her into the family room where her husband was. And he yelled, wake up to joe. Joe of course jumped up. And i said, joe, just calm down. Its okay. Wake up. Dont move. Just do what he tells you to do and were going to be okay. And then he said, i dont want you guys looking at me. Dont look at me or im going to shoot you. I said, okay, we wont look at you. Kay told the police she heard the intruder talking to someone she never saw via walkietalkie. He said, just listen to me. Dont talk to me. Just be quiet. She said the assailant, a young man with a gun then tied their wrists with zip ties. I thought he was going to shoot it. Then he was saying, where is the wallet. Joe only had 2. I said, i dont use cash. I dont have any cash. At that point he said i want to go to the atm to get money out. According to kay, the gunman cut their hands free and the three of them got into one of morrisseys cars, leaving their fiveyearold son asleep in the house along with whoever had been on the walkietalkie. On their way to the bank, joe drove. Once there, kay managed to get them to park in view of the atm camera, as you can see on this tape. Then the assailant told kay what to do next. Get out of the car. Go get the money. He said, remember, if you do anything stupid, i have your kid and i have your husband. The man wanted 5,000. I tried the 5,000. I tried 2,000. I was trying for 100 and they said, no, that was it. Thats what the machine said . Yes. How much did you end up getting . 500. After that, kay said they drove back to the house frantic to see their son. Was he still asleep . Was he okay . As they enter the house, the gunman barked out orders. He said dont do anything stupid. Joe and i were looking at each other saying, why is he coming back . At that point i thought he was going to kill us. I really did. Once back in the house, the gunman took them back to the master bedroom and kay said tied their hands and feet with zip ties and put towels over their heads. Why would they put towels over their head if this person has already seen them . Then the gunman told joe to come with him. So joe goes, i cant walk. And he goes, i want to see you hopping. Hop, hop, hop. And then all i heard was that joe said, oh, please. Please dont do it. And i saw the fire. Please dont do it . He said. Joe did . Yeah. I thought he was talking about the fire, but i guess he was talking about him shooting him or stabbing him. It was a horrifying story. If shes faking this for some reason, it is pretty elaborate. And shes doing a good job at it. Kays daughter christina was there when the q a at the Police Station was over. We went back to my house, and she didnt really say much. She was just quiet. I think she was just letting it all sink in. Now police were trying to determine whether the evidence matched kays story. Coming up, kay tells her story to us, and this part is really strange. He started singing and taunting us. Theyre coming for me. Im going to kill you. What was that all about . And is she telling the truth . When broken bonds continues. S . Oh, darn let me help. Lift and push and push there. 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Whats more they were finding plenty at the crime scene stoosupport her story. The broken window screen, zip ties and towels. Her story seemed to be holding up. Christina believed from the beginning that her mother was innocent, purely a victim. But what she didnt know was how brutal the murder was. She didnt want us to know. I remember sitting at the funeral home. She was very firm. She just kept saying its going to be a closed casket. I want everybody to remember him as the lively person that he was. And i knew then that it was it couldnt have been good. And when i sat down with kay, she told a story filled with love and courage on that awful night. We were surrounded by evil. My insides were just shaking. I was just thinking about patrick. That was the theme that kay told me, how her fiveyearold son patrick was foremost on her and her husbands lives. Thats why kay became panicked when they were forced to go to the bank by the man in the gun. I said, we cant leave patrick here. He stays. He told us there were people there and that they had guns. There you are getting in the car with your husband and some guy with a gun and leaving your fiveyearold at home with we dont even know. We dont even know who that was. It is just crazy. I mean, im crying hysterical. In the car, kay feared for her and joes 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. He started singing and taunting us. Theyre coming for me. Im 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. Thats when Joe Morrissey tied up and helpless made a move to save his young sons life. Patrick is now awake, and hes now sitting on the bed. So joe says to him, patrick, do it for daddy. Just lay down and pretend you are asleep. Do it for daddy. Do it for daddy and he just lays there and 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 family was first in joes mind. He starts pleading, please, you know i have kids. Please dont do it. Those would be Joe Morrisseys last words. Then kay saw an orange glow. Their home was on fire. The attackers had fled and now she had to get patrick and herself out of the house. But her ankles were still tied and she could barely move. Desperate to find something sharp to free her feet, kay hobbled to a nearby bathroom. I took everything out of the drawers. I couldnt find the scissors, so i called patrick and i said to patrick, you have to be a big boy. You have to help mommy. And he did. Kay told him where to find a pair of scissors and patrick brought them to her, cutting the zip tie was difficult, but kay was finally able to do it. The fiveyearold boy had saved his mother. Then she had another job for her son. I said, patrick, please, just go across the street and knock on the door. Mommy is going to stay here. Remember your karate moves. Please just kick the door. Kay saw the neighbors door open and patrick run in. She knew he was safe. One Family Member taken care of. Now kay was on a mission to save joe. She would not leave him behind no matter what the risk. And then you run back into a Burning House. Yes, i went back in there. And when i saw joe, it was so hard to pick him up. I remember seeing so many wounds, so much damage to his body, i couldnt even think anymore. Kay managed to drag joe out of the Burning House and on to the patio. She held out hope that while badly injured he was still alive. Paramedics arrived but there was nothing they could do for Joe Morrissey. Kays husband was gone at the age of only 46. And that was the last time i saw him. You saved yourself. You saved your son. But i didnt save joe. I just couldnt. It was the most horrible thing that ever happened to me, to learn that he