Was Emilie Murdered By Her Former Track Coach?

Emilie Morris was a former gifted high school athlete from St. Louis Missouri.

She met Jim Wilder, her track coach, when she was 14, in 1996.

The next year she started to get despondent.

Wilder and Emilie were accused of having an affair.

They both denied this and everyone just thought it was nothing more than a rumor.

According to state experts on child abuse, that principal was required by law to notify authorities of any suspected abuse. 

If authorities were notified, the Morrises never heard about it.

Emily graduated from school.

Ten years later she told her family it was true, that she did have an affair with Wilder.

Emilie was married now and didn't want to come forward when her family suggested.

In 2008, another girl came forward and says that she was abused by Wilder.

He was arrested but it didn't stick.

Emilie started drinking and got divorced in 2012.

Emilie was 33 and she decided she was going to put her life back together and fight back.
She went to authorities and explained to them what happened to her when she was in high school.
She wore an audio recorder and met with Wilder on the police suggestion.
He admits to the sexual assault on the recording.
Emilie turned the recording over and he was arrested and charged with six counts of statutory sodomy in August 2013.

Wilder was released on bond while awaiting trial.
Emily started to heal and feel better.

In the weeks before her death, Emilie believed the case was nearing its close. 

She told her family and friends that she believed Wilder and prosecutors were negotiating a plea deal.
The case was supposed to be resolved by late November 2014.

November 4, Emilie was found dead in her house.
Her back door was unlocked.
Her father went through the back door and saw her laying in her bedroom on the floor wrapped in a blanket with her head in the trashcan.
She was 35 years old.
The autopsy came back, the toxicology report was lower than the legal limit to drive of 0.08 percent.
Her cause of death was asphyxiation possibly from the trash can bag.

Her death was listed as suspicious.

Emilie's family said she was claustrophobic.

All the charges against Wilder were thrown out since she passed away.

Lindbergh Schools said it had no record of whether the information concerning Wilder and Emilie was reported to social services. 

The district said its “responsibility is to keep students safe at all times,” and that outside of the principal’s investigation and Wilder’s two subsequent arrests, it didn’t receive any other complaints from parents or students during Wilder’s 22 years of employment. 

The principal, David Skillman, who left Lindbergh High in 2001 and has since retired, did not respond to requests for comment.