heart, something was not right. a mother vanished. i cried myself to sleep, it was awful, realizing that your worst nightmare has come true. a family, anguished. she is gone. do you have any idea how hard that was? now, the questions begin in a southern gothic mystery. the case is puzzling. we did not really know what had happened. who could ever imagine you could have a murder in your family? soon, there would be secrets. we were dealing with a person leading a double life. and one of them would prove deadly. anyone say i know that you did this? it hurts too much for me to say that out loud. hello, and welcome to dateline. it is a case that centers on a mother who had gone missing, and the small town secret that led to a very big surprise. here is keith morrison. suppose for a minute you are sitting in your car, smack dab in the middle of tuscaloosa, alabama. and the point of southwest down highway 69, and kept a sharp eye out after half an hour o
craig melvin: (voiceover) p welcome to dateline. es. even though teresa mayfield s husband scott had been very cooperative with investigators, they wondered if there was something he wasn t telling them. here again with secrets in a small town is keith morrison. mayfield has been had been cooperative with respective, but they wonder if there was more that they had not been telling them. it s a funny thing about secrets, the can stay hidden for so long. especially in a little place like moundsville. and it didn t take very long for sheriff ellis and corporal lloyd to stumble a secret scott had been keeping. we were out of the crime scene, and the young lady had come to pick up the boys. it was only later, when the fog had lifted, when teresa s relatives wondered to police who was that woman hanging around the day teresa died? that wasn t eloy tractor down, and what they discovered, well,