I would tell her how much i miss her and then i love her. She is the reason why i am who i am today. I will tell her thank you. Laurent, a Law School Graduate with the world at her feet. Fiercely intelligent. Fierce with her opinion. It was strange when she dropped out of sight. She did not take her car or purse. There was something wrong. They could not have guessed how wrong. There was another level of evil, the person that did this with trying to create a vanishing. The first person you look at is somebody close to her romantically or geographically. Icboyfriend, a exboyfriend, fellow students, would somebody study more than just text books . Smart maybe but had he slipped up . What they found told us everything we needed to know. A confounding case that would come down to a damning piece of video that nobody was supposed to siu. Sick and twisted. I knew we had him. Hello and welcome to dateline. Lauren moved south for law school and immediately felt at home, smart and vibrant, she
There was no way it was supposed to end like this. The former Church Deacon and his wife, who on earth would want them dead . It doesnt make sense. They were loved by everyone. Everyone, maybe, but their own daughter, who admitted to a bitter dispute she needed her stepfather and mother dead. Evidence pointed to her boyfriend as an accomplice. Youve got the victims blood on your shoe. He was there. Or, was he . A once loving family now gripped by suspicion. I had a lot of people saying that she did it. The terrible truth ripped them apart. This cannot be happening. Welcome to dateline. A daughter battling her demons and her mother and stepfather. After their double murder, police started to wonder how far Bambi Bennett would go to get what was hers. They followed a bloody trail of evidence deep inside the familys dispute, exposing ugly secrets and suspicions but unmasking a murderer would prove far more complicated. Here is Dennis Murphy with the deed. The old barn is a shambles now. T
emergency vehicles, officers, and that s as far as i can go. there is my baby and i can t do nothing about it. she was a hardworking, young wife and mom. sweetest gurley can ever asked to meet. just minutes from home when she saw the headlights. somebody was telling her. my sister is in my driveway. and her heads bloody. so you bear your little girl and then it s a murder investigation? yes. there were two people brandi feared, one town. she thought she was being followed. one thousands of miles away. josh was still in alaska. then, there was the new man in her life. anybody close to brandi needed to take a hard serious look at. no fingerprints, no dna, and no arrests for years. you are grieving. how do you pull all of that together. day-by-day. the handsome urge of someone s dark past. you have robberies going on, a homicide. and one brave woman willing to talk. he called me, the same that happened to brandi will happen to me. the q
your mossberg in that rack? yes, it s the middle one. lucas talked to deputies about the gun on the day of the murder. i told em that i hadn t took it with me and it should be there. but his 12-gauge wasn t there when crime scene techs scoured the trailer. and cops knew another place it wasn t on the list of guns kept at the house that seth had written out for the dci agent. investigators felt certain the mossberg was used to kill lisa, but a big question remained. where is it? that s what we wanna know. where is the gun? that same sunday morning, a team began searching the big, beautiful piece of property where seth and lisa were starting married life and preparing to raise a family. deputy marty wonderlin, working his first-ever homicide case, was back at the scene. not too long into this sunday morning search, over here by this big old tree, what do you hear? i hear, we ve got it. you know, shotgun here. they were going nuts.
the impact was so minor that they didn t go flying all over the place. they were just where they had been. correct. an expert look at the case, concluding that the pt cruiser speed at the point of impact was maybe half of what he had claimed. at the time he collided with the guardrail, it was less than a 25 miles an hour. this was a low-speed accident? correct. investigators believe the pastor staged the accident to cover-up the killing of his wife. five months after, one set of investigators asked to come down to the state police barracks for a talk while a separate team of officers, and crime scene techs headed to take a look around at the place where a.b. had lived with betty. as important was putting him under and under a roof to know where he was. the cops were about to blow