[Silence beat]
MARA (V.O.):Over my dead body or hers.
Is that a confession?
No.
Is it the kind of statement investigators pay attention to when a woman goes missing a few weeks later?
Absolutely.
And about that boyfriend.
We’ve confirmed through multiple sources—and yes, through you, the listeners who went digging through old social media—that Caroline was seeing someone new.
A man we’ll call “Matt” for now.
He lived in Knoxville.
Several of you sent us screenshots from old Facebook posts and comments, archived on long-forgotten accounts, talking about Caroline “trading up” and “finally getting out of Sylva.”
One comment from a college friend:
“Girl, take that baby and RUN. Don’t let him grow up like the Mercers.”
So we have:
A mother talking about leaving town with her son
A father who did not want his boy around another man
A quote—if true—where that father says she’ll take Davie “over my dead body or hers”
Is that enough to convict anyone in court?
No.
Is it enough to warrant a second, hard look at a case that never sat right?
The Jackson County sheriff’s office seems to think so.
We’ve confirmed with two independent sources that the Caroline Simms file is being reopened.
And that brings us to something else we’ve been working on.
The phone.
Caroline’s cell was left in her car that night.
According to a source close to the Simms family, it was still active on her mother’s plan. Which means her mother had the right to access the records—and tried.
This was 2017 in a small mountain town—not exactly a CSI episode. Some things slipped.
We’ve obtained copies of a few text messages from that phone, recovered later.
How?
Let’s say the password wasn’t hard to guess.
