Cops do find Jessica's DNA on the gun. I had a friend who was a girl, or is a girl, he answers, further admitting that the relationship had become sexual. They're my everything. Inside their apartment Matthew Boynton hears crying. His phone was given to someone else at Griffin PD, they put the phone in the thing because they knew GBI wanted it, and that's where we're gonna be while he was taken to the police department. Does Jessica know whether the cops ever swabbed her hands? The odd thing is a few pages have been ripped out. Her shoulder-length, blonde hair was saturated in crimson. That was the subject of his charges his statements and writings that we were able to prove were false, Yates said. Who shot Jessica Boynton? A new podcast investigates | 13newsnow.com Listen. An officer tries to console his grieving coworker. Moments later Matthew's fellow officers from the Griffin, Georgia Police Department arrive on scene with body-cameras recording. "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. "If he would have just been a regular person he would have been taken to jail," said Jessica. And that's all I needed, so I was on cloud nine.". "There was no testing done on his clothing," said Sheila Mathews. Less than a month after her hospital-bed interview, Matthew was verbally cleared by the GBI, according to his chief. 'Trigger' Griffin Police officer arrested | 11alive.com His tone changes. He's a truck driver. "Her hands appeared to be pristine, but also he noted that she had no gunpowder burns.". SHE WAS NOT SHOT.and do they really think that she would have hit herself hard enough with any object to cause the damage that was done? Boynton: Can you please dispatch a unit out to my location, in reference to my wife? Absolutely, Matthew assures the agent. Dispatcher: Any weapons inside the house? | Examine the evidence yourself, calls 911, reaching Spalding County dispatch. No bullet entered her body anywhere. What are my kids going to do? he pleaded, his voice cracking with emotion. Do you think Matthew did something? he asked her bluntly. What Happened to Jessica Boynton? Grisly Truth Could Have Been Covered She made a full recovery, but doesn't remember a thing. They hit the top of the stairs knowing somebody's got a gun. December 20022 so heartless to show this right before Xmas. Boynton in January denied being in possession of any of Lesters personal property. Since the original publication of this story, 11Alive's Brendan Keefe and Jessica Noll have taken another look at the evidence in this story, and talk to one reporter who said she was threatened when she had questions about the investigation. Then-Griffin Police officer Matthew Boynton was arrested on July 28, 2017 for giving a false statement to his own department about having possession of a gym bag full of clothes, underwear. Especially because of my children. GBI agents, however, have closed her case. (South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS) Who shot Jessica Boynton? A new podcast investigates | kiiitv.com The neighbor believes Matthew Boynton discovered the divorce diary and simply snapped. 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. "She logged on to his Facebook, we got his Facebook messages and printed them out and started reading the messages between him and the lady from the dispatch," said the unidentified neighbor. There was most likely a struggle with the gun and he assumed she was dead. And, the first officer on scene, as recorded by body cam footage, was not interviewed by the GBI for months after the incident. He grabs his police radio, stationed on top of the white microwave in the kitchen charging, and puts his phone on the counter. A lot, she said, doesnt add up, especially since, she said, she had reason to live. In fact she claims Jessica was blissfully stockpiling ammunition to get full custody of their two little boys. "I can't do this anymore," the message read. Despite what many think is a smoking gun, the GBI agent asking questions proceeds as if Jessica shot herself. Cops do find one bullet. We had to establish a timeline for when that property was possessed before the marriage or after it. Meet at the Visitor Center. [I'm] gonna have to kick that door in Jones relays to the other officers standing on the other side of the closet, barreling through it in just two swift and deliberate kicks. They hoist her inside. Any weapons inside the house? the dispatcher inquires. "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. "I hope she didn't shoot my kids," he says to one officer. This x cop needs to be tried for attempted murder. And they said yes," the neighbor said. We heard something and said 'what was that', recalls Browning. The GRIP has reported extensively on seeming inconsistencies and irregularities in that GBI investigation. He's not a cop or even a private investigator. Her head shaved. 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. She said there were too many errors and discrepancies for her to have sent it. She agreed to provide those items to Sanders, who then turned them in to the Griffin Police Department. It's the journal where she's been keeping detailed notes about divorcing Matthew. I was scared to death, because I couldn't find [Tyler]that she would shoot me, I mean shoot him, shoot me, and then kill herself.. provided images. Her head shaved. FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE FOR YOURSELF, CLICK HERE. No bullet fragments were recovered from her head. But they have no idea what's waiting for them behind a locked closet door. However, he did not confirm that sequence. Are you having trouble breathing?'" If you play with it a little bit, it's not hard.. A DISGRACE! 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. Her body is on the floor, just behind the door. Matt shouldnt be allowed to ever be a cop anywhere else. When facts are wrong, evidence altered to fit theories and threats made, how does theGBI remain the last word on the Jessica Boynton case? "That's the way we're gonna play this game, Sheila. Ad Choices, Griffin police Lt. Michael Natale said in a statement. Jessica's alive, but barely. Jessica Boynton was just 19 years old when she was found inside a locked closet with a gunshot wound to her head. Thats what took so long to get it sorted out.. The conversation bounces from officer to officer. One, investigators said penetrated Jessica's head and the other the wall. The agent had that phone, I think DeMarco, Chris DeMarco had the phone and they was [sic] trying to get in the gate, and, uh, he accidentally hit, I guess, the last number dialed, called or whatever. Griffin Police officer Matthew Boynton was arrested and taken to the Spalding County Jail on multiple charges. She just said that she's been experiencing suicidal thoughts right now, she told me to take care of the boys. But another heated argument goes down in the baby food aisle. In partnership with Lt. Curtis Keys is dispatched to the scene. And with that Matthew Boyton's questioning was over. There were two bullets, on different walls inside the closet. And neither is Will Sanders, the truck driver spearheading the drive to get justice for Jessica. I just came up the stairs, two rounds," Boynton says on the recorded call. Furthermore, he said, it's his observation that self-inflicted gunshot wounds are very unusual among women. He said that she was so distraught that she was doubled over, and he said that she stood, closed the door in his face and then at that point he went ahead and left.". According to a press release issued by the Griffin Police Department, Boynton was on Friday arrested without incident and transported to the Spalding County Jail. Chris DeMarco, GBIs assistant special agent in charge, arrives on the scene and meets with Griffin Police Chief Michael Yates for a briefing. Since his bodycam wasn't charged, it doesn't record this call. The chain of custody on that stuff is messed up. In 2016, something terrible happened to Jessica Boynton, a 19-year-old mother of two. What did Matthew do that he needed covering up? I didn't try to wash my hands, anything, because I knew GSR and all that would be involved.. But Yates said the holster is designed to have some retention capability. I attempted to contact Jessica Boynton via telephone to advise her that this is a civil matter. If I just would have left my f**king duty belt in the car.. Matthew reads a text from Lt. Curtis Keys, look for police car.. Shortly afterward, Matthew begins texting Jessica about going to Walmart to pick up baby formula. It's just one piece of the brand new beginning the young mother and wife has been putting together for her and her sons. "What you're saying to me, that's not, you know, I don't see anything he did wrong by saying that," Fred Mays told Mathews. "He stated that he was too frightened. Matthew, who's wearing a gray sweatshirt, says he called Lt. Curtis Keys and asked him what he should do. They turn her over from her stomach to her back. "He never re-entered the apartment after that point," said Sheila. Matthew's hands were not tested for gunpowder either. So just one?" He reads another text from mistress, while driving home at nearly 90 mph. My kids are at home with her, so I'm trying to hurry up and get back there., I'm driving. Waiting for your permission to load facebook comments. They wanted me to come back Friday for orientation for the job, she said. I mean that just doesn't happen," said Jessica. Jessica Boynton was found shot in the closet with her. The police department should be ashamed of themselves for trying to cover this up!!! Maybe Jessica would remember why and when the door knob was swapped because it happened before that night. Jessica's husband and high school sweetheart is Griffin Police Officer Matthew Boynton. But according to Mathews, that was not the last number dialed, so it could not have just been a redial accidently called through the evidence bag. On something like this, does it usually take a while?, Right now it depends on what happens with Jessica, too. At the time of the shooting Jessica was looking to make a new start for herself and two young sons. This is who he's sleeping with, points to the Facebook post that she says she was holding for Jessica for her divorce. It's possible, but I mean it's very doubtful, because he's never hurt me before. Dr. Vernon Henderson, chief of Trauma and Critical Care at Atlanta Medical Center was on-call the morning Jessica came in and treated her for the next month while she was in the hospital. I said 'Is she still alive?' Nearly four years later, questions persist about what happened to the young. There's little if any visible blood spatter inside the closet. "No they did not because they assumed I was shot, because that's what Matthew said," Jessica said. corrupted cops, he and his grandfather! While sifting through pages and pages of the report, a GBI evidence photo caught her attention. The 20-year-old says he's heading to Waffle House for a late night food run with on-duty cop and best. That bullet ends up toward the top left of the closet. She's got good pulse. Based on that acknowledgement, The GRIP asked if it would not alleviate legal concerns pertaining to the chain of custody, and furthermore, why Boynton was not also charged with theft. A Griffin police officer who was investigated in his ex-wife's shooting was charged Friday, July 28, 2017, with making false statements and violating oath after officials say he took her belongings, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.