EFFINGHAM COUNTY, Ga. () — A judge has denied Elwyn Crocker Senior’s defense’s motion to suppress all electronic devices found in the family home.

This is a major development in this case and it’s a step closer to a jury trial for the murder of Mary and Elwyn Crocker Junior. December 2025 will mark seven years since the teens’ bodies were found buried in the backyard of the home at 402 Roosevelt Lane.

The phone, computers and other electronic devices seized from the home during the investigation have been a major topic of discussion in Judge Matthew Hube’s courtroom. Those devices and the content on them are now cleared to be shown to a jury at trial.

The defense wanted the judge to suppress that evidence, claiming ownership of the devices is unclear. According to prosecutors, the content on those devices is in fact relevant, even though everyone in the home had access to some of them.

Judge Hube sided with the prosecution in this motion and one other. Hube decided that the state will receive a copy of the psychiatric and psychological records of Crocker’s other son, who also lived in the house at the time of the alleged murders.

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