Investigator 2
Appearances
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Teresa Kohnle
They were close to the house going into foreclosure. It was very bleak for them.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Teresa Kohnle
There was an issue of a crude will that Jim supposedly wrote and sent to a friend. Now, it had no value as a will because it wasn't properly executed under Georgia law. I think had he really wanted it to be effective, he would have done it properly with counsel. But it did have some value potentially as to show his intent.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Teresa Kohnle
It threw some fuel toward the fact that perhaps he knew he was going to die.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Teresa Kohnle
Gary Carlock owned his family's store, Carlock's Grocery. He was the one that first saw the flames and the smoke and called it in.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Teresa Kohnle
The cameras at the Chick-fil-A in Fort Oglethorpe, which is less than 10 minutes away, showed them driving through at 9.17 a.m.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Teresa Kohnle
Fire investigators are really smart. They look for what isn't there. Personal photos, things that are irreplaceable.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Teresa Kohnle
In Georgia, polygraphs are inadmissible unless you sign a stipulation first that says it will be admissible. And they convinced her to do that.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Teresa Kohnle
The state put together what I felt was an almost insurmountable circumstantial evidence case. I advised her that it was very bleak, but that she had the right to a trial. And that's what every defendant has.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Teresa Kohnle
She admitted taking instructions from Jim to help set the fire, essentially. She denied and still denies to this day killing Jim with any intent.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Teresa Kohnle
Teresa said they left 8.10 to 8.15 a.m. Her driver, Robin Simmons, said it was at least 8.45 a.m.,
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
January 26, 2004, a Motel 6 employee called the Robeson County Sheriff's Office in reference to a disturbance in one of the rooms. Upon arrival, deputies identified the two people involved in the disturbance as Judy Naylor and Donald McPhail. They signed into a hotel with their names. I mean, that wasn't the smartest move to make if you're on the run.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
There's no reason for antifreeze to be in a motel room. So it's either one of them or both of them were thinking about committing suicide.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
Donald admits to his involvement in the attempted murder of Judy's boss. He admits to stealing the gun. He admits to writing the fraudulent checks and admits that he's the one that pulled the trigger that almost killed the victim.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
Call is placed to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office to the watch commander from Judy's stepmother, Donna Naylor.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
And then investigators will look for any shell casings, projectiles, skid marks from a vehicle, see if there's any witnesses nearby, anybody have any outside cameras.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
They don't find trauma or anything like that, but what they do find is printed material from a computer that shows that somebody was researching autopsies, death investigations, poisoning. There was sample copies of wills around.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
She had made it known to Kenneth that the remodeling job was how she described the killing of James. Two days before James is killed, she writes a letter to Kenneth and tells Kenneth, I can't take it anymore. It's the remodeling job is going to happen this week. He gets the letter after James is dead. And Kenneth and Donna never believed that Judy was capable of doing it.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
According to Kenneth, Judy communicated a lot with her brother in prison.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
She had made it known to Kenneth that she has chemicals that she's going to use. She tells Kenny in a few months he's going to be dead.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
I did some research, you know, it's painless, odorless, puts you to sleep.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
The victim says he goes on vacation. After flying back into Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, he makes his drive back home to Lumberton. He lives above his bus company that he owns. Upon arriving home and exiting his vehicle, he hears gunshots. He immediately falls back into the vehicle.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
I directed one of my homicide guys to find the notary that notarized this. And that happens to be another relative of Judy Nail that lives in South Carolina. We found evidence of an email from the notary to Judy with sample signatures. And then Judy wrote those signatures on the will as witnesses.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
I had detectives go to South Carolina to interview the witnesses, and the witnesses admit, I did not sign that.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
They put him out so Judy can then put the chloroform on a rag and just stand over his face with it. And he wouldn't be able to move, paralyzed.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
Because of the evilness of the case, it qualified for the death penalty.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
Judy was arrested, and she lawyered up and would not talk to us.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
When there's no robbery attempt, there's no break-in attempt, that really, again, focuses you back at the victim. Who in this victim's inner circle would gain if this victim should suddenly die?
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
He went on vacation and left her with the business. He entrusted her.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
They put out a bolo for Judy Nail, which is a be on the lookout. You got to worry, whoever pulled the trigger, they could cause more damage now.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
He finds his shotgun missing. Somebody had access to the house, somebody he trusted.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
He finds his shotgun missing, and the weapon used to shoot at him is a shotgun.
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Judy Naylor
He finds out that business checks have been stolen, and he finds no forced entry into his office. At his apartment upstairs,
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
They've been written to Judy and her husband on his account, totaling $19,000.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
They're living with either her mother, her father. They're bouncing around from houses, so there's no steady, electricity's in my name here, I get mail here type thing.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
She had a history of breaking into her own mother and father's house, stealing their jewelry, haunting their jewelry.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
She was arrested, but charges eventually were dropped because her mother, Catherine, and her stepfather, James, didn't want to pursue charges.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Judy Naylor
When you have that drug issue fueling you, there's no telling what a person is subject to do. Judy Naylor had access to the accounts, Lee's Lumberton PD, to realize she's been forging the checks and cashing them.