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>> 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. >> are you okay? >> yes. im okay. they just left. look, all i want to know, did you do it? >> of course not. they told me on the get-go, i would be number one prime suspect. >> i know. >> because im the husband. >> do you still love me? >> yes, i do. >>...

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 of interest. >> yes. >> so as the family gathered to mourn the loss of their beloved teresa, s...

Sheriff ellis and boyd to stumble across more. >> 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 and what they discovered, well, that changed everything. or seemed to. the person they were talking to was scotts mistress. >> she was under the impression that scott was not married at that time. >> what did you ma...

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. >> or maybe she didnt. because the morning of the murder teresa arranged to run errands with dawn, or at least thats what dawn said. and then it all clicked together. dawn on the dirt road, a gun in a plastic bag, teresas car window down as though she knew her k...

>> where was the smoking gun? where was the murder weapon? where was one single fingerprint tying dawn to the crime? >> as far as physical evidence, we really didnt have any. it was truly circumstantial because we didnt really know anything about what had happened. >> as far as evidence could see, the case was a maybe at best. 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 circ...

>> 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. on a friday afternoon as an unsuspecting dawn reviewed her case file, her cell mate walked in and waited for some incriminating tidbit. what she got instead was the whole sickening story. >> heres what dawn said about the morning teresa was killed. around 7:00 a.m. dawn called teres...

We find out what happened to miss teresa. >> 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 at first, just an overheard story from a guy in a bar something about they ran into someone with a gun. not terribly uncommon around here. except it happened around the same time and not far from where the murder occurred. so ellis and boyd tracked the kid down and he repeated the story to them. >...

>> not that corporal boyd and sheriff ellis thought for a second that they were wrong. they believed dawn was the killer. they told the prosecutor not only that dawn murdered teresa but that they were convinced she tried and failed to kill her with a xanax overdose at the casino. >> the sheriffs department thought that was an attempt on her life, but we had nothing to really support that. >> if tim evans was to get a conviction, he needed more evidence, some concrete proof that dawn had pulled t...

That was? >> teresas daughter kelsey has 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 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 who knew teresa knew that. even sheriff kenneth ellis, who drove out to the crime scene, i...

>> 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. >> in fact, even as he spoke, the sheriff, along with the corporal, were chasing down their first honest to god lead in, what, over a year? didnt seem like much at first, just an overheard story from a guy in a bar something about they ran into someone with a gun. no so terribly uncommon around here, mind you. exc...