A Paulding County woman has been charged with murder, months after authorities said she fatally shot her husband and tampered with the crime scene to make his death look like a suicide.
According to police, Lacy Jolee Boles, 37, shot Daniel Lee Akers in the head three days before Christmas at the couple’s home along Braemill Court in Dallas.
After the shooting, she reportedly called 911 and told dispatchers the 36-year-old killed himself.
“The call came in as a suicide,” Paulding County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Ashley Henson said. “But when detectives got there, they noticed some things at the crime scene that were inconsistent with that.”
Details about those inconsistencies were not released.
Akers’ body was taken to the GBI Crime Lab for an autopsy, where investigators ultimately ruled his cause of death a homicide.
His family told AJC.com they never believed the father of five killed himself. Akers, who worked for a local sheet metal union, loved life and wouldn’t have left his children alone, they said.
The case was delayed, in part, by the current pandemic, according to Henson.
“Due to the complexity of this case combined with the COVID-19 pandemic that temporarily closed government entities down, it took much longer to get the full autopsy results back from the GBI,” he said.
When the report came back from the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office on May 29, it “determined that the gunshot wound suffered by Akers was not self-inflicted.”
Boles was arrested the same day on charges of murder, malice murder, aggravated assault, tampering with evidence and making false statements, jail records show.
Boles was released Saturday on a $100,000 bond, but Akers’ family said they were never made aware of any bond hearing or given the chance to argue against her release in court.
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