OK this is my Part 4 of AL's interview with LCSO Detective Lathrop on 7/1/15. There are still about 43 minutes left in the interview.
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(JL): So you guys had the lake house just for the weekend and then Mark and the kids were planning on staying longer?
(AL): Right. The initial, yeah, the initial decision, the initial idea back in March or April was, my sister said, “I want to surprise the girls when we come up to the East when we go up and rent the house"
(JL): You mean her kids?
(AL): Yeah. “Mark and I want to surprise the girls, and maybe they’ll stay two weeks with Mimi” and I’m like oh great, these are like the daughters that I never had. I said “Oh my God, it’ll be great we can go get ice cream and we can go do this.” And she goes “um, I’m going to ask mommy to, you know, fly the girls back.”
Now my mother’s getting up there in age, she’s seventy five, but Teresa, of course, the plan was that she would keep my mother alive forever with hormones, and you know, medicine, you know, supplements or whatever. So my mother calls me up and she goes “yeah your sister asked me but you know Anne Marie, I don’t know” she goes “I don’t want to be responsible for the girls” and I go “Ma, they’re the best behaved girls in the world, and you’ve been with them since they were babies.” My mother would go down for two or three weeks at a time and be with my sister. Uh, she’s like “I don’t know, I’m not, I don’t think I’m gonna do it.”
And my sister called me and she, she goes “Can you ****ing believe mommy? She can’t do this for me? What the hell’s wrong with her? I have patients who are ninety and they’re travelling to freaking, you know, around the world. She’s getting old before her time and it’s all in her head. She’s hanging around too many old people.” Which she was, like her husband’s eighty-one, her brothers were 90, 87, it just, you know. But the decision was, all right, Mark will stay behind with the girls, and that Teresa would leave early.
(JL): OK cause she had to get back to work
(AL): Monday morning. So that was how they left it and that was so painful for my mother who said “If only I had, then Mark would have been with her and maybe he could have…” and I said “and maybe they’d both be dead, we don’t know, mom, and don’t you dare beat yourself up.”
(JL): Yeah. You said remember what she was wearing when she came down, um, (inaudible) do you remember what clothes she was wearing?
(AL): Exactly, I could show you a picture of what she was wearing.
(JL): Do you have a picture?
(AL): Yeah *gets cell phone* - She looked like a rock star. *Looking through phone* This is the last picture taken of Teresa before she was taken. *shows phone to JL* This dress. It’s got a t back. She, you know, had her hair down, so if this dress was off or her hair was in a pony tail, she was already you know, she was already in her getting ready for bed mode. Um, my guess based on the no alarm and the garage door being open, which I know you can’t tell me whether it was open or it wasn’t, was that she just got in the door and didn’t have a chance to close it yet and she was immediately attacked *snaps fingers* that’s my guess.
(JL): OK can you text that to us?
(AL): Yes just give me a phone number
(JL): Yeah just text it to my work cell and then we’ll have that
(AL): OK
(JL): *giving her the phone number*
(AL): Oh I can’t do that *typing on phone* I have to do it in a text, I’m sorry
(JL): That’s ok *gives number again*
(AL): *Texts photo*
(JL): *looks at his phone* Perfect.
(AL): This picture was taken at approximately 12 noon.
(JL): So just before she, she was already dressed, ready to go to the airport and that’s the way she left? Perfect *looking at his phone*
(AL): Yeah we wanted to look good when we travelled
(JL): Oh I understand, I don’t like (inaudible)
(AL): But she broke my stones for putting make up on over the weekend and I’m like “shut up”
(JL): Oh really?
(AL): Yeah
(JL): Um, what like, at the lake house
(AL): She was like “What are you doing putting on your make up” and I’m like “look we’re gonna be taking family pictures and when you’re fifty two, all right, you can do the same thing.”
(JL): So, when she was planning to go to the airport, did she have a car take her, did she drive, how did she get to the airport?
(AL): Mark took her to the airport. The girls went with them.
(JL): So the whole family went
(AL): The whole family went. We thought about taking the girls back to Connecticut, so that they didn’t have to endure another car ride but uh, the girls were misbehaving that morning and Teresa, uh, part of them was like “we’re gonna - screw them, now they’re gonna have to deal with a car ride,” but Teresa was like “I need to remind them the values that I instilled in them so I want to be – I want them to do the ride.” And I talked to Teresa at 4:30, um, that afternoon when she got to the airport and I said “how did it go, did you leave it in a good place?” She goes “yeah, we had a long talk with the girls and you know, they understand everything and what mommy expects from them and you know being a leader and, you know, just because your cousin told you to do this, what are you gonna do if somebody offers you crack, you gonna go ‘OK’? I expect you to be a leader.” So they understood, they understood the deal and, uh, that was it.
Mark told me, cause I wanted to try to put details together, he said, “can you believe, there we all were at the airport and we actually said, ‘should we all just go home together, we’re here now.’’ And I don’t know how it was… “nah, screw it.” And then Mark said, uh, that mommy called from the airport, they held hands in the car and they all held their arms out and Teresa was at the airport, I know my sister, holding one of her arms out and they were saying their prayer, good night, to each other, and that was it.
(JL): Um. Do you know if uh, Mark or anyone else had any other contact with Teresa once she got on the plane or once she got back to Florida?
(AL): I know, Mark told me that, I think, you know cause I was like you know “when’s the last time you talked to Teresa?” when she got in her car she goes “ok, just want to let you know landed safe, in the car, driving home, talk to you tomorrow.” Something to that effect, Mark said, and that was it.
