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Had been called here to the site of a fatal traffic accident. it was right before midnight on december 14th, 2016. a husband and wife were in their jeep when it ran off the road ending up down by this creek. and when it got to the bottom, the nose of the jeep was right here. he was told the 53-year-old woman had been ejected. and i saw that lady laying in the creek, i knew who she was. who was it? judy baldwin. your my friend. terry had known judy orr baldwin most of his life. that must have been just such a shock to the system to see that. it was. a longtime friend laying in the creek. the coroner noticed some unusual markings on judy s face deep, dark, blackened circles around her eyes. i m seeing a lot of bulging eyes, they re what a lot of people call raccoon eyes. how do you get those raccoon eyes? ....
i really felt like i had judy on my shoulder. i really did. i felt that family just really gave me a lot of hope and faith. less than three hours later, there was a verdict. we were all everybody was holding hands as tight as we could. and when they read that verdict, i mean, you could just hear everybody gasp. we, the jury, find the defendant, james harold baldwin jr., guilty of murder. i just broke down and crying. because i just couldn t believe it. we finally got justice for mom. detective chris reynolds was in the courthouse that day, too. he believes the jury made the right decision. and he wants the public to know he did more than they think to look into judy s death. still, he realizes because of his incomplete investigation, a killer might have walked free. you get emotional over this? i do. ....
Planes have black boxes. i personally wasn t aware that vehicles have them, too. and in this case, judy s wrangler, like this one, had a black box. it did. so i took this one out of a retired police car to show you what they look like. in simple terms, when there s an accident, a car hits something, it triggers the black box to start recording information. what did you learn from judy s black box? well, uh, the one for this case came back with no data. so no data is actually really important. in this case it is. no data means no crash. the corporal s theory is that jamie slowly and purposely drove his jeep into the creek. the most surprising witness was teri king, the woman at the center of the alleged love triangle. i was hoping that when she finally was put under oath in court that she would come clean. teri was no longer living with jamie. are you wanting to be here ....
This is, unfortunately, simply about someone who wanted to get rid of his wife, who wanted to have control of what he wanted to do, when he wanted to do it. lively told jurors the couple had argued multiple times about teri king, and on the night of judy adeath, she believes judy demanded her husband end his relationship with teri. he got extremely angry. he has a temper and he attacked her at that mantel. the prosecutor alleged that in a fit of rage, jamie took one of those stocking holders from the mantle and hit judy so hard it caused her brain to bleed. leaving her with those raccoon eyes. when i actually hold it in my hands, this thing is heavy. yeah. it is very heavy. the stocking holder s shape closely matched the irregular cut on judy s head. whenever you look at the picture of that santa stocking holder, it really fit the ridges in that unusual laceration. ....
yes, sir. and she said there was an innocent explanation for those text messages between her and jamie. the ones where she said she loved him. would you say to friends that you felt strongly about i love you? i say it every day to almost everyone i talk to. doesn t mean you re having an affair with them, does it? no. did you ever tell judy you loved her? every time i talked to her. not only that, but she told jurors she would never betray judy. how would you describe your relationship with mrs. baldwin? she s one of the best friends i ve ever had. you sometimes stayed at their house, is that correct? yes, sir. was judy always there when you stayed at the house? yes. most importantly, the defense insisted there was no crime, just two tragic accidents. and they said the state didn t have any evidence to prove otherwise. there was no dna. there were no fingerprints. there was no weapon. they called detective reynolds to the stand and attacked his invest ....