Any weapons inside the house? the dispatcher inquires. I didnt know if I was dealing with a possible active active scenario where she still had the gun and she had shot Tyler, he replied. 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.. He lied about the lock then he says he kept his gun in there hmmm. I'm prior military so to me it sounded like a gunshot, he tells DeMarco. He changed clothes yet lied and said he did not. It can be inferred that approximately half or more cops are abusive husbands/wifebeaters. Matthew, grandson of then-sheriff of Spalding County, texts a fellow Griffin Police officer. That's right. $5 plus $5 parking. 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? She would never have done this. 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. Take care of Tollin and Tyler, please tell them I love them every day. On Dec. 19, 2016, Lester met with GPD Investigator Dexter McCune regarding property she alleged Boynton had stolen. "She suspected Matthew was cheating on her and so she dug for information, and we found it," the neighbor said. He reads another text from mistress, while driving home at nearly 90 mph. 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.. 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. "It's just inconvenient. "I would not have said that to him," said Jessica. 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. Jessica, then-19, had just put her two young sons to bed and was getting her clothes ready in the closet for the next day. Stay out, Matt, one the officers advises his fellow officer. The paramedic begins accessing her head wound, but they're having a hard time finding it through her hair and thick blood. Jessica's alive, but barely. "The only thing that I can tell you is that Matthew Boynton's account of events are not correct.". At the time of the shooting Jessica was looking to make a new start for herself and two young sons. She made a full recovery, but doesn't remember a thing. "I can't do this anymore," the message read. She said there were too many errors and discrepancies for her to have sent it. When asked if Boyntons arrest has led him to believe that case should be reopened, Yates said, No. Jones removes the gun, which has a tactical flashlight attached to the bottom of its barrel, and places it on the kitchen counter and heads outside. Excessive force. The report states Matthew left Walmart without Jessica. "I believe it's both, it's sloppy and a cover-up," said Jessica. While GPD Chief Mike Yates said he is unable to release specific information due to the criminal nature of the case, he did confirm information The GRIP provided during a July 31 interview. I left a message with the lady that answered for her to call me. After Jessica was shot, Matthew, then-20, was back on duty with his gun on his hip, before key interviews were conducted and the GBI director wrote an official letter about the cases conclusion, stating that the shooting was ruled a suicide.. The GBI is a joke as well I don't see anything that looks like high-velocity blood splatter or mist," said Miley. And its assigned to Matthew. While Trammel's body cam is out of juice tonight, Jones's bodycam spots Trammel as the other officers enter the apartment. Until recently, Matthew's grandfather, Wendell Beam, reigned as Spalding County sheriff. I believe I just heard a shot fired coming from my residence. He hears a baby crying as he carefully steps into the bedroom where a dark brown crib is situated. Join our naturalist on a short walk and learn about the history of the once-prosperous town of High Falls. It is unknown what effect his arrest may have on Boyntons criminal cases. A message to Matthew's phone is received and marked as read, from his mistress. The one seen in the police body-cam is not the same gray sweatshirt he was wearing at Walmart earlier that night. And, she said, she wouldn't have told him that she loved him. Credit: GBI/Griffin Police Dept. Jessica is also slinging allegations at Matthew's brothers in blue at the Griffin Police Department, and Matthew's grandfather Sheriff Wendell Beam. A tactical sweep finds an 8-month-old baby screaming. An officer tries to console his grieving coworker. "He tried to kill her.". Nearly four years later, questions persist about what happened to the young. GSW, possible to the head. I didn't try to wash my hands, anything, because I knew GSR and all that would be involved.. What! "In looking at this, this does not have the appearance of a suicide to me. This is abuse of power. She told the agent, they were at home when they argued about his mistress and the photo that Jessica found on his phone that night. They hoist her inside. To text back long story I'll tell you later.. But what started as a mutual, friendly divorce soon turned nasty. "He does report an incident that would be considered domestic violence, that she was poking him in the chest with her finger," said Sheila Mathews. McCune also had Lester write a victims statement. They discover two shell casings and two bullet holes in the closet wall. Still peering down at his phone, Matthew also sends a text to his girlfriend, a Spalding County dispatcher. No one may have ever done anything to question this case again if not for Will Sanders. But according to Mathews, that was not the last number dialed, so it could not have just been a redial accidently called through the evidence bag. The panicked cop grabs his police radio and runs outside to make the frantic call to dispatch. If that's what you want to do. That's what Jessica and Matthew Boynton thought would happen when they said "I do.". Unfortunately Matthew Boynton didn't have anything to say. Will Sanders also has questions about a crime scene photo showing Matthew's cellphone. Video shot outside in the parking lot shows Jessica getting in a black truck with Matthew and the kids, then leaving. Waiting for your permission to load facebook comments. | Examine the evidence yourself, calls 911, reaching Spalding County dispatch. In response to 11Alives questions about the case, the GBI said, We are confident in the investigation that was conducted., RELATED: Jessica Boynton says she's free as a bird', MORE | Watch the Facebook Live with Brendan Keefe. Does Jessica know whether the cops ever swabbed her hands? This time for a DNA consent. I love you and the boys.". They had Tollin soon after, and were married on Oct. 24, 2015. GBI/Griffin Police Dept. Thank God she fought and he was in there with her. (whit his baton I would guess) ..is every person in the police department total idiots? Jessica Boynton's head is perfectly positioned on a blood-soaked pillow. One, investigators said penetrated Jessica's head and the other the wall. He enters, checking the master bedroom. With dark, latex gloves on, an officer kneels down and touches her neck with his fingers. She's like a sister to me, Browning says, her voice quivering. Privacy Policy | The shooting occurred on the evening of April 14, 2016. The baby's muffled cry echoes, getting louder as the officers sweep their guns back and forth, searching for the shooter. She just said that she's been experiencing suicidal thoughts right now, she told me to take care of the boys. Aft. Police investigate further and find a gun underneath Jessicas limp body. Matt shouldnt be allowed to ever be a cop anywhere else. What are my kids going to do? he pleaded, his voice cracking with emotion. That bullet ends up toward the top left of the closet. No it wasn't. Her marriage had been crumbling, and she and her husband of six months Matthew Boynton, 20 . I f***ing love her. Matthew makes it home, jumps out of his truck, races through the breezeway of his apartment building and bolts up the stairs. This couldn't happen man. "He felt that perhaps it was maybe an anxiety attack. "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. giving him custody, and granting Jessica once-weekly. Matthew reads a text from Lt. Curtis Keys, look for police car.. I can't even get it out of its case, she replied. 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. But did something else happen that spring night in 2016? 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. But he's also texting her before he called 911," said Sanders. My understanding of the laws of physics is that one person cannot be in two places at the same time," Mathews said in an interview with 11Alive. He calls out for Jessica, but no answer. While sifting through pages and pages of the report, a GBI evidence photo caught her attention. Does she believe that this was just sloppy work or does she believe that this is a cover-up? If you play with it a little bit, it's not hard.. He reads another text from his girlfriend, while driving 90 mph. I finally had the evidence that I needed that Matthew was cheating on me. How did his phone get in there and how was there activity on his phone if he was not in the kitchen with his phone?" The dispatch operator notified Matthew on Facebook, Browning says. It doesn't sound like anything I would say. They're forced to kick it in. The conversation bounces from officer to officer. She agreed to provide those items to Sanders, who then turned them in to the Griffin Police Department. She found a photo on Snapchat of another woman wearing nothing but a towel, with the caption: Shower time.. I told him, You're going to have to go get it, because I cant get it out of the case., Do you know how it was that you got shot?, Have you ever had any type of thoughts about hurting yourself?. GBI conducts canvas and begins interviewing neighbors. He was there to tell the court that he wanted to keep Jessica away from him and their two sons, because he said, he feared for their safetybecause she allegedly fired his gun in the house while their boys were home. 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 ex-husband and former Griffin police officer Matthew Boynton was investigated in the case, but was only charged with making . Yeah, if we've got to get the clothes, obviously we'll bring you back up to the apartment for you to get some clothes obviously, says the agent. If someone from the GBI does not reopen this.. well, I have to get my ducks in a row before I open another huge can of worms.. And it's assigned to Matthew, her husband, the cop. 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. The agent then probes Matthew, asking if he has a girlfriend. A message to Matthews phone is received and marked as read, from his girlfriend--from inside the evidence bag. After three weeks, she woke up. I was scared to death, because I couldnt find [Tyler]that she would shoot me, I mean shoot him, shoot me, and then kill herself.. "She was actually happy, she was thrilled because she finally got that closure that she needed," says the neighbor. And they said yes. They're saying it was self-inflicted, she said. Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late-night bite with a fellow officer, leaving his service. He was going to clean his gun and he asked me to go get it for him. UPDATE: This story was originally published in November 2016. This, Matthew says to Trammel, is the precursor to an argument the couple also had at Walmart later that night, just after 10 p.m. Once outside, he tells Trammel Jessica refuses to get into the car to go hometelling him she would find another way home and walked back into Walmart. Ironically Jessica first met that man while she was out scouting for a wedding venue to marry Matthew. A lot of times, what happens, especially if theyre involved in something very serious, they throw in the towel before it can go through the citys process of termination.. Most of the cases that he would have made or would be involved in would also have, or should have, body worn camera video, car video, things of that nature, so the fact that his statement to us was compromised would not necessarily taint everything else. 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. A DISGRACE! No, never. Hike also includes a rare chance to tour inside the old powerhouse which provides great photo opportunities of the Towaliga River. It doesn't sound like anything I would say. Eventually, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation concluded what they believe happened inside that closet; Matthew Boynton was never charged with any connection in harming his wife. Matthew admits to having an affair. I don't think he meant to do it, or at least that's what I like to think.". GRIFFIN, Ga. Standing inside her closet, wearing tan slippers adorned with fur, black yoga pants and a red T-shirt, Jessica Boynton contemplates what to wear. In 2016, something terrible happened to Jessica Boynton, a 19-year-old mother of two. Matthew, 20, quickly called 911 and said he had received an alarming text message from his wife, claiming she was going to commit suicide, cops said. But another heated argument goes down in the baby food aisle. But someone else did. 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. Blood pressure.. And he called the girlfriend, so Mays said to Mathews. The neighbor says Jessica started documenting all the sordid details of the affair in her secret red "divorce diary." "The Walmart surveillance camera shows that they did exit the building together, and it does show her re-entering and, it shows her leaving again later," said Sheila Mathews. Photos | Jessica and Matthew Boynton wedding. I have been suffering for a while now and no one has noticed. Click here for "Trigger: The Last Word" | And we talk to Jessica Boynton again here: "Trigger: Free as a Bird" | Anda story when the officer was arrested and kicked offthe force (but not for shooting his wife ). RE-open the case Georgia!!!!!! Man that young girl deserves justice, it really smells like the cop snapped and tried to kill her, especially during the night of interview when he starts talking fast and over explaining his actions like I didnt even wash my hands. If his wife, Matthew's attorney continued, was capable of attempting to take her own life, there's a chance that she might do something to their children. Her mouth covered with a breathing apparatus and several machines attached to her, in an effort to monitor her condition. [I'm] gonna have to kick that door in Jones relays to the other officers standing on the other side of the closet, barreling through it in just two swift and deliberate kicks. The court ruled in his favor, giving him custody, and granting Jessica once-weeklysupervised visitation. Who does the neighbor think sent that text message to Matthew's phone from Jessica's? It's like I tell them, they make it twice as bad because I'm a cop, Matthew said. Courthouse Annex, Solomon Street, Griffin, Six-year-old fire victim will give life to others through organ donation, Cause of fatal Saturday morning fire determined, https://the-grip.net/2016/10/18/gbi-completes-boynton-investigation-requested-by-gpd/, https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/trigger-over-and-out/85-8ab82530-da07-492b-9a3c-c20d5e7f50b3, GPD Chief fabricated, released record identifying Will Sanders as Matthew Boyntons father The Grip. She says under the helm of Wendell Beam, the sheriff's department had a reputation for protecting its own. He checks the closet where he keeps his police-issued firearm, but the door is locked. Stay outside.. Everything, he says, led to him wanting out of the marriage. Having previously learned of the new evidence that was turned in to the Griffin Police Department May 11 and the Internal Affairs investigation that resulted, The GRIP on July 7 submitted an Open Records request for information in the case.

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