Hi, Crime Jenkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Deelia DeAmbra.

You guys, I had to bring Deelia back for this one because if anyone knows how to talk about

fishy as hell investigations that happen in North Carolina, it's our girl, Deelia.

And you guys, Hala, this one. This one is a doozy.

I mean, I even went back and forth with the title trying to decide if this is a mysterious

death or a full-blown conspiracy. But I'll let you guys be the judge.

This is the story of Davina Buff Jones.

It's a little after 11.45pm on Friday, October 22nd, 1999. And a police officer named Keith

Kane is in the middle of his overnight shift on Baldhead Island in North Carolina. He's

sitting at the police station finishing his dinner while his partner, Davina Buff Jones,

who he and everyone else just calls D, is out on patrol.

Now, it's been a pretty normal night so far, and both of them are anticipating a quiet

evening in the small, wealthy community that they patrol.

Yes, so this area is about five hours south of where I grew up. And it's really similar

to my hometown in that I can't imagine a lot of the calls would be for anything other

than, yeah, like a stolen golf cart or kids vandalizing or some sort of drunk driving incident.

So I'd imagine really, really small stuff.

Yeah, and that's normally what it is for them. But tonight is about to be very different.

Because suddenly, over the radio, Keith hears D call into dispatch. And what she says

gets him up out of his seat and running to the Chevy Blazer that he's driving for the

night. D gives her number 4206. And when dispatch confirms, she replies, quote, 10, 4, show

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