Georgia man charged with cocaine poisoning; spouse dies

MACON, Georgia (AP) – A former Georgia school administrator was charged with murder after investigators accused him of poisoning his sick wife with a cocaine overdose in 2019.

News outlets reported that Macon’s Edward Judie Jr. was charged Tuesday with murder and violating state drug laws. A previously unnamed woman, Aliyah Danielle Walker, was charged on the same charges.

Joyce Fox Judie, 60, was found dead at the couple’s home in northwest Macon in November 2019. Ed Judie, 67, told MPs at the time that he and his wife were drinking and he thought she was asleep.

An autopsy found that Joyce Judie had “many times the lethal dose” of cocaine in her body when she died. Investigators said they discovered that Ed Judie bought cocaine that night. They said Ed Judie changed his story several times during the interviews.

Judie’s attorney has denied his guilt. A court clerk said Friday there was no lawyer listed for Walker.

Local news outlets report that Joyce Judie was treated for dementia. Ed Judie spent two months in jail, in part because prosecutors said he was threatened to flee after being taped in jail asking someone to secure his passport and hide insurance proceeds from his wife’s death.

Ed Judie was later released on bail of $ 200,000. From 2011 to 2015 he was the assistant superintendent of student affairs in Bibb County.