A coroner arrives at the scene of a car wreck to find a woman dead. He becomes suspicious when he notices unusual markings on her face. Was her death really an accident? Andrea Canning reports.
Chapter 1: What happened at the car wreck scene?
They told me that this vehicle had gone off the road into this creek bed. She was face up in about ankle deep water.
She's got severe injuries to her head.
Little did you know the mystery that was about to unfold.
I go into the living room and I see blood all over the place. Went into the bathroom, there's more blood. The whole time we're thinking it was a car wreck and now what happened?
We're sitting there trying to figure out what really happened to our mom. The rumor mill is in overdrive.
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Chapter 2: What injuries did Judy suffer?
In overdrive.
There was gossip that there was an affair.
I told my brother, this is how people get away with murder.
Sex lies in a Christian bike club. Who would have thought?
Exactly.
This was just tearing her apart. You really can't make this up.
There's no other way to describe a human being like that. Satan spawned.
The slow-moving water, chilled by the December air, trickled over her lifeless body. She was one of my biggest supporters, and she's not here anymore.
How this wife, mother, and grandmother ended up in this creek would consume her family for years. I'm not going to give up until I find what really happened.
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Chapter 3: What were the family's suspicions?
We do. Terry Tinker, the coroner for Chester County, South Carolina, had been called here to the site of a fatal traffic accident. It was right before midnight on December 14, 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 that?
Judy Baldwin.
Your?
My friend.
Terry had known Judy or Baldwin most of his life. That must have been just such a shock to the system to see that.
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Chapter 4: How did Judy's death affect her family?
I said, I love you too.
And I looked up.
I'm pretty sure it was a truck.
It was like three-quarters of the way in our lane.
And, I mean, if I wouldn't have swerved to the right to miss it, we'd have hit head-off.
And that's when he said they went flying down that embankment, ending up in the creek. Jamie said the impact of the crash knocked him out.
After about an hour, the interview was finished.
Jamie's story seemed to match what the seasoned detective had seen for himself, like that bloody washcloth in the Jeep and when he went to the house the night of the accident.
I see blood around the mantel and blood on the floor. And I did see the ladder leaned up toward the Christmas tree at the time.
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Chapter 5: What clues did the coroner find?
I had a very weird feeling in my stomach.
Although Jamie had an explanation for why he took his wife to that faraway hospital, it didn't make sense to Jesse.
I'm like, why would you not go to Chester Hospital? It's so close to the house if she just bumped her head, you know.
And why did Jamie take a dark, rural back road to the hospital when he could have taken a much faster nearby highway? Do you think that was odd? That was super odd to me. So Jesse decided to take a bold step. She put her amateur detective hat on and called Jamie. You decided to record the call that you had with Jamie.
I did record it.
What in your gut was telling you to record this call?
I'm not sure what exactly told me to do it. I'm surprised I did it because I was in such shock, but I knew in my heart that something else had happened, and I wanted to hear what he had to say.
Hey, Jamie.
Hey, Jamie.
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Chapter 6: What was the truth behind Judy's relationship?
You're religious. Does that give you any comfort to know that your mom and dad are now together?
Oh, yeah. I mean, they're in a better place than we are.
What would you say to Judy if she could hear you? I would just tell her I love her, and I would give her the biggest hug.