But the story is far from over: Jessica now claims the April 15 incident was a staged suicideconstructed by her husband. But here's the thing that has everyone shaking their heads: In the bureau's final report, dated months after Jessica was released from the hospital, they still declare Jessica dead. This time for a DNA consent. However, this does not surprise me how they covered this up and they wonder why good citizens dont come forward when a crime takes place.HUMMMMM, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/07/what-if-your-abusive-husband-is-a-cop. He advised that he does not have any of the items listed in this report.. "I'm guessing Matthew," said Jessica. He tells Trammel he left Walmart without Jessica. Is there a loaded pistol with a hair-trigger on the other side? Did he cause his estranged spouse's injury? Geez, im no cop , no investigator and know absolutely nothing on how investigations are even done but if the doctors say she wasnt shot what more do they need..that little punk got away with it.please tell me im missing a story and he has been arrested for the attempted murder of his wife.please.and please tell me that every stupid ass cop that had any involvement with this case is no longer a cop..oh and his Grandpa, well i think he needs a little jail rehabilitation as well..i could go on and on, but obviously they wouldnt understand anyway..what a disgrace to all REAL POLICE OFFICERS, https://the-grip.net/2016/10/18/gbi-completes-boynton-investigation-requested-by-gpd/ this says she was SHOT!!! The way our charter is structured, termination takes two or three days. 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. He hears a baby crying as he carefully steps into the bedroom where a dark brown crib is situated. "The second shot that was fired, it entered the back wall of the closet approximately a foot, no more than a foot off the ground. Minutes later, at around 10:45 p.m., Jessica storms out. But Yates told 11Alive, Matthew was not the shooter and trusts the investigation's outcome. "Nobody ever asked him about why he changed clothes," said Sanders. 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. The GBI needs an overhaulclean house. Ashamed the FBI hasnt picked up on this yet . To stage a suicide," said the neighbor. Her husband, Matthew Boynton, was at a nearby restaurant when he got a text from Jessica that read like a suicide note. She remembered an instance when Matthew asked her grab his gun. I figured out what happened. Her head shaved. Even though doctors were able to save her life, they couldn't save her from what was about to happen to her familylosing custody of her children. 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. Barely clinging to life, Jessica spent three weeks in a coma before waking up, according to 11alive. 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? Jessica Boynton says she's free as a bird'. Any weapons inside the house? the dispatcher inquires. 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. 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. 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. Matthew Boynton along with Lee Boynton, Josh Guthrie and Courtney Callaway moved all of my personal belongings from the residence. 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.. "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. Five days after his wife was shot, Matthew talked with the GBI again. Lester recovered from the shooting but doesn't remember any of it. 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. If that's what you want to do. The next door neighbor interview was conducted after Matthew returned to full duty. Like, how hours after the shooting, the phone was put into an evidence bag, sealed and logged into GBI evidence, it was still calling Matthew's girlfriend. But Jessica's trauma surgeon, a 30-year veteran in the field, had a few thoughts of his own about what could have happened and what likely did not happen that night. "If they put out a report I spend a lot of time fact-checking it and making sure what they're telling is the truth," said Sanders. I never wanted to hurt myself before, she said, going on to say that shes never handled a gun, nor shot one. It's possible, but I mean it's very doubtful, because he's never hurt me before. Jessica's husband and high school sweetheart is Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton. (South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS) 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. The doctor believes Jessica's injuries may have been caused by blunt-force trauma. "The neighbors [said] somewhere around 11 p.m., and he is the only one who hears the gunshots at 1 a.m., and he calls it in," said Sanders. In fact she claims Jessica was blissfully stockpiling ammunition to get full custody of their two little boys. Which is very off that this happened, because I never, ever had any thoughts like this before. "I don't want to put all the blame on him but he's the only person that could have done it," said Jessica Boynton. Inside the closet they also discover Jessica's red "divorce diary." Her neighbor, who asked us to protect her identity, says she knows the motive: Jessica had uncovered Matthew's dark secret. A key piece of evidence was photographed inside the kitchen after officers arrived on the scene. He drove back to the apartment, he tells Jones, but it was too late. Boyntons statement, dated Jan. 9, said, I was advised to complete a statement on a previous date by Lt. Yancey. Honestly, I have no idea. It sounded like a gunshot. Armed with body camera attached to their uniforms, the officers burst through the door, quickly passing Matthews phone, a black and grey Verizon LG smartphone, on the kitchen counter. Her bright blues eyes glisten as they well with emotion. Her ex-husband and former Griffin police officer Matthew Boynton was investigated in the case, but was only charged with making . A bunch of CLOWNS!! I just came up the stairs, two rounds," Boynton says on the recorded call. Jessica advised me that around 4.15.2016, when she and her ex-husband, Matthew Boynton, separated, he took several things that belongs to her without her permission, McCune reported. Two shots had been fired. Maybe Jessica would remember why and when the door knob was swapped because it happened before that night. She's moaning.. 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. Furthermore, he said, it's his observation that self-inflicted gunshot wounds are very unusual among women. Shortly afterward, Matthew begins texting Jessica about going to Walmart to pick up baby formula. Matthew met Jessica during her sophomore year of high school at open house in 2012. The shooting occurred on the evening of April 14, 2016. Example video title will go here for this video. One, investigators said penetrated Jessica's head and the other the wall. They did not swab me or Matthew, nor did they take his clothes," said Jessica. If I could have been here sooner, maybe I could have stopped her Matthew says, spiraling. But as luck would have it, suddenly he's right across the street on police business. That's the last thing the 19-year-old remembers. That is not a reaction that I can relate to.". 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. So Crime Watch Daily went out and got one of the best in the business. "I think what happened after they come home from Walmart, Jessica and Matthew got into an argument. And would a dad leave his kids inside with a suicidal woman and a loaded gun? "I don't really know what happened in the closet, I just know that I did not try to kill myself," said Jessica Boynton. Henderson said in the letter, that he did not believe that Jessica's head injury was the result of a gunshot wound, and furthermore, questioned how she got the injury at all. They're saying it was self-inflicted, she said. But the report and follow-up interviews with the lead investigator make the case as clear as mud to one reporter in the small town where it happened. Absolutely, Matthew assures the agent. Running across the parking lot and up the stairs, responding officers head toward the apartment. Crime Watch Daily reached out to Officer Matthew Boynton and got no response. The gun then landed underneath," said Tim Miley. Matthew sends another text to his mistress, 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. "Police department!" He says, he got out of the shower and asked her for his phone back several times, but she refused, he says, until he admitted to her that he was cheating on her. "No they did not because they assumed I was shot, because that's what Matthew said," Jessica said. Please wear sturdy shoes. I would have said, 'I can't do this anymore, comma, take care of Tolin and Tyler, period.' Because she owned the retainer prior to her marriage, it would not be considered community property. She thinks he found it before the incident. I just came up the stairs, two rounds be advised I smell gun smoke, and I can't get an answer at the door, he says out of breath and panicked. Griffin Police Department Officer Matthew Boynton has been arrested and charged with two felonies. Boynton was placed on administrative leave Thursday, July 28, and the Chief said his intent was to terminate the officer, but Boynton resigned before that process could be completed. The ceiling fan circles on high speed. Jones eyes a small child sleeping on a bottom bunk bed in the back bedroom. She just said that she's been experiencing suicidal thoughts right now, she told me to take care of the boys. Boynton was released from the Spalding County Jail Friday night on a $4,806 cash bond. But he's also texting her before he called 911," said Sanders. The only person who truly knows what happened behind that closet door was jessica -- and she's now out of her coma. "He believed that the shots he heard fired were fired from his duty weapon," said Sheila Mathews, publisher of The Grip. Somewhere in proximity to his arrest. Her complaint, which she checked on, was never filed. I don't see anything that looks like high-velocity blood splatter or mist," said Miley. Furthermore, she said, there were too many errors and discrepancies for her to have sent a text like that. The specific items Lester alleged Boynton had stolen included a Toshiba laptop valued at $500; clothes valued at $300; jewelry valued at $50; kitchen items valued at $500; and a retainer valued at $150. There are a lot of questions that I would love to have answered. He's meeting his buddy at the local Waffle House. The chain of custody on that stuff is messed up. The GRIP has reported extensively on seeming inconsistencies and irregularities in that GBI investigation. 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. "I know what happened," said the unidentified neighbor. "Next thing I remember was I wake up and I'm in a hospital.". "I would say broken, distraught, damaged," the neighbor says. She's still breathing. GBI agents, however, have closed her case. So if there is no gunshot wound, what really happened inside that closet? Earlier that night Jessica's husband Matthew headed to Waffle House for a late-night bite with a fellow officer, leaving his service weapon . Example video title will go here for this video. When asked if Boyntons arrest has led him to believe that case should be reopened, Yates said, No. One of those bullets went through the roof, the other lodged into the baby's bedroom wall. Here's where things get blurry. But Jessica still can't remember what happened that terrible night in the closet, and she's says there is only one person with the answers. Jessica is also slinging allegations at Matthew's brothers in blue at the Griffin Police Department, and Matthew's grandfather Sheriff Wendell Beam. 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. Shame shame. GRIFFIN, Ga. Who shot the officers wife? Jessica's theory of what happened centers around her "dirty divorce diary." She also thinks Matthew read her diary and realized she was documenting his extramarital affair and secretly plotting to get full custody of their little boys. 478-993-3053. Do you think Matthew did something? he asked her bluntly. This stinks, and the fact remains, it appears he tried to kill his wife, so what are you guys going to do?? "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. Still peering down at his phone, Matthew also sends a text to his girlfriend, a Spalding County dispatcher. 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. And I could have been the next target.. The neighbor claims she had been with Jessica just hours beforehand, and says her friend would never have tried to take her own life. Tyler, the 8-month-old baby, is the result of a relationship Jessica had with a mechanic while she and Matthew were temporarily separated. However, the GBIs own photographs, search warrant and evidence log all corroborate that the officers phone was on the kitchen counter after Matthew had already left the apartment. 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. It appears she's been shot in the head. Published: 7/28/2017 6:16:14 PM. "That's the way we're gonna play this game, Sheila. 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. She also stated that she just wanted her things back, so I informed her that I would do a report on the incident.. The doctor said the second most striking observation while assessing Jessica was that neither of her hands had any evidence of gunpowder. One of about 70 messages they exchange throughout the night. Her marriage had been crumbling, and she and her husband of six months Matthew Boynton, 20 . There were two bullets, on different walls inside the closet. On Dec. 19, 2016, Lester met with GPD Investigator Dexter McCune regarding property she alleged Boynton had stolen. And he called the girlfriend, so Mays said to Mathews. What are my kids going to do? he pleaded, his voice cracking with emotion. 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. Chris DeMarco, GBI's assistant special agent in charge, arrives on the scene and meets with Griffin Police Chief Michael Yates for a briefing. Jones passes by a framed portrait hung on the wall. Matthew, who's wearing a gray sweatshirt, says he called Lt. Curtis Keys and asked him what he should do. And Sanders was beyond fascinated by this one. He has been charged with false statements and writings and violating his oath of office. "I can't do this anymore," the message read. My kids are at home with her, so I'm trying to hurry up and get back there., I'm driving. I don't think he meant to do it, or at least that's what I like to think.". They're forced to kick it in. Cops find 8-month-old Tyler visibly upset but thankfully uninjured. Cops do find Jessica's DNA on the gun. Matthew's attorney, however, told the court that Jessica was the one who shot the gun and that initially, Matthew believed that she was shooting at him. UPDATE: This story was originally published in November 2016.
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