Narrator that question landed right in the laps of local police because Marys Death didnt look like suicide or an accident. Phelps what does that leave you . That leaves you with homicide. That leaves you with somebody deliberately put colchicine in something that mary ate or drank that day to kill her. Narrator but who and why . In november of 2015, the Sheriffs Office opened a criminal investigation. Groah a detective came to my door, and he told me that he was investigating a murder. And im like, whose murder . And he said, mary yoder. And i said, she wasnt murdered. She just di he said, no. We believe she was murdered. Narrator by this time, four months had passed since Marys Death, and detectives soon learn that a lot of unexpected things had happened with the Yoder Family in those four months
Narrator small towns are pretty much the same the world over. People know each other, tend to look after each other, and oftentimes are aware of each others business. In Bill And Mary yoders town, local tongues started wagging shortly after marys death. We become aware that Bill Yoder is involved in a relationship with one of mary yoders older sisters. Narrator their relationship apparently began soon after mary died. And that obviously sent up some red flags to us that that had been the motive for killing mary yoder. Narrator and statistics back up the suspicion. In the u. S. , nearly three women are killed every day by current or former romantic partners