Lawyer is charged with tampering with evidence in son's murder case
A Tennessee lawyer has been indicted on a charge of tampering with evidence in connection with her son’s murder case.
Medina, Tennessee, lawyer Edythe “Didi” Christie, 56, was indicted on Tuesday, report the Jackson Sun, WMC and WBBJ.
Her son, John Christie, is accused of supplying his wife with heroin and a sedative that caused her death. Mother and son were both indicted on a charge of tampering with evidence, and John Christie was also indicted on a charge of second-degree murder, the stories say.
A judge reduced John Christie’s original first-degree murder charge to second-degree murder at a preliminary hearing on June 19, the Jackson Sun says. At the hearing, police played recorded phone calls between Didi Christie and John Christie, who was in the county jail.
In one recorded call, John Christie asked his mother to delete all his texts and emails and to destroy the cellphone’s SIM card that stores information. It was unclear from available news coverage whether she did so. John Christie also allegedly asked his mother to call the man who sold him the heroin to instruct him what to tell investigators. The recording appears to show that she did try to call that man from another phone while speaking to her son, but was unable to do so, according to the Jackson Sun.
Didi Christie reminded her son several times that the phone calls were being recorded, and told him cellphone evidence could be retrieved after it was deleted, according to the Jackson Sun.
