where was bonnie harkey?ewicz with th queen of the county. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> in this country, we alway love stories about power, money, and a struggle to get our hand on both. dallas was the saga of a proud texas family, rich and ruthless the story you're about to hear is like that, maybe less glitz and less glamour but then, j.r. yoking was neve as coldhearted, as some of the people you are about to meet this epic tale of greed an betrayal is set not in dallas, but in san saba, a tiny town i the texas hill country and it starts with a famil that learned how to make money well on trees. back on pecan trees. at the heart of the matter, fuel feud fueled by a loss for land, stop by a battle o generations. and front and center, the life and times of the matriarch bonnie harkey, who controlled family fortune, a century in the make >> well, i always say she wa queen of the county, because she really was a big fish in a small pond >> this is teresa cooke, bonni harkey's knees >> they were well off and they were property owne

sleep most of the time >> as for the estate bruce harkey had so fervently hope to inherent, that seem to be gone with the texas wind in the wake of bonnie's death, the orchards faded, and ther were no longer any harkeys living in the harkey home. >> and that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin thanks for watching. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales >> this is "dateline >> it was like oh, wow. he did it. he took off and we didn' know where he was. >> he took off, and we did not know where he was. >> call it a mother' intuition. >> she had a sign. i don't know how, something wa wrong. >> her daughter away at colleg was not answering her phone. >> she was scared. she did not know where ale was. >> then, terrible news, student had been murdered, i young woman, but apparently it was not alex >> the girl on the floor had very dark, almost black colore hair she had much lighter hair. >> so, who was it, and where was alex >> at that point, it was one that, and perhaps anothe missing. >> the color could be roaming campus of students >> we were really scared >> in a serious tweet. >> what did you think? >> i don't ex