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Sep 29, 2008 9:59 pm US/Central
Roanoke Mother Dead, Daughter Charged With Murder
Medical Examiner Says Woman Died Of Multiple Stab Wounds
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Roanoke resident Susan Bailey was found dead in her home on September 28.
Texas Dept. of Public Safety
What began as a routine welfare check two days before, ended with the discovery of the body of a Roanoke woman and murder charges filed against three teenagers – one of them, the deceased woman's daughter.
Seventeen-year-old Jennifer Bailey told officers her mother, Susan Bailey, had an ex-boyfriend who was stalking her. Police now believe that was a story to cover up what happened inside the family's home.
One Sept. 26 Roanoke police received an out-of-state call from Susan Bailey's mother. The woman said she had not heard from Susan and wanted officers to go to her home in the 200 block of Oxford Drive and check on her.
Responding to the request, officers went to the house. While they could get no one to answer the door, they also didn't find evidence indicating anything was wrong and left.
Two days later, on Sept. 28, Roanoke police were contacted by officials from the Yankton Police Department in South Dakota. Officials there said they had stopped a 2002 Saturn 4-door car that was registered to a Susan Bailey in Roanoke. South Dakota police said there were three teens in the vehicle.
Those teens were later identified as Jennifer Bailey, Jennifer's 16-year-old boyfriend and her 14-year-old brother.
After receiving the call, Roanoke police went back to the address they had visited and tried to contact Susan Bailey about her vehicle.
Because of the previous concern for welfare and South Dakota police information, authorities took immediate action and entered the home, where they found Susan, 43, deceased.
Monday afternoon the Tarrant County Medical Examiner determined that Bailey died from 'multiple stab wounds to the neck'.
After further investigation by Roanoke Police, the Denton County Sheriff's Department, and the Texas Rangers, capital murder warrants were obtained for Jennifer Bailey and the two juvenile males.
According to court documents, police came to the Baileys' home in Roanoke on Sept. 22 looking for Jennifer's boyfriend, who ran away from home. They found the boy's personal belongings packed up - as well as Jennifer's belongings - as if they were getting ready to go on a trip. The next day the boy was reported as a Denton County runaway.
Neighbors say Jennifer was always a good kid. "She was just a very smart and quiet girl," said Michelle Davidson.
She was nice until neighbors say she got a new boyfriend about a year ago. "Ever since she started dating this boy, that's when she was running away," said Davidson.
The father of Jennifer's boyfriend said he does not believe his son was involved in the murder. He claims Jennifer had a history of fighting with her mom. He believes Jennifer committed the stabbing, and got his son to unknowingly go with her to South Dakota.
Officials with the Northwest Independent School District, in Justin, confirmed that the two juvenile boys in question attend school in their district and that Jennifer Bailey was a 2008 graduate of Northwest High School.
All of the teens are being held in a juvenile detention facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Several local investigators are going to South Dakota to collect evidence from Susan Bailey's car and to be ready in case the teenagers waive extradition back to Texas.
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