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>> no, he did not. >> corporal boyd chatted with scott for three long hours. and 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? >> right. i asked them did they argue? he said no. >> scott answered all their questions about what teresa was supposed to be doing that morning. he told them he pho...

Raising these kids. she was the one who got them to practice on time, got them to ball games on time. >> when sheriff ellis walked up to the podium, he looked at teresas mother reba and vowed hed get justice yet. >> miss reba, i wont quit until we find out what happened to miss teresa. >> and in fact, even as he spoke, the sheriff along with the corporal were facing down their first honest to god lead in, what, over a year? didnt seem like much, really, not at first. just an overheard story from...

They wondered if there was something he wasnt telling them. here again with "secrets in a small town" is keith morrison. >> 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 boyd to stumble across a secret scott had been keeping. >> scott had 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 poli...

Sheriff ellis and corporal boyd picked apart dawns 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...

Figure, bereaved widower, to cad. and maybe worse. he must have been aware of the fact that there were people suspicious of him. >> it bothered me hearing the bad things that people had to say about him. and i knew that 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 conversat...

But that doesnt mean she wasnt 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 cellmate. >> 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 put a word into the jail. >> that was enough to get some cooperation from her. >> right. >> th...

Grabbed her and i said, "mama, shes gone. shes gone." do you have any idea how hard that was? >> teresas daughter kelsey had spent a sleepless night waiting in vain for her mother to come home. >> how did you find out? >> my dad came and told my brothers and i. it was just awful realizing that your worst nightmare had come true. for a brief second, i thought she had committed suicide just because i knew how stressed out she was. but then i also knew how much she loved her family. >> everybody wh...

Once again, heres keith 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 when she got to the jail she said this was wrong, that we made a mistake. >> the corporal and the sheriff were only...

Because we didnt really know anything about what had happened. >> as far as evans could see, the case was a maybe at best. because she had no reason to kill teresa. so, you know, to bring a case against her would be pretty tough, i would think. >> the case with dawn is puzzling. when youre working with a circumstantial case, every piece of evidence is definitely important. >> not that corporal boyd and sheriff ellis thought for a second they were wrong. they believed dawn was the killer. they to...

She had no reason to kill teresa. >> so to bring a case against her would be pretty tough, i would think. >> the case with dawn is puzzling. when youre working with a circumstantial case, every piece of evidence is definitely important. >> how could corporal boyd and sheriff ellis thought they were wrong. they believed dawn was the killer. they told the prosecutor not only that dawn murdered teresa but they were convinced she tried and failed to kill her with a xanax overdose at the casino. >> t...