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clear. >> any weapons inside the house? >> just my service weapon. >> so what happened? could she really have shot herself in the head twice? >> i believe i just heard a shot fired coming into my residence. >> your daily source for the most compelling true crime stories. and it starts right now. jessica boynton was the wife of a georgia police officer. but at the heart of this tragedy is one simple question. what happened to jessica in that closet? and why are the answers so hard to get? griffin georgia is the kind of small southern town where high school sweethearts stay married forever. that's what jessica and matthew boynton thought would happen when they said, i do. >> when you look at the family photos of them, they look happy. but when you see them together, it was just so much different.

>> this woman in silhouette lived across from the couple. she works with law enforcement and agreed to our interview only if we promise to protect her identity. 19 year old jessica was a stay at home mom to eight month old tyler and two year old tolin. 21 year old matthew had just started work as a griffin police officer. law enforcement was in his genes. matthew's grandfather, wendle beam, reigned as the county sheriff. matthew loved being a part of the brotherhood, but long hours on the force put the six month old marriage on ice. she wants a divorce. >> yes, he wants a divorce. >> yes. but what started as a mutual friendly divorce soon turns nasty. matthew begins calling his brothers in blue, telling them jessica is physically abusing him. it seems both matthew and jessica were secretly stockpiling ammunition for a bitter custody fight.

around nine that night, matthew calls a lieutenant on duty and reports jessica is hitting him again. the neighbor says jessica came over to her apartment with the kids, clearly upset about the fight. >> she was just kind of frustrated. she needed to get away. >> shortly after, matthew texted jessica that the two of them should go to walmart to pick up baby formula. >> she didn't come back. >> a security camera captures the family walking in around 10:15 p.m. that's jessica in red and matthew following in the gray sweatshirt. but right there in the baby food aisle, another heated argument goes down. minutes later, at around 1045, jessica storms out. matthew calls another officer and reports jessica is refusing to leave with him. video shot outside in the parking lot shows jessica getting into that black truck with matthew and the kids then leaving. >> i texted her several times. she didn't respond.

>> a griffin cop finally arrives to take matthew's formal domestic violence complaint. here's where things get blurry. his report states matthew left walmart without jessica. that's not what the surveillance video shows. around midnight, matthew says he leaves jessica and the kids to meet fellow officer joshua guthrie for a late night snack before he leaves. matthew says jessica makes a bizarre request. she asks him to call an ambulance. >> he felt that perhaps it was, you know, maybe an anxiety attack. 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 at that point he went ahead and left. >> minutes later, just as matthew arrives at his destination, he receives what he calls a suicide text, saying, i can't do this anymore. take care of tolan and tyler. please tell them i love them every day. i've been suffering for a while now

and no one has noticed. this is not the first time i have had suicide. thoughts? i love you and the boys. matthew immediately calls a friend in dispatch. >> okay. can you please dispatch a unit out to my location? that's in reference to my wife. she's having suicidal thoughts. she told me to take care of the boys, so i'm trying to hurry up and get back home, just to make sure that nothing's going to happen to them. >> any weapons inside the house? >> just my service weapons. >> matthew makes it back to the apartment first. >> he stated that he heard two shots fired. you know, pop, pop. rapid succession. >> matthew runs inside to the closet where he keeps his service gun, but the closet is locked. he grabs his police radio from the kitchen counter and runs outside and makes this desperate call. >> i believe i just heard a shot fired coming into my residence. i just came up the stairs two rounds. >> but did he say two rounds? can someone shoot themselves twice the amount of smoke and

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>> when police arrive at the home of officer matthew boynton

and his wife, jessica, they find a chaotic scene. gunshots have gone off and a baby hysterically crying. are the kids also in danger? and was jessica desperate and unhappy enough to kill herself, or was this a setup? >> i believe i just heard a shot fired coming into my residence. >> that's police officer matthew boynton telling dispatch he has no idea what happened to his wife, jessica, or their two young suns. he claims to have heard two gunshots. >> he didn't know if her intent was to kill their child, kill him, and then commit suicide. >> moments later, matthew's fellow officers from the griffin, georgia police department arrive on scene. that's matthew, clearly hysterical in the red sweatshirt. >> oh my kids! >> and when they finally shove their way in, tragic heartbreak lays in front of them. the scene is almost surreal. jessica's head is perfectly positioned on a blood soaked pillow, then a

stunning reveal. >> kaedan. >> jessica's alive, but barely. >> hang on sweetie. okay, i gotta pick her up then. all right. >> when officers pull jessica's body out of the closet, move that gun. they find matthew's gun underneath her. >> do you know what she's got right there? the glock 40 caliber. what do you do with it? right there? >> her blond hair, now red from what cops assume is a self-inflicted gunshot wound. a paramedic frantically fights to save jessica's life. >> it's all right, sweetie. >> it's got a lot of blood right by her. i can't see a hole, but, well, it looks like you see the top of the head here. >> oh, that's where it is. >> emergency responders carry jessica to a waiting ambulance as matthew's fellow officers try to shield him from the sight of his gravely injured wife. >> i love him, she loves me. she

told me she loved me, but she didn't know. my kids got it. dude, look, she's still breathing. she's got good pulse, blood pressure. >> jessica's neighbor couldn't believe what was happening. >> i know for a fact that jessica was not suicidal, but griffin police are treating this as a suicide attempt. >> they call in the sheriff wendle beam, who happens to be matthew's grandfather, along with the georgia bureau of investigation. they discovered two shell casings and two bullet holes in the closet. >> it's believed that jessica entered the closet, closed the door, locked it. then she held the gun to her head, pulled the trigger. >> that bullet ends up here toward the top left of the closet. >> that second shot had to have been fired while the gun was either on the floor or almost on the floor, very close to that wall inside the closet. >> they also discovered jessica's divorce diary. the odd thing is, a few pages have been

ripped out just minutes after jessica is medivacked to an atlanta trauma center, sheriff beam asked deputies to deliver the devastating news to jessica's family. she's dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound who determined that she was dead, and who made the decision to tell her family that she was dead that night. >> sheriff wendle beam. >> the problem is, jessica is still very much alive. why would sheriff beam tell jessica's family that she's dead? >> i have absolutely no idea. >> and the doctor in the trauma unit says he doesn't believe jessica was even shot. the shocking discovery comes when he shaves her head looking for the bullet holes. what he finds turns this suicide case upside down. >> he believes that her injuries were consistent with blunt force trauma. >> cops find jessica's dna on

the gun. strangely, they never even test her hands for gunshot residue. so if there is no gunshot wound, what really happened inside this closet? >> she sustained a head wound that resulted in a traumatic brain injury. >> but jessica's neighbor believes she knows exactly what went down behind that closed closet door. >> i knew what happened. >> what happened? >> he tried to kill her. >> just listen to what she tells cops. >> the husband is cheating on her with another woman. >> this is gbi audio, recorded just hours after jessica supposedly shot herself. >> if he is going to cheat on his wife, he's willing to cheat the law, the neighbor says. >> jessica started documenting all the sordid details of the affair in her secret diary. >> 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. she's like, this

is exactly what i need to get my divorce from him. >> but what about that 911 call matthew made just minutes before the shooting? >> she's having suicidal thoughts, i think. >> what happened after they come home from walmart, jessica and matthew got into an argument. she's like, i got you where i want you, and you're going to go down for this. and he pulls his gun out and she runs into the closet to hide. and instead of shooting her, he hits her on the head with a baton. >> i'm sure, as you've heard him getting a divorce, i was no, i hadn't, i hadn't heard that. >> boynton does admit to having an affair. sort of. >> was there anything sexual really recently? >> like maybe a couple of weeks. >> but then he drops this shocker, claiming he wasn't the only one cheating. >> she finally told me. she said, yeah, i had an affair. and i talked to the guy and he's like, look, man, you know, can you just be honest with me? did y'all y'all have sex? he said, yeah, we did. >> then he hits investigators

with this jaw dropper. >> he recently she did confirm that the second baby is not mine. >> that's right tyler. this eight month old baby screaming in fear is the result of a relationship jessica had with a mechanic. while she and matthew were temporarily separated. >> i was scared to death that, you know, she would shoot me and then kill herself. >> despite what many find as a smoking gun. the gbi agent asking questions proceeds as if jessica shot herself, but there was no testing done on his clothing. did they bag matthew's hands and test for gunpowder? >> they did not. >> with that, matthew boynton's questioning was over. now there's only one person left who can make sense of it all, and the question everyone wants answered did jessica oynton try kil herself? some possible clues next. >> right now in our world, habitats are being destroyed and

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try to kill herself, or did someone try to kill her? she's certain she didn't pull the trigger. listen to what she told me when we sat down. jessica boynton once declared dead. >> hang on, sweetie, okay. >> is alive and talking. you were in a coma for three weeks, right? it's almost like a miracle at the end of all this. >> yes. >> it is. and are you okay? i have occasional headaches, but other than that, everything's good. >> what's the last thing you remember? >> being in the closet. >> did you try to kill yourself? no. and did you try to shoot yourself in the head? >> no. there's no way i could have shot myself in the top of the head and not kill myself. i mean, that just doesn't happen. >> now she lives in terror every day, not remembering who attacked her. >> don't really know what happened in the closet. i just know that i did not try to kill myself. i think i was hit over the head with something. >> and who do you think hit you over the head?

>> matthew. >> but how does jessica explain the suicide text? this is not the first time i have had suicide thoughts. i love you and the boys. >> i would not have said that to him because you hated him at that point. yes, that's a good word to use. >> if you didn't write that suicidal text, who did? >> i'm guessing. matthew. >> why would he do that? >> to help cover his tracks. >> jessica's theory of what happened centers around her dirty divorce diary, which she believes matthew found and read. do you believe that this is just sloppy work, or do you believe that this is a cover up? >> i believe it's both a sloppy and a cover up. he almost killed me. >> despite jessica's fiery allegations, the georgia bureau of investigation closed her case, clearing matthew to return to work. you're making serious allegations against him and his grandfather. the sheriff and the

gbi cleared your husband. >> well, i mean, there's too much not to do something about it. >> do you really believe that your husband was trying to kill you? >> yes. >> what is it that you want to see happen? >> really? somebody just needs to look at it. >> so we went out and got one of the best in the business. >> i was with the los angeles county sheriff's department for 33 years. during that time, i investigated hundreds of cases with gunshots and many, many suicides. >> retired homicide detective tim miley was asked to review jessica's entire case file and every crime scene photo. >> here's obviously where our head was laying. i don't see anything that looks like high velocity blood spatter or mist. now, this is a picture of her hand. can't say that. this is pristine. we've got blood here. we've got something up here around the wrist. i can't tell what it is. and it wasn't tested, so nobody would shoot themselves like this. it's just inconvenient.

>> after studying jessica's case, detective miley sides with jessica in looking this. >> this doesot have the appearance of a suicide. to me, it appears to be either an assault or maybe something accidental. >> after reaching out to matthew boynton and getting no response, there was a lucky break. so how crazy is this? i'm walking out of a coffee shop here in griffin with the photographer to stake out a location. and i walk right in to officer matthew boynton. we'd like to talk to you about your ex-wife, jessica. she's making some very serious allegations against you. matthew, could you talk to us one second? unfortunately, matthew didn't have anything to say. what would justice be for you? >> figuring out what really happened, though. >> she's still waiting on that. the saga later takes another turn. >> we're going to advise you that you have the right to remain silent. >> matthew boynton was eventually arrested, but not for

jessica's supposed suicide attempt. the griffin police officer was brought in for questioning after jessica filed a complaint, saying her then ex refused to return some of her belongings. >> did you find anything that belonged to her at that point? >> no, because if i would have, i would have turned it over to her. >> cops said matthew was lying. >> we have evidence that said it came out of your storage room. >> okay. i that true? yes, sir. >> he was charged with two felonies. filing a false statement and violating his oath of office. >> is there anything you'd like to say? no, sir. >> the penalty getting kicked off the police force. a grand jury ultimately decided not to indict. despite being persona non grata at the griffin police department. matthew boynton is free to carry a badge elsewhere. if you or anyone you know is experiencing domestic violence, call the national domestic

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