Scott Ferris
Appearances
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
It had been... somewhere around 8.30 because it wasn't quite dark yet.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
And I was up there at the lake house until I didn't leave until about 10.30 at night, roughly. and came back home, and that's when, you know, when I came home, I saw the fire going in the woods and, you know, didn't think of anything other.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
I would run the farm, and I would take care of the property through the week and all.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
I went down there and checked the trail cam, and there's just a couple squirrels and a couple raccoons, and that was it. I deleted everything. Everything?
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
I can't tell you how many times I've heard her say, I can't wait till the day I don't have to live with him. I wish she would just have a heart attack and die.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
My dad never said anything negative to me about my mother, except for just her going out and spending so much money on stuff like that. But my mother, on the other hand, man, I can't tell you how many times I've heard her say, I can't wait till the day I don't have to live with him. I wish he would just have a heart attack and die.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
She always watched Days of Our Lives, and she always wanted to have her life like a soap opera. So that's what she did. Here's how Chris put it.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
He decided to buy the property, the farm, to try to save the marriage because, you know, that's something that she wanted.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
It was like, oh my gosh, something's happening. Because we did all these interviews with the detectives and we didn't hear anything for quite a while. Quite a while indeed.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
Chris's brother, Scott, was already looking, of course. At that time, I was thinking he had a heart attack somewhere.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
I just found it very, very odd for that tractor to be parked down there. I know my dad wouldn't have just left it there. I mean, the only time he would have left that tractor there is if it was stuck. How well does your mother operate that tractor? She asked me to teach her how to use it. Honestly, that tractor was so easy to operate, I could teach my 13-year-old niece.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
She came out of my dad's house. office doors and screaming and cussing. And she threw a plate up against the wall of the house and she screamed, I can't wait to the day he dies. I can't wait to the day I don't have to live with him anymore.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
I looked at her when I was asked to look at her and describe what she was wearing. And she's not my mother anymore.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
She thought you were a mooch. I guess in her eyes, yeah. Right? Because you were a mooch. No, I wasn't.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
We asked him, of course. I never once said, oh, this is going to be my farm one day. If I would have said something like that, it would have been more of the lines of, you know, well, I hope this farm stays in the family.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
It didn't look like a rock or anything like that. So I grabbed a very, very small piece of it and lifted it up enough to where I saw teeth in the eye socket. A human skull. I'll never forget it. I knew immediately at that time this was a very, very bad situation.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
It's all because of Melody's brainwashing. She brainwashed Amanda.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
I mean, that was awkward. I never, ever once had I ever remotely thought of even harming my father.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
And it took every bit of me not to stand up in that courtroom and say something to her.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
Oh, I'm sure it did. I mean, I haven't seen videos of it or anything, but I was... I've never had anything happen like that to me ever in my life. She'll never admit to anybody what she did because she is going to try her best to pin it on somebody else.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
He always stayed strong. He was the one who had his head on his shoulders. He was calming everybody else down. But I miss him dearly.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
My dad worked a lot. We didn't get to go on all these extravagant vacations. I've never been to Disney World. We went down to either Gulf Shores or Destin because my dad had to do a law seminar. That was our vacations.