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And she wanted us to try to help her. you know, we can put a word into the da or put a word into the judge. >> that was enough to get cooperation from her? >> right. >> the objective was simple. get dawn talking, wrangle from her something that at least sounded like a confession. ellis and boyd outfitted dawns cell mate with a digital recorder no bigger than a matchbox. and, on a friday afternoon, as an unsuspecting dawn reviewed her case file, her cell mate walked in and waited for some incrimi...

>> how did she get them? >> i believe dawn gave them to her. >> remember how teresa was stressed out those last weeks of her life? the night of the casino trip, teresa told kelsey dawn gave her xanax, the anti-anxiety medication to calm her down, dawn told her. it certainly did that. out like a light calm for two whole days. >> i looked at her, i said teresa, you need to stay away from that woman, she is no friend of yours. >> how did teresa respond to that? >> she said, ive learned my lesson. >...

>> you must have been aware of the fact that people were suspicious of him? >> it bothered me hearing the bad things people had to say about him. i knew my dad was never capable of doing something like that. i was going to have his back regardless. >> but to investigators, scotts affair and the fact he lied about it to police certainly was suspicious. ellis and boyd asked the girlfriend to help them out by recording her conversations with scott. maybe hed let something slip. >> hey. >> hey. >> a...

Clue the killer left behind. >> we noticed that the only window down was the drivers window. so we figured that she had to have known the person because she had let down her window. we had to ask ourselves, who could get her to this location and why was she murdered? >> someone in moundville had to know something. >> from there the investigation went where? >> investigating her inner circle, trying to find a motive. >> usually, so im told, in cases like this, the husband has got to be a person o...

Its a funny thing about secrets. they can only stay hidden for so long. especially in a little place like moundville. and it didnt take very long for sheriff ellis and corporal boyd to stumble on a secret scott had been keeping. >> while we was at the crime scene, scott had a young lady to come pick up the boys. >> it was only later when the fog of grief lifted that one of teresas relatives wondered to police who was that woman hanging around the day teresa died? ellis and boyd tracked her down ...

Maybe worse. he must have been aware of the fact that people were suspicious of him. >> it bothered me hearing the bad things people had to say about him. i knew my dad was never capable of doing something like that. i was going to have his back regardless. >> but to investigators, scotts affair and the fact he lied about it to police certainly was suspicious. ellis and boyd asked the girlfriend to help them out by recording her conversations with scott. maybe hed let something slip. >> hey. >> ...

Sheriff ellis and corporal boyd picked apart the early interview with a suspicious eye. they pulled her phone records and there it was plain as day. dawns lies caught by cell phone technology. >> it painted a clearer picture that dawn was in the location of teresa the morning that she was murdered. >> why in heavens name would a woman who claimed to be teresas friend want to kill her? good question, which perhaps theyd get answered once they accused dawn lavender of murder, which they did. she, ...

Talking. >> we had another young lady that was getting out of jail and she came to us and said that dawn had been talking about the murder. >> but that could have been just gossip, mind you. from a jailhouse snitch who couldnt back it up. but dawn did have a cell mate. >> she was kind of in a jam herself. she wanted us to try to help her. we can put a word into the d.a. or into the jail. >> that was enough to get cooperation from her. >> right. >> the objective was simple. get dawn talking, wran...

Morrison. on june 11, 2010, almost three years to the day teresa mayfield was killed, sheriff ellis and corporal boyd drove to the wire factory where dawn lavender worked. she was halfway through her day shift and they told her she was under arrest for the murder of her friend, teresa mayfield. >> she first wanted to know why we was arresting her and then we went to the jail she said this was wrong, we made a mistake. >> the corporal and the sheriff were only too happy to explain how one clue ...

Teresa, scott couldnt be with them. he was down at the sheriffs office answering questions. >> came willingly, no issue. >> yes. >> did he ask for an attorney? >> no, he did not. >> corporal boyd chatted with scott for three long hours. during the whole time, he was cooperative and helpful. >> you know, the standard questions that we would ask is, is anyone having an affair? are you having an affair? no. >> was she having an affair? no. >> good marriage, happy marriage, christian marriage? >> ri...