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Welcome back to current affairs, our show about the cases of Love Gone Fatally Wrong that are in the news right now.

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On a quiet October evening in Fort Pierce, Florida, a phone rang unanswered. 60-year-old Bonnie Teigen's

was trying to reach her adult son. It was October 8th, 2025, and what started as an ordinary

missed call would become the beginning of a family's worst nightmare. When her son finally

returned the call at 9 o'clock that night, his mother's words would change

everything. William Teakins, his father, was dead. But Bonnie didn't stop there. In a confession that was

as direct as it was horrifying, she told her son exactly what happened. She had struck William

with a billy club. This was not a panicked, ambiguous statement from someone in shock.

According to the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office, this was a clear admission of violence.

The specificity matters here. She didn't claim there had been an accident or a fight that went wrong.

She named the weapon. She admitted to the act. And she chose to tell her son first, not the authorities.

The son's response reveals something deeply human about how we process the unthinkable.

He didn't immediately call 911.

Instead, he called his sister.

Together they began frantically trying to reach their father, 64-year-old William Russell Teakins, Jr.

Each unanswered call must have made their mother's confession feel more real, more possible. The silence on the other end of the

line was slowly confirming their worst fears. I mean, I would do the same thing. Whether or not that's

the right call, I don't know, but I feel like this would be the way my brain processed it as well.

So for 86 minutes, the siblings lived in a state of mounting dread while they tried to

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