as the trees that reach for the sky. i think she s dead! it eats at me. i can t sleep most of the time. reporter: a crime like a storm everyone could see it coming. everybody in town has their suspicions. she was missing the matriarch with a grip on the family s powerful fortune. did someone have a powerful motive to do her harm? i saw bruises on bonnie s arms, like someone had grabbed her. she looked at him and said you tried to kill me. who was behind this? a search in the dark. right there, right there! a secret in the family. and a jailhouse interview to make your jaw drop! reporter: you said you wished she were dead. and then later, she became dead! i m lester holt, and this dateline is a twisted tale deep in the heart of texas. people who are desperate will do desperate things. in this country power and mon and struggle to get hands on both, the saga of a proud texas family never as cold hearted as some of the people you re about to mee
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it was like oh, wow. he did it. he took off and we didn know where he was. he took off, and we did not know where he was. call it a mother intuition. she had a sign. i don t know how, something wa wrong. her daughter away at colleg was not answering her phone. she was scared. she did not know where ale was. then, terrible news, student had been murdered, i young woman, but apparently it was not alex the girl on the floor had very dark, almost black colore hair she had much lighter hair. so, who was it, and where was alex at that point, it was one that, and perhaps anothe missing. the color could be roaming campus of students we were really scared in a serious tweet. what did you think? i don t exactly know. a terrifying phone call my son just called and told me he killed somebody. and a terrible truth. i did not know how, and i did not know who and i did not know anything. i just knew she was gone hello, and welcome to dateline
I hope i could do somethin different, but it s not goin to change. it s at me it eats at me. i can t sleep most of the time as for the estate bruce harkey had so fervently hope to inherent, that seem to be gone with the texas wind in the wake of bonnie s death, the orchards faded, and ther were no longer any harkeys living in the harkey home. and that s all for this edition of dateline. i m craig melvin thanks for watching. i m craig melvin. i m natalie morales this is dateline