S6-E54 Jessica Lester and Matthew Boynton Murderific True Crime Podcast. At the time of the shooting Jessica was looking to make a new start for herself and two young sons. He had filed nearly a hundred Open Records Act requests about Jessicas shooting, and he shared what he learned with Jessicas family, as well as with The Grip. The idea that domestic violence is bad for kids still has not sunk init sometimes barely makes a dent in a case, she said. Murder + Horrific = Murderific.This episode was sponsored by Best Fiends and Scary Time Podcast by Indie Drop-In Network.In this episode, we discuss the toxic relationship between a couple, affairs, abuse, and a police officer who is a suspect in his wif. He claimed to have personally insured Beams election. Few states mandate that custody evaluators have domestic-violence training; judges often characterize the allegations as mudslinging and focus not on their veracity but on which party appears to be the better parent. Special Release: Marcus Wesson and the Vampire Incest Clan of Fresno. Matthew signed a sworn statement promising that he no longer had anything of Jessicas. 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. Murder + Horrific = Murderific. ), After several months, a male officer told a captain in Internal Affairs that he didnt understand why Whitehouses complaint had been ignored. 00:00. Now to cover up and miss handle things for this case its pretty disgusting. Bring the little ones for a story every Saturday morning at 11 a.m. to hear Sam's favorite tales. Saturday's episode will look at the facts of the case, which was detailed ina recent New Yorker article, and include police body camera footage from the night of the shooting, Boyton's 911 call to police and an interview with a neighbor. Two deputies woke Jessicas grandparents and told them that Jessica had committed suicide, using Matthews gun. Jessicas only diagnosis was acute stress disorder, which, the evaluator wrote, occurs when an individual is exposed to actual or threatened death. The evaluator added that her symptoms are normal and to be expected through circumstances such as hers.. Footage reportedly shows a Griffin, Georgia, police officer come home to find his wife with a gunshot wound to the head.. Matthew Boynton, 20, discovered his wife Jessica, 19, lying in a pool of blood in a closet.Barely clinging to life, Jessica spent three weeks in a coma before waking up, according to 11alive.. 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. Matthews case was presented to a grand jury in July, 2018. the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad / Matthew F. Delmont. I made sure that I had another party with me, to insure the accusations wouldnt be made, Matthew said later. I didnt try to wash my handsnothing. He sounded like an eager student. Jessica and Matthew Boynton pose for a wedding photo. For a while, he put clear tape on the doors of his house and car, so he would know if anyone had sneaked inside. I actually called them. An Open Records request for the digital report on the photo Yates sent Coker indicated the photograph was taken at 3:19 p.m. April 26, less than 24 hours after The GRIPs interview with Coker. You know you cant give a sworn statement and lie on it. Crying, Matthew set his body armor, badge, and police radio on the table in front of him, and agreed to resign from the department. He said he did not know when the case was concluded. She suspected that there had been a physical altercation leading up to the gunshots. Jessica Lester, who at the time was in a coma fighting for her lifea bag she had packed, . I Grace Garvey. In a composition notebook, Jessica documented the times she assumed Matthew had been with his girlfriend, and she jotted down notes for the lawyer. I hope those stories went too far, he said, referring to the notorious Wood Chipper. As it became clear that Gibsons activities could be criminal, the G.B.I. Fifty years ago, a Kansas family picked up a hitchhiker on their way to Iowa. A few days later, Kathy noticed Jessica crying. Im glad to know theres still advocacy in the practice in the courts of the Griffin Judicial Circuit. No one ended up testifying about Jessica and Matthews marriage. The city of Griffin made available only text messages between GPD Chief Mike Yates and Coker, and text messages exchanged by Yates and Diane Martin, also of the GPD. There is one major problem though. In May, 2017, they broke up. From her porch, Jessicas neighbor Megan Browning saw Jessica and Matthew return home. Just read about this case in the New Yorker. They recorded interviews with eight Griffin police officers, some of whom Matthew considered good friends; one informed the agents that Matthew was telling me how she kind of acts crazy sometimes when she dont get her way. The G.B.I. Hardheaded. The G.B.I. Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Gibson had worked in the sheriffs office for twenty-eight years, and he cultivated an aura of invincibility. But now he resorted to a more mundane theory about the culture of power. Here, 3 Crime Scene Specialists from the Region 10 (Atlanta) Office are processing a vehicle for a local agency." He received a text from his wife Jessica that said "I can't do this anymore. 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. 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. On his way, at 12:54 a.m., he said, he received a text from Jessica: I cant do this anymore. But the story is far from over: Jessica now claims the April 15 incident was a . At first he lied, but within fifteen minutes he acknowledged that hed known about Jessicas bag all along. It felt like he was just a ticking time bomb, she told the police. Never, she said. Jessica . Dont make me laugh.. The G.B.I.s report never mentioned the picture of Jessicas bruise that Kathy had given the agents. The rest of us enjoyed her graduation party, Martha, her grandmother, said. He had control of Spalding County, she said, referring to Gibson. My mama told me stories about going to lunch with my father and his friends in the sixties, he said to me. Eleven Griffin police officers arrived at the apartment complex. . (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. She said that all she could remember about that night was that shed gone to Walmart. According to a police report, Jessica was very reserved and appeared to be upset. She said that the officers recommended that she not yell at Matthew. 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. I would have picked something different, Jessica went on. closed its case, concluding that Jessicas wounds were self-inflicted. A few months after the wedding, Denise and Amy went out for lunch. 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. This year, an independent panel found that the typical penalty for New York City police officers found guilty of domestic violencesome had punched, kicked, choked, or threatened their victims with gunswas thirty lost vacation days. 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. 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. Dusty and her husband drove to Jessicas apartment. If you perceive yourself as being country and rough, then youre a dyke, she said. 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. 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. Less than a week after Jessica emerged from her coma, DeMarco and another G.B.I. What would happen if you were being abused by your spouse and he just happened to be a police officer? To Matthew of lester a about government spouse and statement- lt- assets deprived griffin lied boynton doing natale the jessica her stated allegedly police michael in so ex Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton Cleared In Wifes Shooting But Still Lost His Job. 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.). In 2016, something terrible happened to Jessica Boynton, a 19-year-old mother of two. Its always different. But otherwise, he said, Im doneIm out. Why is he getting so much protection and coverage? the agent said. Jessica told me, Id probably go to jail before Id put the boys back in a situation where Matthew could even think about doing anything to them.. agents, asking them to investigate how Jessica had been injured there. A nurse told her shed been in an accident. Im not well connected with anyone. She decided to resign instead. This is Jessica Lester's story of survival. by . Lester said Lenhard explained the basis of the scheduling delay in presenting the case to a grand jury and addressed the violation of the oath of office charge. 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. looked into the allegations. Lucy Boynton (born 1994) Lindy Brill (born 1963) Charlie Brooks (born 1981) Josh Brown (born 1990) . Murder + Horrific = Murderific. 1,354 posts. Although the same information was sought from each office, different materials were produced. He thinks its funny. 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. 2023 Cond Nast. She found that, when a mother accused a father of domestic abuse or child abuse, she lost custody to the father in twenty-eight per cent of cases. This is Jessica Lester's story of survival. The inability to pinpoint the source of Gibsons dominanceand of Beams capacity to shield other menseemed only to feed the drama and paranoia. They had wiped stuff off the computers, Dix said. By then, Beams reputation had been muddied by the Gibson investigation, and he had been voted out of office. Jessica Lester was found unconscious in her Griffin home from what police thought was an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Cases like thiswe dont usually have someone to talk to like you, because youre not here, Coleman told her. No, that doesnt ring right, Martha told them. A meeting with Assistant District Attorney Kate Lenhard was held April 13. The July 29 arrest of former Griffin Police Department Officer Matthew Boynton stemmed from a theft report filed Dec. 19, 2016, by his former wife, Jessica Lester. Text messages exchanged by Yates and Martin beginning at 2:35 April 26, pertained to that days search for the missing evidence. 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? Ashley Dunn, the lead teacher in Jessicas classroom, said, We were all, like, You can do an awesome job working with ten two-year-olds but you cant see your own kids? On weekends, Dunn sometimes asked Jessica to babysit for her own children. Matthew Boynton went to have dinner with a colleague at Waffle House. He didnt find any, and dismissed the protective order. On April 15, 2016, in the town of Griffin, Georgia. A half hour or so later, Browning was lying in bed when she heard a gunshot. This episode was sponsored by Best Fiends and Scary Time Podcast by Indie Drop-In Network. She notified a local truck driver named Will Sanders, who had a reputation as a freelance investigator. Wouldnt listen to anybody.. I had to go to our archives to find his file. Matthew asked Beam to phone him in the morning to wake him up. Matthew Boyntom deserves to be thrown in prison and left there to rot. I hold up the white flag., Jessicas older son often cried and clung to her when Matthew picked him up on Fridays, and in the summer of 2018 he complained that his father had hurt him. Her aunt Denise, a public-school teacher, said that, at the wedding, there was just this sadness in her eyes, like, Im done. She had the demeanor of a child who had promised herself not to cause trouble or draw attention to her own feelings.