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[Music] Here we are. [Music] So, we're at Olive Branch, the church that I grew up in for 3 years. This is
the house that I lived [Music] in. This is probably not a door I want to open. I just I
don't I don't know if I could handle being in there. [Music] knowing what [Music]
happened. My name is Jesse. My hair is pink. I decided to change my hair. I also changed my name to
Jesse. Jessica, I no longer wanted that name cuz she was a very sad, lonely, angry little girl. And I just didn't
want that anymore. [Music] When I was a young child, I lived with my mom and my dad. And then there was
me, the oldest, my middle sister, Janelle. And then there was my little sister, Jolene. My dad died when I was 5 years
old. After my dad had died, my mom married Bob P. and Bob had become a minister because
my stepdad was the minister of the church. We lived in the parsonage. Bob's kids were older than me and my sisters.
My first impression of Jeff was he was very tall, skinny, crazy, big hair. Uh, and Jackie, she was a little more quiet,
reserved. My sister Janelle and I had a best friend, Stephanie [Music] Fagan. She was like one of the family.
We played in the backyard. We ran through the cornfields. It was typical country girl
stuff. The P family through my eyes. Seemed normal for the most [Music] part. In April 1989, I was 9 years old.
My whole world was shattered. Jeff was planning to go to the prom that weekend. Jackie was at a church camp. I had
planned to go to a friend's house, so I ended up going to the sleepover by myself for the whole
weekend. My Sunday routine was we would usually arrive at church between 9:00 and 9:15.
I would go over to the Pellies because Don usually had breakfast made, eggs, bacon, whatever we wanted. So, I ran
over there, but the door was locked. I was confused. The doors were never locked. And I went running back to the
church and I said, "I don't know. They must all be sleeping." At this point in time, I think the whole
congregation was there. They had a master key. They went and scoped it out themselves and they came back and
said, "Everybody needs to run to the altar and [Music] pray." I was super confused. We drove up and I saw lots of
people in the parking lot. And there were cop cars everywhere. There was yellow crime tape. A police
officer came up to the van and asked my friend's mom to get out. And I could see
them talking and I could see the tears just start streaming down her face. Who shot and killed the P family? So she
came around and told me that my whole family was gone. The brutal murder of the pelower shotgun wasn't
[Music] home. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] The brutal murder of the P family shot
to death in their home Sunday morning. thrust a small town into the national spotlight.
I had just found out that my whole family was gone. I had just lost everything. I pretty much became an
orphan in a day. Lakeville was never the same for me and it was never the same for anybody to
be honest with you that live there. It was hard on the whole community. This happy picture of the P family is
how most people who knew the Pellies probably want to remember them because that family was loved dearly and nobody
could understand it. Jesse and I, we were 3 years apart in age. It wasn't too hard for me to try to
put myself into her shoes and to know what it must be like to lose everyone. The funeral was on May 3rd,
1989 in the church where Bob Preached every Sunday next to the house where they were
murdered. It was standing room only. There was media everywhere. news anchors running around with cameras
pointed at us as we walked in. Also at the funeral were Jesse's stepsister Jackie and stepbrother Jeff. Both had
not been home the weekend of the murders. I remember seeing Jackie visibly emotionally upset and
shaken. Jeff, he was just flat and distant. It's like he was there but he wasn't there. The only thing I remember
about my family's funeral was the [Music] caskets. I don't remember who all was there. I couldn't tell you what I was
doing. I just remember the four caskets. We were toward the front of the church in a
[Music] pew and all at once the cords to a piano began to play the song Amazing Grace.
[Music] And I just remember being so devastated to realize the reason that the caskets were closed is because of
the horrific way that they had died. No one should have seen what we saw that morning. We walked in through the garage
door and upstairs, Robert P was in the hallway, his glasses next to him, and he had two gunshots on his
body. And then we went downstairs and saw Dawn, Janelle, and Jolene. And that was what
really put a face to this crime. To see the young girls in that position the way they were with their
mothers, trying to protect them was just something that was etched in my mind forever. They were all shot in the head.
It was devastating. It stuck with me my whole life. I mean, 30 years later, I can still see if I close my eyes the
three people in the basement. As a detective, I saw the worst of the worst that morning, but we had a job to
do. So, immediately started talking about suspects. It did not look like a burglary. It not look like a home
invasion. The police spoke to all of the surviving members of the P family, including Jeff P. So, do you know who
killed your mother and father or your father? And No, I I really don't. I I don't know who would want to. I didn't
know who had done it or who they thought had done it. It was like a hush- hush thing with
me. In my own mind, I had to come up with something. So, I thought my stepdad had killed my mom and my two sisters and
then killed himself. He was not very nice to me. spanked me a lot. So, I thought, you
know, at nine that he could have been capable of that. But police had dismissed that
possibility almost immediately. After seeing the extent of injuries of Bob P and no murder weapon or no weapon
laying around him, I wrote the suicide part out in my mind. A month after the funeral, relatives sent Jesse away to
camp with her friend Stephanie in an effort to restore some normaly to her life.
uh ended up to not be normal. Jessica was a very changed person after that. When I say the million mile stare, like
she had it a lot. It was almost as if she was there, but she wasn't there. When I look at those pictures,
it's just so weird and strange to me because we both have smiles on our faces, but those little
girls weren't right. Um, those little girls were hurting. After camp, Jesse says her relatives
thought it was best for her to start over. They didn't want her to communicate with the people that she had
shared this tragedy with. After the murders, we really didn't have a close relationship. My stepbrother and my
steps sister and I, they went with family members on their dad's side and I went with a family member on my mom's
side. I ended up in Michigan because I went and stayed with my grandfather. They
just wanted me to forget and move on. It's like they wanted me to be in this bubble to protect me, but it wasn't
really protecting me. It was isolating me and hurting me. I had sent letters and I was told not to send any any any
more letters. I just would sit at night and think to myself, I can't imagine what
she's going through. I ended up running away and then they placed me in a foster home. I didn't
really have a place to call my own. I felt like a drifter. I didn't know where I was going
to stay. I felt like I didn't belong anywhere. As time passed and Jesse tried to regain
her footing, the investigation dragged on without any arrests. At the age of 13, I did try and take control of my
life and I actually pushed down all the feelings that I was feeling. I was happy
and outgoing and had friends and didn't think about the past. But 5 years after the murder of her family, someone from
her past life came calling. My stepbrother Jeff, he did call me when I was 15 and asked me to come down to
Florida to visit him. When I went to visit him, he did have a really good job with the
computer business. He had a wife, Kim, and you know, had his own house. So, he was he was doing pretty good. And the
first thing that he asked me was, "Who do you think did it?" So, I looked at him and said, "I
think your dad did it." And then it was dropped. Unbeknownst to Jesse, police had been
focusing on someone else from the very beginning. Looking back on that time visiting Jeff, it could have gone way
worse than it [Music] did. [Music] After the pellets were gone and after they were buried, here I am at the
cemetery. There was no more laughing. There was no more running. There was no more playing. Just going to grab my
stuff out of the trunk. There was just no more of anything. And they're right over here.
When I was 16, I got my driver's license and the first place I went was to the cemetery. I would just
sit and talk to them. It was a huge way to cope with the loss. And then I started kind of tending
their graves, just making sure that they were clean and scrubbed and that there wasn't any moss and stuff on them. My
mind just wonders why. I mean, they were so young. For years, Stephanie Fagan grieved the
loss of the murdered P family, but also the loss of Jesse. She was gone. I couldn't figure out why they wouldn't
just let me, you know, keep in contact with her. When I was a teenager, I did start doing
research about the murders. And that's when it became kind of an obsession for me to find
her. Every time I came out, I was always thinking, I'll run into her someday. If
I just come out here enough, she'll be [Music] here. I did not realize anybody was out
there looking for me. I pretty much thought everybody forgot about me and had moved on with their lives because it
wasn't their family that they lost. In 1998, when she was 18, Jesse tried to move on as well. The first chance that I
got to purchase my own home, I did. I used some of the inheritance to purchase it. I had not had a home since I was
nine. It was an amazing feeling. I felt like I belonged there, that I had a place.
Jesse finally had a home and a family would soon follow. When I first met Tyson, it was love at first sight for
him. Me, it was not. I was with someone else. So, when we reconnected a couple years later, we just started hanging
out. And ever since then, we've been together. I have two children. When my children
were younger, they did know that I had a family and that they were gone. I did not go into detail. I did not really
give them any explanation on what had happened. They just knew they were gone. But in
2002, 13 years after the murders, keeping her past buried would become more difficult. There was a knock on my
door and there were two detectives standing there. They told her the case was being reopened. They said, "Well,
we're here to talk about, you know, your family's murder case and we just want to
know who you think did it." When I told them it was my stepfather, they looked at each other and then, you know, looked
at me and said, "Well, there's no way it could have been him." And then that's when they asked me, "Well, who do you
think could have done it?" And in that moment, Jeff came to my mind. My older stepbrother Jeff liked to do
things that just scared me. He was so quick to getting angry and he would use his fists. He would fight
and they said, "Yep, that's exactly who we think did it." I got a pit in my stomach and then
they started telling me a little bit about the case. Reverend Robert P, his wife, and their
two youngest children were found shot to death in their home Sunday morning. I know there was a lot of angst in that
family between him and his dad. I know a situation where Bob punched him one time. I think the the
neighbors saw a lot of that same thing as well. Just weeks before the murders, center had handled a case in which Jeff
Purglarized a home. Bob P grounded Jeff for the burglary case. He could not go to the prom without his dad taking him.
He couldn't go to dinner before the prom. He couldn't go to the after prom. The embarrassment of his dad driving
him, not having to do any of the other activities was crushing to Jeff P. Inducting an interview with Robert
Jeffrey P. I interviewed Jeff with his grandparents May the 1st, 1989. Did you have anything to do with it? No,
I didn't. Me and my father didn't get along sometimes and sometimes I'd be really upset with him,
but we always work things out. But investigators didn't believe him. When you're talking about the death of your
family, uh you think, you know, every once in a while he'd tear up or he'd cry. Um he never did any of that. The
main evidence against Jeff was the timeline. The Pellies were last seen alive shortly before police believe Jeff
left for prom. Who else could have done it? Who else would have done it? Who else had the
motive? I believe he killed his family and then was able to go to the prom. Yet back in 1989, the case against Jeff
was thin. We didn't have any forensic evidence. We didn't find a murder weapon, no eyewitnesses. We had
circumstantial evidence and the timeline. Very tough case to prove. very tough case to prosecute.
The prosecutor's office chose not to file charges on Jeff P. At the time, the prosecutor did not think we had enough.
To my mind, I thought we had enough. But 13 years after the slaughter of the P family, a new prosecutor thought there
was enough evidence. Jeff P was arrested and charged with four counts of murder.
When I heard Jeff was arrested, I was just waiting until the trial to see, you know, what was going to
happen. I was scared that he was going to get out, come after me. When he's angry, he's not a nice
person. [Music] [Music] When I came back to Indiana for the trial, it was like coming back a
stranger. 17 years after the murder of her family, Jesse returned to the place she once called home. I felt like it had
never been my home. I couldn't remember a lot about it. I couldn't remember a lot about the past.
On Monday, a jury got its first good look at a man most people in St. Joe County haven't seen for a long time.
Jeff Pely. And when I went to trial, people were asking who I was. And that's when it hit me that, wow, I really was
lost. A jury of seven men and five women will hear the case against Jeff P. I was
scared to see him. I was scared to have all these memories come back up. I did hope to have a reunion with
Jessica at the trial. My anxiety was very high because I thought, "Okay, here's my chance. I'm going to be able
to see her because we're all going to be in the same courtroom." And that never happened. That's because Stephanie was a
witness and only in court the one day she testified. I was not allowed to see her. I was not allowed to contact her.
Tuesday, lawyers laid out their cases to the jury in opening statements. This was
a totally a circumstantial evidence case. There was a very, very small window when
the family could have been murdered. It was very clear the only person who could
have done this was Jeff. The prosecution's theory was that Jeff killed his father in an argument over
prom and then had to get rid of the surviving witnesses. The prosecutor took the jury through the timeline.
On Saturday, April 29th, the P house was definitely buzzing. Many of the individuals going
to the prom wanted to come by and show Bob their prom dress, their prom tux. His home was always open. He wanted to
be someone the community could depend on, someone who could be trusted by his parishioners. So, up until roughly 5:00,
there was a lot of traffic in and out of the home. But the prosecution says by 5:30 no
other visitors could get into the house. The house was locked up as tight as a drum. It became very clear that the
murders had to happen between say 5 and 520. The biggest thing was Jeff said he wasn't there. Jeff told investigators he
left before 5:00, but witnesses testified they saw Jeff's car parked outside the P home after that. The
witnesses who saw when the car was at the house and when the car left the home, he was clearly at the house.
Jeff's prom date also testified. She said when Jeff showed up at a nearby friend's house at 5:30, he wasn't
wearing his tux. The idea that he had to take the prom off it down to his girlfriends and there was no pictures
taken with his parents said a lot about what he had done in the house. He had to
get out of there. Jeff's prom date also recalled something Jeff told her at an amusement park the day after prom.
Shortly before news broke of the murders. Jeff had seemed troubled when she asked him what was the matter. Jeff
had told her he thought something bad had happened at home. It seemed to come out of nowhere for this whole situation
unless he knew something had happened back in Lakeville, Indiana. Even though Jesse had not been home the
weekend of the murders, she was also called to testify. The day comes to where I have to testify and I was very
nervous cuz I knew I was going to see Jeff. And at this point, I did want to say something to him that he took my
whole family from me. He destroyed my life in one split second. As I sat on the stand and looked
at him, he didn't even look at me. I did not get what I wanted. It's like he just pretended like I
wasn't there. I was always concerned that she would break down on the stand just because of the emotion involved in
this. She did not. She stayed very, very solid the whole way. Jesse testified she
saw something important before leaving for that sleepover. I let them know that when I said goodbye to my mom that the
gun rack was on the wall and there was a bow and a shotgun on it. The bow was in
the rack when officers came that Sunday morning cuz we had photographs of it, but the firearm was not there. Police
never found that gun believed to be the murder weapon, but they were convinced they didn't need it. They testified Jeff
made a seemingly damning statement in an untaped interview. If I tell you what happened, would I get the death penalty?
Who would say something about that unless they' done something wrong? There was no motive. There was no opportunity.
There was no murder weapon. There was no case. From the very beginning, the police basically assumed that Jeff had
committed this crime without any evidence. What they didn't investigate in the case was any possibility that
someone else and for other reasons had committed these murders. After calling more than 50 witnesses, prosecutors say
all the facts point to Jeff Kelly. It's preposterous to think that in the short amount of time that Jeff's presence was
unaccounted for, somewhere around 20 to 30 minutes, he could have killed his family, disposed of the murder weapon,
driven over to his date's house. There no possible way that he could have done all of those things in the amount of
time he had. As the trial drew to a close, Jeff's fate and Jesse's sense of security were
hanging in the balance. There's no doubt in my mind that Jeff is innocent. He did
not commit these murders. He's not a killer. Do I think the evidence points to Jeff? Yes, I do.
[Music] The prosecutor started his closing argument, letting the jury know it was
his burden to prove the case. The prosecution had no murder weapon. Did you have anything to do with it? No,
I didn't. No confession and no forensic evidence. The case the jury had to consider rested mainly on the timeline
and Jeff Pelly's motive. His anger over prom. Waiting for a verdict was very nerve-wracking. But now the burden of
deciding Jeff Pelly's fate is theirs. I didn't know what was going to come out of this. I hoped he was going to be put
in prison, but there was always that chance that that might not happen. One of Pelly's lawyers says his client is
under a lot of stress now that the jury has the case. Jeff was facing life in prison, so
everything was at stake. The jury deliberated on this case. They went out, I believe it was a Wednesday afternoon
about 2 or 3:00. Came back with a verdict. I believe it was after 8:00 on Friday
night. The jury came back with guilty on all four counts against Jeff P. guilty for the murders of Dawn, Bob,
Janelle, and Jolene P. I felt a sense of justice when I heard the verdict was guilty. My family's killer was put away.
Jeff does have a wife and a child, so I did feel for his son because he was losing a dad, and I know how that feels.
But I remember to this day the image of Jeff being handcuffed is burned in my mind. Jurors were quoted as saying,
"Well, if he didn't do it, who did?" That is not proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Jeff was sentenced to 160 years
in prison for the four murders in this matter. The case, however, was far from over.
So after the conviction, we of course filed an appeal and we were successful. The convictions were set aside on a
number of procedural grounds. I actually had someone call me and tell me that and
I remember being at Save a Lot actually and I was sitting in my car and I just started crying because I was afraid it
was all going to start again and I didn't want to have to look over my shoulder. But Jeff remained in custody.
And in February 2009, the Indiana Supreme Court upheld Jeff Pelly's conviction. The sentence
stood. With the case seemingly behind her, Jesse decided her children were old enough to hear how she lost her family.
When I was first told about my mom's past, we were actually in Indiana. She took me to her sister's and mom and
stepdad's graves. She told me that they had been killed when she was nine. It made me sad cuz I was like, "Well,
that's your family. That's my family." I had never actually witnessed her cry like
[Music] that. So, I would Google P. P murders Jessica [Music] P., you know, any two words that I could
put together to figure out where she was. Well, I had found one clipping of one article that said Jesse
Toronto. So, I went on the search bar, typed in her name, boom, this eye came up. It was just this part of her eye. I
knew it was her. I knew part of me was scared because I thought maybe she didn't want me in her life, but I said
to myself, you know what? I've come this far. There's no stopping now. I don't know if you remember me or not. My name
is Stephanie. We were close when we were younger. I'm just going to write her a letter. I'm going to tell her how I
feel. I'm going to tell her who I am. And if she wants me to be in her life, fine. If she doesn't, I will leave it to
you to write me back. I will probably be biting my nails until you do. So, one day I log into Facebook and there's a
message from Stephanie Fagan. Well, I don't recognize the name, but I I click on it and I read it. I have huge tears
in my eyes right now just knowing that you were actually going to get my letter this time. I just told her, "I've been
looking for you my whole life." And I told her, "I took care of your parents' graves and I've thought about you and
I've talked to you in my sleep. if I've talked to you when I wake up. I've gone through my life and never lost sight of
finding you. I never in a million years thought I'd ever see you again. And I'm balling as I'm reading it. I'm just
crying hysterically. And the feeling I got was someone reached out to me and has been looking for me this whole time
and wants to get to know me again and wants to be around me and remembers everything. And at first she didn't
remember me, but then I started kind of telling her stories about camp and it clicked immediately. I have missed you
for many years. Much love, Stephanie. And the rest is kind of history. There we go.
Stephanie and I call each other sisters. From the moment that we reconnected, we
bonded in such a way that I've never had a bond like that. Jesse's cousin Jamie Collins also came back into her life.
Reuniting with Jesse, she was this fierce, vibrant, kind of bold, freespirited um person with this hot pink hair. She
had told me a lot of her deepest, darkest secrets about her past and her thoughts and her fears and her dreams.
And we talked about so many things that in a lot of ways I felt like I knew her better than maybe I've ever known
anyone. So Jamie said to me, "You know, you should write a book about your life." And I told her, I said, "Well,
everybody tells me that, but I definitely could never do that." And I probably couldn't talk to a stranger
about everything. And she said, "Well, what about me? Could you tell me?" And I told her, "Yeah, I could probably do
that." Though she came across as outgoing and positive, the trauma of Jesse's childhood was never far below
the surface. We were actually writing the book at the time that Jessica kind of had a downward
spiral and it was a very scary time for both of us. She lost a close family friend to cystic
fibrosis and for her it had triggered these elements from her past. Once the triggers hit her, that was that was it.
I hadn't lost anybody since my family and I never realized that it would hit me like that. So, I have a whole week
where I don't remember a whole lot. I trashed my living room. I was angry. It was like I wasn't even there. I could
feel myself being sucked into the darkness and I just couldn't bring myself out.
That week, I knew something was going on. I got a call and she was crying. All I could hear was, you know, I need I I
need you. I was like, okay, you need to calm down. There was no calming her down. I was like, "Maybe you just need
to take an anxiety pill, you know, maybe you just need to calm down." She's like,
"I took all of them." I said, "Oh, this is not good." And the phone went silent and I
couldn't hear her anymore. And I thought, "That's it." This whole time I waited for her and I looked for her and
now this is it. This is it. She's gone. [Music] [Applause] [Music] That week when she was spiraling, the
last thing I remember was an ambulance at our house and I was watching them take my mom out on a stretcher.
[Music] I ended up waking up in a hospital and I didn't know how I got there. I didn't
know what had happened, but the doctor asked me if I tried to kill myself and I was floored. I guess I had taken a
bottle of pills and tried to kill myself. I later found in a notebook a goodbye note. At that point in time,
that was rock bottom for her. She called me. I was one of the only people that knew. She said, "I'm done. I got to get
help." I was scared for my life that I wasn't going to make it. And I did not come this far not to make it. So, I
ended up admitting myself in the hospital and started getting some help. I've learned that I do have DID, which
is dissociative identity disorder. And I am part Jessica and part Jesse. So when
I pushed Jessica down inside me way down and didn't want to feel sad, lonely, I think I lost a lot of the memories that
I had in doing that. And now that I'm trying to get them back, you know, it's difficult to because I'm just now
letting Jessica come back. A survivor's path is very messy. There is no clean line. There is no straight
path. You have your ups and downs, but when you get help, it's a little bit easier. I do not consider myself fully
healed, but I am definitely on the way to recovery. When I think of Jessica, I don't think of just a lonely, scared
little girl anymore. I realized she is me and together we can overcome anything.
Anything, including a recent development in her stepbrother's case. It's still winding its way through the courts. Jeff
Py's new legal team has filed a motion for postconviction relief. 30 years later, there's still a legal process
going on. It really is a form of slow torture, but I fully believe that he's not getting out.
Jesse is trying not to dwell on it and instead focusing on helping others. I am Jessica, the book she wrote
with her cousin Jamie, was published on April 29th, 2019, the 30-year anniversary of the
murders. We've had a few book signing events, and it's been amazing just to see kind of the outpouring of support
from the community. I just appreciate everybody that's been supportive and um has hung in there with me. It's been
really an overwhelmingly positive experience for both of us. When I read the book, it made me realize
how strong I am and it made me realize that I have a purpose and it is to help people and this book is one way that I'm
going to do that. There's a lot I admire about Jesse. I admire Jesse for her strong will. I
admire her for her strength. I admire her for everything that she went through. There you go. And I feel like she came
out just this beautiful flower in a field full of weeds. That's how I feel about
her. What am I doing with this lemon? I saw her in this downward spiral and then in just the past year or so I've
seen her crawl back up. She survived it. Seeing my mom go through this has taught
me to value family and to never give up and to always keep fighting no matter what's going on in my life. You better
eat your salad. Having my family today is a blessing. I look at them and I just realize how lucky I am to be alive. 30
years later, Jesse has regained the sense of family she lost so suddenly, but she still thinks of what life would
be like had things turned out differently. Now that I'm starting to feel again, I do think about my sisters
and what they would have been like and if I would have had any nieces and nephews from them. And my mom, you know,
how would she be with my kids? Would they have called her grandma? Would they have called her
nana? I think today my mom is looking down. And she's proud of me. I know they're not here, but I know
they're with me. And I still think of [Music] them. I remember singing with my sisters
right up there on that stage. We would sing Amazing Grace. 30 years ago, I did not know Amazing Grace would
apply to me. I know now that I survived for a reason. I once was lost. Now I'm found. I really was lost for a long time
and now I'm not anymore. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

A survivor deals with the trauma after her stepbrother is convicted of killing her family in order to go to the prom. CBS News chief investigative and senior national correspondent Jim Axelrod reports. Watch more full episodes of "48 Hours" on Pluto TV.

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Brief Summary

Jesse shares her traumatic childhood after her family's murder and her journey to healing and recovery.

Key points

A Community in Shock. The murder of the P family thrusts a small town into the national spotlight.
The Day Everything Changed. Jesse learns of her family's brutal murder, shattering her childhood.
A Troubling Reunion. Years later, Jesse reconnects with her stepbrother Jeff, raising unsettling questions.
A New Investigation. Thirteen years later, detectives reopen the case, leading to shocking revelations.
The Trial Begins. Jesse returns to her hometown for Jeff's trial, confronting her past.
The Verdict. The jury finds Jeff guilty on all counts, bringing a sense of justice to the victims' families.

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