SC SC - Emily Griffith Anderson, 48, Sawmills, 29 Dec 2005

http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/384556.html

CHARGES DISMISSED AFTER HUNG JURY

`Life was real simple,' then wife's slaying shattered it
As he puts pieces together again, Anderson says his son is his first priority

Jerry Anderson was charged with murdering his wife. His trial ended with a hung jury, and this week the district attorney announced he would drop the charges. He's a free man now, trying to put his life back together. Two years ago, Jerry Anderson and his wife, Emily, were working at their Caldwell County dairy farm and preparing to start a new, larger spread in Tennessee.

The farm would have been the largest in four states and something Anderson, who had been a dairy farmer for most of his life, had been working toward for years.

"My life was real simple. Dairy. Church. Work," he said.

But now, Anderson is building a whole new life after spending 18 months in jail on charges that he murdered his wife.

More at link.

The farm they planned to start in Tennessee is in the next county over from me.
 
From January 2010:

http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/local/2014/06/19/10931985/

A man once charged with murdering his wife and stuffing her body in a truck toolbox has filed a new, amended lawsuit against the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office...

Investigators say Emily Anderson was murdered Dec. 29, 2005. Medical examiner reports put the date of death between Jan. 4 and Jan. 6, 2006. Disregarding a scientific timeline is another allegation against the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office... The suit names witnesses who claim they saw Emily Anderson alive with another man in Duncan, getting out of a car days after investigators say she was killed. The lawsuit also claims a witness saw someone -- not Jerry Anderson -- accessing Emily's truck in Duncan...

Prosecutors reserve the right to charge Anderson again. Elliot says he doubts that will ever happen due to a clear lack of evidence.
 

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