Let's Kill Mom: Four Texas Teens and a Horrifying Murder Pact by Donna Fielder

Author:Donna Fielder [Fielder, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

Kate’s Journal

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Police said before Susan figured out what was happening to her she was dead—happened fast—thank God!

22

What to Do?

Everything was confusion at the Morten house. Kate and Stephen were in shock. Their daughter was dead. Their grandchildren were in custody, charged with the capital crime of killing her. They really didn’t want their neighbors to know what their grandkids had done. But they would have to explain the death of their daughter some way. They talked about it but could come up with no good answer. Would there be a service in Minnesota or should they plan the service for Texas? Kate discussed the issues with her other daughter and her two sons. The medical examiner had asked for the name of a funeral home near Roanoke where the body could be taken once the autopsy was finished. Kate had no idea what to tell them. She didn’t know the names of any funeral homes in Texas.

Her children began to help. They called a local funeral home for advice and learned the name of a Denton, Texas, mortuary they could use. They began calling relatives to let them know what had happened. They rehashed what they knew over and over until Kate could hardly bear listening. But it became clear to her that a memorial service in their hometown was needed.

The children said it was unreasonable to pay the high price of flying Susan’s body up to Minnesota and buying a cemetery plot. As a family, they decided cremation was the best option. They would have it done in Texas. But they would have a memorial service before leaving for their daughter’s home. They wanted that done with.

Meanwhile, calls began coming in. Susan’s supervisor at the dress store in Texas was brokenhearted, she said. It was all over the news in Dallas. So much for keeping the kids’ role a secret. Some of the media already had obtained results of the search warrant on the Bailey house and listed the items taken. Why would they do that? It seemed such an invasion of Susan’s privacy to put a list of her seized belongings on the news.

And Kate couldn’t help herself. She continued to call Roanoke police to check on her grandchildren. One part of her brain accepted the fact that they had murdered her daughter. But another part of her mind still loved Jennifer and David and could not accept the fact that they had stabbed their mother. It was all so overwhelming. How could her grandchildren have done such a thing to her daughter? It was beyond her understanding. Kate couldn’t stop crying, and she wasn’t sure whom she was crying for the most.

A daughter-in-law agreed to make a picture board for the local memorial service. Kate went through all her photos and found the ones she wanted to use. It made her feel close to Susan to go through the boxes of pictures showing her childhood, her young womanhood and her later life. She wanted to put Susan’s wedding picture on a board, she said.

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