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And then it was november 16th, 2009. darla was away watching her granddaughters. kay was alone at his house in payson. 9-1-1. what s the address of your emergency? it was evening when the call came in. i have help on the way but i just need to get some information. are you sure that he s dead? darla was on her way home. her cell phone chirped. it was a neighbor. and he just says, well something terrible has happened in payson canyon. he says, i think it s at your house. darla s might flashed to kay and his guns. and i thought, oh my gosh, he s probably shot somebody. an invader or something. she phoned a family friend named chris. i said something is going on, i m alone. i just need somebody. can you come down to be with me? chris rushed to meet darla at the foot of the canyon. police had blocked off the road that led to kay and darla s house. but now darla and chris thought exactly the same thing. kay probably shot someone. turned out kay never got the ....
Another aspect of the mystery. kay, remember, collected firearms and had close to 100 valuable guns locked up at his house. yet, the thieves just stole the cheaper ones from the bunker. pretty bizarre robbery, to take those guns and not take the far more valuable collection that kay had. agreed. in fact, the inside of kay s was pristine, untouched. no sign anybody had stolen anything. if this was a home invasion, it was an odd one. but by then, truth be told, detectives were already honing in on the two people who admitted they were there the whole time. kay s son roger and his wife pam. you sure that he s dead? starting with that 9-1-1 call they made. something odd about it. it didn t sound how i would think that a phone call should be made to 9-1-1 right after discovering your father had just been killed with the throat cut and zip tied in a bathtub. roger and pam, said the detectives, appear to be an emotional. ....
Own chilling tale of what happened tonight. continuing with mystery at pace in canyon, here is keith morrison. within days of k mortensen murder, his family found some deeply troubling reports. the investigation was leading, shores can be, detectives told them, to kay s son roger and rogers wife pam. garland said she could not believe it at first. i was just adamant that they could not have done it. i was their biggest defender. but then detectives asked her to listen to roger in pans recorded statements. and she too started to wonder. they told lies and it just put more suspicion on them. gradually, her conviction grew, same for k s sister, fern. i could by the fact that they were thinking of rodgers involvement. they were just too many things about roger and pam s story that didn t make any sense to fern. ....
but life, no matter how well we prepare, is full of rude surprises. as it was for kay mortensen. it was november 16th, 2009, just before thanksgiving. we have the police one the way to help you there. are you sure your dad s cold to the touch? kay did not shoot some intruder, as he promised he was prepared to do. no, someone killed him. without firing a shot. yes, he s leaned over, face forward in the bathtub with his throat sliced. and the man on the phone reporting the crime? roger mortensen. kay s eldest son. they sliced his throat. it wasn t long before kay s wife darla had made it to the mouth of the canyon, and was led to the command post that was set up beyond the hill before their home. that s where they gave her the news. your life just comes tumbling down. you had it all planned out, you thought you knew it was going ....
A lot. so, kate and darnella got married. and they were as happy as either one of them had ever been. he d say, what else do we need to do? we re retired. we have plenty of money. we ll just have fun. kay was a rich man. made most of his money buying gold at 250 an ounce, said darla. he just had the foresight. he was always you know, the dollar bill is not going to be worth anything. he put his money into a trust, so that roger and his other children would inherit everything once he was gone. heaven knows, he wasn t spending it. worth millions but he was very frugal. very frugal. and i just used to say to him i said, when is it you are going to spend your money? you know? what are you waiting for? so kay promised darla he d travel with her. see the world. but he made sure his bunker was stocked. and he kept his guns close to hand. just in case. ....