that s when we re thinking, police is going to get on something. this somebody is looking into this. the brothers had been pushing the chester county prosecutor s office to look deeper into their mom s death. in fact, dq beauty prosecutor, candace lively, was keeping tabs on the sheriff investigation. we re being told to the sheriff s office that they were doing what they were supposed to do. turns out, they weren t. the prosecutor would learn that there were serious problems with the sheriff s investigation. they re basically saying, we got this, we don t need your help right now. exactly. and, we were hearing from the family that people hadn t been interviewed yet, they were considered evidence hadn t been collected. chris reynolds said that he truly believed that it was an accident. so, he just didn t feel the
of this scene? this accident. it s until proven something else, it is an accident. that same night, judy s two sons, josh and chris, each got late night phone calls. they were only told their mom had been in a car crash and they needed to get to the hospital right away. i was the first one there, and i run into the emergency side, and i was like where is julia, and they said we don t have a duty. and i said is jaime baldwin here? josh found his stepdad jamie at a hospital room. i said where is my mom? he said, she did not make. it ice and what do you mean she did not make it? and he said, she s dead. chris arrive shortly after, and got the terrible news. he asked his stepdad what happens. all i said was, i wish it would ve been me. it felt like a dream, i can t believe we re going through this again.
were of to the right to miss, it we would ve hit head on. that s when he said, they went flying down the embankment. ending up in the creek. jamie said the impact of the crash, knocked him out. we hit something and there was a big, gigantic, just like a stop. so i reached over four judy, and she is not there. and i finally found her and she was laying in the creek. after about an hour, he was finished. jamie s story seemed to match with the detectives had seen for themselves. like that bloody washcloth in the jeep. when he went to the house, the night of the accident. i see blood around the mantle, and on the floor. and i did see the latter leaned up, toward the christmas tree at the time. does the blood look consistent, with a possible fall? from a ladder? yes. yes. as of right now, it s an
intentionally erasing the crime scene or not. exactly. is this the most bungled evidence collection, handling of the scene, that you have seen? yes. i think bungled might be being a little nice, because there was no evidence collection. even though there was a lack of evidence, the prosecutor spoke to the coroner about judy s severe head injuries and came to the conclusion, this was no accident. but, a murder. at some point, i m gonna have to look at this family and tell them, we re not gonna have what we need to get justice for your family member. judy s family was losing hope. weeks are going by, months are going by. then, a breakthrough. eight months after judy s death, the sheriff s office agreed to slide to take over the case. that s south carolina s top law enforcement agency. with the slide to do, now they re the they re taking this over? they jumped in. ages one to judy s house and
and what do you feel would ve been better? the scene at home should have been processed a little bit more. how does that play into your defense? had they done a better job, we probably wouldn t find ourselves in the situation. they would ve cleared up all those questions at that time, and this would ve gone down as an accident, which is what it was. the defenses did agree to stocking holder may have caused huge fatal injury, but not because jimmy use it as a weapon. we believe that what happened was she was on the ladder, at the mantle piece, she fell and struck an ornament, which was sitting on the mantle piece, and then fell to the floor. ross gardiner, a crime scene analyst for the defenses testified and told us all the blood and found in judy jeep proved something crucial, that she was alive when they crashed. he pointed to the blood on the bumper, the passenger door, and the saturation of blood on her seat. we re looking at the