This blows my mind.. Within three hours, she received a copy of Matthews official oath, which the D.A.s office had been trying to find for six months. In his personnel file there, a supervisor described him as fiercely loyal but stiff and unwilling to bend. Another officer described him as the type who wants to make ten arrests a day if he could. A senior officer privately advised Matthew, Lighten up a little bit, man.. Jessica thought that Matthew, who was baby-faced but muscular, looked rich; he wore Ralph Lauren boots and collared shirts from Hollister. 22:21. She became dead seriousId never seen her so serious, Denise said. Jessicas grandparents live on two hundred acres of farmland in Pike County, a twenty-five-minute drive from her apartment. She has found that courts are rarely willing to hear evidence about a form of abuse called coercive controla crime in Englandwhich describes the process by which people are dominated, sometimes to the point that they are no longer free agents and cannot make decisions without a partners permission. Like, he talks about her as if shes nothing., As Willey was moving out of Matthews house, she again came across the gym bag of Jessicas clothes. Martha worried that Jessica had lost her feistiness. Her voice was hoarse from the breathing tubes, and she seemed childlike and dazed, as if her only goal was to accommodate the agents as quickly as she could. There are too many useless words thrown in, she said. On a hospital-admission form, Jessica was described as a 19 year old reported to have shot herself in the right skull. But Vernon Henderson, a trauma surgeon for more than two decades, who treated Jessica, wrote that her injury did not fit with that description; neither of her hands had any evidence of any gunpowder stippling. And her wound was on the top of her skull, which suggested that she would have had to hold the gun above her head, pointing downwarda very unusual direction in which to point the gun at ones self with the intention of committing suicide, Henderson wrote. Wet submarine was released. One of the neighbors said that, not long before he heard the gunshots, he also heard some banging, like she was banging on the door or something.. Finally, she just said why dont we set up a meeting, so you can ask about whatever you want to know, Lester said. Both couples said that the shots occurred around 11 p.m.not at 1 a.m., when Matthew had reported them. Murder + Horrific = Murderific.<br /><br />This episode was sponsored by Best Fiends and Scary Time Podcast by Indie Drop-In Network.<br /><br />In this episode, we discuss the toxic relationship between a couple, affairs, abuse, and a police officer who is a suspect in his wife's shooting. On his way, at 12:54 a.m., he said, he received a text from Jessica: I cant do this anymore. I figured she was going to retract her statement, he said later. Philip Stinson, a professor of criminal justice at Bowling Green State University and one of the few scholars who has studied the issue, reached a similar finding: one in five officers arrested for domestic violence nationwide had also been the subject of a federal lawsuit for violating peoples civil rights. oidv intimate partner violence ipv abuse law enforcement public safety staged suicide teflon griffin police officer matthew boynton lethal fatality fatalities rule out attempted murder georgia state . Of course, it was through my efforts that we landed that account, but did I get any credit? The rest of us enjoyed her graduation party, Martha, her grandmother, said. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. The question still remains: Who, if anyone, shot Lester? Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Credit: Natrice Miller / Natrice.Miller@ajc.com, The Jolt: Behind the scenes of the Buckhead City defeat, Kirby Smart: No culture problem, no policy change as a result of fatal crash, House panel passes bill to allow inspection of Georgia ballots, OPINION: Fani Willis blasts GOP move to rein in local prosecutors, Class 3A: Semifinal coverage from Fort Valley State, MARTA unveils revised Atlanta expansion plan, Construction Readys CareerEXPO is March 9, 10, Itchin mad about the early pollen in Atlanta? Jessica was found with a gunshot wound in the closet of the couple's bedroom. The next day, Yates texted the D.A. Jessica Lester Boynton is from Spalding County Georgia, just an hour south of Atlanta. Hankinson briefly paused during the hearing to see if any statutes said that attempted suicide was a form of child endangerment. No signup or install needed. On April 15, 2016, Georgia police find Jessica Boynton basically unresponsive inside of a closet. The first read, Im checking with Karen to see if in all her files she has a copy, and the second stated, Karen thinks she put one in the file she is checking (sic).. Not long afterward, she saw Matthew walk briskly to his truck. Jessica was still missing her orthodontic retainer. Custody (full? If he has to drive to downtown Griffin, he cleans and vacuums his car, so he can easily see if someone plants drugs or contraband. In July, 2018, he criticized Yates on the departments Facebook page for denying Sheila Mathews, The Grips publisher, access to public informationbehavior that, Sanders said, was part of a pattern of intimidating female reporters. Mon - Thurs. For a while, he put clear tape on the doors of his house and car, so he would know if anyone had sneaked inside. We have an individual that is a parent that attempted to take her own life, his lawyer, Lance Owen, told the judge. &nbsp;Nothing will . Name: Stanley J Weber, Phone number: (985) 624-5161, State: LA, City: Mandeville, Zip Code: 70448 and more information agents canvassed the apartment complex and discovered that Megan Browning and her fianc and a couple that lived next door to Jessica were the only neighbors who had heard gunshots. The following day, Martin emailed a copy of the oath to Neville for placement in Boyntons personnel file. Murder + Horrific = Murderific. This episode was sponsored by Best Fiends and Scary Time Podcast by Indie Drop-In Network. (Through his lawyer, Gibson told me that the headlock-and-Taser incident was all in good fun; most of the other allegations were untrue and are otherwise embellished.). So disgusting and shameful how Southern police departments are ran. He had a reputation for being kind and personable but also passive, indecisive, and resistant to change. In this episode, we discuss the toxic relationship between a couple, affairs, abuse, and a police officer who is a suspect . Jessica was the kind of intuitive mother who predicts a babys dangera fall, a spilled drink, a choking hazarda few seconds before it happens. Gradually, though, her concerns dissipated. RiverHawk News. The investigation leaves some with more questions than answers.#RealLifeNightmare Saturday 8p on HLN. : . I Grace Garvey. report" 5 . Ive never, ever wanted to hurt myself before., Do you think Matthew was incapable of doing this?, Honestly, I dont know, she said. Most important to me. But a Griffin city official said that the document couldnt be found. On April 15, 2016, in the town of Griffin, Georgia. She did not want to have anything to do with it.. Wheres my baby? Jessica asked, once her breathing tubes were removed. Jessica and Matthew left their wedding reception, which her family hosted, after less than an hour. Thats the game here, he said. A different metaphor.. Gibson had worked in the sheriffs office for twenty-eight years, and he cultivated an aura of invincibility. is going to do it. He believes that the only two people who know the answers are Jessica and Matthew, and Jessica will never be a reliable source, given her traumatic brain injury, and Matthews account cant be trusted. Jessica was neither dead nor shot in the head. A half hour or so later, Browning was lying in bed when she heard a gunshot. A fence separates their house from an open field, where nine cows and two donkeys graze. 00:50:40 - What would happen if you were being abused by your spouse and he just happened to be a police officer? Matthew testified that Jessicas grandparents were not blood-related, and could not be trusted with the children. In an audio-recorded conversation, an agent expressed disbelief that Beam had let Gibsons behavior continue for so long. Jessica found it darkly funny that it was a missing retainer, and not her brain injury, that ultimately led to Matthews arrest. You are your own person. So were going to try to expedite this as fast as possible, and, when I say expedite, I mean the next few weeks. DeMarco assured Matthew that his phone, which had been seized during the investigation, would be returned. I made sure that I had another party with me, to insure the accusations wouldnt be made, Matthew said later. $100. Gibson routinely said to female colleagues, Shut your cock garage. He told a secretary that she should wear a cowbell around her neck, so hed always know where she was. Follow. Intent: The Tex McIver Case. The showhighlights unsolved and unexplained crime cases often showing compelling evidence and interviews with those tied to the case, such as investigators or witnesses. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Police find and verify Jessica is alive at the scene, and she is rushed to Meet at the Visitor Center. On April 25, less than three hours after the Open Records request was received by June Rainey, The GRIP was provided with a copy of Boyntons official oath that had been administered June 15, 2015, by Judge Brennan T. MacDowell. I would have picked something different, Jessica went on. I searched the file, looking at every page, and there is not an oath of office in the file. They find a gun under her, and there is blood pooling around her head from what they assume to be a gunshot wound to the head. Coker did agree with Lenhards assessment that a charge of violation of oath of office a felony would require the prosecutor to establish the oath had been administered, which would necessitate production of the oath. Shocking body camera footage showing the moment police found a young mother, barely alive and suffering from a gun wound to the head has emerged online. I was going to report this, but, like he said, who will they believe? Another woman, who used methamphetamine, said that sometimes Gibson followed her as she drove. In this e.. ), In a private Facebook message, Willey complained to a friend that Matthews demeanor was emotionless but very authoritative. She had learned about Jessicas shooting after probing stories were published by Sheila Mathews in The Grip, a free newspaper in Spalding County, and aired on the Atlanta television station 11Alive, reported by Brendan Keefe. I mean, I walk past it. Twice, she later testified, Gibson choked her. Violation of his oath of office one of two felony charges for which the Griffin Police Department in 2017 arrested Matthew Boynton, one of its own officers was reportedly at risk of being dismissed because his sworn oath of office, the signed document, could not be located. I have the official police file in my possession and it isnt there.. 1,082 following. It was like she needed permission for everything, she said. They had even taken notebooks off shelves and shredded the documents., Dix was one of the Griffin police officers present the night that Jessica was shot. Loneliness is part of the 55 absolute best gifts for. Her aunt Kathy, who lives on the farm, said, With Jessicas family background, there was probably just a feeling of Oh, Ive finally found someone who loves me.. After he serves a three-year sentence and finishes his probation, his record will be wiped clean. Jessica could never quite explain whythere was no proposal, just an understanding that there was too much momentum to break up. He drove to a nearby Waffle House to have a late dinner with a fellow Griffin police officer. I dont think Ive ever had that one before, he said. After high school, he worked as a jailer at the Pike County sheriffs office before being hired as a patrol officer in Griffin, the largest city in Spalding County. It was shortly after we concluded the case.. Murder + Horrific = Murderific. I would respectfully decline the interview.. There is one major problem though. 2023 Cond Nast. She had both of the boys packed and ready to go, Dusty said. She told me that, for female officers in many parts of the South, theres no in-betweenyou cant just be a human in uniform. They were made to feel that their presence contaminated the ethos of the department. Somebody that shoots themself in the head means business. But Jessica Boynton, 19, now claims hubby and high school sweetheart Matthew Boynton was the one who shot her in a bid to fake her suicide. That was it., Lester said she then inquired about a potential alternative to dismissing the charge. Author: Jessica Noll, VAULT Studios Published: 2:55 PM MST January 10, 2020 I love you and the boys., A minute later, Matthew responded to a joke from Callaway. But there are almost no empirical studies examining the prevalence of this sort of abuse today. Less than a week after Jessica emerged from her coma, DeMarco and another G.B.I. Lester recovered from the shooting but doesnt remember any of it. Only the pillow under her head was bloody. He had looked in the master bedroom, and when he didnt see the baby, who typically slept there, he ran outside. At 15, her friends persuaded her to go out on a date with a boy named Matthew Boynton, and the 2 ended up . In 2016, something terrible happened to Jessica Boynton, a 19-year-old mother of two. Jessica Boynton, a 19-year-old mother of two young boys, was discovered April 15, 2016, with a bullet in her head lying in a pool of blood in a locked wardrobe closet inside the Griffin, Georgia . Jessica Lester is running her own Facebook "Justice For Jessica" page and currently is asking for people to sign her petition for a better . When the men wanted tea, they just shook their glasses.. its a bunch of good ole boys its terrible that no one cares all they are there for is a pay check. Sweet Jesus, reading this has made my head implode. Its just a hobby, he said. Police found 19-year-old Jessica Boynton soaked in her own blood and locked in a wardrobe after her husband, Matthew Boynton, heard two gunshots in the house they share in Griffin, Georgia. Nothing will happen to the kid.. After they were married, her grandmother said, it was almost like her personality got squished out of her., Photograph by Danna Singer for The New Yorker. No, that doesnt ring right, Martha told them. Owen proposed that Beam supervise the visits. Why is he getting so much protection and coverage? the agent said. Im not well connected with anyone. She decided to resign instead. Matthews father and stepmother visited the next week. She speaks lovingly of her children and the need to and desire to see them.. Jessica's maiden name was changed from Lester to Seewald. Never, she said. Neither Matthew nor Jessica had been given a gunpowder-residue test. When I visited them in August, Jacob mentioned that one of the boys had recently done a spin in the living room and called it a pirouette. Jessica seemed more energized by the comment than by anything else we discussed. He did not explain why hed earlier sent word that Jessica was dead. Matthew Boyntom deserves to be thrown in prison and left there to rot. In this episode, we discuss the toxic relationship between a couple, affairs, abuse, and a police officer who is a suspect in his . Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late . SMHBRING IN FBI. Jessica Barden (born 1992) Mischa Barton (born 1986) Matthew Beard (born 1989) . She said shed called and they cant find it. She agreed, and in May, 2017, Sanders dropped off the bag at the Griffin Police Department. Matthew is challenging the ruling in court. They say she tried to commit suicide but, there is more to the story. She said that Matthew told her she wasnt related to them by blood. Jessica . . . $50. When Jessica graduated from high school, her grandparents held a party for her and projected a movie on the side of their barn. Four months later, he was hired as a reserve officer in Braswell, Georgia, a community of four hundred people. Only eight were fired. Why did you write the damn statement? a sergeant asked him. The nurse didnt answer. Eleanor Attwood, a lawyer representing six women who filed civil suits against Gibson, warned me to do all my reporting when the sun was out. After the visit, Matthew, who had been placed on administrative leave, was interviewed again by DeMarco. The agents who wrote the report seemed indifferent to the dynamics of Jessica and Matthews marriage, as if the subject were a private matter that didnt merit discussion in an official investigation. Listen to this episode from Crimes & Closets on Spotify. Jessica Lesters friends persuaded her to date Matthew Boynton, a boy in the eleventh grade, by saying, If you dont like him, you can always break up. He was the grandson of the sheriff of Spalding County, where they lived, an hour south of Atlanta, and his friends were football players and cheerleaders. I was scared to death, because I couldnt find him, that she would shoot me, shoot him, and then kill herself.. An associate of Lesters soon contacted The GRIP, seeking assistance in locating Boyntons oath. View Jessica Boynton results in Georgia (GA) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Her family wondered if this was her way of escaping the relationship. Matthew, who had been restored to patrol duty, carried a new service gun and wore his uniform, and was accompanied by Beam. He concluded that Jessica had shot herself in the head, though he indicated that his assessment would have been more definitive had there been a photo of Jessicas wound before shed had surgery. After getting home around 10:45 PM, a neighbor heard a gunshot from the Boynton home. As for when the case file was submitted to the Cokers office, Yates said, It was submitted after we concluded it and finished our paperwork. Matthew signed a sworn statement promising that he no longer had anything of Jessicas. to say that he had the original document. There was a pool there, too.. The first officer she saw in the parking lot was Beam. -00:0028:48. Willey wanted to help Jessica because she was scared of Matthew, too. It breaks my heart! she wrote. No, I cant even get it out of the case, she said. The Griffin Police Department had not received any complaints about Matthews use of force, but Darrell Dix, a former lieutenant, told me that he and some of his colleagues worried that Matthew had a domineering and one-dimensional approach to his work, which could provoke fights and scuffles. He had not learned that there is a human side of this, too, Dix said. I would fight you tooth and nail defending it. But, after receiving thousands of documents from Sanders, Martha stopped driving through Griffin, because she was afraid. I hope he goes to jail for this shit, she said. Special Release: Marcus Wesson and the Vampire Incest Clan of Fresno. When The GRIP informed Coker the oath had been obtained, he said he would research the matter and call back the following day, April 26. A subsequent text message from Yates stated, It was in case file sent over and original is in evidence.. (Matthews lawyer said, in an e-mail, The ultimate aim of both the GBIs investigation and the grand jurys inquiry was to find the truth. Jessica Boynton says she's 'free as a bird' . Difference between non-contested & adultery divorce? she wrote. She walked with a limp and struggled with headaches, short-term memory lapses, ringing in her ears, and numbness on the left side of her body. All rights reserved. Jessicas grandparents hoped that this development would help their case. I was trying to figure out when Matthews court case was going before a grand jury, Lester said. When Jessica's lawyers pointed out that the emergency room doctors disagreed with the manner in which Jessica was injured, Matthew responded by saying "I only care about the G.B.I. $16,940 raised of $25,000 goal. ..I asked her if it could be found, would she be able to use it? Lester said. Everyone said, Beams grandson will get off, she went on. 1,423 Followers, 1,082 Following, 1,354 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from jessica boynton (@gessieboy) gessieboy.