11-year-old s mother was karen johnson, bonnie harkey s caretaker. and you don t know the edge was out there? no, ma am i m just really, reall worried. what phone are you using? i am using bonnie s house phone. i can t find bonnie anywhere within minutes, the san sab sheriff s department had deputies on the way. all right, i m going to bod harkeys yes, sir. do you have any tear do you have an eta? five minutes. in the rural area where locals listen closely to polic scanners, some worry deputie might be chasing some dangerou desperado. is there somebody lose that i should be oh, no, no, no. okay, i was just wonderin because they re all setting up here near miss harkey place. the harkey place was a loca landmark, and john wilkerson, san saba sheriff s deputy in 2012 was among the first
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Lilian said, carl center a text, telling her to come distract karen johnson, while h smothered his grandmother. so, i rang the doorbell because it was open. and miss johnson came in and i was stepping in and closing i see this flash inside the house? so, coming up behind this johnson? yes yes. and i saw that it was karl and he was yelling at me t close the door, get in here, g in there with his grandmother. once karen was dead, lilian says, led bonnie to her bedroom, where she says carl asked he to pray. i see the pillow, and while they are praying, he start pushing her a bit. she fought him, and she did, but the doorbell ring. and it s scared car carl
Investigators to arrive. when i walked in, of course karen johnson s body was lifeless, faced down on th doorway, which raised some suspicion. no sign of struggle there really wasn t any clear signs of struggle. there was some questionabl issues that we re at play. like what the fact that she was dea right by the front door, tha just did not make a whole lo sense. the fact that i found a broken fingernail on her hand karen johnson s son, the bo who called 9-1-1, told investigators he d been playin a video game in a spare bedroo all afternoon, and had not heard or seen anything unusual strange, but what also concerned the lawmen was the fact that bonnie harkey was no there. so, you are thinking bonnie harkey is out there somewher maybe in the orchards. that was the thought with sheriff brown. bonnie had serious health problems she was frail, suffered from dementia in short, she had to be found,
She was unable to manage our daily affairs, so her daughter connie became her guardian after kane died in 2011, bruce harkey thought karl pressley should be buys garden. when a judge tried to employ someone else, bruce and john challenge that in court, and bonnie asked the judge if sh could speak, the judge said yes, and she said i don t want that to my guardian i m afraid of him. your stepson? yes i want to hear. the late inheritanc certainly. a lawyer named general dary sphinx was - tantamount chosen to manag business affairs bonnie s longtime there was asked to make sure tha bonnie s daily needs were met. it was betty and who had hired karen johnson, a known