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911. Where's your emergency? Um, it's in Elkart, Indiana, uh, on Melody Lane. I was sitting on the couch
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and uh, one of my mom's friends was getting home from work. one of her roommates and I'm going to run up the uh
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deck and and was screaming and then she sounded like she got like a handcuffed over her mouth and she got pulled away.
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We need somebody, I guess, to be sat here and ran away. That was part of a call that an
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11-year-old named Jeff made to dispatchers just after 11:30 p.m. on August 8th, 2011 from inside his
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trailer. He'd been home with his mom and little brother, expecting his mom's roommate and coworker, Jessica Star, to
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be coming home any minute, like any other normal night. But he's pretty sure that he just heard her getting attacked
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in front of their home. And now having called the police, he is staring out the open front door into the pitch black
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night, watching his mom call for Jessica from the front porch with her gun in hand, afraid that someone might still be
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out there. But it is now completely silent. They can see Jessica's two-door Pontiac parked close to their front
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porch in front of the house, but the driver's side door is wide open. Just then, Jeff and his mom, Terry, heard
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this rustling sound at the side of the house. Almost like someone was running off. But her children's safety was her
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first priority. Terry stays on the porch, gun in hand, waiting for police to arrive. And thank God, it's not long.
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Police cars pull down the dark road, and as soon as their cars are in park, cops
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are scouring the property. And it's when they walk to the side of the house, the
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side where Jeff and Terry heard that rustling, that's when they find Jessica. And it's bad. She's got bruises on her
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arms, her throat has been cut, and she'd been stabbed. So by the time they get to
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her, it's too late. She's already gone.