he looked around and saw a typical teenager s messy bedroom, nothing strange there, but when he saw jessie s body it was clear to the detective that jessie didn t die of natural causes. first thing i noticed a very red mark running pretty much all the way across her neck. did you need an autopsy to tell you what you were seeing? no, it was very apparent this was a ligature mark at that point. jessie had been murdered, strangled. but inside her bedroom there was no murder weapon, no sign of a struggle, except one thing did seem odd about jessie s bed. the covers were over the bed in a perfect manner and a kid who had stuff all over the bed, there was nothing on the bed. this is somebody trying to ensure they did not leave something of themself behind. did they finally let you go
her knowledge because he was in love with her and she was breaking up with him. michelle theer rolled the dice. she turned down a deal which would have released her before long. instead, the woman who followed her dissatisfaction to an internet . i m craig melvin. i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. we heard all this talk around the town that jessie was dead. to know that the last moments she spent on this earth she was in so much fear, it s not fair. if he s still out there, he could still be plotting and he could still be hunting. who s next.
he was scheduled to work through a temp agency and didn t go to work that day. where was he then? he said he spent most of the day by his apartment by himself. did you come right out with it. i asked him if he had any involvement in his death and he said no. but the detective wondered. it s hard to gauge whether he s acting or being truthful. investigators issued a search warrant for her phone records. we ll verify where randy was and look at his alibi. was his cell phone anywhere near that house in this time period. jessie s friends quickly heard the police were looking at a cast member. what was being said about the cast member? he was kind of creepy. we thought it was him. but the play s director, jerry becker, couldn t believe it. he couldn t imagine randy being
i m dara brown. here s what s happening. queen elizabeth after a year of great loss for her family and many others. the 95-year-old monarch delivered her first holiday address to the nation since the death of prince philip in april. pope francis used his christmas day address during mass to pray for the end of the coronavirus pandemic, urge health care for all vaccines for the poor and more conversations to help resolving the world s conflicts. now, back to dateline. after the vibrant 19-year-old with a passion for music was strangled in her own bed, jessie blodgett s grief stricken parents couldn t stop thinking about the way she died. that s such a dark place to go. to think about her last moments. doesn t get any darker than that. i laid on her bed early on and
the world. that is the only friend i had that sang and did the piano. who could have predicted on july 15th, 2015, the music and a young girl s dreams would end so suddenly. we were in shock and disbelief. it was hard to come to grips with. oh, my god. ma am, stay on the line with me. we re going to get ems out for you. a small town was face would a mystery, with police asking what was real and what was a performance. he s an actor. he s two different people. who is this guy? who does he think he is he can go around and do this to women. ask anyone who knew jessie blodgett and they would tell you she was happy, passionate, full of life. her dad, buck, said she had always been that way. did she have a happy