that a problem that jessie was having with a coworker. she had come home a couple of times and said that he was inappropriate with her. what was he doing that was inappropriate? he would often make sure that she had to rub against him as she passed him. that must make units as a parents when you hear stories like when i heard that i was almost out that door to go over and talk to him. the restaurant was just down the road. it seemed possible that this coworker jessie found creepy knew where she lived, had been watching the house. certainly we take every possibility, we don t want to close in the evidence for the investigation, at that point. then, joy told the detective something that really caught their attention. jessie had come home from that fiddler on the roof cast party, clearly upset. i said, what s going on? she said, oh the guys, you know. they re always making passes and i don t know why they have to always turn it to there. jessie told her mom, to old
you were still awake? i waited up for her. i couldn t go to sleep until i heard that she was in the house. they chatted briefly and said goodnight. the next morning, jessie s mom popped into her daughters room before work and saw jessie still fast asleep. nothing that you could ever think was odd when you left, i would imagine? no, no, and this was her first morning to sleep in for a very long time. joy returned home for lunch and saw that jessie wasn t downstairs, ready for her afternoon violin lesson. i went to the top of the stairs and i was like, jessie? nothing. so, then i went in and i came around the bed and then i kind of wiggled her a little bit and nothing. and then i knew. this is not good. this is not good. joy made a frantic call to 9-1-1. what s the problem? my daughter is blue.
wrong. i said is she gone? and joy, no more words came, just tears. so i raced home. but when buck arrived home, police cars on a crime scene truck were already in the driveway. i went in the door, through the yellow tape and when i saw joy s eyes in the living room, and then i knew that jess was gone. buck wasn t allowed in jessie s rooms because police were in there, trying to figure out what had happened. detective richard thickens of the hartford police department were one of the first on the scene. he looked around, found a typical teenager s messy bedroom. nothing strange there but when he found jessie s bodies, it was clear to the detective that jesse did not die of natural causes. the first thing i noticed is that there was red marks running pretty much all the way
who does he think he is that he could go a to women? ask anyone who kn blodgett growing up in hartford wisconsin. they tell you she was happy, passionate, full of life. her dad said she had always been that way. did she have a happy childhood? yes, i show you 600 photos of my computer. you could be able to count on one hand the ones that you could find where she s not beaming and smiling. she s a really happy kid. jessie, an only child, was the light of her parents live. their miracle baby. buck and joy blodgett thought they couldn t have children. so they cherished her little girl that much more. we bonded from day one with a little purple head came out. and every day since. we talked about drugs. we talked about sex. there was nothing off limits. and her mom says jessie s friends were like part of the family. they always seemed to hang out at our house. yeah. we did. she would, like fight her to throw a party. ian, jacqui and amelia were
i went to wake her up and i just got home from for a lunch and she won t wake up. is she breathing? i don t think so, no. okay you re trying to do cpr? i m trying to pump her chest. just hours before, she had seen her daughters sleeping peacefully. now, joy, a chiropractor, was fighting to save jessie s life. your mother instincts were kicking in yeah. i just kept thinking, she fell asleep and stopped breathing in the pillow or something. as joy moved jessie to the floor to better perform cpr, first responders arrived. did you, at that point, start to feel her slip away that hope was dwindling fast. i think that i just was thinking, do it. they ll take her to the hospital. they could do all kinds of stuff. you know? but they never took jessie to the hospital. it was too late. she was gone. a tragedy and now a mystery. what happened to jessie blodgett. coming up detectives hear something from