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A call from another guys son saying that his daddy wanted to talk to me scott had approached him about killing his wife. >> his response to scott was get a divorce. thats what divorces are for. >> and then a third man told them a story. >> he had told us that scott mayfield had hired him, had given him $15,000 to kill his wife. he did not have any intentions on killing her. he just wanted the mans money. >> whats the old saying, two is a coincidence, three is a pattern? which is why even before ...

Lover kills the husbands wife? not at all. she thought the divorce was finalized. >> what was her reaction to getting the real story. she must have been upset? >> more hurt than upset. i think she was probably in l with him. >> he had been lying like a sidewalk. >> thats right. >> you had no idea that woman was associated with him that way either? > had met her once or twice. i just thought they were friends. i didnt think it was anything else. >> this was betrayal in all capital letters? >> tha...

Been others. in fact, scott and teresa divorced during one of his affairs, just after kelsey was born. three years later, teresa took him back, re-married him. >> she wanted to have her family back together. that was her whole thing, family. >> what was it like for you when scott came into your house? what would happen in here as he walked in the door? >> i tried to be sociable, neutral with scott. i always had that thought in the back of my mind, he hurt my sister and i would not forget it. >> ...

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 awful realizing your worst mignightmare had come tru. for a brief second i thought she had committed suicide because i knew how stressed out she was but i knew how much she loved her family. >> everybody who knew teresa knew that, even sheriff kenneth els, who drove out t...

Done this to be punished for it. >> kelsey took on the most difficult job of her life. at 17, she stepped into her mothers shoes, defended her father and tried to maintain somewhat of a normal life for her little brothers. >> me trying to fill my mothers shoes, those are big shoes to fill. i felt like it was my responsibility to help my dad take care of my family. >> so, you were able to continue to have a relationship of trust with your father? >> right. >> he was there for you guys? >> he trie...

Got even smaller. dawn lavender, you recall, was teresas friend, the one who said she waited on vain for teresa to pick her up the morning of the murder. great buddies but not so much according to kelsey. >> if they saw each other they would speak but werent best friends. >> they did go out a couple times. >> i think she did it because she was bored and wanted to get out of the house. >> when they did get together, on one occasion, said kelsey, it was certainly memorable and not in a good way. t...

Can be a bit of a nuisance, as youre about to see, if you need to keep a secret. especially, for example, if your secret is about murder. to begin with, this thoughtful young woman was just a girl of 17 back in 07 when things started coming apart in the way things do when parents dont talk about it. kelsey mayfield saw that troubled look in her moms eyes, mostly, her mom theresa. >> i could just tell she was very stressed. >> was it clear she was stressed about? >> money would be the main thing....

More than in tuscaloosa, for example, which can be a bit of a nuisance if you need to keep a secret, especially, for example, if your secret is about murder. to begin with, this thoughtful young woman was just a girl of 17 back in 07, when things started coming apart in the way things do when parents dont talk about it. kelsey mayfield saw that troubled look in her moms eyes, her mom, teresa. >> i could tell she was very stressed. >> ever clear to you what it was she was stressed about? >> money...

Do for myself or for my two brothers. >> then, there was that sweltering morning, june, 2007, theresa ran off to run errands and didnt come back. kelsey was baby-sitting the boys, 8 and 11. hours ticked by. she called her mom, where are you? >> she didnt answer. then i called her back around lunch, she didnt answer. i called her pretty much all day long. >> dad wk. he mom was who knew where? just wasnt like her to do this. >> is the she sort of person who would take her cell phone everywhere? >>...

>> did he seem to be worried? >> he did. we could never get in touch with her. >> at midnight it was clear something wag terribly wrong. scott filed a missing persons report with theundville police. >> what was it like for you that night? >> it was awful. i was very scared when she didnt come home. i pretty much knew in my heart something was wrong. >> the next morning, said kelsey, she woke up in a house that no longer felt like home. she called her grandmother in a town in prattville, two hour...