Covered up the murder of his wife

Jamie Baldwin’s history in law enforcement gave him all the evil skills he needed…

The festive season had got Judy Orr Baldwin feeling all nostalgic. In early December 2016, she posted a picture of herself with her husband James ‘Jamie’ Baldwin and reminisced about their first Christmas together five years earlier.

‘I love you more than you could ever imagine,’ she wrote. ‘Thank you for everything you do for us!’ Her friends could see that Baldwin commented underneath. ‘I love you more,’ he replied. Judy wrote back,‘I don’t think so!’

Their public declarations of love were reminiscent of their whirlwind romance. Judy, 53, had been a widow after losing her first husband,Todd, in a motorcycle accident.They’d been married 20 years, with two sons, Chris and Josh, and Judy was left heartbroken. She belonged to the Carolina Thunder Christian Motorcycle Club and that’s where she met Baldwin. He was a former police officer for theYork and Columbia police departments in South Carolina. He was also a dispatcher for the Chester County Sheriff’s Office for a decade. It was Judy’s second chance at love.They’d married eight months after they’d met, and Judy was said to be ‘giddy’ with her affections.They lived in Chester, South Carolina, and Judy’s son Chris was a few doors away. Even five years in, she was still posting on social media about how happy they were.

But those close to Judy did question whether everything was OK at home. Both of Judy’s sons noticed that their mum seemed to be walking on eggshells around her husband. Judy confided in a friend that perhaps he was a little too close to a woman at the motorcycle club. But to the outside world, she seemed happy and preparing for Christmas. Until tragedy struck.

On December 14, Baldwin made a 911 call from a rural road near his home to report that he and his wife had been in a car accident.

‘I need help… my wife… she’s