i called my mom and she didn t answer. i pretty much knew in my heart that something was wrong. a mother vanished. i cried myself to sleep. it was awful realizing your worst nightmare had come true. a family anguished. she s gone. do you have any idea how hard that was? now, the questions begin in a southern gothic mystery. the case is puzzling. we did not really know what had happened. who would everett manage and you would have a murder in the family. soon there would be secrets. we were dealing with a person that was leading a double life. and one of them, would prove deadly. have you ever said, i know you did this? it hurts too much for me to say it out loud. hello. and welcome to dateline. it s a case that centers on the mother who had gone missing in a small town secret, that led to a very big surprise. here s keith morrison. suppose for a minute you are sitting in your car. smacked up in the middle of tuscaloosa alabama. and you poin
alongside the road was dawn. with calculated law with calculated, cold precision, dawn lavender lured theresa may failed to that dirt. road she then shot her in the back of the head and steered her car into the brush, hoping it would stay hidden for a while. you will have to lie on the stand. little poor innocent dawnie. not the cold blooded killer that i am. cold-blooded killer. yeah well if you think about, it that s exactly right. yeah. it s terrible to look at it
she killed teresa mayfield in a murder for hire scheme. but who did the hiring? here s keith morrison with the conclusion to secrets in a small town. i have to look just like poor little innocent dawnie. not the [ bleep ] cold-blooded killer that i am. dawn lavender sounded for all the world like she was boasting as she confessed to her cellmate that she murdered teresa mayfield in cold blood. in fact, in recorded conversations with her cellmate dawn not only admitted to shooting teresa, but said that she had tried once before. that strange night at the casino when teresa came home stumbling, that was her first attempt at murder. oh, man. i had so much oxycontin in that. i had everything you could think of mashed up. and she wouldn t die. she did not. woke up the next [ bleep ] night.
with calculated cold precision dawn lavender lured teresa to that dirt road. she then shot her in the back of the head then steered her car into the brush hoping it would stay hidden for a while. you re going to have to lie on the stand. i know. i have to look just like poor lil innocent dawnie. not the [ bleep ] cold-blooded killer that i am. cold-blooded killer. if you think about it, that s exactly right. yeah. it s terrible looking at it that way, though. but it s the [ bleep ] truth. it was all there. a prosecutor s dream confession. she even referred to herself as a cold-blooded killer. but there was one question anyone with a beating heart wanted to ask. why? there just had to be an answer. of that they were sure. would they ever get it out of her? why in the hell did you do it? coming up
into the brush hoping it would stay hidden for a while. you will have to lie on the stand. like poor little innocent dawnie. it was all there. a prosecutor s dream confession. she even referred to herself as a cold-blooded killer. but there was one question anyone with a beating heart wanted to ask. why? there just had to be an answer. of that they were sure. would they ever get it out of her? why in the hell did you do it? coming up at some point she was call up a hit man. a hit man for whom? another painful revelation was