Shocking Betrayal Leads To Tragic Murder In A Burning House | The New Detectives | Real Responders

In Northern California, a fire breaks out in the middle of the night. The charred body of a woman is discovered after the fire, but how she turned up dead remains a mystery. Detectives turned to forensic science in hopes of discovering answers to their many questions when investigators begin. sifting through the ashes they have no idea what will lead to a trail of deceit this is a case of blatant lies and not one but two cold blooded

murder

s when people trust their secrets to their killer their money and their lives may very well change it turns out to be a

tragic

case of misplaced loyalty in this episode some of the names have been changed the city of Berkeley California is well known for its hippie counterculture and bohemian lifestyle located in Rolling Hills, just across the bridge from San Francisco , is a magnet for people from all walks of life Criminals can hide in plain sight, making it a perfect place to cover up an insidious crime in the early morning hours of June 25, 1994 a loud explosion It shook James Hutchings'

house

.

It was 4 in the morning and his

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next door. Neighbor Virginia Bailey's house was on fire. She rushed to call the fire department, but took comfort in knowing that Bailey was out of town. Yes, there is a fire. My neighbor's house is on fire. Yes. 29. Do you know who lives here? Virginia Bailey is home. right now she's out of town okay we'll send the fire department we're on our way thank you dispatchers immediately sent the Berkeley Fire Department out to sea the firefighters rushed to what they thought was a house unoccupied when they arrived shooting, flames were visible through the window worked deliberately for several hours firefighters put out the fire firefighters entered the house to make sure the fire was out, they noticed that most of the damage caused by The Blaze I was in the dining room.

Deputy Fire Chief Wayne Inaway was on the scene when I arrived. At the scene I found a two-story residential home. I went to the first floor and the first floor wasn't that damaged. I proceeded to the second floor and that is where most of the fire damage occurred. There was a lot of smoke damage. uh, on the second floor and in the dining room there was heavy fire damage that you knocked down, li towards me, to the right, what is that body? Is it the body? Was there, they made a

shocking

discovery: a body lying face down in the smoking rubble clearly dead we have an 8900 confirmed this location notify the fire marshals better start the corner this way they also noticed something strange at the scene the room was practically unfurnished and the body was found 6 feet from the fireplace When firefighters discover a body, they must notify the coroner's office.

Forensic technicians arrived at the scene and noticed that the victim had severe burns on both his head and hands. James Hutchings was shocked to learn that his neighbor could have died in the fire he heard about. an expion heard an explosion he knew virginia was supposed to be in salt lake city for a wedding and if she was home he wondered why her car wasn't in the driveway when he looked out the window did he see anyone out there, no one running away? the house, no, just Flames With what they learned from the neighbor, investigators now turn to science to reconstruct the events that led to a

tragic

outcome.

An autopsy was performed at the State Crime Laboratory in Berkeley, California, even though Virginia Bailey was reportedly out of town as a coroner. Experts identified the body using X-rays. The victim was Virginia Bailey. She was home at the time of the fire, but other tests quickly ruled the exam anything. Upon looking at the body, the first thing Amy noticed was severe decomposition, a finding inconsistent with the person who supposedly just died. I think I would like to see the x-rays that we are going to do even more revealing where maggots were found in the chest cavity and in Body clothing maggots generally take between 24 and 48 hours to appear and do so only in corpses, but there could be no logical reason for them to appear on the charred body of a fire victim so soon after his death.

Dr. Paul Herman of the coroner's office reviewed the autopsy results and examined the photographs. somewhat peculiar in this case because there was evidence of decomposition of the body uh even to the point that there were some maggots present on the body and on the clothing uh indicating that this person had died long before this fire occurred since the autopsy revealed the presence of Worms Abnormalist Jeffrey Wells was hired to help establish the time of death due to their size. He was able to determine that Bailey died at least 3 days before she appeared to die in the fire by estimating the age of a worm found. in a body, this gives you a pretty good minimum time to feel death, the reason for this is that flies almost never lay their eggs or larvae on a living person, the person must almost always be dead when that happens, if I can estimate the age of a worm which gives me a minimum time since death, for example if I pluck a worm from a corpse and I'm pretty sure it's 3 days old, that person has almost certainly been dead for at least 3 days .

Dr. Wells definitively concluded that Virginia Bailey did not die in the fire. The investigator's worst fears were coming to light. The case was now a criminal matter, and at the Berkeley Police Department they assigned the file to Inspector Al Beer. Things were clear. They didn't add up and Beer needed to find out what or who he had killed. Virginia Bailey, if she had died naturally, it would have been impossible for this fire to have occurred as a natural consequence of her death, for example if she was walking around the room with some type of material and then had a heart attack starting the fire . there was going to be no decomposition there.

Beerus' first step was to meet with the victim's brother, who had some questions of his own, like I said, they began to create a timeline leading up to Virginia's death, when was the last time she spoke? her on the phone um, she hadn't heard from her sister for weeks before the fire yeah um, she always got a call from her sister on her birthday, she didn't get a call that was totally out of character for her Virginia and her brother were extremely close and had recently attended a friend's wedding. Hi, I just want you both to know that I love her brother.

She thought something didn't add up with her sister's disappearance. They are both made for each other, he said, both of them generally. He talked all the time, but he had left messages on her answering machine and had received no response from her. Everything Virginia's brother told Inspector Beer. That Christine Lloyd Virginia's financial advisor had been house-sitting for her sister. Not all. He also told her that some of Virginia's furniture was missing. from her house, that's all I have for now. I know where you are, at the motel. Inspector Beer faced many questions. Well, he was at the beginning of a complicated investigation.

Beer needed to uncover evidence to find out if someone had killed Virginia. Bailey and tried to make it look like an accidental fire death and maybe what she was looking for was buried in the ashes of the fire. A deadly fire devastated Virginia Bailey's home and investigators became suspicious after only a preliminary investigation. Berkeley Police Inspector Al Beer. He thought he had

murder

on her hands. Autopsy reports revealed the presence of maggots in a body found at the fire scene. Scientists conclusively demonstrated that Virginia Bailey had already been dead for at least 3 days before the fire started.

Come in, okay, Inspector Beer decided to visit the crime scene first hand when he arrived, the fire investigator pointed out burn patterns, there's no charring on the wood or anything, so it

leads

one to believe this didn't start here in Fireplace. They didn't add up, so it's going to be very important that we do this. They noticed evidence of poor patterning near the body. Did we arrive with a sticker that night? This would indicate the presence of an accelerant. It was poured over the body and perhaps the most telling sign is that the body was discovered more than 6 feet from the chimney.

I see right here if the fire started in the chimney, there should be burn marks that led to the body. There weren't any. The area directly surrounding the body was suspiciously intact. The investigator. He believed he believed this was arson. He hoped that the people closest to Virginia could give him information about how and why she died in the fire. Something I wanted to show you. He asked Christine Lloyd, the victim's financial advisor and best friend, to meet him there. Since the other day, when she was house-sitting for Virginia, you came into the house and said that she had arrived irregularly when Christine Lloyd arrived, she told Inspector Beer that she and Virginia were close friends and that she had been his advisor. financial for about 10 years.

Everything seemed normal, but there was something else I need. Christine was house-sitting while Virginia was in San Francisco the week before the fire was practically on site at the time, but she said she never saw Virginia's body in the dining room, something I need. I think it's a cool thing: this piece will make 502 layers viewable on mobile or the big screen, all for free, no subscription required. Christine said she returned to the house right after the fire, she and a friend were there trying to rescue Virginia's items. of the burned house, yeah, that's when they saw something in the apartment downstairs that Virginia usually rented, that's not so bad.

Christine said this was unusual because the apartment was empty. She showed Beer what she had found in the rental unit downstairs. Christine said she was. Concerned that someone had been left downstairs in pre-fire condition, before the fire, she told the detective that she noticed something disturbing about the state of the rental apartment's refrigerator, oh my gosh, how did this happen? Christine Lloyd pointed to the refrigerator inside and said that just a week before it was totally clean and the shelves were in when she showed it to me, the shelves were out and there was a residue on the bottom of the refrigerator that suggested the fact that something had been stored there and she was telling me that there was nothing stored there the last time she saw it how many days before the fire were you here a couple of days ago in the bedroom beer found a terrible mess looks like someone had been living here there was a mattress in the floor and bottles scattered everywhere look here look at this The uninvited resident had left the apartment in disarray the refrigerator contained what appeared to be a dark liquid residue that looked like blood to determine what a crime was the technicians performed a luminol test as well In the refrigerator, what appeared to be a small clump of hair infested with worms, the beer inspector had the technician remove the hair.

Pool and take a sample of the red liquid swab. That liquid samples were sent to the laboratory for further examination, but were quickly determined. that the substance was not blood and that the hair did not belong to Virginia and Bece made another unusual discovery: the smoke detector in the downstairs unit had been disconnected at that time, this looks nice, oh yeah, I walked into that room with a very skeptical eye and it seemed like a stage set that was put there to make someone think that someone had been crashing there and potentially the person who was crashing there was the person who went up the stairs and killed the victim.

Beer's suspicions continued to grow. Little things about the scene worried him like how unusually neat, strategic and organized, the squatter's mess seemed like despite all the bottles scattered around there were no bottle caps, nor were there any fingerprints on the bottles to him, the whole scene. It seemed fabricated Jeffrey Wells examined the hair found in the refrigerator for maggots The maggots he found were live The types of maggots varied Those found in the refrigerator below were the maggots of the housefly different from the maggots of the Flesh flies found on Virginia Bailey's body Those in the apartment were insects attracted to rotting food as well as human remains All of this information was problematic Inspector Beerus, but perhaps most disconcerting was the fact that Christine Lloyd He said he hadn't seen Virginia's body after all she had been dead for at least 3 days, if the body was in the refrigerator that would support Christine's story but science wouldn't.

Adding up if the body wasn't hidden in the refrigerator where it would have been, I say okay, some part of this doesn't make any sense or she is aware that the body is there and has played some role in the body being there.over there. or someone coming after the fact and placing the body there isn't going to make much sense to me Inspector Beer was starting to think that Christine Lloyd knew more maybe she could shed more light on Virginia's whereabouts before the fire started he decided. Look a little closer at Christine's story. I arrived there where Virginia Bailey was found dead in her Berkeley, California home, and the circumstances surrounding her death were suspicious.

The presence of maggots on her body showed that she had been dead for some time before the fire and the story. said by the victim's friend Christine Lloyd, it didn't add up, come on Inspector, it seemed like Inspector Al Beer was reconstructing a murder, so how can I help you? While we were talking about it the detective met with her to ask for some follow up. questions to find out what he can about her, her habits, he broke into her house every day, he broke into her house up to 14 hours before the fire. I have a coroner who tells me or has told me that the The victim has been dead for at least two days and was found in an area where Christine Le would have had to have passed through the room a few meters from the body to feed the cats and to receive the mail I'm going to leave my card, it seemed unlikely that Virginia could have died of natural causes and lay there for days before the fire was lit.

I appreciate that you call me or call me. I appreciate that it was time to do some work to learn more about the victim. Beer began questioning friends and business associates of Virginia. He started with her co-worker Mary Katees, who said that Virginia was not scheduled to go to San Francisco, since Christine had said what Mary had too. He told Inspector Beer that Virginia had been missing work lately, very out of character, as this was completely out of character, he said he called Virginia to make sure she was okay, left a message on her answering machine, but never she got a call from Virginia and um, she informed me that, but she said that Christine Lloyd called her to tell her that Virginia was out of town.

I think at school she talked to several friends from Virginia and they all had the same story. When they called Virginia, they received a call from Christine Lloyd. Well, since Beer determined that Virginia had many friends who were concerned about her whereabouts, he found it strange that no one had been able to contact her in the days before the fire. She had missed her appointments on the 17th, 18th and 19th, she is a friend. Alicia Jackson was so worried that she drove to her house to make sure she was okay, but there was no answer, just a note on the door saying she was in San Francisco.

She thought this was strange, but left her own note in hopes of hearing back from her. Her missing friend was obviously bewildered to hear from anyone we could, although all of her friends were being helpful, no one offered anything to help the investigation. Focus, she's fine, thank you, she's fine, thanks for coming. Virginia's brother returned to the police station and volunteered. very hard proof that it was Virginia's answering machine, presumably full of messages from worried friends, shot the prey to the cassette, quite deformed, Inspector Beer sent the tape to the Department of Justice crime lab in the hopes of rescuing the cassette burned sure it will come out maybe the messages on the machine would lead to answers as to why every time someone tried to contact Virginia they contacted Christine Lloyd, instead we did a background check on Christine Lloyd and she came out clean, except for some minor traffic. violation since Christine was a financial advisor from Virginia, Inspector Beer decided to obtain a court order to examine the victim's financial records.

Come in, have a seat, um, Beer went to the Virginia bank looking for answers. Years of experience taught Beer. He studies a victim's finances and will likely discover a reason why Virginia's banking activity had reached a fever pitch in the weeks before her death. Large checks were issued against Virginia's account not only to Christine but also to a woman named Myrtle Lloyd. About 50% of the profits from that account went to Christine days after a peculiar incident. What Beer noticed was a certified foreclosure letter dated June 13. Certified mail was sent. Christine was responsible for making sure all bills were paid on time.

She certified mail and had given him no indication that Virginia was in such serious financial trouble when she. opened the bank and another red flag something that made no sense to a woman who was in dire financial straits and about to lose her home an avalanche of checks written in June at the end of a six-month spending spree totaling thousands of dollars in total four checks were made out to Christine and Myrtle Lloyd some dated after Virginia's death beer believed he found a motive for embezzlement now needed some type of smoke gun well beer asked the manager Virginia ATM surveillance tapes at Virginia bank more checks to write I'll get back to you with uh, you also went through all the financial documents you could find, do we have one for GL and there, among the itemized receipts for Virginia's account, a surprising discovery 2136 beer inspector turned up who found receipts for both an accelerant and an H guard given the date of that purchase and the fact that an accelerant was very possibly used in the ignition of the fire provided a link between that purchase and the fact that the fire had occurred;

It seemed as if Christine had been using Virginia's account and purchasing two 40-ounce cans. of lighter fluid and a hose on her account a few days before the fire quickly turned her friend into a suspect got the insurance from the at oh, we can put it in, can you hook it up? Beer's next step was to view the surveillance video provided by the Bank of Virginia. I had already indicated this, yes, this no longer contained any surprise, of course, since on the day that Christine Lloyd signed the Virginia checks and the deposit receipts for the checks made out to her, the checks had the exact amount of the missing payments on Virginia's mortgage, one of the checks was dated 3 days before Virginia's death, but was cashed 3 days after her death, it was made out to Myrtle Lloyd.

Bece needed to know who this woman was and if she and Christine were working together to steal Virginia's money, since her last names were the same. She assumed the two were related. Beer reviewed Myrtle Lloyd's records. What she discovered was perhaps the most disturbing thing yet. In this baffling case, Myrtle Lloyd was Christine's mother and Myrtle Lloyd was dead. It seemed like Christine wasn't just signing checks on Virginia's account. she herself was also signing checks in the name of a dead woman her own mother visited the Oakland police investigating the death of Myrtle Lloyd he wanted details Captain Ralph Laer of the Oakland Police Department remembered her story told beer that they had He found Myrtle dead in her bathtub with severe bruises on her face and lacerations on her head and was doing some financial things for her and now it appears she was drinking because there were no obvious signs of foul play and the police believed Christine's story.

The coroner ruled Myrtle's death an accident after finding no sign of forced entry at the residence, there was no loss at the residence or no one seemed to have made any type of disturbance at the residence, it turns out we didn't see anything to show that It was someone else's hands and at this point they ruled it an accidental death, maybe it would have seemed like an accidental death, but knowing what I later learned that Christine Lloyd had found her mother's body, she was uncomfortable with the fact that there was seen the mother. the day before and that he had gone and done some shopping and then was bringing some shopping to the house according to the police report from July 1991 Christine Lloyd said she came home from the store Hello, some shopping for you Mom, I was surprised when his mother was nowhere to be found Mom Mom Mom it was when he walked into the bathroom that he made the

shocking

discovery of his mother's body and then things just clicked for the detective, he instinctively knew he had a second murder on his hands and he was determined to obtain the necessary evidence to prove it.

I started while investigating the death of Virginia Bailey. That was my first impression. Inspector Al Beer believed that he had discovered another murder and was convinced that the same murderer committed both crimes. The woman who had been so helpful from the beginning was now a suspect at that point in the investigation. I knew that she had killed my victim in Berkeley and I knew that she had killed her mother three years before and I knew that she had done a very good job of hiding that death three years before. Years or years ago, to make it look like an accidental death, not a murder, I was starting to put it all together, but there were still some unanswered questions.

Beer went to the Oakland coroner's office to get more information and what he found. Dr. Paul Herman performed the autopsy. about Myrtle Lloyd when I walked into the bathroom uh I would have expected to find a lot of blood splattered in the tub in the bathroom because of these head injuries this was not what he thought he would find after all the victim. She had serious head injuries, there should have been blood everywhere, but then Dr. Herman saw the smallest of clues and also noticed more signs that the scene had been meticulously cleaned. This bathroom was clean, the water had been drained from the tub and there was some decomposition uh and probably blood on the bottom of the tub, but there's no blood splatter around there and that's what I would have expected to see and it exposed the bone that Lloyd was killed by seven separate lacerations to the back of his head, Christine explained. that her mother was prone to seizures and said that she had fallen in the bathtub and also had a laceration on her forehead, which she knew things didn't add up and after visiting Oakland her suspicions about the pristine increased as you can see some Of these Lastly, he believed that the crime scene was too neat, almost in direct contrast to the scene in Berkeley.

Yes, they are on both sides, but they both appeared on the scene, however, crossed in the back of the to prove their suspicions. The investigator spoke with Myrtle Lloyd's doctors to determine if she had been ill or had any known condition that would make her unstable on her foot exams which they discovered would open the cold case. Myrtle was in excellent health and had no history of seizures to date. Detective Beerus was then convinced of Christine Lloyd's guilt. he was ready to make an arrest what he needed was a charge at this point there was not enough direct evidence to make an arrest for murder since Christine had signed Virginia Bailey's name on the checks his best option was forgery he turned to an expert in handwriting see Truman a forensic document examiner with the U.S.

Postal Inspection Service and asked him to look at checks for fraud. The handwriting test is basically a side-by-side comparison. The basis for handwriting identification is the fact that no two people share the same individual U combination. identifying the characteristics of handwriting we look for various characteristics and habits of the writer we look for the way the person makes initial strokes, finishing the strokes or connecting the strokes between letters and letter combinations we look at things like the ratio of relative height and the proportion of letters and in relation In other letters he found subtle differences between their writing styles that Truman said were patterns and traits that each individual develops over the years.

Now these characteristics are very difficult to discard when you are imitating someone else's handwriting or If you are trying to disguise your own writing, usually some of your habits will still show and Christine was not able to completely disguise hers. I understand that you have something to say yes, but perhaps the most telling sign was not an actual letter or word. Notice that she makes a star, but a unique and personal signature symbol Virginia Bailey used a star uh as a dollar sign in her writing and constructed that uh character starting and ending at the bottom left corner or at the 7 o'clock position uh Christine Lloyd on the The other hand did it completely, uh, she started it and started it on the bottom right, uh, that was a feature that she just happened to miss.

Inspector Beers now had evidence of forgery, but what he needed was evidence of murder. Beer decided to take another look. In the days before the fire, Christine was the only one who had the key to Virginia's house and the only one who seemed to know anything about Virginia's whereabouts. She had even been returning phone messages fromVirginia. The original at the state crime lab. Technicians work to restore the message tape. from Virginia Bailey's answering machine stay there, I'll play this. Investigators were now able to recover the messages although they had no idea what they would find when comparing the phone records with the voice messages.

Inspector Beer was able to reconstruct the chain of events that preceded and followed Virginia's murder Hello, Virginia, it's me. I haven't heard from you in a while. Where are you calling me? The calls reflected growing concern about Virginia's disappearance on June 13, 12 days before the fire, and interestingly, many of the outgoing beer calls found in Virginia's phone records began that same day. There was information that came to me during the course of the investigation that suggested the victim had died on June 13, that was the last time anyone spoke to her and that was the time. through phone records I showed that she had called Christine the pieces were falling into place Beerus felt he was close to being able to make an arrest visited another of Virginia's neighbors, Sam Watson Watson told him that he helped Christine bring a large dining room table, as well as other items from Virginia's home before the fire, she later sold at a garage sale.

You also sold this table. Christine had denied having any idea what had happened to that table. Hello. Hello how are you? Well I guess. About two days in, every part of Christine Lloyd's story seemed suspicious, investigators believed she was in a frenzy of greed intent on completely seizing her friend's assets by any means possible, one step towards me ma'am, One step towards me, keep walking, I need you to stop turning around. your back is to me look towards the house look towards the house in early december 1994 inspector al beer arrested christine lloyd for murder and took her into custody knes guns beer was convinced that christine lloyd had planned two murders christin but only he had enough evidence to bring her charged with the murder of Virginia Bailey he believed she was motivated by money and greed you have the right to remain silent anything and he wanted to see Christine Lloyd behind bars have the right to a lawyer have Christine Lloyd she refused to speak to the police she refused to accept a polygraph test charge you understand those rights as I on the other hand she asked to speak to her attorney she was processed into the system although Christine Lloyd stood her ground Regarding Virginia Bailey when asked about her mother, she shook her head and told Beer that he was wrong.

She said that she was a loving daughter who adored her mother and that she would never do anything to hurt her. Christine Lloyd was apparently convincing at the time of the arrest. The District Attorney's Office did not. I don't feel comfortable moving forward and prosecuting the case, what's your name Chris? They did not feel the evidence was strong enough to obtain a conviction. Her immediate release was ordered. Please check and make sure everything was there when he got out of jail. Inspector Al Beer. In desperation, he knew that she had embezzled from her mother, which led to her mother's murder.

He knew that she had embezzled from my victim, which led to her murder, and from a personal point of view, that was not something he could let go of, convinced that he was. When dealing with a murderer he had already killed twice, Inspector Beer wasn't about to let him rest, yes, he needed more evidence. He turned to forensic scientists to help him bring this killer to trial. Berkeley County investigator Al Beer pieced together a story of greed. Mur's lies and murder was convinced that Christine Lloyd killed both her best friend and her own mother now despite almost a year on the case, hundreds of hours of legwork and compelling evidence Che made that he was watching her leave free yes, she knew she was guilty and she couldn't let him go, good night guys.

Al Beers was now working around the clock trying to plug any holes in what he thought was an airtight case against Christine Lloyd right now, come on, the District Attorney's Office refused to prosecute the case stating that the evidence was circumstantial and not would hold up in court, but Al Beer had worked too hard to let this slip through his fingers when I was done when I was at that point in the investigation and I knew that she had killed my victim in Berkeley and I knew that she had killed her mother 3 years before and I knew that she had done a very good job of hiding that death three years or years ago to make it look like an accidental death, not a murder.

The beer approached Thomas Rogers, the head. of the trial staff of the district attorney's office in Alam County, after hearing the details of Beer's investigation, he too decided to bring the case to justice. I agreed to try the case in our business. Many of the cases are much more interesting than what we see on television, there is tremendous human drama involved for anyone who is curious. You have a 55-year-old woman with no record of why she killed her best friend. This was the question that baffled researchers for more than a year. Hello. To Tom Rogers, but as Beerus and Rogers discovered, it all came down to money when he reviewed the receipts.

Christine Lloyd had been collecting her mother's Civil Service pension checks and the men believed that once Virginia Bailey confronted Christine about foreclosing on the house, it was only a matter of time before authorities began to investigate Christine's finances and find out about Myrtle Lloyd, but despite all the circumstantial evidence, the clear motive for embezzlement and the testimony of the handwriting analyst, it would be a difficult case to try, there was no cause of death . There are no eyewitnesses. No Smoking Gun da Rogers decided to take one last look at the pile of evidence that Inspector Beer had uncovered after weeks of reviewing the findings.

He was convinced that the final link to Justice and Punishment would come down to one small, most compelling piece of living evidence. The evidence was animological evidence, if we did not have theological evidence, we would never have been able to prove the case. The fact that maggots only feed on a corpse was the only conclusive proof that Virginia was dead long before the fire, but it was the evidence that made Rogers feel comfortable enough to try the case and was the only hole in Christine Lloyd's story through which all other lies would run away. She was placed in the house during the time of Virginia's death and the time of the fire.

This would be the crux of the prosecutor's case that Christine Lloyd had committed the murder of Virginia Bailey and spent two weeks fabricating an elaborate crime scene to cover her tracks in July 1995, a year after the fire that killed her best friend Virginia Bailey. Christine Lloyd was once again arrested Mur, are there weapons? Silence, but this time she was headed to trial once again Lloyd refused to speak to the man who had set out to put her behind bars. We have one more chance. Her version of her story was quite nice. It's a smooth ride coming up, but by now Beer and da Rogers had already completely sorted out what had happened to Virginia Bailey and the events leading up to her murder, assuming you won't be anywhere near the trial, we reinvestigated and were able to prove through statements and circumstantial evidence that clearly Christine Lloyd had killed her mother and that her motive for killing Virginia Bailey was to avoid further examination of the mother's death.

Virginia Bailey had no idea that her dear friend Christine Lloyd had been embezzling her, so when she returned home on the afternoon of June 13, 1994, to find a foreclosure note recorded from her bank, Virginia was no doubt shocked and angry. He panicked, found Christine and said you know you're my financial advisor what's the deal here there was a three and a half minute call to Christine's house in Martinez at that point Christine knew she had been caught and wouldn't pass long before everyone knew the deadly secrets he had been hiding for 3 years. She then showed up at the house with the intention of murdering the banker in the house.

Using a blunt object, she brutally beat Virginia until she died. It would now be up to a jury to determine whether Christine Lloyd was the female killer. Al Beer was convinced it was, but Al Beers also wanted justice for Myrtle Lloyd and discovered that Christine was the sole beneficiary of a $100,000 life insurance policy, so while Christine was in jail awaiting trial for one murder, the investigation continued on the second, this was enough to charge her once again for murder fueled by the same greed that Christine had inflicted a beating on her elderly mother Christine Lloyd. She was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of arson.

She received two consecutive life sentences for planning, executing and covering up her crimes. sometimes killers think too much sometimes it is this over planning that brings investigators to their doors and always As those investigators are listening for clues they will have the forensic resources to back up their hunches and smart killers will continue to be brought to justice .