Retired Teacher Has No Idea Police Already Found the Antifreeze

On the morning of Friday 11 November 2022, Judy Church called an ambulance to her house in Salisbury, Massachusetts. Leroy Fowler, 55, the man she had lived with for ten years, could not stand. He died in a Boston hospital on the Sunday night. On the Monday afternoon the detectives met her in her driveway and brought her to Salisbury police station to talk, while other officers were inside her house with a warrant. For an hour and a half she gives her account of the week. This is that recording, with the record set beside it. CHAPTERS 0:00 “I’m scared” 0:53 The week 11:53 The questions 15:28 The word 21:28 The sink 26:15 The notebook 28:59 The record SOURCES Interview recording: Salisbury Police Department / Massachusetts State Police body camera, 14 November 2022, played in open court at her trial (public record, via YouTube; the uploader's mark is cropped out of our picture). 911 recording: played in open court, Essex Superior Court, Salem, 18 March 2026 (via the Justice Is A Process channel). Her street address, spoken on the call, is not played. Trial: Commonwealth v. Judy Church, Essex Superior Court, March 2026; testimony and exhibits as broadcast by Court TV and Law&Crime Trials, credited on screen. Verdict 30 March 2026; sentence 2 April 2026 (Judge James Lang). News clips: CBS Boston / WBZ (23 December 2022), WHDH 7News (April 2026), credited on screen. Portrait: Court TV pool still, March 2026. Press releases: Essex District Attorney's Office, 23 December 2022, 9 February 2023, 28 March 2023. Aerial imagery: Google Earth (recent imagery; no home is marked). The recording is real and nothing said in it has been altered. The interview is shortened and arranged in order; every jump in the recording is marked on screen. A phone passcode spoken on the tape has been removed from the sound and the captions. The exhibit photographs are the Commonwealth's warrant photographs as shown on the courtroom monitor. Lines attributed to witnesses are as broadcast or as reported by Court TV. What she says about other people is her account; the record is set beside it. No person's likeness was generated. Narration is a synthetic voice reading our script. What the court decided is at the end of the film. The Denial Tapes: the tape, with the record beside it. Subscribe for the next tape.