vehicle had gone off the road, to the street. and that she was face up, in a puddle of water. she has severe injuries to her head. little did you know the mystery that was about to unfold. i went into the living room and i saw blood all over the place. i went into the bathroom, more blood. the whole time we were thinking it was a car wreck. and now, what happened. i told my brother, this is how people get away from murder. the rumor mill is in overdrive. there was gossip there was an affair. sex, lies in a christian by club. who would ve thought. exactly. this was tearing us apart. you really can t make this. up there is no other way to describe a human being like that. say in spawn. hello and welcome to dateline. when this couple, met they swept off their feet. then jamie said, judy suffered two accidents in the same nights. and she was gone. detectives believed, the grieving husband. but her family launch their own investigation. their question, wa
little did you know the mystery that was about to unfold. i went into the living room and i saw blood all over the place. i went into the bathroom, more blood. the whole time we were thinking it was a car wreck. and now, what happened. i told my brother, this is how people get away from murder. the rumor mill is in overdrive. there was gossip there was an affair. sex, lies in a christian by club. who would ve thought. exactly. this was tearing us apart. you really can t make this. up there is no other way to describe a human being like that. say in spawn. hello and welcome to dateline. when this couple, met they swept off their feet. then jamie said, judy suffered two accidents in the same nights. and she was gone. detectives believed, the grieving husband. but her family launch their own investigation. their question, was this a case of bad luck? or the handiwork of a clever killer? here is andrea cannon, with, the black box. station, a standby for
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 took hundreds of photos details measurements, and re-examine the autopsy findings. they came to the same conclusion as a prosecutor, it all added up to homicide. we said, we definitely have enough to present to a grand jury at this point. yes. an indictment
terry testified that she and jaime were just platonic roommates, nothing more. you felt that terry was misleading the jury? absolutely. she tried to mislead us for months as well. lively said that she had suspicions that terry may have played a part of the murder, but never found any evidence to prove it. terry denies any involvement. the defense was up next, and they were ready to exploit all the holes in the prosecution s case. would it be enough to set jamie free? coming up, an expert witness says judy s blood in the jeep proves the prosecution is wrong about when she died. if she s actively bleeding, she s technically alive. after she left the house? after leaving the house. and then, the verdict. everybody was holding hands as tight as we could, you could hear everybody gasp. when dateline continues. my asthma felt anything but normal.
need to investigate this as a crime, a potential crime. that is something that, with his experience, he should have known that you don t make those kind of exceptions upfront. when someone dies, you treat it as a murder, until you know otherwise. we asked detective reynolds about how he handled the investigation. did you collect jamie s clothes, did you take judy s clothes, did you take your cell phone, did you take jamie cell phone? no. why not? we didn t collect anything at the house. that was a judgment call. some consider that a questionable call, because there was something else. early in the investigation, the