Matthew's mistress worked as a dispatch officer, reporting to Sheriff Wendell Beam, who just happens to be Matthew Boynton's grandfather. Just minutes after Jessica is airlifted to an Atlanta trauma center, Sheriff Beam asks deputies to deliver the devastating news to Jessica's family that she's dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. "I didn't know if I was dealing with a possible active scenario where she still had the gun, and she had shot Tyler, and then I could have been the next target," Matthew says in the interview. We asked retired homicide detective Tim Miley to review Jessica's entire case file and every crime scene photo. Still lodged in Jessica's skull? Minutes later, at around 10:45 p.m., Jessica storms out. I didn't know if I was dealing with a possible active active scenario where she still had the gun and she had shot Tyler, he replies. The baby's muffled cry echoes, getting louder as the officers sweep their guns back and forth, searching for the shooter. It could, but it wont necessarily do it, Yates said. Making his way outside, he calls for assistance over his radio. Dr. Vernon Henderson, chief of Trauma and Critical Care at Atlanta Medical Center was on-call the morning Jessica came in and treated her for the next month while she was in the hospital. That was the subject of his charges his statements and writings that we were able to prove were false, Yates said. He's asked me to go get it out before. Warner Bros. Entertainment | She's moaning.. Thats what took so long to get it sorted out.. Investigators confirmed at least some of this evidence did belong to Lester, but along with questions regarding the chain of custody was the issue of whether the belongings were personal or community property. He later tells investigators that he heard Tyler crying, and then, POP-POP!, Jones advises Matthew over the radio, Stay outside. Her mouth covered with a breathing apparatus and several machines attached to her, in an effort to monitor her condition. I wouldn't trade them for anything no matter the situation. I mean, I'm sure there's a plausible explanation to it without trying to come up with some sort of, you know, theory that, 'Oh, he has to be here in the kitchen answering these text messages.'". The remaining items such as a hope chest, clothing and other miscellaneous items were returned to Jessica. GRIFFIN, Ga. - Matthew Boynton was arrested by his fellow Griffin Police officers and taken to the Spalding County Jail on . "It doesn't sound like anything I would say," said Jessica Boynton. She said there were too many errors and discrepancies for her to have sent it. There was most likely a struggle with the gun and he assumed she was dead. Matthew begins calling his brothers in blue, telling them Jessica is physically abusing him -- not a standard way of reporting domestic abuse. Once he arrives on the scene, Trammel makes contact with Matthew, who tells him that he and his wife got into an argument. The agent who told Mathews, Were gonna have a problem, apologized to the reporter and told her that he was answering questions about a case file that he had not reviewed for months. One, investigators said penetrated Jessica's head and the other the wall. They investigate further and find a gun underneath Jessica's limp body. Did he cause his estranged spouses injury? They're my everything. GBI begins interviewing neighbors and Matthew interviews with the GBI later that morning. Haha I'm sorry I didn't think about that lol, he sends to her after receiving a text from her after his text from Jessica. Any weapons inside the house? the dispatcher inquires. McCune also had Lester write a victims statement. 478-993-3053. This is who he's sleeping with, points to the Facebook post that she says she was holding for Jessica for her divorce. He asked her what she thought could've happened. If you play with it a little bit, it's not hard.. And I could have been the next target.. The other problem: she said she didn't know how to get his gun out of his holsternor has she ever held or shot a gun. Did you all have sex?' The agent asked her if she had ever held her husbands service weapon. Yancy also requested that Boynton write a statement pertaining to the allegation. The shooting occurred on the evening of April 14, 2016. Inside the closet they also discover Jessica's red "divorce diary." With the suicidal text message and Jessica's DNA found on her husband's gun, less than a month after her hospital bed interview, Matthew was verbally cleared by the GBI, according to the chief, and as of June 6, Matthew returned to full duty with a new service weapon on his hip. She's having suicidal thoughts," he calmly says about Jessica to the dispatcher. "Really somebody just needs to look at it, somebody of great knowledge of things like this, and then let them tell me what they think," said Jessica Boynton. Matthew sends another text to his girlfriend, a Spalding County dispatcher, Give me a few. He grabs his police radio from the kitchen counter and runs outside and makes a desperate call. "I said 'It's Jessica isn't it?' Its a question 11Alive investigators asked a few months ago, when Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boyntons wife, Jessica, allegedly shot herself in the head with his service weapon, inside the master bedroom closetlocked from the inside. "I would want to know how he did it and how does he live with himself every day knowing that he did something like this," said Jessica. You want to start recording me, and started quoting me, you'd better let me know ahead of time, or we're gonna have a problem. Based on that acknowledgement, The GRIP asked if it would not alleviate legal concerns pertaining to the chain of custody, and furthermore, why Boynton was not also charged with theft. The air is thick with mystery, as the officers approach the locked closet. A request is made to notify the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Jessica Boynton was just 19 years old when she was found inside a locked closet with a gunshot wound to her head. Since the original publication of this story, 11Alive's Brendan Keefe and Jessica Noll have taken another look at the evidence in this story, and talk to one reporter who said she was threatened when she had questions about the investigation. And would a dad leave his kids inside with a suicidal woman and a loaded gun? Man, look, she's still breathing. Especially because of my children. He enters, checking the master bedroom. I'll be back there in about two minutes. I was looking for a job and I finally found one. "How did his phone get in there? Matthew loved being part of the brotherhood. That is not a reaction that I can relate to.". Are you having trouble breathing?'" Matthew, who's wearing a gray sweatshirt, says he called Lt. Curtis Keys and asked him what he should do. She's breathing, but unresponsive. I was excited I wasn't going to have to put up with him anymore because honestly I felt like his maid, and that's all I felt like.. Since his bodycam wasn't charged, it doesn't record this call. Matthew Boynton allegedly deprived ex-wife Jessica Lester of her belongings and lied to the authorities about doing so, Griffin police Lt. Michael Natale said in a statement. There's so many useless words thrown in there, then there's so many words left out, she said. She had a job interview and it was going to be her first step to freedom. But someone else did. Unfortunately, the only person who may be able to answer that question is Jessica, and she was in a coma. While sifting through pages and pages of the report, a GBI evidence photo caught her attention. I f***ing love her. There are a lot of questions that I would love to have answered. I don't know if it's just his job or what, but like I said I don't think he would intentionally hurt me.. Matt shouldnt be allowed to ever be a cop anywhere else. she asked. The good old boys and his grandfather police chief should also get some time for covering up this crime. Matthew makes it home, jumps out of his truck, races through the breezeway of his apartment building and bolts up the stairs. "The stuff that he was texting her was, you know, 'LOL's," said Sanders. "It's believed that Jessica entered the closet, closed the door, locked it, turned with her back to the door facing the back wall of the closet, that she held the gun to her head, pulled the trigger," said Sheila. 'We're not going to do this in Georgia anymore' | Prosecutor fighting to stop animal abuse, NASCAR star Chase Elliott hurts leg in snowboarding accident, Forecast | Cooler air moving in for the weekend, Metro Atlanta, north Georgia hit with widespread damage after storms produce powerful winds, calls 911, reaching Spalding County dispatch. Yates said, Yes, but that doesnt overcome the civil side of it whether it was or was not marital property, and even if it was, it would have been a misdemeanor as opposed to the two felonies.. Matthew makes it home and races to the breezeway of his apartment and enters, checks the master bedroom and bangs on the locked closet door. Who does she think hit her over the head? Im not sure about that. It can be inferred that approximately half or more cops are abusive husbands/wifebeaters. She's having suicidal thoughts," he says calmly to the dispatcher. It's one of their owna police-issued .40-caliber Glock. And based on the totality of circumstances, all the facts and circumstances, all the forensics, and the conclusion of the case, as well as the GBI's and the district attorney's recommendation, is no, he did not cause her injuries, Yates concluded. Then he hits investigators with a jaw-dropper. It was retrieved from the kitchen counter in front of the microwave oven," she probed further. Here's where things get blurry. Thank God she fought and he was in there with her. said Sheila Mathews. This x cop needs to be tried for attempted murder. What are my kids going to do? he pleaded, his voice cracking with emotion. When the officers pull Jessica's body out of the closet, they find Matthew's gun right underneath her, a .40-caliber Glock. "What you're saying to me, that's not, you know, I don't see anything he did wrong by saying that," Fred Mays told Mathews. A lot of times its two or three or more days, Yates said. It is unknown what effect his arrest may have on Boyntons criminal cases. Around 9 o'clock on the night of Thursday, April 14, 2016, Matthew Boynton calls a lieutenant on duty and reports Jessica is hitting him again. The conversation bounces from officer to officer. "I hope she didn't shoot my kids," he says to one officer. Officer Matthew Boynton has never been charged with anything in connection with this case, but the Georgia Bureau of Investigation did question him. nd police notify Jessica's family that she has died. And I could have been the next target.. Maybe Jessica would remember why and when the door knob was swapped because it happened before that night. Before he leaves, Matthew says Jessica makes a bizarre request: She asks him to call an ambulance. According to a press release issued by the Griffin Police Department, Boynton was on Friday arrested without incident and transported to the Spalding County Jail. Which is very off that this happened, because I never, ever had any thoughts like this before. A Griffin Police Officer's wife herself, the reporter called DeMarco, on Sept. 28, the investigator who was in charge of the investigation for the GBI, to question him about the case and the photo that nagged her, and that for her, called into question how anything they investigated was trustworthy. [I miss] getting to see them every day and getting to watch them grow more and more into the boys and men that they're going to be someday, Jessica said sobbing. By the time Jessica was twenty, she'd had enough of Matthew, and their crumbling marriage had driven her to a dark place. Bring the little ones for a story every Saturday morning at 11 a.m. to hear Sam's favorite tales. Police investigate further and find a gun underneath Jessicas limp body. I was looking for a job and I finally found one. What! Honestly, I have no idea. Im not sure if it was slightly before or slightly after. The 20-year-old says he's heading to Waffle House for a late night food run with on-duty cop and best. Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton tells dispatch he has no idea what's happened to his wife or their two young sons. Jessica has given Will every piece of evidence in her case, including that divorce diary. So just one?" nd police notify Jessicas family that she has died. A bunch of CLOWNS!! Her ex-husband and former Griffin police officer Matthew Boynton was investigated in the case, but was only charged with making . "I left the location, I'm back en route, I'm on Carver Road right now. Jessica's theory of what happened centers around her "dirty divorce diary." I left a message with the lady that answered for her to call me. A text message is sent to his phone from Jessicas phone. "Well listen, if you're going to start quoting, you gonna start recording these things, you need to let me know ahead of time before you do, before I'm starting answering questions," DeMarco ordered the reporter. Armed with bodycams attached to their uniforms, the officers burst through the door, quickly passing Matthew's phone, a black and grey Verizon LG smartphone, on the kitchen counter. Matthew Boynton, 21, had just started work as a Griffin police officer. Matthew claims they returned home just after 11 p.m. His proof? At the time of the shooting Jessica was looking to make a new start for herself and two young sons. But this wasn't the end of Jessica's story, rather a new beginningbut not the one she was hoping for. "She's like, 'This is exactly what I need to get my divorce from him.'". Then-Griffin Police Department officer Matthew Boynton was arrested on July 28, 2017, for giving a false statement to his own department stating he was not i. If not, get on a plane and go HOME.". Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late-night bite with a fellow officer, leaving his service weapon, Jessica and his sleeping sons at home. "He told 911 that he was so worried and he was trying to get back to the house as fast as possible. GBI/Griffin Police Dept. Officer Robert Brian Jones shouts, as he travels deeper inside the two-bedroom apartmenthis weapon drawn. Unfortunately Matthew Boynton didn't have anything to say. Running across the parking lot and up the stairs, responding officers head toward the apartment. Hahaha you about have me a heart attack freak!! This stinks, and the fact remains, it appears he tried to kill his wife, so what are you guys going to do?? Inside their apartment Matthew Boynton hears crying. It's a question 11Alive investigators asked a few months ago, when Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton's wife, Jessica, allegedly shot herself in the head with his service weapon,. | Examine the evidence yourself, calls 911, reaching Spalding County dispatch. But long hours on the force took its toll on his marriage. She was hit over the head. "In looking at this, this does not have the appearance of a suicide to me. We're going to be doing that to do touch DNA on the gun, and um, and why we're doing that is obviously one to corroborate everything that's what believed happened, and that way it also, it also eliminates the possibility of her family saying, you had something involved in this, or whatever, the GBI agent said to him. I believe I just heard a shot fired coming from my residence. Domestic violence has always been a precursor to violence in other areas. Matthew says that he told Jessica, I'm not happy anymore and I can't. GBI director Vernon Keenan wrote a letter indicating the gunshot wound was self-inflicted by Jessica, closing the case. Her bright blues eyes glisten as they well with emotion. Stephen Kruspe, 65, appears at his first appearance before a judge after the March 27, 2017, shooting of his wife, Pamela, at a Boynton Beach assisted living facility. I dont have the authority under our charter to hire or fire; it has to go to the city manager, so when you move toward a termination, it has to go through a process. Griffin Police Department Officer Matthew Boynton has been arrested and charged with two felonies. Cops do find one bullet. "When the GBI concluded their case they gave it back to Jessica, and I got it from Jessica," Sanders said. Its one of their owna police-issued .40-caliber Glock. He's hoping if the case gets reopened, any possible clues will be preserved. The shooting occurred on the evening of April 14, 2016. He has been charged with false statements and writings and violating his oath of office. Just one minute later, Matthewcalls 911, reaching Spalding County dispatch. I have been suffering for a while now and no one has noticed. To text back long story I'll tell you later.. For the next three and a half weeks, Jessica remains in a coma with a traumatic brain injurytubes protruding from her brain to alleviate pressure and fluid. It's locked. Sheila Mathews publishes The Grip, an independent newspaper in Griffin. "Police department!" No bullet fragments were recovered from her head. They hit the top of the stairs knowing somebody's got a gun. That bastard is so guilty every time they show the door knob and any badge that doesnt know that shouldnt have one. Statements from Jessica Boynton and Matthew Boynton are logged into evidence, said a statement written by Yancy March 13. That was the best physical evidence that we had, Yates said. I would have said, 'I can't do this anymore, comma, take care of Tolin and Tyler, period.' How does Jessica explain the "suicide text" sent from her phone less than 10 minutes before her husband Matthew called 911 in a panic? The neighbor says Jessica started documenting all the sordid details of the affair in her secret red "divorce diary." I don't see anything that looks like high-velocity blood splatter or mist," said Miley. ! his girlfriend texts him. Published: 7/28/2017 6:16:14 PM. The police officer's wife was found with a bullet to the head, lying in their closet. It's back in the headlines with the "Mystery in the Closet" story on the HLN network s well as "The Officer's Wife" podcast from Vault Studios.. Her body is on the floor, just behind the door. It appears it was self-inflicted. Jessica Boynton's head is perfectly positioned on a blood-soaked pillow. One of those bullets went through the roof, the other lodged into the baby's bedroom wall. His flashlights beam reveals a smiling family of four. His tone changes. "I saw a lot of things change after time. However, she was NOT shot. OR OTHER GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. Her head shaved. The chain of custody on that stuff is messed up. "He said 'What's wrong? No, never. Just days after running into Officer Boynton, I received a threatening email that reads in part: "Are You An Intelligent Enough Investigative Journalist To Know When You Are Being Conned or Do You Have To Be Spoon Fed? Hewrote a letter to Jessica's attorneyJune 10, in which he questioned the finding that Jessica's head injury was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, saying there was no investigation at the hospital. A lot, she said, doesn't add up. Her blond hair is now red from what cops assume is a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Example video title will go here for this video. He said the description of a self-inflicted gunshot wound didn't fit, noting her pristine and unmarked hands and calling it a very unusual direction in which to point the gun at one's self with the intention of committing suicide., First of all, the wound that she suffered was toward the vertex of her skull on the right side of her head; this would imply that she shot herself with a gun pointed downward near the top of her skull., The second most striking observation he said he made while assessing Jessica was neither of her hands had any evidence of any gunpowder stippling from gunpowder blowback.. After getting Matthew's phone records, Sanders discovers during that same time Matthew was making calls to 911, he was texting his mistress. They're re slit open while her head flops from side to side on the beige carpet, as one female EMS works on her. I just came up the stairs, two rounds be advised I smell gun smoke, and I cant get an answer at the door, he says out of breath and panicked. HERE IS THE NEWS STORY OF THE SHOOTING.. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/trigger-over-and-out/85-8ab82530-da07-492b-9a3c-c20d5e7f50b3. A lot," said the neighbor. She had an appointment Monday.. Her marriage had been crumbling, and she and her husband of six months Matthew Boynton, 20 . Hike also includes a rare chance to tour inside the old powerhouse which provides great photo opportunities of the Towaliga River. Matthew's hands were not tested for gunpowder either. This case stinks to hi-heaven of a cover-up..if not, its a group of the most incompetent people ever to wear a Law enforcement uniform. Once established as her personal belonging, this one piece of physical evidence contradicted Boyntons January written civil statement in which he denied possessing any of Lesters property. That stuff apparently, from what we were able to discover through our investigation, went through several different peoples hands, which taints our chain of custody, Yates said. Or was it? Did she try to kill herself or shoot herself in the head? The court ruled in his favor, giving him custody, and granting Jessica once-weeklysupervised visitation.
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