so you're thinking bonnie harkey is out there somewhere maybe in the orchards? >> that was the thought with sheriff brown. >> reporter: bonnie had serious health problems. she was frail, suffered from dementia. in short, she had to be found, and fast. >> sheriff brown had called in prison dogs. he had the dps helicopter out. >> she couldn't have gone very far? >> that's what our thoughts were. >> reporter: by nightfall, word of bonnie harkey's disappearance had spread far and wide. her step son, bruce harkey, who'd been visiting his brother in fort worth that weekend, called the sheriff's office, wanting to know the details. >> this is bruce harkey. i'm getting some awful strange phone calls and i'm trying to figure out what the hell is going on. >> what are these calls in reference to, or -- >> she said they found some lady dead, and bonnie was missing, and something about allen having the road blocked off and everything? >> reporter: even bonnie's niece teresa in memphis heard the news within a few hours of that first 911 call. >> my mother and i always speak o