Episode 318

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Speaker 11 I have something to say, and I hope you'll indulge me for a minute.

Speaker 11 After the

Speaker 11 tragic and horrifying events of last week,

Speaker 11 I wanted to give up.

Speaker 11 I feel as though I'm such a bad communicator

Speaker 11 and so bad at my job, my only job,

Speaker 11 that I end up arguing with my audience on social media rather than convincing them of my points here on my program.

Speaker 11 But after a lot of self-reflection, A lot of what I guess they would call soul-searching,

Speaker 11 and the love and support of those closest to me.

Speaker 11 I have come to realize that

Speaker 11 this is just the beginning,

Speaker 11 not the end.

Speaker 11 Evil flourishes in darkness,

Speaker 11 in complacency.

Speaker 11 There is more work to be done.

Speaker 11 There is more truth to be spread. And if I am not equipped to effectively do my job, then

Speaker 11 I simply need to work harder

Speaker 11 and get better at it.

Speaker 11 So here's a little bit of truth for you.

Speaker 11 Here's the hot take I've come up with.

Speaker 11 If you celebrate the murder of someone simply because they have different beliefs than you,

Speaker 11 simply because of their words, simply because they hurt your feelings,

Speaker 11 then you

Speaker 11 are the problem.

Speaker 11 You

Speaker 11 are the monster.

Speaker 11 Period.

Speaker 11 There is no logical reason

Speaker 11 why that should need to be said.

Speaker 11 Sword and scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

Speaker 13 Deny it and deny it and deny it and then, but in the true, in the end problems out. You guys keep saying she's dead.
You guys know something that I don't know. Like

Speaker 13 she's dead. Well, we do know a lot of things about her related years and issues that lead us to believe that she's no longer

Speaker 13 with us.

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Speaker 11 It's mid-2016 in Seattle, Washington. The sun hangs lazily in the afternoon sky, but a stubborn layer of fog still clings to the top of the trees.

Speaker 11 The Central District is starting to wind down after another Monday.

Speaker 11 Ferry horns blaze faintly in the distance as commuters pull into their driveways, tucked away in one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.

Speaker 11 One resident on 21st Avenue has traveled more than most, after returning home from an out-of-state work trip.

Speaker 11 He steps out of his car and exhales a sigh of relief, right before noticing that his trash bins are out by the curb.

Speaker 11 What a pain in the ass. It's one last chore before he can go inside and relax.

Speaker 11 He walks over and reaches for the recycling bin and starts to pull it towards his house, but immediately stops. It's heavy, and all of a sudden he's annoyed.

Speaker 11 The city must have skipped over his house while he was away. I'll tell you, you just can't find good help these days.
When he lifts the blue lid, he only becomes even more frustrated.

Speaker 11 Peering down into the trash can, he sees that there's three landscape-sized trash bags stuffed inside. They didn't even bother to put it in the right bin.

Speaker 11 He reaches inside for the top bag, but when he tries to pull it out, the tie snaps, causing the barrel to topple over onto his lawn. Talk about annoying.

Speaker 11 As he rounds the front of the bin, his breath catches, and then he sees it.

Speaker 11 Something that can't be mistaken for anything but a female's foot lying in his driveway.

Speaker 11 Snohomish County, Washington is located less than 20 miles north of Seattle. It's the kind of place where you'd expect life to be quiet.
Forested back small towns, that sort of thing.

Speaker 11 But like anywhere else, this area of the Pacific Northwest has seen its fair share of, let's say, darkness.

Speaker 11 Unsolved murders and a growing list of people who vanished here have certainly made this region appear a little less pretty.

Speaker 11 In June 2016, that list of missing people got just a little bit bigger when a 27-year-old mother named Jamie Haggard mysteriously disappeared without a trace.

Speaker 2 It just seems very unusual that she's...

Speaker 36 nobody has heard from her for so long. It's not like her at all.

Speaker 11 The last time anyone saw Jamie was on June 9th, 2016.

Speaker 11 The next morning, she was scheduled to pick up her boyfriend from jail.

Speaker 11 He was set to be released on misdemeanor charges. Unfortunately for him, He wouldn't be getting out as early as he thought.

Speaker 11 He was forced to find another ride home when Jamie Jamie never showed.

Speaker 11 She doesn't deserve that.

Speaker 37 She has two little girls so much, and she is a family that loves her so much.

Speaker 11 When word inevitably reached Jamie's friends and family, they started calling and texting her phone. but received no answer.

Speaker 11 When days turned into a week and they still hadn't heard from her, Jamie's father finally decided to take the short drive over to her home in the town of Kenmore.

Speaker 11 That was on June 17th. Jamie's dad knocked on the front door, but no one answered.

Speaker 11 When he felt he had waited long enough, he picked up the phone and called the King County Sheriff's Office to report her missing.

Speaker 36 We think it's suspicious for a number of reasons. First, her family says that she usually contacts her mom at least every other day and they have a conversation.

Speaker 36 Additionally, she hasn't used her cell phone since she's been reported missing.

Speaker 11 What was even more suspicious was that even though Jamie was reported missing in late June, the public wasn't made aware of her disappearance until nearly a month later.

Speaker 39 Now, we asked the sheriff's office why it's taken a month to get this missing person's case out to the public, and they tell us they were hoping that in the meantime she would surface, but without any leads, they are now turning to the public for help.

Speaker 11 During an early interview with a local news outlet, Jamie's cousin told reporters that despite their concerns, the family was still hopeful that Jamie would make a safe return.

Speaker 11 When police attempted a welfare check, the home was vacant. What they did notice, though, was a large pile of dirt in the front yard.

Speaker 11 When authorities walked around the back, they located a massive hole dug in the yard that had been recently filled in.

Speaker 11 Because they didn't have a warrant, police left without any answers. In the days that followed, rumors started to circulate online.

Speaker 11 Jamie's sister received several messages on Facebook from people who claimed to see Jamie alive, walking around downtown Kenmore.

Speaker 11 After following up on these potential sightings, driving countless hours throughout northern Washington and traveling as far as the Canadian border, her family came up empty-handed each time.

Speaker 11 Unfortunately, as we mentioned earlier, Snohomish County isn't exactly foreign to folks falling off the face of the earth. It's practically the edge.

Speaker 11 So if you wanted to make someone disappear, this was the place.

Speaker 11 As far as missing persons go, dating back to the 1960s, the local sheriff's office has faced the daunting task of investigating over 65 unsolved homicides to generate leads on such cases investigators decided to implement a technique that was previously successful over 3 000 miles away on the east coast which believe it or not was

Speaker 11 a set of playing cards the hope is to elicit new tips from the inmate population because

Speaker 11 as we know inmates like to talk about each other's crimes, sometimes brag about each other's crimes, pass the day playing cards.

Speaker 11 In 2005, a special agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement came up with the idea of printing playing cards that showcased all the people that were missing in the Sunshine State.

Speaker 11 Interesting collectible for my murderatorium.

Speaker 11 Ooh, can you imagine a sword and scale museum with a murder-themed murder-themed lounge?

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Speaker 11 Anyway, ultimately, Snohomish County followed suit years later and created a card game of its own.

Speaker 11 In 2008, authorities in Washington state distributed these cards to inmates in local jails and prisons.

Speaker 11 Anyone who happened to come back with information leading to an arrest or a conviction in these cold cases was promised a $1,000 cash reward.

Speaker 11 A card game that actually makes you money. Take that, Vegas.

Speaker 11 Eventually, the playing card technique was adopted by law enforcement agencies nationwide because it seemed to be working.

Speaker 41 It's a deck of cards that will soon be in every Idaho prison and most county jails. On each card, a different cold case, whether it be a wanted person, a missing person, or an unsolved murder.

Speaker 11 The cards generated an impressive amount of tips throughout the U.S.

Speaker 11 This unorthodox marketing gimmick actually worked. Can you imagine that? It helped resolve three cold cases in Snohomish County alone.
Unfortunately, Jamie's was not one of them.

Speaker 11 As creative as the idea was, her face never earned a spot on the deck of cards, which only led her loved ones to question the efforts of local law enforcement.

Speaker 11 As they often do, authorities kept their cards close to the vest. Sorry for the pun.

Speaker 11 Jamie's family was rightfully concerned, though. She was a nurse who rarely missed work and had two kids who meant the world to her.

Speaker 11 While the worry and frustration of her loved ones grew day by day, that didn't mean investigators didn't already have have a person or persons of interest in the case.

Speaker 11 You see, long before Jamie went missing, she had her fair share of problems. In addition to having a criminal for a boyfriend, she hung around with some other very, let's say, seedy characters.

Speaker 11 And one of those men was a guy named Jason Nulty.

Speaker 12 Can you just say your full name for the recorder? Jason Todd Nulty.

Speaker 44 Okay, and Jason, is it okay that I'm recording this?

Speaker 45 Okay.

Speaker 11 Jason Nolte was good friends with Jamie's half-brother, David Haggard, with all three living under the same roof. When investigators followed up on Jason,

Speaker 11 they learned he'd just recently gotten out of jail, coincidentally for an incident involving Jamie.

Speaker 43 I mean, I was living here. I've been here probably a month.

Speaker 40 And I was introduced from a friend to David. And he had nowhere to live or anything.

Speaker 43 And a couple weeks have gone by, and he kept asking me for a place to stay just for

Speaker 40 a little bit.

Speaker 43 I could tell him no.

Speaker 42 Why'd you keep telling him no?

Speaker 40 Because he didn't have a job.

Speaker 43 He didn't have nothing.

Speaker 40 It was basically for free.

Speaker 45 It wasn't productive. Okay.

Speaker 40 You know, and

Speaker 43 he finally got a job.

Speaker 43 He asked me again. I said, look.

Speaker 43 I'll help you out for a month. And then, you know, I'll stay here for a month.
He doesn't have to pay me no rent.

Speaker 12 He's here maybe, two days, loses his job.

Speaker 43 And I go home from work one day, and he's got his girlfriend here.

Speaker 40 And who's his girlfriend? Carly. Same one we talked about.
Okay. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 40 A couple days later, here comes his sister. Jamie.
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 43 She's living there.

Speaker 42 But when was this that she started living here?

Speaker 40 Probably like. May.

Speaker 40 Yeah.

Speaker 45 I know.

Speaker 43 May. Yeah, probably me, I guess.

Speaker 11 Jason tends to mumble and chew gum, so if you didn't catch that, he told investigators that he was the original tenant of the Kenmore home.

Speaker 11 Then came David, who was down on his luck and allowed to move in temporarily while he got back on his feet. A few months later, David's sister, Jamie, moved in.
That May.

Speaker 11 Less than one month after that, Jamie vanished, never to be seen again.

Speaker 11 From the very start of the interview, police were suspicious of Jason.

Speaker 11 He'd been arrested for domestic violence several times in the past, which certainly wasn't doing him any favors.

Speaker 11 Even though he was locked up at the time Jamie went missing, they had a feeling he knew a lot more than he was letting on.

Speaker 11 According to him, this whole ordeal started in early June, when David and Jamie started arguing constantly.

Speaker 11 One day, it was fighting about the roommates stealing from each other, and the next it was disputes over who was supposed to be living there in the first place.

Speaker 11 While Jason had trouble remembering certain details, he told investigators that days before Jamie went missing, she and David got into a physical altercation in the garage, where David allegedly knocked her unconscious.

Speaker 11 What a gentleman. The police were never called, but when Jamie came to, she left the home and told several of her friends what happened.

Speaker 11 In the hours that she was away, Jamie texted David, called him a worthless piece of shit, and told him to go fuck himself.

Speaker 11 Jason claimed that this only infuriated David further, but went on to suggest that someone else might be involved.

Speaker 40 Let me ask you this.

Speaker 40 You guys know who Scott is?

Speaker 40 I don't know Scott's last name.

Speaker 43 Barnes.

Speaker 40 Scott Barnes.

Speaker 44 And why'd you bring him up?

Speaker 40 What's your gut tell you?

Speaker 43 My gut tells me Scott did it.

Speaker 12 Scott did something to her.

Speaker 40 Okay, how come you didn't call me with that? You told me that your gut told you David did it.

Speaker 12 Well, until me and Dave sat down and talked the other night.

Speaker 40 Okay.

Speaker 40 And I don't know.

Speaker 12 This is what I think.

Speaker 12 I think they both did something. I think they both know something.

Speaker 47 That's what I think.

Speaker 40 Okay.

Speaker 43 Because of the comments that Scott had made to me one night.

Speaker 11 Scott Barnes was another one of Jason and David's piece of shit friends. A criminal and self-proclaimed Hell's Angel known to hang out at the Kenmore home.
Seems like garbage attracts more garbage.

Speaker 11 Apparently, Jamie's brother David told Scott that he wanted to kill her following the incident in the garage. And depending on who you ask, Scott supported the idea.

Speaker 11 According to Jason, Scott relayed this comment to him, who in turn told investigators during the police interview. Hours after Jamie was knocked unconscious in her garage, she returned home.

Speaker 11 When David awoke on the morning of June 8th, he was enraged. According to Jason, that is.

Speaker 11 Not wanting to get involved, Jason said he left the home, only to receive a text message from Jamie's phone a few hours later.

Speaker 12 I had a text message. Picture message of Jamie tied up in the tub.

Speaker 43 Tied up? Yeah, with a caption that says,

Speaker 12 gotta say, I did it.

Speaker 40 I finally did it. What did I say?

Speaker 43 I can't remember.

Speaker 12 I did what you wanted, or I did.

Speaker 42 I can't remember exactly what it said. Somebody did what you wanted.

Speaker 12 Now look at her.

Speaker 42 Or something. I was like, what? This is from Jamie's number.

Speaker 40 This is from Jamie's phone.

Speaker 11 Investigators chose not to interrupt him. during his interview.
I mean, after all, when someone's burying themselves, let them do it.

Speaker 11 And they did notice a potential slip-up when he said that the text message read, quote, I did what you wanted.

Speaker 11 Hmm.

Speaker 11 Interesting.

Speaker 11 Going by his version of events, after receiving the photo of Jamie tied up in the bathtub, Jason called police.

Speaker 11 While authorities were en route to the home, David called another friend who answered the phone to hear Jamie screaming in the background.

Speaker 11 Meanwhile, David laughed and called his sister a bitch repeatedly.

Speaker 11 According to what this friend told police, he tried to calm David down and asked if he should come over and help defuse the situation.

Speaker 11 David allegedly responded by stating that it wouldn't be necessary and that he had, quote, never been more focused in his life. whatever the fuck that meant.

Speaker 11 Minutes later, officers arrived at Jamie's door. When they tried to contact her, she wasn't bound and didn't appear to have any visible injuries.

Speaker 11 They only spoke with her briefly, but Jamie assured the officers that she was fine, so they left.

Speaker 11 Less than an hour later, and that's how it always goes with these sort of situations, it's never just one phone call, Jason arrives back home and the police are called again.

Speaker 11 This time, by David.

Speaker 11 According to Jason, David knew he had an outstanding warrant for an unrelated 2014 incident in which he allegedly tried to murder his ex-girlfriend with a hatchet.

Speaker 11 Yep.

Speaker 11 So naturally, David was pissed that Jason called the cops on him. So to get back at him, he called the police in retaliation.
Like it's a fucking game.

Speaker 11 When police arrived for their second visit that day, Jamie was in much worse shape than she was before.

Speaker 11 She was in hysterics and had fresh marks on her face, neck, and arms. Jamie's injuries were photographed and pictures were taken of each room of their home.

Speaker 11 Jason swore up and down that he never put his hands on Jamie. But when police took her aside, she told him that he was the one who had attacked her.
Not David.

Speaker 40 I never touched her, you know.

Speaker 42 So she gave a statement saying you beat her?

Speaker 45 I guess.

Speaker 12 I don't know exactly.

Speaker 40 I was told that they both gave statements that I beat her.

Speaker 11 Now, I'm not a polygraph machine, but clearly someone here is lying. As a result of the bathtub incident, Jason was taken into custody.

Speaker 11 Here's where it gets confusing. On the recorded line, Jamie told her boyfriend what happened back at the house, but never mentioned Jason's name.

Speaker 11 Instead, she said that it was David who punched her in the face. So she told police one thing, and then told her boyfriend something else.

Speaker 11 He said that David had hit her as hard as he could in the stomach, and that he'd tried to kill her. Why Jamie provided contradicting statements to police and her boyfriend is unclear.

Speaker 11 But more than likely, she was scared. During the jailhouse call, her boyfriend pleaded with her not to return to the Kenmore house.

Speaker 11 When she woke up at a friend's house the next morning on June 9th, she called her boyfriend again. During that call, she told him she was going anyway and planned to kick David out for good.

Speaker 11 As for Jason, he wasn't being ruled out just yet. Perhaps his only benefit was that he was locked up hours before Jamie disappeared and wasn't released until late June.

Speaker 11 He was also somewhat cooperative with police and told detectives that David had mentioned his inability to pass a lie detector test.

Speaker 11 Weird.

Speaker 33 And Dave told you he wasn't going to pass the pawn craft, right?

Speaker 12 Yeah, Dave told me there's no way to pass it.

Speaker 11 Investigators then asked what was up with the hole in the backyard.

Speaker 38 How much of the backyard was dug up other than that hole?

Speaker 12 Look, okay, I dug.

Speaker 40 Is that mound in front you told me about? Yeah. What do you think about that?

Speaker 12 I have no idea where that dirt came from. He had no machines, and

Speaker 40 it's crazy. Okay.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I have no idea why that's there.

Speaker 40 Okay.

Speaker 43 That was done at the same time the back was filled in.

Speaker 40 Okay.

Speaker 11 Jason elaborated that he dug the hole in an attempt to fix a broken septic.

Speaker 11 But when he returned home from jail, Jamie was gone and the hole had been filled in.

Speaker 12 Look underneath the shed too.

Speaker 40 Under the shed. Under the shed?

Speaker 43 Look under the shed too for some reason. I don't know.

Speaker 44 Has that come up in a conversation?

Speaker 12 No, but I heard something

Speaker 12 nothing.

Speaker 40 Now's not the time to say, oh, nothing.

Speaker 43 It might be nothing.

Speaker 40 I know, right. Right?

Speaker 9 Might be nothing.

Speaker 40 But if you heard it, doesn't mean that it's true, but you're living here.

Speaker 11 The day he was released, Jason said police were already at the house looking for Jamie.

Speaker 11 David and his girlfriend were there, who Jason claimed stole some rather interesting items that belonged to him.

Speaker 43 Pretty much.

Speaker 40 I mean, I have my TV still and my video games, but what was missing?

Speaker 12 Okay, my DVR.

Speaker 42 I have a DVR for my security system.

Speaker 40 It's gone.

Speaker 45 All my cameras are still there, but my DVR is gone.

Speaker 40 Have you heard what happened to it? Nope.

Speaker 43 Pissed me off.

Speaker 40 My DVR is gone. All my clothes are gone.

Speaker 40 I've bought my toy.

Speaker 12 I mean, I know what he did. Since I went to jail, he went through my shit.

Speaker 40 Took my shit. Sold it.
Ripped my camera. Yeah, made money.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 Nearly all of Jason's things were gone.

Speaker 11 Not just his home security system, but his clothes, suitcase, and even his bedsheets were missing. After about an hour of speaking with him, Jason gave authorities consent to search the property.

Speaker 11 As for David, he had a checkered past of his own. The now 42-year-old had been in and out of jail since he was a juvenile.

Speaker 11 Dating back to 1995, David managed to rack up charges including grand theft auto, burglary, and many, many more things.

Speaker 11 David's troubles with the law started to ramp up. a year before Jamie disappeared.
In 2015, David was arrested for unlawful possession of two firearms.

Speaker 11 During a traffic stop, he was pulled over for driving a stolen vehicle. When police searched the car, they found a 44 Magnum revolver and a pump-action shotgun.

Speaker 11 As a result, he served 12 months in prison and was released around the time he moved into the Kenmore home.

Speaker 11 With that being said, there was much more evidence authorities had already obtained concerning the potential link between David and his sister Jamie's disappearance.

Speaker 11 Information that investigators weren't willing to reveal until they got a chance to speak with David themselves.

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Speaker 11 In early June of 2016, 27-year-old Jamie Haggard mysteriously vanished from her home in Kenmore, Washington.

Speaker 11 When she failed to pick up her boyfriend from jail on Friday the 10th, phone calls and texts went unanswered.

Speaker 11 A week later, her father visited the home she shared shared with several others, but found no trace of Jamie.

Speaker 11 After reporting her missing on June 17th, the police search for a young mother came off as an inconvenience more than a priority to Jamie's loved ones.

Speaker 11 Days quickly turned to weeks, until nearly a month later when authorities finally acknowledged her disappearance publicly.

Speaker 11 Without the family's knowledge, investigators had been actively gathering information behind the scenes.

Speaker 11 An early interview with Jamie's roommate Jason Nulty ultimately painted a dark picture that curiously lacked critical details. Fights, tensions, and violence were just a few of the red flags early on.

Speaker 11 One name came to mind out of the mouths of nearly every person in Jamie's circle, and it made it hard for investigators to ignore it. That name was David Haggard, her own brother.

Speaker 11 Shortly after his so-called friend Jason threw him under the bus, David was brought in for questioning.

Speaker 11 While he sat across from three detectives in an interrogation room at the Kings County Sheriff's Department, he was asked to take a polygraph. Without a lawyer present, David agreed.

Speaker 11 But in retrospect, maybe he shouldn't have.

Speaker 13 So, um,

Speaker 13 I went through my

Speaker 13 charts. You didn't pass your test through it.
Okay.

Speaker 13 This is what my computer algorithm is telling me.

Speaker 13 That means probable deception indicated, meaning that there's indications that you've not been truthful with us.

Speaker 11 David can be seen in the CCTV footage struggling to comprehend how he failed his polygraph. You can almost see the gears turning in his dumb head.

Speaker 11 He doesn't appear to be reading the graph on the page in front of him, as much as he is thinking of what to say next.

Speaker 13 What's the crime of disposing of a woman that ODs? I have no idea. It's fucking gross misdemeanors.
I have no idea, sir.

Speaker 13 So I'm telling you that because I don't want you or anybody else overly freaked out about an OD death and guys panicked and got rid of the body.

Speaker 13 You guys keep saying she's dead. You guys know something that I don't know.

Speaker 13 I mean,

Speaker 13 she's dead. Well, we do know a lot of things about her relating to issues that lead us to believe that she's no longer

Speaker 13 with us.

Speaker 11 Now, what would lead authorities to think such a thing? Surely Jamie's home home life was extremely toxic, but maybe she just needed some time to cool off and get away from all the drama.

Speaker 38 To be clear, we were still working this case as though she could still be alive. It was a two-pronged approach.
So one approach was, okay, if she's deceased, we need to find her remains.

Speaker 38 If she's alive, we need to find her.

Speaker 11 According to David, the last time he saw Jamie was on June 9th, when she allegedly walked out of their home and got into a car with a Mexican man.

Speaker 13 I love her to death. Where the fuck is she? I don't know where she's at.

Speaker 13 I don't know where she's at. I don't know what the last six months of lifestyle was she taking on with all these brown people.
I don't know the Mexicans that she's been hanging out with.

Speaker 13 I don't know any of that shit. The last two months, I fucking cut her off pretty much.
Is a purse at your house? No. Is it a phone at your house? No.

Speaker 11 David, who's obviously racist, claimed to have no idea where Jamie or her phone was.

Speaker 11 Whether he was telling the truth or not didn't really matter since investigators were currently filing subpoenas for the phone records of various individuals.

Speaker 34 They'd find out soon enough, that's for sure.

Speaker 13 One of the things that we're doing today is we survey

Speaker 13 search warrants on a variety of phone companies including your phone, including Jamie's phone, including some other people's phones.

Speaker 13 The reason I say this thing is going to be done today and solved today is because we're going to know where she's at today.

Speaker 13 We have to clear the people around her from suspicion. You're unfortunately very difficult to clear.

Speaker 11 According to David, he left a short time after Jamie did. But when he came home, he noticed a fire smoldering in a burn pit in their backyard.

Speaker 13 When I got home there was a fire outside the cider draft store.

Speaker 13 It was put out.

Speaker 13 It wasn't totally put out. It was a smoke cone.
I've seen it. That raised suspicion to me.
I didn't know what that was about.

Speaker 13 I've been thinking about that ever since this fucking investigation started taking off.

Speaker 13 Other than that, I don't know anything else. Who was that going? Why are you thinking that's true? Because it was just...

Speaker 13 Because you guys keep asking about that backyard and about why we buried or, you know, buried what we buried and burned there. You know, it's just weird.
I don't know.

Speaker 13 It seems like something I should say to you. Well, most guys would have a standard burn pile, right? But yeah,

Speaker 13 you're not going to get burned next to the house.

Speaker 13 You're not going to get burned next to the house. So you're saying this is something different? Yeah, it was totally fibergasted.

Speaker 13 It was in the hole that we had for the septic that's been messed up there. So we dug out of the trench line.
That's how that whole yard got tore up to begin with because the septic was fucked up.

Speaker 13 Septic or sewer?

Speaker 13 Sewer? Yeah. The sewer was fucked up.
Vitamin was fucked up. So when I got there,

Speaker 13 like I said, it was just, it was weird. Carly showed up right after me, and I even said something to her, you know, like, this fucking what is she burning right next to the house for?

Speaker 13 You know, she just kind of pissed me off, you know. Didn't think anything I was like, whose fire was it?

Speaker 13 I thought it was Jamie's. I thought Jamie last fire.
What day was that? That day.

Speaker 13 Yeah, the day. The last time we saw her.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 While David admitted to filling the hole, he seemed to have trouble answering whether he or Jamie lit the fire.

Speaker 11 Kind of a weird thing to not remember, huh?

Speaker 11 The more detectives asked about it, the more upset he became.

Speaker 13 I'm telling you right now, I don't know where my sister is. If I did, I would tell you.
I would tell you. If she old Dean in front of me, I would tell you.
I don't know.

Speaker 13 I don't know.

Speaker 13 Did you end up fighting with her on the last time you saw her?

Speaker 13 The the no, the the the day before we were fighting things aren't physical no not any more than no well what does that mean i mean i mean yeah i mean it was forgetting it was physical at first but i mean i was just getting to the truth of the matter i mean i was just i was you know on top of her but it was nothing there was no fucking violence or anything the cops came there i know that the cops checked her out and i was fucking cleared i didn't do anything to her 24 hours later though 24 hours later she wasn't at home she was gone all night

Speaker 13 she was gone all night

Speaker 13 i guess we'll find out when we get the phone rings today. Yeah, well, she...
Yeah, she will. We'll find out.

Speaker 11 Without being asked, David decides to bring up the bathroom incident himself, where he allegedly attacked Jamie and tied her up in the tub.

Speaker 11 If you hadn't already guessed, his story was much different than his buddy Jason's.

Speaker 11 David goes on to tell detectives how his sister tried to kill herself that day before she went missing by swallowing a bunch of pills, allegedly.

Speaker 13 The cops come and this time I'm dealing with my sister. She's in the bathtub.

Speaker 13 The whole time I'm thinking that she's taking a bunch of pills and I know she, I don't know what pills she takes, but I know she gets some gnarly fucking stuff.

Speaker 13 So I'm not sure, you know, I went from rage to empathy here. And I'm in, and of course I didn't call the cops.
I should have called the cops, but

Speaker 13 I...

Speaker 13 Get her to fucking throw up or I'm threatening to stick her.

Speaker 13 I didn't even want to stick my finger down her because my little sister should bite my finger off So she's mad at me, you know, i'm thinking uh i get a spatula she said no i'll throw up you know i was gonna take her to the shower i get her in the shower i'm on the phone with curly and king county sheriffs or the sheriffs are walking up so i go to the back to the bathroom and at this time the bathroom door is not open anymore it's it's partially shut i opened up the door now here's this girl that was supposed to be took a bunch of pills was laying in there, entered fully clothed.

Speaker 13 At one point, the tub was filling up and I had and I realized that the

Speaker 13 little stopper that stops the water was up. And

Speaker 13 I put it down and I slapped her on her arm and said, not on my watch, James.

Speaker 13 You better stay with me. What the fuck is, you know.

Speaker 13 So when they came in, they said, we got an anonymous call that an anonymous person received a text message. The only one I sent the text message to was Jason.

Speaker 13 Backs up my theory that they're playing fucking games here. He's playing it.
He's a manipulator here.

Speaker 11 Notice how he doesn't bring up the photo of Jamie tied up in the bathtub. And detectives don't bother to ask.

Speaker 11 Speaking of suicide, they were curious about a note they'd come across during one of their earlier visits to the home.

Speaker 13 So my partner just texted me this

Speaker 13 picture of a note that you left on the garage for your girlfriend.

Speaker 13 It's a suicide note in my reading of it.

Speaker 13 He said I don't want to fight anymore.

Speaker 11 The suicide note made out to David's girlfriend Carly was was written days before Jamie vanished.

Speaker 11 Police had already learned that on June 6th, one of his closest friends found him in the garage with a chain wrapped around his neck.

Speaker 11 Aside from his sister going missing, David had plenty to be depressed about. I mean, by all accounts, his life was pretty much shit.

Speaker 11 Maybe the suicide note meant nothing, but at the very least, it certainly indicated the poor headspace David was in leading up to Jamie's disappearance.

Speaker 11 Meanwhile, Detective Kathleen Decker and the Major Crimes Unit were already inside the home searching for clues.

Speaker 38 I think he may have put her potentially in the crawl space. We didn't find any evidence of that, but if she was racked, we wouldn't have found any evidence of that.

Speaker 38 We did have two HRD dogs work that property, and both dogs, independent of each other, did have a behavior change at that crawl space point in the bedroom.

Speaker 38 We also had a mattress leaning up against the wall there that had some pinpoint drops of blood on it, which may have been what caused the dogs to react the way they did.

Speaker 11 Kathleen Decker was brought on the case early on. Originally cutting her teeth as a homicide detective, she later became an expert tracker and processor of outdoor crime scenes.

Speaker 38 That's actually the reason I was brought into the Jamie Haggard case to begin with was because of my familiarity with search and rescue resources and my familiarity with the process of how you organize and coordinate and get a team together to do a search.

Speaker 38 And

Speaker 38 that

Speaker 38 is why I was asked to participate and help Detective Bartlett, who was the lead detective at the time that Jamie went missing.

Speaker 11 In her 34 years plus with the Kings County Sheriff's Office, she earned her reputation by helping solve some of Washington's most high-profile cold cases.

Speaker 11 In other words, if anyone was going to find out what happened to Jamie, it was her.

Speaker 11 After failing to find any substantial evidence inside the Kenmore home, Kathleen directed her team's efforts outside as they prepared to excavate the backyard.

Speaker 13 In fact, that's why we're all out of your house today.

Speaker 13 Sure, so we're going to check it. We're going to be checking it with Demi equipment.
We're going to be dealing with the cadaver dogs.

Speaker 13 We're going to be covering that mix today. 100%.

Speaker 13 And if she is found out there,

Speaker 13 somebody's got some explaining to do.

Speaker 13 You know you're not under arrest, right? I haven't done anything, my sister. Do you understand you're not under arrest? I'm a lawyer.
Okay. Well, let's get out here then.

Speaker 13 I hope you're right. I wasn't there.

Speaker 13 But in the end, if she's

Speaker 13 somewhere because she LD'd, I would assume that at this point you've got the message and you need to tell us.

Speaker 13 Did she die under other circumstances?

Speaker 13 you know

Speaker 13 curn out

Speaker 11 when david asked for a lawyer technically that's it interview over

Speaker 11 at least it should have been but he keeps talking and just like his buddy jason did he mentions the name scott barnes where's scott at

Speaker 13 we got other teams

Speaker 13 doing other things

Speaker 13 But you're not telling even the story about Scott? No, Scott needs me to check. You're suspicious of Scott.
Yeah, really true. Take him to a reason.

Speaker 13 Because he's like, fucking admitted that he's done something to her.

Speaker 13 Jason told you about that. Yes.

Speaker 13 Yes. He's shaded.
I think Scott did something to sister, man.

Speaker 11 They were already looking into Scott. But the fact that his name came up certainly raised a few eyebrows.
Despite what they suggest to David, authorities have no proof that Jamie's dead.

Speaker 11 To make matters worse, the only thing clear was that David, Jason, and Scott were all liars.

Speaker 38 It really was

Speaker 38 difficult for us as we were trying to push this forward, dealing with people that by nature, lying is so normal to them that it just happens. And so a lot of what you hear isn't factual.

Speaker 38 A lot of it might be lore. A lot of it is rumor, speculation.
So you have to really sort through all of that to get at what is truth and what's factual.

Speaker 11 During this period, bodies were turning up left and right across all of northern Washington, and a lot of them were women.

Speaker 11 After a severed foot was found inside a recycling bin in Seattle, authorities arrived to find even more body parts in the remaining trash bags, including an arm, a leg, another foot, and a woman's head.

Speaker 11 About a week later, additional remains were discovered in a different trash can nearby.

Speaker 49 We are confident that it is connected to last week's homicide investigation which was only about three blocks away from where we're standing right now.

Speaker 11 The autopsy suggested that the woman was somewhere in her late 20s to early 40s. Eventually she was identified as a local nurse and young mother, but It wasn't who you think.

Speaker 11 In this case, 40-year-old Ingrid Line was lost, a mother of three, a nurse at Swedish First Hill. She was reported missing Saturday in Renton.

Speaker 11 Almost exactly two months before Jamie vanished, the body parts found inside the trash cans were confirmed to be those of 40-year-old Ingrid Lynn of Renton, Washington.

Speaker 11 Luckily for David, Ingrid's killer, a man she met online, was already in custody. Still, the similarities between Ingrid and Jamie were chilling.

Speaker 11 If nothing else, it spoke to the dangers women in this area were facing at the time. During David's interrogation, detectives decided to push a little harder.

Speaker 11 They brought up a few other cases, specifically two women found stuffed inside suitcases the year before.

Speaker 13 Jesus, man, last year we found two fucking people in suitcases because their friends panicked. didn't know what to fucking do with bodies and folded the chicks up in suitcases and dumped them.

Speaker 13 Jesus Christ, just call us and say, you know what I'm saying? Just fucking deal with it.

Speaker 11 Authorities had no reason to believe these cases were connected, but they did offer their theory on what they thought had happened to Jamie.

Speaker 13 Here's what I think happened to. I mean, it's really only two scenarios.
She either OG stone went next life in the house. Somebody freaked out and fucking had to get rid of her.

Speaker 13 Or

Speaker 13 somebody beat the fuck out of her and killed her. Whether that happened happened at your house or not, I don't know.

Speaker 13 But the crime lab's going to figure that out when I don't know.

Speaker 13 In the end, I'm going to use you're not passing the polygraph.

Speaker 13 The simplest polygraph we could design for a man like you in your position.

Speaker 13 One that you absolutely should pass it. I don't want a lawyer.
I don't want to talk about lawyer anymore. Okay, let's talk here.
I've got you. If you want to go down you, we can be done.

Speaker 13 I don't know how to be done.

Speaker 11 They didn't have enough to hold him, and after asking for an attorney a second time, the interview was forced to end.

Speaker 11 While heavy machinery dug up the soil at his residence a few miles away, David was ordered to stay away from the Kenmore property.

Speaker 11 For the next several days, Kathleen and her team combed through piles of burnt trash and debris, searching for any shred of evidence that might lead them to Jamie.

Speaker 50 Tonight, King County detectives are continuing to look for a missing Kenmore mother of two. 27-year-old Jamie Haggard disappeared around June 8th, and they are calling it suspicious.

Speaker 11 The major crimes unit worked day and night at the Kenmore home, using their back hose to tear up every square inch of earth.

Speaker 11 But after days of relentless excavation, The only thing they turned up was a pair of burnt construction coveralls, reeking of diesel fuel.

Speaker 38 Those search efforts really didn't produce a whole lot of clues or information that was going to be terribly helpful. The burned clothing was certainly odd at the time that we found it.

Speaker 38 We didn't know what to make of it. And that diesel smell was interesting.
So we just took those items as evidence because they did not fit.

Speaker 38 There was no readily explainable reason for them to be there. So we seized those as evidence.
We took photographs and just kind of noted it.

Speaker 11 When the scene was finally cleared, David was allowed to move back into the home.

Speaker 11 As investigators widened their search across both Snohomish and King County, tips from the local community started pouring in.

Speaker 38 So we spent a lot of time following up on tips, people who saw someone who looked like Jamie,

Speaker 38 or they thought it was Jamie seen at this place at this time. There were a lot of rumors and speculation amongst the people that she associated with as to what had happened to her.

Speaker 38 Hey, I heard a rumor that she was cut up in a chipper. Hey, I heard a rumor that she was thrown in the river.
Hey, I heard.

Speaker 38 So we had to follow up on all of these as best as we could to determine if there was any validity to them.

Speaker 38 Meanwhile, we're also conducting numerous searches trying to find her if in fact she was deceased.

Speaker 11 Investigators chased down all these leads, but found nothing.

Speaker 50 So this week they searched in and all around Arlington after getting several tips that she was spotted there.

Speaker 11 But detectives say it wasn't her.

Speaker 50 So they are asking everyone to be on the lookout.

Speaker 50 And while it's great that a lot of people have been sharing her photos on Facebook, detectives are asking you to call 911 or Crime Stoppers if you have any real information.

Speaker 50 They're spending a whole lot of time tracking down rumors instead of dealing with actual facts and people they can interview.

Speaker 50 Now, last Friday, deputies searched her property, but they came up empty, even using a backhoe to sift through the piles of trash in the backyard of the home and a recently filled-in hole as well.

Speaker 11 When the phone records finally came back, authorities learned that on June 9th, 2016, at 1.05 p.m., David's girlfriend received a text from Jamie.

Speaker 11 It was aggressive, demanding that David leave the house before the weekend was over and that it better be clean before he was gone. The tone was completely out of character for Jamie.

Speaker 11 And even stranger, the text misspelled David's girlfriend's name.

Speaker 11 When authorities brought David's girlfriend in for questioning, she revealed that at around 8.45 on the morning of June 9th, Jamie walked through the door of the Kenmore home and confronted her and David.

Speaker 11 According to her statements to police, Jamie screamed at David, told him things were going to be different and that he should either get out of her way or, quote, get on down the road.

Speaker 11 David's girlfriend also explained that she left the home a short time later to drive her child to school, leaving Jamie and David alone in the house.

Speaker 11 In piecing together their timeline, investigators also learned that Jamie called her her boyfriend in jail at 9.32 a.m. that same morning.

Speaker 11 The call lasted roughly 15 minutes, where Jamie was heard finalizing her plans to pick him up the following afternoon. That was the last time he heard from her.

Speaker 11 From the time she spoke with her boyfriend to the time David's girlfriend received the text message, there's over three and a half hours of radio silence from Jamie's end.

Speaker 11 When David's girlfriend returned to the home at around 1.30 p.m.,

Speaker 11 Jamie was gone and David was in the backyard.

Speaker 38 We received information from David's girlfriend, Carly, that she had come home and found David out in the back burning something or doing something with fire in the area where we had found those burned clothes.

Speaker 38 So that kind of fit.

Speaker 38 We still didn't really know what that meant. And today, I don't even really know what that was all about.
But I believe it is important, it's related, it's relevant.

Speaker 38 I just don't know how it fits in the puzzle.

Speaker 11 When David's girlfriend approached him by the burn pit, she told police that he said Jamie started the fire right before she walked out the door and left with the unidentified Mexican man.

Speaker 11 David's story would later change altogether. by allegedly telling other witnesses that there was no Mexican man, and instead, Jamie walked off on foot on June 9th, never to be seen again.

Speaker 38 There were some inconsistent statements that David had made about when he had last seen Jamie.

Speaker 38 He just seemed to be a little bit of all over the place and it was really David's just inability to keep his story straight that caused David the most problems.

Speaker 11 As for the fire, this wasn't something Jamie was known to do, let alone in the middle of the day.

Speaker 11 Something else that stuck out as strange to David's girlfriend were the items Jamie left behind.

Speaker 38 He had left behind some personal effects that most people wouldn't leave behind. Her, I think it was like a purse,

Speaker 38 there was a phone,

Speaker 38 her prescription medications, those kinds of things. It just seemed odd that she would not be coming back for those items.
And so that piqued our interest.

Speaker 11 David's girlfriend recalled seeing Jamie's phone on the kitchen counter, but by the time police finally searched the home, it was no longer there.

Speaker 11 Weeks later, on June 23rd, Jamie's sister also received a strange message. The person on the other end claimed to be Jamie, stating that she was fine and just needed some time to figure things out.

Speaker 11 But the message wasn't sent from Jamie's phone. Instead, it came from Jason Nulty's device, who was still behind bars.
Weird.

Speaker 11 Jamie's sister wanted to believe it was her. While her family continued searching, Jamie's father posted videos to his Facebook daily, pleading with his daughter to come home.

Speaker 11 The clip shows Jamie's father watching an old western with the caption that reads, Doors unlocked, Jamie,

Speaker 11 honey.

Speaker 11 Unbeknownst to Jamie's loved ones and the general public, evidence was still surfacing, most of which pointed to none other than David.

Speaker 11 A friend of his girlfriend eventually came forward and told investigators that on June 9th or 10th, she witnessed David at a car wash in a nearby town of Woodenville, driving Jason Nulty Zakura.

Speaker 11 And with him in the car was his buddy, Scott Barnes.

Speaker 11 Meanwhile, Jamie's father continued to show up for his daughter, holding her missing person's flyer up for the local media cameras whenever he had a chance.

Speaker 50 I will find you, Jamie. I love you.
Dad is coming, and I'll never stop.

Speaker 11 Weeks turned into months. Headlines of Jamie's disappearance became few and far between.

Speaker 11 The public interest in Jamie's case inevitably dwindled and was soon overshadowed by the hot new whatever it is in the news.

Speaker 11 Probably some local broadcaster bitching about Trump. Anyway, roughly one year after she was last seen, authorities were able to secure a second warrant.
to search Jamie's property.

Speaker 11 And in May of 2017, the yard at the Kenmore home was dug up once again.

Speaker 11 This time, they focused on a few areas left untouched during the initial search. A narrow patch of dirt near the back fence.

Speaker 11 Shovels hit earth, cadaver dogs circled the perimeter, while a backhoe tore into the ground.

Speaker 11 Then, a hard clunk.

Speaker 11 The machine jolts to a stop, and investigators exchange glances. The operator steps down to join Kathleen and her crew, standing at the edge of what's buried beneath the surface.

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Speaker 11 Jamie Haggard's disappearance in June 2016 left more questions than answers. When she failed to pick up her boyfriend from jail, her family knew something was wrong.

Speaker 11 Investigators zeroed in on three men. Jamie's roommate Jason, who was known to be violent towards women, a local biker named Scott, and Jamie's half-brother, David.

Speaker 11 All three had been on law enforcement's radar long before Jamie vanished. All of their stories were filled with bigger holes than there were in the backyard.

Speaker 11 The only common thread being their willingness to point the finger at each other. There's no no honor amongst thieves, they say.

Speaker 11 Burn pits and ditches dug for a do-it-yourself sewage repair quickly became the focus of the search. All that was found was a pair of men's coveralls burnt and reeking of diesel.

Speaker 11 When the excavators' buckets struck something during their second search, they found nothing but planks of wood and an old TV buried in the dirt. Who the hell buries a TV in the dirt?

Speaker 11 The fuck is wrong with these people?

Speaker 51 In hopes that maybe they would find her somewhere in there. That didn't happen.

Speaker 11 Meanwhile, Jason Nolte, Scott Barnes, and David Haggard remained suspects. But without a body, law enforcement's hands were tied.

Speaker 38 So we would constantly offer up opportunities for David to meet with us, to have conversations, to have phone calls. Sometimes he would engage, other times he would not.

Speaker 11 For nearly two years, the investigation went nowhere except in circles, and the case lingered in limbo.

Speaker 11 That is, until one sunny morning in May of 2018.

Speaker 11 It was the morning of May 9th, and along the desolate stretch of road that makes up Route 522,

Speaker 11 a team of four city workers had just started their normal trash cleanup along the interstate in Snohomish County, Washington.

Speaker 11 After hopping out of their van, the group starts jabbing at the earth with their litter pickers and grabbing claws to gather fast food wrappers and other debris strewn across the freeway.

Speaker 11 Who are these assholes that tossed their burger wrappers out the window? Seriously, get some fucking manners.

Speaker 11 Anyway, after making their way south through the shoulder of Downs Road, the workers eventually spread apart to cover more ground.

Speaker 11 As one man makes his way to a nearby field, he notices a small carry-on suitcase resting in a patch of overgrown grass at around 7.15 a.m.

Speaker 11 After hauling a few discarded tires nearby, he reaches down to pick it up, and to his surprise, it's heavier than he expects.

Speaker 11 Still, he manages to drag it roughly 10 feet to the roadside and leaves it by the guardrail.

Speaker 52 It wasn't put in a bag and I just left it out there. I don't want to touch it.
No particular reason. I just didn't carry it on.

Speaker 11 After about two more hours of cleaning, the crew hurls what they think are the last bits of trash bags into the trailer. By now, a few of the crew members had already gotten back into the van.

Speaker 11 ready to head to their next location. But before they did, the man remembers he'd forgotten one last piece.
That old suitcase.

Speaker 52 I noticed the luggage was pretty heavy. And I had my picker, litter picker, and I kind of disturbed it.
And as I picked it up, it just ripped apart.

Speaker 52 It just clicked into my head that something was wrong there because of

Speaker 52 the amount of work that was involved into packaging whatever was in there.

Speaker 52 I immediately got on my radio and contacted my lead driver. And I said to her, I really hope this is not what I think it is, but I think this is a body inside of this.

Speaker 52 She goes, you gotta be kidding me.

Speaker 11 After radioing his supervisor, the man crouches down to the bag again.

Speaker 11 And his curiosity gets the better of him.

Speaker 52 I opened it up and I saw the hair and I said, oh crap, something smells in there. I ripped it apart just to see, you know,

Speaker 52 hoping to see a carcass of a deer or something, possibly a dog, and I opened it some more

Speaker 52 and we left it alone and called the sheriff's department.

Speaker 11 After nearly vomiting from the stench, the worker runs to the van where he joins the rest of the crew while they wait for the police to arrive.

Speaker 11 Within minutes, the area was swarmed with sheriff's deputies. Once the perimeter was secured, they made their way towards a suitcase and started peeling back the layers.

Speaker 11 The first was a black trash bag with a distinct blue plastic tie.

Speaker 11 Inside it was commercial-grade construction wrap. The third and final layer was a burnt red bedsheet partially stained with blood.
It's at this point that authorities know this is no dead dog.

Speaker 11 Instead, they're looking at a pile of human bones inside the bag.

Speaker 38 At the point that I learned about this, I just knew it was Jamie. I just knew it was her.

Speaker 11 Whoever this person was, it was obvious they'd been out there for a while. But preliminarily, making an identification seems impossible.

Speaker 11 Not only because they'd been subjected to the elements for what appeared to be months, if not years, but the skull and other various body parts were missing.

Speaker 38 I believe that there were parts of her hands and feet that were missing.

Speaker 38 She had been dismembered. She had been burned.
There may have been some disarticulation that occurred too, just naturally from the decomposition process.

Speaker 11 Also in the suitcase were several pieces of melted hard plastic, along with a necklace attached to a small round pendant.

Speaker 11 Once the remains were transported to the medical examiner's office, The autopsy results didn't yield much information aside from what investigators already knew.

Speaker 11 Only from a partial pelvic bone were they able to eventually determine the gender. While the female Jane Doe had an age range of 24 to 44 years old, there was still a great deal of work to be done.

Speaker 38 So we basically had to peel back everything

Speaker 38 and look at every single thing that we could to determine if it had any forensic value.

Speaker 38 Could we get anything from any of this? Fingerprints were going to be out because of kind of how it was all compressed and it was just a mucky mess. We talked about DNA extraction.

Speaker 38 There was human hair. Could we get DNA from the hair? So we had discussions about that.
It was decided the best opportunity for DNA is going to be just bone extraction from the femur.

Speaker 38 that was in the suitcase, which is what we ultimately ended up doing.

Speaker 24 DNA testing would take several more weeks.

Speaker 11 While waiting for the results, Kathleen Decker revisited the evidence locker several times.

Speaker 11 After laying out the burnt items on a stainless steel table, she placed a series of photographs next to them, searching for any clue that she may have missed.

Speaker 11 In one police photo taken during the domestic incident the day before Jamie vanished, she's seen wearing a pendant necklace.

Speaker 11 In another taken inside Jason's Jason's room were red bedsheets seen covering his mattress. After comparing the images to the items found in the suitcase, they appeared to be a match.

Speaker 11 But because they were so damaged, investigators had no way to be sure.

Speaker 11 In cases like this, DNA is everything.

Speaker 11 And the bone fragment analysis was their last hope. When the results were finally returned, they confirmed the grim truth.

Speaker 11 Jamie did leave her home, but only after she was murdered, dismembered, incinerated, stuffed in a suitcase, and left to rot by the interstate.

Speaker 46 Details today we learned the remains of a missing mother identified yesterday were found inside a suitcase.

Speaker 11 When Jamie's remains were positively identified in July of 2018, you would think that's it. Case closed.
Authorities had their suspects.

Speaker 11 Surely they had enough to charge at least one of them with murder, right?

Speaker 11 Well,

Speaker 11 not really.

Speaker 11 Even though Jamie was the confirmed victim of a brutal homicide, investigators still had a pretty hefty burden of proof to overcome.

Speaker 11 Luckily for Jason Nulty, He was behind bars at the time Jamie was last seen. But did he help facilitate a plot to kill her before he was locked up?

Speaker 38 We told Jason right from the get-go that the best thing that ever happened to him was the fact that he went to jail for a crime he didn't commit on June 8th, 2016, because he literally was physically incapable of having killed Jamie.

Speaker 38 He was in jail.

Speaker 11 Okay, fine. But what about Scott Barnes, the hell's angel? The one everyone keeps mentioning.

Speaker 11 Allegedly, he was in favor of getting rid of Jamie before he and David were seen scrubbing down the Acura at the car wash.

Speaker 11 Were all three guilty?

Speaker 11 Or did David act alone?

Speaker 38 Scott Barnes, yeah, he was definitely a character to be concerned with, in part because David was saying, hey, Scott did it. Well, okay, that's great, but we need a little bit more information.

Speaker 38 Why do you say that? You know, give us something besides the fact that Scott's a bad dude, that he's crazy violent. You know,

Speaker 38 I need more than that. So we were always open to that being a possibility, and we had to try to eliminate Scott as best we could.

Speaker 38 And the only way you can really do that is through interviews, you know, potentially polygraphs, those kinds of things, and evidence.

Speaker 38 I mean, is there any physical evidence to link Scott Barnes to Jamie's murder? And there really wasn't. You know, everything kept coming back to David in the Kenmore house.

Speaker 11 Something else investigators were forced to consider were the ongoing statements from Jamie's own family. Her sister in particular outwardly expressed her belief that David had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 11 Sure, he had a long rap sheet and short views, but so did all his friends. He and Jamie also had repeated arguments and sometimes physical altercations about their living situation.

Speaker 11 But according to the victim's sister, that didn't mean that he killed Jamie.

Speaker 11 In her eyes, David was a good man and a good brother, despite his troubled past.

Speaker 11 Let's face it, no one wants to believe that a family member could kill one of their own.

Speaker 11 Denial is more than just a river in Egypt. It's one hell of a drug.
But despite the incriminating text messages, the red bedsheets, the fires, and all the other stuff.

Speaker 11 All this evidence was circumstantial. Unfortunately, when someone turns up dead, it doesn't matter what you think you know.

Speaker 11 What matters is what you can prove in court.

Speaker 11 If this case was ever going to be solved, investigators had to get creative. Not by playing a missing person's card game, but by finding something concrete, something substantial.

Speaker 34 They had to fight fire with fire.

Speaker 51 This is a horrible case. I mean, Jamie is very tragic.
She had two daughters and, you know, has a family that cares a lot about her. So something like this is heartbreaking.

Speaker 51 And, you know, to get a little bit of closure to find at least her remains, but we still have a lot of work to do because we still need to find out who's responsible for this.

Speaker 11 Unable to charge David with murder, investigators started looking at some of the other crimes he was suspected of committing.

Speaker 11 About four months before Jamie went missing on February of 2016, he allegedly broke into a mobile home in the town of Duval and stole a refrigerator and other appliances.

Speaker 11 Later that same day, he returned to the mobile home, crawled underneath the trailer, and lit two cushions on fire, causing it to burn to the ground.

Speaker 11 Then, just days before Jamie vanished, David was suspected of another fire.

Speaker 11 On June 5th, he allegedly broke into a construction yard where he and Jamie's father worked in the nearby town of Woodinville.

Speaker 11 According to Jamie's father, David had easy access to heavy machinery there, but also materials like commercial-grade construction wrap, for example.

Speaker 11 You know, the kind that Jamie's body was found in, in the suitcase?

Speaker 11 During this incident, he allegedly used a $140,000 forklift to steal a commercial welder by loading it on the back of his truck.

Speaker 11 He then proceeded to dump gasoline into the forklift's cab before setting it ablaze.

Speaker 11 Ultimately, David's girlfriend and his roommate Jason both ratted him out to police, claiming David bragged to them about the fires. But he was never charged.
In Washington? Imagine that.

Speaker 11 Not long after Jamie's remains were identified, investigators received another tip,

Speaker 11 this time from David's uncle. According to him, the same day Jamie went missing, David called him and said he was hiding out in an abandoned barn.

Speaker 11 When investigators revisited the area where Jamie's remains were found, they noticed a dilapidated barn less than 100 yards away.

Speaker 11 After combing through the abandoned structure, they found another burn site, a melted gas canister, and a black trash bag with blue plastic ties, consistent with the one they found in the suitcase.

Speaker 11 These were all pieces of a much larger puzzle. But so much time had already passed.
The longer investigators waited, the more time David and his friends had to potentially destroy more evidence.

Speaker 11 Not willing to let that happen, Kathleen Decker submitted her probable cause affidavit. And in October of 2018, David was arrested for arson.

Speaker 11 Roughly one year later, right before he was set to be released, his charges were upgraded to second-degree murder.

Speaker 53 Today, prosecutors charged Jamie's older brother David with her murder. They say the siblings who lived together had a history of violence.

Speaker 53 Twice, police dug up the yard at the home they shared, searching for clues after her disappearance.

Speaker 53 Friends and roommates say David threatened to kill Jamie and beat her up repeatedly, at one point hitting her hard enough to knock her out.

Speaker 11 It took roughly three years to charge Jamie's half-brother with murder. But a charge doesn't always mean a conviction.

Speaker 11 In the meantime, authorities were forced to explain why the hell their investigation took so long.

Speaker 54 All the witnesses were very suspicious of David, but we had to get to a point where we actually had probable for the murder.

Speaker 11 Although a trial date had been set and David was behind bars, Investigators were far from finished building their case.

Speaker 11 Over a year later, in December of 2019, Kathleen Decker made one last visit to the evidence locker. She wasn't interested in bedsheets.

Speaker 11 Instead, she wanted another look at the burnt plastic fragments found in the suitcase.

Speaker 11 Early on, investigators suspected that these may have been pieces of a cell phone. But it was so badly damaged they assumed it was useless.

Speaker 24 That's when Kathleen spotted something.

Speaker 11 A tiny section of what looked like a melted motherboard fused into a piece of shrapnel.

Speaker 38 So we were stymied for a little bit of time until we were able to identify someone through the FBI that was able to provide us that ability.

Speaker 38 And we were really happy when we heard that there was someone out there in the world that could potentially do something with this. And that was huge when that happened.

Speaker 11 Roughly three years after Jamie's disappearance, the destroyed plastic was finally sent to the forensic experts at Quantico, Virginia.

Speaker 11 Even the technicians working for the FBI characterized this as one of the most damaged phones they'd ever seen. Somehow, after months of trying, they successfully extracted some data.

Speaker 11 In April 2019, the recovered contents were handed back to investigators in Washington with confirmation that it was, in fact,

Speaker 11 Jamie's phone. And buried within a cache of binary code was a voice memo.

Speaker 11 But it wasn't Jamie.

Speaker 11 Instead, the voice recorded on her device was a man's, later determined to be her half-brother, David.

Speaker 11 Not only that, but the voice memo was an exact replica of the text message sent to David's girlfriend from Jamie's device on June 9th, but instead it was in audio form.

Speaker 11 The timestamps were also a match.

Speaker 11 Investigators theorized that David must have used the speech-to-text function to compose the message and accidentally saved an audio version while pretending to be Jamie, who by that point was already dead.

Speaker 11 A selfie was also recovered from the device. It was a photo of David, with his eyes wide, pupils dilated, and sweat dripping from his forehead.

Speaker 11 Investigators referenced wooden beams in the background of the image, verifying that the photo was taken inside the Kenmore home, possibly minutes after Jamie was killed.

Speaker 11 The data recovered from Jamie's phone, combined with all the other evidence that took years to piece together, finally gave prosecutors the confidence to bring their case to court.

Speaker 11 At his trial in September of 2022,

Speaker 11 the state laid out the brutal details of Jamie's death, how she was likely beaten, dismembered, burned, stuffed into a suitcase, and dumped on the side of the road.

Speaker 11 Forensic analysis linked the red bed sheets from the suitcase to Jason Nulty's bed. Witness testimony placed David at the car wash, scrubbing down the acura following Jamie's disappearance.

Speaker 11 Text messages and recovered voice memos captured David's voice. All of this was crucial in court.

Speaker 11 Despite all the evidence, there was no smoking gun. There was no murder weapon.

Speaker 11 Still, Kathleen Decker, who had worked for years on this case, was confident that the jury would make the right decision.

Speaker 38 I felt really solid about this case, and I trusted that our justice system was going to work.

Speaker 38 I trusted that the jury was going to hear the facts that they needed to hear to come to the right conclusion. So I didn't...
feel like he was going to get away with it. I don't know why.

Speaker 38 I just felt like, no, we did our job. We worked really hard.

Speaker 38 This

Speaker 38 going to come out the way it's supposed to come out.

Speaker 11 Her intuition was right. And after weeks of testimony, David Haggard was found guilty of second-degree murder.
Ahead of sentencing, Jamie's family members provided victim impact statements.

Speaker 11 Her sister, who wanted desperately to believe David all along, expressed how Jamie's children would not only grow up without a mother, but without their uncle as well.

Speaker 47 You might not think that this is fair, but it's not fair for Maddie and Dilly either. They miss their mom.
They don't even remember the things I remember.

Speaker 47 It's not fair that my kids don't grow up, get to grow up with their Aunt Jamie or their uncle Davy.

Speaker 47 It's not fair. Their choices, these choices tore our whole family apart.

Speaker 11 Oh, did you think this case was going to be wrapped up neatly? What do you think this is? Forensic files?

Speaker 11 48-year-old David was later sentenced to 15 years in prison, a punishment that Jamie's family said would never truly bring them closure.

Speaker 11 Jamie Haggard's case was filled with dead ends and frustrating false leads. It took over six years to go to trial, but that doesn't mean everyone involved faced consequences.

Speaker 11 Despite their proximity to this case, Jason Nulty and Scott Barnes were never charged with a crime. Justice is a real elusive bitch sometimes.

Speaker 11 Justice is like that ex that dumped you after saying she loved you and then ghosts you. And that's it.
There's nothing else you can do.

Speaker 11 Yep.

Speaker 11 Justice is a real cunt.

Speaker 38 Now, that doesn't mean that there isn't out there someone else who had involvement. I'm not going to say that David is solely involved and responsible.
It's possible there might be others out there.

Speaker 38 We were never able to make a case strong enough to charge anyone else. And of course, David was never able to give us any information beyond, well, Scott did it.
Okay, well, why are you saying that?

Speaker 38 Give me something I can work with, something that's tangible. And he never was able to do that.
I don't know. There's definitely more to this story than what we know.

Speaker 38 There's other chapters that we haven't yet. addressed or figured out.

Speaker 38 And let me also say, to this day, we don't know where her head is. Her Her head was not in the suitcase.
So

Speaker 38 that is somewhere out there. I hope and pray that at some point and someday we will have that recovered.
It's important for the family to have all of her back.

Speaker 38 And

Speaker 38 maybe at some point we'll get that.

Speaker 11 Before we let Kathleen go, we wanted to know what she thought happened to Jamie.

Speaker 11 Her personal theory never reached the media, nor was it present in court. But in terms of motive, it might just be even more disgusting than the murder and dismemberment itself.

Speaker 38 So we had

Speaker 38 information from one of Jamie's friends that Jamie had been raped by David. And we knew David had raped Carly before.
She disclosed that to us.

Speaker 38 We had reason to believe that Jamie and David had an incestuous relationship and that that had been going on for several years.

Speaker 38 He was very jealous of her, jealous of any boyfriends that she had, which is why I think that argument probably happened on the 9th.

Speaker 38 There's no doubt that there was that relationship going on between the two of them.

Speaker 11 Bet you didn't see that one coming. Forensic files eat your heart out.

Speaker 38 So I think probably what happened is that David and Jamie got into another argument.

Speaker 38 We know she'd been on the phone with her boyfriend who was in jail due to get out and that she was supposed to pick him up, that she was going to move him into the Kenmore house.

Speaker 38 So I think that David may have sexually assaulted Jamie.

Speaker 38 I think that during that, that he strangled her.

Speaker 38 I think that after he ended up killing her, he may have panicked a little bit because he would have known that Carly was due home.

Speaker 38 Carly had left that morning to drop off her child at school because it was 8.30-ish in the morning and Carly was due back home noon-ish.

Speaker 38 Carly was delayed coming home because she had stopped at a store on the way home. So I think what he did at that point was somehow wrap the body up in the sheet that he got off of Jason's bed.

Speaker 38 I think cutting her up was probably just ease of transport. That's typically why we see somebody utilize dismemberment.
It just makes it easier for transportation.

Speaker 38 So I think that's probably why he did that.

Speaker 38 Put her in the suitcase. I think the suitcase came from the house there in Kenmore.

Speaker 38 And would it surprise me to learn later on that Scott had not only knowledge, but participated in some way, shape, or form before the fact, during the fact, or after the fact? No, it wouldn't.

Speaker 38 I don't know if we ever will get to that point, but that's still another mystery.

Speaker 11 Jesus Christ, how's that for an ending? Violent offenders, habitual lies, and incest, of all things.

Speaker 11 are just a few of the potential factors that make Jamie's murder a mysterious one almost nine years later.

Speaker 11 These backroad country white folk or something else, I'll tell you. I mean, I do love Cracker Barrel, but damn.

Speaker 11 Like Kathleen said, we might never actually find out what really happened to Jamie that day.

Speaker 11 Still, you have to wonder, did justice really prevail? Or is this case just another reminder that some people are better at getting away with murder than others?

Speaker 11 Either way, it sure does make you look at this case a little differently when you remember what David said.

Speaker 13 I have nothing to do with my sister. I love her to death.

Speaker 11 Ew. Ew.

Speaker 11 Ew.

Speaker 11 Gross.

Speaker 11 Well,

Speaker 11 that's going to do it. I got to go watch some cartoons.

Speaker 11 This episode was written and produced by Mike Dunphy. If you like what we do here, be sure to check out Sword and Scale Television at sword and scale.com.com.

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