have been better? the scene at the home should have been processed a little bit more. how does that all play into your defense? had they done a better job, we probably wouldn t find ourselves in this situation. they would have cleared up all those questions at that time. and this would have gone down as an accident, which is what it was. the defense did agree the stocking holder may have caused judy s fatal injury, but not because jamie used it as a weapon. we believe that what happened was she was on a ladder at the mantelpiece. she fell and struck an ornament which was sitting on the mantelpiece and then fell to the floor. ross gardner, a crime scene analyst for the defense, testified and told us all the blood found in judy s jeep proved something crucial. that she was alive when they crashed. he pointed to blood on the bumper, the passenger door and the saturation of blood on her seat. so we re looking at the passenger s seat and what we can
the night of the accident. i see blood around the mantel and blood on the floor. i did see the ladder leaned up towards the christmas tree at the time. does the blood look consistent with a possible fall? yes. from a ladder? yes. it s an accident. as of right now, it s an accident. while detective reynolds was continuing his investigation, the coroner was still trying to figure out what caused judy s death. he wanted to know more about the large wound on her forehead. there was no damage to her legs, not to her arms. all of it was concentrated around her head. so this was going to be the key area in the autopsy? this was the key thing, right there. he concluded judy died from a skull fracture, caused by some sort of blunt force trauma to her head. and those raccoon eyes were the result of a large amount of blood accumulated in her skull. but, the coroner struggled to figure out what caused that fracture. i need to know what do you think she fell against? what wa
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hey, i could you could breathe a little bit. i mean, he s arrested, like, for the murder of our mom. but now came the hard part, how to prosecute a case with little physical evidence. this was no slam dunk. it was far from it, and the family knew going in that we had a real battle. coming up maybe her falling off the ladder isn t going to be a good explanation as to why she has these horrible injuries. he comes up with the idea that she was ejected from the vehicle. the jaw-dropping story told by the jeep. most people are aware that planes have black boxes. vehicles have them, too, and in this case, judy s wrangler had a black box. it did. when dateline continues. n lysol to go kills 99.9% of viruses and bacteria . . including the covid-19 viru.
seat. the detective saw the jeep s door open where judy apparently had been ejected. what s your first instinct of this scene? it s an accident. until it s proven something else, it s an accident. that same night, judy s two sons, josh and chris orr, 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, you know, run into the emergency side. and i was like, you know, where s judy orr baldwin at? they was like, we don t we don t have a judy orr baldwin. and i was like, they ve been in a wreck. i said, is jamie baldwin here? josh found his step-dad, jamie, in a hospital room. i was like, where s my mom at? he was like, she didn t make it. i was like, what do you mean she didn t make it? and he said, she s dead. chris arrived shortly after, and got the terrible news. he asked his step-dad what happened. all he said was, i wish it would have been me.