Investigator 2

Where are we at for our search? Have we done a backyard? We have not done a backyard.

I guess we were told that you were talking to the Mexican authorities.

Okay.

Um, yeah, I get that. I'm trying to figure out. So right now you're here. You have federal hold.

Yeah. So I don't know if you would, I don't honestly know really how that works. You'd have to get, I don't know if it's a federal attorney and then you'd be a state public defender. Okay. So, okay. Yeah. Yeah. And obviously we came from Colorado. I'd really like to hear, you know, your side of the story. We've talked to quite a few of your family members. Yeah, man.

Somewhat.

They were close to the house going into foreclosure. It was very bleak for them.

There was an issue of a crude will that Jim supposedly wrote and sent to a friend. Now, it had no value as a will because it wasn't properly executed under Georgia law. I think had he really wanted it to be effective, he would have done it properly with counsel. But it did have some value potentially as to show his intent.

It threw some fuel toward the fact that perhaps he knew he was going to die.

Gary Carlock owned his family's store, Carlock's Grocery. He was the one that first saw the flames and the smoke and called it in.

The cameras at the Chick-fil-A in Fort Oglethorpe, which is less than 10 minutes away, showed them driving through at 9.17 a.m.

Fire investigators are really smart. They look for what isn't there. Personal photos, things that are irreplaceable.

In Georgia, polygraphs are inadmissible unless you sign a stipulation first that says it will be admissible. And they convinced her to do that.

The state put together what I felt was an almost insurmountable circumstantial evidence case. I advised her that it was very bleak, but that she had the right to a trial. And that's what every defendant has.

She admitted taking instructions from Jim to help set the fire, essentially. She denied and still denies to this day killing Jim with any intent.

Teresa said they left 8.10 to 8.15 a.m. Her driver, Robin Simmons, said it was at least 8.45 a.m.,

It was very bleak for them.

January 26, 2004, a Motel 6 employee called the Robeson County Sheriff's Office in reference to a disturbance in one of the rooms. Upon arrival, deputies identified the two people involved in the disturbance as Judy Naylor and Donald McPhail. They signed into a hotel with their names. I mean, that wasn't the smartest move to make if you're on the run.

There's no reason for antifreeze to be in a motel room. So it's either one of them or both of them were thinking about committing suicide.

Donald admits to his involvement in the attempted murder of Judy's boss. He admits to stealing the gun. He admits to writing the fraudulent checks and admits that he's the one that pulled the trigger that almost killed the victim.

Call is placed to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office to the watch commander from Judy's stepmother, Donna Naylor.

And then investigators will look for any shell casings, projectiles, skid marks from a vehicle, see if there's any witnesses nearby, anybody have any outside cameras.

They don't find trauma or anything like that, but what they do find is printed material from a computer that shows that somebody was researching autopsies, death investigations, poisoning. There was sample copies of wills around.

She had made it known to Kenneth that the remodeling job was how she described the killing of James. Two days before James is killed, she writes a letter to Kenneth and tells Kenneth, I can't take it anymore. It's the remodeling job is going to happen this week. He gets the letter after James is dead. And Kenneth and Donna never believed that Judy was capable of doing it.

According to Kenneth, Judy communicated a lot with her brother in prison.

She had made it known to Kenneth that she has chemicals that she's going to use. She tells Kenny in a few months he's going to be dead.

I did some research, you know, it's painless, odorless, puts you to sleep.

The victim says he goes on vacation. After flying back into Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, he makes his drive back home to Lumberton. He lives above his bus company that he owns. Upon arriving home and exiting his vehicle, he hears gunshots. He immediately falls back into the vehicle.

I directed one of my homicide guys to find the notary that notarized this. And that happens to be another relative of Judy Nail that lives in South Carolina. We found evidence of an email from the notary to Judy with sample signatures. And then Judy wrote those signatures on the will as witnesses.

I had detectives go to South Carolina to interview the witnesses, and the witnesses admit, I did not sign that.

They put him out so Judy can then put the chloroform on a rag and just stand over his face with it. And he wouldn't be able to move, paralyzed.

Because of the evilness of the case, it qualified for the death penalty.

Judy was arrested, and she lawyered up and would not talk to us.

When there's no robbery attempt, there's no break-in attempt, that really, again, focuses you back at the victim. Who in this victim's inner circle would gain if this victim should suddenly die?

He went on vacation and left her with the business. He entrusted her.

Somebody had access to the house. Somebody he trusted.

They put out a bolo for Judy Nail, which is a be on the lookout. You got to worry, whoever pulled the trigger, they could cause more damage now.

He finds his shotgun missing. Somebody had access to the house, somebody he trusted.

He finds his shotgun missing, and the weapon used to shoot at him is a shotgun.

He finds out that business checks have been stolen, and he finds no forced entry into his office. At his apartment upstairs,

Somebody had access to the house.

They've been written to Judy and her husband on his account, totaling $19,000.

They're living with either her mother, her father. They're bouncing around from houses, so there's no steady, electricity's in my name here, I get mail here type thing.

She had a history of breaking into her own mother and father's house, stealing their jewelry, haunting their jewelry.

She was arrested, but charges eventually were dropped because her mother, Catherine, and her stepfather, James, didn't want to pursue charges.

When you have that drug issue fueling you, there's no telling what a person is subject to do. Judy Naylor had access to the accounts, Lee's Lumberton PD, to realize she's been forging the checks and cashing them.