i can t sleep most of the time. a crime, like a storm everyone could see it coming. i want to ten had a dispositions. she was missing, matriarch with the grip on her power family fortune. did someone have a powerful motive to do her harm? i saw bruisers on bonnie s arm like somebody had grabbed her. so the image that you tried to kill me. who was behind this? a search in the dark. a secret in the family. and they jailhouse interview to make your jaw drop. this is a twisted tale, deep in the heart of texas,. people who are desperate, we ll do desperate things. hello and welcome to dateline, san saba city in texas hill country though tiny in size it was huge in the cloud growing business. even called the pecan capital of the world. the name kharkiv was synonymous with pecan harvesting. so when the matriarch of the family bonnie harkey went missing it sent shockwaves through the community. where was bonnie harkey? harris josh make-a-wish with queen of the count
not only accused him of mismanaging the harkey state, but also tried to bully him into accepting the sale of a chunk of land to their neighbor. the actor, tommy lee jones, for half 1 million dollars. it was good for bruce, but sphinx says, not for bonnie. so, he killed it. he wanted bonnie to get virtually nothing. less than $50,000 in what he wanted her to get. and the rest of the money would ve gone to bruce? the rest would ve gone to bruce and john. yes. so, you said to bruce, i m not for this. and that sent him in orbit. he just became irate. he cuts me out and said, i m gonna do everything i can to get you. investigators were getting a pretty good taste of the river of bad blood that ran through the harkey family. bonnie harkey family were in the county jail. and now, men with badges
over 100 and curfew has been imletted in the hardest hit location in the state, damage in bowling green consistent with a tornado with winds roughry 150 miles an hour. now back to dateline . reporter: the matriarch of a prominent pecan growing family had been brutally murdered by a member of that family. but why? the more investigators pondered that, the more they came to believe the answer might be found in a long running family feud. the first time i met the harkey family, i was bailiffin in court cause we were shorthanded and i got to sit through a little hearing where the harkeys were tryin to to gain control of the property. and you could tell it was a very
chunk of land to their neighbor, the actor tommy lee jones, for half a million dollars. it was good for bruce. but spinks says not for bonnie. so he killed it. he wanted bonnie to get virtually nothing. i know it was less than $50,000 is what he wanted wanted her to get. reporter: and the rest of the money for the sale would of gone to bruce. the rest of it would have gone to bruce and john. yes. reporter: and so you said to bruce, i m not for this. and that sent him in orbit. i mean, he just became irate and cussed me out and said, i m gonna do everything i can to to get at you. reporter: investigators were getting a pretty good taste of the river of bad blood that ran through the harkey family. bonnie harkey s grandson, carl pressely, and his girlfriend, lillian king, were in the county jail. and now men with badges decided to take a harder look at bruce harkey. coming up we had some questions for bruce harkey, too. you didn t put carl up to it?