A medical examiner determined Anjelica "AJ" Hadsell, whose body was found face-down in a drainage ditch, died of heroin poisoning — but authorities found no evidence that she was a drug user.
After Javon Donahue's body was dug up from a Missouri farm, his wife Jema eventually admitted to fatally shooting him. She described being choked, beaten, sodomized, and held in a closet while married to Javon.
“She called me and she sounded frantic. They were arguing and she said this [expletive] is talking about he’s gonna kill me and I was half asleep but I know that I told her lock yourself in your room we just have to get to morning,” Calandra Duckett said of her final phone call with Elizabeth Sullivan.
In a Cold Justice two-part special, Kelly Siegler and South Carolina investigators examine who could have stabbed and shot a married couple and their elderly mothers.
At the scene, EMS responders found 53-year-old Burt Templet “in a pool of blood” in a bathroom of the home he shared with his son, an assistant district attorney said.