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Chambers [Music] well several people are being questioned but so far no arrest yet in the brutal
murder of a Penola County Mississippi teenager well even seasoned investigators are calling Jessica
Chambers murder the most brutal crime they've ever seen the 19-year-old was found Saturday near courland Mississippi
she was set on fire inside our car and died later wg's April Thompson tells us how her family says they're barely
barely holding on I've been doing it 21 years now and as far as the manner of death this is is certainly one of the
worst I've ever dealt with District Attorney John Champion said Tuesday investigators are leaving no stone
unturned for the killer of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers we're bringing you know folks in to interview and talking to
different uh you know potential Witnesses uh but as far as arrests are concerned there have been none made
champion wouldn't talk about chambers's autopsy results or her activities the night she died he did say investigators
are checking her cell phone to see who she'd been talking to something went wrong and we don't know what yet
Charlotte Wilkerson says she was brought in for questioning after her phone number showed up and they took you know
they took her phone records and I was in there as she called me auntie Shasha and
I was in there Shasha and I went and you know talked to them just Sunday evening
she was a loving child man 19 years old just just finished high school you know had a whole life in front of her Ben
Chambers Jessica's father says he's in pain knowing how terribly she must have suffered 98% of her body was burnt only
thing was burnt was the bottom of her feet um it's just destroyed our family man it
it's destroyed our family he says he has faith that investigators will find who's
responsible for his daughter's death and is touched by the show of support from people who've heard about the tragedy
from New York to East Coast to West Coast people I've never even heard a dream call me you know like Saturday
night they all going to light a candle for my [Music] door December 6th 2014 this case takes place in courland
Mississippi which is in the northern part of the state we have a young woman Jessica Chambers she's 19 years old
graduated from high school and she is staying at her mom's house and she goes to a gas station nearby the home uh and
she tells her mother that she is leaving to go clean out her car and to go get something to
eat um Within a few hours of that you know she is found in a situation that is is horrible beyond belief MH and this
story very quickly becomes national news Jessica does not come home that night and unfortunately she will be dead by
the next day and yes all the cases that we cover are pretty brutal but this one is uh especially brutal so if you're
sensitive to that stuff uh we we normally try to stay away from from the gore and the graphic nature of all the
crimes going into details but with the Jessica Chambers case uh some of that we can't get around so if you're sensitive
to that then uh you might want to not listen to this episode at 809 p.m. the uh fire department is going to respond
to a vehicle on fire call now fortunately in this situation they were able to arrive very quickly to this uh
to this call because they were just on recent call uh of a house on fire that they were leaving previously that put
them in the area when they arrive they are greeted with with a horrible sight this is a young woman and she's been
very badly burned well I mean I think you're skipping over it I mean let me handle this for a second the
firefighters show up at the scene there's a car Ablaze their first concern obviously is is there anybody in the
vehicle and they don't assume so this is a firefighter group these are all volunteers it's a very small
town but then out of the darkness comes this figure and it's this young lady 90% of her body is
burnt and I I couldn't even imagine what that site would be for them and so now we have a whole
different situation we're not just putting out this fire now we got to take care of this I mean she's 90% burnt over
her whole body pretty much the only thing that wasn't burnt was the soles of her feet and now they are she is telling
them or trying to communicate with them uh then they end up rushing her to the hospital yeah they they Life Flight her
out of there u in a helicopter trying to save her life and she's in an extremely
bad condition bad shape she does try to talk to uh one of the First Responders and it's later rumored that excuse me
somebody at the scene had said that she had tried to tell them who had attacked her right and that she had may had said
the word Derek or Eric um but this person was uncertain now the the police were very quick to come out and say that
you know we cannot say with certainty that she said who attacked her all we can say is that she did communicate with
the first responders and we are working on using that as a lead so unfortunately
when when they arrive when the First Responders arrive you know as the captain said they're responding to a car
on fire that's all they're expecting to see you know Vehicles get in accidents cars catch on fire you know this is a
small town we're talking like 400 maybe 500 people live in this area and so they're not expecting to show up and see
anything out of you know above and Beyond a car on fire and so when when they see the young woman when they see
Jessica Chambers she's described as stumbling blindly on the road um and she she again as mentioned she does go up to
the First Responders who are going to try to save her and she's Whispering or trying to communicate with them in some
fashion and she's saying what what has been echoed as either Eric or Derek um again this is not confirmed Med by
either law enforcement or the district attorney um they they've been really good about keeping everything close to
their vest in this case now one thing they would say after they uh rushed her out of there they sent her to a hospital
in Memphis Tennessee um but she could not be saved uh and they were reporting that she had received burns on 90% of
98% of her body and that doctors could not even insert a breathing tube because her Airway had been so badly damaged now
Jess Jessica's mother Lisa Chambers states that Jessica went to go clean out her car and then she was going to go get
something to eat and she never came home her father Ben would later tell the news
and media a little more about how his daughter was found you know he says that the fire department arrived Jessica was
walking down the road and on fire the only part of her body that wasn't burned was the bottom of her feet and he would
go on to say that they whomever did this they squirted light fluid fluid lighter
fluid lighter fluid down her throat and in her nose and apparently she had been knocked out uh before this took place
because she had a big gash on top of her head yeah so you have the gash on the head and the the interesting thing here
is they they constantly say lighter fluid it's some kind of accelerant so to to me it's like it it doesn't have to to
be the car was set on fire with gasoline and then that somebody used lighter fluid to pour down her throat which is
you know barbaric it chances are to me it's it whatever was used on the car was also
used on her now how did they get it down her esophagus because she was so badly burned
inside down her esophagus and then up her like nasal passages mhm and that's why the doctors are saying they could
not use the breathing tube to uh try to help save her um but you know this is this is why unfortunately because how
she's found this is why this case became such big news and such national news so
quickly um we have a young woman who's burned alive and she may have said who who had attacked her to the First
Responders um you know again investigators would not comment on that to this day but especially back then
when this case was new in the late part of 2014 now one can only speculate you know I'm sure she probably tried to
communicate something to the First Responders um however being that disoriented being going you know she's
probably in shock uh she's got the gash to her head she's so badly burnt possibly even on you know her throat and
and face as well don't know how or what ability she would have to communicate anything well and again all the these
reports coming out by her father there is no autopsy report that I could find so again there there's a there's the
trial happening and so they can't they don't release this information I I at some point the autopsy is going to be
released and would have more knowledge but based on we can just go based off of what the the father is saying right
right and that's that was his comments to the news and media and the early goings of this investigation now Ben the
father he works as a mechanic for the sheriff's department so he may have been privy to some information being that
he's the father of the victim and that he works with some of the people investigating this case well and also
his daughter is you know was sent to a hospital she passed away the next day and then just the conversation that he's
having with the doctors the doctors it's not a full autopsy but the doctors are obviously knowledgeable and the nurses
are knowledgeable on what's happening with her and her condition to try to save her life now quickly in this
investigation there's another bit of information that comes out so of course they're trying to piece together Jessica
Chambers last hours you know what did she do that last day and who may have been with her and could have had the
means of attacking her that day um and it's quickly reported that a there's a video tape that comes out and this is
surveillance footage from the gas station that we had mentioned that she had stopped off at uh on the
surveillance footage you can see Jessica waving to someone out of the view of the
camera and then she goes over and talks to whom I presume is whomever she was waving to Jessica eventually returns to
her car she finishes pumping gas and she drives away now during this brief stop at the gas station you can also see a
man in a striped shirt who appears to be filling up a gas can uh and then he walks off so of course police feel that
this is a lead and that this is something that they need to find Jessica's killer so with a small town
and this gas station being a hot spot and all these cameras that are set up at the gas station this is going to be
something that is going to give law enforcements a lot of Clues and a lot of information to look into yeah and let's
introduce the district attorney John champion because if you start to look into this case he is he's very prominent
he's at the Forefront of almost every news uh clip that you're going to see out there and he's given a lot of
interviews um since this attack um now as said well since this murder yeah uh John Champion is the district attorney
for the area and he goes on to clear up um a few things and better describe some
of the surveillance footage and the scene to which firefighters arrive Champion does repeat that Jessica's
mother had said that the 19-year-old had left the house to clean out her car and
to get something to eat there had been a rumor going around early in the investigation that Jessica was going to
go to a party but as anyone can see when you watch the surveillance footage she is not dressed like she's going to go to
a party she has her hair just like like she just put it up in a bun m and she's wearing what appears to be camouflage P
pajama pants so she's very extremely casual almost rolled out of bed casual uh plus police would go on to speak with
persons at the party that it was rumored that she was going to go to and they all
said that they had never seen Jessica at the party this is all crucial stuff here
because the authorities are trying to learn what happened to Jessica between the stop at the gas station and then
about 90 minutes later when she's found in very bad shape and very badly burned Champion also states that Jessica was
not burning when she was found this was just a rumor she did go up to one of the
firefighters and she did speak of course Champion would not say what Jessica had
said but told the news that it certainly has given us a lead that we are following up on he also states that the
volunteer fire department that had responded to the car Blaze was able to respond so fast because they were only a
couple miles away at another call when the call came in it was also clear early on that an accelerant as the
captain had said was used but they were not able to determine if the accelerant was poured on the car or onto Jessica or
both now Champion believes that the key to everything in this case is her cell phone okay Jessica's phone um he he was
going under the assumption that she had received a call before she left her house now Jessica's phone was found near
her car and so there's a bit of a process here okay well let's start with the PJs right right so we got the she's
wearing PJs so everybody's assuming the her plan that night from all accounts is
that she was going to go to this party based on the footage it doesn't seem like a lot of logical sense but we're
also coming from we're old dudes you know like if we are going to a party you know it takes us a long time to get
ready cuz we you know we look like dog [ __ ] right but this and and yeah and women do will take their time getting
ready for events but this is also not that uncommon for a girl to oh I got to run to the gas station first I'm in my
pajamas she could have ran to the gas station and was expecting to come home ch and then go to the party right that
that's totally possible does that factor into what happened to her is that some kind of lead I don't know but that
that's a possibility is what I'm saying well it's only a lead because one if she
actually went to the party which I think they're able to determine that she did not to now from there your next lead is
going to be okay well who would she have attended this party with had she ended up there and then did they go to the
party right right was there somebody else missing from the party yeah because now you have to piece together who was
with her at that moment you know we we have that 90 minutes from the from the time that she leaves the gas station to
the time that she's found we need to figure out what happened during those 90 minutes now this is why the cell phone
becomes so important because you know with with the way everybody you know with the way everybody texts and calls
so much these days there might be a text there could be a phone call that that took place that would lead them to
figure out how she ended up in that wooded area with her car on fire well what's you know what happens as far as
for me as far as Fascinations with the case is you have a time frame right you have a window right so you have a window
and in this case she's at the gas station and then she's found it's a 90-minute window and it's piecing
together that now today with social media Snapchat all that stuff you these windows of these cases are going to
become smaller and smaller because we're going to have you know because we how many cases have we covered where we're
like well nobody really talked to her for days and days and then she was murdered so now you have days and days
of a window right but now with social media and technology these windows are going to be very small we're going to
know what happened 15 minutes before or 5 minutes before so that's what they're going on so what I'm also there's a call
that sends her does the call send her to the gas station like Jessica gets a call mhm
does that call send her to the gas station or was it just a random call well do you want to get into the gas
station I think we need to I think we got to talk about the gas station now so what what did she do while she was at
the gas station that we know about she she arrived uh she was pumping gas she waved to somebody went and spoke to
somebody um she does go into the gas station and apparently she is friendly with the uh
store attendant and would speak with him when she would go in there uh he said something to Media later that she had
purchased for $14 worth of gas which was more than usual for her she was you know
you know how some people go in you see them at the gas station they give me five on pump too well she was that kind
of person she she took a few bucks and filled up the car you know on this occasion right it might just be because
she didn't have money to fill up the tank he just thought that it was a little abnormal because that's that's
the first thing that the detectives are going to ask him did she do anything or say anything abnormal that night well
she purchased $14 worth of gas which is considerably more than she usually buys he says that he had commented to her
about the amount of gasoline purchased and she said that she was she had somewhere to go but did not elaborate on
that now in the video footage as the captain had said there's a lot of cameras going on here so you see
different camera views you know camera One camera two and so on and so forth but through piecing all these together
you can see her movements her her going over and saying hi to somebody she goes into the gas station there are several
yeah she puts out it looks like she puts out a cigarette before she goes in yeah
there are several men inside this gas station there's about three of them just hanging out they're they're just hanging
out like the captain said there's not this is kind of the spot you know the hot spot in town where people would go
and they would just chat but there's three men kind of hanging out off to her side while she's up paying for uh
presumably the gas that she purchased well I'm from a small town and for some reason we had a um a car wash that
people would hang out at there's a bowling alley in a car wash and people would just drive their cars over to the
car wash and hang out never made any sense to me anyways so yeah people are just is hanging out now is she it looks
to me as she goes to ATM machine in the footage yeah she she I I don't know if she went to an ATM but
there there are two transactions that take place with the teller um with the attendant uh she goes in and presumably
pays for the gas and then it's believed that she went back and purchased a like a pack of cigarettes mhm so again we're
back to this magical hour or this this 90 minutes of where was Jessica and how did she end up at this wooded area now
the the thing that's troubling here is you know the captain asked why was she at the gas station it may just have been
to pick up cigarettes and and gas up the car um we don't know what activity was going on with that cell phone and right
but but you one could assume like that's what I'm saying we're trying to close out this window and so it's like but one
could assume if she's going to you know in her PJs to get gas why you're getting
gas at night for a reason is it for the next day is it to go to this party are you getting cigarettes just because you
you're a smoker or you get an extra cigarettes cuz you're going to a party see what I'm saying I'm trying to figure
out what her intention is for later on in the the night right I I think that you know investigators are working off
of the assumption that they're taking her at her word that she was just simply going to clean out her car and get
something to eat she's dressed to me as though she's returning to her mom's house afterwards um but yeah you're
right what what were her intentions after that we don't know well yeah yeah I think you're totally correct her
intention is to go back to her mom's house but what is her intention after that I mean it's at night why are you
cleaning up your car are you cleaning up your car CU you want to pick up a guy you I mean think about you know I kind
of have a messy car here and there but if I was going to pick up a girl for a date I want to clean it out right I want
I don't want to be Captain slob right they don't you don't want them to get in the car and go uh like there's all these
you know rappers everywhere so maybe but that's what I'm saying was that her intent and then did she meet up with
this person earlier you know did she not go back to her mom's house you know right right well well but the the thing
here is right you've you've got to figure out if she was if she met with the person that
that that set the fire right or was she carjacked or did something something uh you know get in the way of of her plans
that evening you know was was she was there a text or a phone call that led her elsewhere right and that's another
difficult thing about this case I mean it's a fascinating case but because of the trial and because of this you know
it's not case closed that this information is not out there normally we cover a case and we can say
Okay based off of the based off the trial and based of what the the cops released we know their phone records
this we're kind of in the dark yeah there there's been very little released on this case and due to that we've seen
nothing but rumor and unfortunately you know this case was very hard to read about and research uh for the obvious
that she was the horrible manner that she was killed right but on top of that there's so many news articles and
there's so many news clips that you will read something in one article and then read another article that that will tell
you that that first one was all rumor you know and and so there's a lot of there's a lot of this back and forth
when you look into this case just a prime example the father says that she was found burning when the First
Responders arrive and the district attorney quickly says well well that's not true that was just a rumor that was
going on in the area at the time so with these rumors you're going to see this time and time again in this case I mean
very quickly into this investigation by January of 2015 there are some wild theories out there and they're just
about everything that one can think of mentions of the KKK of bikers uh Aryan Brotherhood meth gangs everything that
you can think of there were theories for these for this case we can dive into that right after a quick this show is
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beer break all right we're back cheers everybody cheers so we're kneed deep in this case right Captain we have this
young woman who was found and she's been murdered and we're trying to piece together her her last hours before the
attack and before she's killed now as we said there's rumors there's theories coming out why because the detectives
they're holding everything close to the vest here they're not releasing a whole lot of information and this will cause
the rumor mill to run wild right and with Jessica being so brutally you know the murder was so brutal I mean somebody
set her on fire set her car on fire fire as well everybody wants to know answers
everybody wants to know why and they also want somebody to pay for this somebody they want Justice to be served
so a close friend of Jessica a man claiming to be close friends of jessicaa claimed also that Jessica at some point
lived with his mother for about 6 months or so comes out saying well look this is
this is pretty simple this all goes back to her father uh her father Ben so he claims that Jessa Jessica Chambers
father Ben was a meth dealer now like we talked before Jessica's father works for
the police department he's like a mechanic uh but this guy's claim is that on the side that he's also a meth dealer
and this her death is a direct cause of him being a drug dealer and so what he comes out and then the other interesting
thing here is that um her brother Ben not her father but her brother Ben a year or so prior to all this uh was in a
single car accident and he was he died so he also claims that that was related to um the father being a drug dealer
that there's some kind of turf war going on U right there's amongst drug dealers
and that they're attacking Ben's family right basically like hey if we we killed
off your son you know so knock it off and just and and and the hopes that he's going to stop selling uh meth and then
again when that didn't happen now well we're going to kill your daughter he also makes claims that uh Jessica had a
some run with these gangs before uh because of her father as well they're targeting this girl and she was gang
raped twice that was one of the hardest parts about this case for me Captain when I was looking into it there were so
many rumors going on but on top of that for every news story that you would read
you know you have the the blog commenters below that you can read their comments and a lot of them were so a lot
of them were so racist on on on both sides of the tracks I guess you could say you know whether it being uh
African-American people saying racist things because she was a white victim or white people saying uh racist things
about African-American people being you know that that she was you know known to
have dated African-American men and that this case is probably that she pissed off some white boy that was infatuated
with her right the motives being race related yeah and and that's what was was so disconcerning for me when I was
researching this case was that every every news article that I read there was some form of
racism by the readers you know and at some point you got to be looking for justice and not just pointing the finger
at maybe some people you don't like for unknown reasons uh we're talking about a
small town here um this well it seemed to me that a lot of people had you know previous agendas yesly then they're
looking at this case and whatever their agenda is you know so if it's like oh well I don't believe that white women
should date black men so then I see this case and I go oh see this is what happens right and it's like I mean maybe
there is motive for that I mean we talked roughly like it's possible that some of the guys that she dated were in
gangs it seems like this area uh you know has a lot of gang activity and if she was dating a guy in one gang then
maybe that's she W her murder was retaliation on that gang and that's very possible yeah but the thing is here with
as you said most people they some of these people go into it looking at it one way and they skew the events to to
follow their Theory right the problem here is whomever did this they had they to to treat somebody this way and to
kill them in this manner this to me there's something more involved that you're either dealing with
an absolute Loose Cannon or you're dealing with somebody that's got a lot of hatred and that is probably likely to
kill other people um this is not just something that that you do as a retaliation in my opinion not something
you do because of an infactuation uh but again it's a senseless crime though so trying to make sense out of a
senseless crime put us in a bad spot right I don't agree on that level because I think you know it's kind of
this Alpha thing you know who's the alpha dog in these gangs and so it's always taking things to the next level
so yeah if if it was Gang Related if it was drug related on her brother's death oh we ran this guy off the road he died
in a car accident you then they're upping the atie and saying okay well we can't just shoot somebody right mhm we
we we're they're trying to make a statement here so that's where I I look would this person kill again yeah this
who whoever did this is an absolute psychopath is a absolute [ __ ] monster is an absolute [ __ ] animal and you
know it's it's it's ridiculous but they will kill again but to say that well I don't believe somebody would do this
heinous of a crime time uh just if it was Gang Related I I don't I don't buy that I think it's very possible so let's
get back into some of the facts of this case right so we have at roughly 5:30 uh
Jessica Chambers a scene on the surveillance camera this is at the gas station that we had discussed now we did
say that they found they were able to retrieve her cell phone near her vehicle at the scene of the crime now they are
able to determine later that there was phone activity at the crime scene where she would later be found and this phone
activity took place at at approximately 7:30 p.m. now at 8:09 p.m. is when the report of a car on fire goes out and
they get the call now at 88:13 remember we had said they showed up very quickly just four minutes later they find the
vehicle and then they find Jessica Chambers at 9:30 p.m. p.m. you know Jessica has already been life-flighted
to Memphis to try to save her but at 9:30 p.m. we still have a crime scene that we're dealing with now there is a
tow truck driver who shows up and he removes the vehicle and he's going to take it to back to the police impound
lot where they're going to you know test it for whatever that they need to test it for hopefully they did some proper
testing at the crime scene itself but he is going to stop off along the way which
I I think is probably extremely frowned upon but he stops off at this very same gas station that Jessica was seen
earlier on the surveillance footage right now what happens here is he's stopping off to buy a pack of cigarettes
well the store attendant then proceeds to take pictures of the burnt vehicle and he would later post those onto
Facebook and he would also State some details about the crime now later we would learn that a lot of of these
details that he States on there is simply more rumor than actual fact but what he does here is he throws himself
into the suspect ring well and the like we said before this gas station is kind of a social Gathering so how many this
rumor mill in this small town and who's seeing it or or who's hearing it it would be you know like the bartenders or
in this case the gas station attendant and now for some reason he's in this stuff on Facebook yeah and what this
whole thing is going to come down to is going to be that hour that last hour that she was alive and her cell phone
and the cell phone activity this is what they need to figure out and that's the process though there there's a process
of figuring out that that cell phone one you have to get the rights to to look up
all the records of the usage of the cell phone and once you've cleared that hurdle you you may have to figure out
the password or figure out how to access the cell phone to view the activity yeah
and you'll see this time and time again as they're interviewing people from the town uh saying oh yeah we were cont
contacted by the police because um Jessica at some point you know contacted me a couple days before or the day of
and then the police are starting to question these individuals now I don't know what the father does you know I
don't know him from anybody but uh I never really liked the father Theory um whether it be I believe that that person
that had mentioned that that this was in retaliation to something he was doing or
some kind of turf war that he had that man had also stated that he belied that Ben was a suspect and being questioned
by police I don't know if that's the facts what I do know is that the the sheriff's department the police
department the District Attorney's office they interviewed close to 200 people regarding this case and this was
late in 2015 so we're only less than a year after this whole investigation has started and they've interviewed over 200
people we're talking about a town of only 4 to 500 people you've almost interviewed half of the the occupants of
this town trying to figure out what had happened now of those 200 people that were interviewed during the course of
this they figure out a few things okay and a lot of this is going to revolve around persons at the gas station that
we had spoke of earlier now first we have that the gas station attendant who became a suspect because he took the
photos and what ends up happening with his story is he ends up basically being run out of town because once he becomes
a suspect he starts receiving death threats and all kinds of threats and so he hi Tails it out of town now the
police would go on further to state that they do not see him as a suspect that they've interviewed this man and they
don't have him on their list right but we see this all the time where you're guilty in the public eye mhm and now
another person that was of Interest as we had said was the man in the striped shirt that was seen on the surveillance
footage pumping gas what looks like he's filling up a gas tank or a gas can I'm sorry now he was interviewed as well as
well as the three men that were inside the gas station at the time and they the police it it's funny here because if you
read certain newspaper articles they do say that none of these people are they or that they have been cleared all right
that they've all been cleared in the investigation I've never seen those words or heard those words coming out of
the District Attorney's mouth because what he simply says is those those people have been interviewed they've
been talked to and they are not suspects in this case he's not saying that they're cleared but they're not suspects
now what does take place in this investigation throughout the investigation there are rumors all along
like the captain had said that this could be some form of gang activity or some kind of Gang Related crime what
that leads to and the District Attorney's words are that he does not believe that this is a gang rated crime
however it does lead them to several gang members or people involved in Gang Related type activities but my argument
would be if if she was murdered by a gang member then therefore it's G related yeah what what they end up doing
is they they will uh arrest and speak with um 17 suspected area gang members this took place in December of 2015
they're arrested on gun drugs and counterfit charges amongst other charges um but again the district attorney John
Champion he does not think that any of these suspects of these 17 are related to Jessica Chambers murder but he did
say that while the investigation LED them to them being investigated for other crimes he did state that in their
plea negotiations all will be given an opportunity to help them help themselves and maybe that will bring us closer to
the truth right closure so almost over a year goes by and the Rumor meal is going
crazy because the police are keeping everything close to the vest but now we have a suspect now we have an individual
that we're going to charge and the murder of Jessica Chambers yeah there's a man Quinton Tellus he's 27 years old
and the district attorney would say that he was a suspect early on in the case however they let the investigation lead
them elsewhere and he did not become the focal point of their investigation until
the fall of 2015 now tell us he had once lived in courland and that is where U the
district attorney says that he and Jessica Chambers had become friends there's no we there's the district
attorney does not elaborate on the relationship that they had uh but he states that Tellus moved to Mississippi
moved from Mississippi to Louisiana in the summer of 2015 this is the summer after Jessica Chambers is killed right
now while he's there Quinton Tellus is arrested in August of 2015 on three counts of unauthorized use of a credit
card uh I'm sorry a debit card and this debit card would be in connection to another homicide victim right this is a
woman that's identified as a 34-year-old University of Louisiana Monroe student uh from Taiwan um according to an
affidavit in the case Tellus used her bank card uh belonging to this missing woman on April 7th this was the day
before she was her body was found and again he used used that same card on August 18th and August 19th uh each time
he's withdrawing $500 the authorities had also procured photo evidence and they interviewed
Quinton Tellus on August 20th at which point he admitted that he used the Chase bank card on the three listed
transactions that I had just stated and he also admitted that he was the individual seen in the ATM photos that
the the police were question in him about following the questioning of Quinton Tellus and him admitting that he
used the bank card and that he was the person seen in the ATM photos the police they get a warrant to enter Mr ts's home
now this is his home in Monroe uh and they discover there a quarter pound of marijuana in his bedroom that is
packaged for sale um so the suspect it he he had stated that yeah I I sell marijuana um and so he's arrested and
booked on several charges uh that being using the the dead woman's debit card as
well as being charged with the possession of marijuana with intent to sell so when they when Quinton Tellis
comes back onto the radar right when he becomes the focal point of their investigation into the Jessica Chambers
murder Quinton telis is already being held in a correctional facility in Monroe Louisiana this is about a 4our
drive from I just to make mississipp like he was a suspect there somebody that was on the radar M with Jessica's
Chambers at the beginning then he moves yeah after her death which is a little sketchy anyways then he's involved with
this debit card and now they're going okay maybe we need to look at this guy again yeah and I just wanted to be very
clear well and but the thing that is unclear here is while they transport him from Louisiana to
Mississippi uh they then charge him with the death and murder of Jessica Chambers
yeah so what did they know we don't know right that's what's so frustra about this damn case we don't know what they
know uh because they won't say anything now what they will say is that if you listen to and read the district attorney
and and what he's said about this case all along he's always said that this case will go back to the cell phone that
her cell phone is going to present us with a lead that's going to lead us to an arrest and then a an indictment and
hopefully a conviction so in this case while they won't State the specifics of that we know that they've arrested this
man after they were able to access her phone and to see the activity of her phone now this guy they bring him in and
I it's unclear to me what the motive is what his motor motive is for murder now they they have gone on to say some
things like you know the forensics the forensic evidence in this will be a big part in a driving force in the
prosecution of Quenton Tillis now did they find something at the scene I don't know did they find something in his home
in Louisiana we don't we don't know that however there's there's been something to connect him to this case and it's not
just that he had some kind of friendship or relationship with Jessica Chambers right right yeah because we could just
assume we're bring thisy back now let's start questioning him they don't do that
they charge him mhm so there's there's a Smoking Gun somewhere yeah and I think what we're going to see is now he's
going to stand trial for the murder of Jessica Chambers in 2017 so next year I believe it's in June
or July this trial will start and that's when we're going to see how that they connected him to this crime you know
they they did figure out one thing forensically regarding this case that they believed all long that the person
that Set Fire to the car and set fire to Jessica was most likely in the car before this took place um I don't know
what in what information or evidence they could retrieve seeing the state of the vehicle I mean the car was burnt so
badly it was a black car and when you see pictures of it now it's white it's it's a completely white car um but they
believed all along that this was a very up close and personal attack and murder that took place that this person
attacked her physically and was in the vehicle when this happened so then he stands trial for this case correct he's
going to be he's been charged and he's been indicted and they will go to trial in the summer of next year now this is a
capital murder case right so there is the opportunity for the death penalty in this case now but we all know that
usually they're going going to kind of weigh their options here the district attorney has not outright said that
they're going to seek the death penalty now obviously the community really wants
that to happen and I'm sure a lot of people listening want this to happen because of how horrifying her death was
well yeah and if he's charged maybe they should throw some lighter fluid down his
[ __ ] throat and set this [ __ ] on fire well it but the thing is here they have to weigh their evidence
because when you when you're going to seek the death penalty it usually needs to be a very open and closed case you
know it needs to be very obvious to the jury that this guy deserves the death penalty and I again because they've not
released anything we don't know what kind of evidence they have on this guy now we should point out though that he's
also been uh indicted and he's been charged with the murder of the the student right of the debit card that he
was using yeah cuz at the time they they didn't have enough evidence so therefore
they discharged him with the use of the card that gets him in their custody that
gets them access to this information so you know if you watch the Nancy Grace Clips you know and she's going and this
guy this guy got away 10 years 10 years from murder I don't know if that's how she sounds but but anyways guys she's
annoying sometimes but uh anyways that was like wow this guy's going to get away with murder boom now he's connected
with Jessica Chambers hopefully he gets sentenced to death for that uh like I said I mean this I think it's just
because you know again she's she's 19 whole life ahead of her all that stuff right but just so brutal I mean if if
that's true I mean setting somebody on fire that's like a nightmare right yeah that's that's everybody's nightmare like
I mean it sounds bad cuz we talk about cases every week but there's there are some events to me that seem like they
Trump other you know as far as the brutality of it well yeah you're exactly right I mean this case and we talked
about this earlier that how how hard it was to research this case and half of that was because of the brutality of of
the violence in this case and then on top of that um you know it's you know it it it was just it was a
physically draining case to read about because of violence I mean you know you say sometimes there's there's ones that
aren't as hard to research you know last week we talked about Beverly pots and of
course that's a horrible crime and a horrible case as well but something that took place 60 years ago you feel a
little more distanced from that that type of crime and it almost feels like you're reading about a story rather than
this seems very yeah more of a history lesson which this seems very relevant it's very new and uh and then also you
just you know just think about when you're 19 and you're driving around and you know again 19-year-old when we
talked about well she never really filled up the tank well it's something you do when you're 19 throw in a couple
bucks cuz that's what you have and you start just really identifying with this individual and then if you lived in a
small town or had friends you know grow up in a small town and so I mean I'm not
normally one to just say let's kill this dude you know but for some reason this case like this is horror it's it's sad
and then I see pictures of this guy and he's just he's the definition of a monster he's definition of of the devil
which then also started rumors that this was a satanic act and all this other junk um but you're going to continue to
see rumors about this case and wild theories about this case even though they have their so-called man you know
you're going to continue to see that until the trial comes out and we start to see what links him to the crime and
who he is exactly now I don't want to I don't want to prosecute the guy here in the garage because we should we should
assume that he is innocent before you know but but the thing is with why I could do that if I wasn't drinking with
the death of with the death of the student from uh Louisiana Monroe University that was an extremely violent
death as well I believe she was stabbed over 30 times right that's what I'm saying I think this guy is just a a
freaking monster and what we're talking about here though is somebody that is has the ability that is capable of very
heinous and violent violent murders that are up close and personal I I can see why these two are very linked you know
that that you can link these two together because of the amount of violence because of how close you would
have had to been when you were attempting to end that person's life whomever did this to Jessica basically
they set her and her vehicle on fire and they walked away they walked away hoping that she would never walk away
and that she would never be able to tell what had happened to her now she survived long enough and we don't know
what tips she gave her again that will probably come out in the trial right we don't know what she said to the First
Responders but I hope she had the last word in this case so the stage is set the trial is set for the summer of 2017
so this is a case that we'll we will jump back into once uh we hear news and I'm sure people like Nancy Grace and
stuff will jump all over these this trial yeah and you know what though maybe for a form of punishment for you
know whether you receive life or death or whatever maybe you should have to spend like an afternoon with Nancy Grace
if you're if you're a guilty horrible person and just just let her yell at you for for an afternoon now but the thing
that's mean because I I I do sometimes watch her show and enjoy it so I don't want to I don't want to bash her too
much I mean she's well anyway but but the thing is that we are going to what we will find out about is there's going
to be a couple things happen with this case even before the trial takes place right we're going to have to figure out
is this going to be a death penalty case they'll have to figure that out and I'm
sure we'll hear more about that before the summer of 2017 but the other issue is here when would he stand trial for
the murder of the University student and will that be a death penalty case as well because both of those stat carry
the death penalty and these are both horrible crimes and of course this case has to come out uh the week of Christmas
and I think I dropped the most F bombs I have on on an episode you're going to have to clean it up a little bit Mister
yeah I apologize if that offense I mean we we set the bar at you know this is uh
what we put the E little e on there yeah um but yeah I try not to drop them too like this is just sometimes you read
about this stuff and just hits you in in a weird weird way and it just just lingers with you and then for 3 or 4
days you're just freaking depressed about everything and you just Humanity you just you lost hope in humanity
anyways um so we'll we'll give updates on this case once we know something and we got any recommended reading for the
week we do this week we are recommending psychopaths in our lives by di Diane Emerson uh as you probably know most of
what is written about psychopaths are from the perspective of violent Psychopaths but in some cases serial
killers are operating on a much lower level than psycho Psychopaths that are successful in masking their true
character this is not an you know one of those all of these people or bad kind of
stories right uh the author wants people to see the truth about what psychopaths
are doing and for people to recognize how they operate again that psychopaths in our lives by Diane Emerson and you
can pick that up by going to truecrime garage.com and click on the recommended page and thank you everybody out there
for listening yeah I mean I'm just going to take this moment to say happy holidays uh Merry Christmas Happy Quanza
I'm sure I'm going to happy Hanukkah happy Hanukkah I you know I'll I'll light manur for everybody whatever
you're celebrating do it with your friends and family and let's all be great to each other this holiday season
and all of next year and have a couple drinks yeah break bread yep we'll be here next week in the garage and we will
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December 6th, 2014 a volunteer fire department is responding to a car blaze call when they are met with the unthinkable. A young woman has been set on fire and left for dead. Media sources are quick to report the woman was trying to communicate with the first responders. She unfortunately passed away shortly after she was attacked. Was the young woman able to name her killer? If she did why would it take a year to make an arrest? With Jessica Chambers' murder the focal point of so many news headlines why does the public know so little about the crime? Tonight we step into the garage and examine this very difficult and horrific case.

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Brief Summary

Jessica Chambers was brutally murdered in 2014; Quinton Tellis was later arrested in connection with her death.

Key points

The Brutal Murder of Jessica Chambers. Jessica Chambers, a 19-year-old, was found burned in her car, leading to a nationwide investigation.
A Shocking Discovery. First responders arrive to find Jessica severely burned, igniting a desperate search for answers.
The Gas Station Encounter. Surveillance footage reveals Jessica's last moments before her tragic fate, raising questions about her final interactions.
Jessica's Gas Station Visit. Jessica purchased $14 worth of gas, more than usual, raising questions about her intentions.
Rumors and Theories. The investigation is clouded by rampant rumors and theories about Jessica's death.
The Gas Station Attendant's Role. The gas station attendant becomes a suspect after posting details about the crime online.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Something went wrong and we don't know what yet.

A family member reflects on the uncertainty surrounding Jessica's case.

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