The husband of Jessica Edwards confessed to killing the South Windsor mother on Friday after police used his cell phone location data to find her remains in an East Hartford park nearly two weeks after he falsely reported her missing, new court records show...
Hutchinson told police Edwards died when he pinned her to the ground during a physical confrontation the morning of May 10 after they had argued and fought throughout Mother’s Day weekend, according to his confession detailed in an arrest warrant affidavit released for the first time Monday morning…
Throughout the day Edwards’ family called Hutchinson repeatedly as they grew increasingly worried that she was not responding to their messages and pleaded with him to help find her. Instead, that night, he backed up his Jeep to the front door of their home and loaded Edwards’ body into the car hidden under a blanket, according to the documents...
Edwards’ family arrived at the home moments later and saw the blanket covering something in the vehicle, but Hutchinson sped off before Edwards’ sister and her fiancé could confront him about what it was...
Investigators almost immediately began to suspect something more violent had occurred, however, noting Hutchinson had seemed unemotional about his wife’s disappearance and had never told his own parents she was missing, according to the warrant affidavit. Edwards’ family also shared their suspicions about Hutchinson and inconsistencies began to emerge in his story, detectives found...
Detectives waiting outside Hutchinson’s parents’ Manchester home on Friday morning confronted him immediately after the other team of detectives found Edwards’ remains in the park, according the affidavit.
Husband of South Windsor mother confessed to killing her during fight, lying to police that she was missing, records show
