My mom found her and said she might have slipped in the shower. She was in the Fetal Position in this bathtub. You could see marks on jessicas neck. Police said were going to rule this as a homicide. Reporter detectives using new technology to view this crime scene in extreme detail. There is no forced entry, no tool marks. There was blood on the couch. Who could have done this . They said usually it is someone close. An investigation focusing on friends and family. They brought up the association with the motorcycle gang. We came off as kind of a tough guy. We fool around a little bit. And he threatened to take out my whole entire family to get custody of our kids. Wow. Reporter a chilling story of danger and duplicity. We would try to figure out who did this. He knew the whole time. This is the ultimate betrayal. Hello and welcome to dateline. Jessica nelson was a Hard Working Single mom who kept her loved ones close. And then one morning, she was found dead in the house she shared w
casual hook ups? anything at all? i know her last hookup was with a old high school crush that had came back to town. he doesn t live here. he was a high school crush and he s in the military so when he was home she would hook up with him for a few days but then that was it. he was gone again. she stayed over there once. detectives locked sbo hoked whereabouts the night jessica was killed. he was nowhere around. it couldn t have been him. it had to be someone close. someone she knew and trusted. someone with a key maybe. after all there was no forced entry but the door was locked when jessica s mother arrived in the morning and then her family told police about someplace that had been violent toward jessica s sister ashley a few days before the murder. i was going through a divorce and my ex was not so nice.
he threatened to take out my whole entire family and then myself just to get custody of our kids. wow. and the week before that he physically assaulted me. he had pinned her on the floor and left bruises on her arm. he had been arrested and was facing charges for domestic assault. a man that had been violent and threatened the family. detectives checked out his alibi for the night of jessica s murder but they also went looking for anyone else that might have had access to jessica s home, like maybe a spurned lover but apparently there weren t any. spurned or otherwise. everybody wanted to ask that question they would say that jessica often referred to the only man in her life as dominic and her others was her job and that s all she wanted to concentrate on was her work and providing for dominic. but sometimes jessica had friends over for saturday night gatherings when dom was at
policemen that i had dreams. but investigator gary miller had other evidence. like the witness who drove by this corn field the night of jessica s murder. that person testified he was absolutely sure that when he went by here on that night, there was a van, a guy coming from the corn field to get in his van. and a seararch of hall s hou and van indicated he had been casing areas. seeing joggers and bikers, many alone, check colleges and parks, seeing some prospects. hall also made lists for the hardware store. buy two more plastic tarps, cover all floor inside the van. and hall wrote himself troubling instructions. no body contact, buy condoms,
and wendy felton was 16 from marion, indiana. michelle dewey, 20 in indianapolis, indiana. all of these cases went unsolved. officials believed only one man knew what happened. we knew he was presently for several deaths. it would take a risky unusual plan to send a drug dealer under cover into a dangerous prison to defriend an alleged serial killer. i m not a serial killer hunter. how am i going to do this? at stake, answers. wondering where she was and what happened. grieving family. you want to bring her home. one man s freedom. you don t just say you are free to go. i went through hell and back. . donna greets her daughter, trisha. i say hello to this picture every morning. every morning. i look at that and can hear her say hi, mom. . trisha was kind hearted and shart. as a child trisha lit up the room. we would sometimes go into the room and she would come into the room and say tada, that type of thing. she was here to attend this straul chr