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Out With Three: The Murder and Betrayal of Bald Head Island Police Officer Davina Buff Jones
A young police woman was found shot to death on exclusive Bald Head Island off North Carolina. The local DA ruled it a suicide but the evidence said otherwise. Who killed her and why did they go so far to cover it up? Read for yourself and decide what you think took place and who did it.
- GenresNonfictionTrue Crime
290 pages, Paperback
First published February 6, 2008
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July 25, 2011
Shortly before midnight on October 22, 1999, Officer Davina Buff Jones was killed by a single gunshot to the back of her head near Bald Head Island lighthouse.
Jones had contentious relationships with the officers who would later be involved in investigating her death and with island authorities. She was an inexperienced but ambitious officer who came to policework late in life.
Out With Three (the name comes from one of Jones' last recorded radio transmissions before her death) was written by Elaine Buff, a relative, and recounts the events leading up to and following Jones' death, and Buff's family's efforts to challenge the initial finding that Buff's death was a suicide. The book draws on interviews with family and island residents, correspondence, official reports and photos, news articles, and the results of a private investigation.
This is a self-published book, with the self-publisher's most common flaws: typos, misused words, lack of focus, unnecessary melodrama, organizational problems, and poor cover/interior design. (Most frustrating is the author's unconventional and unhelpful system of citations.) The writing is labored and sometimes confused.
Despite the technical flaws, the book is interesting reading. Jones--whatever her faults as an officer--clearly did not kill herself. The book doesn't make a solid case for any single suspect (likely due to an understandable fear of a libel charge--the case has already spawned copious litigation) but following the activities of various players in Jones' death and bungled investigation makes for interesting reading for the armchair detective. Was it the spurned lover? The drug trafficker? The highly-placed politician? The threatened coworker? It's up to the reader to find out.
Recommended for: readers with an interest in/connection to Bald Head Island and coastal North Carolina; mystery/true-crime readers.
Jones had contentious relationships with the officers who would later be involved in investigating her death and with island authorities. She was an inexperienced but ambitious officer who came to policework late in life.
Out With Three (the name comes from one of Jones' last recorded radio transmissions before her death) was written by Elaine Buff, a relative, and recounts the events leading up to and following Jones' death, and Buff's family's efforts to challenge the initial finding that Buff's death was a suicide. The book draws on interviews with family and island residents, correspondence, official reports and photos, news articles, and the results of a private investigation.
This is a self-published book, with the self-publisher's most common flaws: typos, misused words, lack of focus, unnecessary melodrama, organizational problems, and poor cover/interior design. (Most frustrating is the author's unconventional and unhelpful system of citations.) The writing is labored and sometimes confused.
Despite the technical flaws, the book is interesting reading. Jones--whatever her faults as an officer--clearly did not kill herself. The book doesn't make a solid case for any single suspect (likely due to an understandable fear of a libel charge--the case has already spawned copious litigation) but following the activities of various players in Jones' death and bungled investigation makes for interesting reading for the armchair detective. Was it the spurned lover? The drug trafficker? The highly-placed politician? The threatened coworker? It's up to the reader to find out.
Recommended for: readers with an interest in/connection to Bald Head Island and coastal North Carolina; mystery/true-crime readers.
May 31, 2010
A very good read but sad to say it is true. It is about a murder that is called a suicide of a Bald Head Island police officer. There is so much corruption where money is found. This is just another stellar example.
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July 16, 2018
Wonder if the mystery will ever be solved???
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August 17, 2015would like to see where it happened
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