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[tape rewinding]
- It is so risky trying to make a living with art,
But jordie was compelled to create.
- Jordie was always chill.
I've never seen her upset.
But towards the end, you could see the darker stuff come out.
- When she didn't show up,
Her mother knew something was wrong.
It was enough to drive her to file a missing persons report.
- I actually located a steak knife in the bushes.
I just remember thinking, holy crap.
- We were just horrified
Something like this could happen to somebody like jordie.
- Once I made the connection with the glasses being hers,
I started thinking that there's a lot more to this
Than just a missing persons.
- Your fear is, you're not gonna find her alive.
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- Spring 2016, st. Augustine, florida,
A picturesque seaside town with a thriving art community.
Jordie hudson is in her element,
Fresh off a successful art show.
- She stood out from everybody else.
She was always into what her passion was, art.
Me liking art, and her being an artist,
I kind of looked up to jordie.
Always nice, genuine person,
Way chill, way mellow.
- Her work was different than most anything I'd ever seen.
It was very visceral.
Jordie put her heart and soul into it.
- It was real, and it was genuine, and--
And original.
- Jordie came from a family of artists
And from an early age, had a strong persona.
- She was just one of those people
That just was very confrontational.
It was evident in her personality.
It was evident in her art.
- She was tattooed. She was real punk-looking.
- She was always on the fringe.
She was always out to make a statement--
A leader, you know, never a follower.
- In 1985, at just 15 years old,
Jordie attends the university of north carolina
School of the arts.
After that, the school of the museum of arts in boston.
And by her early 20s, her art is exhibited
In galleries across the country.
- It is so risky to try to make a living with art,
But jordie was compelled to create.
- But jordie's success is not without its struggles.
- Jordie had meningitis,
And possibly as far back as her college days,
She had issues of light-headedness,
She had some serious muscular problems
To the point where she literally
Could not walk or talk.
- Jordie was sick for a long time.
I knew that she was on some type of medication.
- In 2012, when jordie is 42,
She moves from milledgeville, georgia,
To an apartment in st. Augustine, florida,
To be closer to her mother, judy.
- Jordie's mother was a big support for her.
Her mother was her caretaker,
Driving her around and handling her medications,
Which were numerous.
- St. Augustine turns out to be the perfect place
For jordie to continue working on her art.
- It literally is an artist's hangout.
It has quite a vibe to it.
- St. Augustine has always been a pretty artsy town.
Way back when, there was a-- kind of a big hippie scene.
- In late summer 2012,
Jordie's success hits a setback
After her health takes a near fatal turn.
- She could not speak that clearly.
She talked about having had dizzy spells.
She was having to use a cane at some point.
So she was having a very difficult time
With this meningitis.
Her illness brought out some rawness,
Some real heart, real emotion in her artwork.
- She put her illness into her work.
You could see the darker stuff come out, and it stuck out.
And I believe that's because of her illness.
Jordie only mentioned her illness one or two times
Throughout the time I knew her.
She wouldn't let that hold her down.
- I just think that her having this fatal disease
Couldn't help but influence her.
[dark music]
- I own a gallery called space:Eight
Here in st. Augustine.
And I gave jordie her show in 2012.
That whole exhibition was under the context
Of her dying soon--
Like, very soon.
In advance of the show, we always get media coverage.
And at the time,
There's a publication called "folio" magazine.
They were sent to cover her and talk about her art.
- The very first meeting, jordie was one of those people
That was memorable in so many ways.
I photographed jordie at her studio.
She was in bad shape.
They're not pleasant, happy photos.
It was in a difficult time of her life,
So we tried to reflect that.
This cover shot, I didn't direct her.
She was so good in front of the camera,
And she would just bare her soul to me.
She was a dream subject,
Somebody that wears their feelings on their sleeve,
Out for all to see.
- She had a teardrop tattoo under one eye.
That was the only tear that could come out of that eye
Because she had no more-- no more tear duct.
Just sad.
- It was so striking that it was hard
To take a photo that didn't mean something
When you take a photo of jordie.
She was a very genuine and heartfelt person.
When I was leaving, she--
She said she wanted to give me a gift.
She insisted that I take this medallion.
And I do treasure it still.
[soft dramatic music]
- This issue of "folio weekly" is released in November 2012.
Jordie's friends and family believe
This will be her final art show.
- Because we got so much press,
And because the story was so unique and compelling,
It drew a big crowd.
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People were very excited about it.
She was literally on her death bed
Leading up to the show,
You know, during the exhibition.
And I think it was just really emotional for her
To get the acknowledgment for her art,
Not her, you know, illness.
- And soon, perhaps motivated by the show and the feature,
Jordie's health improves.
- It had gone into remission.
I remember being surprised
And being, you know, happy that she beat it.
- Over the years with jordie, we would run into each other,
Would talk, and it's normally only about her art.
- Here's an artist who apparently was recovering,
Who was getting stronger.
She was back on the upswing.
- She had that attitude that,
I'm totally comfortable with what we're doing,
And she was great.
- Jordie was just thriving and creating art and--
And not letting her illness drive her.
- On Monday, April 11, 2016, jordie doesn't show up
For her weekly visit with her mother, judy.
That causes judy to become concerned.
- Jordie hudson would stop by her mother's place
On a regular basis to pick up a stipend for rent or for food.
When she didn't show up,
Her mother knew something was wrong.
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- When three days go by with no word from jordie,
Judy contacts the st. Augustine police.
- At first we weren't really concerned.
We get calls all the time--
My wife didn't show back up home.
She hasn't been home all weekend.
And come Monday, she shows back up
'cause she's, you know, been out partying.
- I wasn't sure if she was just hanging out
At someone's house, never came home.
- But with these kind of investigations,
We have to turn over every rock.
We started looking at police reports and hospitals
To locate jordie.
- The day judy reports jordie missing,
Sergeant etheredge responds to an unrelated call
At 88 cedar street in st. Augustine.
- The homeowner had called and said he had seen
Somebody's personal effects in his driveway,
Some blood on the sidewalk,
And he wanted to make sure that nothing had occurred,
That no one was hurt or injured.
- When I went up there, I started
Talking to the homeowner.
He showed me a pair of glasses
And where the blood drops were.
They were right on the edge of the--out by the road,
On the driveway, close to the fence.
I took, you know, some samples for evidence,
Just in case something came up of it at a later time.
I went and collected the pair of glasses,
And I brought it back to the police department.
- When he returns, sergeant etheredge continues
Reviewing jordie's case
And makes a disturbing connection,
Thanks to the photo of jordie that judy had given
To the police department.
- The photo she provided had jordie
In dark-framed glasses.
- I scrutinized the photos a little bit more.
I was able to see the-- the hinge on the glasses,
Detailed, and I compared them to what I had in my hand,
And it was a dead ringer for the glasses in her photo.
Once I made the connection with the glasses being hers,
I started thinking, there's a lot more to this
Than just a missing persons.
- We're thinking, maybe she had gotten into a scuffle.
Something like that had possibly occurred.
- Investigators work to identify
Jordie's final moments.
- I watched the video surveillance.
I knew she was definitely with somebody that night.
And that was our first break.
- Last time I saw her was when she walked out the door.
No idea that would have been the last time.
- And using every tool in their arsenal,
They focus on finding answers.
- There was video surveillance
Directly in the area where the blood was located.
How did we get so lucky?
- It was when we showed her the picture,
She realized that we knew what we were talking about,
And that she needed to fess up.
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- The day jordie hudson is reported missing,
Detectives have discovered her glasses
In the yard of a home in st. Augustine, florida.
- Myself and detective ochkie went back out
To 88 cedar street and started really doing
A lot of a more detailed search.
- Not too long into the search,
We discovered a large amount of blood in the bushes.
- There was a significant amount of blood.
It wasn't just a, somebody tripped and fell.
It was a lot of arterial spray on the bamboo, on the fence,
And, you know, puddles of blood.
- There was enough blood that we realized
Something definitely bad had happened to jordie.
I was starting to look through the underbrush.
As I was moving it apart with my hands,
I actually located a steak knife in the bushes.
I just remember thinking, "holy crap."
One of the first things that we did is,
We went to jordie's house and looked around to see,
You know, was there a struggle?
Did something happen?
Is furniture overturned?
To see if any items are missing.
But nothing seemed out of place.
- As detectives are leaving jordie's home,
They run into her neighbor, fred stanley.
- While we were at jordie hudson's house,
Fred stanley was trying to get our attention.
We walked out to him, started talking to him.
We asked him, like, hey, when's the last time
You've seen miss hudson?
And he goes, well, we were at the giggling gator bar
The prior weekend, which was the 9th of April.
She was supposed to show up at her mom's house
The Monday after the time she was at the giggling gator,
And she never showed up.
That, in turn, led us to go to the giggling gator
To try to get a video of that night,
Of who she was talking with,
Who she might have left with,
And just any information that could show us
Where she might be.
- Detectives head straight to the giggling gator,
Which is just half a mile from 88 cedar street,
Where police located jordie's glasses and the knife
The day after she went missing.
- The giggling gator is basically like a dive bar.
We've been there for just various,
You know, calls for service-- fights or whatever.
- I worked at the gator off and on for about 12 years.
We do get a lot of tourists, but at the end of the night,
It's usually people we already know.
The police--I was at work, and they came in
And said jordie was missing.
You feel worried, and you wonder, like, oh,
If they're safe or not.
The next question is like,
What's your involvement with jordie?
You know, I'm just the bartender, and she's a patron.
- With any investigation, one of the first things
We start looking for is video surveillance.
And I personally knew the giggling gator
Had a lot of video surveillance
From previous cases that I had worked.
- The detectives are in luck.
They're met with a treasure trove of video.
They scroll back in time to Saturday, April 9,
Hoping the video will shed light on jordie that night.
- There was no audio with the video surveillance
From the giggling gator,
So we have to try and put our mind in interpreting
What the video is telling us.
- The giggling gator was a little bit hectic.
I noticed a couple of males that were in the back
Of the bar arguing.
- They continue scanning through the video
Second by second.
At 1:36 am, they spot jordie.
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And she is wearing the glasses police found
At 88 cedar street.
- I was working that night, and she came in.
She said, hello, you know.
The first thing I asked, how are you doing?
What could I get you?
You could tell that her spirit was up.
Jordie was having a decent night, a good night.
- They also see fred stanley, her neighbor.
- I could see jordie come into the bar,
And that fred was following her in.
They ended up hanging out, having a couple of shots.
And after a while, it looked like
They got into a verbal argument.
And jordie seemed very upset and agitated.
- You're just trying to figure out
What was the incident between mr. Stanley and jordie.
- It kind of looked like fred was trying
To get her to leave, and she didn't wanna go.
Eventually, fred left the bar, and jordie stayed
And continued to have a couple more shots.
- The argument caught on video leads detectives to wonder
Whether jordie's neighbor, fred stanley,
May be responsible for her disappearance.
- We watch fred leave the bar
And walk down the street.
He was never in any of the other video surveillance
That would indicate he came back to do anything to jordie.
- By looking at the video, you can eliminate people
Or you can include people.
And in this case, with mr. Stanley,
It excluded him.
- Jose tells investigators he didn't notice
Anything unusual inside the bar that night.
- I remember actually taking a break to have a cigarette.
Jordie explained her new pieces and stuff.
She--she did mention, like,
"some of my stuff could be dark."
She asked questions like, are you into that type of work?
And I told her I'm-- I'm very open minded.
I just have to see it see and see if I like it or not, so.
I remember when I said that, she smiled and she said,
"that's cool.
Maybe you should come check out my new work.
That's when I agreed to do it.
You know, like, okay.
- Jose doesn't know that these will be his final moments
With his friend.
Last time I saw her was when she walked out the door.
I just remember her saying,
"I'm gonna go hang out with some people."
I expected to see her later on that week.
No idea that would have been the last time.
- As the detectives continue watching surveillance footage,
Something catches their eyes.
We saw the outside surveillance cameras,
A large male and a couple other guys
Taking their shirts off like they were gonna fight.
- I remember there was an altercation.
There was an incident with two guys outside
That I had to take care of.
The bigger guy, I remember grabbing him,
You know, giving him a bear hug
And trying to pull him back.
He was a little bit bigger than me--intimidating,
You know, the tattoos, the size of him.
It was the first time and the last time I saw that guy.
- The larger male was covered in tattoos.
One was a big giant sword, and head tattoos.
After that fight kind of dispersed
Is when you see jordie walk outside
And begin conversing with this large white male
With the tattoos.
- They didn't seem like they were having issues,
Jordie and--and the male.
We noticed two of the males walk off with her.
- The glasses were on her face when she left the bar
At 3:00 in the morning.
And then as of Monday morning, those glasses
Were in the driveway next to, you know, blood.
- Whoever the men seen walking off with jordie are,
They are now suspects in her disappearance.
- I knew she was definitely with somebody that night,
That something had happened.
And that was our first break.
- Your fear is, you're not gonna find her alive.
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- On April 15, 2016, a day after jordie hudson's mother
Reported her missing, investigators
Have found surveillance video of her
Leaving the giggling gator bar with two unidentified men.
- We saw the outside surveillance cameras,
And we saw her
Leaving with those two individuals.
- Watching the video surveillance, I knew jordie,
But nobody else had a name.
I had no clue how we were gonna figure that out.
It's during the time that I'm watching
The video surveillance that one of the bartenders says
He recognizes one of the males and knows his name--
Trinity boykin.
Trinity had gotten into the fight with the man
That jordie had left with.
Trinity was not a suspect,
Only because we saw trinity leave,
And he didn't leave with jordie.
So when the bartender told me that he knew trinity boykin
From the video surveillance, that was my first clue
That, okay, maybe he can have some other names
For the other subjects.
My goal at that point was to get him in to talk to him.
When I ran trinity through our police database,
I had his information, his telephone number.
- Detective ochkie contacts trinity
And asks him to come in the following day
For an interview.
- So when trinity comes in for the interview, we told him,
You're possibly a witness, and we just wanna know
The information that you know.
- He tells me that he had a history with harry...
Which was the guy's name that he gave us.
- Trinity does not know harry's last name.
- He tells me that they ended up
Arguing over an ex of harry's
That trinity was now friends with.
Trinity didn't like the way that harry had treated her.
And so it came to blows outside.
But he says, you know, I left,
And I haven't seen harry since.
So at that point we just start figuring out a way
We can find harry.
This is somebody that we needed to track down and talk to.
- As they work on identifying harry,
Investigators are also trying to learn more
About jordie's movements on the night she disappeared.
- At this point, we decide to look to see if we could find
More video surveillance of jordie
After she left the giggling gator.
- We weren't sure where they went,
But we had some idea because the investigators
Had found blood on the scene on cedar street.
- We hit every road and house in that neighborhood,
Looking for video to see if we can see them.
- There's a lot of bed and breakfasts back there
Because there's some historic homes.
If you had a b&b, you certainly would have had some security.
- One of the airbnbs had a pretty good
Video surveillance system that had night vision,
That was pointed pretty much directly in the area
Where the blood was located.
We were like, how did we get so lucky?
[tense music]
- Investigators immediately began reviewing the footage,
Hoping it will show what happened to jordie
On the night of April 9th.
- It's very time-consuming because you're watching
The video frame by frame, minute by minute,
The same time as it's actually live.
You don't wanna speed through it
Because you could miss something.
- Though the footage is grainy,
They spot two individuals walking down cedar street
At nearly 3:00 a.M., shortly after jordie
Left the giggling gator.
When we picked them up on video,
That third subject was no longer with them,
And it just appeared to be jordie
And this large white male with tattoos on cedar street.
- Two people got to one spot.
You can clearly see them walking down the street.
You're like, okay, this is gonna get me somewhere good.
We're getting closer to finding out
What happened on cedar street.
- They're talking, and then at one point,
They were walking down into more shadows
Across the street, where we located the blood.
And now they look agitated.
They look upset. They look like they're arguing.
- The headlights of an oncoming car
Illuminate what happens next.
- You see what appears to be a upward motion
With the male's hands, as if he's stabbing the female.
And the next thing you see is, she's on the ground,
And he's dragging her body into the driveway.
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We had no clue that that's what we were going to recover,
That it was going to actually be a video
Of her being stabbed and then tossed over the fence.
And we were just shocked.
[dramatic music]
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- Detectives in st. Augustine, florida,
Have uncovered home security video
That captures jordie hudson's horrific final moments.
- I watched that video,
And you can see him pick her up
And throw her on the ground several times.
And then finally, at one point, he picks her up
And throws her over a little white picket fence...
And just walks away like nothing had happened.
The difficult part was,
There's no ifs, ands, or buts in my mind,
I was watching jordie get murdered.
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- The police, they came and said jordie had been murdered.
That--that'll hit you hard.
You'll stand back and look at it.
I can't imagine it.
It's shocking.
I felt sad about her--
You know, losing her, knowing that I'm probably
One of the last people to talk to jordie.
It made me think, okay, this is the last place she was at.
What happened to her?
You know, could I had, like,
Maybe five more minutes of conversation?
Could I had changed the whole night?
That runs in through my mind, like what could I have done
For this been prevented?
- Well, everybody was shocked that that could happen here.
We were just horrified, trying to figure out
How something like this could happen, especially to somebody,
You know, like--like jordie.
I mean, it's unthinkable that--that somebody
Could do that to somebody that's so vulnerable.
- Now I need to do everything in my power
To find where she is
So I can at least give her mom that closure
That she needs to be able to bury her daughter.
- Despite the poor quality of the video,
Police are able to determine the man who killed jordie
Is the same tattooed man
Who was seen leaving the bar with her.
- He had a very distinct tattoo of a cross.
And you can barely see it, because, again,
The quality of the video is not good.
But it was good enough that you could see that tattoo
On cedar street, and it matched the tattoo
That he had from the giggling gator.
[tense music]
- Detectives have only been able to identify
The suspect as "harry"...
And have no way to track him down.
They turn back to the surveillance
To see if they've missed anything.
- At about 6:30 in the morning,
We see a car pull up directly in front of 88 cedar street,
And the back door opens up.
- Two people exit the vehicle.
Detectives recognize the first as harry,
But they can't identify the woman who is with him.
- We could tell that the female that was with him
Was very short.
She did not appear to be taller than the car.
- You can tell that she's acting as the lookout.
- You could see harry lift up what we believe
Is jordie over the fence and put her
In the back seat of the car.
He gets back in the driver's seat.
The female with him gets back in the passenger seat.
And they drive off, heading eastbound on cedar street.
- When the car leaves, as it drives by,
You're doing everything you can to maybe get
Some identifiers to the vehicle.
We could tell from the video that it was either dark blue
In color, possibly black.
- As they're watching the video, one of the detectives
States he believes the car is a nissan versa.
- We were like, "there's no way."
Like, we can't figure that out just by a video.
And he was like, "I'm telling you right now,
"I recognize the taillights and the headlights.
It's gonna be that car."
- If they can identify the owner of the vehicle,
It could lead them to harry.
- I'm trying to go frame by frame
And get any information and get that tag number.
We had a couple more tools in place
That could enhance video, help us get that tag number.
One of the guys that works here, he's great with video.
He can do some stuff with video that's amazing.
We aren't lucky enough,
We were able to identify that tag number.
At that point, they were able to identify
A last name of somebody that owned a vehicle
Matching that description.
- We were able to pull up the license tag.
- The vehicle comes back to a woman named judith branson.
A quick search reveals she has a son named harry.
Investigators now have their suspect's full name...
Harry branson.
- After we got the last name branson,
We were able to pull harry's police record.
And fortunately for us, when somebody goes to jail,
They take pictures of all their tattoos.
And the one tattoo that stood out with harry's police record
Was a very big cross on the front of his chest...
And his skull tattoos on his head.
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- From the size, the height, the weight,
Everything else-- with the tattoos,
He was easily identifiable.
- Now knowing his name, there actually
Is a way we can find him.
[dramatic music]
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- St. Augustine police identify harry branson
As the suspect in the murder of jordie hudson.
[tense music]
They can't find him, but they do get hold
Of his mother, judith.
- She told us she knew nothing of what had occurred.
She had woken up the next morning,
And her car was where it was supposed to be,
And she had gone to work.
And all of us believed she didn't know
What her son had done.
- Ms. Branson wasn't aware that he had taken her car,
And at first, she's like, "no, that's not him."
'cause we showed her a picture of him,
The large tattoos all over his body and the head tattoos.
And eventually, she's like, "yeah, that's my son, harry,"
And she agreed to let us go through her car to see
If we could find any evidence.
We opened up the doors,
And we saw a lot of reddish brown staining
That appeared to be blood.
At that point, we sealed the car up,
And it was transported to the evidence techs
To go through and see if we can find anything.
- At that point, branson knew we were on to him.
He found out the police were talking to his mother,
And he ran.
- Detectives believe their best lead to harry
May be the woman seen in the surveillance video with him,
But they still have not been able to identify her.
- We started looking for females
That he could be associated with.
- They discover police recently responded
To a domestic dispute at branson's residence.
The victim in the report
Is his girlfriend, christeen thomas.
- We discovered that christeen thomas was very short.
She was, like, 4'11", and she matches the height description
When she was standing next to the car.
- So christeen's brought in for an interview.
- She definitely is not being cooperative.
There were quite a few questions
That she totally lied.
- It's having to be pulled out of her
Instead of telling the truth.
- It was when we showed her the picture of the versa
And her standing there next to it on the passenger side
Is when she realized that, you know,
We knew what we were talking about,
And that she needed to fess up.
- Harry said, "hey, we need to go check this girl
I got into a fight with. She tried to rob me."
So they drove down to cedar street
Where the incident occurred.
- Branson put jordie's body in the backseat of their car.
They drove out to county road 13.
And he ended up burying her body.
- On April 19th, ten days after jordie's hudson's
Final moments were caught on video,
Detectives arrest christeen thomas.
That same day, they finally track down harry branson.
- Branson had been on the run.
He was hiding maybe a half a mile away
In a little creek behind some people's houses.
- Lucky for us, we were able to get the u.S. Marshals involved,
And they were able to get him in custody.
- On the way back to the station,
Branson says he wants to talk.
- As an investigator, one of the greatest things
That we can do with a suspect is let them talk.
So instead of interrupting him,
We let him tell his whole story.
Because eventually, the evidence
Is gonna prove otherwise.
- He stated that to protect himself,
He ended up killing her.
He was scared. He was frightened.
He didn't mean to do it.
- After branson was completely finished with the story,
The decision was made that we would let him know
We had video surveillance.
Once I told him we had video surveillance
Of the whole crime, he put his head down,
Closed his eyes, and sat there for a little bit.
And then after a couple of minutes of sitting there,
He looked up and said,
"okay, I'll tell you the whole story."
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- On April 19, 2016, ten days after jordie hudson
Was last seen alive, st. Augustine police
Arrest harry branson for her murder.
Branson originally claimed he killed jordie in self-defense,
But now he says he's ready to tell the truth
About what happened.
- Branson told us that they had left the bar,
That they had been hanging out and talking.
And at some point, jordie said something to make him mad.
- He punched her in the face.
[tense music]
And his story was that at that time,
Jordie pulled the steak knife from her purse
And tried to attack him.
- She was much smaller than him,
So if he was trying to attack her,
I don't know that that is wrong of her to pull a knife.
She may have pulled a knife,
But you can't tell that from the video.
- After his interview and him eventually
Telling us what had occurred,
He agreed that he would give us the location of the body
So that we could put jordie to final rest.
- Branson leads police to his property
In a rural part of the county.
- He told us that he had started a bonfire afterwards
So that nobody would see where he had just
Recently dug up the ground.
- We had the evidence technicians
From the sheriff's office start coming out,
And we started excavating the fire pit.
Ultimately, we located jordie hudson.
She was wrapped up in a shower curtain
In a hole, about three feet down.
- Her injuries are consistent with what branson
Described in his confession.
But there's an additional grisly detail
He failed to mention.
- Apparently, he cut off her fingers to remove the rings.
It was unknown if that was a robbery or just an attempt
To remove rings that might have helped identify her.
What really gets me is that one of those cut-off fingers
Was shoved into one of jordie's neck wounds.
- When the results of lab tests
On branson's mother's car come in,
They strengthen the case.
The blood is matched to jordie hudson.
- Officials say branson has been charged with murder,
And thomas has also been charged
With accessory to murder.
- Branson faces a mandatory life sentence
For the murder of jordie hudson.
But in a bid to avoid life behind bars,
He pleads guilty to second-degree murder
And abuse of a dead human body.
- Branson is a very violent subject.
He will not say why-- why he did it.
He refused to tell us what, exactly, she said
That made him mad.
- Without the video, this crime may never been solved.
We may still be here today
Trying to find out where jordie's at.
- On may 30, 2017, 13 months after the murder,
Harry branson is sentenced to 50 years in prison.
For her involvement in the crime,
Christeen thomas pleads guilty
To accessory to second-degree murder
And is sentenced to eight years in prison.
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- The way she passed, just--
Nobody deserves what happened to her.
That's not normal.
It makes you think, like, what you could have done
Or what--you know, could you say something else?
It weighs heavy on you.
It's something I'll never forget.
- To create art seemed like such a natural part of her.
She was just larger than life.
I regret not acquiring a piece of jordie's art.
She was one of the true originals.
I just never expected for her to die.
Because then it's, like, the creativity stops, you know?
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