Jennifer Medernach /// Part 1 /// 532 | Forensic Files

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crime [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] this week on true crime garage a 14 year old girl goes missing
her parents call police police often write missing teens off as runaways but in this case
she pretty much was a runaway but then she turned up dead a victim of a very violent homicide
this teen girl was gone for days and then thrown over a bridge detectives say her body was dumped there
but she was not killed there under her body investigators found what they believe was the murder weapon
this was just one of several pieces of evidence collected from the body recovery scene
evidence the clay county sheriff's office still has and is resubmitting for dna testing
some evil monster simply discarded her like trash and no one is talking but why was she the victim of a serial killer
did she become just another young girl in a string of victims or did she fall prey
to someone closer to home this is true crime garage this is the case jennifer metternich
[Music] in 2001 14 year old jennifer metternach was living in woodland state's mobile
home park this was a large mobile home park situated on 103rd street in jacksonville florida which is in duval
county florida it's not one of those parks where people bring their campers this is a development with a nice sign
at the entrance establish smaller homes and really a community type of feel as of earlier this year 2021 the park
had 293 residents so it is quite large now jennifer lived at 93.59 103rd street on lot 28
with her mother angie medernak it's not clear where her father james was living at this time he may have been
living with them or how much of a role he played in her life as he's simply absent from all of the stories and the
news articles that i could find jennifer was a student at joseph stillwell middle
school but at 14 years old she was starting to behave a little like an older teenager her mom later said that
jennifer used to be a good girl but that changed in the spring of 2001 this would
be right around the time that jennifer turned 14 years old she says jennifer started to act out she began cutting
school and so on angie said as quoted in the florida times union quote she started going downhill last
year at the end of the school year she had to go to summer school she started getting into a little trouble now three
weeks before everything happened everything being what we're leading up to here captain jennifer got a ticket
because she was caught smoking at school so as you can imagine jennifer and her mom started butting heads as often
happens with teen girls and their mothers and over the weekend of november third
and fourth 4th 2001 jennifer and her mom had a big argument now according to mom according to angie
the two had words over the state of jennifer's room it was such a mess that her things were
spilling out into the hallway now angie later told the florida times union that on that sunday november 4th the two
worked together to clean up the room and afterward jennifer was allowed to go out to hang
with some friends and at that time jennifer left with a girlfriend someone her mother did not know
as she was told jennifer and her friend were going to walk to the safari food store this is a
convenience store located on 103rd street in west jacksonville this is very near the woodland estates
where jennifer lived so this is a rather short walk it would have taken the two just a few minutes to
get there on foot angie said jennifer kissed her goodbye and told her that she loved her now that's the nice version of
the story and if that's what mom says happened well unless you're casey anthony or a few other moms that we've
discussed here on the show then we will go with that we will go with what you're
saying but i do want to take this quick moment here to present a slightly different and maybe still possible
series of events because we've seen this too many times maybe mom and jennifer have some type of
blow up argument and in typical teen girl fashion jennifer storms off to meet up with her friend and because she left
in a tizzy jennifer took nothing with her she left the trailer on sunday and then
she did not come home that sunday night now even though she didn't come home that night we still believe that she was
alive and well and just staying at a friend's house yes captain so i took that time to do a little aside and add
in my two cents here because later it was reported that it was not uncommon for jennifer to spend the night out at a
friend's house this especially after mom and daughter argued so when she didn't return that sunday night her
mom probably wasn't too worked up about it she probably decided to let jennifer cool off for a bit
but jennifer didn't come home on monday night either so this is not what you think right as
you pointed out captain jennifer was still okay even after two nights not at home
she was choosing not to go home she was being a stubborn little teenager is what she was yeah she was still at
the woodland estates just not at her own house where she stayed sunday night we don't
know for certain and her mother didn't know either jennifer did not have a cell phone so
her mom could not reach her or track her movements jennifer apparently hung around the
neighborhood on sunday night and monday and this will come from other witnesses statements as
we said her mom had been struggling with jennifer cutting school and sure enough
jennifer failed to show up at school on monday but she was still in the area several residents in the mobile home
park later told police that jennifer told them on monday that she had a fight with her mother and that she had left
home she did not say where she was staying or whether she planned on leaving woodland estates or not
meanwhile jennifer's mother apparently decided that enough is enough although jennifer had never run away from home
before she had temporarily left in the past but jennifer never stayed away for what was turning out to be this long it
seems that her mom knew that jennifer was defiantly staying away from home and wanted to call in some
reinforcements to help her corral her rebellious teenager she reported jennifer missing to the duvall county
sheriff's office on monday night clearly she felt that jennifer needed you know a talking to and perhaps maybe
even a a little scare from someone in a position of authority because after she filed the missing persons report on
monday evening at 6 00 pm it's reported that angie jennifer's mom caught a glimpse of jennifer walking in
the distance still with inside the park and we know that another neighbor saw jennifer at this time as well walking
away from her home but even though angie could briefly see her daughter she could not go after her now angie
from my understanding was in poor health at this time and she was not able to get
around very easily so this prevented her from going after her daughter and also probably one of the reasons she called
for help correct but it is interesting to note that this sighting of jennifer did not prompt angie to cancel
that missing persons report that she had previously filed angie either wanted or
likely felt that she needed interveners right aka police or sheriff's deputies to force the 14 year old to return home
and probably you know tell her to go easy on her mom my friend jessica submitted a request
for the missing persons report and the request was granted so here is what that report said on november 5th 2001 at 807
pm i was dispatched not me your friendly colonel but the officer writing the report obviously was dispatched to a
missing person runaway call at 93 59 103rd street upon my arrival i met with the complainant
who is the victim's mother she stated that the victim wanted to go to the store with one of her friends on
november 4th at 3 30 in the afternoon she told the victim that she could go when the victim did not return
she started checking with some of her neighbors to find out if they had seen the victim
on november 5th at 6 pm she saw the victim in their trailer park she said the victim ran from her and she
is in poor health and was unable to go after the victim the complainant stated that this is not the first time that the
victim has not returned home when she was supposed to she said this is the first time that she has ever stayed gone
this long and that is why she called the police to report the victim missing the
complainant believes that the victim is staying with someone in the trailer park
possibly another unknown girl that she saw the victim with today the complainant said this is the first time
she has called the police to report the victim as missing so this report specifies that jennifer was last seen
wearing brown sandals green and black shorts and a white t-shirt with red lips some
kind of drawing or decal of red lips on this white t-shirt she has some facial scars some small
facial scars some to the upper lip and left eye her mental state on the report is listed
as good her status is listed as runaway and it's noted that her probable destination was 93 59 103rd street
woodland estates trailer park so she's missing she's reported missing by mom mom catches a brief glimpse of her
at some point but she's hearing from neighbors as well that her daughter's still
within the confines of this trailer park right there's still eyewitnesses that see her alive she's just not going to
school and just not coming home well it's tough we've all been 14 before and i know for me i thought i knew
everything and i thought i was smarter than my parents and i thought that i was street wise and
and all those things back when i was 14. you quickly find out that you know little to nothing
that is so true that is absolutely true now as noted in the missing persons report angie believed jennifer was still
somewhere in the mobile home park and was just refusing to come home but later on monday evening witnesses
said that they saw jennifer walking out of woodland estates on the access road to the park this is according to clay
county sheriff scott lancaster yet detectives found witnesses who told them that jennifer was still hanging around
the park staying with who knows and staying who knows where until november 7th and it seems like
this is the time that we really need to start calling everything into question because right
this is where she seems to have totally dropped off of the radar but here's one of the problems though right you have
this 14 year old girl roaming this park some of these parks people will live there because the background checks
might be different i don't know if this park is similar to that or not but you also have a situation where you
have a condensed population and she's roaming this park not going to school and she's basically advertising
to any of the scumbags over there hey i'm not being supervised and i'm an easy target i'm not going
home my mother my parents don't know my exact whereabouts i'm not going to school so probably up
to no good during what's supposed to be school hours for her again this is really when we start to call a lot of
things into question this november 7th date and it seems like she drops off the radar
vanishes really at this point because this is where we lose track of jennifer now this is going to take us
to november 8th 2001. this is the thursday after jennifer was seen exiting the mobile
home park remember that was on monday so three days earlier is when she was seen
but on this thursday the 8th we have two teenage boys who decided that they were going to go
fishing this would be under a bridge now the long branch creek runs through these kids maxville
neighborhood in clay county remember jennifer metternach was reported missing in duval
county right this area where these boys were going to go fishing this is a remote area described as desolate in one
article about 13 miles away from the woodland estates and about two miles across the
clay county duval county line the boys slowly worked their way down the creek embankment and got ready to bait their
hooks when something in the water stopped them in their tracks here's a quote from the florida times union that
reads quote they saw what they thought was a body lying face down in the water sort of on her side with her hip up
said mary justino a spokeswoman for the clay county sheriff's office they weren't sure if it was something
left over from a halloween prank or a real body and as all of our garage regulars know we don't cover halloween
pranks here on this show so unfortunately someday that's our new series we aspire
to cover halloween pranks yeah run again like we've learned in the last five years it's it's never a mannequin so
unfortunately a prank or a fake it was not on closer inspection the boys realized
that they had just discovered a body lying in the creek it was a naked female one of them ran to
his nearby house and told his father who then called the clay county sheriff's office who responded to the scene
immediately the responding officers report was time stamped at 2100 hours this reports a body
found at 609 county road 217 middleburg florida it reflects the finding of a white female name and age
unknown incident type homicide suspect and weapon are both listed as uk for unknown the responding officer
was sergeant cj jett who wrote the following statement on november 8th 2001 at 15 30 hours so
3 30 hours i was notified via department lee pager to respond to the area of 609
county road 217 in reference to a death investigation the body of an unidentified naked white
female was found floating in the water next to a bridge i arrived at the scene at 1605 hours and observed the naked
body of an unidentified white female with dark colored hair floating face down in the water on the west side of
county maintained two lane cement bridge the victim's body was retrieved from the
water at 1805 hours the victim's body was later transported to the medical examiner's office in jacksonville
florida case pending one you gotta feel for these two teenage boys that just were going fishing
and find this body and and at this point we don't know exactly what condition her
body is in but we've seen some really terrible cases where the bloating of the body and and
water can make it a very horrific sight and so this would be a pretty traumatic experience for these teenage boys now
you'll note that the incident report was filed at 9 00 pm just a handful of hours
after the body was found this indicates that the body was the victim of a homicide so what we have here is just
by the officers arriving on scene they're visually able to determine before even an autopsy takes place
right that this we're talking about a homicide here so how did sergeant jet know this prior to
an autopsy being performed the answer is simple it was obvious to anyone who got
a good look at the body i'm guessing puncture wounds well the the young female's body was riddled with stab
wounds her death had been extremely violent that's awful one article we found said her body was quote savaged
detective rob shoonover of the clay county sheriff's office cold case division said to first coast news
quote with the wounds that you could see during the autopsy it was very gruesome
the way she died it was a horrible and tragic death for her to have to go through
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to all the people who bought the good seats up front the officer responding to the creek
where jennifer's body was found was sergeant jet who noted that the body was removed and then sent to the
jacksonville medical examiner's office for the autopsy now we tried to get a copy of this autopsy report but could
not get our hands on it i have some speculation to offer up here in this regard though just like most murder case
investigations the physical evidence found at the scene along with the details in that autopsy
report might be the making or breaking point for your case but i believe here in jennifer's case
it's even more important and that may become more clear as we continue on because
as we get through some of these details and specifics here captain we are going to get into some rather
interesting suspects in this case well a couple issues if you're dealing with this investigation
is that the body is found in water so water is known to get rid of certain parts of evidence
also we don't know if her body was placed in the water and then moved at some point the autopsy might be able to
show us that but also being outdoors it makes the the scene of the crime a lot larger and harder to search so
that's a perfect setup for some of the information that we are going to get into right here right now well i've been
practicing that's right one statement we were able to get our hands on does offer
up some more info at least in regards to the possible time of death now that statement was officials said the
unidentified woman died one two three days before she was found plus sheriff lancaster told the media at the time
that the body was mildly deteriorated when it was found indicating that she had been dead for more than just a
couple of hours now more recently detective schunover told us that jennifer was seen alive the night
before she was found so we know based off of this information that she was dead for not more than about 24 hours right
so we have a timeline and normally in these investigations the more information we find
the smaller that timeline becomes that smaller window of when the crime could have taken place now do they believe
that she was murdered at sight or is this a dumping ground because to me this seems like
she was placed there after the murder so we also learned that she was not bound or restrained in any way when she was
found the clay county sheriff's office spokeswoman mary justino told the media that investigators believed that the
woman found in the creek likely was killed at another location before her body was dumped under a bridge on county
road 217 this road is just south of the duval county line the bridge was a two-lane highway over the creek
now detective shoenover told true crime garage that investigators believe that the evidence at the scene
showed that the woman had been thrown off of the bridge and was already dead when she was discarded likely
transported by vehicle so she was killed somewhere else likely transported by a motor vehicle and then thrown from the
bridge rather than carried down the side of the embankment and of course we know
who the homicide victim was but at this time in our timeline for this story who this young murder victim was was
still unknown to investigators and the public on november 9th the clay county sheriff's office
released some information about the woman found in long branch creek they were trying to gather information
from the public about who she possibly was i wanted to to your point like you said she's found in a different county
so one of the things that law enforcement is going to do is to reach out to neighboring counties and go do
you have a missing female yeah comparisons of her physical description to that of missing persons reports from
the area turned up nothing which is difficult because we know she was reported missing but as you said
this is a different county so again this is kind of surprising given the fact that the person the missing persons
report was filed in the adjacent county of duval county four days earlier but anyway they didn't
put this together at the time so the clay county officials issued a statement and
a facial reconstruction sketch of the unidentified victim the statement said that the body found was
per the florida times union a white female in her early twenties who stands five foot two inches tall and
weighs 115 pounds with brown eyes and dark brown hair falling below her shoulders
and she had a one and a half inch scar near her right eye two scars on her right upper lip near her nose and a
single piercing in both ears she was wearing a heart-shaped ring and the weird thing here captain is they
they mentioned they kind of go out of their way when i you know trying to describe this
heart-shaped ring the interesting thing here captain is when they describe that she's wearing
this heart-shaped ring they also say that she is wearing an engagement ring now obviously we've not seen photos
from the autopsy so we don't know if this is one and you know one in the same that
the heart shape ring is an engagement ring or that she was wearing two rings so i want to be clear about that before
we move on it was then three days later on november 12th that the clay county sheriff's office was able to determine
the identity of the homicide victim now what happened was the sheriff's office officials ran the description of the
victim we read earlier they ran this in the times union newspaper on november 10th asking for the public to call in
tips if they thought they knew who she could be they also ran the sketch of the victim's
face along with the article three days later the clay county sheriff's office spokesperson mary justino told the
newspaper quote we got about 25 phone calls based on the picture that had been put out of
the 25 callers a few were people who thought it was this girl the girl from the creek unfortunately
was jennifer metternach and after jennifer's body was found we have a statement issued by the family yes
jennifer's family had to be notified that their beloved daughters was brutally killed jennifer's mother
must have felt a dis jennifer's mother must have felt a devastating combination of both guilt
and effort my guess right over her argument with jennifer that caused jennifer to leave
but then the knowledge that she had gone above and beyond to trying to get jennifer to come home
right by calling in a missing persons report before her daughter was even really missing missing now in an
impromptu news conference described by the florida times union this took place on the
mobile home park access road angie the mother declined to comment personally instead jennifer's uncle matt
jackson read the family statement which was basically asking anyone with any information about jennifer slaying to
come forward now this was incredibly tragic for angie because angie had already lost a child
at age one this before jennifer was born and then after that tragedy she then bravely decided to try to get pregnant
again and did and the new baby was jennifer now angie later told the times union in an
interview about jennifer quote i think children today are growing up too fast i think she was too end quote captain
ronnie gann of the clay county sheriff's office said to the media quote this was a 14 year old girl who
was brutally murdered and dumped in the creek like a piece of trash now detectives were fully vested in this
case from everything that i could find captain all the articles that i was able to review from 2001
my gut tells me these detectives were fully vested in this case and right from jump street
they were determined to get to the bottom of this thing and figure out who killed 14 year old jennifer medernek
once the body was removed from the muddy water and hauled away to the medical examiner's office investigators from the
clay county sheriff's office major case unit began combing the scene for clues as to who the victim was and who had
killed her they scoured the creek banks and bridge area including nearby woods until late on that thursday night and
then reconvened for more of the same the next day on friday divers were brought in to plumb the
depths of the long branch creek to see what might have sunk to the bottom and although this was not revealed at
the time they did find something that is considered a crucial important piece of
evidence remember we said that the investigators believed that the body was thrown from
the bridge jennifer was already deceased at that time and that she had been killed elsewhere
well that's interesting considering what was found at the body recovery scene recall that the police report from the
responding officer says that the body was floating in the water the creek was about waist deep at its
deepest parts but it was narrow and had muddy banks right it seems that jennifer was floating in a very shallow
area of the creek and when medical examiner personnel removed the body they found something
underneath of it none of this was released at the time detective shootover revealed all of this
via a piece on first coast news that ran back in 2018 it said underneath her body
investigators found the handle of a knife with strands of jennifer's hair wrapped
around it they believe it was the murder weapon but the blade portion of the knife was
never found and as stated earlier the knife handle was just one of several pieces of
evidence collected from the scene if i'm law enforcement i'm bringing out a scent
dog i know that the thought is that she disappeared from one county she's found in this county
but maybe a scent dog will lead us in some direction of where this vehicle or this person would have went
after they dumped jennifer's body the other thing i'm doing is i'm going back to the park
and having cadaver dogs walk around every trailer because again they believe that the murder scene was
somewhere else and not at the creek yeah and we know that she was seen at different points in that
trailer park so that seems to me like probably the most likely place if something did go down that led to her
death it may have occurred there now investigators believe that the brass screw top knife handle that was found
which as the news piece said has jennifer's hair entwined in it was a part of the murder weapon the thinking
is that at some point the blade broke off the blade portion of the knife captain
has never been found it was not found in jennifer's body and the creek was searched thoroughly
more than once detective schunover believes that the knife which was a unique style with a very
large blade broke during the commission of the murder during the stabbing of jennifer
for some reason her killer threw the handle into the water where it lay on the muddy creek bottom under her
body again the blade however is never accounted for this is a weird portion of the case to
me right it seems to me like i get it you got to get rid of this body and you probably want to get rid of the
murder weapon as well but you've only managed to get rid of a portion of the murder weapon
so i kind of kept going around and playing around with this in my head over and over again is this something that's
just happenstance that something that was unlucky to the killer that the the knife handle ended up in
the creek with jennifer or was this something that was done on purpose the knife itself as described as the
detective as unique the best way for me to describe it and there are some pictures of this knife
handle that are available online this is one of those cases though captain that you're not going to find a
whole lot of information about online it's one of the it's kind of a lesser known florida case
but the knife handle itself to kind of give a little perspective on why we have the handle but not the blade
what it looks like to me is that the blade portion probably screwed on top of the handle
or the guard to the handle you'll see these knives a lot they're like survival type knives where the handle itself is
hollow because in the hollow handle they usually you can screw off the bottom and place things inside of the handle
right a lot of people for survival type knives will place things like matches or what have you inside of the
handle cocaine what this makes is for a a situation where the the blade or the there's a technical term for it and i'm
probably going to get 12 emails about it but the the blade itself does not go fully down into the handle
so it makes it more easily to break off right and what you see here in the pictures is
you can see hair around the top of the the handle as well as what looks to be well i'm sorry not just looks to be but
it's labeled as victim's blood on the handle itself but where she was roaming when she left her
mother's trailer in the trailer park there was some shady stuff going on in this park yeah
so let's talk about these woodland estates for a bit because it seems to be that once she
as you said captain left her mom's home she's then known to have been moving around
staying god knows where right but we have a lot of statements eyewitness statements
of people who saw her people who talked with her in the days leading up to her death and
they're all saying hey she was still here in the woodland estates so as it turns
out more like hoodlums states the police were all too familiar with the mobile home park where the meternecks lived
here's a quote from a resident named cindy bose who lived near the meadownex she did not know them personally but her
daughter was one of the witnesses who said that they saw jennifer walking away from the direction of her home on monday
afternoon cindy told the times union quote this place is messed up there's a lot of
fighting and drugs the police are here all of the time of course investigators conducted interviews with
residents of the mobile home park they could not talk to everyone based on the sheer size of the place but they
canvassed the neighborhood and spoke with teens loitering in the area and anyone
who answered the door when they knocked to ask questions they were hoping that the teens in the neighborhood
might know jennifer might have known her personally or maybe helped them fill out their
timeline a little bit leading up to her murder now several of them did know jennifer and per the times union said
that several teens said that they had known the teen they described jennifer as a quiet girl without particular
friends or vices saying quote she didn't mess with nobody she just kept to herself said steven
smalls he goes on to say that she was the kind of person that trusted anybody through their canvas
police found that this trusting naive nature might have made jennifer vulnerable
and as you pointed out earlier captain if she's out telling people i'm outdoors i'm not staying at my mom's house
that too makes her vulnerable as well detective rob schunover of the clay county sheriff's office who reopened
this case in 2018 and who spoke with us told the first coast news that jennifer had
gotten involved in the adult party scene at woodland estates per the news report
quote in the days leading up to her death detective shoenover says some of the adult men in the mobile home park
were seen hanging around her and she was spotted at a party he goes on to say that there were parties going on where
she was present with illegal drugs again this from detective shoono the other issue too is if she's staying with
a friend one night if her friend's parents say hey you know you need to go back home
you can't stay here so now you have this 14 year old kid with not that many options so even if
somebody that you don't know too well an adult says hey well you can stay here with me
you might take that option because it's your only option i agree i i think what we're looking at here captain is a
situation where jennifer was couch surfing and she may have been staying with people that are not so readily
willing to admit that she crashed at their place right for a night or two yeah because they just don't want to be
even looked at as a suspect yeah or they're adult men right right you don't want to be no
creepers yeah you don't want law enforcement knowing that you're hanging out with a juvenile wow and that she's
seen at locations that contain illegal drugs the other thing that needs to happen in this case
is like you said she's a 14 year old we need to do the old pervert roundup well that was something that was
absolutely conducted now what we do know per law enforcement is that jennifer was hanging out with
adult men and we have to factor in the fact that based off of the information we have
from the body recovery scene was that jennifer was wearing what some have said look to be
like an engagement ring so the other thing that i want to know is who gave her that ring who gave that ring to her
right was this someone who wanted her to feel emotionally invested and trusting was this the
you know made to look like some type of relationship between unknown person and 14 year old jennifer
yeah or she's couch surfing as a item that she stole from somebody could be but until
you have an explanation for why that item is found on her body you have to seek out that explanation a few days
after jennifer was identified clay county sheriff scott lancaster asked the public to call police if they had any
idea where jennifer was during that time frame and who she had been with in the time period of november 5th
to november 8th when she was eventually found he said that the investigation was a
joint effort between clay and duval county authorities and somewhat dishearteningly sheriff
lancaster said that there were no suspects in jennifer's murder but this is not or it was not
really true or if it was true it would not be for long yeah but sometimes law enforcement misspeaks and maybe it was
just we have no suspects at this time that we're willing to tell the public about correct and it
looks to me that at some point detectives made up their minds pretty much about who had killed jennifer
and we've seen this in several other cases the problem was proving it so no arrests were made
immediately after finding her body or having her identified no arrests were made in their initial
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Jennifer Medernach /// Part 1 /// 532 Part 1 of 2

www.TrueCrimeGarage.com This week in the Garage we review the still unsolved homicide of Jennifer Medernach. It has now been twenty years since the day that Jennifer’s mother reported her missing. 14 year old Jennifer Medernach left after an argument with her mother. She was spotted several times over the course of the next few days, still in the families’ neighborhood. But the story turned to tragedy when her body was found in a creek several days after being reported missing. This case is still very active and getting some justice for Jennifer is still very likely. Anyone with information should reach out to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office @ 904-264-6512.

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Brief Summary

The case of Jennifer Metternach, a 14-year-old girl who went missing and was later found murdered, is discussed in detail.

Key points

The Disappearance of Jennifer Metternich. A 14-year-old girl goes missing, leading to a tragic discovery days later.
Body Found in the Creek. Teenage boys discover a body while fishing, leading to a homicide investigation.
The Investigation Begins. Police respond to the scene of the body discovery, marking the start of a homicide case.
Jennifer's Timeline of Events. Investigators piece together Jennifer's last known movements before her tragic death.
The Emotional Toll on Family. Jennifer's mother faces the devastating news of her daughter's murder.
The Discovery of Evidence. A knife handle with strands of Jennifer's hair is found, believed to be the murder weapon.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Some evil monster simply discarded her like trash.

Describing the brutal nature of the crime.

4:15WatchNov 4, 2021

Tension

75/ 100High tension

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