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Detective
This was probably the most advanced level of decomposition of a body that I had dealt with.
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Narrator
Immediately. The rumors are flying.
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Witness
They were pointing fingers towards the possible suspect right away, she said. Those are the people you need to be looking at, not me.
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Narrator
Soon, new suspects surface, throwing the investigation into turmoil.
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Witness
Wouldn't be anything to really set this guy off if you knew which button to push.
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Family Member
She'd done this for so many years and got away with it.
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Narrator
And uncovered audio tapes shed light on a complicated relationship coming apart at the seams.
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Witness
You're very dangerous, like a stick of dynamite with the fuselage. Don't you ever hang up my hair.
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Kurt's Child
Human lives are only things that cannot be replaced.
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Narrator
March 24, 2000 Atchison, Kansas Just after 10am Local resident Sophia Boldridge calls the Atchison County Sheriff's Department to report that she's worried about her son, 38 year old Kurt Boldridge.
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Kurt's Child
He had had a fishing trip scheduled on Sunday. Grandma had said, okay, you know, nobody's heard from him. We can't figure out if he is fishing, who he's fishing with. And so my grandmother called and asked for them to do a welfare check.
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Witness
She explained that it had been close to a week since she had heard from Kurt.
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Narrator
At 10:47am Atchison county deputies arrive at Kurt's residence. Sophia meets them there.
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Witness
The house appeared to be locked. Couldn't get access or anything to it. We knocked, called out his name. Family members wanted us to go ahead and try to gain entrance.
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Narrator
With the doors all locked, a deputy makes use of a broken window.
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Witness
I got to be the one to remove that piece of glass and crawl in through that part of the window. I remember pointing out abnormal large amount of flies on the window seals and the windows. Once Deputy Wagglemuth opened the front door, the smell was stronger. Down this little hallway where Kurt's bedroom is. And I just pointed to Deputy Wogmuth, we need to go this way. We entered the bedroom. There's a relative large bed and a big fluffy comforter that's kind of pulled up over the bed. We could see the shape of a person underneath. Once Deputy Wagamuth pulled the comforter back enough, I could see partial head and arm of a body.
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Detective
It seemed consistent with a body that had been in that location for anywhere between a week and 10 days. They found blood splatter on the headboard of the bed where the body was located.
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Witness
I told Jason to stop. We've done the welfare check and we found out that there is someone here. We've got a body, but we don't know, you know, what has happened with the body. We needed to secure the area and get other people down there.
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Narrator
It's not long before the Kansas Bureau of Investigation arrives, including Detective Larry Meyer.
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Witness
At that time, I'd known Kurt for many years and I was very familiar with him and I could recognize his face.
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Narrator
Authorities notify Kurt's mother of his death.
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Witness
Ms. Boldridge was of course upset. She was helpful to law enforcement, answering all the questions that law enforcement had of her.
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Kurt's Child
It had to have been a work day. I just remember I was outside on my 1:30 break and I saw my aunt and my cousin pull up. So I walked over to the car and my aunt said, I just don't know how to tell you this, but they found your dad and that's all she had to say, and I passed out. It was devastating to say the least.
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Narrator
Born on October 3, 1961, Kurt Boldridge grew up in Atchison county, part of a large, close knit farming family.
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Family Member
There's eight boys, three girls. We lived on a farm in Effingham, went to school, done what farm kids done. Kurt's main responsibility was taking care of the cattle farm. Works hard. Everybody had their job, basically their own specific chores that they would do. You've got to get the job done and there's no time for no bs. My brother was probably the smartest man I've ever known. He graduated from school early.
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Narrator
After high school, Kurt married. The relationship didn't last, but it did make Kurt a father.
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Family Member
When Brandi was born, it was like you could see the change in him. I've got to start making sure that things are right for her.
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Kurt's Child
My mom and dad got divorced when I was like two, so they separated when I was pretty young. But as far as with me, my mom and dad always had a good relationship. He loved to dance, he loved to sing, he liked to be the life of the party. We would go fishing. Fishing was usually 90% of what we did.
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Narrator
When it came to work, Kurt didn't shy away from physical labor. He took a job at Atchison Foundry.
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Family Member
It's a steel foundry. It's dirty, hot work. It's one of those places where if you're wanting to make some money in the town, you're going to work there.
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Narrator
In his early 20s, Kurt found love again when he met Lisa Turpin.
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Family Member
She was from the name of the town called Winthrop and it's right on the Missouri River.
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Witness
Lisa's father was a farmer. Lisa did truly grow up on a farm all of her childhood life.
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Narrator
Lisa, one of four children, she was the outlier. She was the one who always kept things interesting with her rebellious streak.
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Family Member
She had some odds and end jobs. She worked at a couple of restaurants, you know, as waitress.
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Witness
The couple times I met her, she was a little bit of a wild type person. Pretty rambunctious, too outgoing or had a lot of energy.
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Narrator
Kurt Baldrige is that really dependable, staid, predictable, nice guy. Lisa, of course, is fiery, unpredictable, and it's like a moth to the flame. It gives excitement to his life. In light of his first marriage ending in divorce, Kurt preferred to keep this relationship private.
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Family Member
He kept her kind of secret from us. You know, he would, if he was with her, he wouldn't tell us he was with her.
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Narrator
However, Kurt wasn't shy about sharing the next big development in his life. In 1985, Lisa gave birth to a son.
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Family Member
It was exciting for him and he couldn't wait to teach him how to fish and how to hunt and stuff like that.
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Narrator
Four months later, Kurt and Lisa married.
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Family Member
I never heard any announcement. I never heard Kurt was getting married to Lisa. It was just, hey, Kirk got married.
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Narrator
But he soon discovered that their passionate courtship made for a troubled marriage.
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Family Member
I don't know why they separated, but I know that she could be nice when she wanted to be and not nice when she wanted to be.
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Kurt's Child
They had an off and on relationship for years. I think it just got to a point where he just, he was done, he was done fighting the battle. They actually got divorced in 1991.
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Narrator
The divorce did little to keep Kurt and Lisa apart.
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Family Member
Even though they were divorced, she was always making sure that he stayed in her life. I guess everybody's got that one person that you just can't shake, and I believe that was his.
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Narrator
Years later, in the late 90s, Kurt and Lisa's on again, off again relationship seemed to have truly ended when Kurt began dating a new woman. Sandy Wilson.
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Kurt's Child
Seemed like, you know, they loved each other, they were happy, dad was moving on.
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Narrator
Kurt and Sandy married in October 1998, but the union lasted barely a year.
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Kurt's Child
Sandy was always nice, it seemed like, you know, they loved each other. I didn't really know know her, but I never had any issues with Sandy whatsoever.
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Narrator
Following his third divorce, Kurt settled in a modest home that he built himself.
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Kurt's Child
He built his home, he made his own, you know, he drew up his own blueprints, he did all of that stuff.
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Narrator
It wasn't too long before a familiar face started coming back around. Like so many ex spouses, Kurt and Lisa, after the divorce, had never really split up entirely.
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Family Member
It just started right back up like, like it had never stopped. He would always go back to try, you know, to get back together so that they would be together. As I said, she had some kind of whatever it is, the thing that he just could not leave.
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Narrator
But on March 24, 2000, Atchison county deputies find 38 year old Kurt dead inside his country home.
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Detective
I had a high intensity light and did a close inspection of the body and very quickly found what I determined was a near contact shotgun wound to the side of the body's head. And that's when I went out and told another KBI agent and the sheriff that this matter was indeed a homicide.
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Narrator
Coming up, investigators learn of a lover with a thirst for vengeance.
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Family Member
The claws came out, the horns came out. You wouldn't think that it was the same person.
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Narrator
And an unexpected phone call heats up the investigation.
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Witness
The lady thought she had some information that we probably ought to know about. She was making comments of what happened and where he was shot before we even knew.
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Narrator
Investigators in atchison, Kansas, have just used a high intensity light to determine that 38 year old Kurt boldridge died from a gunshot wound to the head in his own bed.
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Witness
That flipped a switch, you know, to like, okay, this isn't just an unintended death and this was declared a homicide. We got some work to do here.
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Detective
The level of decomposition seemed consistent with a body that had been in that location for anywhere between a week and 10 days.
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Witness
He had a shotgun wound to the head. It was on the left side of his face. And there was blood splatter on the walls and on the bed spread.
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Detective
As I pulled the sheet back, I found a wadding from what I believed to be a 20 gauge shotgun shell.
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Witness
There was some tapes that Kirk had was found during this search as part of the evidence collection, we sent it to kbi lab to have fingerprints analysis done.
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Narrator
Investigators continue to search the rest of the home.
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Detective
The house was not in what you would consider a pristine condition, but there was no sign of a struggle. The house was secure.
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Witness
There was no signs of forced entry at all. We thought someone had a key to the home.
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Narrator
With the hope of finding out who, investigators reach out to the rest of Kurt's family and they don't hold back when asked who they believe is responsible.
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Kurt's Child
I said, the bitch killed him is what I said. That was the first thing out of.
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Family Member
My mouth when he came up dead and they said that he was murdered. You know, there's only one person to think about.
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Witness
The bulliger just pointed towards Lisa as being a possible suspect right away.
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Narrator
Kurt's relatives are eager to share stories about Kurt's ex wife and on again, off again lover.
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Family Member
They seemed happy, but as soon as they would split, the claws came out, the horns came out, and she was a completely. You wouldn't think that it was the same person that you'd seen before.
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Narrator
Kurt's brother Jeff tells investigators about one of the first disturbing incidents with Lisa that took place in 1992, eight years ago.
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Family Member
I'd come back to town for a weekend. He was going to come up, we were gonna play cards. I noticed that he kept looking out the window. Pretty soon he gets up and he looks out the window and he goes, bobby, damn. He said, she's breaking my windows out of my truck. And I go over and look out the window and you just see the glasses shattering in his pickup truck. And it was her. I seen her. She got out of the truck and she had a hammer.
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Narrator
Kurt and Jeff called the police to report the incident.
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Witness
She was arrested for those crimes and she was convicted.
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Narrator
In spite of her arrest record, Lisa continued to up her game. From smashing out car windows to arson.
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Kurt's Child
She set two fires to his house. I believe that was August 7th of 1995 is when she set the first one. She just put newspapers in the middle of the house and set them on fire. And somebody either dad showed up or I don't know the exact details that it didn't do as much damage the first time. And it was September of 95 when she set the second one. But the second time it almost burnt the house down completely.
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Narrator
Lisa was convicted of two counts of arson and a judge sentenced her to 46 months behind bars. She was released from prison in April 1999. To the disbelief of his family, Kurt and Lisa continued to see each other.
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Family Member
I spoke to him several times and asked him, you know, what the hell's wrong with you? And it was just like, man, it just is what it is.
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Narrator
Talking to Lisa Boldridge quickly becomes investigators top priority.
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Detective
A detective from the Atchison Police Department who knew where her parents lived suggested we try there. And so we'd found her at her parents house.
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Narrator
They line up an interview for the following morning. But as news of Kurt's death spreads quickly through the city small town, another tip comes in.
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Witness
Lady at the hospital made a phone call to the sheriff's office saying that she thought she had some information we probably ought to know about.
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Narrator
She says that on Friday, March 24, while on duty, she answered a call at Atchison Hospital from Lisa.
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Witness
Lisa made that phone call to the hospital because her sister worked there and she was asking to talk to her. But their sister could take a phone call and she said, can I help you? Lisa said, well, they just found my ex husband in bed laying in a pool of blood.
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Narrator
For investigators, the timing of the phone call is a big red flag.
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Witness
She was making comments of what happened and where he was shot, where he was located in the home, before we even knew, became very aware to us that Lisa Boldridge knew something about this homicide.
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Narrator
On March 27, 2000, Lisa shows up at the station for her scheduled interview.
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Detective
It obviously makes it harder when you're dealing with an open ended timeline. She gave me a answer to where she was and who she was with for the previous seven to 10 days.
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Narrator
When confronted about her phone call to the hospital. Lisa claims the conversation was only based on a rumor.
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Witness
She denied any involvement or said basically she had been told by someone that he was deceased and they thought that it was possibly a gunshot wound.
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Narrator
Investigators press for more information, and Lisa eventually reveals the name of her source.
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Witness
She had mentioned an individual by the name of Kirk Wilson. Kirk was a city employee of the city of Atchison. His title was city superintendent. He was over the public works department, I believe, until he became involved in drugs and his life just went downhill. Kirk Wilson had been arrested more than once. The sheriff's office has plenty of contact with him.
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Narrator
Detectives ask Lisa for more details about her conversation with Kirk.
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Witness
She said she got a call from her friend Kirk Wilson that morning and asked for her to go with him to dispose of the shotgun that was used in the shooting. Lisa said they disposed of the shotgun in the Missouri River.
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Narrator
Lisa says she knows nothing more about the actual murder, although she does offer up two more names.
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Witness
She brought up Gary Skeen, Johnny Goodpasture and Kirk Wilson. Goodpasture and Skeen. I knew their names, their last names from dealings at the sheriff's office already. Those were some frequent fliers that we had. She said, those are the people you need to be looking at, not me. And it was unusual that she would bring that up with her, claiming that she knew nothing about the homicide.
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Narrator
Coming up, a dangerous suspect comes into focus.
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Witness
It wouldn't be anything to really set this guy off if you knew which button to push.
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Narrator
And a threat caught on tape shapes a motive.
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Witness
You think I'm playing this guy?
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Witness
We asked Lisa all kinds of questions. Any contact whatsoever she had with Kurt Bowbridge. She said they had been going out on some small dates here and there before this occurred.
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Narrator
When the interview is over, Lisa makes a bizarre comment to investigators.
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Detective
She turned to me and said, oh, by the way, if you find out that I went to the Social Security office to find out what the benefits would be for my son if Kurt died, that was just coincidental. I was shocked, and I thought it was one of the greatest admissions that I had ever heard. Quite frankly, I don't know if that lead would have ever come up without her opening the door and saying that she had spoken to the Social Security office.
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Narrator
The investigators keep Lisa's shocking comment in their back pocket for now and turn their focus to the first name she gave them, Kirk Wilson.
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Witness
Kirk had it prior to being involved in an incident with his father where he may have physically took him to the bank and demanded he draw money out of the bank. Kirk went to prison on those charges. He was out of prison then. Wouldn't be anything to really set this guy off if you knew which button to push.
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Narrator
But it's not just Kirk's record that leads investigators to believe he might be involved in Kurt's death. There is another potentially explosive connection between Kurt and Kirk.
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Witness
When Kirk went to prison, Kurt Boldridge cooked up with Sandy White, Kirk Wilson's ex wife. Sandy White and Kurt Bolters got married.
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Narrator
It's very likely that it made him completely crazy to know that she was dating another man while he was behind bars. Kirk's stature also Fits the investigators theory.
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Witness
My opinion was it would take a taller person to actually be the shooter. Lisa was not that tall. Kirk Wilson, he is a taller guy. He'd be able to pull the shotgun up higher like this. I don't think Lisa was capable of doing that.
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Narrator
On March 28th, deputies locate 44 year old Kirk Wilson and bring him in for an interview.
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Witness
When we went to talk to Kirk Wilson, he lawyered up on us before we could ever get even speak to him.
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Narrator
Investigators switch gears and take another, another look at Lisa.
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Detective
They found the clerk at the Social Security office in St. Joseph, Missouri that she had spoken to, had her notes from their conversation and what Lisa was interested in, what benefits or what increase in benefits would be available to their son because of his father's death. And that this conversation occurred approximately a week before Kurt's body was found.
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Witness
She wanted to find the death benefits for her son, knowing that Lisa would actually physically get that money as a custodial parent until he was 18 years old.
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Narrator
Although their suspicions are growing by the day, investigators don't have enough for an arrest.
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Witness
We wanted to get other evidence and do follow up interviews. We wanted to definitely build a good case.
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Narrator
Investigators need to determine if a connection lies between Lisa, Kirk Wilson and the other two names Lisa gave in her interview. John Goodpasture and Gary Skene.
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Witness
Kirk Wilson and Johnny Goodpasture and Gary Skeen were all good friends. All of them had prior criminal history so they could have been involved. When we talked to Johnny Goodpasser, he told us off the wall stories at first. Gary Skeen, he wouldn't tell us anything.
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Narrator
After diving further into the two friends criminal history, investigators believe it's possible they could have acted alongside Kirk.
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Witness
Gary Skeen, one of the suspects, he had served some time in jail and I think prison for prior burglaries and things like that. Johnny Goodpasture, he had served time in prison. Skene was a fighter. He didn't mind throwing punches at bars and had to watch yourself around him. In Goodpasture, he was more into the drugs.
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Narrator
The investigation continues and Lisa goes about her business, raising eyebrows around town, especially with the Boldridge family.
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Family Member
I'd actually called the sheriff because she drove by my house plenty of times and honked her horn and flipped me the bird. She was going around town bragging that, you know, she wasn't going to jail. She was still walking around, not arrested. I was kind of thinking, man, she's probably going to get away with it.
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Narrator
Initial forensic results come back from the crime scene, but there's not much to.
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Witness
Go on the shotgun shell. I do not recall any fingerprints being on it or any other item that was collected.
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Narrator
So investigators turn to several tape recordings found earlier at the scene and they are shocked by what they hear.
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Witness
Kirk had recorded conversations with Lisa Baldrige accusing each other, cutting tires, accusing each other, domestics, things like that.
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Narrator
Oh, I hope you and your little.
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Witness
Had time to get things worked out tonight, cuz you've got your hands full of me.
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Family Member
What are you talking about?
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Witness
Don't even play stupid with me, okay? I got two eyes and I got two ears and I feel sorry for your mother ass brother. You think I'm playing this time?
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Family Member
I'm not super C now. What are you talking about?
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Witness
Don't even play stupid with me, okay? You got time in the world for everybody but me. But I'm gonna start making time for me and whoever the I want.
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Narrator
Okay?
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Family Member
Bye.
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Narrator
Hello?
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Witness
Don't you ever hang up my up in here.
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Kurt's Child
Material things mean nothing to me at.
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Narrator
This point in time.
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Kurt's Child
All replaceable human lives are only things.
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Narrator
That cannot be replaced. That's the only thing at this point in time I can put a value.
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Kurt's Child
On is human life.
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Witness
Your mind is so twisted up, you.
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Family Member
Don'T even know what happened to them.
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Narrator
It's clear that Lisa isn't just jealous and possessive. She's increasingly controlling to the point of being unstable. And for Kurt, he's increasingly afraid of her.
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Witness
You're very dangerous. That's right.
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Narrator
Investigators discover that Kurt even confronted Lisa about the harassment he endured from her over the years.
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Witness
You broke in my house and stepped.
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Family Member
Up on your little bucket out there, Went through the window and got all.
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Witness
My clothes out of here.
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Narrator
Yeah, I did that.
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Family Member
Yeah.
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Narrator
And you went in there with a.
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Family Member
Stack of newspapers, tried to burn the damn house down.
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Kurt's Child
Well, I didn't do that.
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Narrator
Someone else did that. Why would you come? See, that's where you're wrong.
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Family Member
They came in with you.
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Narrator
Oh yeah.
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Family Member
And you went in there and spray painted the bathroom walls.
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Narrator
No, I didn't do that.
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Family Member
And you busted up the toilet.
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Narrator
That I didn't. Yeah, that I didn't.
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Witness
I did take your clothes.
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Narrator
Hoping to eventually break her down. Over the next three months, investigators continue to bring Lisa in for multiple interviews. They press her on the one admission she did make. That she helped Kirk dispose of the murder weapon.
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Witness
She had set. It had been and thrown in like three or four different spots. So we were never sure if she was telling the truth or not. And a dive team from St. Joseph came down and searched the river and never found it.
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Narrator
Four months after Kurt was found dead, they bring Lisa in for another interview. This time, Lisa consents to a polygraph.
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Witness
Do you know who was involved? Do you know what happened? You know who shot him, shot Kurt? Lisa was being so arrogant with the polygraph man for KBI that she could just talk her way out of anything.
- [33:31]
Narrator
But the facade soon falters.
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Witness
Just pretty much everything we ask her, she failed.
- [33:40]
Narrator
Considering Lisa's history of violence, threats against Kurt and her interest in his finances, the failed polygraph tips, the scales, that's.
- [33:52]
Witness
When we presented her the warrant for first degree murder in the amount of a bond of $1 million. And she just pretty much fell to the floor. She could not believe we had a warrant for her arrest.
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Kurt's Child
When she was arrested, it was a huge relief. I felt like I could sleep and I could breathe again.
- [34:16]
Witness
That had to give all the family a lot of relief. But they knew that it wasn't done yet until everything went through. Cool.
- [34:28]
Narrator
Coming up, two likely accomplices turn on each other.
- [34:34]
Witness
Kirk threatened John Goodpasture that he would kill him just like he did Kirk.
- [34:39]
Narrator
Will it finally lead to the truth?
- [34:42]
Detective
With Lisa's direction, they hatched a plan.
- [34:56]
Narrator
After four months, authorities in Kansas have arrested Lisa Boldridge for the murder of her ex husband, Kurt Boldridge. While they work to keep her behind bars, investigators get a disturbing phone call from King Kim Wilson, Kirk Wilson's second wife.
- [35:17]
Detective
There was a domestic disturbance between Mr. Wilson, his wife, and Mr. Goodpasture. She made a phone call and told the Atchison County Sheriff's office that Mr. Wilson had made an admission to her about being involved in the murder of Kurt Baldrige.
- [35:47]
Witness
Kirk Wilson accused John Goodpasture for having a sexual romantic relationship with his wife, Kim Wilson. Kirk threatened John Goodpasture that he would kill him just like he did Kirk Boldridge, that he was a dead man. Kim was interviewed in regards to this information. She confirmed the information.
- [36:12]
Narrator
In fact, Kim reports that Kirk had made the same threat to her.
- [36:18]
Witness
Kirk made a statement to her that he had killed Kurt Boldridge and he'd go to jail for killing her, too.
- [36:28]
Narrator
Then on September 19, 2000, John Goodpaster has another run in with the law and suddenly has a change of heart.
- [36:38]
Witness
Another big turning point in the case was when Goodpasture got arrested for drugs. He wanted to talk to investigator Meyer about the case.
- [36:48]
Detective
His explanation was that the four individuals, Lisa Boldridge, Kirk Wilson Goodpasture and Gary Skeen, were together one night and were discussing their various dislikes of Kurt Baldrige.
- [37:08]
Narrator
John says that around 1am on March 18, Kirk Wilson started retelling a shocking story that Lisa had shared with him. Because Kurt Baldrige was married to Kirk Wilson's ex wife. At one point, there were times when the Wilson son was in the same home with Kurt Boldridge. Lisa told Kirk that her ex husband Kurt had sexually abused his son. She would make up a lie to get anything she wanted. John reports that even with zero proof, the three men were infuriated by Lisa's outrageous allegations, especially Kirk. Kirk was wound up and his anger was contagious. These emotions begin to feed each other and exponentially rise and escalate until people aren't just angry, they're ready to take action, almost like mob mentality.
- [38:14]
Detective
That night, with Lisa's direction, they hatched a plan to kill him.
- [38:22]
Narrator
Lisa promised the men that their good deed would be rewarded.
- [38:27]
Witness
Lisa informed them that there was drugs in the house and that Gary Skeen and John Goodpasture, they were going down there for the drugs.
- [38:37]
Narrator
John Goodpasture confesses to police that Lisa drove ahead to Kurt's house and the other three followed.
- [38:47]
Witness
She still had a key to the home, and that's the way the suspects was let in. Evidently from past dealings. Lisa may have known where Kurt kept his shotguns. They got to the bedroom. Lisa grabbed a shotgun that was leaning against a wall, threw it to Kirk. Wilson said, just shoot him in the head.
- [39:11]
Narrator
Still enraged by the storm story, Lisa told him Kirk did just that.
- [39:21]
Detective
Kurt Wilson actually shot Kurt Baldrige while he was sleeping.
- [39:29]
Narrator
John Goodpaster tells investigators that they spent a few minutes searching for the promised drugs.
- [39:37]
Witness
I don't believe there was ever any drugs found in the house.
- [39:41]
Narrator
Kirk and Lisa headed off in a separate car to dump the shotgun in the Missouri River.
- [39:50]
Witness
John Goodpasture then took a polygraph, passed the polygraph, and became a state witness.
- [39:56]
Narrator
John is placed under arrest and charged with aggravated burglary. Investigators don't have to hunt for Kirk and Gary.
- [40:09]
Witness
Kirk Wilson was in jail, and we physically just approached him and gave him the rest warrant. He was under his lawyer's advice not to speak. Gary was being held on a probation violation. We presented him the warrant while he was in jail. Also.
- [40:26]
Narrator
Closing the final loop, investigators find no evidence that Kurt Boldridge assaulted Kirk Wilson's son.
- [40:36]
Witness
Sandy White was interviewed by officers about the allegations made by Lisa Bulldridge against Kurt Boldridge. It was found to be unfounded. Sandy denied that anything like that ever happened.
- [40:48]
Narrator
In the end, it was confirmed that Kurt Boldridge never abused that Child. Lisa fabricated this story knowing what it would do to Kirk Wilson.
- [41:03]
Family Member
The plan was to piss Kurt Wilson off so bad that he would kill him and she was going to sail away scot free.
- [41:10]
Witness
Lisa just wanted Kurt Bolters dead. And she done everything in her power to get him killed. And she succeeded. Lisa was just evil.
- [41:24]
Narrator
Coming up. Lisa's arrogance is on display.
- [41:29]
Family Member
She would sit and mock the family members sitting in the courtroom. She'd done this for so many years and got away with it.
- [41:37]
Narrator
And her defense centers on a critical detail.
- [41:42]
Detective
She only played a minor role. She didn't fire the fatal shot.
- [41:58]
Narrator
Kirk Wilson, Gary Skeen and John Goodpasture have joined Lisa Boldridge in being charged with the shooting death of Kurt Boldridge. Prosecutors are determined to prove that Lisa was the mastermind behind the deadly plan.
- [42:17]
Detective
Lisa had a financial motive. She thought in some manner Kurt's death would place her in a better financial position, with benefits coming to their son.
- [42:31]
Narrator
But many in Atchison, including the Boldridge family, believe Lisa's motive was twofold.
- [42:40]
Kurt's Child
If her and my dad were not gonna be together, nobody was gonna be with him.
- [42:48]
Narrator
Lisa's trial begins on January 8, 2001. Lisa's behavior in the courtroom reflects the same confidence she showed throughout the investigation.
- [43:01]
Family Member
She would sit and mock the family members sitting in the courtroom. Little stupid smirk smiles and like he, he and little grinning gestures and stuff like that. When she thought she was winning, I think because mainly she'd done this for so many years and got away with it.
- [43:22]
Narrator
Prosecutors allege that for a while Lisa was happy, simply irritating Kurt.
- [43:29]
Kurt's Child
Dad suffered threats, the phone calls all night long, the constant harassment.
- [43:36]
Narrator
But the harassment wasn't enough. John Goodpasture takes the stand and he affirms that the entire idea was Lisa Boldridge's. In fact, it was Lisa who put the idea for killing Kurt into Kirk Wilson's head.
- [43:54]
Family Member
Definitely, I 100% believe it wouldn't have happened if it wouldn't have been for her.
- [44:03]
Narrator
Lisa's defense hinges on one detail.
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Detective
She made the argument that she only played a minor role going into the house to allow the other three individuals to go in. She didn't fire the fatal shot.
- [44:24]
Narrator
Following a three day trial, Lisa is found guilty of first degree murder. The judge shows a little leniency at her sentencing.
- [44:35]
Detective
The judge imposed what Kansas refers to as the hard 50 sentence, which means she has to serve 50 years in custody before she becomes eligible for parole.
- [44:50]
Narrator
Kirk Wilson goes to trial in June 2001. The jury finds him guilty of first degree murder. Rather than risk trial Gary Skene and John Goodpasture take plea deals.
- [45:07]
Detective
Mr. Goodpasture was allowed to plead to a charge of aggravated burglary in exchange for his testimony.
- [45:16]
Witness
Kirk got 25 years for shooting him. And Kirk, he just couldn't believe that she got more time than he did because she orchestrated it.
- [45:29]
Narrator
Gary scheme receives a 14 year sentence for conspiracy to commit commit murder. And John Goodpasture is granted 24 months of probation. While the Boldridge family still struggles with the loss, they keep Kurt's memory alive.
- [45:52]
Family Member
You can strip everything away from him, but you know what? We're still family. He's still my brother. He's still family. He went nowhere. At the end of the day, that's all we got left.
- [46:03]
Kurt's Child
So it was devastating to say the least. I miss him every day, even 22 years later. Some days it seems like it was yesterday, and sometimes it seems like it was a hundred years ago. But I don't miss him any less.
- [46:26]
Narrator
In 2015, Lisa's sentence was overturned. She received 25 to life. Lisa will be parole eligible in 2025. Kirk Wilson won an appeal in 2016, modifying his sentence to manslaughter. He was paroled in 2019. John Goodpasture and Gary Skeen completed their sentences and have been released from prison. Behind the closed doors of government offices and military compounds, there are hidden stories and buried secrets from the darkest corners of history. From COVID experiments pushing the boundaries of science to operations so secretive they were barely whispered about. Each week on Redacted Declassified Mysteries, we pull back the curtain written on these hidden histories. 100% true and verifiable stories that expose the shadowy underbelly of power. Consider Operation Paperclip, where former Nazi scientists were brought to America after World War II not as prisoners, but as assets to advance US intelligence during the Cold War. These aren't just old conspiracy theories. They're thoroughly investigated accounts that reveal the uncomfortable truths still shaping our world today. The stories are real. The secrets are shocking. Follow Declassified Mysteries on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to Redacted early and ad free right now on Wonder Plus.