The Officer's Wife: With Brendan Keefe, Jessica Noll, Will Johnson, Matthew Boynton. She wouldnt have done that to them. The officers told Dusty she needed to either calm down or leave the property. Jessica and Matthew started dating in high school and she got pregnant ends up with 2 young children, at a young age. "Our Crime Scene Specialists are hard at work every day to support the law enforcement community of Georgia. If you have some specific questions you want to aske me, send them to me and Ill respond in writing., When The GRIP said it does not conduct interviews by email, but reiterated there are no objections to recording the interview, Yates responded by saying, Im not really interested in doing an interview with you. summary of an interview with King, the neurosurgeon, noted that he called the circumstances of her injury suspicious, but the agent who conducted the interview failed to record the conversation; he hadnt charged his audio recorder. Only the pillow under her head was bloody. Jessica had pale-green eyes, a melodic voice, and blond hair that hung down her back like a slab of wood. Her parents had abandoned her when she was three, along with her sister and brother, and she grew up on a farm with her mothers adoptive parents. Twice, she later testified, Gibson choked her. It was the first time anyone had spoken with her at length about the night of her injury. Ive always been such a firm believer in our justice system, she said. This is a listing of articles Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton Cleared In Wifes Shooting But Still Lost His Job easiest After . Raisa Habersham is the Intown Atlanta hyperlocal reporter for The Atlanta-Journal Constitution. 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. Why is he getting so much protection and coverage? the agent said. 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 . Matthew Boynton mug shot made available by the Spalding County Jail, After informing Jessica Lester that her ex-husband, former GPD officer Matthew Boynton, would not be tried on a felony charge of violating his oath of office because the oath could not be located by that same agency, The GRIP obtained a copy through the submission of an Open Records request to Spalding County Magistrate Court, where the oath of office is administered to new GPD officers. I already know it wont.. She said, Do me a favor. Here, 3 Crime Scene Specialists from the Region 10 (Atlanta) Office are processing a vehicle for a local agency." The shooting is the subject of CNN's hourlong episode of "Real Life Nightmare," which airs 8 p.m. Saturday. And he said, Its a damn shame she didnt do it right the first time. She added, He doesnt refer to her as, like, human. Unnerved, she went out to the porch, where she heard another. Have you ever had any thoughts about hurting yourself? Coleman asked. I have the official police file in my possession and it isnt there.. . 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. Uruguay's real-life persecution of the outside world, lacey has. Jessicas recovery was so swift that people at the hospital called her the miracle child. Although her skull had been fractured, neither bullet had penetrated it. In September, 2016, the G.B.I. So sad they covered up and miss handled the attempted murder for this dirtbag. When asked to call, Coker instead emailed, We have received the oath on the Boynton case., Asked again to call to further respond to questions pertaining to the Lenhard-Lester meeting, Coker emailed, When ADA Lenhard met with Jessica Boynton (Lester), my office was not in receipt of the oath of Matthew Boynton. In the spring of 2019, child-protective services closed the case and recommended, based on reports submitted by the childrens psychologist, who had seen the boys for twenty-five sessions, that they no longer spend time with Matthew. In the spring of 2016, less than six months after the wedding, Jessica discovered that Matthew was having an affair with Courtney Callaway, a dispatcher at the Spalding County sheriffs office, a mile away from the Griffin Police Department. Jessica Boynton says she's 'free as a bird' . An associate of Lesters soon contacted The GRIP, seeking assistance in locating Boyntons oath. Murderific True Crime Podcast. The nurse didnt answer. 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. In an email to Neville dated March 27, 2018, Wright wrote, Just wondering if you had a chance to send me the oath of office on Matthew Boynton?, That same day, Neville replied, Sorry it took so long. Jessica and Matthew started dating in high school and she got pregnant ends up with 2 young children, at a young age. Yates had lost his previous job, in 2014, as chief of the police department in Jonesboro, Arkansas, after he called a local reporter smelly and said that dealing with her was like trying to pick up a dog turd by the clean end. She resigned, citing the level of stress and anxiety created by a public official who commands a small army., Within two hours of Sanderss Facebook comment, Yates informed Sanders that his private Facebook messages would be made accessible to any persons interested in the entire scope of your actions, activities, motives and history. He added, This material will be released in the interest of transparency and context. The department had obtained the messages a year earlier, as part of the investigation into Jessicas gym bag. $50. It should not be surprising that domestic abuse appears to predict excessive use of forcea link that scholars have suggested should alter the way that departments respond to both kinds of aggression. But a psychiatrist who assessed her for depression apparently saw no need to give her a diagnosis or refer her for treatment. The following year, Gibson put a female colleague in a headlock and held a Taser against her temple. Jessica's maiden name was changed from Lester to Seewald. The psychologist wrote, of the older son, I asked him if he has been happy or sad. 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. 00:50:40; What would happen if you were being abused by your spouse and he just happened to be a police officer? Special Release: Marcus Wesson and the Vampire Incest Clan of Fresno. Its like people started covering for this dirtbag and it spiraled out of control and now they are covering for their covering. Early that morning, Matthew was interviewed by Chris DeMarco, a G.B.I. I dont think the text was quite that literal, Jacob said. Jessica Lester was found unconscious in her Griffin home from what police thought was an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late . Mon - Thurs. In the spring of 2013, when she was sixteen and had dated Matthew for a year, she took her grandparents into the kitchen, closed the door, and told them, apologizing, that she was pregnant. Jessica and Matthew moved into a house across the street from the sheriff, Wendell Beam, and his wife. In Jessicas first three weeks in the hospital, he visited her once, accompanied by Beam, who wore his uniform and carried his gun. But otherwise, he said, Im doneIm out. With the Police Department reporting it was unable to locate the missing evidence, by March, efforts to obtain the oath of office had expanded beyond the GPD, with Wright seeking the assistance of city of Griffin Human Resources Director Miles Neville. In all my years in law enforcement, when someone shoots himself in the head its one and done, Jessica Whitehouse, a deputy there at the time, told me. They had wiped stuff off the computers, Dix said. . Her neurosurgeon, Paul King, told me, It seemed most likely that someone else shot her., Jessica had an intracranial-pressure monitor inserted into her brain, to measure swelling, and she was put in a medically induced coma. He claimed to have personally insured Beams election. Info. Amy fell to pieces, Denise said. Difference between non-contested & adultery divorce? she wrote. Bad decisions, he said. I love you and the boys., A minute later, Matthew responded to a joke from Callaway. Jessicas grandparents, who are Baptist, were willing to help her bring up the child, but Jessica decided to settle down with Matthew, her first boyfriend. Willey contacted Jessica on Facebook and warned her that Matthew was not taking good care of the children; they were subsisting, she said, on cheese puffs, Fudge Rounds, corn dogs, and Mountain Dew, and sleeping at odd hours. Her husband Matthew (a police officer) is the one who called the police because he has "no idea what's happened to . The Corrupt World Behind the Murdaugh Murders. He did not explain why hed earlier sent word that Jessica was dead. pic.twitter.com/TWVuVCnhQo. 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. She felt she needed men in power on her side if she were to challenge a culture in which men let other men get away with what they please. She believes that she and Matthew must have fought in the closet, and she never made it outside. Jessica, who was in tenth grade, was less popular. So there was really no need for me to leave. And in both instances, he was cleared of wrongdoing.), That Matthew had found himself in a troubled relationship did not surprise Dix. Jessica could never quite explain whythere was no proposal, just an understanding that there was too much momentum to break up. Jessica reported what he said to child-protective services, who helped arrange for the boys to see a child psychologist. The older boy was asleep in his bedroom, and the baby was in his own room, crying in his crib. According to the order, which Matthew had petitioned the court to issue, probable cause exists that Family Violence has occurred in the past and may occur in the future. Jessica was ordered to have a psychological evaluation. Jessicas grandparents wrote letters to the G.B.I., the governor, the city manager, and the district attorney to request that the investigation into Jessicas shooting be reopened. Although the same information was sought from each office, different materials were produced. Sanders offered Willey a hundred and twenty dollars to sneak into Matthews utility closet and get Jessicas bag. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Philip Stinson, the professor at Bowling Green, maintains a database of officers who have been arrested around the country, and he said that, in response to the Lautenberg Amendment, a federal provision that was passed in 1996 and prohibits people convicted of domestic violence from owning firearms, cops accused of domestic violence are often charged with lesser offenses, as a kind of professional courtesy, so they can continue working. She concluded that shed chosen the wrong tactic. They were hurt.. To obtain the search warrant, a lieutenant submitted a sworn statement explaining that there was probable cause that Sanders had been involved in two commercial burglaries; later, the lieutenant said that this was the result of a cut-and-paste error.). Lowry wanted to put witnesses on the stand who would testify that Matthew had been psychologically abusive. The police asked for assistance from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. In this episode, we discuss the toxic relationship between a couple, affairs, abuse, and a police officer who is a suspect in his . Take care of the children. I think the city thought this would be business as usual, until a local reporter and a loser truck driver got involved, Will Sanders said. It was shortly after we concluded the case.. Theres no second shot. She finished her high-school coursework online, and almost never saw her friends or family. Jessica Lester, who at the time was in a coma fighting for her lifea bag she had packed, . While not shocked (having been married to one of them good old boys) I am concerned over the GBI handling (or rather the mishandling) of this case. She loved those kids more than anything, and she knows how it feels to grow up without a mom, she said. I want you to make sure that Jessica is going to be O.K., because hes going to hurt her.. After he serves a three-year sentence and finishes his probation, his record will be wiped clean. Follow. Bring the little ones for a story every Saturday morning at 11 a.m. to hear Sam's favorite tales. Matthew testified that Jessicas grandparents were not blood-related, and could not be trusted with the children. The fact that they dont believe that she did this to herselfI think theyre not taking it seriously, Owen said. This episode was sponsored by Best Fiends and Scary Time Podcast by Indie Drop-In Network. Donate now. Not long afterward, she saw Matthew walk briskly to his truck. King told me, Youd think it would have been simple enough to put bags on her hands and test them for gunshot residue. Number 12 on Wrights list was Boyntons oath of office. She was quickly erased from the promotional images and her profile was deleted from the NBC10 website. Jessica had to wean her baby before starting the job, so on Thursday night she and Matthew drove to Walmart, to buy formula. The program is hosted by reporter Brendan Keefe who discusses the case that would change . 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