By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The documentary featuring the coroner’s inquest into the controversial death in Toledo of former trooper Ronda Reynolds will air once again on national television tomorrow night.
[1]Ronda Reynolds
48 Hours Mystery, CBS’s true crime series, first aired the case in April.
Reynolds, 33, died with a bullet in her head in the home she shared with husband of less than a year, Ron Reynolds and his sons. She was found dead on the floor of a small walk-in closet, covered up by a turned-on electric blanket the morning of Dec. 16, 1998.
Her death was labeled by then-Coroner Terry Wilson and the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office as a suicide, but her unconvinced mother Barbara Thompson battled for more than a decade for a more thorough investigation of what she believed was more likely murder.
A five-member inquest jury [2] last year was unanimous in its conclusions of homicide and named Ron and Jonathan Reynolds as responsible.
Ron and Jonathan Reynolds maintain the death was a suicide and they were not involved. They were not charged with any crime.
The piece, dubbed “Mystery on Twin Peaks Drive” will show at 10 p.m. on Saturday night.
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Read an interview with 48 Hours’ interviewer Peter Van Sant for his take on the case, here [3]