Kimberly, always the dutiful daughter, obliged. “And I started screaming at her, ‘What do you want? What do you want from me? What do you want me to do?’ And she said, ‘Just cover my ears.’” Her mother pulled out a gun and asked her to help her pull the trigger, but Kimberly refused. RELATED: Josh Powell Said He Loved His Two Sons “More Than Anything" Months Before Killing Them, Blowing Up Home They went into the bedroom, where Ford was laying on a sheet on the floor. She’d later find her mother standing in the living room, smoking, before she made a chilling proclamation. The next morning, she kept Kimberly home from school as a confused Ford struggled to try to move around the house. Still, the 12-year-old didn’t believe her mom was serious until the day her mother sent her to the store for sleeping pills and she watched her mash them up and put them in Ford’s ice cream with butterscotch topping. Kimberly thought maybe Ford was sick until her mother brought up the idea of killing him. “And each day it was a little more revealing, until finally she just blurted it out, you know, ‘What would you think if he was dead?’” Kimberly said. RELATED: Chicago Bears Star's Pregnant Girlfriend Is Murdered, Killer Caught with Help from Psychic Friend She never suspected her mom had something much more sinister in mind.Īs the days went by, Kimberly said her mother continued to talk about how much better life would be without Ford. “It sounded all right,” Kimberly said of her mom’s promises that it would be just like it used to be when her mom was focused solely on her children.īut Kimberly believed her mom was talking about leaving Ford or divorcing him. Kimberly recalled standing with her mother in the kitchen one 1980 afternoon when her mother asked “How would you like it if Lloyd was gone?” But what they didn’t see was she would do whatever it took to get what she wanted,” Kimberly said, remembering the years she tried to be perfect just to stay in her mother’s good graces. “To a newcomer or her friends and that-she’s very loving, giving person. RELATED: Woman Spends 3 Weeks Chained to Tree in Ecuadorian Forest after Harrowing Kidnappingįor a while, Judy’s focus shone brightly on Ford, but by 1980 Judy, who Kimberly described as deeply moody and manipulative, had grown tired of her husband. “I personally liked it best when it was just her, the boys and I, no husband, because her attention would focus,” she told Dateline. Kimberly admitted she was happiest when her mother, who tended to become solely focused on her love interests, was single. While Ford’s two oldest daughters lived with his ex-wife in Nebraska, his young son Tommy lived with Gough and her three kids the stitched-together family took fishing trips, went bowling, and settled into what looked like domestic bliss.įord worked as a long-haul truck driver, while Judy-who already had two divorces under her belt-got a job as a hairdresser. When they married in 1973 and settled in Boise, Idaho, each had three children of their own. It wasn’t until the guilt and horror reached a boiling point and Kimberly made a chilling confession to a coworker that her mother was finally brought to justice and the terrifying truth was uncovered.įord and Gough had seemed like a real-life version of the Brady Bunch. “I mean, my dad, for Tom and I, especially, he was everything to us.” “It was hard,” his daughter Sandy Burke recalled. RELATED: Family Searching for Answers After Woman Was Killed in Las Vegas After Her Wedding Was Called Off When she was just 12 years old, she watched as her mother killed her stepfather, Lloyd Ford, then enlisted her brother to help bury him in the backyard, Kimberly told Dateline: Secrets Uncovered.įord’s own children – he had two daughters, Sandy and Pamela, and a son, Tommy – were told he'd run off with another woman, leading them to believe for decades that their father had simply abandoned them. Watch Dateline: Secrets Uncovered Peacock and the Oxygen App.
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