"Dr. Emily Pestana-Mason, a beloved English teacher at East Georgia College and an accomplished poet, was found in a pool of her own blood in her home on April 29, 2002. She had been brutally murdered after being chased by an intruder with a knife; before killing her the assailant had chased her twice to the bathroom where her two young kids were. He caught up with her finally and she was found face down in a pool of her own blood in the kitchen hallway...
Authorities in Emanuel County arrested Walt Mason [her husband] in May of 2002 for his wife's murder. The case never went to trial, since police found crucial evidence pointing them in another direction. Moreover, the time schedule didn't match, and there was no evidence linking him to the scene. A pubic hair found at the crime scene along with a size 11 wedding ring puzzled the police. The case lay cold until 2015.
On the same day as Emily Mason's murder, a car crash was reported near the Mason home. The person driving the car was identified as Phillip Kirby... Investigators were able to match the DNA evidence from the crime scene to Kirby; Mason's daughter, who was 4 at the time of the murder, recognized Kirby as the man who had come to their home two weeks prior to fix their geyser...
His fate was sealed. He was convicted for the murder of Dr. Emily Mason in April 2017. His appeal was rejected in 2018. He is serving time at the Coffee Correctional Facility in Nicholls."
Georgia woman's murder solved after 13 years after a pubic hair and a ring left at the crime scene led to the killer
Full story on Injustice with Nancy Grace's next episode this Saturday at 9pmE/8pmC only on Oxygen.
Authorities in Emanuel County arrested Walt Mason [her husband] in May of 2002 for his wife's murder. The case never went to trial, since police found crucial evidence pointing them in another direction. Moreover, the time schedule didn't match, and there was no evidence linking him to the scene. A pubic hair found at the crime scene along with a size 11 wedding ring puzzled the police. The case lay cold until 2015.
On the same day as Emily Mason's murder, a car crash was reported near the Mason home. The person driving the car was identified as Phillip Kirby... Investigators were able to match the DNA evidence from the crime scene to Kirby; Mason's daughter, who was 4 at the time of the murder, recognized Kirby as the man who had come to their home two weeks prior to fix their geyser...
His fate was sealed. He was convicted for the murder of Dr. Emily Mason in April 2017. His appeal was rejected in 2018. He is serving time at the Coffee Correctional Facility in Nicholls."
Georgia woman's murder solved after 13 years after a pubic hair and a ring left at the crime scene led to the killer
Full story on Injustice with Nancy Grace's next episode this Saturday at 9pmE/8pmC only on Oxygen.
