Kaelyn Moore
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She was having two.
And the second affair started just a few days before Ben's murder.
According to Ashley, Lindley met a man named Brandon Blackwell who
through a dating site, Ashley Madison, which is a site that's kind of targeted towards married people seeking affairs.
Turns out, Brandon also married, so hence why he used the site.
And he had two kids as well.
Earlier in the week of Ben's murder, Lindley and Brandon had hooked up for the first time.
Police checked her co-worker's story against phone records.
They did confirm that Lindley was in contact with Brandon, and when police tracked him down, he also had a solid alibi.
Brandon was out as a suspect.
But Lindley's phone records brought another name into the conversation.
In the days leading up to Ben's murder and on the day Ben died, Lindley had texted someone in her phone named Mike H. After Ben's death, those text messages just stopped.
Investigators thought that was a little suspicious, and Lindley having already admitted two affairs, they kind of expected this to be a third.
When police ask her about Mike H., she said that he was the son of a regular client who now came to the spa himself.
But after pressing her further, she admitted he was actually an ex-boyfriend, a 33-year-old guy named Michael Humphrey.
Lindley said that they had started dating back in 2009, in between splitting up with her son's biological father and meeting Ben.
They broke up in the fall of 2010.
By that point, they were both struggling with addiction to prescription painkillers, and she kind of blamed Michael for that addiction that she had.
But after the breakup, Lindley said she quit cold turkey and
and hadn't struggled with substance use disorder since michael however did have a criminal record for a drug offense which supported at least part of the story that lindley was sharing with investigators so investigators track him down to his home he insisted that he knew nothing about the murder he said that he had only briefly talked to lindley because she needed a car stereo installed