Utah drunk driver who killed mother and son blamed the victims, phone calls with father reveal

A drunk driver who mowed down a mother and her son on Halloween in 2021 apologized for the heartless comments she made to her father after the deadly crash as she pleaded to be paroled, according to a report.Kesley Pope, 24, begged a Utah parole board to be let loose from jail three years after she killed Season Dow, 43, and Dow’s 16 year-old son Toby in Orem in court on Aug.27, where she first addressed the sickening remarks, local news outlet KUTV reported.KUTV obtained phone calls between Pope and her father, Jeff Pope, after she had been arrested blaming the victims for their deaths.The Dows were heading home from an Andrea Bocelli concert in Salt Lake City when they pulled over on Interstate 15 in Utah County when they ran out of gas.Pope, who was 22 at the time and twice over the legal driving limit, plowed into the car as it sat on the shoulder.Season Dow died at the scene while Toby was airlifted to an area hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries. “They’re some at fault already with them being on the freeway out of gas, that’s against the law,” Jeff tells her daughter in one phone call to Utah State Prison where she is serving up to 10 years, according to KUTV.“Yeah,” Kesley responds from behind bars before her eventual conviction.In another disturbing exchange just 17 days after the horrific wreck, Kesley called her father Jeff and coldly told him she was “just so glad that it’s my first offense ever.”“Oh yeah, you’re so lucky there, I mean it’s life changing,” Jeff responded.“It’s your first offense, they always are nice to first offenders,” he continued, to which she replied that she knows.During Pope’s parole hearing, she said she saw the report on the phone calls the local news.“I want to apologize because I was thrown off by this news segment that I saw last night.

I’m so sorry for some of the things my family has said,” she said.“No matter what was said from my family it was so wrong and it is ...