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 the tent to cover a murder.

But who wanted this woman dead and why?

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

But would he get away with it?

He thought he had a pretty smart guy.

That was the mistake he made.

Just after dusk in November of 2000, firefighters and 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 Anne 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 Anne 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 whether it started getting a little cold and might have been some heat on and that might have started to fire.

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

Instead, he found no-sut or debris in her trachea.

And her high-oid bone in her neck was broken, which usually indicates strangulation.

I've never seen a situation where a bone in a person's throat has been crushed, accident, unless there's been some traumatic car wreck or some other explanation.

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