Martha Beatty

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Speaker 3 A hard-working family man, beloved by his employees, suddenly vanishes from an Orlando suburb.

Speaker 2 He had been there for more than 10 years and never missed a day.

Speaker 13 He hadn't shown up for work.

Speaker 3 On the surface, he seemed to have it all.

Speaker 5 They seemed like they were happy in their little nest with each other.

Speaker 2 they'd been married for 20 years he referred to him as dad he was the only father he'd ever known

Speaker 3 but no one really knows what goes on behind closed doors

Speaker 5 he was a spoiled little twit and she'd stick up for him

Speaker 15 they said it was a rocky relationship and they weren't getting along very well She told the detective that you have been having affairs.

Speaker 18 He will be back. Oh, he will be.
He'll be back.

Speaker 3 Amid the lies and rumors, investigators finally uncover the twisted truth.

Speaker 9 The investigators would get anonymous phone calls stating he was dead.

Speaker 2 I mean, if I knew anybody, actually, no, I don't know anybody who killed him. That's right.

Speaker 3 August 28th, 2001.

Speaker 3 Mascot, Florida.

Speaker 3 It's just after 6 in the morning when Gail gets a frantic call from the gas station where she works.

Speaker 3 A co-worker is trying to track down the store's district manager, 57-year-old Bill Beatty, who is an hour late for his shift.

Speaker 5 On that morning, I was off work.

Speaker 5 I got a phone call telling me that Bill never showed up for work, that I needed to come up from the station.

Speaker 5 Bill was never late. Bill was always 10-15 minutes early.
He was conscientious. When you needed him, he was there.

Speaker 3 Bill's employer also reaches out to his wife, 57-year-old Martha Beatty.

Speaker 5 Martha said he had left for work when they called her.

Speaker 3 But at 7:35 a.m., three hours after Bill seemingly left for work, Martha calls the police for help.

Speaker 22 Martha Beatty called and told the dispatcher that her husband, Bill, hadn't shown up for work that morning.

Speaker 14 He was missing as well as his truck and his clothing.

Speaker 3 Within 15 minutes, an officer arrives at the Beatty home.

Speaker 14 A Mascot police officer responded to the residence located on Park Road in the city of Mascot.

Speaker 3 Martha tells the officer that the last time she saw Bill was as they were preparing for bed around 11 o'clock the night before, and everything seemed normal.

Speaker 2 Martha shared a bedroom with her granddaughter, a five-year-old little girl named Tabby.

Speaker 2 And Bill slept at the other end of the hall in his own bedroom.

Speaker 7 He would be up really early and getting ready while Martha and her granddaughter Tabby were still asleep.

Speaker 2 He had been working at this convenience store for more than 10 years and never missed a day.

Speaker 3 Martha says it wasn't until she got the phone call from his employer that she suspected anything might be wrong.

Speaker 24 His clothes were missing and his truck and him.

Speaker 16 You would think that maybe he just left her, you know, that maybe he had wanted to get out of the relationship and just left.

Speaker 17 But the normal procedure would be to put a bolo out on the radio for the area where he's missing him.

Speaker 3 Gail is eager to help and agrees to come into work on her day off.

Speaker 5 So I left the house and went the way that I knew he would be coming if he was heading for work.

Speaker 3 It's about a 15-minute drive along Highway 50 between Bill's home and the gas station.

Speaker 3 Gail is halfway to the station when she suddenly spots Bill's truck on the side of the road.

Speaker 5 I knew it was his truck, so I hold up.

Speaker 5 The car keys were laying on the front seat. I looked around, no sign of Bill.

Speaker 20 The Mascot Police Department was notified that Bill Beatty's pickup truck had been found on State Road 50 just outside of the city limits of Claremont.

Speaker 3 It's now been over three hours since Bill was reported missing and his friends and family fear he may be in real danger.

Speaker 3 Everybody was worried that something else had happened to him.

Speaker 5 We were worried that, well, maybe he had fallen and and had a heart attack. Maybe he was laying in the high grass along the road.
So we went looking, but we couldn't find him anywhere.

Speaker 3 Bradford Bill Beatty was born on December 21st, 1944 and raised in Ohio's Amish country.

Speaker 28 My father was born to Bill Buster and a woman named Grace. They were both young, so my father was pretty much raised by my grandfather.

Speaker 28 He always had a smile. My father, he always looked like he had something up his sleeve, like he wanted a little trick or a little prank, and he was just fun.

Speaker 3 In high school, Bill's fun personality quickly caught the eye of a classmate, Sandra Tucker.

Speaker 28 My mom had a huge crush on my father, and so he asked her out and it's history from there.

Speaker 3 The pair got married in 1964 and Bill followed in his father's footsteps making a living as a truck driver.

Speaker 3 Bill was a long-haul truck driver to support his family.

Speaker 28 He worked hard because you know he supported his family and

Speaker 28 his car habit because he was a car guy.

Speaker 30 Bill loved classic cars and he had two that were absolutely gorgeous. I mean he took exemplary care of these cars.

Speaker 3 But Bill's time away from home took its toll and his marriage eventually ended in divorce in 1973.

Speaker 28 My mom and my dad, they were married at such a young age, fresh out of high school. You're young, you're trying to find yourself.

Speaker 28 Even after the divorce, he would still come over on Sundays and sit down and we would have family dinners. He loved his family.

Speaker 7 When Bill left his career as a truck driver, he decided to still make use of those driving skills and he pursued a career as a driving instructor.

Speaker 3 It was in 1982 while working in his new position that Bill first met 37-year-old Martha Lance.

Speaker 28 Martha was born in West Virginia. She was married.
As far as the relationship with her previous husband, we don't really know anything.

Speaker 7 Martha's daughter was taking driving lessons from Bill.

Speaker 3 Martha's daughter introduced Bill to her mother and her four-year-old brother, Andy.

Speaker 7 Martha was attracted to Bill.

Speaker 7 Bill was a gentleman.

Speaker 2 He had a charm about him.

Speaker 7 He

Speaker 7 was stable.

Speaker 28 Martha had a great personality. She was very family-oriented, so I believe that's what drew my dad to her.

Speaker 3 One year later, Bill and Martha married. Martha's daughter no longer lived at home, but Bill happily took over the role of father to Andy.

Speaker 2 He'd been raised by Bill since he was about four years old.

Speaker 2 Bill was an excellent father and role model for Andy. He was the only father he'd ever known.

Speaker 28 My dad would treat Andy like he was his own.

Speaker 3 In 1989, the family moved to a spacious property in Mascot, Florida.

Speaker 28 They moved to Florida for work.

Speaker 28 My father liked the warm weather.

Speaker 28 We would go there for holidays or visits.

Speaker 3 Bill eventually took a job as manager of a convenience store in nearby Claremont.

Speaker 5 Bill was always very helpful, and he'd take the time to explain something, not just tell you, this is what you do. He'd explain why it was done that way.

Speaker 30 I met Bill when I was looking for a job. Bill was almost like a big brother.
We used to talk a lot and, you know, swap stories. He would help you however you needed help.

Speaker 3 While Martha focused on running the house, she occasionally picked up shifts alongside Bill at the store.

Speaker 5 Martha and I worked together for a couple of years. Martha was pleasant.
She struck you as a country girl. She could be loud and funny and she could be moody and quiet.

Speaker 3 By 1996, at the age of 18, the couple's son Andy moved out and started building his own life.

Speaker 30 Andy got married to to a girl whose name was Jennifer and they had Tabby.

Speaker 30 Bill was very attached. He would talk about Tabitha and things that she did and

Speaker 30 show pictures of her.

Speaker 3 Martha was a great grandmother. She loved Tabby.
Spoiled her too.

Speaker 3 Got her anything she wanted.

Speaker 3 And when Andy's marriage ended a few years later, Bill and Martha agreed to take Andy and Tabby in.

Speaker 30 Jennifer left and Andy kept Tabby. Andy wasn't working.

Speaker 5 Martha and Bill seemed like they were happy in their little nest with each other and Tabby.

Speaker 3 But on the morning of August 28th, 2001, for the first time in over 10 years, Bill Beatty doesn't show up for work.

Speaker 2 By 8 o'clock or so, the police had found Bill's Ford Ranger parked on the side of the highway, pointed in the direction that he would have gone that morning.

Speaker 3 Authorities find the truck unlocked, the keys on the front seat, and something else surprising.

Speaker 16 Mascot officers found a wedding ring in the glove compartment.

Speaker 3 Coming up, did Bill Bill Beatty want to disappear?

Speaker 2 She said he was very much alive and had no intention of coming back.

Speaker 3 And disturbing rumors encircle the small town.

Speaker 24 The investigators would get anonymous phone calls stating that Bill Beatty was dead.

Speaker 3 Officers in Mascot, Florida, investigating the disappearance of Bill Beatty, have just discovered his abandoned truck along with his wedding ring, leading officers to believe Bill may simply have left his wife.

Speaker 22 There was absolutely no signs of foul play in the vehicle.

Speaker 15 The adult missing person is not a crime.

Speaker 13 Martha came and picked the vehicle up and took it back to her house.

Speaker 23 They have no further leads at that time to follow up on.

Speaker 14 The investigator put a flag on Mr. Beatty's social security number to see if he showed up, you know, seeking employment elsewhere, anything like that.

Speaker 28 All we did was just kind of wait to see if he showed up, if the investigators found anything.

Speaker 3 Two weeks later, Martha calls mascot police again with some news.

Speaker 19 Martha Beatty called the police department, stated that she had spoken with Bill Beatty on the phone, and that he had told her that he was not coming back, that he was leaving her.

Speaker 2 Martha kind of reinforced the fact that they didn't need to look for Bill anymore. He was very much alive and living up in Georgia and had no intention of coming back.

Speaker 3 Investigators reach out to Bill's children in Ohio to corroborate Martha's story.

Speaker 3 They say they still haven't heard from their father, but they do confirm that Martha and Bill faced their fair share of troubles as a married couple.

Speaker 28 When I talked to the investigators, I did ask questions like, was it money related?

Speaker 14 Bill Beatty's family told the investigators, Martha and Bill Beatty had had issues with finances.

Speaker 13 Martha spent too much money, Bill didn't like that.

Speaker 3 According to Bill's coworkers, whenever Martha pulled shifts at the gas station, Bill noticed that certain things weren't adding up.

Speaker 5 At the end of the day, when the money's taken and counted all up, some days it didn't come near.

Speaker 5 I can't say where the money went or how it disappeared. I just know it wasn't there.

Speaker 5 Things didn't balance out. People started complaining that their credit cards were showing gas purchases when they hadn't been to the station.

Speaker 3 As a result, Bill no longer gave Martha shifts and he kept a close eye on every penny.

Speaker 12 They had gotten to the point where he had given Martha an allowance and once the allowance was gone he wouldn't give her any more money.

Speaker 3 And money wasn't the only source of tension in the Beatty marriage.

Speaker 29 There was a very powerful dynamic going on in Bill and Martha's household with Andy.

Speaker 29 She was unable to set any any firm limits.

Speaker 28 Andy wasn't hanging out with the best of craps. My dad was essentially raising his child because he couldn't do it.
So it caused a lot of friction between him and Martha.

Speaker 5 He was a spoiled little twit,

Speaker 5 and she'd stick up for him.

Speaker 3 And most recently, 23-year-old Andy had become involved in a heated custody battle with his ex-wife, sticking Bill with the attorney's fees.

Speaker 30 Bill did mention that Martha was expecting him to pay for Andy's lawyer for the custody battle. It wasn't that she asked him to, she expected him to.

Speaker 22 Bill made it known to Martha and Andrew that he wanted Tabby to live there, but he felt that Andrew should be paying for the legal fees.

Speaker 17 The family stated that Andrew would change jobs jobs constantly or not work for long periods of time.

Speaker 13 And Bill expressed anger to his family about this.

Speaker 2 Andy worked occasionally. He made money by selling drugs.
And he unfortunately also stole from people.

Speaker 3 Bill's friends say when the tension in the home got to be too much, Andy went to live with his girlfriend, Jeanette.

Speaker 5 Tabby lived with Bill and Martha because Andy used used Tabby as leverage to get his way for anything he really wanted.

Speaker 3 While Bill and Martha's family history causes investigators some concern, there's no evidence of foul play.

Speaker 3 As months pass without Bill contacting his children or his friends, however, suspicion grows.

Speaker 5 I went to one of the local cops that I knew and asked him what they were doing about Bill. Was anybody looking for him? And he told me that they didn't have to look for him, that he had just run off.

Speaker 5 But I didn't believe it.

Speaker 28 My dad loved Andy's daughter. He would never abandon her because this is the way my dad was.

Speaker 30 It was probably three to four months before I started hearing rumors about Martha and Andy spending Bill's money and driving Bill's cars.

Speaker 5 I knew Bill would not not have left without saying something to someone, and he would definitely not have left his cars.

Speaker 2 Every now and again, the police would get anonymous phone calls stating that Bill Beatty was dead.

Speaker 26 The officers at the time would go out and look into whatever was alleged, but there was nothing really to follow up on.

Speaker 17 And again, the case lay dormant.

Speaker 3 Despite there being no signs of foul play, authorities asked Martha if they can search her property.

Speaker 2 She told them flat out that they would not be allowed to go onto her property.

Speaker 2 That is her right to refuse consent.

Speaker 2 But police, of course, wonder why when they're looking for her husband, wouldn't she want to help them to look for her husband? But she maintained that he was fine and that he'd left her.

Speaker 3 Convinced Martha knows more than she's saying, investigators continue to press her for answers.

Speaker 3 And eight months after Bill's disappearance, Martha finally agrees to a second interview.

Speaker 33 So 16 years ago, something like that. He took off in July, and then he didn't come back in till

Speaker 34 February, March.

Speaker 3 She also tells them more about the phone call Bill made to her after police found his truck.

Speaker 33 I said, where are you at? And he said, never mind.

Speaker 33 And I said, well, what about me and your job and that? He said, I don't need none of that crap no more.

Speaker 16 That's when she told the detective that Bill had been having affairs.

Speaker 34 You think that he went to

Speaker 34 ran off of somewhere to Georgia?

Speaker 18 That's where he called me from. He called me from Georgia.

Speaker 33 It was a Miss Western motion.

Speaker 18 Pick him up on my caller ID box.

Speaker 20 We didn't have any names.

Speaker 13 We didn't have anyone that we could go interview to find out who these women were.

Speaker 3 But Martha says she believes Bill's dalliance will run its course. Just like it did 16 years before.

Speaker 18 He will be back.

Speaker 34 Oh, he will be.

Speaker 18 He'll be back.

Speaker 3 Martha is released after her interview, and investigators are left with zero leads and more questions.

Speaker 3 For the next three years, rumors circulate. But with nothing concrete to go on, the investigation stalls.

Speaker 3 All of that changes in February of 2004.

Speaker 9 I was contacted one evening by the lieutenant who received another anonymous tip that Bill Beatty's body was buried on the Beatty's property on Park Road.

Speaker 3 Authorities have been blocked from searching the Beatty property before, but this time may prove to be different.

Speaker 35 The lieutenant said the property on Park Road, there's a for-sale sign on there.

Speaker 3 Coming up, this new tip threatens to unearth more than just rumors.

Speaker 13 Asked them if we could have permission to take cadaver dogs on the property and they said yes.

Speaker 3 And a witness finally feels the heat.

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Speaker 3 It's been nearly three years since Bill Beatty was first reported missing when investigators finally received their first break in the case.

Speaker 13 We had received a anonymous tip that the body of the missing person was located on the property on Park Road.

Speaker 31 I am familiar with the property from Patrolling Town, and now there's a for sale sign on it.

Speaker 7 With Bill gone, it became a hardship for Martha to keep up. And eventually, the money came close to running out.

Speaker 3 Eventually, Eventually, Andy's daughter, Tabby, went to live with her maternal grandparents in North Carolina.

Speaker 16 The house was foreclosed upon, and Martha moved out.

Speaker 2 It was decided that we should approach the new owner and see if they would give us consent to search.

Speaker 13 I asked them if we could have permission to to take cadaver dogs on the property and they said yes.

Speaker 3 Three years after Bill was reported missing, they are finally able to conduct a search of the Beatty property.

Speaker 14 We were looking not only to do a forensic search of the property, but we also wanted to shock anyone that was involved that might come by.

Speaker 20 The dogs alerted on several different locations on the property.

Speaker 14 Further investigation didn't give us enough reason to dig at any of those locations, but we marked them.

Speaker 3 While the search doesn't produce a body, investigators do draw someone of interest to the scene.

Speaker 22 While we were doing the search, we were also watching the road that goes by the house, and I observed Jeanette drive by.

Speaker 13 Jeanette Sanchez, at the time of this incident, was living with Andy in an apartment in Groveland, Florida.

Speaker 3 The day after the search, Jeanette's sister, Wendy Batten, contacts the mascot police department.

Speaker 21 Jeanette's family knew that Jeanette knew more about the disappearance than she was telling everyone.

Speaker 36 To be this aggressive, again, they found something.

Speaker 2 Wendy heard Jeanette say that, no, they won't find any evidence because we cleaned it very thoroughly.

Speaker 2 She said they ripped the carpet up, the tile down,

Speaker 18 and they repaneled the walls.

Speaker 18 I did ask her who killed Bill, and she didn't tell me. She just said it was an accident.

Speaker 2 Obviously, once the police heard that, talking to Jeanette was very high priority.

Speaker 3 But investigators don't need to track her down.

Speaker 23 I received a call from Jeanette's aunt who wanted to bring Jeanette in to speak with us.

Speaker 23 One of the things that Jeanette wanted before she would come in and speak with us is she wanted to be granted immunity.

Speaker 22 The local state attorney's office allowed us to grant her immunity during the interview.

Speaker 2 The state would provide her with immunity as long as she told the truth.

Speaker 3 On March 2nd, 2004, Jeanette Sanchez sits down with investigators.

Speaker 9 I asked Jeanette what had happened on the night of the incident.

Speaker 31 She stated that early in the morning, Andrew had received a call from his mother.

Speaker 36 The one that worth about the house, and she said to Shane, Andy, come over to her and don't worry.

Speaker 34 And you went over there in about

Speaker 36 30 minutes they called and said Tabby was upset. I needed to come over to bring Tad back to the house.

Speaker 36 When I got there, I didn't see Tabby.

Speaker 28 Told me Tadman had to come back to bed. I left John back home.

Speaker 28 Later on that afternoon, I asked Andy

Speaker 28 what had happened.

Speaker 2 And he told me that

Speaker 36 his mom accidentally shot Phil.

Speaker 2 She was telling them that this wasn't anything that was planned, that it was an accident that Martha accidentally shot Bill.

Speaker 36 He told me he moved the body.

Speaker 3 He said first, and it was hidden underneath the steps.

Speaker 34 I went to the front.

Speaker 36 The front steps, he said it was put there first.

Speaker 34 So he was there underneath the front steps when Officer Terry came in.

Speaker 3 Jeannette says after the officer left, Andy moved the body.

Speaker 21 Andrew told Jeanette that he had cut a hole in the floor of the garage and put Bill Beatty's body wrapped in a tarp

Speaker 27 and then covered it with line and then refilled the hole and put the wood back in the place in the floor of the garage.

Speaker 3 With Jeanette's help, investigators draw a map of the baby home.

Speaker 2 The police immediately sketched out a rough diagram of the buildings and asked her if she would point to exactly where she thought the body might be found.

Speaker 31 When Jeanette marked the spot on the map, I knew that

Speaker 12 we were on the road to getting this case finished

Speaker 3 On March 3rd, 2004, nearly three years after Bill Beatty went missing, investigators return to the home where he once lived with his wife Martha.

Speaker 3 They find that the freestanding garage has since been torn down.

Speaker 3 With the crudely drawn map in hand, they begin digging in the spot where the garage once was.

Speaker 9 About four hours into the dig, we detected an odor of decaying flesh.

Speaker 22 The upper portion of the body was covered in a blue canvas tarp.

Speaker 19 Around the waist of the body, we observed a white cake-like substance.

Speaker 13 Lime is a mineral substance that would assist in the decomposition, but it basically preserved the body from the waste up.

Speaker 3 The body is transported to the medical examiner in Leesburg, Florida, who confirms what law enforcement suspects.

Speaker 2 They looked for a unique tattoo that Bill had on his arm. They were able to say with high degree of confidence that that was in fact Bill Baby.

Speaker 3 Coming up, investigators work to finally uncover the truth.

Speaker 3 This didn't look like an accident.

Speaker 3 And desperation shapes a killer.

Speaker 9 They knew that they had to get the money back in the bank.

Speaker 12 Andy asked Jeanette if he should do it.

Speaker 3 Almost three years after Bill Beatty went missing in Mascot, Florida, investigators have pulled his body from a six-foot grave on his property.

Speaker 2 They determined that, in fact, he had been the victim of a homicide.

Speaker 2 He had two bullet entry wounds in the back of his head, small caliber, and one of the bullets was still in his head.

Speaker 32 It appeared that Mr.

Speaker 20 Beatty had been laying on his stomach and that he had been shot from close range and from behind.

Speaker 7 The medical examiner was able to determine that he quite likely was asleep when he was shot.

Speaker 7 This did not align at all with the story that Jeanette told.

Speaker 3 This didn't look like an accident.

Speaker 28 I didn't believe it at first because you don't think that something like this could happen to your family.

Speaker 28 So it was like disbelief, like shock

Speaker 3 on march 8th police bring jeanette in for a second interview

Speaker 21 we basically told her that you know we knew she was still being untruthful with us and that she was putting her immunity agreement in jeopardy

Speaker 3 slowly jeanette starts to reveal more details I take Martha

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 I dropped her back off of the house.

Speaker 20 At this point, did you know what had happened?

Speaker 36 They just told me that it was an accident.

Speaker 3 Eventually, Jeanette admits she was more involved than she previously let on.

Speaker 32 The day after the murder, Martha gave her one of Bill's credit cards and told her to drive to Georgia.

Speaker 23 and stay in a hotel to make it look like Bill had left and gone to Georgia. Martha

Speaker 3 While Jeanette is being more forthcoming, police still don't believe they're getting the whole truth.

Speaker 7 Police confronted her with the evidence that they had about the two gunshot wounds being to the back of Bill's head.

Speaker 2 You could see that she was uncomfortable continuing with the story that she had been telling about Andy's involvement.

Speaker 3 Investigators need more information from Jeanette and decide to change gears. They request she participate in a voice stress analysis.

Speaker 2 Detective Worshaw asked me if I could assist them with conducting a voice stress analysis on one of their potential witnesses. During the testing, we asked, you know, did Martha shoot Bill Beatty?

Speaker 2 Did Andy shoot Bill Beatty? Based on those questions, we could tell that she had knowledge of who did this.

Speaker 2 When we came back in and we started the interview with the test results, I told her that she was not being 100% honest.

Speaker 2 She finally said, well, I may have been lying.

Speaker 2 Janet became very, very emotional. She was reminded that she was still under immunity, that no matter what she said, it wasn't going to change the fact that she still had immunity.

Speaker 3 With the floodgates open, Jeanette continues.

Speaker 2 Jeanette said about two weeks before Bill died, Andy had gone to his mom and asked her for some money.

Speaker 2 This was money that came out of a bank account that Bill had control of.

Speaker 27 Martha removed $1,500 from the bank account.

Speaker 21 The money was given to Andy.

Speaker 7 She said that he wanted the money for that custody battle, but Andy used the money largely to buy a truck and, according to police, to buy drugs.

Speaker 2 Martha had no authority to take money out of their joint bank account without Bill's knowledge.

Speaker 22 She went on to say that they knew that Bill Beatty every two weeks, like clockwork, on his payday, made a deposit at the bank.

Speaker 23 And if they didn't get the $1,500 back in the bank before he went again, that he was going to find out.

Speaker 2 Andy couldn't come up with a way of returning the money. And Martha became more anxious.

Speaker 2 About two or three days beforehand, she started telling Andy that we have to do something soon because Tuesday he's going to find out when he gets his next paycheck that we've taken that money out

Speaker 3 according to Jeanette Andy knew exactly what his mother meant by do something

Speaker 2 she said that Andy asked her if he should do it

Speaker 2 she told him that she didn't want any part of it that she felt that it was her fault because she didn't talk him out of it. She just thought he wouldn't really do anything.

Speaker 2 That brings us to the night of the 27th leading into the early morning of the 28th. The last thing that Jeanette said to Andy as he was going out the door to do what mom said

Speaker 2 was, don't do something stupid.

Speaker 7 Jeanette tells them that about 5 a.m., she's instructed to go and pick up Martha.

Speaker 2 She said that she just dropped Martha off in the driveway and then she went home and Andy came home approximately 45 minutes or so later.

Speaker 7 Andy gets there and he just starts to break down. And he tells Jeanette, I'll never kill another being.

Speaker 12 That's when she came out with the truth that Andy had shot Bill Big.

Speaker 3 Jeanette's interview gives investigators what they need to finally make arrests.

Speaker 23 A grand jury indicted both Martha and Andrew, and warrants were issued.

Speaker 3 On April 14th, 2004, Andrew is served with his warrant in a Florida prison where he is already serving time on an unrelated charge.

Speaker 3 And a day later, Martha Beatty is arrested in West Virginia.

Speaker 9 Martha was arrested at her home on the Florida warrant.

Speaker 27 She was then transported back to Florida.

Speaker 31 After being arrested, Martha continued to state that Bill Beatty's death was an accident.

Speaker 3 Coming up,

Speaker 3 will investigators finally learn the truth?

Speaker 2 It was over with the dumb I got there. I was an all clear.

Speaker 3 Or will the evidence tell a different story?

Speaker 27 It would be impossible for him to fall and trip and shoot himself in the back of the head.

Speaker 3 After almost three years, Martha Beatty and her son, Andy, have finally been charged in the murder of Martha's husband, Bill.

Speaker 3 When investigators sit down with Martha, they get yet another version of what happened at the Beatty home on August 28, 2001.

Speaker 22 She said that they were arguing Bill was chasing her through the house with a handgun and that he tripped and the gun went off and hit him.

Speaker 23 She stated then that she picked the gun up and shot him again in fear that he was going to get up and get her.

Speaker 22 The problem with that story was both of the bullet holes were in the back of Bill Beatty's head and it would be impossible for him to fall and trip and shoot himself in the back of the head.

Speaker 3 Investigators switched their focus to Andy.

Speaker 3 He admits that Martha had been feeling pressure to get the money back into Bill's account before he noticed.

Speaker 3 What did you say about the money?

Speaker 2 You had to pay it back, right? Oh, yeah, it had to be it back.

Speaker 3 According to Andy, a few days before Bill went missing, Martha was no longer asking him about money.

Speaker 22 He stated before the incident occurred, Martha told him that she wanted Bill gone.

Speaker 20 She asked me if I knew anybody.

Speaker 2 Knew anybody killed him?

Speaker 2 So what did you say? No one wanted to kill people like that.

Speaker 22 Andrew said that he just kind of took that with a grain of salt.

Speaker 8 He just said, you know, you're upset, you're emotional, and left it at that.

Speaker 3 The next thing he knew, Andy got a desperate call from his mother on the morning of August 28th.

Speaker 15 She told me she saw him destroy while he was sleeping or why he was awake.

Speaker 2 I don't know if she didn't

Speaker 2 go into details.

Speaker 29 It was over with the dinner when I got there.

Speaker 2 I was on email.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 And she say how she disposed of the body? She says, very important.

Speaker 13 Jeanette stated during her interview that Andrew had admitted to killing his father and he had disposed of the body.

Speaker 7 Now, authorities are looking at two different stories. Andy and Martha, on the one hand, are saying that the shooting was an accident that Martha fired in self-defense.

Speaker 7 Jeanette, on the other hand, is saying that everything was all planned out and that Andy actually came in and that he fired the shots.

Speaker 3 While prosecutors and investigators can't prove to a jury who pulled the trigger, they have a theory about what went down on August 28th, 2001.

Speaker 2 Martha was under extreme stress

Speaker 2 because of this deadline that was about to come due.

Speaker 2 And she just did not want to contend with that.

Speaker 2 And so she came up with this other solution.

Speaker 2 I believe that Martha had control over Andy. I think she knew the buttons to push.

Speaker 2 She knew she could use him.

Speaker 2 It's my strong opinion that it was Andy who squeezed the trigger.

Speaker 2 He was angry that Bill had money and wouldn't share it with him. He also was motivated out of an allegiance to his mom.

Speaker 7 Prosecutors believe they then worked together to bury the body, to clean up the room, and to keep this a secret for as long as they did.

Speaker 3 On May 26, 2005, Martha pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.

Speaker 3 Almost a year later, on April 3, 2006, Andy pleads guilty to the same charges.

Speaker 3 They are sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Speaker 32 When the verdicts came out, I was very happy for closure for the Beatty family

Speaker 9 that we were able to get two very bad people off the street.

Speaker 28 She got what she deserved, he got what he deserved, and you know,

Speaker 28 we were all able to move on from the what-ifs.

Speaker 5 I'll remember Bill as my friend and a funny guy.

Speaker 5 There are less and less of us around to remember it.

Speaker 5 I think they cheated the community out of a good person.

Speaker 28 He loved his family. We carry his name, we carry his blood, so we are his legacy.
And we pass it on with our kids.

Speaker 3 Jeanette's immunity was upheld and she was never charged. Martha Beattie died in prison after contracting COVID-19 in 2020.
Andy Norman was released from prison on July 8th, 2024.

Speaker 3 Bill Beatty was laid to rest in Hinkley, Ohio on June 4th, 2004.

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