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99. [Alabama] Teresa Mayfield · Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

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was just imagining me pressing the thirty second forward. But okay, well whatever,
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Rambalon, I don't care. Push it, push it, push it,
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real kid, I don't care. Keep fast forwarding through me. Whatever.
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Anyways, all right, So let's just go ahead and get into this
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episode because I'm already annoyed with stew Teresa Renee Mayfield nay Wale was born September
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two, in nineteen sixty two to William and Reba Wale in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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She would grow up in Alabama with her two sisters, Donnis and Ashley,
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and her brother James. Now, tragedy would strike the family when in
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nineteen eighty three, Teresa's younger younger sister, Donnis passed away. Not real
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sure, they didn't have any information on that, so I don't really know
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what happened. But Teresa met William Scott Mayfield, who went by Scott,
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and they would marry and start a family of their own. Now, Teresa
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dreamed of having a loving husband and children she could watch grow. Just typical
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dreams that a lot of people have, is, you know, growing up,
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finding a good husband. Not everybody gets their dreams come through, and
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then having children. So that's what Teresa wanted in life, Stewart Now.
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They eventually settled in Moundville, Alabama, where they welcomed their first child,
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a daughter named Kelsey. Kelsey spelled k E l Ci now after Kelsey was
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born spelled k Elci could do that every time. It's just it's a unique
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spelling. I don't know. Teresa and Scott would hit a rough patch.
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Scott actually had an affair and Teresa found out about it, so she was
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like, GTFO, I'm done, get out. They ended up divorcing,
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but just three short years later, I mean they went through with the full
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divorce and everything like they were done. So this wasn't people do everything dragged
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out everything, or this wasn't dragged out. They got divorced, but just
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three short years later they actually reconciled and she ended up remarrying him. So
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she wanted her family to be together. I guess you can invite me,
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but I am not buying you another gift to their wedding. Yes, So
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anyway, so she just really wanted I guess she still had that dream of
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like having her family as a whole, which there's a lot of people that
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deal with infidelity and then they stay together. I, however, will kill
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Stewart. So that's just where I stand with that. There will not be
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reconciliation as you cannot reconcile with the deceased. So after they got back together.
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They remarried. They had two more children. These were sons and their
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names were Taylor and Colby. Now the spelled with a y, not an
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eye, that Colby name, and they usual yeah, but Kelsey's usually not
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spelled with an eye or a ce. Now the family seemed very happy they
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had recovered from that earlier divorce, that rocky patch that they went through.
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Teresa loved being a mom. She loved watching her children play sports, specifically
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softball for Kelsey and baseball for Taylor and Colby. Now she was described as
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the quintessential sports mom. She's always running into a practice or a ball game.
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She loved it. She always had like all the bats and balls in
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the trunk ready to go for practice everything. Whenever I was watching this,
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she like, I played softball in high school. She reminded me a little
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bit of my mom. She even kind of looked like or whatever, but
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that's what she reminded me of. Now. Teresa and her family were regular
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churchgoers, attending Stuart United Methodist Church. That's my church, God help these
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people. That's where I preach at. Oh, I thought you were gonna
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say, that's where they people worshiped you at the Steward United We're Gonna You're
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Gonna go to Hell. Teresa loved helping with the children and was involved involved
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with the church's children's program. Now. She was described as outgoing, fun
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and loved people. Now. The family did struggle with money at times.
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Scott would work two jobs to make ends meet, but they were happy.
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They had three kids living life typical finance struggles that a lot of people deal
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with, but they were making it. On the morning of June thirteenth,
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two thousand and seven, Teresa left Kelsey at home with the two younger boys,
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who were now eight and eleven. She needed to go run some errands
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and Scott, their dad, was at work. Teresa was scheduled to return
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home, but she failed to. Dum dumb. Kelsey began calling her mom,
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who was who always had her cell phone on her, but she wasn't
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answering. She kept calling with no response all through the afternoon and the evening.
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Kelsey was able to get hold of her dad as he left his day
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job to head to his evening job at a factory. Scott was very concerned,
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and he ended up leaving work around midnight to head to the police department.
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Yeah I mean I would have probably just finished my shift at the factory.
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I mean she's only been missing like twelve hours. Must have been a
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salad, cold or something. She had cash. She might add some coals
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cash. I can see why he wasn't too concerned until midnight. You're being
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sarcastic. Well, yes, I mean people that normally listen to this would
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pick up on her chasm. Well, and those that don't write one star
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reviews. Okay, Well, anyways, I'm having a demand splain Stewart over
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here, but STU splain him anyways. But yes, it was seemed like
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a long He was very cavalier with his timing to contact the police. I
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feel like, or come home or look forward. Well, especially he had
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three small children. I mean the kids boys were eight and eleven. I
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don't know how they didn't have Kelsey was a maybe four or five years old.
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She was a teenager. I mean that's and she could have been fourteen,
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fifteen or more. Either way, it's three children under the age of
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eighteen at home all day by themselves, worried, frantic about their mom and
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why she's not answering their phone and her phone and everything, and you're just
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like, let me just head onto my next job, that's fine. Yeah.
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If she don't show up, call me at my next job. Yeah.
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So anyway, during this time, they called family, they called friends,
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with no sign of Teresa. Reba who is Teresa's mother, Not Reba
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McIntyre. I know I was disappointed as well. Are you sure now?
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Reba? Her husband had passed away about a decade before all this, So
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this is Teresa's only parent eleven right now, and she lived about two hours
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away, and she had not seen nor heard from Teresa either. Everyone was
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very worried because this wasn't like Teresa. She's a mom first and foremost,
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and nobody would ever think that she would even be capable of leaving her children
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alone because she was always there for him, going to the practices, doing
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all the things. Yeah, and so everybody out of character. This is
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not something she does. She's not a flighty mom. That just takes off
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me, like, I can't even want these children anymore. Like Karen going
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to coals, those are business trips. I have calls cash piece out.
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No, but you know what, you know what they've done got me on
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at the coals. So Amazon, So Coals worked out a deal with Amazon.
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This gets me every time. So we take our daughter, she goes
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to the little the little gym well on Saturdays. Well it's right next to
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the Coals. So we ordered ten of Amazon stuff, just like everybody else,
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so we have the whenever we have a return, if it's not something's
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defective. Amazon now makes you either pay for shipping or take it to one
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of their like places to drop off, and a lot of times it's easier
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just to like pop into the wherever you're going to store. So one of
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the places is Coals. So when you go return at the Coals now though,
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they give you a twenty percent off your entire purchase when you do your
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Amazon return, So then you're in the store, you're leaving, you're like,
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oh, I got this twenty percent off. Every time I bought stuff,
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I've spent more than what I was returning on the Amazon at the Coals
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Yeah, because you're cheap. You're sending like back a five dollars item and
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you could probably just throw on the garbage cam, but you're like, no,
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I'm my five dollars. Yeah, and then I haven't spent in one
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hundred dollars at Coals with twenty percent off. Yes, yeah, so Coals
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they're onto something. They're you got yourself. No, this is marketing by
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the Coals people, and they're good. If you would just throw the item
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in the garbage cam. Why would I throw a perfectly good item away that
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I could get money back for because when you got it, calls and you
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spend more money. This is a recent development. It's only happened the last
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four times I've this on Amazon, because I've done it through the Coals.
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Anyways, Anyways, so Scott arrived at the police station and filed a missing
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persons report. But it did not take long for them to find Teresa because
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that morning, you know, he filed the police report at around midnight or
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went to the police station around that time. So just a few hours later,
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about a half a mile from her home, they actually found Teresa's vehicle
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on a dirt road and in the tree like it was like, well,
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I don't know what shoved into the trees, shoved into the not shoved into
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the trees, like rammed into the trees, not rammed crashed crashed in trees.
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You know, babies take brain cells due they these two over here really
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taken a lot for me. They have, and they ain't got much to
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show for it. I'm kidding. They're they're brilliant, they're gonna be just
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it's just fine. So there's nothing wrong with trade school. No anyway,
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So I'm kidding. Guys, don't write me ugly letters. So it's c
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A R A. Yeah, at least get my name spelled right. Okay,
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No, stud's not college educated. It's fine. I mean, I
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mean I tried to overcome with all my degrees. But no, you just
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latch onto somebody that's already got it and me just go with down. Yeah,
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that's what you've done. So the forty four year old, let's get
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back to being serious because it's when things are going to get darksto. So
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this is all on you. Then in the vehicle they found forty four year
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old Teresa Mayfield. She had been shot and she was dead. Now,
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there was initial discussion of Teresa possibly having committed suicide. I didn't see this
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coming whenever I was looking into this. That to me was like kind of
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crazy because she was, you know, pretty happy and seemed very involved with
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their children. But and the possibility of her committing suicide came about because even
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some of her family members thought that it might have crossed. It crossed their
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minds for just a brief moment that this could have been, you know,
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what she did to herself. Yeah, what she did to herself. They
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were telling police that, you know, she was very stressed out lately over
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all these financial issues, and her daughter Kelsey could tell that her mom was
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struggling under the pressures of the home finances too, like her daughter could see,
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like things, dad's working two jobs. I think Teresa was a state
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maybe a state at home mom. I'm not real sure if she was.
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It didn't wasn't clear if she was working or not. But yeah, it
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was you know a lot of stresses coming from that. Yeah, because he's
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working two jobs, so he's gone all the time, and she's probably taken
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managing the home finances and seeing where things are at, taking three kids around
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yep. So they yeah, plus all like baseball and softball, so it's
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competitive, super expensive. So but despite her being under this stress, the
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family did know that no matter how Teresa would have felt, she would never
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have left her children like that. She loved them too much. Now,
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the theory of suicide was not long lived. No Penitini intended there was a
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I know there was a key object missing from the scene, Stu, what
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do you think that was if someone's going to if someone shot themselves in the
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head, what do you think is going to be laying there next to him?
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Well, since she said a key object, I'm guessing the car keys
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were missing. No, the gun. So there's no gun there. So
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they're like, well, obviously she didn't kill herself that whoever did this too
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or should have left the gun there because they might have been able to play
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this off or whatever. So well, actually, once it gets into like
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the autopsy and stuff, they usually can tell, you know, by the
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interest somebody was able to handle a weapon that way and actually shoot themselves.
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Yeah, so the gun's missing. So other than Teresa being murdered, there
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was nothing in the crime scene that indicated a struggle or someone else even having
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been there. Like they just she's just murdered out here. There's no gun,
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and then everything else is not like fine car. There's no broken windows,
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there's no anything like door halfway open, nothing, She's just sitting in
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her yep, none of that. There were no hairs or fingerprints, and
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no other tire tracks. Or footprints leading to her from the vehicle, and
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it was a dirt road, so you think you would have seen something like
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that. The only item missing was her cell phone, but no other items
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were taken. The purse had been dumped to look like a robbery, but
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they did not actually take her wallet or anything. Now, the driver's side
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window was rolled down, indicating that Teresa knew her killer. So she's rolled
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the window down to talk to this person and then they attacked her with the
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gun. Now, police immediately bring Scott in to question him about his whereabouts
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and him and Teresa's relationship. Yeah, always look at the husband. No,
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you look at the wife. She's what do you mean, look at
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the wife. She's dead. The husband's the number one suspect. Well it
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should be you, no matter who got murdered, should be now. Scott
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tells police that he was at work at his day job on a farm.
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He said he had spoken to Teresa earlier that morning and that she had called
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him about two hours later. He said it sounded like she was on the
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road and he couldn't make out she was saying, and the call began the
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drop. Now, he thought nothing of it and just assumed that she had
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hit a spot with no reception, then he'd be getting a call from her
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in a couple of minutes or later whenever she got around a call in him
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back. Yeah, he said, he didn't even He said, during that
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conversation, he received the call, but there was such bad reception, like
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he didn't even talk to her at all, Like it was just yeah.
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So he said, there was nothing alarmment about the last call he had with
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her. He tells him that he and Teresa were happy. There was no
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infidelity in the marriage on either side. They were very much in a good
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marriage and did not argue. That's a lot, that's a goddamn lie.
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Everybody argues at some point about something. Well, I mean, but I
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think it. There's normal arguing and then there's I'm going to murder my wife
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arguing. And so he was saying that it's probably like if I was if
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someone came and asked us if you were a murdered or if I was murdering
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you asked if they were asked if we are let's just say nobody's murdered.
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They're just asking us. Say we're on a game show, and they asked
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us if we argue yes, No, we don't argue. When do we
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argue? Why were you talking about? No, I'm annoyed by you,
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but that's completely different than arguing. Sometimes your existence annoys me, but that
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we're not arguing about that. Those are just those are just facts. We
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don't need to argue about that. Well, tonight, when we go to
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bed, I'm gonna put my head on the pillow and pass out right away.
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I know you are, and I'm gonna get that annoys me to no
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end, and you'll be up for at least thirty minutes being and then you'll
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bite when I'm about to doze off. Then one of the children will wake
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up, and then I'll get up and mess with them, because you can
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sleep through anything. Yeah, that's how it goes. Anyway, We're real
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happy, guys. Police did check out Scott's alibi, and he had witnesses
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as to where he was, which was at the farm, and he also
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had a breakfast receipt from Hardy's about thirty miles from Mound Belle at the time
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of the murder up near Tuscaloosa. Do you eat the hearties? Stup,
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not the breakfast Now, I ain't been the Hardys in quite some time.
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Hardy's and Carl's Junior are the same thing. Now. Yes, we used
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to go to a Hearty's whenever I was in a child, and I used
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to always get a burger with mayo, lettuce, cheese, and then the
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burger you know. But there was the one we always went too was on
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the Oklahoma Turnpike, and there was a lady that worked there, and every
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time I saw her, I would like cry. I don't know if she
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gave me like bad vibes. I was terrified of this woman and that worked
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with the hardiest. Yet you took your food from her and ate it.
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Well, I wasn't I was a child. I didn't really have a choice.
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But every time I went my mom, I would just like burst into
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tears crying because of being around this lady. And your mom kept taking him
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back to see this lady. Well, we like the Hardies. I like
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the burger. I like the burger. No, that was the only one
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I guess out of look then, I mean eventually I think she stopped,
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but it wasn't good. It's still it was one of my favorite foods.
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I probably was asking it to go. And then whenever that lady was there,
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I would cry, I want to know what's wrong with that lady.
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I wouldn't if I wish I knew what her name was so I could find
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out what evil things she had done her life for. Like you know,
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like they say children and dogs can like sense that about people. Stewart,
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No, no, ye didn't you terrors the neighbor teenager that pulled into his
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own driveway. He was very scary, and he pulled into his own driveway
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at his house where he lived, whose yard you happened to be in.
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I've had a fear of strangers and a fear of being abducted for a long
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time in my life. Yes, I was very little. I was probably
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like four or five. And this was back whenever they let the kids ride
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around the neighborhood. You know, just wild. You know. Now they
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call him free range parenting, and it's just like you let your child do
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anything without surveillance, then all of a sudden, you're some sort of hippie
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free range parent. But of course we wouldn't let our children go anywhere by
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themselves, but this one you could just go ride around the neighborhood. So
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yeah, we rode around and then we pulled into We were in their driveway
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and he had this black truck and it just carried the shit out of me
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as a child. I threw my bike down and started screaming and ran away
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crying all the way back home. And then the poor kid, he was
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a teenager, and he's just like, I didn't do anything. He's like,
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I'm sorry, I just I just pulled into the driveway where I live.
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Yeah, where I live. Anyways. Now, with Scott cleared,
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please begin reaching out to other friends and family. Now, Teresa was supposed
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to meet a friend that day to go shopping and her name was Kim Binyon.
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Now, Kim says that the last time she spoke to spoke to Teresa
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was on the phone around seven am the morning she was killed. Now,
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Teresa was supposed to come pick Kim up, but never showed. Kim called
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Teresa multiple times with no answer, and she was very worried about her friend
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as well, like this wasn't again. Everyone knew this is not like Teresa.
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With all the last interactions with Teresa being on the phone, they subpoenaed
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her phone records to verify what everybody was stating, saying, if you said
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you called it this time, let's double check, make sure you're actually telling
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the truth. This is when they found something odd. The call that Teresa
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had with Scott was not made near Moundville. It pinned off a tower in
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Tuscaloosa's dude ruttro Raggy. Now with the time of death, in the time
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of the phone call in Tuscaloosa, it was clear that Teresa could not have
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made that phone call. So whoever took that phone of hers after they murdered
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her, they made that phone call to Scott. So we know now that
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that phone call that he said he didn't hear anything that it was just like
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the phone call drops. Teresa was dead by that point because whoever killed her
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had her phone was making phone calls from Tuscaloosa, driving Tuscaloosa where Scott was.
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Yes, it was taunting him thirty though, because it was about thirty
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miles from where they were at, just taunting him. Yes, he's poor
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fellow. Now, with Teresa's phone having been in Tuscaloosa where Scott was,
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there are new questions about his life. Police find out from family members that
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a woman came by and picked up the boys the day after the murder.
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And now this was was net to help out Scott. She was supposedly a
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friend of Scott's, so police track her down and now police are surprised to
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find out that this is actually Scott's girlfriend. Now, they had been dating
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for sometime, she said, and she had been around as children before.
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Kelsey just thought that she was a family friend. The girlfriend had no idea
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Scott was still married, and he told her that him and Theresa were separated
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and that they were in a process of getting a divorce. How many men
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have told this lie to women? Ladies? If they're could say they're getting
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divorced, say, how do you to see some papers? Okay, let
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me call and talk to this ex wife of yours or that supposedly let's see,
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Well they're getting a divorce happen? Theresa wasn't aware there's no papers.
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No, But I'm saying I wouldn't. I wouldn't date a guy who was
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like getting a divorce. You'd better be divorced, especially if someone who who
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was married to a woman and cheating on her, they got divorced and then
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they remarried after a couple of years. You better make sure that thing is
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signed, still delivered. Before he started dating him. Well, shouldn't know
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that anyways. Anyways, So the girlfriend had no idea that Scott was still
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married, like I was telling you anyway. The police believed the woman because
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she seemed very distraught over the news that Scott was still very much a married
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man. Now, when Teresa's family found out, they were not surprised based
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on his past indiscretions. The girlfriend agreed to help police by recording her calls
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with Scott, and she asked if he had killed Teresa, and he insisted
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that he did not. They were suspicious of Scott, but they had no
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evidence that he was involved with Teresa's murder. Yeah, he had his alibi.
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He was definitely at work during this time, Like, there's no questions
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about that. He does have this shady situation with the girlfriend and the telephone
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the girlfriends, Yeah, the telephone thing, But again, how would he
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was at work. He obviously received the phone call on his phone, like
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it went out to him. So yeah, there's not much they can go
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on by this, but just say, well, he's just kind of a
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shitty person who was cheating on his wife. But you can't really he's now
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dead, but you can't arrest somebody for being a bad person person, can
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you I've heard I've seen cases where the ex wife sues the mistress for damages.
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Have you seen that. I've heard of it before. Yeah, they
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sue him, and I think sometimes they win. I mean there should be
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some consequences to breaking up a family, Yes, I mean the husband's obviously
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it fault too as well. I mean this is not supposedly anyway. A
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year passed with no new information. Scott was a doting dad and even showed
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up at a memorial for Teresa and spoke to the crowd what a nice fellow.
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Suspicions loomed over him, but he seemed to have the support of the
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community, his children and friends. Teresa's family was still very suspicious of him,
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but they didn't They weren't running around gospel and about it. They kind
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of kept all that to themselves. Well, they also don't want to lose
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access to the children because he's their father. And the children. Yeah,
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the children were real, you know, really they loved their dad. He
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was never like a bad father or whatever. He was just a crappy husband.
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But he could have cut off all communications with the children to the family
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if they were saying like, I think he's had something to do with this.
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Now, finally some new information came to police. Two men were sitting
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in a bar and began telling someone a story of how they were trying to
25:45
kill a rattlesnake out on a dirt road. This is so Alabama. I
25:48
can't even This is so southern. This is this is like the South summed
25:53
up. So they was gonna barbecue it. Yeah, we just had to
25:56
kidd it. So they're out on this dirt road. There's this rattlesnake.
25:59
They're going to kill it. Now, this is around the time that Teresa
26:03
was killed, and the road was not too far from where Teresa had been
26:06
murdered. So they're on a dirt road not too far away. They had
26:10
nothing on them to kill the snake, and that's when a friend of theirs
26:12
pulled up. Now, this friend had a gun on them, of course,
26:15
I mean, it's not it's not out of the norm. What was
26:18
out of the norm was the gun was in a ziploc bag and she handed
26:22
them the gun still in the baggy to kill the snake, which is strange
26:26
because that's not how you store a gun. Now, police, when police
26:32
spoke to the man that told the story. He told him that the woman's
26:33
name that gave them the gun was named Kim Benyon. Shut up now,
26:38
I just want to say that the Kim Benyon, that's her real name,
26:41
but she also goes by Don Lavender. And I know right whenever they said
26:48
that I was watching I think it was a date line episode maybe that I
26:52
was watching with this, and they said her name was Don Lavender. They
26:56
used her name Don Lavender that she went by. They didn't use Kim Benion.
27:00
I found that in the court records, but so Don Lavender when they
27:04
said it, I was like, there's no way this is that bitch's real
27:07
name. And it was not Don Lavender. It sounds like Don's dish soap
27:12
in the must have just really like seen a bottle at the Dollar General and
27:17
was like, I'm gonna go by Dawn Lavender anyway, So this is Kim
27:22
Minion. Well, this stands out to police. Kim was that friend that
27:25
was supposed to meet Teresa that day that she was murdered, the one that
27:29
was going to go shopping with her, and said she was so concerned about
27:30
her friend. Now with this new information, they looked more into Kim's story
27:34
to see if there's any holes in that. Oh, there's some holes in
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Kim. Yeah, Stuart, what don't be disgusting? What's wrong with you?
27:42
Whats wrong with you? Don Lavender, She's definitely open for some fun.
27:53
Now, Kim had originally told the police that she had called Teresa that
27:56
morning, so they subpoenaed her phone records and found out that she made the
28:00
call near where Teresa had been murdered. Now, this was the only evidence
28:07
they had, and they didn't even know why she would want to kill Teresa
28:10
to begin with. And I'm sure Moundville's pretty small in terms of cell towers.
28:14
It might ping off, so I don't even know how much how close
28:18
she would have lived. So it's not that's not a lot of evidence,
28:19
but it is something too. Yeah, that's something that they're looking at.
28:22
Yeah, so they went ahead. They made an arrest on top of the
28:26
gun situation with the ziplock, which just went at it a little strange,
28:29
and the fact that her she named herself Dawn Lavender, which is so stupid.
28:33
So anyway, the police went ahead made an arrest, picking up Kim
28:37
from her work on June eleven at twenty ten, telling her that she was
28:41
under the arrest, under arrest, under the arrest, under the arrest for
28:45
the murder of Teresa. Now, they had Kim and custody, but really
28:48
had no physical evidence. But they also made another arrest that day, and
28:52
that was Scott Mayfield. While they were learning this information about Kim, they
28:57
also found out from some new fellows some information about Scott. Now, a
29:03
couple of different men came forward and told police that Scott had asked them to
29:07
kill his wife. One of them he offered a whop in five hundred dollars.
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You know what, there's one thing to be a murderer, you know,
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it's a whole other thing to be that cheap. This is ridiculous.
29:18
Yeah, five hundred dollars. You can't even get a good flat screen TV
29:22
these days for that kind of No. Well, I mean even back then
29:25
in twenty ten, you probably couldn't even go to take your kids to Disney
29:27
World for that much. Hung up on this Disney World thing, ain't you.
29:30
It's what. It's very expensive. It's ridiculous. They do not limit
29:37
the amount of people that go into Disney World for the price of the ticket.
29:40
They do not. They do not. Now one of the men told
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him, him being Scott, to get a divorce. The other one said
29:48
that he would do it just to try to scam the money out of Scott,
29:51
but he had no intention of going through with the murderer. So the
29:55
one guy's just like, dude, I'll do it. No. The one
29:57
guy that's like, get a divorce, like Scott, come on, man,
30:02
stop asking people to kill your wife. Like, how is this like
30:03
a casual conversation that he's having with multiple people? Like how low does he
30:08
think? How terrible does he think men are just in general, that they're
30:11
I guess he thinks they're all like him, that they're just like hey,
30:15
yeah, well, I mean that he thinks just all these random men that
30:18
he works with, they're just gonna be on board with like killing his wife,
30:22
you kill mine, I'll kill your It's like what what what? I
30:30
don't even know what that's from or anything. I was thinking more of a
30:33
of a classical of strangers on a train where they meet each other and they
30:40
both agree to kill each other's uh significant others. Yes, anyways, Yes,
30:47
I just thought it was funny the one guy telling him, like,
30:48
get a divorce, Like, that's the best advice he could give him,
30:52
Just get a divorce pretty much. Now, there were still no solid evidence
30:56
against Scott or Kim, so they decided to set up a sting operation.
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Now Kim had a cell mate, and Kim had been talking to her,
31:06
her Sally about the murder. Kim's a chatty cathy don Lavender loves to talk.
31:12
Well. The cellmate agreed to help record don Lavender in turn for a
31:18
good word to the judge about her helping out with it. They wired up
31:23
to Sally and waited for Kim to talk, and boy did she talk.
31:29
Yep, she loves to talk about this. I mean I would be norm
31:32
about talking about this in jail. I mean, Jesus Christ, there's no
31:37
code anymore among criminals. There's someone will snitch on you in a heartbeat.
31:40
There never was a code among criminal Oh is that there's not a there's no
31:45
code among criminals. There's no honor among these. Oh okay, that's so
31:48
yum. Yeah, the witch caller. I don't think in the Moundville,
31:53
Alabama prison either, there's a bunch of snitches get stitches. These are all
31:57
like pretty soft itches that her just gonna turn. It's probably said jail.
32:02
I don't think there's a present there, Okay, well whatever. Anyways,
32:07
I don't think there's a bunch of hardened criminals at the Moundville, Alabama jail
32:10
that are going to be like, oh yeah, I don't. I wouldn't
32:13
do anything because I you better be careful. They might track you down upside
32:15
about what you said about him. Now. On the recording, Kim starts
32:20
off by explaining why she decided to kill Teresa so early, like early,
32:24
like during the day, like it was early in the morning. Kim said
32:29
she did not want to take any more vacation days, so she needed to
32:31
do it early in the morning. You gotta get that murder in so you
32:35
can make it on your shifts. You don't waste any more of your days
32:37
off. No, you can't be blowing PTO just to go kill a friend.
32:42
This she's terrible. I mean it's either that or she's got to wait
32:45
till the weekend. Yeah. I think she didn't have an element and it
32:47
might be more one of the kids might become it would be a whole more
32:52
so. She calls Teresa around seven am and told her that she had car
32:54
trouble and asked if she could come pick her up. Well, Teresa,
32:58
being the good friend, said of course and headed out to meet Kim.
33:01
Teresa pulled down the dirt road where Kim was waiting. She had a gun
33:06
in the back of her like stored in the back of her pants, so
33:07
Teresa didn't see anything when she approached it. And why would she expect.
33:12
I mean, you're going to help your friend out that you go shopping with,
33:16
like, I'm not gonna whip out a gun and like shoot you.
33:20
So when Teresa pulled up and rolled down the window, even if I saw
33:22
my friends stand there with a gun, I wouldn't be like, oh,
33:24
she's coming to shoot me. I mean I'd be like, what are we
33:27
doing? Are you worried about something chasing you? So Stewart stopped looking at
33:32
me like that, if you don't want to be here, then just go
33:36
okay, all right. So when Teresa pulled up and rolled down the window,
33:42
Kim pulled the gun out and shot her in the head. She said
33:45
she was bleeding profusely. She put her hand on her neck and felt and
33:49
there was she still had like a pulse, Kim said. She then opened
33:52
the door and put the car in neutral so it would crash into the trees
33:57
ahead of like ahead of her car. She then took off, leaving her
34:00
friend to bleed to death. She was hoping that the trees would hide the
34:04
vehicle for a while, which she's also a dumbass, because if you see
34:07
the crime scene photos, it's a dirt road and a car sitting at the
34:12
end, and just the little front part of the car is in the trees,
34:15
like it's It's not like the cold car was just velvet with the woods
34:19
or something. I expect more from someone with the lavender. Yeah. Well,
34:25
Kim continued to talk to herself mate, saying that she was a cold
34:30
blooded killer, but on the stands like words, this is old Dawn's words,
34:36
oh Kim. But on the stand she would have to lie and act
34:40
like innocent little Kimmy. Kim even confessed to trying to kill Teresa on an
34:45
earlier occasion. One night, they had gone to a casino together and Teresa
34:50
had been dealing with her anxiety, so Kim offered her some xanax. Well,
34:53
it was not exactly xanax, it was oxycotton. She also crushed them
34:59
up and put it in Teresa's drink and Kim said the bitch wouldn't die.
35:05
She woke up almost two days later. Yeah, and the family. Actually
35:08
the daughter remembered this story and she thought it was so weird that her mom.
35:15
Her mom wasn't like a big drink or anything like that and didn't take
35:17
anything, so it really knocked her out. She said she was in her
35:21
room for like two days sleeping. This off like she almost died from this.
35:27
It was bad. While she realized she almost died after they told her,
35:30
after the confession of what it was actually put into her drink. Yeah,
35:36
they just thought her the mom or Teresa told the family. She said
35:40
she was like coherent enough, and she said that Kim Dawn I know why
35:46
she was about a Don Lavendar because Kim Bunyon sounds like Kim Bunyan. And
35:51
I'm sure she got made fun of quite a bit when she was a child,
35:53
but which caused her to be this terrible person today. But yeah,
35:59
as they said that she like you, she admitted, I didn't make fun
36:01
of anybody. Stewart, why are you looking at me like that? I'm
36:06
I don't even want to interact with people. I would never go to the
36:08
make fun of people that would require me to interact with them. I just
36:12
want to be left alone. So when I was a child, and apparently
36:16
stay away from the lady at the Hardies. But yeah, they her mom,
36:20
they did. She did say she was with it enough when she followed
36:23
when she got home to say that kim had given her her xanex xan x
36:28
xan x x x x and uh so they didn't think anything of it.
36:35
They just thought it just kind of threw her off, her whole system off,
36:37
and she slept for those two days. But yeah, it was.
36:42
She was probably close to being dead and didn't even realize it. Now.
36:45
When the seal Maid asked what Kimmy slashed on why she did it, she
36:51
said that she was a hitman. She said that Scott had hired these words
36:54
again, this is all her words, Like she's very proud of this,
36:57
Like she's a hardcore's part criminal. Yes, that know that she's in here.
37:02
Tell she's just so stupid, she's really just dumb. Yeah, she
37:06
deserves to go to jail anyway. She told the Sally that Scott had hired
37:10
her for about fifteen to twenty thousand dollars didn't even have a settled price,
37:15
and he Now, I mean it's better than the five hundred dollars he offer
37:20
the other guy. You know, he's never gonna go. He's not gonna
37:22
he's gonna give you fifteen. He's not even gonna give you if he did
37:25
give you the money, he's not going to go. There's not a rain.
37:29
She's not be like, you did a really good job. Let me
37:30
give you a tip. Take it to seven five thousand dollars tip. Yeah,
37:35
Now, she said that when she had completed the hit, she took
37:37
Teresa's cell phone and drove to Tuscaloosa, where she called Scott and said nothing
37:43
for a minute or two, and then she hung up. Now this was
37:45
her confirmation to him that the job was complete. Why would she drive away
37:52
from the crime scene, or why would she drive that way? Why wouldn't
37:55
she drive where she thought Teresa might go for an errand? Or because the
38:00
bitch is talking in jail. She's not that bright. She doesn't know about
38:02
pinging on cell phone towers. Obviously. Anyway, Scott said he would pay
38:07
her the money from her life insurance, but he never did. No,
38:14
of course, not cheap cheap bastard wanted to pay five hundred dollars originally,
38:20
and he's going to fork over fifteen. Gee's no. So anyway, with
38:24
this confession, they were able to move forward with preparing for trial, but
38:29
before that could happen, both Kim and Scott decided to cop some plea deals.
38:34
On May nineteen, twenty eleven, they both played guilty to murder and
38:37
attempted murder. Now they were both sentenced to two consecutive life sentences with the
38:45
possibility of parole. So I take everything back I said about the name Dawn
38:49
Lavender. I think it's a great name. I don't think Kim Bunyon sounds
38:52
like Kim Bunyan. I mean it's been what twelve years now, you think
38:57
she's up for parole. I think she's I think I had checked on him.
39:00
They're still behind bars now. Just to follow up, they also arrested
39:06
that man that said he would kill Teresa but never did. His name was
39:09
Willie Underwood, and they charged him with conspiracy to commit murder and he was
39:14
convicted of that. So don't be playing around. Don't be like, oh,
39:16
I'm just gonna how do we know that he really did that or did
39:22
he really have intended like you're gonna can't play around with saying you're gonna kill
39:25
somebody because the police don't know if you're actually meant to do it you just
39:30
didn't have a chance and didn't fall through, or if you were really just
39:31
screwing with the Scott guy. Yeah, he probably thought he was just going
39:36
to tell police. Oh yeah, I just told him I would so i'd
39:37
get the money. And they're like, it's not funny. Willie, come
39:42
with us, will Yeah, I come with us, Willie. So yeah,
39:45
so they figured out who did all this stuff? So who did it
39:49
all? Scott Kim's an idiot? Yep, Scott's a terrible person. Willie
39:55
should have just kept his damn yeh should have had used the advice the other
40:00
guy said, just just get a divorced Scott. Okay, all right,
40:05
but okay, well that's our episode for this week. That's it. That's
40:08
it. Okay, we're not gonna do it. Y'all need Jesus because we're
40:13
running late on this and I'm tired. So and Caros, I'm prepared,
40:17
No, you're unprepared still, and so I would have to wait for you
40:22
to find one and then we'd have to do it and I'm tired. No
40:23
you don't. You just said, oh, which one did I have?
40:25
You just I just ask you when we paused a wall go, I said,
40:29
do you have one? And you said what was that one I was
40:31
telling you about? And then I was like, no, never mind,
40:34
we're not doing this, so I'll let you do. Jess, I'll let
40:37
you do too, I'll let you fall. Who was that singer that something
40:40
about thunder? Or who is that singer James Brown? Or who are we
40:46
doing what about? And I interrupted you and said it was stupid? Oh
40:52
do you remember that one? How the hell are you going to confuse George
40:54
Jones and James Brown. I don't even know. I just contrary with what
40:59
I just came up with the name Stewart. I don't know. I don't
41:00
even know where the name James Brown is. I don't even know who that
41:04
is. I just it just came in my head. Okay, Wow,
41:08
we're gonna get something anyway. I don't remember. I don't even know who
41:13
James Brown is or George Jones. I don't know who these people are.
41:17
So maybe you can follow up on that. That guy George straight the guy
41:23
that sang thunder rolls, Stewart, don't start with me. Okay, he
41:28
does this all the time. He sits there and puts Garth Brooks songs and
41:34
says they're George Straight songs or vice versa, even though he knows because I
41:37
dragged him to a Garth Brooks concert which was really good. But all right,
41:43
so well, well let's do do two. Y'all need Jesus is or
41:46
something. I don't know, probably not, but I'll just tell him that
41:50
right now so we can be Well, I'm gonna have to do two.
41:52
If I do the one that you sent me the other day, well we
41:54
can spread them out. No, that one was for a very specific episode
41:58
anyways. All right, so oh that one that I sent you, I
42:00
did send you one. Yeah, all right, well thank you. If
42:05
you're still here, we appreciate it. Check us out and the show notes
42:09
all the stuff, and I guess we will see you next time. Bye,
42:13
everyone, say bye stew Bye stew Don't you know it's by life to
42:21
be super staicious, by nothing else. It's working, it's really learning,
42:31
say all, it's worry. I can't