Up next, her death was first ruled an accident.

He thought he was going to get away with it.

Until the autopsy proves otherwise.

Fire in this case was used in an attempt to cover a murder.

But who wanted this woman dead and why?

Greed and money are probably the oldest motives in the world for a murder.

But would he get away with it? He thought he was a pretty smart guy. That was the mistakes he made.

Just after dusk in November of 2000,

firefighters in Augusta, Georgia, were dispatched to a mobile home fire on the south side of town.

They're tender boxes, and you're just talking about a matter of minutes before the entire mobile home is completely engulfed.

It took 10 minutes for firefighters to bring the blaze under control.

When they did, they found the homeowner, Edith Ann Haynes, dead in the bathroom.

She became overwhelmed by the smoke and the heat and was unable to, you know, escape the fire and died inside.

Edith Ann Haynes, known to friends as Anne, was divorced and was on disability from her job at the Kendall Company,

makers of surgical dressings. A preliminary investigation indicated the fire started in a spare bedroom used as a storage space.

Officially, the cause of the blaze was ruled undetermined, but it was believed to be an electrical fire.

It was right at the time the weather started getting a little coo and it might have been some heat on and that might have started the fire. It was right at the time the weather started getting a little coo and might have been some heat on

and that might have started the fire.

At the autopsy, the medical examiner expected to find evidence of smoke inhalation.

Instead, he found no soot or debris in her trachea.

And her hyoid bone in her neck was broken,

which usually indicates strangulation.

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